Middle East War Expands, page-2484

John Day

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Western media ignores Israeli confirmation of Hannibal Directive on 7 Oct
Despite a major Israeli daily confirming that the army killed many of its own soldiers and civilians on 7 October, corporate news outlets have chosen to stay silent
Major western media outlets have remained silent days after Israel’s leading newspaper Haaretz confirmed that army commanders directed troops to kill their own soldiers and civilians on 7 October, turning the Gaza border area into an “extermination zone.”
A search of reports on the Israeli investigation in outlets like CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, BBC, Reuters, AP, the Wall Street Journal, NBC News, and others yielded no results.
The only major English-language outlets that have reported on the news are The Guardian and The Independent. However, both seemingly attempt to downplay the revelations with headlines that say the Israeli army “may have risked civilian lives” by invoking its “controversial” procedure known as the Hannibal Directive. https://thecradle.co/articles/western-media-ignores-israeli-confirmation-of-hannibal-directive-on-7-oct

In Video: Israeli occupation forces execute Palestinian women and elderly inside their Homes https://en.ypagency.net/329615

Hamas: Israeli occupation’s atrocities in Tel al-Hawa are war crimes
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), stated on Friday that the atrocities revealed by the withdrawal of the terrorist occupation army from the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood in the southwest of Gaza City, are war crimes, genocide, and ethnic cleansing.
“The occupation army’s act of setting fire to residential buildings before withdrawing from Tal Al-Hawa, preventing civil defense from reaching the buildings, which burned with entire families inside, and the retrieval of bodies of whole families martyred due to “Israeli” shelling in Tal Al-Hawa, confirms that the occupation army committed brutal massacres and atrocities that shame humanity,” Hamas said in a statement. https://en.ypagency.net/329609

Amnesty International stated that the repeated evacuation orders are unlawful under international law and may amount to a war crime.
“Palestinian civilians have faced multiple waves of displacement due to Israel’s relentless nine-month onslaught on the occupied Gaza Strip and the repeated “evacuation” orders,” the Amnesty International said in a post on X on Friday.
It added: “This week Israeli forces issued yet another sweeping “evacuation” order for Gaza City, ordering all its inhabitants to flee south.”
“In the absence of any guarantees to return after the end of hostilities and with no safe and dignified accommodations for the displaced, such orders amount to unlawful transfer, a war crime.” https://en.ypagency.net/329602

Released Palestinian detainee relates torture, abuse in Israeli prison
Since October, “Israel” has detained over 9,400 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and abducted thousands from Gaza and hundreds from the 1948-occupied territories.
After he was imprisoned for 9 months, 37-year-old Muazzaz Abayat is a shell of his former self, expressing that he “came back from the dead.”
He was detained without explanation on October 26, just over two weeks after the war on Gaza began, and was imprisoned in the al-Naqab desert prison, held without charge or trial.
“They arrested me at home, not surrounded by fighters, but by my children and pregnant wife,” he told AFP.
When Abayat was liberated on Tuesday, a video went viral on social media, showing him hobbling and relying on a guy to move, while his right hand seemed paralyzed.
“No human being on the face of the earth can imagine how life has been,” he added, referring to the jail where he was imprisoned as “the ‘Guantanamo of the Negev.'” https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/released-palestinian-detainee-relates-torture–abuse-in-isra

July 14, 2024 at 11:39 am#163541

John Day

Participant

Hamas calls for independent Palestinian government in post-war Gaza
“We proposed that a non-partisan national competency government manage Gaza and the West Bank after the war,” Hossam Badran said in a statement about the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Hamas with mediation from Qatar, Egypt, and the United States.
“The administration of Gaza after the war is a Palestinian internal matter without any external interference, and we will not discuss the day after the war in Gaza with any external parties,” Badran added. https://www.arabnews.com/node/2548431/middle-east

He has to appear to be firmly Iranian, even though he fought Iraq in the war as a young man. Iran’s Pezeshkian rejects US pressure, praises Russia, China
Pezeshkian, a 69-year-old heart surgeon, has pledged to promote a pragmatic foreign policy, ease tensions over now-stalled negotiations with major powers to revive a 2015 nuclear pact and improve prospects for social liberalization and political pluralism https://www.arabnews.com/node/2548796/middle-east

Iran orders US to pay $6.8bln for severe sanctions impact on patients
This is the result of independent United Nations experts back in October 2021 revealing the impact of the US sanctions on epidermolysis bullosa patients. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iran-orders-us-to-pay–6-8bln-for-severe-sanctions-impact-on