After fleeing west at the Israeli army’s instruction, Palestinians quickly found themselves encircled and under fire from tanks, drones, and snipers.
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Israel’s problem is how to rid Palestine of Palestinians and be a majority of Jews. This has always been Israel’s priority. Even more so given the rapid transition of energy away from oil to renewables What will be the need for an Israel when the West no longer depends on fossil fuels?
The West Bank had already experienced its highest levels of unrest in decades during the 18 months before the October 7 attack on Israel.
Israel claims to be the only democracy in the Middle East. Yet its wanton, murderous bombing campaign in Gaza is slaughtering not just civilians, but scores of children.
The Palestinian health ministry said Monday that Israeli air strikes in Gaza killed nine people including three children—an attack that came the same day Israeli forces raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque and injured hundreds of Palestinians.
While Trump is “promising” America and the world he will save it what he is doing is hidden from Americans and generally the world. (ODT)
via U.S. Airstrikes Hit All-Time High as Coronavirus Spreads in Somalia
The United States military drops an explosive with a strength you can hardly comprehend once every 12 minutes. And that’s odd, because we’re technically at war with—let me think—zero countries. So that should mean zero bombs are being dropped, right?
At least 20 people died Sunday when a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a wedding party in northern Yemen. Most of the dead were reportedly women and children who were gathered in one of the wedding party tents. The bride was among the dead. Medics and residents said more than 46 others—including 30 children—were also injured. The attack on the Yemeni wedding party was one of at least three airstrikes over the weekend that killed Yemeni civilians. A family of five died in an airstrike in the province of Hajjah. And 20 civilians died on Saturday when fighter jets bombed a bus near the city of Taiz. Earlier this month, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Yemen had become the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. We speak to Shireen Al-Adeimi, a Yemeni doctoral candidate at Harvard University.
By Tom Engelhardt | (Via Tomdispatch.com ) | – – You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: …
Source: Empire of Destruction: Mosul reveals Myth of Precision Bombing | Informed Comment
From the April 16 edition of CNN’s Reliable Sources:
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has accused Australia and the United States of intentionally targeting his forces in an air strike that killed 83 soldiers.
Source: Australia’s air strike on troops ‘intentional’ | Herald Sun
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Houthi Ansarullah Movement that controls most of north and west …
Local residents living in northern Syria have told journalists that airstrikes being carried out by the International Coalition Forces led by the United States against the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have killed more than 200 civilians in the past two months. …
The airstrikes at dawn on Tuesday pulverised entire families, including young children — families that were fleeing Islamic State militants but were instead mistaken for being those very fighters. Depending on whom you ask, the number of bodies found in the rubble is 56, 85, 160 or 212. Pictures of the mangled bodies, covered in dust, are a testament to the carnage.
Brussels has been rocked by a series of blasts at the city’s airport and at least one metro station, leaving at least 26 dead.
Source: In pictures: Brussels blasts – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
1. See things from the prime victims’ perspective and you get a very different picture. Germany and Sweden aside, Western countries have offered Syrians only a
Source: 10 reasons not to bomb Syria – and what the West should do instead – Your Middle East
France and Russia have staged a series of new airstrikes on the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Russia announced earlier today it would intensify strikes in Syria after the Russian intelligence service said it had found conclusive proof that a bomb had brought down the Metrojet airliner in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, killing 224 people on board last month. The United States has also vowed to intensify strikes in Syria and to step up their exchange of intelligence on potential targets with France. We speak with longtime journalist Abdel Bari Atwan about how the bombings could backfire and help grow the Islamic State.
Russia’s decision to carry out air strikes in Syria has caused concern. What is Moscow trying to achieve?
The Abbott government was expected to approve Australian bombing runs against Islamic State targets and supply lines in Syria on Tuesday night, while the question of how many refugees could be absorbed by Australia has exposed ugly divisions in the government party room.
Source: Australia looks set to start bombing Syria as Libs warn against too much refugee compassion
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