Headlines from January 8 to January 15, 2024
Controversial judgment of Pakistan’s Kangaroo Supreme Court
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Although Pakistan’s judicial system has always supported the army dictators but in recent years it has deteriorated further. Pakistani court have become Kangaroo Courts since they are implementing agenda of the ruling elite to keep one popular leader Imran Khan out of the elections scheduled to be held on February 8, 2024. Imran Khan, now in jail, faces around 200 cases with the connivance of the judicial system. In an expected decision, Chief Justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, Justice Qazi Faez Isa Monday overturned life time ban on the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to contest forthcoming elections in Pakistan. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 96: Israel to face genocide charges at ICJ, battles rage on in northern Gaza
Mondoweiss: Hamas rejects Blinken's visit to Ramallah, saying there are “no differences between Israel and the Americans,” as U.S. and UK naval forces shoot down 21 Yemeni drones over the Red Sea. Meanwhile, Corbyn is set to join South Africa’s ICJ delegation. Read More
UNRWA warns humanitarian conditions in Rafah on verge of collapse
Israeli forces bomb Palestinian houses and commit 14 massacres
Israel destroys hundreds of historical and cultural sites in Gaza
Hamas fighters ambush Israeli infantry, while U.S. shoots down Yemen’s combat drones
Blinken visits Ramallah as Israeli forces raid West Bank towns
Sunsetting the War on Terror — Or Not
By by Karen J Greenberg: This week marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, the infamous prison on the island of Cuba designed to hold detainees from this country’s Global War on Terror. It’s an anniversary that’s likely to go unnoticed, since these days you rarely hear about the war on terror — and for good reason. Read More
January 9th, 2024 is the 93rd day since the genocide in Gaza began
Today January 9, 2024 is the 95th day since the genocide in Gaza began. Israel is planning to fight for the rest of 2024 in the Gaza Strip, according to the military spokesperson, as war has now expanded into the northern front with Lebanon following the assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander, Wisam al-Taweel, on Monday. Al-Taweel is a unit leader in Hezbollah’s elite force, Al-Radwan, who has fought in every major battle against Israel since 1989. He took part in the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers in 2006 near the fence north of occupied Palestine, an event that started a full-blown Israeli war against Lebanon.
Fighting continues to expand into Lebanon as Israel assassinates senior Hezbollah commander
Mondoweiss: Hamas political leader calls on Muslim states to arm fighters in Gaza, as Netanyahu visits northern border town with Lebanon following killing of senior Hezbollah commander. Read More
100+ Global Rights Groups Urge Support for South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel at ICJ
By Julia Conley: More than 100 international groups signed onto a letter released Wednesday by a newly formed Palestinian rights coalition, urging governments across the globe to formally support South Africa’s International Court of Justice case against Israel, accusing the government of genocidal violence in Gaza. The International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine is circulating the letter, which asks governments to file Declarations of Intervention before or after the ICJ’s hearing on South Africa’s claim. The case is scheduled to be heard on January 11-12. Declarations of Intervention in support of South Africa’s invocation of the Genocide Convention against Israel will increase the likelihood that a positive finding of the crime of genocide will be enforced by the United Nations,” said the coalition. Read More
An overlooked and undercounted group of Arab American and Muslim voters may have outsized impact on 2024 presidential election
The Conversation: Though domestic issues tend to motivate most U.S. voters, the war in the Middle East may be the dominant issue in mind for an increasingly important voting block: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans. Since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, members of these communities have watched the rising death toll and heard vivid accounts of the horrors befalling Palestinians in Gaza as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to bombard the enclave with the support of the Biden administration. For some Arab Americans, a community that overwhelmingly voted Democratic in the 2020 presidential election, that support may have negative consequences on Biden’s attempt to regain the White House in 2024. In fact, numerous Middle Eastern and Muslim American leaders have called for their communities to “abandon Biden” in the upcoming presidential election. Read More
Gaza death toll crosses 23,000 as 249 killed by Israel in 24 hours
Daily Sabah: A total of 23,084 Palestinians have now been confirmed killed, mostly women and children, while 58,926 have been injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry said Monday. Some 249 Palestinians were killed and 510 were wounded in the previous 24 hours, the ministry added. The ministry did not specify in which Israeli strikes these Palestinians were killed or injured. Read More
Al-Qassam Brigades say they killed, wounded many Israeli soldiers in central Gaza
Anadolu Agency: The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, announced Sunday that they had killed and wounded a large number of Israeli soldiers in war zones in central parts of the blockaded Gaza Strip. In a statement, the group said that two Israeli Merkava tanks and a bulldozer were targeted with Yasin 105 rockets in Bureij district. Read More
Israel's Gaza war pushing Islamophobia ‘out of control' worldwide: Experts
Yeni Safak: The fact is that Islamophobia has ‘gone global' today, according to Georgetown University professor John Esposito. Currently, the primary driving factor for Islamophobia is “the genocide that's going on in Gaza,” Corey Saylor, research and advocacy director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told Anadolu. Read More
New bills aim to block U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE amid concerns of regional conflict
The Intercept: Representative Ilhan Omar is introducing two pieces of legislation to block U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, citing atrocities committed by both countries. The U.S. made high-profile sales to both countries in December, shoring up their offensive capabilities amid the possibility of a regional war and a growing risk of confrontation with Yemen’s Houthis. Read More
Sheikh Hasina wins fifth term in Bangladesh amid turnout controversy
Al Jazeera: Sheikh Hasina has secured her fifth term as Bangladeshi prime minister in an election whose outcome was decided the moment its schedule was announced in early November when the main opposition boycotted the poll. The surprise was who came second. Instead of any political party, independent candidates secured a total of 63 seats, the second highest after Hasina’s Awami League (AL), which won 222, creating a problem of finding a parliamentary opposition. Read More
Pakistan Confronts its Future under Betrayal of Generals
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja: The contemporary trajectory of politics spells out the unthinkable wave of chaos and mismanagement by few generals and corrupt judiciary shaping a dark future for the present and future-making. Pakistan is fast becoming a dead-ended entity of moral, political and intellectual landscape. Truth telling is maligned and persecuted by the ruling elite. Read More
Activist decries discrimination Muslims face in India
Anadolu Agency: Muslims in India are facing discrimination and being denied their due educational and economic rights, a social activist said. In an interview with Anadolu, Abdul Malik Mujahid, the president of Justice For All, highlighted the challenges Muslims encounter in education and employment, emphasizing the difficulties they face in their daily lives. Read More
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 101:
The collapse of Gaza’s health sector the “worst man-made medical disaster in modern history”
Mondoweiss: As the confirmed death toll from Israel's assault on Gaza reaches 24,000, the U.S. is reportedly "frustrated" Israel continues to ignore calls to limit its attacks. Hamas releases video of three Israeli captives, saying fate will be revealed today. Read More
Injuries in Gaza mount amid healthcare collapse
New normal: daily attacks on the occupied West Bank
Israel considers cutting education budget to fund war
Tensions with the Biden administration
Punitive measures for U.S. government staff that call for a ceasefire
Netanyahu pledges to defy International Court of Justice as Gaza death toll mounts
By Andre Damon: In a speech Saturday marking 100 days of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue the massacre in defiance of international law. “We will restore security to both the south and the north,” Netanyahu vowed. “No one will stop us—not The Hague, not the axis of evil, and not anyone else.” Netanyahu pledged “to fight on to the end—until complete victory.” He continued, adding, “We will not stop until we achieve victory.”Read More
Gaza Cease-Fire Now! No Wider War
By Joseph Gerson: The genocide must end. We must not sleepwalk into a catastrophic regional Middle East War. The decimation of Gaza continues because the United States refuses to demand a ceasefire and provides weapons that have transformed Gaza from an open-air ghetto prison into a compacted zone of death and despair. And if it is possible to think in still worse terms, we should be sobered by the insanity of battling Yemen’s Houthis with Tomahawk cruise missiles. That’s the kind of thinking that triggered First World War.Read More
On the Need to Study “Zionist Power” as Integral to the Globalist Push for “Centralized Control of Everything”
By Prof. Anthony J. Hall: The study of how power is acquired and exercised is very old. This study is much older than the social sciences. The pursuit of power and the study of power are deeply intertwined. The questions are many. Who has power? How did they get it, maintain it, and augment it? How can one power cartel displace and replace the base of another conglomerate of power? The study of power is integral to the study of the war, economics, education, technological transformation, propaganda, religion, and cultural expression. Weaving in and out of the study of power is the topic of the rise and fall and resurgence of Zionist Power. Read More
With All Eyes on Gaza, Israeli Settlers Are Waging a Second Nakba in the West Bank
Middle East Eye: Overseen by the military, Israeli settlers are killing Palestinians and forcing others from their land as the bloodbath continues in Gaza. Read More
Expanding Middle East War. Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran, The War on Energy, Strategic Waterways
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 100:
Nearly 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, injured, or are missing since October 7
Mondoweiss: As Israel’s assault on Gaza reaches 100 days, an estimated 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, injured, or are missing. Still Netanyahu declares: “No one will stop us; not The Hague, not the axis of evil and not anyone else calling the ICJ.” Read More
Netanyahu declares “no one will stop us” as Minister of Defence storms out of war cabinet meeting
Gaza is under internet blackout, again, as rainwater floods and leaks into tents and shelters
In Gaza, “the past 100 days have felt like 100 years”
Israeli forces bomb Palestinian houses in Gaza
International Criminal Court to investigate killing of journalists in Gaza
Hundreds of thousands of protesters rally worldwide in support of Gaza
Hamas says it lost communication with unit in charge of four captive Israeli soldiers
Israeli forces arrest sisters of Saleh Al-Aruri in Ramallah
Battle of Khan Younis Rages on
by Dr Marwan Asmar: The Israeli army are still trying to enter Khan Younis ever since their military campaign on the southern city started on 1 December, 2023. We are well into the first month of 2024 and Israeli soldiers are still trying to enter Gaza’s second largest city but with little success. They are being hammered by the Palestinian resistance movement on a daily basis despite their missiles and bombs with the help of Israeli warplanes striking homes and ambulances and their drivers. Read More
The Hegemon, is in a tremendous hurry: it’s all about Divide and Rule
By Pepe Escobar: At least there will be three poles with the spine, the resources, the organization, the vision and the sense of Universal History to take the fight towards a more equal and just system to the next level: China, Russia and Iran. Read More
If Xi-Jinping Reminded that Martin Luther King Called U.S.”Greatest Purveyor of Violence in World?”
by Jay Janson: If, during the three day Martin Luther King birthday holiday, a world attention getting source, for example, a high enough profiled Chinese government official, pointed out that the government of the United States of America was condemned as the most violent in the world by America’s own idol, this writer believes it would be a sensation, and a most difficult moment for the U.S. government and America’s wars supporting mainstream media which has for 57 years totally suppressed all mention of King’s condemnation of his government’s wars to protect predatory investments. Read More
Russia Attacks Facilities of the Ukrainian Military-Industrial Complex
Telesure: The Russian armed forces launched this Saturday a group attack with long-range and high-precision maritime and air weapons, including the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system, against facilities of the military-industrial complex (MIC) of Ukraine, which produce projectiles, gunpowder and unmanned aerial vehicles. Read More
US Bombs Drop and Risk of Wider War Rises
By Ellen Isaacs: Sometimes it is even more clear than usual, the priorities of US capitalism: near 24,000 civilian lives lost is acceptable, a 20% drop in Red Sea traffic is not. Assuring Israel’s survival as a US base in the Middle East is essential, minimizing the risk of wider war in the region or the entire world is not. As well as paying for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the US has now twice bombed military facilities in Yemen to try and safeguard ships under Yemeni attack. Read More
Yemen and the Growing Spillover of War in the Middle East
by Phil Pasquini: In response to the continued drone and missile attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels and after weeks of warnings, the U.S. and U.K. began retaliatory missile strikes and aerial bombings on numerous Houthi mainland military bases and launch sites to degrade their capability to continue the attacks. The Houthis have promised to retaliate in turn for the attacks as thousands of demonstrators on Friday in the countries rebel-held capitol of Sanaa called for “Death to America and Israel.” Read More
With Attack on Yemen, the U.S. is Shameless: “We Make the Rules, We Break the Rules”
By Norman Solomon: Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s grimly laughable, but the nation’s media outlets routinely take such claims seriously and credulously. Overall, the default assumption is that top officials in Washington are reluctant to go to war, and do so only as a last resort. Read More
At The Hague, Israel Mounted A Defense Based In An Alternate Reality
by Jeremy Scahill: A team of Israeli lawyers and officials presented their defense at The Hague on Friday in the second day of the genocide case brought before the International Court of Justice by the government of South Africa. The lawyers portrayed Israel as the actual victim of genocide, not Gaza, accused South Africa of supporting Hamas, and painted South Africa’s government as functioning as the legal arm of the Palestinian militants who led the deadly raids into Israel on October 7. Read More
What’s next for Israeli regime after ICJ genocide hearing?
By Ali Rezvanpour: South Africa this week dragged the Israeli regime to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over ongoing genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip, presenting compelling evidence to back its case. A team of lawyers representing the South African government accused Israel of genocide at the top UN court in the Hague, saying the regime was “intent on destroying Palestinians in Gaza.” “The point is not simply that Israel is acting disproportionately. The point is that the prohibition on genocide is an absolute,” said Vaughan Lowe, one of the lawyers representing South Africa. “Nothing can ever justify genocide.” Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 99: No respite from death and devastation in Gaza
Mondoweiss: On the eve of 100 days of unfettered violence, and one day after Israel argued in front of the world’s highest court that it was doing all it could to spare civilians in Gaza, the tiny blockaded Palestinian territory continued to face indiscriminate bombardment, injury, death, starvation, cold, and thirst. New U.S. strikes on Yemen spark fears of regional escalation as Ansar Allah vows to continue fighting for Palestine. Meanwhile, Germany asks to join Israel’s side in the ICJ case. Read More
U.S. continues to bomb Yemen as Ansar Allah vows to continue fighting for Palestine
Israeli forces kill at least four Palestinians in the West Bank
Germany sides with Israel, protesters the world over call for ceasefire
Israel’s War on Palestine and the Global Upsurge Against It
By Vijay Prashad Hundreds of millions of people across the world have been deeply moved by the atrocity of the Israeli war on Palestine. Millions have attended marches and protests, many of them participating in such demonstrations for the first time in their lives. Social media, in almost all the world’s languages, is saturated with memes and posts about this or that terrible action. Read More
The US/UK attack on Yemen and the global eruption of imperialist war
WSWS: The attack on Yemen is a major escalation of the developing war in the Middle East. Since the beginning of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the US and its imperialist allies in NATO have overseen a massive militarization of the region, directly targeting Iran. This is itself part of an expanding global war, including the US-NATO war against Russia and the developing economic and military conflict against China. Read More
Futile and Dangerous: Bombing Yemen in the Name of Shipping
by Dr Binoy Kampmark: What a show. As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was promoting a message of calm restraint and firm control in limiting the toxic fallout of Israel’s horrific campaign in Gaza, a decision was made by his government, the United Kingdom and a few other reticent collaborators to strike targets in Yemen, including the capital Sana’a. These were done, purportedly, as retribution for attacks on international commercial shipping in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Read More
Davos report highlights deepening capitalist crisis
by Nick Beams: In its opening perspectives statement of the New Year, the WSWS editorial board began by drawing the sharp contrast between the rosy predictions of a new era of capitalist peace, prosperity and democracy following the liquidation of the Soviet Union with the ever-deepening barbarity of today. The appropriateness of that approach has been underscored by another report, that of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in preparation for its annual meeting next week in Davos, Switzerland, where politicians, corporate chiefs, billionaires, and various luminaries will gather. Read More
World indebted to South Africa for taking stand against genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
Anadolu Agency: The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said Friday that the international system is "indebted to South Africa" for bringing Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for genocide against the Palestinian people. It made the statement as two days of public hearing at the ICJ concluded. "South Africa's case highlighted the compelling evidence that Israel is deliberately violating its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide," the ministry said, according to the Palestinian official news agency, WAFA. Read More
A Cheer for South Africa
By Dr. Marwan Asmar: Thank you South Africa for answering the call of the oppressed and took Israel, kicking and screaming, to the international Court of Justice for its genocide in Gaza. Thank you South Africa for standing with the Palestinian people and speaking out against the Israeli massacres from the air, sea and by ground troops and the murder of innocent civilians and destruction of homes, squares of houses and the bombing of whole cities, villages and camps. Read More
The Case for Genocide
By Chris Hedes: The exhaustive 84-page brief submitted by South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Israel with genocide is hard to refute. Israel’s campaign of indiscriminate killing, wholesale destruction of infrastructure, including housing, hospitals and water treatment plants, along with its use of starvation as a weapon, accompanied by genocidal rhetoric from its political and military leaders who speak of destroying Gaza and ethnically cleansing the 2.3 million Palestinians, makes a strong case against Israel for genocide. Read More
Trudeau denounces International Court of Justice case exposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has joined Washington in denouncing the case that South Africa has brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Israel with genocide against the Palestinians. “Our wholehearted support of the ICJ and its processes does not mean we support the premise of the case brought forward by South Africa,” Trudeau told a press conference Friday. Read More
Genocide Will Not Save Israel. Will the ICJ Save Gaza?
By Dr. Paul Larudee: As I have said previously, Israel’s only strategy is genocide, and I fear that they will achieve it. But genocide will not save Israel. Hamas and all the resistance forces will outlast the Zionist project. They will outlast even the unthinkable mass murder and/or expulsion of two million of their brothers and sisters. The half million Zionists that have abandoned the “Jewish Home” since October 7th, 2023 will fulfill different dreams on other shores. Read More
Gaza toll crosses 23,700 with 151 more dead in Israeli attacks
Anadolu Agency: At least 151 people were killed, including 11 from a single household, in the latest Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health officials said Friday. Gaza health officials said the 11 people had been killed by a single air strike around dawn in a house in Deir Al-Balah belonging to the Fayad family, a prominent name in the city. The latest deaths took the Palestinian death toll in the besieged territory to at least 23,708 in nearly 100 days of Israel's war. Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 98: Israel claims ‘self defense’ at ICJ, as U.S. and U.K. launch air strikes on Yemen
Mondoweiss: Facing charges of genocide, Israel claims “self-defense” in front of the ICJ, as world powers strike Yemeni rebel group in the name of protecting global trade. Meanwhile, Israel continues to bomb and shoot Palestinians. Read More
ICJ hearings: Israel takes to the stand
Gaza is still getting bombed in what Oxfam calls deadliest war of the 21st century
U.S. and U.K. bomb Yemen, Israel bombs Lebanon
Israeli forces kill one in the West Bank, as Israeli disunity once again on display
ICJ to begin deliberation as public hearing of South Africa's genocide case against Israel ends
Anadolu Agency: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday said it will begin deliberations as it concluded the two-day public hearing of South Africa's case that accused Israel of committing a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. "The public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) concluded today," the ICJ said in a statement. "The Court will now begin its deliberation. The Court’s decision will be delivered at a public sitting, the date of which will be announced in due course," the ICJ added. Read More
International Court of Justice hears devastating presentation of Israeli genocide in Gaza
By Tom Carter: On Thursday, lawyers representing the government of South Africa gave extraordinary arguments before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, arguing that Israel is guilty of perpetrating genocide in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention. The factual material that was contained in the presentations, followed throughout the world, has a significance that goes beyond the character and motives of the governments and institutions involved in the proceedings. It gathered into one place a catalogue of systematic atrocities and war crimes perpetrated by Israel since October 7, which the whole world has followed to varying degrees on social media. As Irish lawyer Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh stated in her presentation, Gaza represents “the first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate—so far vain—hope that the world might do something.” Read More
Oxfam report describes Israel’s onslaught on Gaza as “deadliest conflict of the 21st century”
By Joran Shilton: “The scale and atrocities that Israel is visiting upon Gaza are truly shocking. For 100 days the people of Gaza have endured a living hell. Nowhere is safe and the entire population is at risk of famine,” commented Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam’s Middle East director. “It is unimaginable that the international community is watching the deadliest rate of conflict of the 21st century unfold, while continuously blocking calls for a ceasefire.” Read More
In 73 strikes by US, UK on Yemen, 5 Houthi fighters killed
Anadolu Agency: The Yemeni Houthi group announced Friday that US and British forces launched 73 strikes on Yemen, killing five of its fighters. In a statement, the group's military spokesman, Yahya Saree, said "the American-British enemy, in the context of its support for the continuation of the Israeli crimes in Gaza, launched a brutal aggression against Yemen with 73 strikes." Saree said the raids targeted "the capital Sanaa and the governorates of Hodeidah, Taiz, Hajjah, and Saada." Read More
Attacks on Red Sea shipping mount, but confronting Houthis carries risks
Yeni Safak: A spate of attacks by Yemeni rebels on Red Sea shipping has disrupted the vital trade route, but experts say stopping them appears difficult at best -- and risky at worst. Dozens of drone and missile attacks have been launched on ships by the Houthis, part of the Iran-backed "axis of resistance" reinvigorated by Israel's war on Hamas. The rebels, who control large swathes of war-torn Yemen, are targeting supposedly Israel-linked ships passing through the Bab al-Mandeb strait, the Red Sea's southern gateway. Read More
US and UK launch war against Yemen
By Oscar Grenfell: The US and UK began bombing Yemen tonight, including strikes in the country’s densely-populated cities. While the scale of the assault is still emerging, the bombardment is an illegal act of war targeting an oppressed and impoverished nation that had already been ravaged by a years-long onslaught by Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and its allies. The attack highlights the growing danger of a broad Middle Eastern conflict, as the US seeks to transform Israel’s genocide in Gaza into a region wide offensive, particularly targeting Iran. Read More
Russia strongly condemns UK, US strikes on Yemen
Anadolu Agency: Russia on Friday strongly condemned the overnight airstrikes by the US and UK on Yemen's Houthis. Russia's concerns, voiced during discussion earlier this week of a US-sponsored UN Security Council resolution against Houthi attacks on ships, that the document will be "misinterpreted" and used to justify "illegal actions" have materialized, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a press briefing in Moscow. Read More
Iran criticizes 'arbitrary' US, UK strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen
Anadolu Agency: Iran reacted strongly to overnight US and UK missile strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, blasting the "arbitrary" attacks, which it said violated Yemen's sovereignty and territorial integrity. The bombings constitute a "clear violation" of the Arab country's sovereignty and territorial integrity as well as a "violation of international laws," said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani in a statement Friday. Read More
US, UK try to turn Red Sea into 'sea of blood': Erdogan
TRT World: The US and UK have used disproportionate force in Yemen, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Speaking to reporters after performing Friday prayers in Istanbul, Erdogan criticised the attacks on Yemen by the US and UK. "All of these actions involve the use of disproportionate force. Israel is also using disproportionate force in Palestine," he said. Read More
Israeli overnight strikes kill at least 62 across Gaza Strip
Daily Sabah: At least 62 people were killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, the besieged territory's press office said early Thursday. The airstrikes targeted civilian homes in southern Gaza's Rafah and Khan Younis, killing at least 12 Palestinians and injuring dozens of others. Israeli warplanes hit the home of the Abu Namous family in Khan Younis, according to Anadolu Agency (AA). Read More
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 97:
Israeli bombardment continues in Gaza even as South Africa presents arguments to the ICJ
Mondoweiss: As Israel's attacks on Gaza continued, killing medical workers and journalists, South Africa stood in front of the International Court of Justice and presented compelling evidence of Israel's genocidal acts and intent. Read More
South Africa at the ICJ: A compelling case for genocide
Four medics and a journalist killed in Gaza
Blinken’s trip to occupied West Bank was ‘tense’
US and UK threaten war against Yemen
by Andre Damon: US and UK officials made their most direct statements to date Wednesday threatening to attack Yemen, from which Houthi rebels have targeted shipping through the Red Sea and US warships facilitating the genocide in Gaza. “We’ve made clear, and many other countries have made clear, that there will be consequences for the Houthis’ actions,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a press briefing in Manama, Bahrain during his trip through the Middle East. Read More
Türkiye, Pakistan, S. Arabia agree to enhance defense cooperation
Daily Sabah: Türkiye, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have agreed to enhance trilateral defense cooperation during a Trilateral Defense Committee meeting held in Pakistan's city of Rawalpindi, according to an Anadolu Agency (AA) report on Tuesday. The second such meeting was held at the GHQ, the headquarters of Pakistan's army, in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. It was attended by senior military officials from the three nations. Read More
Making Gaza Unlivable
TomDispatch: As if its indiscriminate bombing, which has already damaged or destroyed up to 70% of all homes in Gaza, weren’t enough, filling those tunnels with polluted water will ensure that some of the remaining residential buildings will suffer structural problems, too. And if the ground is weak and insecure, Palestinians will have trouble rebuilding. Read More
From Gaza to Congo: On Zionism and the Unlearned History of Genocide
by Dr Ramzy Baroud: Thousands of miles separate Uganda and Congo from the Gaza Strip, but these places are connected to Palestine in ways that traditional geopolitical analyses would fail to explain. On January 3, it was revealed that the far-right Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu is actively discussing proposals to expel millions of Palestinians to African countries, in exchange for a fixed price. Read More
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