If confirmed, the death of Sinwar would represent a major boost to the Israeli military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | The Israeli military said on Thursday that it was checking the possibility that it has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar following an operation in the Gaza Strip that it said had targeted three militants. "At this stage, the identity of the terrorists cannot be confirmed," it said in a statement. It said there were no signs that Israeli hostages had been present in the building where the three militants were killed. There was no immediate comment from Hamas.

■ Israel's foreign minister said Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed (Reuters)
■ Israeli military ‘checking possibility’ it killed Hamas leader (RT.com)

Israel is expected to attack before the November 5 US presidential election | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved a set of targets for Israel to strike inside Iran, ABC News reported on Wednesday, citing an Israeli source. ● CNN also reported that Israel’s plans to attack Iran were “ready.” Neither report gave a timeline nor provided any details about what targets Israel plans to hit. Israel is expected to strike before the US presidential election on November 5. ● The US has been coordinating with Israel on its plans to strike Iran following the Iranian missile barrage that was fired at Israeli territory on October 1, which was retaliation for a string of Israeli escalations in the region. [...] US and Israeli officials believe an attack on Iran could lead to a full-blown war. Iran has warned that it will launch a “decisive” response if Israel attacks.

Israeli airstrikes on administrative buildings in the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon claimed the lives of 16 people and left 52 injured, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Wednesday. [...] Earlier in the day, Lebanese media reported that the head of the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon and several employees of the municipality were killed in a massive bombing by Israel. The head of media relations in southern Lebanon was also reportedly among those killed. ● Since October 1, Israel has been conducting a ground operation against Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon while continuing airstrikes. Despite its losses, Hezbollah has been fighting Israeli troops on the ground and launching rockets across the border. Israel says its main objective is to create conditions for the return of 60,000 residents who fled shelling in the north.

■ Total of 48 Lebanese Localities Hit by Israeli Bombings During Day (Sputnik)
■ 7 Israeli forces killed in clashes with Hezbollah (Press TV)
■ Israeli Merkava tanks fall into Hezbollah death trap in South Lebanon (Al Mayadeen)
■ People buried in Gaza rubble as Israel orders forced Lebanon Displacement (Al Jazeera)

US and British warplanes have bombed Yemen's capital city of Sana'a and several other areas, amid the country’s solidarity with the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and the Lebanese nation in the face of Israel's brutal aggression. | Yemen's al-Masirah television network said the US-British aggression targeted the al-Hafa and Jirban areas in the north and south of the capital with six airstrikes on Thursday morning. The television network also said the warplanes struck the northwestern Yemeni city of Sa'ada as well as the Kahlan and al-Abla areas east of the city.

■ Israeli regime conducts aerial aggression on Syria’s Latakia (Mehr News)
■ Use of B-2 bombers against Yemen shows US panic: Yemeni source (Al Mayadeen)

СРОЧНЫЕ НОВОСТИ: Россия и Китай подписали «Пакт о партнерстве» | Президент России Владимир Путин и председатель КНР Си Цзинь Пин только что подписали «договор о партнерстве». Россия соглашается поддержать цели Китая на Тайване . Китай соглашается поддержать цели России на Украине. Они совместно осуждают Соединенные Штаты. PS: Не США, а Энлилитов которые захватили США.

Breaking NEWS: Russia and China have signed a “partnership pact” | Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jin Ping have just signed a “partnership pact”. Russia agrees to support China's goals in Taiwan . China agrees to support Russia's goals in Ukraine. They jointly condemn the United States. PS: Not the United States, but the elites who have taken over the United States. (Translation: DeepL (free version)

Maureen Clare Murphy | Israel is tightening its vise on civilians in both Gaza and in Lebanon, issuing new evacuation orders in both places on Saturday.

💬 “The conflict in Lebanon, coupled with intensified strikes in Syria and the raging violence in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, points to a region dangerously teetering on the brink of an all-out war,” a senior UN official warned the Security Council on Thursday.

Rosemary DiCarlo, the under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, made those remarks after an Israeli airstrike hit a residential building in a suburb of Damascus on Tuesday, killing seven civilians, including women and children. More than 300 people were killed in Lebanon in the past week alone, DiCarlo told the UN body, warning that time for a diplomatic resolution was quickly running out.

Palestinian mother bids farewell to her son killed in the lsraeli attacks on Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/Nx5JAh0JNh

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 10, 2024

■ Deadly Israeli Siege Rages on in Gaza: Massacres Reported Across the Strip (Al Manar TV)
■ Israel has lost its humanity as it celebrates its power to kill (Gideon Levy)

The Ukrainian leader’s proposal is a set of “incoherent slogans,” according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova | Moscow has dismissed Vladimir Zelensky’s much-touted eight-point ‘victory plan’ as nothing but a “plan for the misfortune of Ukraine,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said in a statement. ■ On Wednesday, the Ukrainian leader unveiled his long-promised proposal to Western supporters during an extraordinary parliamentary session. Zelensky laid out five points, including an immediate invitation to join NATO, permission to use Western long-range weapons to strike targets deep in Russia, and continued incursions into the neighboring country’s territory. A further three points remain classified but have supposedly been shared with Kiev’s backers. Spokeswoman Zakharova responded to the five points of Zelensky’s plan at a press conference, calling them nothing more than...

💬 “...a set of incoherent slogans” and “bloody foam on the lips of a neo-Nazi killer.” (Commenting on Kiev’s “hysteria” about being invited into NATO, the she alleged that the only place the West sees for Ukraine in its) “security architecture” is “in a coffin and Ukrainian citizens in graves.” “That is why they brought this clown to power, who was supposed to finish off Ukraine as a state and kill as many Ukrainians as possible,” Zakharova said.

She also questioned Zelensky’s intent to strengthen Ukrainian defenses by “targeted operations in specific places.” The spokeswoman asked why the Ukrainian leader shied away from naming the places and said that Kiev has been “pushing NATO members towards a direct conflict” with Russia by insisting on obtaining permission to use long-range weapons on Russian territory.

💬 “Taken together, all of those points and secret sub-points are not a ‘plan’ for Zelensky’s victory. This is a plan for the misfortune of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people,” Zakharova surmised, adding that it is aimed at “yet another extortion of money and a presentation of [Kiev’s] terrorist capabilities.” “Today, Zelensky has finally proven to everyone that he hates Ukrainians to such an extent that [it] can be described as Ukrainophobia,” Zakharova concluded.

■ Zelensky presents ‘victory plan’ (RT.com)
■ SITREP 10/14/24: Russia Tightens Ring on Key Region on Eve of Zelensky "Victory Plan" Unveiling (Simplicius)

Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Дмитрий Медведев) |Like an Armistice With Hitler in 1945 | Biden, in order to help his brainless protégé, blabbed that he was ready to negotiate the reduction of nuclear forces with Russia without preconditions. Another American boorishness. ■ Think about it: the U.S. is waging an almost full-fledged (not hybrid) war with us and wishes our country a strategic defeat. Therefore, negotiations on START with America are no more useful than negotiations on an armistice with Hitler in 1945. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)(Translation: DeepL + Grammarly)

■ Finland's FM acknowledges 'real' Ukraine fatigue (Al Mayadeen)

North Korea seems to be preparing for war. Today, they blew up the roads and rails that used to connect the North and the South. | Kim Jong Un has ordered artillery units to move near the border of South Korea with ‘readiness to engage.’ He also convened a top national security meeting on Monday, state media reported, directing a plan of "immediate military action" at a time of spiking tensions with the South. ■ Yesterday, China surrounded Taiwan with Naval vessels and sent over 100 aircraft into the Taiwan "Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ) on all sides of the island. Both North Korea and China have issued statements concerning their "ally in the Middle East, Iran" and have made clear they will not sit bay and allow Iran to be attacked and destroyed. If Iran is attacked, both China and North Korea "will take action" as will Russia which issued a similar statement. If the US starts a war with Iran, WW3 seems guaranteed.

■ Russia to give military aid to N. Korea if it attacked (Meher News)
■ Russian diplomat says US 'can’t wait to see' things flare up in Korean peninsula (TASS)
■ Iran, North Korea discuss Israeli crimes in Gaza, Lebanon (IRNA)

Since October 1, Israel has been conducting a ground operation against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon while conducting airstrikes. Despite its losses, Hezbollah has been fighting Israeli troops on the ground and launching rockets across the border. | Israel plans to create a buffer zone in Lebanon and Syria, a Turkish newspaper Hürriyet wrote on Wednesday, citing sources.

💬 "Israel is doing everything to shift the fire from Lebanon to Syria. It is attacking Tartus, Hama, Homs, Aleppo, Dara and even the capital Damascus. It has moved its tanks into Syrian territory. Israel will not be satisfied with this," the newspaper said.

Israel wants to take control of the territory up to the Litani River and create a buffer zone both in Lebanon and inside Syria, as per the outlet.

John Miles | Social media censorship is “indistinct from government censorship,” writer Caitlin Johnstone observed, noting that tech giants operate under both implicit and explicit guidance from Congress. |

💬 “I think it’s about time that we stop apologizing for our support for Israel,” then Senator Joe Biden declared in 1986, as if anyone ever has. “There’s no apology to be made – none. It’s the best $3 billion investment we make. Were it not for Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.”

Although American support for its Middle Eastern ally is frequently framed under the rubric of liberal antiracism, Biden’s candid pronouncement spoke to the geopolitical realpolitik that informed US alliance with Saudi Arabia, Pol Pot’s Cambodia and apartheid South Africa. The United States’ backing of Israel has formed a core part of its modern foreign policy, invigorating Western imperialism with the potent justification of fighting terrorism just as the communist threat had been seemingly vanquished.

ebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has released an extensive footage captured by its drones from the heart of the occupied Palestinian territories. | On Wednesday, the movement issued another episode in the series of videos that it has been releasing since June under the title, “This is what the Hoopoe came back with.” Named after the group’s advanced Hoopoe surveillance aircraft, the footage depicted strikingly detailed snaps of the Haifa-Carmel area in the territories, which is a strategic height forming the first line of defense for the suburbs of the city of Tel Aviv. The area hosts several military installations, including the regime’s Iron Dome radar, as well as highly important industrial, touristic, and scientific facilities.

✅ There Never Was a “New Corona Virus”, There Never Was a Pandemic (Prof Michel Chossudovsky)

David Thunder | Satire on trial: How dare you mock the New Normal? | IN AUGUST 2022, US playwright and satirist C J Hopkins, while a resident of Berlin, tweeted cover art from his book on The Rise of the New Normal Reich, which included a satirical representation of a swastika superimposed on a medical mask. For that, he has been found guilty in a German court of spreading pro-Nazi propaganda, and is facing a hefty fine and potentially a prison sentence. ■ In his tweet, Hopkins wrote (in German) that ‘Masks are symbols of ideological conformity. That’s all that they are, and that’s all they ever were. Stop pretending that they were ever anything else or get used to wearing them.’ In a second tweet, Hopkins quoted Health Minister Karl Lauterbach’s statement that ‘Masks always send a signal.’ ■ For these two tweets, Amazon Germany banned Hopkins’s book, and the Berlin state prosecutor investigated him for violating German criminal statutes against ‘the use of symbols of unconstititional and terrorist organisations‘. In January 2024, Hopkins was tried before the Tiergarten Berlin District Court and acquitted. The public prosecutor appealed the decision before the Berlin Court of Appeals, which overturned his acquittal on September 30 and found him guilty as charged.

A Journalist in Gaza says:

“We saw a man, woman, and a child, burning in the fire but we couldn’t do anything to help them…” pic.twitter.com/vdk5NhWxVI

— Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 (@MuhammadSmiry) October 14, 2024

Israeli Military Gulfstream Passenger Jet in Belarus Air Space, Headed to Moscow? | An Israeli Defense Force Gulfstream Passenger jet has entered Belarus air space along a flight path that __appears__ heading toward Moscow, Russia. No word on who is aboard. With intel circuits blaring about Israeli military attack pending against Iran, what does Israel hope to accomplish by sending an IDF passenger jet to Moscow?

Israeli warplanes have conducted a new round of aerial assaults on the Gaza Strip, killing 29 Palestinians and injuring dozens more as the genocide continues apace. | Reports said on Tuesday that three of the victims lost their lives in the Israeli bombardment of a house near Salah al-Din Mosque in the Zeitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City. Six other Palestinians were also killed in Israeli attacks on the southern Gaza town of al-Faukhari near Khan Yunis. ● Israel unleashed a genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, after the Hamas resistance group carried out its historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people. The Tel Aviv regime has so far killed at least 42,289 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 98,68 others, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

lsrael burns Gazan people alive after targeting a tent camp set up for displaced Palestinians in Al-Aqsa Hospital’s yard in Dier al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/Md7xCwppjC

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 13, 2024

■ New Massacres in Gaza: Israeli Occupation Burns Palestinians Alive (Al Mana TV)

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has told the Western countries to stop supporting the criminal Zionist regime and arming it before it is too late. | The criminal Zionist regime thought that it was able to destroy the Resistance in Lebanon after assassinating former Hezbollah Secretary General sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, but its defeats on the ground attack and the Operation Golani against the Zionist regime showed that Hezbollah still is alive and is strictly supported by the Lebanese people. ● Emphasizing that Iran supports any ceasefire that is agreed by the Lebanese government, Parliament and the Resistance Movement, he noted, “To be honest with you. We are facing a criminal Zionist regime that not only has killed more than 10,000 children, but also it is proud of it. We are facing a criminal regime that does not value any legal and moral standards.”

💬 “We are facing a criminal regime that does not shy away from burning civilians alive in the refugee camps. We are facing a regime that used to usurp Palestinian lands and destroy their houses, but now it is safely destroying cities and infrastructures with American weapons, he underlined.

If the current situation continues, the world will face a deep crisis, he said, adding that continuation of the brutal behavior of the Zionist regime will lead to flare-up of the region and the beginning of endless military and security crises.

Dozens of people were killed early on Monday in an Israeli airstrike on a school in the central Gaza Strip where displaced Palestinians were sheltering, causing a fire and burning people alive. | Gory scenes from the school-turned-shelter in Deir al-Balah were shared online, showing individuals caught in the inferno as rescuers struggled to pull them out amid the blaze. The Palestinian Red Crescent said 28 people were killed, while 54 where injured. Elsewhere in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian medics said that at least 10 people were killed and at least 30 injured in Israeli airstrikes on a food distribution centre in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, with casualties including women and children. Israeli forces have for 10 days now carried out a renewed ground offensive in Jabalia, devastating the camp and killing at least 300 people, while not allowing anyone to enter or leave.

■ 'Israel' burns Palestinians alive in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital (Al Mayadeen)

New lsraeli massacre;
Several Palestinians killed, mostly children, in a violent lsraeli attack on Shati (Beach) Camp, west of Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/odbvAk2J2j

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 13, 2024

There are also NUMEROUS, but UNCONFIRMED reports that Herzi Halevi, IDF Chief of Staff was the target of the attack! | At least seventeen (17) Israeli soldiers are DEAD and at least fifty-one (51) INJURED, who have been transported to several different hospitals, after Hezballah launched two drone attacks against two IDF sites inside Israel. As of 5:00 PM eastern U.S. time on Sunday, 13 October 2024, when this story is published, the attack took place about five hours ago. We have CONFIRMED the following numbers of injured IDF Troops, have arrived at the following hospitals: Thirty-six (36) have arrived at Hillel Yaffe Hospital - 5 in critical condition - 10 in average condition - The rest with minor injuries. ■ - Al-Aimk Hospital: 4 injured - Laniado Hospital: 6 injured - Sheba Hospital: 3 injured - Rambam Hospital: 3 injured. ALL of the above were reported to be eating in a base mess hall (Cafeteria/Dining area). Hezbollah ALSO struck an IDF gathering point in Binyamnina, South of Haifa, with a drone, causing more than 25 casualties. (Israeli media is reporting 67 casualties as opposed to the 25.)

John Miles | While US military personnel have covertly assisted Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip over the last year, the Biden administration signaled an open commitment of troops to the country today in a statement released by the Pentagon. | The US and its European client states are doubling down on their support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the waning days of the Biden administration, setting the stage for Western militaries to directly participate in Israeli atrocities or even a broader regional conflagration. A series of events in recent days has demonstrated NATO countries’ deepening commitment to Israel as new UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer leads the way.

■ US to send anti-missile system and troops to Israel, Pentagon says (The New Arab)

Alireza Akbari | Israeli regime minister Bezalel Smotrich in a TV show earlier this week brazenly expounded the plan to expand the occupying entity "as far as Damascus," sparking massive backlash. | Known for his racist and fascist demagoguery, Smotrich made the remarks in a recently released documentary titled 'In Israel: Ministers of Chaos', in which he claimed that the expansionist agenda, rooted in the Zionist vision of a "Greater Israel" beyond the Jordan River, would unfold "little by little."

💬 "Absolutely, but slowly," Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu's close aide and confidante said when asked about extending the regime's "borders" from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. "Our great sages used to say that the future of Jerusalem was to extend as far as Damascus."

His comments came amid Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and Lebanon. While the aggression against Lebanon has killed over 2,000 and displaced at least a million others, the onslaught on Gaza has so far claimed more than 42,000 lives and displaced over 1.5 million Palestinians in the enclave. [...] Greater Israel is an expansionist and irredentist concept and a plan to expand the Zionist entity into the territories of West Asia and North Africa.

⚡ ‘Idea of greater Israel fuelling Netanyahu’s ideology’: top UN official (10/13/24)

Two more horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp

It's time people stop referring to these places as prisons. These are not prisons. These are concentration camps/torture camps. https://t.co/0U3PIMRTrW pic.twitter.com/bTCAo3f6Jk

— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) September 6, 2024

The UN Secretary-General has condemned recent Israeli attacks on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, saying that it “may constitute a war crime.” | "UNIFIL personnel and its premises must never be targeted," Stephane Dujarric said, adding, "Attacks against peacekeepers are in breach of international law." "In a deeply worrying incident that occurred on Sunday, the entrance door of a UN position was deliberately breached by [the Israeli military] armored vehicles," he added in a statement. ■ UNIFIL said the regime’s forces had "deliberately" fired shots at its headquarters in the town of Naqoura in recent days. He urged all parties, including the Israeli military to refrain from any action that put UN peacekeepers at risk. At least five peacekeepers have been wounded in recent days in southern Lebanon. Israeli prime minister war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has called on Guterres to relocate peacekeepers from southern Lebanon.

Hungary's agenda does not include Ukraine's accession to NATO, since this would mean a direct confrontation between the alliance and Russia and would lead to World War III, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in an interview with Sputnik. | According to Szijjarto, since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, Budapest has drawn red lines — one of them is that it is necessary to "do our best and utmost in order to avoid any form of direct confrontation between NATO and Russia." According to the minister, most of his colleagues from NATO countries, in conversations with Ukrainian representatives, talk about Kiev's possible accession to the alliance, but in a closed circle they admit that this is impossible.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has "ordered" Irish, Italian, and Ghanaian peacekeepers from the United Nations to move 5 kilometers north as he announces his plan for a full scale bombardment of the Lebanese border. Ireland has said they refuse to move from their peacekeeping posts.  ■  Peacekeepers from the UN mission in Lebanon witnessed a serious violation by Israeli forces in the early hours of Sunday morning, when three Israeli military units crossed the 'blue line' and entered Lebanese territory near the village of Ramya, UN peacekeepers announced. In addition, two Israeli tanks knocked down the main gate on the territory of the UN facility and entered inside, putting UN officials at risk, the statement added.

■ Netanyahu calls on UN to evacuate Lebanon peacekeepers (RT.com)