A clear pattern of attacks targeting children is evident, Justice S. Muralidhar told RT India. Muralidhar presented the findings of the UN panel on Tuesday and discussed the Israeli violations against children. | The attacks by Israel on Gaza show a targeted annihilation of children that should be punished, the head of a UN panel that probed the excesses told RT India. The violence unleashed by Israeli forces was “unjustified and disproportionate… in considerable terms,” Justice S. Muralidhar, the chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory, said in an exclusive interview.

The Gaza war began after the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 taken hostage. Israel’s subsequent military operation devastated much of Gaza, killing over 73,000 Palestinians and injuring more than 173,000, according to the local health authorities.

A new rights report says 235 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli occupation forces in the occupied West Bank since October 2023. | Through interviews with bereaved Palestinian families and human rights organizations, The Guardian examines "Israel's license to kill" in the occupied West Bank. The report explores the killings of Palestinian children and the absence of indictments or accountability for those responsible. ■ On the day he was killed, nine-year-old Palestinian child Mohammad al-Halaq was excited about a new schoolbag he had received at school, which carried the logo of the UN child protection agency, UNICEF. ■ “He was extremely happy. It was something out of the ordinary for him to be given a bag,” his mother, Aliyah, recalled to The Guardian. “He came knocking on the door to tell me had this new bag to put pencils and pens in.” [...] The family lives in ar-Rihiya, in the hills south of al-Khalil, an area increasingly exposed to Israeli settler violence and IOF aggression. His mother said she was uneasy about him leaving the house, but he insisted and ran off while she went to the shops. It was the last time she saw him alive.

The Israeli leaders, speaking during graduation for combat officers, also threaten to attack Iran again | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz have said that troops will maintain an indefinite presence in southern Lebanon, Syria and the Gaza Strip. They were both speaking at a graduation for combat officers in southern Israel on Thursday.

■ Israeli minister calls for annexation of southern Lebanon (03/24/26)
■ Trump’s SHOCKING Plan for Greater Israel EXPOSED (02/14/25)
■ Sizing Up Israel Foreign Ministry's Biblical Map: ‘Promised Land’ Provocation or Expansion Plan? (01/08/25)
■ Israel's future borders would extend beyond Jordan River — minister (10/11/24)

[Plus this: The Land of Israel + Ezekiel and the Tribes]

An exclusive interview with geopolitical analyst Mahmoud Allouch examines whether Turkey could become "Israel's" next target, the drivers of their growing strategic rivalry, Syria's central role, and how likely a military confrontation could unfold. | Alongside a wave of statements and analyses, questions have increasingly emerged over whether Turkey could become "Israel's" next target. The possibility of a military confrontation between Turkey and “Israel”, despite growing signs of friction and mutual strategic concerns, remains constrained by significant strategic limitations, even as their broader relationship has steadily evolved into a more visible and multidimensional form of geopolitical rivalry.

 ●  This rivalry now spans a widening set of arenas, from the fragmented political landscape of Syria and the strategic waterways of the Eastern Mediterranean to emerging regional trade corridors and rival visions for shaping the post–Cold War order in West Asia.

 ● As a result, what was once primarily a cautious and often indirect relationship has become a sustained strategic rivalry. Speaking to Al Mayadeen English, geopolitical analyst and expert in Turkish affairs, Mahmoud Allouch argues that the relationship between Turkey and "Israel" has moved beyond a temporary diplomatic crisis into a phase of "intense strategic rivalry".

 ● 'Turkey is the new Iran' | During the annual Israeli Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, held on February 17, 2026, several senior Israeli politicians attended, most notably Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. However, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett took the most attention, sparking controversy and anger in Turkey, after he said, “Turkey is the new Iran”. That statement indicated that, once the war on Iran ends, “Israel” would shift its focus toward Turkey, viewing it as the next major threat. It is noteworthy that in recent months, other statements and analyses have also emerged carrying the same idea, whether from institutions or individuals close to or aligned with “Israel”. [Plus this: The Land of Israel + Ezekiel and the Tribes]

A United Nations Commission of Inquiry says Israel’s deliberate targeting of children is part of the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. | A United Nations Commission of Inquiry says Israel continues to deliberately target and kill Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza and war crimes in the occupied West Bank. ● In a report published on Tuesday, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel examined Israeli violations against Palestinian children since the start of Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza in October 2023. ● The report found that around 30 percent of people killed in Gaza since the start of the war were children.

Jonathan Cook | Judge Johnson so rigged the trial of anti-genocide activists that 1000s of legal professionals have urged him to step down from the sentencing hearing. But Johnson’s dirty work is not yet complete | The trial of the Filton Four reaches its climax on Friday. Judge Jeremy Johnson will decide the sentences of four Palestine Action activists found guilty of criminal damage – after two juries refused to convict them of far more serious charges brought by the British government, via the Crown Prosecution Service. ■ Keir Starmer’s government failed to secure the convictions for aggravated burglary and violent disorder it so desperately needed. They would have helped retroactively justify its decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation – the first time in British history that a direct action group, which targets property, has been proscribed. ■ Starmer’s hostility towards Palestine Action is personal. It has been a massive thorn in his side during Israel’s near three-year genocide in Gaza. ■ From the outset, Starmer suggested that Israel had the “right” to withhold food, water and power from the 2 million Palestinian residents of Gaza – a crime against humanity for which the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is wanted by the International Criminal Court.

blueapples | The proposed Sazan Island Resort highlights how Affinity Partners uses private investment to push the Trump administration's foreign policy. | Transforming the Gaza Strip into oceanside luxury properties built atop a mass grave isn’t the only real estate development project proposed by Jared Kushner that has embroiled him in controversy. Across the Mediterranean Sea, Albanian authorities have opened an anti-corruption investigation into a company led by Kushner that hopes to transform an island off of the country’s coast into a luxury resort. While Kushner contends that his vision for the island is rooted in transforming it into a paradisaical resort, that picturesque image hides how the project serves as a vehicle for him to advance his ulterior political motives. The probe into his latest development project is the second major anti-corruption investigation in as many years that has exposed a strategy executed by Kushner to use the massive amount of private investment capital at his disposal to advance the interests of the State of Israel and expand the Zionist World Order he continues to fight in the vanguard of.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the fanatic Israeli minister for security affairs, says the Lebanese women and youth must be kidnapped as a means of exerting pressure on the resistance movement Hezbollah. | He made his proposal during a security cabinet meeting on Tuesday, urging officials to adopt more aggressive measures against the Lebanese group as discussions focused on expanding Israel's military invasion in Lebanon.

Moon of Alabama | The colonial expansion of Israel is openly subsidized by the U.S. with currently $3.5 billion per year. Most of that money is bound to Israel’s purchase of U.S. made weapons. The stipend is controlled by Congress and must pass the yearly budget review. | The Israeli government is trying to change the stipend into a more lucrative racket. It has suggested to replace the yearly subsidy by a ‘deeper military cooperation’ which is code for the guaranteed U.S. purchases of Israeli made weapons and continuous profits for Israel’s weapon manufacturers. To institute the new scheme Congress will pass a law that will integrate Israel’s military-industrial complex into U.S. procurement and production lines. [...] In future the Pentagon will have to spend, by law, a part of its budget on purchases from Israel. Given the $1.5 trillion war budget proposed by Trump the profits from such an alliance for Israel will be a multiple of its current stipend. Congress is currently in the process of passing the proposal.

📌 Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries (Elena Panina)
■ Pentagon boosts Israeli spying threat to ‘critical’ (RT)

📌 Paul Holden | After Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur were banned from entering the UK earlier this week, reportedly because of their criticism of Israel, Piker commented that he “would never have imagined that a [Labour] government would ban me from entering the UK.” | But Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government is not really a Labour government; it came to power on the back of a secret project to wrest control of the Labour Party back from an ascendant left wing. This secret project was resourced by illegally undeclared money from wealthy donors, funneled through a seemingly anodyne think tank called Labour Together. It involved covertly seeding promiscuous claims of antisemitism against political opponents, attempting to silence independent media that threatened to expose its project, and—ultimately—developing the dishonest leadership pitch that allowed Keir Starmer to trick a left-wing membership to elect him leader. ■ Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary responsible for the ban on Piker and Uygur, was one of a ‘brave band’ of eight MPs that guided the Labour Together project during the leadership of Starmer’s left-wing predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.

📌 What Morgan McSweeney did in the shadows is set to haunt Starmer's Labour (Peter Oborne) | The Ovenden departure was forced by a revelation in a book by the investigative journalist Paul Holden titled The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy. ■ And now comes the third and by far the most dangerous development. Secret and unlawful: Holden’s book The contains allegations of irregularities concerning what he calls "a secret unlawful fund" and more than £700,000 of hidden donations to a think tank run by McSweeney. According to Holden, the purpose of McSweeney’s think tank, misleadingly called Labour Together, was to supercharge Starmer’s path to Downing Street. [McSweeney spent several months on the Sarid kibbutz in Israel in the 1990s.]

The electoral interference by Israeli company 'BlackCore' took many by surprise and stirs fears ahead of 2027 presidential vote | A foreign influence campaign in French local elections by an Israeli firm earlier this year presents an unprecedented attack on France's democracy, victims of the operation and people familiar with it told Middle East Eye. ● Earlier this month, Reuters revealed that the French authorities were examining whether an alleged smear campaign against three mayoral candidates from the left-wing, pro-Palestinian party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed - LFI) ahead of March's municipal elections was carried out by an obscure Israeli firm ​called BlackCore.

■ LFI ciblé par une campagne de désinformation (Le Monde)

Israel’s genocidal finance minister holds significant authority over the West Bank Civil Administration, allowing him to expand illegal settlements freely | Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced a new and major illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank on 3 June, which aims to see the construction of around 2,000 houses on Palestinian land. According to the minister, 1,006 housing units will be in a new settlement near the occupied holy city of Jerusalem. Over 920 are planned near occupied Nablus and another 234 near the city of Hebron. “We are continuing to build the Land of Israel in practice,” Smotrich said.

■ Widespread Israeli Invasions, Abductions Across West Bank (IMEMC)
■ West Bank: Israeli Settlers Burn Agricultural Lands, Assault a Palestinian (IMEMC)

Pierre Simon | Why should Jewish suffering be more important? | Wherever you are on this earth, beware! As of January 20, 2022, the United Nations adopted a resolution submitted by Israel and Germany appealing to all nations of the world to take active measures to combat any unwanted skeptical research into the National-Socialist persecution of Jews, and the popular social chatter resulting from it. Following a propaganda speech by Gilad Erdon, Israel’s representative to the United Nations, the UN passed this resolution without a vote, a fact which makes you wonder who really runs the UN! Holocaust education is now mandatory in almost all schools of the Western World. Everyone is obligated not only to learn, but to believe, or else, the official Holocaust narrative.

[Editor's Comment:] Listen: Articles like this are “true” in a certain sense, and to me, largely fact-based, and one is left with the feeling that what the article describes is inevitable. Will things turn out the way “they” want? No, I don’t think so. We must remember that what is described in the article is Absolute evil; sometimes insidious, sometimes overt, but always active. Organized Judaism is evil. We simply have to resist. If we put up strong resistance, "they" will eventually lose control. We can overcome this dark agenda, and build a better society, even on a global scale.

Violations by Israeli guards consisted of rape, including with objects, gang rape, shooting genitals, touching breasts and genitals, strip and cavity searches, and forced nudity | The UN has documented dozens of cases of torture, rape, and sexual violence against Palestinian detainees by Israeli prison guards and interrogators, Haaretz reported on 29 May, citing a new report issued by the office of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. ● “Violations consisted of rape, including with objects, gang rape, attempted rape, physical violence to the genitals, instances of targeted shooting of the genitals, touching of breasts and genitals, strip and cavity searches conducted without apparent security justification, forced nudity and threats of rape,” the report said. ● The UN identified 31 victims from the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including 14 men, seven women, nine children, and one girl. [...] In most cases, the torture and sexual violence were carried out during the interrogation of Palestinians at military camps and detention centers, such as the Sde Teiman base and the Etzion detention center, as well as in Israeli prisons, including Megiddo, Ofer, Ramla, HaSharon, Shatta, Nafha, and Damon, and the Gush Etzion police station.

■ Israeli openly abusing hostages they kidnapped in international waters (Lord Of War) (VIDEO)

El embajador del régimen sionista israelí en Dinamarca protestó por la difusión de este vídeo.

Hagámoslo viral escribiendo un punto para romper con el algoritmo.

Genocidas, llenos odio, contra las familias Palestinas que protestan contra la destrucción de sus propiedades pic.twitter.com/BCIZ15mE9C

— aapayés (@aapayes) May 7, 2026

Translation: The ambassador of the Israeli Zionist regime in Denmark protested the dissemination of this video. Let’s make it go viral by writing a period to break the algorithm. Genocidaires, full of hatred, against Palestinian families who protest the destruction of their properties.

Kurt Nimmo | Speech in support of Palestinian resistance equals incitement to violence? | Direct calls for violence that result in immediate unlawful acts are illegal. For instance, encouraging a person to throw a Molotov cocktail at the police during a street demonstration. Gorka is correct if he is talking about serious threats directed at individuals and groups. I don’t think that is what he is talking about. ■ Expressing support for Hamas and Hezbollah or chanting “from the River to the Sea” does not measure up to incitement under the First Amendment. Gorka believes anti-Israel speech may be defined as illegal incitement. He characterizes antizionist protesters as Iranian and Russian “fellow travelers.” ■ It is drawing closer and closer to the day when it will be illegal to criticize and protest against Zionist crimes in Palestine. Gorka said they are taking down names.

On the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club reports that the occupation has utilized abductions and imprisonment as a systematic tool of colonial control and oppression against the Palestinian people. Since the onset of the genocide, the occupation has arrested more than 23,000 Palestinians from the West Bank, excluding thousands abducted from Gaza who remain subject to forced disappearance. The current phase is identified as the deadliest in the history of the prisoner movement. (Eva Karene Bartlett)

Israeli attacks have devastated Lebanon’s farmland, livestock, and irrigation systems, worsening food insecurity and rural economic collapse. Over 65% of Lebanon’s agricultural land is now heavily damaged amid ongoing aggression since 2023. | South Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley are the backbone of the agriculture sector in Lebanon. Making up more than 65% of Lebanon’s total agricultural land, they have become the foundation of life and rural continuity for the country, as local communities depend heavily on olive groves, tobacco cultivation, livestock production, poultry farming, and seasonal harvests for both income and food security. For many Lebanese villages, farming is not merely an occupation but a central component of local identity.

Two Lebanese paramedics were killed in an intentional “double tap” strike by Israel on 12 May, as they were engaged in a mission to rescue the victim of an earlier attack, Lebanon’s Civil Defense said. | The General Directorate of Civil Defense announced “the martyrdom of two Civil Defense personnel from the Nabatieh Regional Center's roster, killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted them while they were carrying out an ambulance mission for a victim injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted him in Nabatieh.” ● “Additionally, a third personnel member was injured during the execution of the mission,” the Civil Defense statement added. ● The two rescuers killed by Israel on Tuesday have been identified as Hussein Jaber and Ahmad Noura.

A Catholic charity has condemned Israel after its forces destroyed a convent in southern Lebanon, in what it said is a deliberate attack on a place of worship. | The French organisation L'Oeuvre d'Orient said Israeli troops demolished a convent belonging to the Salvatorian Sisters, a Greek Catholic religious order, in the village of Yaroun.

The charity said the attack forms part of a wider pattern of attacks on Christian heritage, noting that “Christian sanctuaries were also destroyed during the war in 2024, such as the Melkite churches in the villages of Yaroun and Derdghaya, both classified as part of Lebanon's heritage”.

■ vile jewish bastards... (04/29/26)

Moments ago, Israel struck a small vehicle on the coastal road of Saadiyat, a vital transit point on the main highway connecting Beirut to the southern city of Sidon (Saida). In another attack, an Israeli drone targeted a vehicle in Nabatieh and killed one man and critically… pic.twitter.com/6JahGuthP4

— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) May 9, 2026

■ IDF in new Virgin Mary statue scandal (RT)
■ An Israeli soldier smashes a statue of Jesus Christ in southern Lebanon (04/19/26)

■ Israeli Sde Teiman Guards Admit To Training Guard Dogs To Rape (04/25/26)
■ How Israel Weaponized Sexual Torture Against Palestinian Hostages (11/25/25)
■ Israeli rapists announce they ‘will win’ (11/04/25)
■ What we know about the torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel (10/18/25)
✅ Torture and Rape Are All in A Day’s Work for Israel’s Defenders (Philip Giraldi)

🚩 "The historical mission of our world revolution is to rearrange a new culture of humanity to replace the previous social system. This conversion and re-organization of global society requires two essential steps: firstly, the destruction of the old established order, secondly, design and imposition of the new order. The first stage requires the elimination of all frontier borders, nationhood and culture, public policy ethical barriers and social definitions, only then can the destroyed old system elements be replaced by the imposed system elements of our new order. The first task of our world revolution is *Destruction*...."

🚩 "All social strata and social formations created by traditional society must be annihilated, individual men and women must be uprooted from their ancestral environment, torn out of their native milieus, no tradition of any type shall be permitted to remain as sacrosanct, traditional social norms must only be viewed as a disease to be eradicated, the ruling dictum of the new order is; nothing is good, so everything must be criticized and abolished, everything that was, must be gone."

🚩 "After destruction of the old order, construction of the new order is a larger and more difficult task. We will have torn out the old limbs from their ancient roots in deep layers, social norms will be lying disorganized and anarchic so they must be blocked against new cultural forms and social categories naturally re-emerging. The general masses will have been first persuaded to join as equals in the first task of destroying their own traditional society and economic culture, but then the new order must be forcibly established through people again being divided and differentiated only in accordance with the new pyramidal hierarchical system of our imposed global monolithic new world order." ~ N. Goldman, Founder of World Jewish Congress, "The Spirit of Militarism" (1915)

Caitlin Johnstone | Laws aimed at pro-Palestine protests should always be looked at as efforts to ban criticism of Israel. That’s what we’re seeing in the UK as the prime minister encourages the prosecution of anyone who says “globalise the intifada”. | I have said it before and I will say it again: there is no greater threat to free speech in the western world than Israel and its supporters. The whole of western society must resist tooth and claw the mad push to stomp out our right to oppose war, genocide, apartheid, and injustice.

Caitlin Johnstone | You can’t criticise Israel because that’s antisemitic, and if you complain that your speech is being suppressed, that’s antisemitic too. | Saying it’s antisemitic to accuse Israel of apartheid, oppression, racism and genocide is as clear an admission that Segal’s goal is to stomp out all criticism of Israel as you could possibly ask for.

❖ Australia’s “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal has published a handbook which unequivocally clarifies that her office exists not to protect Australian Jews from discrimination, but to stomp out criticism of the state of Israel.

❖ However bad you’re imagining it is, it’s worse. The handbook, set to be formally launched later this week under the title “Understanding Antisemitism in Australia,” explicitly conflates antisemitism and antizionism with statements like “Antisemitism and antizionism are both expressions of hatred towards Jews” and asserting that it is antisemitic to accuse Israel of “apartheid, oppression, racism and genocide.”

❖ It is therefore unambiguously the official position of the Australian government’s appointed authority on antisemitism that it is hateful and abusive toward Jews and their religion to oppose the racist political ideology underpinning the modern state of Israel.

❖ So when Australians hear Jillian Segal and government officials talking about how there’s been an increase in “antisemitism” in our country and saying extreme measures must be taken to stop it, it’s important to be clear that this is the “antisemitism” they are talking about. They are talking about criticism of Israel.