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Israeli attack on Gaza hospital ‘unprecedented’

Al Jazeera English   The Israeli attack on the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City is the deadliest Israeli air strike in five wars fought since 2008, says the Palestinian Civil Defence.   “ The massacre at al-Ahli Arab Hospital is unprecedented in our history. While we’ve witnessed tragedies in past wars and days, what took place tonight is tantamount to a genocide, ” spokesman Mahmoud Basal said. Photos purportedly from al-Ahli Hospital shared widely on social video showed fire engulfing the building, widespread damage and bodies scattered in the wreckage. Several hospitals in Gaza City have become refuges for hundreds of people, hoping they would be spared bombardment after Israel ordered all residents of the city and surrounding areas to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip.  

The BBC SMEARS Gaza Peace Activists

Owen Jones   After thousands took to the streets to oppose the horror being unleashed against Gaza, the BBC smeared us as Hamas supporters. This is dangerous - and shows how a British Establishment exposed for defending war crimes intends to treat those upholding human rights.  

US opposes peace as Israel ethnically cleanses Palestinians, waging war on 'entire nation' of Gaza

Geopolitical Economy Report   Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinians, trying to force them out of Gaza into Egypt. The US and EU support Netanyahu's scorched-earth war on the "entire nation", and the State Department ordered diplomats not to call for peace, de-escalation, or a ceasefire.  

Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media Is Pushing Fake Palestine Stories

After Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, IDF forces responded with airstrikes, leveling Gazan buildings. The violence so far has claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people. Western media, however, show far more interest and have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as unofficial spokespersons for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).   by Alan Macleod  Part 1 - Extraordinary Claims, Zero Evidence One case in point is the claim that, during their incursion into southern Israel, Hamas fighters stopped to round up, kill and mutilate 40 Israeli babies, beheading them and leaving their bodies behind. The extraordinary assertion was originally reported by the Israeli channel i24 News , which based it on anonymous Israeli military sources. Despite offering no proof whatsoever, this highly inflammatory claim about an enemy made by an active participant in a conflict was picked up and repeated across the world by a host of media (e

Who controls agricultural land in Ukraine?

The total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals, and large agribusinesses is thus over nine million hectares, exceeding 28 percent of the country’s arable land. The rest is used by over eight million Ukrainian farmers.   Part 2 - How is the takeover of agricultural land happening?   Whereas at least 4.3 million hectares are already controlled by agribusinesses in Ukraine, recent dynamics are leading to a further takeover of agricultural land in the country. A law passed in March 2020 lifted the country’s 19-year moratorium on sales of agricultural land, allowing such transactions since July 2021.   Rejected by a vast majority of Ukrainians who massively protested against it in 2019 and 2020, the law was a measure imposed by Western financial institutions that have become major lenders to the country since 2014. It was passed at a time when mandatory COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were in place across the country, effectively quelling further protests or demonstrati

Source of dubious ‘beheaded babies’ claim is Israeli settler leader who incited riots to ‘wipe out’ Palestinian village

After an Israeli reserve soldier named David Ben Zion told a reporter Palestinian militants “cut [off] heads of babies,” Biden, Netanyahu, and the international media amplified the dubious claim.The Grayzone has identified Ben Zion as a fanatical settler leader who incited riots by demanding a Palestinian town be “wiped out.”    by Max Blumenthal and Alexander Rubinstein  Part 1 An international outcry erupted when Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced that Palestinian militants from the besieged Gaza Strip had killed 40 “babies,” and beheaded several of them during an incursion into Kfar Aza, a kibbutz on the Gaza border. President Joseph Biden repeated the inflammatory claim during an October 10 White House Rose Garden address, while networks across the West carried the story without a shred of critical scrutiny. According to CNN correspondent Nic Robertson, apparently citing Israeli military sources, Palestinian militants carried out, “ ISIS-style executions, ” in which they were “ cu

CGTN correspondent breaks down in tears while reporting in Gaza

CGTN   CGTN correspondent in central Gaza Noor Harazeen broke down in tears as she reported from outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital where " the numbers (of injured) are going up by the hour. " " I have been reporting escalations on Gaza for years now and have not witnessed anything like that, " she said. More than 2,200 Palestinians and over 1,300 Israelis have been killed since this round of attacks between Hamas and Israel began on October 7. 

Day 1648: Julian Assange still in prison and under slow-motion execution by the Anglo-American imperialist criminals

failed evolution   On 11 April 2019, the Ecuadorian government of traitor Lenin Moreno, invited the Metropolitan Police into the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and they arrested Julian Assange . Since then, Assange is kept in Belmarsh high security prison in London, without actual charges.   The real reason world's number one political prisoner is still kept in this high security prison, is because he exposed horrendous war crimes carried out by the US imperialists and their allies.   The ruthless Western imperialist regime wants to punish the No1 real journalist in the world and make him an example for any Whistleblower or real journalist who will attempt to expose its big crimes in the future.   And the Anglo-American axis has now become officially a fascist coalition , framed by the rest of its Western pets. UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel, one of the most ruthless ever, decided to extradite Julian Assange to US. No surprise of course. The only question we had in mind is

Hamas: Israel's fatal creature

globinfo freexchange   Another cycle of blood is taking place in Gaza after Hamas' latest attacks on Israeli civilians. And the retaliation by the Israeli Apartheid state is expected, as always, disproportional, as much more Palestinian civilians will pay the price with their lives. As if the life in Gaza Strip has not been already unbearable due to the Israeli brutality under one of the worst Israeli prime ministers ever.   But how many people know that Hamas has been actually empowered by Israel itself? Intercept 's Mehdi Hasan tells the story about how Israel helped create Hamas:   Hamas, which is the acronym for an Arabic phrase meaning Islamic resistance movement, was founded in 1987 at the start of the first Palestinian Intifada, or uprising against the Israeli occupation, but its roots were planted much earlier.  The Hamas founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was a half blind disabled Palestinian cleric and member of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood had been repressed by

Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Should Lift Siege & Call Off Plan for Ground Invasion of Gaza

Democracy Now!   From Tel Aviv, speaks the award-winning Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy, whose recent column for _ Haaretz _ is headlined Israel Can't Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price .   Levy discusses the reaction within Israeli society toward Hamas's unexpected attack and condemns the Netanyahu government for only mobilizing for further warfare rather than providing effective assistance to victims. " Nobody is leading Israel, " declares Levy, who also calls for Israel to lift its blockade of Gaza and accept that its campaign of eradicating Hamas is " impossible. " After decades of Palestinian subjugation under Israeli rule, " you can kill the current top people of Hamas, but you will not kill the ideology of Hamas, " says Levy.