The combined west lacks all legitimacy
No state that supports genocide, as the US does in Palestine, or supports Nazi ideology, as it does in Ukraine, can, strictly speaking, be considered legitimate.
However, since colonial days, Americans felt it was perfectly legitimate to stand by as the Indigenous peoples were slaughtered and blacks were captured by unscrupulous slave traders and shipped in chains to the US for sale, as if auctioning off a human being were no less moral than selling a horse.
It took well over a century for the US culture to reject the heinous practice of slavery, and as for the wholesale slaughter of human beings in foreign countries, we are still deeply embroiled in this barbarous practice, with NATO and the Pentagon, lawmakers and the White House dedicating major efforts, blood and treasure toward building weapons of mass destruction and employing them to murder people whose views fail to match our own. Or sending them to other brutish nations to do so by proxy.
How can anyone think for a moment that the collective West belongs in the community of civilized nations when we routinely kill people on the basis of trumped up pretexts – the most outlandish of which is the construct of “Christian” Zionism, a racist construct that bears no resemblance to the teachings of Christ, from whom it usurps its name.
Genocide is universally rejected outside the West and Nazism is generally scorned everywhere – outside the West.
Likewise, outside the West, few see the Israeli genocide-supporting US as the exceptional or indispensable nation or as a shining city on a hill. US hegemony, or the monopolar world, is rejected by the Global South and the BRICS, which holds out hope for a just world order.
Our lack of legitimacy is not just because the US and its yapping chihuahuas in Europe violate the Geneva Convention in various important ways, but worse, they fail the humanity test. Only a tiny minority of the world’s population would, responding to a pertinent question in a poll, say that genocide can ever be legitimate. Humans – barring severe brainwashing – don’t naturally think that way. The human heart does not agree that some humans are less than human or are inferior and hence undeserving of equal treatment.
But I said “barring severe brainwashing,” and severe brainwashing is the weapon used by the west to dehumanize people it doesn’t like. It is a weapon wielded 24/7 by the duplicitous western media and the political class to twist ordinary humans into veritable zombies without a twinge of conscience.
Without our regular dose of indoctrination by the Establishment agents in our institutions such as the press and politics, we would not normally and naturally fall into the current hatred and distrust of the countries we are taught to be wary of, such as Russia, China, Iran and others. And we would not naturally learn to hate and distrust the Muslims, most of whom are excellent human beings, who, among other things, respect Jesus as an important prophet (whereas the Jewish religion generally teaches that he is a fraud and some Jews that he deserved to be executed. In fact, some Israelis have started the trend of spitting on Christian leaders working in their country).
That US new media are pure propaganda sheets is evidenced by the fact that they routinely call Putin a dictator even though his power comes from free elections, and that they routinely call the Axis of Resistance terrorists even though terrorists and resistors are two entirely different kinds of groups.
After thorough indoctrination for an entire lifetime, it is doubtful that the average news consumer in the west even thinks twice about these deliberate perversions of the truth, accepting them as Gospel.
If we were to be honest with ourselves we would realize that a country that supports Nazis is hardly free of Nazi ideology and a country that supports genocidal murderers is hardly free of the deep-seated will to kill entire ethnic or religious groups.
If Washington Neocons felt any aversion to the irrational hatred of Russians and Palestinians, they would hardly be able to live with their consciences.
And if Americans were capable of analyzing the sleazy motives of their own government and media, it is likely that they would rise up and overthrow both our ruthless regime and its ancillaries in the press.
Yet somehow we have allowed ourselves to be beguiled by our religious and political leaders to accept the unacceptable, and roughly half of us believe that the Republicans will save our republic while the other half of us have placed their faith in the Democrats, blissfully unaware that both parties are firmly in the grip of AIPAC and incapable of departing an inch from the genocidal positions of the crime syndicate we call Israel.
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Our thanks to CA for this, which fits in well with what I said above. Nicely stated:
There is absolutely no moral equivalence between 43,000 [source] dead civilians (30% to 40% of whom are believed to be children) and the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023. No moral equivalence at all.
Providing the weapons for this mass murder (and that's exactly what it is) is an unconscionable act by the United States. And it is motivated by base emotions, fear and ignorance, not by any moral principle.
Those who claim Israel acted appropriately by attacking civilians in Gaza are practicing the same moral relativism that allowed Americans to say, 20 years ago, "Americans do not torture!" (well, maybe, almost, never?).
True moral principles are not applied selectively ... only when it is convenient ... only when it meets the approval of the public. True moral principles are always individual, non-negotiable, and immutable. They are not influenced by propaganda or politics.
And they are not determined by the State or by any Church or by a political party or by the White House or by the US Marine Corps.
Friends, whenever you let someone else – or worse, when you let an institution – decide morality for you; you are acting immorally. All morality – my morality, your own morality – is individual; it can never be determined by any institution.
We do not excuse our own actions by pointing to the actions of others. Others are not responsible for how we behave; we can never blame our own behavior on others; that is a basic principle of honor and morality, and it has been a long-standing principle of manhood.
CA
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From Gaza to Beirut: Abdaljawad Omar on the ripple effects of Israel’s attack on Lebanon
Khader Jabbar and Abdaljawad Omar
From Gaza to Beirut: Abdaljawad Omar on the ripple effects of Israel’s attack on Lebanon
Abdaljawad Omar speaks to Mondoweiss about how the recent escalation of fighting between Israel and the Lebanese resistance is connected to the ongoing genocide in Gaza since October 7.
Quotes:
More here
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Here’s your air strike update for September 28, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
The decision was made promptly - one of the most discussed attacks in the SMO zone has been confirmed. Where did the Iskander strike in Dnepropetrovsk?
The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed one of the most discussed attacks in the SVO zone in the last 24 hours - the strike on the Yuzhmash plant was more effective than initially expected. We tell you the details.
Ukrainian militants organized a warehouse of ammunition for missile systems on the territory of the Yuzhmash plant in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, which was learned by Russian intelligence. The decision was made promptly and immediately - according to the Russian Defense Ministry, the crew of the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system struck the identified targets.
Thanks to objective control, it became known that the strike was even more effective than initially expected - three warehouses with ammunition for the Grom OTRK, the Olkha MLRS [The Olkha is a Ukrainian made multiple launch rocket system. It is the system Russia believes was used by Ukraine to blow up the Kakhovka dam, causing catastrophic flooding] and UAVs of various modifications were destroyed.
The objective control footage shows an explosion and a large fire,
- the department clarifies, posting video footage of the strike.
By the way, the Ukrainian side has been complaining for over a year that Russian drones "feel at home" on enemy territory - each time the quality of objective control footage is getting better and better, which is alarming for the Ukrainian side.
Recall that the day before the strike in Dnepropetrovsk, local residents posted pictures of a red glow in the sky and pillars of fire. They fought the fire for several hours. Despite all attempts to hush up this topic, many shots leaked onto the Internet. As a result, local authorities confirmed the strike on the leading plant, although they tried to keep the details quiet:
After midnight, the Russian army launched a missile strike on Dniepropetrovsk. There is destruction on the territory of the industrial facility. A fire broke out, which rescuers extinguished. No one was hurt.
This attack became one of the most discussed in the last 24 hours, because the Yuzhmash plant is one of the "power points" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It was assumed that our missiles damaged the plant, but, as it turned out, significant military supplies of the enemy were destroyed.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://www.interfax.ru/russia/984204
17:22, September 28, 2024
Russian Defense Ministry reports bombing of Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Kursk Oblast
Moscow. September 28. INTERFAX.RU - A Russian Su-34 frontline bomber struck Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and a stronghold in a border area of Kursk Oblast, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Saturday.
"The strike was carried out on reconnaissance targets using aerial bombs with a universal glide and correction module. According to intelligence reports, the Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and stronghold were destroyed," the report said.
Also on Saturday, the Defense Ministry reported the destruction of a Ukrainian armored combat vehicle in Kursk Oblast by an Inokhodets strike drone.
The ministry's report said that scouts from the Sever [North] group used a drone to discover an armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, whose crew was trying to hide in a forest belt in the border area of Kursk Oblast.
As the department noted, “after determining and confirming the exact coordinates of the enemy’s location, a decision was made to use pinpoint fire.”
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Translation from Arabic with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 12:47
Brick: The army failed to destroy Hamas, and will certainly not be able to defeat Hezbollah
In this article published by the newspaper "Haaretz" and translated by the website of the trenches, the temporary entity with its political and military officials, Israeli reserve general Yitzhak Brick warns of the consequences of carrying out a military operation against the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah, especially since the Israeli occupation army was unable to achieve any of the goals of the aggression in the Gaza Strip, and failed to confront the Palestinian resistance. Therefore, General Brick decides that the Israeli army will not be able to defeat Hezbollah, and warns that the ground confrontation will inevitably extend to 5 fronts.
Translated text:
Defense Minister Yoav Galant's statements from a conversation with soldiers along the northern border, in which he said that the Israeli Defense Forces are shifting their focus to the north and then raising the possibility of launching a ground attack against Hezbollah in the near future, are worrisome. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi have also made similar statements recently.
However, these three have not achieved any of the goals they set for the war in the Gaza Strip. The most prominent of these goals was “destroying Hamas and freeing all the hostages.” But in reality, Hamas still controls the entire Strip, including the city of tunnels and all the residents of Gaza, in every aspect of life.
The IDF has no way to end its rule, even if the organization is weaker than it was in the past. The ongoing battles have lost any purpose, and the war of attrition is destroying everything good in Israel – its economy, its international relations, its social resilience and the motivation of its fighters. Many reservists refuse to be called up time and time again.
Yet, ignoring these serious facts, Netanyahu, Galant and Halevi intend to launch a ground war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Any such war is likely to deal a fatal blow to Israel. The IDF, which failed to destroy Hamas, will certainly not be able to destroy Hezbollah, which is hundreds of times stronger than Hamas.
Israeli leaflets dropped in the Wazzani area
But why is there no military solution? Because the IDF high command has reduced its ground forces by 66% compared to twenty years ago, it does not have enough forces to remain for long in any territory it controls, nor does it have forces to replace those who fight. Therefore, the IDF is forced to leave any territory it controls, and this is what happened in Gaza and will happen in Lebanon. But there is no point in seizing territory and then leaving it, because Hezbollah will immediately return to those areas.
However, the biggest problem with a ground attack against Hezbollah is that it could lead to a multi-front war in which thousands of rockets, missiles and drones will be fired at Israel’s home front while ground wars erupt on at least five fronts – Lebanon, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, extremist groups inside Israel and pro-Iranian forces infiltrating across the Jordanian border. And all this would be in addition to the ongoing fighting in Gaza.
But since almost all of the IDF’s ground forces would be concentrated in the north in any war with Hezbollah, there would not be enough troops left to defend the other fronts. The IDF would be seen abroad as a weak army with no capabilities. The great tragedy, which many people have clearly not yet realized, is the deterioration of the IDF over the past 20 years, which has rendered it incapable of winning a war. The statements made by Netanyahu, Galant and Halevi are all based on capabilities that do not exist.
They are thus throwing sand in the eyes of the public and endangering our very existence. Moreover, they have also caused the collapse of the deal to free the hostages and end the war – the only way out of these dangerous straits.
A senior American official, who is more aware of Israel’s real situation than they are, warned of an all-out war with Hezbollah, saying that any escalation would lead to catastrophic and unpredictable results. He also said that an all-out war could be avoided, but if it broke out, both sides would pay a heavy price. Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, would die. The infrastructure will be severely damaged. He added that Israel will not be able to destroy Hezbollah easily, and it is clear that it will not achieve even most of its goals. It will be a large-scale war, and many people will die on both sides. He continued that the residents of northern Israel will not be able to return to their homes quickly, and any such war will in any case end with a deal whose outlines are already clear. He concluded that this is why the Americans are trying to reach such a deal now.
Source: Haaretz
Author: Editorial Room
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Translation from Arabic with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Link alkhanadeq New statesman is skeptical of israel
Friday, September 27, 2024 04:04
British newspaper: Hezbollah's defeat is a fantasy
With increasing talk of a possible Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon, American and Western warnings to the Israeli Prime Minister against taking this ill-considered option are increasing. The British newspaper New Statesman says that this "strategy is centered around the military and is unlikely to yield anything other than short-term gains." In an article translated by the Al-Khandaq website, it indicates that the rising number of casualties in Lebanon "will increase Israel's isolation in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world." It stresses that it is difficult to "break Hezbollah."
Translated text: [surprisingly honest for a western publication]
Give someone a hammer, and they will find that everything they face needs hammering. Different versions of this adage remain relevant to understanding many humanitarian decisions, not least the decision of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza and Lebanon. His conviction that he can bend Hamas and Hezbollah to his will by repeatedly relying on the IDF’s massive military advantage over both rivals remains unshakable.
But as the war in Gaza nears its first year, Hamas has yet to accept Netanyahu’s terms for a ceasefire—which include maintaining a permanent Israeli presence along the Philadelphi Corridor, south of Gaza’s border with Egypt, and checkpoints along the Netzarim Corridor, which divides the Strip. No matter how much military force Netanyahu deploys, Hamas continues to steadfastly reject them. The prime minister’s ultimate goal, the complete destruction of Hamas, is even more bizarre, as even senior Israeli military and intelligence officials acknowledge. Yet he continues to wield the hammer. What began as retaliation against Hamas for its brutal assault on Israel on October 7 has morphed into collective punishment of the entire population of Gaza, killing more than 41,000 people. It has left Israel isolated internationally, as even Israeli commentators acknowledge.
The IDF chief of staff has reportedly ordered preparations for a ground invasion of southern Lebanon. Netanyahu seems determined to once again bet on Israel’s military prowess, believing that it will bring the Lebanese militia and political party to its knees. True, the Israeli military remains the most lethal and technologically advanced in the Middle East, and Israel’s legendary intelligence agencies have demonstrated their skills time and again, most recently by turning Hezbollah’s pagers and radios into explosive devices. In addition, Israel maintains what war experts call “escalation dominance”: It can bombard southern Lebanon with far greater force than Hezbollah can impose on northern Israel. As a result, the IDF hits so many Hezbollah military targets every day that it is difficult to track the damage. Still, the IDF’s massive firepower and the Mossad’s James Bond-like gimmick are deceptively seductive. Israel is constrained by the same fundamental problem in Lebanon as it was in Gaza: a military-centric strategy that is unlikely to yield anything other than short-term gains. The relentless Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah, which on Monday alone killed more than 500 people—50 of them children, according to the Lebanese health minister, though it remains unclear how many of those killed were Hezbollah fighters—may force Hezbollah to suspend its rocket and drone attacks for a while. But they will not bring lasting calm, let alone destroy Hezbollah as an organization. The parallel with Gaza, though not exact, is clear enough. If Gaza is a deep wound, the best description of the border area between Israel and Lebanon, for now anyway, is an eyesore. Since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks have forced at least 60,000 Israelis to leave their homes (more than 100,000 residents of southern Lebanon have been displaced by Israel’s lackluster air campaign). For Netanyahu, creating the security that would allow them to return is not just a matter of principle—Israel has the right to full sovereignty like any other country—it is also a political necessity. But escalating Israeli airstrikes will almost certainly prompt Hezbollah to continue swinging its hammer, albeit a smaller one. That, in turn, will make it impossible for displaced Israelis to return home and could increase the flow of people from that area.
Likewise, the death toll in Lebanon will rise because in its densely populated south, where Hezbollah’s arsenal is deployed, the idea of precision strikes by Israel is a fantasy. Far more civilians will die in Lebanon than in Israel, though Hezbollah, like Hamas, will justify these losses as a necessary price to pay. As the death toll rises, Israel’s isolation in the Middle East and elsewhere will grow. And, as with the war in Gaza, mass protests against Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon have already begun.
Diplomacy would be the most peaceful and effective way to achieve Netanyahu’s goal. But the indirect talks brokered by the United States, aimed at persuading Hezbollah to withdraw from Israel’s northern border, have been frustrated by its unwillingness to agree to any deal until Israel ends its war in Gaza. [This latter passage is a subtle way to make us think the failure of diplomacy is Hezbollah’s fault. The use of the word “unwillingness” is deceptive. It is not unwillingness, it is a just position. If Hezbollah were to set the bar lower, it would be bargaining away the lives of thousands more Palestinians. That would be immoral. But this British publication cannot express a moral viewpoint because Britain is part of the immoral Anglo-Saxon world that does not acknowledge morality, only US interests] Netanyahu, for his part, will not budge because of his faith in his strong suit: overwhelming military superiority. Moreover, signing a ceasefire, especially one that leaves Hamas in power, could precipitate the disintegration of his ultranationalist coalition, leading to his ouster from office and the ongoing corruption charges against him. [This is pretty honest for a British publication] For now at least, Israel’s solution to the Hezbollah problem rests entirely on coercion—with enough pain, one assumes that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah will eventually have no choice but to come to the negotiating table on Israel’s terms. But that hope is misplaced. Hezbollah is highly unlikely to break Hamas’s faith. Hezbollah’s position, reiterated by Nasrallah [who was killed in the latest attack on Beirut after this was written] on September 19—a day after an attack on the group’s communications equipment killed more than a dozen people—remains the same today as it was when the movement began its low-level war with Israel a day after Hamas’s October 7 attack: If you want quiet along the Israeli-Lebanese border, stop the war in Gaza and withdraw your forces. Nothing in the weeks since has suggested that Hezbollah’s position has become more flexible. Backing down in the face of Israeli military pressure would be akin to Nasrallah publicly admitting defeat. If Hezbollah refuses to surrender and a diplomatic solution proves impossible, Israel will be left with only military options, none of which are good. It could accelerate its air campaign, hit Hezbollah’s command centers in Beirut more frequently and expand strikes into the Bekaa Valley. The damage to Hezbollah’s rocket and missile stockpile would be significant. But the group has plenty of experience with withstanding such attacks and remaining steadfast. Whether it was Operation Accountability in 1993 or Operation Grapes of Wrath in 1996, Israel’s air campaigns against Hezbollah have at best bought a few years of deterrence. Hezbollah, with Iranian support, has rebuilt itself, and it will do so again.
Israel appears to be about to up the ante. While the strategy behind any attack remains unclear, the hope may be to push Hezbollah away from Israel’s northern border so that a buffer zone can be created. Some hardline right-wing Israeli ministers have pushed for precisely this maneuver. But as a retired IDF general warned in Haaretz recently, perhaps with a dash of hyperbole, “Hezbollah…is hundreds of times stronger than Hamas,” and the IDF lacks the numbers to seize and hold territory on two fronts because it has fewer than half the ground forces it had two decades ago.
Besides, ground invasions in Lebanon have not worked out well for Israel in the past. The first attempt, in 1978, sought to create a buffer zone. It resulted in nothing more than a UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon that proved incapable of keeping the peace. The second effort, in 1982, led to an 18-year Israeli occupation that faltered and helped create Hezbollah, which became so unpopular in Israel that Prime Minister Ehud Barak abandoned the project. To think that a third bite of the apple would produce a different outcome is a fantasy, not least because Hezbollah has spent the years since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war building up its rocket stockpile and preparing defenses and countermeasures for the Israeli ground incursion that Israeli military officers are now contemplating. Is the Israeli military, let alone Israeli society, really prepared for another long-term occupation of Lebanon? It is already facing a resource-intensive war in Gaza, and is facing growing unrest in the West Bank—including the strengthening of Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups, Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades—as Palestinian anger mounts amid record-breaking settlement building, land confiscations, and attacks on their communities by armed Israeli settlers.
Much will be made in the coming days about how many Hezbollah targets have been hit, how many sorties the Israeli Air Force has flown, and how many Hezbollah fighters have been killed. There is no doubt that the longer Israel continues its air campaign, the more damage it will inflict on Hezbollah. Yet Hezbollah has a proven record of absorbing punishment. Israel is now fighting two and a half wars simultaneously: one in Gaza, which is by no means over, one in Lebanon, which is likely to get worse—ground invasion or not—and a quasi-war in the West Bank.
Three questions arise as Prime Minister Netanyahu considers getting tougher on Hezbollah. How does this confrontation end? What is the definition of success? Is that definition reasonable and achievable? Since Israel is fighting on multiple fronts, he has yet to respond to any of them.
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Blinken faces calls to resign for misleading Congress on 'Israel'
By
Al Mayadeen English
Source: News websites
Sept 28, 2024 18:13
Blinken deceived the administration because US law restricts the delivery of armaments to countries that refuse American humanitarian help.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is under increasing pressure to quit after a ProPublica report published earlier this week revealed that he misled Congress about "Israel's" blockage of humanitarian supplies to Gaza. He is accused of misleading the American people to keep US weaponry flowing to the Israeli occupation despite committing genocide in Gaza.
As per the report, Blinken contradicted conclusions from his own department's experts and USAID in a May report to Congress, alleging that "Israel" was not "prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of US humanitarian assistance" to Gaza.
In a 17-page memo sent to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in April, USAID told top US diplomats that US law requires the administration to cut off weapons shipments to governments that prevent the delivery of US-backed humanitarian aid. The Refugees Bureau also delivered a similar evaluation.
According to ProPublica, both Blinken and the administration of President Joe Biden refused to accept the conclusions reached by the two US agencies.
"We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of US humanitarian assistance," Blinken said on May 10 to Congress, after receiving the reports.
Blinken deceived the administration because US law restricts the delivery of armaments to countries that refuse American humanitarian help.
"Israel" continues to rely substantially on foreign military contributions, mainly from the United States, to sustain its military aggression in Gaza and Lebanon.
According to US law, deceiving Congress is grounds for impeachment. According to Sam Perlo-Freeman, a professor and former researcher with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Blinken "should resign or be impeached."
Stacy Gilbert, a State Department officer, resigned after the final report to Congress, claiming "abundant evidence showing Israel is responsible for blocking aid" and called the denial "absurd and shameful." Gilbert is one of scores of US officials who have resigned in response to Washington's cover-up of 'Israel's' slaughter.
Human rights groups and academics have joined the call for Blinken's resignation or impeachment. The incident has also renewed debate regarding the Biden administration's overall position on 'Israel's' aggression in Gaza.
Hamas: Blinken, Biden's actions are shameful
The Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas released a statement, commenting on ProPublica's report on Wednesday.
Hamas condemned Bliken and Biden's deliberate concealment of evidence of "Israel's" non-compliance with US aid missions during his addresses to Congress.
The movement said that Blinken did so, in complicity with Biden, "Out of fear that it would impact weapons supplies to the occupation's military."
It said that the revelations serve as evidence of Washington's involvement in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"This criminal conduct by Blinken demands that honorable members of the US Congress and American judicial bodies investigate his actions, which have led to the deaths of thousands of our people," Hamas underlined.
"We call on international judicial institutions, foremost among them the International Criminal Court, to take these reports seriously and take the necessary legal action against Blinken," the movement urged.
Hamas stressed that Blinken had participated in the deliberate starvation and the genocide of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip through his actions.
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Despite extensive strikes, Hezbollah rockets pound Israeli settlements
Sept 27, 2024
By
Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies
The Resistance has affirmed that these attacks are in support of the steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza, backing their Resistance in defense of Lebanon.
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon—Hezbollah launched Saturday a rocket barrage targeting the Sa'ar settlement and Rosh Pina settlement near Safad.
Additionally, the Resistance fighters targeted the Israeli settlement of Metzova with a rocket salvo and hit the Ma'alot settlement with 50 rockets.
Earlier, the Resistance targeted a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers at al-Sadah site, west of Salha.
The Resistance affirmed that these attacks are in support of the steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza, backing their Resistance in defense of Lebanon and its people, and in response to "Israel's" brutal aggression on its cities, villages, and civilians.
Hezbollah strikes Ramat David Base, Kabri settlement
Earlier today, Hezbollah targeted the Israeli Ramat David Airbase and airport with a volley of Fadi-3 rockets.
Hezbollah strikes Ramat David Base and Kabri settlement
Wide condemnations for Israeli strikes on Beirut's Southern Suburb
Wide condemnations for Israeli strikes on Beirut's Southern Suburb
Hezbollah also announced that the Israeli settlement of Kabri [in Western Al-Jalil] was targeted with a Fadi-1 rocket salvo.
Al Mayadeen's correspondent in southern Lebanon confirmed that rocket salvos were launched toward northern occupied Palestine, with sirens sounding in multiple northern settlements.
Israeli media also reported sirens going off in numerous settlements northeast of Haifa, and across most of the eastern, western, and central al Jalil.
The Israeli occupation forces reported that they had detected 10 rockets launched from Lebanon over Upper al-Jalil, and launched missiles to intercept them.
Additionally, our correspondent in occupied Palestine noted hearing explosions in the central region without any sirens being activated.
Our correspondent stated that sirens sounded in more than 100 cities, towns, and settlements within the span of a few minutes, with over one million Israeli settlers having spent the night in shelters or fortified rooms.
These operations by the Islamic Resistance come despite the extensive Israeli aggression affecting various areas and villages in the South, the Bekaa Valley, and the Southern Suburb of Beirut.
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In the photo:
- Dr. Raafat Lubbad, Director of Internal Medicine at Al-Shifa Hospital, was assassinated by Israel along with his family last November.
- Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, Head of Orthopedics at Al-Shifa, murdered under torture in Israeli prisons this February.
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"No state that supports genocide, as the US does in Palestine, or supports Nazi ideology, as it does in Ukraine, can, strictly speaking, be considered legitimate."
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