Reports are coming out of central Ukraine **claiming** "HUGE numbers of foreign troops have been arriving in the city of Cherkassy; Poles, Germans, French." | Locals in that area of Ukraine say "They (foreign troops) are settled on the ground floors of schools and kindergartens. We would like to point out that the educational process in educational institutions continues on the second and third floors." Parents are very worried about their children's lives, as attacks are possible even though these foreign troops are hiding behind children. Locals also say "there is no educational process at night . . . " which is apparently when these troops go into action. UPDATE: Ihor Taburets, head of the Cherkasy Regional Military Administration, denied as "Russian propaganda," claims that Polish, German, and French, soldiers are stationed in schools and kindergartens in Cherkasy.

■ At Least 10 Tu-95 Missile Planes Airborne toward Ukraine (Hal Turner)

The deputy head of the Russian Security Council pointed out that such military personnel would become full-fledged combatants as part of an interventionist contingent, and so their destruction would be "a priority and a matter of honor" for the Russian Armed Forces. | 💬 "As for the Gallic roosters in the French leadership, it would be tantamount to being guillotined. They would be torn to pieces both by the enraged relatives and angry members of the opposition, who have been assured all along that France is not at war with Russia. Also, it would be a good lesson for other rambunctious fools in Europe," Medvedev predicted.

■ SITREP 3/19/24: French Military Openly Floats 20,000 Troop Deployment (Simplicius)
■ Russian servicemen to kill all French soldiers in Ukraine — senior lawmaker (TASS)
■ Зато какая была бы польза! (Dmitry Medvedev)(Telegram)
■ Western troops in Ukraine ‘an open secret’ – Poland (RT.com)
■ French army ‘ready for war’ – top general (RT.com)
■ French General Says Army Is Preparing for ‘Toughest Engagements’ (Antiwar.com)
■ France mulled ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine for months – Le Monde (RT.com)

Cesar Chelala | This is an incredibly callous statement by an insensitive, uncaring man: In a March 8, 2024 interview with Tarek Masoud, faculty chair of Harvard University’s Middle East Initiative, Kushner said, 💬 “You may want to get as many civilians out of Rafah as possible. I think you want to clear that out. I know that with diplomacy maybe you get them into Egypt. I know that that has been refused, but [with] the right diplomacy I think it would be possible. But in addition to that, the thing that I would try to do if I was Israel right now is I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there. I know that won’t be the popular thing to do, but I think that that’s a better option to do so you can go in and finish the job.”

■ Trump's son-in-law praises 'very valuable' potential of Gaza property (The People's Voice)

Breaking News: WHO rejected. Estonia has rejected all attempts at a power grab by the #GlobalistParasites

The World Health Organisation #WHO has been left stunned in a startling display of National Sovereignty and push back against the Globalist New World Order.

We hope that… pic.twitter.com/pYbDjZWk6A

— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) November 25, 2023

A top British lawmaker has delivered a powerful statement before his colleagues in the historic UK Parliament, calling for Bill Gates and other members of the “Covid Cabal” to be tried and executed for “crimes against humanity.” | Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen asserted that Gates and others should face the death penalty for their roles in pushing Covid mRNA vaccines, lockdowns, masking, and other restrictions during the pandemic. Bridgen cited the “Covid Cabal” which appeared to include Gates and the World Economic Forum (WEF), the United Nations (UN), the World Health Organization (WHO), pharmaceutical company executives, globalist government officials, and corporate elites. Bridgen argues that Gates and the “Covid Cabal” have committed “crimes against humanity” that are “tantamount to treason against the public.” He urged his colleagues to support treating those guilty of these crimes with the death penalty. ● During his statement, Bridgen faced pushback from Penny Mordaunt, the Leader of the House of Commons and a long-time WEF member. In response to a rebuttal from Mordaunt, Bridgen declared: “Heads of governments around the world and others below them have engaged in what is tantamount to treason against the public.” During a round of Business Questions in the UK House of Commons, Bridgen made his case for executing Gates and his globalist allies.

“The Biggest Corporation You’ve Never Heard Of” | How does one corporation — a mammoth British transnational corporation at that — provide so many critical services throughout the USA’s Military-Industrial Complex and yet very few have ever heard of them? ● In view of its sheer size, scope of operations, and far-reaching penetration of both the American and British national security states, it’s inconceivable that SERCO has remained so conveniently under the radar for so many years. ● Just how much “Bringing service to life” does SERCO do here in the United States? The following is a truncated list of their affiliations in and around the U.S. Federal Government and Armed Services. Their website is quoted as follows: “Skilled resources and a global presence to execute any CONUS or OCONUS* task”. (*OCONUS = Outside [the] contiguous United States)

Day 166 : Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza’s al-Nuseirat Camp Leave 27 Dead; Resistance Groups Engages in Fierce confrontations with IOF | Twenty-seven Palestinians were martyred in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the al-Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip early Wednesday. The attack also resulted in several injuries. This airstrike follows another Israeli attack that took place at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City, where 23 Palestinians were killed and numerous others were wounded. Reports from various media outlets indicate that Israeli aircraft also targeted a residential building northwest of Gaza City, while artillery shelling was reported in the western areas of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. ● The Ministry of Health in Gaza released a chilling statistic, stating that since October 7, a total of 31,819 Palestinians have lost their lives due to Israeli aggression, with a staggering 73,934 injuries reported. ● However, amidst the devastation, Palestinian Resistance factions in Gaza have shown resilience and launched counter-attacks against Israeli occupation forces. ● IOF Disconnected Respirators from Patients and Arrested Medical staff at Al-Shifa—Israeli occupation army has been accused of disconnecting artificial respirators from patients at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza. Reports from witnesses indicate that the Zionist army is also targeting individuals in the compound’s courtyards and arresting medical personnel. The situation at the medical complex has escalated, with martyrs reported and numerous Palestinians injured as a result of the occupation’s aggressive tactics. The Israeli occupation forces have even targeted a house near Al-Shifa, west of Gaza City.

■ Genocide Continues! Israel Cements Freshwater Springs in Hebron (Hal Turner)
■ ‘Death trap’: Israeli forces kill six in new attack on Gaza aid seekers (Al Jazeera)
■ Israeli army kills 90 Palestinians in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City (Anadolu)
■ Documents reveal Israeli harassment of UNRWA workers: The Guardian (Al Mayadeen)
■ INDISCRIMINATE Bombing, Massacres, Destruction, Starvation, Torture, Execution, Babies Left To Die, Sexual Assault Against Palestinians For Over 7 Decades, These Are ISRAEL’s CRIMES (Jonathan Cook)
■ 200 international law experts, professors announce support for South Africa’s case against “Israel” (01/11/24)
■ UNICEF: “Number of children killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, reaches unprecedented levels”

Jared Kushner, Trump's former White House adviser, suggested Israel should remove civilians while it "cleans up" the area. | Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former White House adviser, Jared Kushner, has said Gaza's "waterfront property" has a “very valuable” potential, suggesting Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the area.

💬 “Gaza’s waterfront property, it could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner said in an interview dated 15 February.

It was posted earlier this month on the YouTube channel of the Middle East Initiative, a programme of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and first reported on Tuesday by The Guardian.

💬 “If you think about all the money that's gone into this tunnel network and into all the munitions, if that would have gone into education or innovation, what could have been done?” ● “It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but I think from Israel’s perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,” Kushner added. “But I don’t think that Israel has stated that they don’t want the people to move back there afterwards.”

■ Jared Kushner advises moving Gazans to Negev while IDF 'cleans up' the Strip (Ynet)

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has called for serious practical steps to cease Israel’s raids on the Gaza Strip in his New Year message to Asian countries celebrating Nowruz. | The Iranian president said Nowruz is a message of peace and peaceful coexistence and also a symbol of reconciliation.

💬 “This year, we, the countries of the Nowruz civilization zone, are celebrating this auspicious occasion while the oppressed and powerful people of Gaza are facing the brutal attacks of the usurper Zionist regime, and are also under complete siege, being deprived of having access to basic health and livelihood facilities and are in danger of starvation and famine,” Raisi stated. ● “It is our human duty to use our capabilities to take serious practical steps to stop the attacks of the Zionist regime and send humanitarian aid to the oppressed people of Gaza,” he added in a message addressed to the leaders and people of the countries of the Nowruz civilization zone.

Israel waged its war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Bereaved families in Rafah bidding farewell to their loved ones mass murdered by Israeli airstrikes late last night in Rafah, southern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/yYBCe7TvIA

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) March 19, 2024

The Israeli military has carried out new round of deadly attacks across the war-torn Gaza Strip, including in Rafah, where over a dozen Palestinians lost their lives. | Citing local sources, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported on Tuesday that at least 14 civilians, including women and children, were killed and many others injured in overnight Israeli strikes on residential buildings in the Musabeh, Khirbat al-Adas, and al-Janena neighborhoods of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

■ Global Hunger Monitor: Gaza Suffers from Catastrophic Hunger (Alahed News)
■ In 165 days only: 31,819 killed, 73,934 injured in Gaza (Al Mayadeen)

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says Israel’s new raid on al-Shifa Hospital underlines the regime’s “confusion and hopelessness” in achieving its goals in the besieged Gaza Strip. | Hamas said on Monday the regime “has committed a new crime” by directly targeting al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City on Monday morning “without caring about the patients, medical staff and displaced people in it.” It said “crimes” being committed by the regime are “an expression of its confusion and loss of hope in achieving any military achievement other than targeting defenseless civilians.” ● Hamas criticized the international community and the United Nations for inaction, which, it said, was a green light to the regime “to continue the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing” in Gaza. The resistance group urged international institutions to fulfill their responsibilities and protect the remaining medical facilities in the Palestinian territory. The regime’s forces started an overnight raid on the hospital, Gaza’s largest, which has sheltered thousands of Palestinians who fled the war in northern parts of the territory.

■ Israeli Commander Responsible for Storming Al-Shifa Hospital Killed – VIDEO & REPORT (Palestine Chronicle)

The head of state thanked the people of Russia for their trust and support after the three-day elections. | President Vladimir Putin has addressed the people of Russia following a historic election victory with over 87% of the vote in his favor, amid a record-high turnout. Here are the key takeaways from his speech and a question-and-answer session at campaign headquarters in Moscow on Sunday night.

Berlin has vowed not use the Russian leader’s official title, having criticized the election process | Berlin’s decision not to refer to Russian President Vladimir Putin by his proper title in government documents is ridiculous and possibly a sign of a mental disorder, officials in Moscow have said. The diplomatic snub was announced on Monday in an effort to discredit last week’s presidential election in Russia. Germany and other Western nations claim the electoral process was neither free nor fair. A government spokesperson said the move was symbolic, noting that communications between Berlin and Russia were severely limited anyway. Reacting to the news, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said the stunt “comes from shameful weakness.” He claimed that Germany was essentially saying “We cannot affect the outcome of the election… but just to spite them we need to make some stupid statement.”

Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Дмитрий Медведев) | What freaks they are! | The rhetoric of Western morons is strikingly contradictory. Every speech, every day, a pearl. One cannot understand whether it is childish infantilism, or mature stupidity, or utter insolence. ● Here is the chief frogman who scares the French landing in Crimea (i.e. in Russia), but swears to answer Vladimir Putin immediately in case of a call. What a consistent and courageous man! ● The sausage makers have gone further: they say we will no longer consider Vladimir Putin the President, but we will negotiate with him. The question then is, who is he for them, if he does not have the necessary legitimacy? And what is the price of such negotiations? And all this from shameful weakness. We can't influence the elections, we don't recognize the results, but to make a mess of things, we have to make a stupid statement. ● The officials of Pindostan [the US] are even more brazen. They are openly and unashamedly waging a hybrid war against us. They are using everything in it: huge supplies of weapons to the enemy, sending their military specialists and the work of their intelligence forces. And then they say in plain sight: we want to resume strategic dialog on armaments. No way. This is like negotiating with Hitler about lowering the threshold of offensive weapons during the Great Patriotic War. ● It's like that with everything! Endless fidgeting of the ass on the chair, cosmic lies, stale snot, and theatrical tears for the sake of imitation of good intentions. But in reality, it's lies and manipulation to maintain their power. What freaks they are! (DeepL + Grammarly)

A senior Palestinian official says Marwan Barghouti, a prominent Palestinian detainee, is being isolated and tortured by Israeli authorities. | Hussein al-Sheikh, the secretary-general of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in a Monday post on X said Israeli authorities were endangering Barghouti’s life. Sheikh said Barghouti was being exposed to “isolation, torture and attempts to coerce, humiliate and beat him, putting his life in danger.”

💬 “We call on the international community, institutions and international organizations to intervene immediately and urgently in order to stop the repressive measures against our prisoners and our leaders in the occupation prisons, protect them, and release them immediately,” Sheikh said.

Barghouti, 64, has reportedly been beaten by Israeli guards in recent days. Last month, Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben Gvir said Barghouti had been placed in solitary confinement. Barghouti was a prominent leader in the first and second Intifadas. He has been behind bars for over two decades.

Juliette Touma, UNRWA's communications director, reports that released detainees from Israeli prisons showed signs of torture, expressing concern that some staff may have been coerced into making false confessions about the agency's alleged ties to Hamas ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/M4F10e3OOw

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) March 18, 2024

Jonathan Cook | Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities? | Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid. ● Last week, an investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz disclosed that some 27 Palestinians seized off Gaza’s streets over the past five months are known to have died during interrogations inside Israel. Some were denied medical treatment. But most are likely to have been tortured to death. ● Three months ago, a Haaretz editorial warned that Israeli jails “must not become execution facilities for Palestinians”. Israeli TV channels have been excitedly taking viewers on tours of detention centres, showing the appalling conditions Palestinians are kept in, as well as the psychological and physical abuse they are subjected to. An Israeli judge recently called the makeshift cages in which Palestinians are held “unsuitable for humans”.

■ A Palestinian Boy Was Shot by Israeli Troops in Front of His Father, and Died in His Brother's Arms (Ha'Aretz)
■ UNICEF: ‘Israel’ Killed more than 13000 Children in Gaza (Alahed News)
■ Israeli forces raid Gaza al-Shifa hospital, open fire inside complex (PressTV)
■ New Crime against Health Institutions: “Israel” Raids Al-Shifa Hospital (Alahed News)
■ Several killed, wounded in IOF raid on al-Shifa hospital (Al Mayadeen)

The European Union announced a 7.4 billion euro ($8.1 billion) funding package and an upgraded relationship with Egypt on Sunday. | The agreement lifts the EU's relationship with Egypt to a "strategic partnership" and was unveiled as a delegation of leaders visited Cairo. It is designed to boost cooperation in areas including renewable energy, trade and security, while delivering grants, loans and other funding over the next three years to support Egypt's faltering economy. ● The proposed funding includes 5 billion euros in concessional loans and 1.8 billion euros of investments, according to a summary published by the EU. Another 600 million euros would be provided in grants, including 200 million euros for managing migration. ● Such deals were "the best way to address migratory flows", said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who travelled to Cairo alongside EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the Greek, Austrian and Belgian prime ministers, and the Cypriot president.

■ Any forced displacement of Palestinians into Egypt ‘unacceptable,’ Greek premier says (Anadolu)

Many leaders express how the high voter turnout proved "global stability" and "Russian sovereignty". | Following the reelection win of Russian President Vladimir Putin, leaders rushed to congratulate him as the voting numbers showed a high turnout. ● Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi congratulated Putin on his victory in the presidential election, the Iranian Embassy in Moscow said on Monday. ● After extending congratulations, China expressed confidence that relations between Moscow and Beijing will continue to develop, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said on Monday.

■ Putin Has Won: What to Expect From His Next Six-Year Term? (Sputnik News)
■ Russian Presidential Election Results (Sputnik News)
■ People are the power in Russia – Putin (RT.com)
■ IN BRIEF: Olympic truce, Navalny and buffer zone: what Putin told reporters after polls (TASS)
■ US is not a democracy – Putin (RT.com)
■ Russia says statements on ‘illegitimacy’ of presidential election ‘absurd’ (Anadolu)
■ Moscow responds to West’s election criticism (RT.com)

Ted Snider | European discussions about sending troops obscures the fact that several NATO countries already have boots on the ground. | The transcript of an intercepted February 19 conversation between senior German air force officials discussing the possible transfer of German Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine says that the Germans “know how the English do it....They have several people on-site.” The revelation that the UK has troops on the ground has now been confirmed by the British Prime Minister’s office: “Beyond the small number of personnel we do have in the country supporting the armed forces of Ukraine, we haven't got any plans for large-scale deployment.” ● The transcript says that “the French don’t do it that way,” but Scholz has hinted that they do. On February 26, the German Chancellor defended his decision not to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine by saying that it would require the presence of Germans in Ukraine to match their British and French counterparts. He explained, “What is being done in the way of target control and accompanying target control on the part of the British and the French can’t be done in Germany.” He worried that “a participation in the war could emerge from what we do.” ● The transcript also cryptically alludes to an American presence on the ground. Wondering whether Ukraine would be able to do targeting on their own, one of the officials says, “It's known that there are numerous people there in civilian attire who speak with an American accent.”

■ Mercenaries from the West inside Ukraine - Stunning Numbers (Hal Turner)

Rachel Marsden | The act, like most of the bloc’s virtue signaling, is the opposite of what its name ought to herald | The EU’s new Media Freedom Act has now been voted into law, with 464 votes for, 92 against, and 65 abstentions. ● There are some news outlets whose coverage of the vote I’d like to see. Like RT’s, where you’re reading this right now. But anyone who’s viewing this from inside the European Union’s bastion of democracy and freedom is likely doing so via a VPN connection routed through somewhere outside the bloc, to circumvent its press censorship. ● Nothing in this new law suggests that this will change, or that there will be increased access to information and analysis for the average person. Such improved freedoms might lead to people making up their own minds rather than having various flavors of a similar narrative served up for mass consumption. As has become par for the course in so-called Western democracies, inconvenient facts and analysis will still be dismissed as “disinformation” and criticism of the establishment still qualified as an effort to sow division – as though dissent itself wasn’t supposed to be proof of a healthy and vibrant democracy. ● So, now that we’ve gotten out of the way any hope of lifting the EU’s top-down censorship in the absence of due process, exactly what kind of lip service does this new law pay to the lofty notion of media freedom?

The travel advice was due to the “continuing deterioration of the situation in the country,” according to Berlin | The German Foreign Ministry has updated its travel advice for Russia, “and now strongly” discourages German citizens and persons with dual citizenship from visiting the country. Previously, Berlin had only advised against traveling to Russia. According to a ministry press release, issued on Thursday, the change was due to the continuing deterioration of the situation in Russia, including “arbitrary arrests being observed more and more frequently.” The new notice also warns against travel to Russia’s regions bordering Ukraine, which along with Moscow, have been the target of repeated drone attacks in recent months. “Further attacks cannot be ruled out,” including on the public transport network, the press release warned.

■ Ukraine to spend millions of dollars blocking Russian TV (RT.com)

Using bulldozers and controlled demolitions, Israel has destroyed some 1,100 buildings in the zone so far | Israeli forces are destroying farmland and demolishing hundreds of homes as well as schools in Gaza to create an 800-meter buffer zone alongside the border with Israel, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 16 March. ● Palestinians would be barred from the zone, which Israeli officials claim is needed to allow Israelis to return to settlements surrounding Gaza, which were evacuated after the Hamas-led Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October. ● Some 1,200 Israeli soldiers and civilians were killed during the Hamas attack, including many by Israeli forces themselves using helicopters, drones, and tanks. Israeli forces wished to prevent Hamas from taking captives back to Gaza. ● The WSJ adds that plans for creating the buffer zone began in the first days of the war and would allow Israeli troops to see and stop anyone approaching the border.

■ 'Israel' eyes private military contractors for bizarre US pier in Gaza (Al Mayadeen)

Israel continues its bombardment of besieged Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in the enclave, as ceasefire talks are expected to continue in Qatar.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://t.co/BM93kj9apa pic.twitter.com/J8uuAB4xS0

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) March 17, 2024

"Beyond catastrophic" is the term many officials and staffers, be they medical or political, are using to describe the situation in Gaza. | The Israeli occupation committed 9 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing 92 and injuring 130 in 24 hours only, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced. ● This brings the total number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7 to 31,645, in addition to 73,676 injuries, it added. ● It is noteworthy that the numbers only account for martyrs officially registered with the Ministry, and there may be a significant number of martyrs whose bodies have not yet been accounted for or have not reached hospitals, especially since many victims remain under the rubble, presumed dead, as the IOF deliberately prevent ambulances and civil defense crews from reaching them.

■ Situation in Gaza ‘catastrophic,’ says Doctors Without Borders nurse (Anadolu)
■ 63 Palestinians killed in Gaza in last 24 hours, death toll climbs to 31,553 (Anadolu)
■ Gaza a 'nightmare' for mothers with no 'normal-sized babies' — UN official (TRT World)
■ Belgian PM slams Israeli starvation tactics in Gaza as 'inadmissible' (Al Mayadeen)

4,268,291 ballots were issued to voters in 28 Russian regions, who had applied for voting online | Online voter turnout in Russia’s presidential election on the federal platform has reached 90%, according to the portal on online vote monitoring. ● As of 9:27 p.m. Moscow time (6:27 p.m. GMT), as many as 4,268,291 ballots were issued to voters in 28 Russian regions, who had applied for voting online. Thus, voter turnout on the federal platform of electronic voting was 90%. ● Residents of Moscow can vote on Moscow’s own platform and were not required to apply for remote voting beforehand. ● The Federation Council, the upper house of Russia’s parliament, officially designated March 17, 2024 as the day of the presidential election. The Central Election Commission (CEC) then announced that voting would take place over three days on March 15-17. ● Four candidates are vying for the top office, namely New People party nominee Vladislav Davankov; self-nominated candidate and incumbent President Vladimir Putin; Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) nominee Leonid Slutsky; and Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) nominee Nikolay Kharitonov.

■ ‘This time the campaign has had a referendum-like nature’: Your guide to Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election
■ Putin to tighten grip on Russia as opponents pose election day challenge (aNews)
■ Protest call as Russian vote to confirm Putin wraps up (aNews)
■ LIVE UPDATES: Day Three of Russian Presidential Election (Sputnik News)
■ В России началось голосование на выборах президента. Как это будет (RG.ru)(03/15/24)

Several Ukrainian UAVs have been shot down outside the Russian capital, Sergey Sobyanin has said | At least four Ukrainian drones were downed while heading to Moscow in the early hours of Sunday, according to Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.The Defense Ministry said some 35 UAVs were intercepted overnight, as Kiev’s forces continue to target Russian infrastructure and border towns. ● “The Russian Defense Ministry’s air defenses in the Domodedovo district have repelled a drone attack on Moscow,” Mayor Sergey Sobyanin confirmed on Telegram around 4:40am Sunday morning, noting that two hostile targets were downed in the area. Two more UAVs weve intercepted in the Ramensky and Stupino districts, Sobyanin added an hour later. ● No damage was inflicted and no one was hurt in the areas where the debris fell, the official said, adding that the emergency services were responding to the incidents. Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, located to the south of the capital, also reported no irregularities in its operations. ● Around the same time, several Ukrainian drones attempted to strike an oil refinery in the town of Slavyansk in Russia’s Krasnodar Region, causing a fire that was quickly contained, according to local authorities. While there were no direct casualties in the strike, one person died in a suspected heart attack during the incident, emergency services said.

■ Russia thwarts Ukrainian incursion attempt (DISTURBING VIDEO) (RT.com)
■ Live blog: Drone strike on Russian refinery, one dead: regional authorities (TRT World)

■ 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)

Rights group advocates have warned that record numbers of Palestinian detainees are filling “Israeli” detention centers in light of the bloody onslaught on Gaza, stating that the inmates are subjected to “systemic abuse” and torture. 💬 “We are extremely, extremely concerned,” Tal Steiner, the executive director of the so-called “Public Committee Against Torture in ‘Israel’” [PCATI], told AFP news agency. ● “What we’re looking at is a crisis,” she said, adding that nine people have reportedly died behind bars since October 7 last year, when the “Israeli” military launched its unrelenting ground and aerial offensives against the besieged Gaza Strip. ● “There are almost 10,000 Palestinians in “Israeli” custody right now, ... a 200-percent increase from any normal year,” the activist pointed out, stressing that the situation has deteriorated dramatically since “Israel” waged the war on Gaza. ● “We’re seeing really widespread and systemic use of many, many tools in order to inflict torture and ill-treatment on Palestinians.

■ Iron bars, electric shocks, dogs and cigarette burns: How Palestinians are tortured in Israeli detention (03/12/24)
■ Israeli soldiers strip Palestinian woman naked in humiliating search (03/08/24)
■ Torture tactics 'Israel' uses to kill Palestinian prisoners: Report (02/21/24)
■ ‘Torture was severe’: Gaza doctor recounts ordeal in Israeli captivity (02/06/24)

The “hidden objective” revealed: A Middle Eastern expert says the “hidden objective” behind the U.S. building a seaport in Gaza is to facilitate the mass migration of Palestinians to Europe. | President Joe Biden announced during his State of the Union speech last week that the U.S. Military would establish an “emergency mission to establish a port in the Gaza Strip” to get humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave. However, according to Hisham Khreisat, a Jordanian military and strategic affairs expert, “the floating port off the shores of Gaza is a humanitarian facade hiding voluntary migration to Europe.”

💬 “This military tactical port will receive Israeli approval because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been seeking this idea since the beginning of the war, aiming for the voluntary displacement of Gazans and their flee to Europe,” Khreisat told Anadolu Agency.

According to the news agency, the port is designed to encourage “voluntary Palestinian migration to Europe and eliminating the role of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, essentially placing Israel in control of all Gaza crossings and ending any Palestinian sovereignty over them.”