The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have raised concerns over a significant increase in the number of people abducted from Gaza amid the Israeli genocide. | The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have reported an alarming rise in the number of detainees from Gaza amid intensified military operations in the region. ● According to the two organizations, over 1,000 people have been abducted from northern Gaza, reflecting a surge in "Israel’s" campaign of detentions and war crimes. ● In a recent statement, the groups highlighted that the Israeli occupation continues to enforce forced disappearances against hundreds of detainees, leaving no clear data on the total number of those abducted from Gaza. ● Early November figures from the Israeli prison administration indicated that 1,627 detainees from Gaza are classified as "unlawful combatants", a number that excludes many detainees in detention camps, it added.

⚡ WELCOME TO HELL: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (B'Tselem)
■ Horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp (10/14/24)
■ 1,200 Palestinians endure systematic torture in Israeli prisons (09/26/24)
■ 'Everyone was naked and bleeding': Israeli torture of Palestinians exposed (08/07/24)
■ 'Israel' used waterboarding, unleashed dogs on Gaza detainees: UN (08/02/24 )
■ Israeli lawmaker defends anal rape of Palestinian captives (08/01/24)
■ Mohammad Al-Sabbar 8th Palestinian Detainee Martyred behind ‘Israeli’ Bars since Oct.7 (02/09/24)

The president-elect’s son has blasted the “imbeciles” in Washington for reportedly approving Ukrainian missile strikes deep inside Russia | US President-elect Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has lashed out at the Democrats following reports that outgoing President Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use American-made long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russian territory. ■ Trump Jr., who campaigned alongside his father during the 2024 presidential election and has been helping him pick members of his future cabinet, did not mince his words on social media.

💬 “The Military Industrial Complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives,” he wrote on X on Sunday. “Gotta lock in those $Trillions. Life be damned!!! Imbeciles!”

■ US military-industrial complex seeks to unleash World War III — Donald Trump Jr. (TASS) | Later that day, France’s Le Figaro reported that France and the United Kingdom followed Biden’s lead and also allowed to use their weapons to strike inside Russia. [Biden clears Ukraine for long-range missile strikes inside Russia (Le Monde)]

■ Report: Biden Allows Ukraine To Strike Russia With Long-Range US Missiles (Antiwar.com)
■ Biden authorizes use of US long-range weapons to strike inside Russia (TASS)
■ Biden's 'Unnecessary Escalation' Only Sets Trump Up for Failure - Ex-DoD Analyst (Sputnik)
■ Madness Unlimited: US Deep State Tries to Instigate WWIII - French Politician (Sputnik)
⚡ Biden Authorizes Ukrainian Long-Range Strikes Into Russia Using ATACMS Missiles - Reports (11/17/24)

■ Here we go, this just escalated WW III (Leo Hohmann)
■ In "Major Policy Shift" Biden Authorizes Ukraine's Use Of US Missiles To Hit Targets Inside Russia (Tyler Durden)
✅ To Prolong The War In Ukraine U.S. Allows ATACMS Use On Russia (Moon of Alabama)
✅ The Moment Of Truth: How Will Russia Respond To Ukraine’s Use Of Western Long-Range Missiles? (A. Korybko)
✅ Putin Explicitly Confirmed What Was Already Self-Evident About Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine (A. Korybko)(09/26/24)

Tarik Cyril Amar | Foreign Secretary David Lammy launched into a weird rant against Russia, accusing it of the crimes Britain has committed | There are intriguing and disappointing – though not surprising – continuities between Great Britain under the conservative Tories and the current iteration under a hardly less rightwing version of the Labour party. Crony corruption scandals that reveal the British political elite as comically greedy and petty are already erupting again. Ordinary people still face an unforgiving search for “austerity”; indeed, given recent Labour moves on the budget, for instance on the winter fuel allowance, affecting over ten million frequently vulnerable pensioners, the so-called “Left” is now outdoing the Right in cruelty toward the common man and woman. And the fairly new prime minister, Keir Starmer, is already as deeply unpopular as his predecessor Rishi Sunak was when he called the elections that predictably finished him off. [...] Politically, this is just another way in which semi-smart people fool semi-simple people. But there is a more serious, moral dimension as well. It is a truly and abjectly colonial and imperialist move to exploit the massive suffering – almost exclusively at the hands of the West – as well as the hard-won insights and hard-fought resistance of what we now call the Global South so as to feed them into the cheap propaganda that the West now uses to sell its geopolitics-101 proxy war in Ukraine as an issue of ‘rules’ and ‘values’. And yet that is precisely what David Lammy has done. What a disgrace.

John Helmer | Yulia Skripal communicated from her bedside at Salisbury District Hospital on March 8, 2018, four days after she and her father Sergei Skripal collapsed from a poison attack, that the attacker used a spray; and that the attack took place when she and her father were eating at a restaurant just minutes before their collapse on a bench outside. | The implication of the Skripal evidence, revealed for the first time on Thursday, is that the attack on the Skripals was not perpetrated by Russian military agents who were photographed elsewhere in Salisbury town at the time; that the attacker or attackers were British agents; and that if their weapon was a nerve agent called Novichok, it came, not from Moscow, but from the UK Ministry of Defence chemical warfare laboratory at Porton Down. Porton Down’s subsequent evidence of Novichok contamination in blood samples, clothing, car, and home of the Skripals may therefore be interpreted as British in source, not Russian.

The US and its allies spent months debating whether or not to give Ukraine the go-ahead to use its NATO-provided long-range strike systems to target Russia. In September, President Putin warned that allowing Kiev to use its Western long-range missiles on Russia would mean NATO's direct participation in a war against the Russian Federation. | President Biden has signed off on the Ukrainian military's use of US-made ATACMS missiles to try to help defend its faltering positions in Ukrainian-occupied areas of Russia's Kursk region, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing US officials apprized of the situation. ■ Officials told the newspaper that they "do not expect the shift" in policy "to fundamentally alter the course of the war" (NYT's phrasing), and indicated that Biden could further authorize Kiev to use the weapons in directions besides Kursk in the future. ■ Washington reportedly expects the ATACMS to be used to strike troop concentrations, military equipment, logistics, ammunition depots and supply lines, all with the goal of "blunt[ing] the effectiveness" of the ongoing Russian military operation to clear Kursk of Ukrainian forces. ■ According to NYT's information, some Pentagon officials opposed delivering the missile systems to Ukraine in the first place due to the US Army's limited supply. Others reportedly expressed fears that their delivery and use could escalate the conflict and even prompt direct Russian retaliation against US and NATO forces - something President Putin has explicitly warned about.

👉 Russia will be ‘at war’ with NATO if Ukraine long-range missile restrictions lifted, Putin warns (09/13/24)
👉 Putin: NATO's Approval of Use of Long-Range Missiles by Ukraine Will Mean It is at War With Russia (12.09.2024):

💬 "So this is not about whether or not to allow the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia using these weapons, but about deciding whether or not NATO countries are directly involved in the military conflict or not. If such a decision is taken, it will mean nothing short of direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, European countries, in the war in Ukraine. This would constitute their direct participation, and this, of course, changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict. It will mean that NATO countries, the United States and European countries, are at war with Russia. And if this is so, bearing in mind the change in the very nature of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us," Putin said.

■ At Edge of Blowing Ourselves Up: Jeffrey Sachs Warns of Direct US-Russia Clash (11/17/24)
■ Moscow vows ‘devastating response’ to Kiev’s strikes deep into Russia (RT.com)(13 Nov, 2024)

Israel’s targets💔 pic.twitter.com/mXtZJuCLKI

— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) May 30, 2024

At least 72 killed in Israeli strike on north Gaza, Beirut hit again:

■ Brutal Israeli air attack on Beit Lahiya kills 72 Palestinians (MEE)

Israel has killed at least 208 health sector workers and carried out more than 280 attacks on emergency medical facilities in Lebanon over the past year. | The Israeli military is repeatedly targeting healthcare facilities and medical workers in Lebanon. ● As of November 15, Israel has killed at least 208 health sector workers and injured 311 others according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. The ministry also recorded at least 286 Israeli attacks on healthcare services, including 66 attacks on hospitals and 220 on emergency medical services. ● As a result, some 40 hospitals have been damaged, with eight rendered nonfunctional, and 249 emergency vehicles have been damaged, in what human rights organizations say constitutes potential war crimes.

■ Israel wages 145 attacks on Lebanon in one day (PressTV)
■ Israel continues massive bombing campaign of Lebanon, kills several paramedics (The Cradle)
■ Israeli warplanes target vicinity of 2 churches, hospital in southern Beirut (Anadolu)
■ Beirut expresses 'reservations' to US-Israeli truce proposal, rejects 'western oversight' (The Cradle)
■ Compromised sovereignty: The US takeover of Lebanon (Hussein Mehdi)

The United States has been forging ahead with its delusional policy of Ukraine, draining the country of lives while heightening risks of escalation, Jeffrey Sachs earlier told Sputnik. | The world is poised on the edge of blowing itself up, and “it’s very shocking”, warned world-renowned American economist Jeffrey Sachs. ● Direct confrontation between the United States and Russia carries very serious and real threats, he said during a lecture in Armenia’s capital of Yerevan. ● The two sides possess thousands of nuclear warheads, reminded the president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He referred to the ongoing Ukraine proxy conflict as an open confrontation waged by the US, where Ukraine has been doing “a good service by dying on behalf of the Americans.”

■ Biden Wants To Set Trump Up With Ukraine - John Mearsheimer (Sputnik)

Iran has expanded its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) from the central Iran region, to now include four other regions. This __could__ be the coming Iran response to an Israeli attack from two+ weeks ago. | The NOTAM issued very early this past week, isolated a section of central Iran from all civilian aircraft due to what the NOTAM said would be "rocket launches." ● That original NOTAM begins Monday, November 18 Iran time. But Iran is eight and one-half hours ahead of US East Coast time. So when it becomes 3:30 PM in New York City tomorrow (Sunday), it will then be Midnight in Iran, entering November 18. ● Thus, from any time after 3:30 PM in New York City tomorrow, Sunday, Nov. 17, Iran's NOTAM is in effect and __could__ be for Iran's retaliation. I emphasize __could__ because we just don't know when Iran will retaliate.

■ Iran Reportedly Issues New NOTAM . . . "Rocket Launches" . . . . Israel? (Harold Turner)

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for the first time in two years on Friday | Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and offered to end the war in Ukraine. The Russian leader offered a deal similar to one proposed by Moscow in June. ■ On Friday, Scholz spoke with Putin for the first time in nearly two years. According to the Kremlin, “The Russian president noted that the Russian side has never refused and remains open to the resumption of the negotiations that were interrupted by the Kiev regime.” Adding, “Russia’s proposals are well known and outlined, in particular, in a June speech at the Russian Foreign Ministry.” ■ In that speech, Putin said that if Ukrainian forces withdrew from all Russian annexed territory, adopted a position of neutrality between NATO and Russia, agreed to denazification and demilitarization of the country, and the lifting of all Western sanctions on Moscow, then Russia would bring the war to an end.

■ Lavrov questions Scholz’s stance on Ukraine (RT.com)
■ How blind support for Ukraine broke Germany (Tarik Cyril Amar)

Gaza’s famine grows amidst increased international silence. pic.twitter.com/BiqSmrhR3D

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) November 16, 2024

Israel's Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry sent 'special report' to Dutch PMs ahead of parliament session that discussed violent incidents initiated by Amsterdam-based Maccabi supporters, media reports | Security units in the Netherlands have expressed discomfort over Israel's attempts to influence and meddle in the country’s political affairs, according to local media. ● Israel's Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry sent a "special report" to Dutch members of parliament ahead of a session that discussed violent incidents initiated by Amsterdam-based Maccabi supporters, according to a report published on Friday by the prominent Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. The Israeli report claimed that linked Dutch organizations were involved in these incidents and were pro-Hamas. Dutch Justice and Security Minister David van Weel confirmed the existence of the Israeli report, De Volkskrant reported. ● Using Israel's report, Chris Stoffer, a member of parliament from the Reformed Political Party (SGP), proposed a motion to designate Dutch organizations that Israel has labeled as pro-Hamas as terrorist organizations and add them to a sanctions list, De Volkskrant stated.

New Zealand has enacted new legislation legalizing the use of physical force in order to vaccinate their citizens, according to a report by Dr. Jonathan Engler. 👉 “Section 71A states that a member of the police may do anything reasonably necessary (including the use of force) to help a medical officer of health or any person authorized by the medical officer of health in the exercise or performance of powers or functions under sections 70 or 71,” reads a passage under “Special powers” on page 125 of the New Zealand Pandemic Plan: A Framework for Action. ● If any citizens suffer harm from the vaccine, there is no recourse due to manufacturer immunity from liability.

Similar to what the Netherlands is also trying to do in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with regard to the Israel-Gaza situation, the legal system there also wants to hold Gates accountable for what he did all through COVID. | Now that Donald Trump has been reelected as president of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ready to get to work locking up Bill Gates, Tony Fauci, and every other Big Pharma executive who conspired with the media to censor the ugly truth about Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "vaccines." ■ Each of these Big Pharma hacks assumed that Kamala Harris would win and sweep the whole thing under the rug. Now that Trump is about to take office a second time, many of them are running for cover. ■ Kennedy helped unearth evidence showing that COVID injections are bioweapons rather than honest medicine. Their purpose, among other things, was to sicken the general public while reducing the population and laying the groundwork for global medical fascism. ■ Gates pumped billions of dollars into the production of the Operation Warp Speed jabs, which Congress and the Trump administration paved the way for with the PREP Act. Since Gates also recently funded $50 million to the Kamala campaign, Kennedy wants him to pay. [...] Like Gates, Fauci is desperately trying to evade justice despite committing many "depraved crimes against humanity," to quote one media source. "Besides pushing the deadly vaccine, Fauci also forced people infected with AIDS to take his deadly drug AZT, resulting in the deaths of over 300,000 people," reported Disswire.

■ RFK Jr: Bill Gates and Fauci Will be Jailed Under New Trump Administration (DissWire)

Israeli media underlines that Hezbollah wants UNSC Resolution 1791 without any modifications that allow for "Israel" to act freely in Lebanon. | Israeli media reported that Hezbollah is demanding the complete implementation of UN Resolution 1701, without incorporating any clauses related to "Israel's freedom of action," including "the freedom of the Israeli Air Force" within Lebanese airspace, or any Israeli–US oversight concerning villages in southern Lebanon. ● Israeli Channel 12 emphasized that Hezbollah "is not willing to accept anything gradual in this regard. It demands immediate action, a full return to Resolution 1701 without any modifications." ● This stance by the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, prioritizing Lebanon's interests through full implementation of Resolution 1701, aligns with the official Lebanese position.

■ Explainer: What is Security Council resolution 1701? (United Nations)

FACTBOX: Abkhazian President Alsan Bzhania left the republic’s capital Sukhum on Friday, rejecting the opposition’s demand to step down and hold early elections. | The opposition in Abkhazia halted talks with government officials and announced plans to build up its forces in the seized governmental district. According to initial reports, the president withdrew from the parliament a bill to ratify an investment agreement with Russia, criticized by the opposition. However, his press service refuted this information early on Saturday. TASS compiled main facts about the situation in the country.

Satirical news publication The Onion has bought Infowars, the media organisation headed by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, for an undisclosed price at a court-ordered auction. | The Onion said that the bid was secured with the backing of families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, who won a $1.5bn (£1.18bn) defamation lawsuit against Jones for spreading false rumours about the massacre. A judge in Texas ordered the auction in September, and various groups – both Jones’s allies and detractors – had suggested they would bid for the company. Jones founded Infowars in 1999. He has vowed to continue broadcasting using a different platform. In a rambling video message posted on Thursday morning, Jones called the takeover a “total attack on free speech”.

Just now -- acclaimed British surgeon testifies to #UK Parliament, detailing how #IDF "quadcopters" would arrive at the scene of airstrikes in #Gaza & "pick-off" / "shoot" the injured, including children. pic.twitter.com/onpyNnpjhp

— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) November 12, 2024

A top UK surgeon broke down while recounting his experience at Gaza's Nasser Hospital during an evidence session on the healthcare situation in what was once the largest city in the State of Palestine.

💬 "What I think I found particularly disturbing was that a bomb would drop, maybe on a crowded, tented area, and then the drones would come down," Professor Nizam Mamode told the UK Parliament during the International Development Committee's session before he was overcome with emotion. ● "I can only imagine just how it has impacted you and it will continue to impact you, I feel, because you can't unsee what you've seen but being able to share that with us really helps us hold legislators, particularly, to account," Champion added before Mamode continued.

In the clip, Committee Chair Sarah Champion then stepped in to thank the former surgeon for attending the session to help hold legislators accountable.

💬 "The drones would come down and pick off civilians, children, and we had description after description," Mamode said. "This is not an occasional thing; this was day after day after day, operating on children who would say, 'I was lying on the ground after a bomb had dropped and this quadcopter came down and hovered over me and shot me.'"

Orit Strock said, 'national rights over this land belong only to the Jewish people' | Israeli Minister of Settlements and National Missions Orit Strock has said she’s working to ensure Israel can annex as much land in the West Bank as possible during the incoming Trump administration but said the Palestinians that live there don’t have rights to the land and shouldn’t have the right to vote. [...] Trump’s appointment of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel signals the administration will back annexation. ● Huckabee is an Evangelical Christian who believes God gave historic Palestine to the modern state of Israel. He denies Israel is occupying the West Bank, which he called “Judea and Samaria,” and has previously claimed that there’s “no such thing as a Palestinian” and argued the Palestinians should be expelled to other Arab states. ● In Huckabee’s first interview with Israeli media after Trump announced he would be the envoy to Israel, the former governor was asked if the administration would support annexation of the West Bank. He said, “Of course … There has never been an American president that has been more helpful in securing an understanding of the sovereignty of Israel… and I fully expect that will continue.”

■ Trump's pick for Sec. of State Marco Rubio's love affair with Israel, MKO, Pahlavis (PressTV)
■ Trump's Picks Are All Neocon Warhawks Ferociously Devoted to Israel (Mike Whitney)

Clashes erupted during the match near where the Israeli fans were sitting, with some throwing punches. Some spectators held up Palestinian flags that had been banned inside the stadium. | The 80,000-capacity stadium was barely a fifth full as the French had boycotted the game over Israel's two-front aggression, which has killed 43,736 people in Gaza and 3,386 others in Lebanon since early October 2023. [...] On Thursday, about 4,000 police officers were on the streets around the Stade de France along with 1,600 security personnel. The 80,000-capacity stadium was barely a fifth full as the French had boycotted the game over Israel's two-front aggression, which has killed 43,736 people in Gaza and 3,386 others in Lebanon since early October 2023. However, French President Emmanuel Macron attended the game alongside predecessors Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, and Prime Minister Michel Barnier, in an show of solidarity with the Israeli regime.

■ Fighting mars France-Israel football match (VIDEOS) (RT.com)

Northern Ireland’s police have spirited out former US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton from Queen’s University Belfast where hundreds of students gathered to denounce her stance on the Israeli genocide in Gaza. | Clashes erupted at the campus on Thursday as police moved in to confront the students who had gathered to protest against Clinton’s address. [...] The group also published videos showing police forces attacking people who were protesting peacefully. The police forces “dragged, pushed, and choked protesters, wielding their batons with no advance warning,” it said. Police confirmed four people were arrested on suspicion of a range of “public order offences.” [...] The QUB Palestine Assembly hit out at the university for inviting the two which it has described as “war criminals.” “Clinton has been a consistent apologist for the genocide being carried out against Palestinians in Gaza, and Kennedy represents an administration that has overseen the supply of the bombs and munitions that have taken upwards of 160,00 Palestinians lives,” it said in a statement on Thursday.

At least fifteen people have lost their lives after Israeli military aircraft carried out airstrikes against positions in the western flank of Damascus and the outskirts of the Syrian capital. | Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing a military source, reported that Israeli warplanes launched an assault from the direction of occupied Golan Heights at around 3:20 p.m. local time (1220 GMT) on Thursday, targeting several residential buildings in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus and the Qudsaya area in the Damascus countryside. The source added that the attack resulted in 15 people killed and 16 others injured. He noted that there were women and children among the casualties and that the toll was preliminary and could rise. The Israeli airstrikes against Syria come amid the Zionist regime’s bloody onslaughts against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, and the Lebanese nation.

Patrick Lawrence | What happened in one Dutch city is the world since the Zionist regime began its limitlessly barbaric assault on Gaza: Western powers blessed it, and Western media determined to hide it from view. | In the annals of “anti–Semitism,” if not anti–Semitism in its un-weaponized form, the events before, during, and since an ill-fated soccer match in Amsterdam last week merit a prominent entry. ■ We find in these chaotic days a picture in miniature of the sickness that has overtaken “the Jewish state,” the shameless apology those purporting to lead the Western post-democracies make for the straight-out barbarities of Zionist zealots, and the full-frontal disinformation spread by corporate and state-funded media as they pose as the first line of defense against disinformation. ■ It’s a three-fer, then, the whole banana in one place and at one time —all of this in the cause of the Zionist regime as it prosecutes its yearlong genocide in Gaza and sets about expanding its campaign of murder and destruction across West Asia. Zionist Israel lost, lost big in Amsterdam. The horror it has made of itself is now plain for the world to see. The apologist pols, already hanging on for dear life in the post-democracies, lost. Mainstream media lost.

✅ The West buries a genocide – by making victims of Israel’s football thugs (Jonathan Cook) | If the West was really worried about Europe’s Nazi past, it would be better advised to stop stoking an all-too-real new antisemitism: incitement against Arab and Muslim minorities. | There has never been a harder time to do political and media analysis than right now. Each day, the western establishment unmoors itself further from reality. Its priorities are so inverted, so obscene, that the most appropriate response is ridicule. The latest example was the reaction late last week to violent clashes in Amsterdam before and after a match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and the local team Ajax. ■ The ridiculous framing from western politicians, assisted by mainstream media outlets, was that the visiting Israelis were “hunted down” in what supposedly amounted to a “pogrom” by Dutch street gangs, comprising mainly youths of Arab and Muslim heritage. ■ According to this official narrative, the violence on Amsterdam’s streets was further proof of a rising tide of antisemitism sweeping Europe and imported from the Middle East. More, the attacks were presented as having disturbing echoes of Europe’s Nazi past.

Up to 700 Palestinian children have been kidnapped each year for decades; held hostages by an unlawful occupation who saw in them a threat in the making. Tormented often beyond the breaking point, generations of Palestinians will carry the scars and trauma from the Israeli mass… https://t.co/5CFDIej2Qy

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) November 14, 2024

The UN special rapporteur for Palestine has slammed Israel’s parliament for passing a law authorizing the detention of Palestinian children, who are “tormented often beyond the breaking point” in Israeli custody. | Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in a Thursday post on X, characterized the experiences of Palestinian minors in Israeli detention as extreme and often inhumane. ● The UN expert highlighted the grave impact of this policy, noting that up to 700 Palestinian minors are taken into custody each year, a practice she described as part of an unlawful occupation that views these children as potential threats. ● Albanese said Palestinian minors in Israeli custody are “tormented often beyond the breaking point” and that “generations of Palestinians will carry the scars and trauma from the Israeli mass incarceration system.”

'Given evidence strongly indicates that multiple acts of forced displacement were carried out with intent, it amounts to war crimes,' says Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by forcibly displacing nearly 1.9 million Palestinians during its war in Gaza. ■ In a report titled "Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” HRW detailed how Israeli attacks, evacuation orders, and destruction of infrastructure have created a humanitarian catastrophe.

■ US Muslim group declares Biden a ‘war criminal’ for continuing to send weapons to Israel (Anadolu)

Maria Zakharova emphasized that the Baltic Sea "will always be a common space for all of the region’s countries without exception" | The Baltic Sea will never turn into NATO’s internal body of water no matter how strongly the West may wish to see this happen, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has told a news briefing.

💬 "No matter how much some so-called experts would like this to happen, even after Finland and Sweden have joined the North Atlantic Alliance, the Baltic Sea will not turn into an internal body of water of the North Atlantic Alliance," Zakharova said.

She emphasized that the Baltic Sea "will always be a common space for all of the region’s countries without exception."

Andrzej Duda has said the Aegis facility at Redzikowo was never about defense against ‘Iranian ICBMs’ | Speaking at the opening ceremony for the Redzikowo base on Wednesday, Duda quoted the words of the Polish president at the time, Lech Kaczynski, revealing the real purpose of the missile base.

💬 “Andrzej, these missiles will not defend Poland,” Duda said. “They will actually protect areas far, far away from Poland from missiles that could potentially be launched from Iran, for example. But this will be an American missile base, which will contain some of the greatest secrets of the United States and which the United States will guard.”

“And this is very important, because this American base will be built on our soil, in Poland,” Duda continued, quoting his predecessor. “And from that moment, when this base stands here, the whole world will see clearly that this is no longer the Russian zone of influence. And from the Polish point of view, this is the most important thing strategically.”