Mike Whitney | What onlookers need to realize is that the current strategy is not new at all, in fact, it has a 75 year-long pedigree that aligns with the demographic objectives of the Zionist leadership. | None of this of course has anything to do with Hamas which is merely the pretext for the eradication of the indigenous people. What we are seeing is the actualization of the Zionist dream, the modern version of Plan Dalet, the original roadmap for ethnic cleaning that was drawn up in 1948. ● Is this not Plan Dalet? It is. It’s a modern version of the original plan. That is why the IDF is bombing tent cities full of unarmed civilians who pose no threat to Israeli security. It’s not to fight Hamas but to terrorize the population into fleeing the city. That’s the goal. Israel knows that if they bomb the refugees, they will storm the border, breach the wall, and stream into Egypt en masse. That’s the plan in a nutshell.

جريمة "مروعة" ارتكبها الاحتلال الصهيوني بحق أحد الشبان في خانيونس

- ⁠ألبسه جنود الاحتلال لباس كورونا، وقيدوا يديه، ووضعوا على رأسه علامة صفراء

- أرسلوه إلى مستشفى ناصر ليبلغ المتواجدين هناك بضرورة إخلائه ثم يعود إلى الجنود وإلا أعدموه

- أبلغ الشاب الرسالة وعاد لجنود… pic.twitter.com/GNz08kQH3s

— غزة الآن - Gaza Now (@nowgnna) February 13, 2024

'Soldiers are shooting at everything in sight – including a doctor and a nurse. There are bodies in the courtyard' - Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

The Israeli occupation forces breached the Nasser Medical Complex and forced people sheltering there to evacuate. | In a recent development, Israeli occupation forces reportedly entered the premises of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, opening fire in its medical departments and urging the injured to evacuate. Al Mayadeen's correspondent in the Gaza Strip highlighted the pressure on injured individuals to evacuate the area. ● Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza also verified that Israeli forces targeted the orthopedic department within the premises of Nasser Medical Complex, resulting in the death of one of the injured and injuries sustained by several patients.

■ Israeli forces kill Palestinian after telling him to warn others to evacuate hospital (MEE)
■ 'Israel' bombs Nasser Medical Complex killing patient, orders evac (Al Mayadeen)
■ Sewage water flooding Nasser Hospit., food runs out amid Israeli siege (Al Mayadeen)

Eleven people, including four civilians, have been killed after the Zionist regime's warplanes struck the Nabatieh region in southern Lebanon. | The death toll was announced by Lebanon-based Al Mayadeen news network early on Thursday. Other news reports said a Hezbollah fighter was among those killed. ● Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera earlier said that a mother and daughter were among the civilians killed while over a dozen other people were injured in the bombing. This is the second attack of the Zionist regime on residential areas in southern Lebanon and the killing of civilians and family members in the past 24 hours. ● A family consisting of a mother and her 2 children were martyred in an Israeli bombing of the Savannah area on Wednesday evening. ● The regime’s warplanes pounded other southern regions of Lebanon that caused material damage but no casualties.

■ Hezbollah vows to retaliate after 10 civilians die in Israeli airstrikes (LBC News)

At least six people were killed during a Ukrainian missile attack on the Russian city of Belgorod today. | Ukrainian forces carried out the attack using the Czech RM-70 Vampire multiple launch rocket systems, Russia's Ministry of Defense said in a statement, adding that Russian air defense systems managed to intercept 14 rockets. [...] A shopping mall in Belgorod ended up being damaged as a result of this attack. The mall building, which housed a grocery store and a pharmacy, sustained serious damage, according to local media reports. Accorting to preliminary reports cited by local authorities, at least six people (including one child) were killed during this attack, and 17 more (including four children) were injured.

Michel Chossudovsky | The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’État Against Humanity.

■ From the very outset in January 2020, people worldwide were led to believe and accept the existence of a rapidly progressing and dangerous epidemic. Media disinformation and the fear campaign were instrumental in sustaining the COVID-19 narrative. Scientific lies and falsehoods have been used to sustain the legitimacy of the COVID-19 policy mandates including lockdowns, the imposition of the face mask, social distancing and the suppression of fundamental human rights. People worldwide were led to believe that Big Pharma’s COVID-19 vaccine injections were the “solution”.

■ A structure of “Global Governance” dominated by powerful financial interests is unfolding which undermines democracy and the institutions of civil society. More than 7 billion people worldwide are directly or indirectly affected by the corona crisis and the destructive mandates implemented by morally depraved national governments. The entire planet is in state of economic and social chaos.

■ Michel Chossudovsky reviews in detail how this insidious project “destroys people’s lives”. He provides a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about the “pandemic” — from the medical dimensions to the economic and social repercussions, political underpinnings, and mental and psychological impacts.

■ “My objective as an author is to inform people worldwide and refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: almost 8 billion people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings and our children worldwide. Truth is a powerful instrument.”

■ As a means to reaching out to millions of people worldwide whose lives have been affected by the corona crisis, we have decided in the course of the next few weeks to distribute the eBook for FREE. Price: $11.50. FREE COPY Download.

Preliminary figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed that the British economy has officially entered a recession in the latter half of 2023. The grim data indicates a contraction in GDP for two consecutive quarters, marking what economists term as a "technical recession." | According to the ONS, Britain's GDP experienced a decline of 0.3 percent in the final quarter of 2023, following a 0.1 percent contraction in the preceding July-September period. These consecutive quarterly declines have sounded alarm bells, signaling the onset of economic recessionary conditions. ● The downturn was widespread across key sectors of the economy, with industrial production plummeting by 1% in the fourth quarter, construction contracting by 1.3%, and the services sector, a traditional engine of economic growth, witnessing a 0.2 percent decline. Notably, the decline in the services sector was primarily driven by a notable drop in wholesale and retail trade, which contracted by 0.6 percent.

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

The air attacks early on Monday provided cover for Israeli troops rescuing two hostages elsewhere in the city of Rafah. | Ibrahim Hasouna trudged over the rubble of his destroyed house, pointing out where family moments had taken place – where his mother and sister-in-law used to sleep, where he played with his five-year-old nieces, where he helped his one-year-old nephew take his first steps. His entire family is now dead – his parents, his two brothers, and the wife and three children of one of those brothers. The house, reduced to rubble came down on top of them in the barrage of air strikes that Israeli warplanes inflicted across Rafah before dawn on Monday. ● The attack was cover for an extraction by ground troops of two hostages held in the city that sits on the southern Gaza border.

■ LIVE: Deadly sniper attacks on Nasser Hospital (Al Jazeera)
■ Live blog: Death toll in Israel's deadly Gaza onslaught hits 28,576 (aNews)
■ US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters day 131 (The Palestinian Information Center)
■ Worried about situation unfolding at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis: Doctors Without Borders (Anadolu)
■ 3 Palestinians killed inside besieged hospital in Khan Younis by Israeli fire (Anadolu)

Gaza yesterday, Gaza today.

We still have power to change its tomorow pic.twitter.com/uJCBw6FOOf

— Angelo Giuliano (@angeloinchina) February 14, 2024

X says: "Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else." (= Censorship)

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Russia’s State Duma unanimously adopted bill late January, which seeks to seize property of those who 'discredit' security forces | Russian President Dictator Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a law adopted by the parliament in late January to seize the property of those who “discredit” the security forces. The law, published on the government portal, amends Russia’s Criminal Code and expands the list of crimes for which the confiscation of one’s property may be provided, including knowingly disseminating "false information" about the country's security forces. ● The law refers to crimes committed specifically "for selfish reasons", and calls for the confiscation of a convicted person’s money, valuables, or other property that they received because of committing a crime or used for activities directed against "Russia’s security". The Russian State Duma, the lower house of the country’s parliament, adopted the bill unanimously during a session on Jan. 31 in the second and third readings.

■ Putin signs law on confiscation of property for disseminating fake news about Russian army (TASS)

■ EDITOR: This is a Russia we can no longer support. Vague concepts like 'discredit', 'false information', and this one: 'for selfish reasons' (that's a good one) are unacceptable in a democracy. — Extraordinary! And of course the traditional one, 'Russia's security'. The group mind behind a parliament adopting something like this unanimously certainly is scary, and would indicate a final goodbye to democratic ideals. ● Now there's a military dictatorship in Russia, one with a civilian façade. — A captive president and a totalitarian parliament. A war state. ● This certainly doesn't bode well for the future. From here on, it is a race to the bottom. One is reminded of William Butler Yeats' remarkable poem "The Second Coming": "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." — Darkness is indeed falling on this world. (AWIP, 02/14/24)

The Institut International d’Etudes Bancaires was set up in the aftermath of World War II to foster closer ties among financial institutions | For more than seven decades, a secretive and highly influential organization has been bringing together the heads of Europe’s largest banks twice a year at luxury hotels and royal palaces across the continent to discuss global policymaking among other issues, according to a report by the Financial Times on Monday. The article highlighted that the existence of the Institut International d’Etudes Bancaires (IIEB) is barely known outside its membership while the group has no website and its meeting agendas are not made public. Members are reportedly discouraged from sharing details of the discussions.

■ Inside Europe’s most secretive gilded banking society (Financial Review)

This is the second candidate the party has suspended this week for having pro-Palestine views and speaking up against the Israeli occupation. | UK's Labour Party suspended a candidate yesterday for the upcoming general election, Graham Jones, for a published recording of him sharing a negative and disapproving opinion of "Israel." Jones is currently under investigation. [...] Before this incident, the party also cut off Azhar Ali, another candidate because of another recording of him criticizing "Israel." The party's current leader, Keir Starmer, stated after Jones's suspension, "When I say the Labour Party has changed under my leadership, I meant it," in an attempt to distance himself from the position of the party's former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who was pro-Palestine.

■ A wave of resignations shakes Labour party over Gaza (Al Mayadeen)

According to CNN Travel: “Holidaymakers should prepare to change their travel habits now, before this change is forced upon them.” | CNN reports that “The negative impacts of tourism on the environment have become so severe that some are suggesting drastic changes to our travel habits are inevitable.” ● The cable news network cites a 2023 report titled A Sustainable Future for Travel, in which the globalists lay out their entire plan to limit our freedom of movement. They always tell us their plans. So few pay attention. Most people would rather live in denial and deception. ● In this report, tour operator Intrepid Travel proposed that “carbon passports” will soon become a reality if the tourism industry hopes to survive. What is a carbon passport?

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor announced receiving new shocking testimonies from recently released Palestinian prisoners revealing that Israeli occupation army brought groups of Jewish settlers to detention centers and prisons to witness how detainees from the Gaza Strip are tortured, allowing many of them to film prisoners using their mobile phones. | The Jewish settlers enjoyed witnessing the torture rounds of Palestinian prisoners with all types of ill and inhumane treatment, the released detainees told Euro-Med Monitor. [...] The prisoners were detained for varying periods inside a detention center in Zikim military base on the northern border of the Gaza Strip, and another detention center near the Negev prison in the south, after they were rounded up in the Israeli occupation army’s ground incursions into the Strip. ● The Euro-Med explained that, according to the testimonies it received, groups of Jewish settlers, ranging from 10 to 20 people in each group, were allowed to watch and take photos of Palestinian prisoners who were held naked while being subjected to beating with metal batons and electric sticks by Israeli soldiers who poured hot water over their heads, amid verbal insults and threats in Arabic.

■ Suffering to Death: Mohammad Al-Sabbar 8th Palestinian Detainee Martyred behind ‘Israeli’ Bars since Oct.7
■ Settlers attended IOF 'nude torture' of detained Gazans: Euro-med (Al Mayadeen)
■ War on Gaza: The Discovery of a Mass Grave (02/10/24)
■ War on Gaza: Anger grows over viral image of wounded Palestinian stripped to underwear (02/07/24)
■ ‘Torture was severe’: Gaza doctor recounts ordeal in Israeli captivity (02/06/24)

Finland has supported Ukraine since 2022 on various levels, from humanitarian aid to military aid packages worth €1.8 billion | Finland's newly elected President Alexander Stubb has said that he will continue to support Ukraine. "I would like to continue the line of [outgoing President] Sauli Niinisto," Stubb said at a press briefing, answering a question on his position on Ukraine. The broadcast was carried by Finnish media. Finland has supported Ukraine since 2022 on various levels, from humanitarian aid to military aid packages worth €1.8 billion. Stubb was elected Finland's 13th president in a runoff election on February 11 and will be inaugurated on March 1.

■ Former Finnish premier Stubb reveals his CIA-contacts as Plame and Lavery (UMV-LEHTI)
■ Do Russians know everything about Alexander Stubb’s cooperation with the CIA? (UMV-LEHTI)
■ Mad Rush Into NATO: Is Finland's President-Elect Racing to Confront Russia? (Ekaterina Blinova)
■ Kremlin skeptical about Finland’s president-elect (RT.com)(12 Feb, 2024)

Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Дмитрий Медведев) | Generally speaking, usually leaders of states do not comment on the topic of interviews of their colleagues from other countries. It is not a tsarist matter. It is easier to make a statement rather than comment on someone else's. After all, all leaders of states are equal in status, at least from the point of view of international law. And it says so: par in parem non habet imperium.

And [yet] here we are. The two most important politicians of our time - the strange Briton Sunak and the pure-blooded Kraut Scholz - began to evaluate the Russian President's interview with Tucker Carlson. They didn't like it and they didn't like the arguments. [In fact,] they didn't like anything at all. [Well], what can I say?

1. The medicine hit the target precisely, since some leaders of the Western world had prolonged liquid diarrhea.
2. An excellent Russian history lesson was conducted, listening to which many citizens of Western countries for the first time found "Ukraine" on the world map, and the American grandfather Dementius frantically remembered not only his name, but also who was the first President of the United States. Napoleon? Churchill? Frank Sinatra? Ah, well, of course, Chingachgook!
3. In the near future, all these Sunaks, Scholts, Macrons (aka Mitterrand in Grandpa Dementia's case) and other Bidens will change their soiled diapers and straighten their sagging shoulders, but their verbal diarrhea will continue. For that is their main daily job. It's what they present to their constituents. And in this they have no equal ...(DeepL + LanguageTool)

■ Carlson's Interview: Putin and Trump Seen as 'Threat' by Davos Globalists – Wall Street Analyst (Sputnik News)
■ Key points from Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin (02/09/24)

🔴 LIVE DAY 129 #Israel #Palestine

- Palestinian death toll tops 28,000
- At least 60 people killed in Rafah overnight
- Egypt warns of "dire consequences" of Rafah assault

Follow our live coverage here ⤵️https://t.co/q3u2ihfYfz

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) February 12, 2024

■ Ben-Gvir calls on Israel army to shoot Gaza’s children, women (MEMO)

Israeli airstrikes reported in Rafah. pic.twitter.com/wp5t7eiE1T

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) February 12, 2024

Israeli occupation airstrikes on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza kill and injure hundreds of Gazans in a new massacre. | Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported Monday that Israeli occupation forces committed a major massacre in Rafah early this morning, with most of the victims being children and women. ● Our correspondent said that Israeli occupation warplanes launched more than 50 airstrikes on Rafah, noting that the occupation forces used internationally prohibited incendiary missiles in its airstrikes. ● Palestinian medical sources said that at least 100 people were martyred and more than 230 were wounded in heavy Israeli strikes on the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. ● According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Israeli warplanes carried out a series of heavy airstrikes on various parts of southern Gaza, focusing on the center of Rafah. ● The PRCS emphasized that the Israeli airstrikes targeted populated homes, warning that what happened signals a major catastrophe. ● Palestinian media reported that Israeli occupation forces targeted the al-Houda Mosque in the Yibna camp in Rafah, as well as the al-Rahma Mosque, where a large number of displaced Gazans were taking shelter.

■ Ben-Gvir calls on Israel army to shoot Gaza’s children, women (MEMO)
■ Live: Hundreds killed and wounded in Rafah bombarded as Israel plans ground assault (MEE)
■ War on Gaza: Palestinians in Rafah run out of shelters as Israel threatens assault (MEE)
■ “Israel’s” Barbarism Martyrs nearly 100 Palestinians in Gaza’s Rafah (Alahed News)
■ Hamas says Israel’s Rafah massacre ‘genocidal’ as regime uses ‘banned weapons’ (PressTV)
■ Israel-Palestine live: Warnings mount against planned Israeli Rafah assault (02/11/24)
■ 164 Dead, 230 Injured (and Rising) in Overnight Bombing of Rafah (Hal Turner)

Rheumatological drugs had been allegedly tested for several years on patients of the Mariupol hospital's psychiatric ward at the request of major Western pharmaceutical companies and with the assistance of Ukrainian officials, according to documents seen by Sputnik. | These documents were discovered by builders in the basement of hospital No. 7 in Mariupol during its restoration. ● The documents belonged to the psychiatric ward of the hospital and were drafted in 2008-2016. According to the initial inspection of the documents, it can be seen that certain drugs with numbers and without proper titles were tested on humans. ● The primary purpose of the research was to evaluate the effectiveness of the drug in relation to the proportion of patients who achieved the response according to the criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR).

Such companies like Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Celltrion, Novatris International AG, IQVIA, Sanofi, Galapagos NV, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, AbbottLaboratories, Covance, Merck KGaA, CentocorBiopharmaceutical and a branch of Samsung that produces medical equipment were mentioned in the documents.

Sweden under fire for suspending financial support to UNRWA | Sweden has come under sharp criticism from a number of experts over its decision to suspend financial support to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, due to Tel Aviv’s allegations that some of its staff members were involved in Hamas’s Oct. 7 military operation against Israel. 💬 "It is catastrophic that Sweden has cut humanitarian aid to UNRWA, above all because it has not even seen any evidence of Israel's accusations," Beatrice Fihn, a lawyer and former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) who specializes in international law and works for the law firm Lex International in Geneva, told the local Expressen newspaper. "There is no other organization that has the built-up capacity to get the necessary help out quickly,” Fihn added.

The ongoing “white and iron” dzud in Mongolia has reached a “critical” level, with over 90 per cent of the country facing high levels of risk from the unique weather phenomenon, UN agencies have reported. | About 190,000 herder households are struggling with inadequate feed, skyrocketing prices and heightened vulnerabilities, according to the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Mongolia. Herding and livestock have traditionally been integral to Mongolia’s economy, culture and way of life. Estimates indicate that there are over 64 million livestock this winter season in Mongolia. “The increasing severity of weather conditions further exacerbates the crisis, underscoring the urgent need for humanitarian assistance and sustainable solutions to support Mongolia's rural communities and traditional livelihoods,” the Office said in an update this week. This is the second year in a row that the country has faced these severe conditions. Last winter about 70 per cent of the country was affected.

■ Mongolia: Severe Winter - Iron Dzud 2024 (As of 6 February 2024) (reliefweb)
■ The Dangers of Dzud, Mongolia’s Lethal Winters (National Geographic)

The Israeli army seizes 200 million shekels from the Bank of Palestine in Gaza | The Israeli army seizes 200 million shekels from the Bank of Palestine in Gaza. Millions of funds seized by occupation soldiers were scheduled to be sent to the Palestinian Authority. Israeli army officials told the newspaper that the operation to seize Palestinian funds took place after soldiers came under fire from a sniper in the vicinity of the bank. As of yesterday, Saturday, the Israeli war on Gaza had left 28,176 martyrs and 67,784 injured - most of them children and women.

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Israeli jets intensify bombing of border town sheltering half of Gaza's population
■ Israeli forces besiege main Khan Younis hopsital
■ Netanyahu insists on Rafah assault
■ Palestinian death toll tops 28,000
Opinion: Refugee camps and the Palestinian psyche

■ Dozens of civilian casualties in Gaza as Israel’s genocide campaign marks 128th day (Quds News Network)
■ Saudi Arabia warns of severe consequences for assault on Rafah in Gaza (Saudi Gazette)
■ Germany warns Israel against ‘catastrophe in the making’ (RT.com)

■ War on Gaza: Palestinians in Rafah run out of shelters as Israel threatens assault (MEE) | A few hundred metres from the Rafah border fence with Egypt, dozens of Palestinian families set up tents as a "last resort" as they sought refuge from the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip after having to move multiple times from their homes and previous shelters. But many are now considering yet another displacement as Israel threatens a military operation in the border town Rafah, which is now sheltering more than half of Gaza's two million residents.

An Israeli report underlines that the Israeli occupation has no chance in the face of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon as the latter's capabilities would rapidly overwhelm "Tel Aviv". | The potential war between the Israeli occupation and Lebanon's Hezbollah holds a grim reality for the Israeli occupation, as it would be the most devastating war it has gone through since its inception, as per a three-year study conducted by hundreds of experts at the Counter-Terrorism Policy Institute at Reichman University. ● Israeli news outlet Calcalist shed light on the grim analysis of the potential war, which warns of unprecedented destruction and bloodshed in a conflict that could surpass the Israeli occupation's worst fears.

■ With Radwan Force on border, we are 'sitting ducks': Israeli mayor (Al Mayadeen)

What was described by the Pentagon as a "logistics support base" turns out to be a secret drone base for long-range surveillance of fighters in neighboring Syria and Iraq and for conducting airstrikes. | The Pentagon calls the US base in Jordan, Tower 22, a “logistics support base” - however, in reality, the area in which three US troops were killed last month is more than what it seems. ● The Intercept reported that Tower 22 is secretly a drone base for long-range surveillance of whom the US perceives as "insurgents" in neighboring Syria and Iraq and to conduct airstrikes, according to two US military sources, while it also represents a staging facility for special operations forces and is a medevac helicopter home base. ● Talking to The Intercept, an Air Force airman, whose unit was recently stationed at the base, said,
💬 “To call Tower 22 a logistics support base is complete bullshit,” as logistics was only a minor part - or a disguise - to merely deliver food and fuel to the nearby al-Tanf base. “The main purpose of Tower 22 is to operate drones to spy on insurgents in Iraq and Syria, for targeting purposes,” the airman added, noting, “The main objective I witnessed was taking out targets.”

■ US approves plan for strike on Iranian targets (02/02/24)

Exclusive: IDF troops shed light on their experience of fighting in the territory, where Palestinian casualties have passed 27,700 28,176 | Demobilised Israeli reservists have described how they deployed massive fire power in a brutal, complex and often one-sided war of sporadic but intense clashes that has reduced much of Gaza to ruins.. They spoke, too, of the challenge of fighting on unfamiliar ground that is well-known to Hamas and which offered easy opportunities for surprise attacks, despite Israel’s conventional military superiority and air power. ● Some had not seen Palestinian civilians at all, passing weeks in Gaza without encountering anyone other than small bands of Hamas militants. Others said they had been in close combat almost every day and considered those civilians who ignored Israeli instructions to flee as complicit with Hamas and thus legitimate targets. Those interviewed also expressed sympathy for civilians and said they had tried to help them.