Defense officials in Washington have expressed worry over the situation in Palestine and the threat it may pose to US forces across West Asia | Washington has provided its forces occupying Syria's northeastern Deir Ezzor and Hasakah governorates with additional equipment, Turkish media reported on 15 August, in anticipation of attacks by Syrian government forces backed by Iran. “The US provided its forces in Deir Ezzor governorate with radar systems,” Anadolu Agency (AA) said on Sunday, citing local sources. The radars aim to deter "foreign terrorist groups supported by Iran," which are responsible for several attacks this year and last year against US occupation bases and US-occupied oil fields in Syria.

■ U.S. Deploys Large Force - Eyes On Syria
■ US faces defeat in geopolitical war in Gaza (M. K. BHADRAKUMAR)

[The] Israeli government actively and directly participated in creating and propping up Hamas in the service of its own political machinations. | Bibi Netanyahu and his ideological ilk represent more of an existential threat to the continued existence of the Israeli state – and possibly the world if it gets dragged into its geopolitical melodrama -- than any foreign adversary ever could hope to. What many casual news consumers might not know, even ones who consider themselves “informed” – in large part because MSNBC/CIA-funded Washington Post would never tell them – is that Hamas is in no small measure a creation of the Israeli state. Straight from the horse’s mouth, here’s how Netanyahu schemed behind the scenes for years to promote the terrorist group he now publicly decries and postures as the savior from. 💬 [...] ‘Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,’ he told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” On learning that Netanyahu told his comrades this, one might ask obvious questions: Why would Netanyahu be interested in keeping Palestine balkanized politically?

Raz Segal | Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening? | Indeed, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is quite explicit, open, and unashamed. Perpetrators of genocide usually do not express their intentions so clearly, though there are exceptions.

■ Israel’s campaign to displace Gazans—and potentially expel them altogether into Egypt—is yet another chapter in the Nakba, in which an estimated 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes during the 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel. But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians. I have written about settler colonialism and Jewish supremacy in Israel, the distortion of the Holocaust to boost the Israeli arms industry, the weaponization of antisemitism accusations to justify Israeli violence against Palestinians, and the racist regime of Israeli apartheid. Now, following Hamas’s attack on Saturday and the mass murder of more than 1,000 Israeli civilians, the worst of the worst is happening.

■ Under international law, the crime of genocide is defined by “the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such,” as noted in the December 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. In its murderous attack on Gaza, Israel has loudly proclaimed this intent. Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant declared it in no uncertain terms on October 9th: “We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals, and we will act accordingly.” Leaders in the West reinforced this racist rhetoric by describing Hamas’s mass murder of Israeli civilians—a war crime under international law that rightly provoked horror and shock in Israel and around the world—as “an act of sheer evil,” in the words of US President Joe Biden, or as a move that reflected an “ancient evil,” in the terminology of President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. This dehumanizing language is clearly calculated to justify the wide scale destruction of Palestinian lives; the assertion of “evil,” in its absolutism, elides distinctions between Hamas militants and Gazan civilians, and occludes the broader context of colonization and occupation.

Over 500 people were killed at al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Palestinian authorities have said | he World Health Organization (WHO) has denounced the attack on a Gaza hospital that killed at least 500 people on Tuesday, calling for “immediate” protection of civilians in the Palestinian territory. Israel has denied responsibility for the strike and blamed Hamas. The WHO 💬 “strongly condemns the attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital in north Gaza,” said the organizations’ head, Dr. Tedros Adhenom Ghebreyesus. “We call for the immediate protection of civilians and health care, and for the evacuation orders to be reversed.” An Israeli airstrike killed more than 500 Palestinians, both patients and civilians seeking shelter, while “hundreds” more remain under the rubble, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza.

■ Минздрав Газы сообщил о 500 погибших в результате удара Израиля по больнице (RG.ru)

■ Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) | The monstrous attack on the hospital in the Gaza Strip is certainly a war crime. And the final responsibility for it lies with those who cynically capitalize on wars in different countries and on different continents. Who recklessly hand out huge sums of money for weapons, loading their military-industrial complex. Who falsely broadcast their global mission to protect democratic values. The United States of America. (T)

Tzipi Hotovely argued that Hamas was responsible for the wellbeing of Palestinian civilians | The Israeli ambassador to London has denied that a humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Gaza, arguing that the Palestinian militant group Hamas must “pay the price” for attacking Israeli civilians. Asked by Sky News about the situation in Gaza on Monday, Tzipi Hotovely replied: “There is no humanitarian crisis.” On Thursday ["Israel"] ordered over 1 million Palestinian civilians to evacuate to the southern part of the densely populated territory. The UN and human rights groups condemned the evacuation order. Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, warned that it would bring “devastating humanitarian consequences.” ● [A]n estimated 500,000 Palestinians have fled south since the warning was issued. At least 2,750 Palestinians and over 1,300 Israelis have been killed since October 7, according to officials from both sides.

■ Spanish minister denounces Israeli ‘genocide’ in Gaza | Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas terrorists need to be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC), Spanish Minister for Social Rights Ione Belarra said on Monday. 💬 “Israel is carrying out a planned genocide” in Gaza by leaving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians without water, food, and electricity, Belarra, who is the leader of Podemos, a junior partner in the ruling coalition, claimed. She further described the move as a serious breach of international law and a possible war crime.

A new study based on official government data has revealed that 94% of Covid deaths were among patients who were fully vaccinated for the virus. | The study was based on data from the British government’s Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS recently published an update on deaths by vaccination status in England. The data has shockingly revealed that the vaccinated population accounted for 95% of COVID-19 deaths in the 12 months between June 1, 2022, and May 31, 2023. 94% of those deaths were among the fully vaccinated – either the triple or quadruple-vaccinated – population. The dataset was published recently by the UK Government and it can be found on the ONS website here
, or downloaded here. The dataset includes deaths by vaccination status between 1st April 2021 and 31st May 2023.

■ Doctors Warn of Severe Mental Breakdowns Among Covid Vaxxed (NewsAddicts)
■ Detective Arrested for Investigating Link Between Infant Deaths and mRNA Shots (NewsAddicts)
■ Moderna Executive: ‘Exploding’ Vaccine Injuries Are ‘Not Our Problem’ (NewsAddicts)

Powerful explosions heard in south Lebanon. Israeli army says it has begun directly bombing Hezbollah military sites in south Lebanon. | Hezbollah has, thus far, stayed OUT of the Hamas-Israel fight. Now, Israel is pre-emptively attacking Hezbollah with intentional military air strikes against specifically targeted Hezbollah assets. Said one observer "This has just started actual war between Israel and Hezbollah."

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the Chinese capital of Beijing to participate in the 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, a Sputnik correspondent reported. | On Monday, the Kremlin said that Putin would pay an official visit to China from October 17-18. The Russian leader is expected to hold negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss further development of the Russian-Chinese comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation, as well as topical regional and international issues. ● According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Putin and Xi Jiping will exchange detailed opinions and coordinate positions. ● The Kremlin added that Putin would also hold a number of bilateral meetings with the leaders of the participating states of the forum. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also arrived in Beijing on Monday and met with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.

■ Xi, Putin to conduct in-depth dialogue on bilateral relations — Chinese Foreign Ministry (TASS)
■ 'One of the Most Important Diplomatic Events': China Belt and Road Forum Review (Sputnik News)

Jonathan Cook | The truth is that this moment of catastrophe could never have been reached without western powers indulging, subsidising and providing diplomatic cover for Israel’s brutality towards the Palestinian people, decade after decade. The bloodiest hand in the current slaughter of Palestinians and Israelis belongs, not to Hamas or the Netanyahu government, but to the West.

● Yes, Palestinian fighters carried out a brutal attack at the weekend on Israeli settlements on the edge of the Gaza Strip. But this attack did not emerge from nowhere, or without warning. It was not “unprovoked”, as Israel would like us to believe. In fact, western capitals know exactly how much the Palestinians of Gaza have been provoked, because those same governments have been complicit for decades in supporting Israel as it has ethnically cleansed Palestinians from their homeland and imprisoned the remnants of the population in ghettoes inside historic Palestine.

● For the the past 16 years, western backing for Israel has not wavered, even as Israel has turned the coastal enclave of Gaza from the world’s largest open-air prison into a gruesome torture chamber, where Palestinians are experimented on. Their food and power have been rationed, essentials of life denied to them, their access to drinkable water slowly removed, and their hospitals prevented from receiving medical supplies and equipment. The problem is not ignorance. Western governments have been informed in real-time of the crimes Israel is committing: in confidential cables from their own embassy officials, and in endless reports from human rights groups documenting Israel’s apartheid rule over Palestinians. And yet Western politicians have time and again done nothing to intervene, done nothing to exert meaningful pressure. Worse, they have rewarded Israel with endless military, financial and diplomatic support.

● Where does this endless indulgence from the West ultimately lead? Already, Israel is emboldened to make much more explicit its policy towards Gaza’s two million inhabitants. There is a word for that policy, one we are not supposed to use to avoid causing offence to those implementing it, as well as those who quietly support its implementation. Whether by design or outcome, Israel’s starving of civilians, leaving them with no power, depriving them of clean water, and preventing hospitals from treating the sick and wounded – from treating those Israel has bombed – is a genocidal policy. Western governments know this too. Because Israeli leaders have made no secret of what they are doing.

Isaac Herzog says: 'It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved' | Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Friday that civilians in Gaza bear responsibility for the Hamas attack on southern Israel as Israeli bombs are killing scores of people in the besieged enclave. ● “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible,” Herzog said, referring to Gaza, which is not recognized as an independent nation. “It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true.” ● Herzog claimed that civilians in Gaza “could have risen up. They could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d’etat.” [So all the children of Gaza could have deposed Ismail Haniyeh and destroyed the Hamas that Israel created and supported with money over the years? They should have done it, right? – Gimme a break, child-killer!] Proponents of the collective punishment of Gaza often claim the civilians living in the enclave elected Hamas. But the last time Gazans participated in elections was in 2006, and many of the enclave’s current citizens were not at voting age or even alive at the time, as about half of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are children. ● Hamas’ party won the 2006 elections, but a government was not formed based on the results. After the elections, fighting broke out between Hamas and the rival Fatah party, which was encouraged and backed by the George W. Bush administration. The fighting led to Hamas taking power as the de facto governing body in Gaza in 2007.

■ Israeli veteran, 95, rallies troops to 'erase' Palestinian children (MEE)
■ Biden Admin Gave Hamas $75 Million Days before Attack (N7A)

Fuel reserves in Gaza hospitals are expected to last another 24 hours, then the lives of thousands of patients would be at risk, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Sunday. | "Fuel reserves at all hospitals across Gaza are expected to last for about additional 24 hours. The shutdown of backup generators would place the lives of thousands of patients at risk," the agency said in a statement. ● On October 7, Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise large-scale rocket attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip, prompting Israel to declare a state of war the following day and launch retaliatory strikes. On Monday, Israel ordered a complete blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to more than 2 million people, cutting off supplies of water, food and fuel.

■ Carnage, chaos in Gaza: Palestinian death toll from Israeli war surpasses 2,750 (PressTV)
■ Five-hour ceasefire introduced in southern Gaza Strip (TASS)

So-called “order” is just a front for colonialism, with purported rules ever-changing to fit needs, Russian president has said | The Western-promoted “rules-based order” is merely a cover for colonialism, as the presumed rules have never been agreed-on by anyone and are ever-shifting from one case to another, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. The president made the remarks in an exclusive interview with state-run broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) that was aired on Monday. 💬 “Have you ever seen these rules? No, because no one has ever written them, and no one has ever agreed to them with anyone. How can we talk about order based on rules that no one has seen?” Putin stated.

■ Putin Berates NATO Over Eastward Expansion as Alliance Launches Nuclear Drills in Europe (Sputnik News)

Athletes With Serious Health Issues or Have Died Post-Vaccination | In July, we reported that 1,884 athletes were recorded as having serious health issues post-vaccination. Sadly, 1,310 had died. This was according to the latest reports of athletes recorded in Good Sciencing’s list at the time. ● Good Sciencing is continuously updating its list and tragically, the number keeps rising. From the rollout of the mass covid injection campaigns to the end of September 2023, Good Sciencing had recorded 2,003 athlete cardiac arrests or serious issues. The total includes 1,400 who have died. Many of these heart issues and deaths happen shortly after the person had received a covid injection.

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"A free, independent, and plural media is essential to the functioning of a healthy democracy." | The Media Reform Coalition (MRC) has published a new edition of its flagship ‘‘Who Owns the UK Media?’ report, this is their fifth study on media ownership in the United Kingdom, which covers data for the period since March 2021. According to MRC, the report highlights the dangerous levels of concentrated ownership across the UK’s national and local press, in TV and radio broadcasting, streaming services, and online platforms. ● A free, independent, and plural media is essential to the functioning of a healthy democracy says the MRC, but, their findings show that the UK media is dominated by a tiny handful of corporate media moguls and ‘Big Tech’ tycoons. Across our newspapers, TV channels, radio stations, and online platforms, these companies hold a dangerous level of power to dictate our national conversation and influence the political agenda to favour their own interests. ● An example of media dictating their own agenda was seen in the U.S. Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is the nation’s largest owner of local television stations, faced backlash after being caught using their anchors to push their political views in 2018. The funny clip below shows how that sounded put together in a video.

NOW: Mass Paris Pro-Palestine rally happening now in direct conflict with the French govt

This is now an illegal protest, banned by the interior minister. pic.twitter.com/YdyZ2PKxRA

— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) October 12, 2023

Ezra Yachin, who was involved in the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre, tells troops 'these animals can no longer live', referring to Palestinians | Ezra Yachin, 95, is one of more than 300,000 army reservists mobilised by Israel since war broke out with Hamas in Gaza a week ago. ● Yachin won't be involved in combat but instead will serve to "motivate" soldiers, according to recent reports. "Be triumphant and finish them off and don’t leave anyone behind. Erase the memory of them," Yachin said while addressing Israeli troops this week, in a video that has since gone viral. "Erase them, their families, mothers and children. These animals can no longer live."

■ Deir Yassin Remembered

Over 400,000 forced out of their homes as Israel ground attack looms | Renewed Israeli air strikes near a school on Saturday afternoon have killed at least 20 Palestinians in an initial tally reported by the Gaza-based interior ministry. The attack targeted areas adjacent to al-Fakhura School in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, which is home to refugees forcibly expelled by Zionist militia in 1948, and their descendants.

The UN has called Israel’s forced relocation order impossible and disastrous | Dozens of people, mostly women and children, have been injured and killed in Israeli airstrikes on evacuation convoys fleeing Gaza City, according to Hamas officials. The IDF has yet to respond to the accusations, after ordering more than 1 million people to leave the northern part of the enclave “to save their lives.” ● The UN humanitarian body, OCHA, said...💬...several “vehicles of those evacuating the north were hit, killing more than 40 people and injuring 150 others,” citing data from health officials in the Hamas-governed Palestinian enclave. “These incidents prompted many people to abandon their evacuation efforts and return home,” the UN agency added, as “heavy Israeli bombardments, from the air, sea and land, have continued almost uninterrupted.” Hamas’ media office claimed on Friday that airstrikes hit civilian cars in three separate locations, allegedly killing 70 people. The Palestinian Health Ministry said that Al-Shifa Medical Complex was treating “dozens of victims” injured “as a result of the Israeli occupation forces targeting citizens who were forced to leave their homes.” ● Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled south after Israel issued an order on Thursday night, initially giving Gaza residents 24 hours to evacuate from the north to “save their lives” ahead of an expected ground offensive, according to the UN. Prior to the evacuation order, more than 400,000 Palestinians had already been internally displaced.

■ Israel’s Plan to Displace Gaza Residents in Details (Sputnik News)
■ Israeli Defense Minister: "We have abolished all the rules of war. Our soldiers will not be held responsible for anything. There will be no military courts” (10/12/23)

The Russian President previously said that Israel had been subjected to a brutal attack, but that the conflict could only be resolved through the creation of an independent Palestine with its capital in East Jerusalem | The Palestinian Hamas movement appreciates the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow's efforts to settle the situation in the Gaza Strip, according to the group’s statement published on its Telegram channel. 💬 "Hamas appreciates Russian President Vladimir Putin's position on the ongoing Zionist aggression against our people and the fact that he does not accept the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the stoppage of humanitarian aid and the attack on unarmed civilians. We also affirm that we welcome Russia's tireless efforts to stop the systematic and barbaric Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip," the statement said.

■ Israeli PM describes actions in Gaza as ‘just the beginning’ (TASS)

Members of Kosovo police are carrying out a police operation in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica in connection with the events in Banjska on September 24 | A search of a residential building near the main bridge is underway, Deputy Police Director for the Mitrovica - North Veton Elshani confirmed for Tanjug. ● Elshani specified that a search is underway in a residential building in Vlade Ćetković Street, near the main bridge. "The search is taking place in connection with the events of September 24 in Banjska. So far, no arrests have been made," Elshani said. ● Members of the police wear helmets, some have bulletproof vests and phantoms, plainclothes policemen are present, as well as one EULEX vehicle. Members of KFOR also visited the location.

■ Vučić: "We possess evidence and we will prosecute the cold-blooded killers" VIDEO (09/30/23)

While producer Khaibar Akifi suffered severe injuries, his four-year-old daughter died in the attack | The four-year-old child, and parents-in-law, of a Sputnik Afghanistan producer were killed in a Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Belgorod Region on Wednesday. Khaibar Akifi and his wife Olesya were wounded in the attack, according to his employers in Moscow. Their dead daughter has been named as Amina.

The Palestinian group Hamas launched a massive rocket attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip, prompting Tel Aviv to declare a state of war the following day and launch retaliatory strikes. | Israel has imposed a complete blockade on the Gaza Strip, home to more than two million people, cutting off supplies of water, food, and fuel. ● Both Israel and Palestine have reported more than 1,000 deaths and thousands of injuries as a result of the escalation. ● On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the parties to the conflict to use diplomacy rather than military force to find a way to end hostilities and return to the negotiating process.

■ UK to send navy ships and spy planes to support Israel [help Israel kill all Palestinians in Gaza] (The Guardian)
■ [Jewish ruled] U.S. Plans To Ethnically Cleanse Gaza (MoA)
■ Israel Informs United Nations to EVACUATE its Staff - and ONE MILLION Residents within 24 Hours (Hal Turner)
■ Hamas says 13 hostages, including foreigners, killed following Israeli shelling of Gaza (TASS)
■ Israeli Defense Minister: "We have abolished all the rules of war. Our soldiers will not be held responsible for anything. There will be no military courts” (10/12/23)
■ L’ONU et l’OMS appellent Israël à annuler immédiatement l’ordre d’évacuation à Gaza : « Les conséquences humanitaires seront dévastatrices » (Le Média en 4-4-2)

David Livingstone | Israel Created Hamas to Avoid Peace | Israel does not want peace. Israel created Hamas as a pretext to wage war on the Palestinians. Israel does not want peace. They want all of Palestine, and their belligerent settlement practices confirm that. But the Israelis are posturing as being willing to talk "peace", only to actually stall that peace process, so as to advance the further colonization of Palestine. Hamas' rockets are mere peashooters compared to Israel's air force but they provide another excuse for ethnic cleansing. 💬 "The masses are naive and fail to suspect the Machiavellian extremes that certain leaders will resort to. This includes creating a false enemy, in this case, Hamas, whereby the right-wing leadership of the Israelis can point the finger at some "enemy" to blame for supposedly stalling the process."

Paris has banned rallies nationwide, claiming they were a threat to public order | French police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters who thronged the streets of Paris Thursday in support of the Palestinian people despite a ban on pro-Palestinian rallies initiated earlier in the day. ● Seemingly undeterred by the prohibition, crowds of demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans before heavily armed riot police arrived on the scene. ● Video posted to social media shows massive water cannons drenching reluctantly-dispersing crowds. Another clip shows protesters – including elderly and women – being crushed into a stone railing as they are pursued by riot cops and tear gas clouds, shrieking as police push them with plastic shields.

■ Germany vows to prosecute burning of Israeli flag (RT.com)
■ France "BANS" Pro-Palestinian Protests/Speech/Flags - Paris Now Erupting in Riots (10/12/23)

France "BANS" Pro-Palestinian Protests/Speech/Flags | According to French Interior Minister Darmanin, the government of France decreed today there can be no "Pro-Palestinian" gatherings, protests, speech, writings, or even flags. Within hours, the people of France began to rise-up; there are now Riots in Paris and other cities.Social Media is now lighting-up with images and video of the Pro-Palestinian gatherings taking place.

Israel's Minister of Defense Yaov Gallant, told troops massing for a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip "We have abolished all the rules of war. Our soldiers will not be held responsible for anything. There will be no military courts.” | Even Adolph Hitler didn't go that far...Minister Gallant also told troops "I have released all the restraints, we have [regained] control of the area, and we are moving to a full offense. Hamas wanted a change in Gaza, it will change 180 degrees from what it thought. They will regret this moment, Gaza will never return to what it was." 💬 For anyone wondering whether or not Israel is planning an actual ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, Minister Gallant also answered that, telling Israeli troops "We started the offensive from the air. Later, we will also come from the ground." Confirming Gallant's point, Israel Minister of National Security says "Invasion of Gaza is now Imminent" He said Israel has now no other option rather then to start the Ground action. Social media postings show videos of the troops being briefed about the coming ground invasion. ● What is taking place in Israel is not happening in a vacuum; other countries and entities are seeing what is going on, and they are making their positions about it very clear. In next-door Lebanon, the group Hezbollah, with whom Israel went to war in 2005, has warned if Israel launches a ground invasion of Gaza, Hezbollah will enter the war to defend Palestinians.

■ Iran warns Israel against its apocalyptic war (The People's Voice)
■ Israel bombs residential areas in Gaza for 5th day in a row (PressTV)

David Livingstone | Israel Created Hamas to Avoid Peace | Israel does not want peace. Israel created Hamas as a pretext to wage war on the Palestinians. Israel does not want peace. They want all of Palestine, and their belligerent settlement practices confirm that. But the Israelis are posturing as being willing to talk "peace", only to actually stall that peace process, so as to advance the further colonization of Palestine. Hamas' rockets are mere peashooters compared to Israel's air force but they provide another excuse for ethnic cleansing. 💬 "The masses are naive and fail to suspect the Machiavellian extremes that certain leaders will resort to. This includes creating a false enemy, in this case, Hamas, whereby the right-wing leadership of the Israelis can point the finger at some "enemy" to blame for supposedly stalling the process."

Qatar threatened that if the bombing of Gaza does not stop, it will stop the export of gas to the countries of the world. | Palestinian resistance fighters launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the positions of the Zionist regime in the occupied territories on Saturday morning from the Gaza Strip, which shocked the regime, because such an inclusive and unprecedented operation is occurring for the first time in the 75 years of occupation. ● Retaliating the operation, The Israeli regime cut off water and power to the Gaza Strip from yesterday Tuesday and banned the entry of food and fuel to the strip where 2.2 people were living. Palestine's Ministry of Health also reported 1,100 people dead in Gaza and 27 others in the West Bank.

■ Jordan Moving Tanks and Troops to Israel Border (The Gateway Pundit)

The Israeli military says it is unable to “officially” substantiate the heinous allegation | US officials have backtracked after President Joe Biden claimed to have seen “confirmed pictures” of Palestinian militants “beheading children” in Israel, explaining that he had seen no images and was merely relaying claims from the Israeli government and media reports. ● While Biden declared in an address tio Jewish leaders on Wednesday that he was shocked by photos depicting brutal acts against Israeli babies, a White House spokesperson later told the Washington Post that officials were unaware of the pictures the president claimed to have seen. They added that they had no independent confirmation of reports that children were beheaded during a Hamas attack on Israel last weekend, despite Biden’s claim of having seen “confirmed” images.

Belgium will create a 1.7 billion euro ($1.8 billion) fund to support Ukraine using "proceeds" from frozen stolen Russian assets, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said on Wednesday. | Belgium will also provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets. 💬 "The third element is the constitution of a 1.7 billion Ukraine fund. That fund, the source of that fund are the billions of Russian assets that are being frozen in Belgium. In Belgium, we have taxation on the proceeds of those frozen Russian assets. Last year, it was very clear to us that the taxation on the proceeds of those assets should go a 100% to Ukrainian population," de Croo told a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Brussels.

Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, October 12th | Experts mull scenarios of how the conflict between Israel and Palestine may unfold; the US national debt hits a new record high; and the purported blast near a Baltic Sea gas pipeline raises suspicions of a false narrative concocted for pushing further anti-Russian sanctions. These stories topped Thursday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.