Geopolitics

Gaza – The Genocide Continues Part 1 (of a 4 Part Series)

Our last article on the Gaza conflict was in January- 4 months ago. Much has happened since, both on the ground and in international politics. Because so much info has flooded into the media etc, many have lost track of the sequence of events. In order to clarify and bring this issue into some semblance of order, we have changed our format for this article, by sub-titling the main issues. This has been done for your clarity and understanding. Just to give you an idea, here are the sub-titles- in each part. Enjoy the info, folks !

Part 1

1. The Greater Israel Project

2. Ground Realities

3. The Cease-Fire Talks

Part 2

4. The Hospital Massacres

5. Starvation & the Aid Issue

Part 3

6. The Zionist Rape Culture

7. Zionist-Masters of organ theft and Trade

8. The Genocidal Satanic Death Cult

9. The Lavender Program

Part 4

10. The Pier Con

11. Cyprus- the CIA/MI6 Base

12. The Al Jazeera Shutdown

Many are saying that Israel will be destroyed in the current conflict. This is far from the reality. We know from prophecy that Israel will be destroyed only after the second return of Jesus –peace be upon him. That is still some time in the future.  Israel will suffer very serious losses on the battlefield. But, it is backed by the most powerful or the second-most powerful empire the world has ever known- the Rothschild family. Israel is the visible tip of the family. The wealth and power of this family, in alliance with other wealthy European dynasties, has enabled the establishment of Israel, and has provided it with arms, money and manpower to sustain their Zionist project. The family is the latest in a long line of flag-bearers of the creed of the Levitical – Deuteronomy -Talmudic doctrine, which aims to dominate mankind, and its base will be Jerusalem. It is under the rule of this family that the Zionist project is just a few steps away from fruition. This plan will come undone with the return of Jesus sometime in the future. But, let’s discuss what this plan is.

  1. The Greater Israel Project

The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater Israel” constitutes the cornerstone of the Levitical Creed, whose current flag-bearers and leader is the Rothschild family. And, from this family to their entire Project Zionism, which includes powerful Zionist factions within the current Netanyahu government, the orthodox community, the right-wing religious community, as well as within the Israeli military and intelligence establishment. Bear in mind: The Greater Israel design is strictly a Zionist Project for the Middle East, but the Rockefeller Empire has adopted it is an integral part of US foreign policy; its strategic objective is to extend US hegemony as well as fracture and balkanize the Middle East.  Even if this leads to the destruction of Israel – as long as the Rockefeller Empire and the US end up controlling and dominating the region. In this regard, Washington’s strategy consists in destabilizing and weakening regional economic powers in the Middle East including Turkey and Iran. This policy – which is consistent with the Greater Israel – is accompanied by a process of political fragmentation.

Since the Gulf war (1991), the Pentagon has contemplated the creation of a “Free Kurdistan” which would include the annexation of parts of Iraq, Syria and Iran as well as Turkey. The creation of ISIS and its unleashing into Iraq in 2014 was meant to bring about the formation of an independent Kurdistan. This would act like a second Israel, by allowing bases in Kurdistan for the US, UK, and France to destabilize its neighbors, in a bid to control these nations and turn them into vassals.

“The New Middle East”:  Unofficial US Military Academy Map by Lt. Col. Ralph Peters

When viewed in the current context, including the siege on Gaza, the Zionist Plan for the Middle East bears an intimate relationship to the 2003 invasion of  Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria, Iraq and Yemen, not to mention the political crisis in Saudi Arabia.

The “Greater Israel” project consists in weakening and eventually fracturing neighboring Arab states as part of a US-Israeli expansionist project, with the support of NATO and its local vassals. In this regard, the Saudi-Israeli rapprochement is from Netanyahu’s viewpoint a means to expanding Israel’s spheres of influence in the Middle East as well as confronting Iran. Needless to say, the “Greater Israel” project is consistent with America’s imperial design. “Greater Israel” consists in an area extending from the Nile Valley to the Euphrates. The area of the Jewish State stretches: “From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.”   “The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates; it includes parts of Syria and Lebanon.”

In the 19th century, the Rothschilds gave the boundaries of their future project to a few of their key managers for the Zionist Project, and decades later the World Zionist Organization’s plan for a Jewish state included:

• Historic Palestine;

• South Lebanon up to Sidon and the Litani River;

• Syria’s Golan Heights, Hauran Plain and Deraa; and

• Control of the Hijaz Railway from Deraa to Amman, Jordan as well as the Gulf of Aqaba.

Some Zionists wanted more – land from the Nile in the West to the Euphrates in the East, comprising Palestine, Lebanon, Western Syria and Southern Turkey.

The Project of “Greater Israel” is to create a number of proxy States, which could include parts of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the Sinai, as well as parts of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. (See map). The Rothschild family worked mainly through the British government in the initial stages, and after establishing Israel, Britain took the lead role; followed by Israel, and very discreetly, France. To hide their authorship and involvement, the family always lets others working for them to take credit for work done in this field. Examples are Theodor Herzl – a lowly reporter- he was credited as the founder of Zionism. What a joke!

Likewise a staffer called Yinon was made the author of this “Greater Israel “plan. Just to clarify, so you-the reader- can identify the games that the family plays, regarding their Zionist Project. The Yinon Plan was a continuation of Britain’s colonial design in the Middle East. The Yinon plan is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding Arab states into smaller and weaker states. Israeli strategists viewed Iraq as their biggest strategic challenge from an Arab state. This is why Iraq was outlined as the centerpiece to the balkanization of the Middle East and the Arab World. In Iraq, on the basis of the concepts of the Yinon Plan, Israeli strategists have called for the division of Iraq into a Kurdish state and two Arab states, one for Shiite Muslims and the other for Sunni Muslims. The first step towards establishing this was a war between Iraq and Iran, which the Yinon Plan discusses. The Atlantic, in 2008, and the U.S. military’s Armed Forces Journal, in 2006, both published widely circulated maps that closely followed the outline of the Yinon Plan. Aside from a divided Iraq, the Yinon Plan calls for a divided Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria. The partitioning of Iran, Turkey, Somalia, and Pakistan also all fall into line with these views. The Yinon Plan also calls for dissolution in North Africa and forecasts it as starting from Egypt and then spilling over into Sudan, Libya, and the rest of the region.

Greater Israel” would require the breaking up of the existing Arab states into small states.

 The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must

1)become an imperial regional power, and

2) must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states.

Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state. Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation…  This is not a new idea, nor does it surface for the first time in Zionist strategic thinking. Indeed, fragmenting all Arab states into smaller units has been a recurrent theme. Viewed in this context, the US-NATO led wars on Syria, Yemen and Iraq are part of the process of Israeli territorial expansion.

 The Rothschild family has used their wealth and power to coerce blackmail and bribe nations to side with them in this. The main Rothschild countries are Britain and France. This is their base of operations. As we see, Britain has opted to be a “junior partner” to the US. This Anglo-America combo has caused much destruction and death globally. The French branch is based in Paris. Its area of responsibility is the EU, its African colonies and Israel. Also, the oil/energy portfolio for the family is under control of the French branch. In this regard, the defeat of US sponsored terrorists (ISIS, Al Qaeeda and Al Nusra) by Syrian Forces with the support of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah constitute a significant setback for Israel.

The expansion of Israel is the aim of the Rothschild family. Their intention is to make Jerusalem the city from which they will rule the world. They plan and the Creator plans and the Creator is the best of planners. The Zionists, in the coming years, will weaken until the anti-Christ comes to their help. He will rule the world for a very short time. Jesus will return to earth, and kill the anti-Christ, among other things. And this marks the end of the Rothschild Empire and their Zionist Project.

The Ground Realities

Israel’s war on Gaza – eight relentless months of death and destruction

It has been 8 months since Israel launched its brutal assault on the Gaza Strip on October 7.Israel shows no sign of stopping, as its allies continue to provide it with more weapons to use on Palestinians along with political support, and mediated talks have not led to a ceasefire. Let’s take a look at the toll the Israeli attacks have taken on Gaza.

How many people have been killed or injured?

At least 35,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza since the start of the war on October 7, the Ministry of Health in Gaza says. Thousands more are missing under the rubble of collapsed buildings and infrastructure, and are presumed dead. Children and women comprise the overwhelming majority of those killed, with Save the Children saying more than 13,800 children have been killed. UNICEF, the United Nations fund for children, estimated that at least 17,000 Palestinian children are currently unaccompanied or separated from their parents in Gaza.At least 80,000  people have been injured in Israeli attacks since the start of the war – about four out of every 100 people in Gaza. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said this week that some 1,000+ children in Gaza have lost one or both of their legs. Dozens of people are still killed and injured every day amid relentless Israeli attacks.

Gaza

Killed: at least 35, 000 people, including more than:

12,300 children

8,400 women

Injured: more than 85,000 people, including at least:

8,663 children

6,327 women

Missing: more than 10,000 – on this point, many 1000s of bodies have still not been recovered, due to lack of heavy equipment, and access in many areas were denied to Gaza’s health authorities.

The latest figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the occupied West Bank are as follows:

Devastation across Gaza

According to the latest data from the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization and the Palestinian government as of March 14, Israeli attacks have damaged:

More than half of Gaza’s homes – 360,000 residential units – have been destroyed or damaged

392 educational facilities

12 out of 35 hospitals are partially functioning

83% of groundwater wells not operational

267 places of worship

Every hour in Gaza:

15 people are killed – six are children

35 people are injured

42 bombs are dropped*

12 buildings are destroyed

Nowhere safe to go

The Israeli army published an online map of the Gaza Strip on December 1, dividing the enclave into more than 600 numbered blocks. It asked Gaza’s civilians to identify the block corresponding with their area of residence and evacuate when ordered. However, leaflets ordering evacuations have been inconsistent with online warnings, which have confused residents.

Furthermore, many Gaza residents have no reliable way to access the map with little access to electricity or the internet since the blockade of the 365sq-km (141sq-mile) strip has resulted in a collapse of telecommunications infrastructure.

The West Bank

UN reports over 800 Israeli settler attacks in West Bank since October 7

The report by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) that we cited earlier also says the organisation has recorded at least 800 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians since October 7. It says 84 incidents resulted in Palestinian casualties, 629 incidents led to damage to Palestinian-owned property, and 90 incidents resulted in both.

“These incidents resulted in the killing of 31 Palestinians either by Israeli settlers or forces, close to 500 injuries, and vandalization of nearly 80 houses, at least 11,700 trees and saplings, and about 450 vehicles.”

According to the UN report, since the start of the war on Gaza on October 7, some 1,765 Palestinians, of whom 43 percent are children, have been displaced after their homes were demolished.

“Over half [961 people] were displaced during operations by Israeli forces, of which 94 percent took place in the refugee camps of Nur Shams, Tulkarm and Jenin.

Records show that Israel built 24,300 new Israeli housing units in the occupied West Bank during a one-year period through to end-October 2023. The figure reportedly marks the highest on record since monitoring began back in 2017. New Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are growing at a record rate, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has warned. The establishment and continuing expansion of settlements amount to the transfer by Israel of its own civilian population into the territories that it occupies, which, he reiterated, is a war crime under international law, as the settlements risk eliminating any practical possibility of a Palestinian state.

The West Bank is already in crisis. Yet, settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian State.

Killed: at least 450 people

Yehuda, the Israeli battalion facing possible US sanctions?

Netzah Yehuda, formerly Nahal Haredi, was established in 1999 to accommodate ultra-Orthodox or Haredi Jews, who refuse to interact with female soldiers due to their strict religious beliefs. The first unit, known as the 97th Netzah Yehuda Battalion, started with 30 soldiers. The battalion has more than 1,000 soldiers now and is under the Israeli army’s Kfir Brigade.

The primary area of combat for the battalion is in the occupied West Bank. But recently, the Israeli military ordered the deployment of the battalion in north Gaza’s Beit Hanoon district.

Washington is considering to impose sanctions on the Israeli military unit accused of rights abuse against Palestinians.

Netzah Yehuda was established in 1999 to accommodate ultra-Orthodox Jews. The United States is considering imposing sanctions on the Israeli battalion, Netzah Yehuda, an all-male ultra-Orthodox battalion unit accused of human rights violations during its operations in the occupied West Bank, according to US media reports. The reports of possible sanctions came a day after the US Congress approved $26bn aid for Israel, which has continued its assault on Gaza, killing more than 34,000 people and rendering the enclave of 2.3 million unlivable. The US had put pressure on Israel to investigate the death of Omar Assad, a Palestinian American who died during his arrest by soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda battalion in January 2022.

In October 2022, Israel agreed to pay compensation to the family of the 80-year-old man in a rare move. In June last year, however, Israel said its forces would not be charged for Assad’s death and instead imposed disciplinary measures.

 Netanyahu declared his support for the controversial battalion, which has been accused of abuses in the past. In October 2021, four soldiers from Netzah Yehuda were arrested for allegedly beating and sexually assaulting a Palestinian suspect, while a soldier from the unit was indicted for electrocuting detainees in 2015. Benny Gantz, expressed his opinion against the potential sanctions. “I have a great appreciation for our American friends, but the decision to impose sanctions” on an Israeli army unit and its soldiers “sets a dangerous precedent and conveys the wrong message to our shared enemies during war time”.

What’s Leahy law under which the Israeli battalion is being sanctioned?

The law is named after former Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who introduced a legislative measure in the 1990s. The Leahy law, enacted in 1997, requires the US to cut aid to a foreign military accused of credible charges of human rights violations. If the US Department of State determines that Netzah Yehuda soldiers committed GVHRs, it would be prohibited by US law to provide further military assistance to certain individuals or units in the Israeli military.

Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters: “When we’re doing these investigations these inquiries it’s something that takes time that has to be done very carefully, both in collecting the facts and analysing them, and that’s exactly what we’ve done. And I think it’s fair to say that you’ll see results very soon. I’ve made determinations you can expect to see them in the days ahead.”

While we wait for Blinken’s final assessment, violation of the Leahy law could potentially block some of the $3.8bn military aid the US sends to Israel every year. The Leahy law does not require the aid to be blocked entirely, just some related to the offending unit.The move will not affect the billions in military aid cleared by the US Congress earlier this week.

It stated: “Between 2015 and 2022, the battalion has been involved in a number of grave incidents involving abuses of Palestinian civilians, including shooting and killing unarmed civilians, torture, physical assault, beating, and sexual assault, in violation of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. During this period, soldiers from the unit killed three Palestinians – Iyad Zakariya Hamed (38), Qassem Abbasi (16) and Palestinian-American Omar Assad (78) – in incidents in which soldiers used lethal force against unarmed civilians without justification. In almost every case soldiers were found to be lying or covering up the incidents to suggest that they were acting in self-defense.”

 If the US goes ahead, it would be the first time Washington would be sanctioning the Israeli military.

Are settler politics running unchecked in Israel?

While far-right settler sentiments have always existed, they seem to be having a louder and louder say in Israel today.

Bezalel Smotrich, second from left, visits the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem on May 10, 2021. Plans are under way to evict Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah to give them to Israeli settlers

In Israel, the far right is increasingly influential in politics, with a government reliant for its existence on a settler movement driving an ever-more extreme agenda. Settler and ultra-right-wing voices have come to dominate the cabinet, providing legal and political cover for even more expansion into internationally recognized Palestinian territory, and underpinning much of the ferocity of Israel’s war on Gaza.

And yet, despite that, and irrespective of the international criticism of Israel that continues to grow, the United States continues to fund it. US lawmakers in the Senate voted on Tuesday, by an overwhelming majority, to transfer $17bn in military aid to Israel.

Settlers and Politics

But in Israel, “democracy” and the system that  US politicians back involves the illegal settlement of occupied Palestinian land, displacing the native population, and creating a dual system of governance, with Jews ruled under Israeli civil law, and occupied Palestinians under military law. These settlements now dot much of the occupied West Bank, either gathering in established clusters, or in outposts that even the Israeli state deems illegal, but does little about.

As their numbers and political support have grown, settlers have become more confident, attacking Palestinian villages in well-armed and coordinated raids, occasionally with military support, and evicting Palestinian villagers. In tandem with the expansion of the settlements has been a wider rightward drift across Israeli society, which saw the country elect its most right-wing parliament or Knesset in its history in November 2022. Among its members are extreme-right provocateur Itamar Ben-Gvir – convicted of incitement in 2007 – who acts as national security minister, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, whose claims to Palestinian territory in the occupied West Bank run counter to international law.

Settler and far-right movements have been growing rapidly within Israel for years, to the point where forming a government is impossible without participation from right-wing parties opposed to territorial compromise with Palestinians.

Palestinian man by a home and cars torched by Israeli settlers who attacked al-Mughayyir in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, April 13, 2024

 Settlers’ ideologies – which claim, among other things, a religious justification for their taking of Palestinian land – have been a growing political presence since the 1967 war, which resulted in Israel occupying the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.

The US has played a significant role in this rightward shift by ensuring Israel’s impunity for relentless illegal settlement building, thereby undercutting those within Israeli politics who warned of the consequences of unfettered expansionism. This demonstrated to the Israeli public there would be no penalty for supporting those in Israel who want all the land ‘between the river and the sea’. Israel has seemingly run a violent campaign in the occupied West Bank in parallel to its war on Gaza, which followed a Hamas-led attack into Israel in which 1,139 people were killed and some 200 taken into Gaza.

As of March of this year, 7,350 Palestinians had been arrested by Israeli forces across the West Bank, many without charge and with no hope of due process. In the last few days, rights group Amnesty International has sharply criticised settler attacks on Palestinians and what it calls the established system of apartheid that reigns in the occupied West Bank.

In the days following the discovery of the body of 14-year-old Binyamin Ahimeir, himself from an illegal Israeli West Bank settlement, hundreds of settlers went on a deadly rampage between April 12 and 16, torching homes, fruit trees and vehicles. By the end of their attack, four Palestinians lay dead, killed by either settlers or Israeli military forces, Amnesty said, including Omar Hamed, a 17-year-old boy from near Ramallah. An estimated 487 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank in attacks by armed settlers, often supported by security forces according to witnesses, or by security forces in near-nightly raids on towns and refugee camps and in other incidents. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 35,000 people. The true figure is likely far higher.

Netanyahu and the settlers

While Netanyahu has officially rejected settler ambitions for Gaza, he does have two settler ministers in his cabinet and the movement is continuing to grow.

 Most political party, not just Likud, has ever really opposed the settlements. They’re a winning card. The main two sectors of the population of settlers – national orthodox and ultra-orthodox – have the highest birth-rate among Israeli Jews high birth-rates. Out of Jewish first graders, more than 40 percent belong to these groups. Additionally, Israeli governments have created a more enhanced welfare state in the West Bank for Jews, offering them better infrastructure and cheaper housing – which or drive people to move there and increase their belonging to the settler movement” he added.

Referring to the years leading up to Israel’s founding in 1948, Tel Aviv-based analyst Dahlia Scheindlin said “Settler politics have always been there.”

“However,” she noted, “it had never really been especially religious. That element only really entered the political mainstream after the 1967 war. From that point, the idea developed that territorial expansion was part of messianic redemption took hold as a specific theology among certain religious Jews.

“In tandem to this was a state that was ready to facilitate settlements covertly. However, more recently, Likud’s own populist mandate has become indistinguishable from that of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, and now we have a government openly embracing settlers, the extreme right and their politics.”

The US and the Settlers

The US says it opposes the creation of settlements and has recently sanctioned bodies involved with the movement, some known to be close to Ben-Gvir and said to be actively fundraising for the settler movement within the US. The US government has also said it is considering sanctions against the Netzah Yehuda battalion, which operates within the occupied West Bank and draws its recruits from Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews, on repeated allegations of rights abuses.

Nevertheless, while the US may oppose settlements on paper, the Israeli government publicly embraced the settler mission of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich in June of last year, overturning legislation that had stood for 27 years, and giving Smotrich effective control of the expanded and accelerated settlement-building process. Netanyahu himself has repeatedly rejected the idea of a Palestinian state, and has presented himself as a bulwark against Palestinian self-determination. Other than a brief period under former President Donald Trump, when the United States supported the notion of settlements, Washington has regarded them as illegal since 1978.  In 1983, the census showed that the settler population of the West Bank was 22,800. It is currently estimated at 490,493. And now, that dominance of the settler ultranationalist trend in Israeli politics threatens Gaza.

Brigadier General Avi Bluth, an extremist religious settler, has been appointed to the position of Central Command commander of the Israeli army, Israeli media reported on 2 May.  Bluth has previously served as commander of the Army’s Judea and Samaria Division and as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Military Secretary. Bluth will now have absolute powers over the West Bank, including the ability to demolish homes and conduct army raids. Bluth contributed to pogroms against Palestinians in the towns of Huwara and Burqa by standing by as Jewish settlers lynched civilians and burned and destroyed homes, shops, and vehicles. He also played a role in incorporating extremists from a religious settler group called the Hilltop Youth into units of the Israeli army. Bluth pushed for Operation Break the Wave in 2022, in which the army killed 149 Palestinians in the West Bank and abducted 2000 others in a series of raids, and Operation Bayit Vagan in July 2023, in which the army carried out a massive assault on Jenin, killing 12 Palestinians and leaving widespread destruction in its wake. Bluth is a signatory to the army’s 2015 policy change, which loosened the conditions for using live fire against Palestinians throwing stones and carrying out ramming operations.  Bluth has links to the Religious Zionism Party led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, which is committed to stealing and annexing Palestinian land in the West Bank.  Bluth was raised in Neve Tzuf, an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank. He earned a BS in philosophy, economy, and political science from Hebrew University and an MA in strategic thinking from the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

How many people have been displaced?

The Israeli military ordered Palestinians to “go south” from the start of the war as its ground forces invaded Gaza from the north. Nobody has been able to return to their homes in northern Gaza since then as Israel has established a military corridor cutting the Strip in half.

Some 1.9 million people, or more than 80 percent of Gaza’s population, have been internally displaced. Most are sheltering in UN installations such as schools and hospitals, nevertheless, more than 400 have been killed and at least 1,400 injured in those places.

More than 1.5 million people are now crammed into Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city on the border with Egypt. Many have been forced to stay in makeshift camps or the streets, exposed to Israeli air attacks.

Israel has insisted it will invade Rafah by land as well.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says more than 350 Israeli military attacks have targeted its buildings, with 161 installations damaged. The highest number of UN staff in history – 176 – has been killed in Gaza since October 7.

How much of Gaza is in ruins?

The war has damaged or destroyed approximately 62 percent of all homes in Gaza – 290,820 housing units – leaving more than a million people without homes.

The $19 billion in damage estimated by the World Bank and the UN has also been to public service infrastructure, with 26 million tons of debris and rubble left by the destruction.

Damage has been most extensive in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, where Israeli ground and air attacks destroyed thousands of homes and infrastructure in a stated effort to combat “terrorists”.

Eight of every 10 schools in Gaza are damaged or destroyed, according to UNICEF. As many as 625,000 students have no access to education.

Are hospitals functioning?

The Israeli army has focused its attacks on hospitals across Gaza despite their protection under international law, claiming Hamas is operating within and underneath them.

All hospitals have suffered critical damage, with only 10 out of 36 able to function partially but they are increasingly overburdened.

 A two-week-long siege in and around al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza, left it heavily damaged and burned . The Israeli army killed at least 400 people at the compound during its siege and arrested hundreds more.

An acute shortage of medicine, along with exhausted and starving healthcare professionals, means most patients are unable to receive treatment in Gaza. Many operations and amputations have had to be performed without anesthetic.

How many journalists have been killed?

The Israeli army has killed the largest number of journalists of any modern conflict and detained more than 24. On March 18, Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul was arrested for 12 hours and beaten by Israeli forces in al-Shifa Hospital.

Before that, on January 7, Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Dahdouh, son of Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, was killed by an Israeli missile in Khan Younis. Hamza was in a vehicle near al Mawasi with another journalist, Mustafa Thuraya, who was also killed in the attack.

On December 15, 2023, Al Jazeera cameraman Sr Abudaqaame was hit in an Israeli drone attack that also injured Wael Dahdouh, in Khan Younis, Gaza. Abudaqa bled to death over four hours as emergency workers were unable to reach him because the Israeli army would not let them.

Government Media Office in Gaza says some 150 journalists have been killed.  Others say it is around 180. Last week, an Israeli strike targeted a journalists’ tent in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, killing at least four people and wounding multiple journalists.

3. The Cease-Fire Talks

 The Rothschilds are not interested in a cease-fire or in rescuing their prisoners. Their intention is to eliminate the population of Gaza to steal the land and gain unhindered access to the gas fields off-shore Gaza. Everything else is subordinated to this.

The plan addresses “Post-war Gaza”, in terms already well-known. As senior Israeli commentator, Alon Pinkas, affirms:

“Parallel to the announcement U.S., Britain and possibly other countries will consider and eventually make a joint statement of intent by recognizing a provisional, demilitarized and future Palestinian state – without delineating or specifying its borders”.

 This last gives the game away. The arrogance of the Rothschilds is beyond belief. As explained earlier, the Zionist Project cannot do the following things which peace will bring about.

The first is that there WILL be no peace treaty with the Palestinians and the neighboring Arab states. Peace means having recognized and fixed borders.

Peace means allowing the Palestinians to return home.

Peace means granting Palestinians equal rights.

Peace means no more plundering, looting, stealing, or committing genocide.

Peace means that the Jews that went to Israel from Europe and the US need to return to their homes in the West.

 And, if they refuse to return back home to the West (as most of them are very poor with no prospects of earning a decent income to support a decent lifestyle), then what? The basic improbabilities to this plan simply are disregarded. Some 700,000 settlers were installed in the West Bank – precisely to block any Palestinian State.

Is the U.S. really going to impose this onto a hostile Israel? How? Only a handful of people in the world today realize is that Netanyahu is not acting on his own authority. He takes his orders, instructions, etc. from whoever is the operating head of the French Rothschilds – currently that is David de Rothschild.

Bibi was chosen, then selected to head Israel in 1996. Remember that the Camp David Accords were a peace deal between Israel and Palestine. As explained why “peace” is a dirty word for the Rothschilds. When the Americans were applying pressure on Israel to implement this deal, the Rothschilds killed the PM Rabin, and then placed Bibi as Israel’s new leader. Bibi’s mandate is to crush any hopes for a peace deal between the two parties. That is his number one mandate. Everything thing else is secondary.

 At this point, all of the U.S.’ various problems – the political polarization, widening war, funding for wars, the alienation amongst the swing-state Arab constituencies and Biden’s sinking ratings – are beginning to feed into, and reinforce, each other. What began as a foreign-policy issue – Israel defeating Hamas – has become a significant domestic crisis. Dissatisfaction within the U.S. at Israel’s conduct of the war is fuelling the growth of significant protest movements.

It is hard to say where things in the region will stand, a couple of months from now. We have entered a period of breakdown and violence, as the forces pulling apart the old status quo cascade and mutually reinforce one another.

A Palestinian State is not on the cards 

Thirty-one years after the Oslo Accords promised a Palestinian state, Israel is ethnically cleansing Gaza and swallowing up the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Almost six months after the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, some of the leverage is back in Palestinian resistance hands, and they are unlikely to trade their gains for an unsovereign rump state which diplomats are privately calling a ‘state-minus.’

These overwhelming statements remain in place at the time when Israel makes various peace offers of temporary ceasefire in exchange for release of its hostages. So in effect what Israel is saying to Hamas is—“I’ll eliminate you in any case. You first release hostages, then after a few days I’ll return to the task of eliminating you!”

Hamas has already scored several victories since its Al-Aqsa Flood operation: “The Palestine issue is back on the international agenda, it is negotiating the release of its captives as an equal partner to Israel,” and has demonstrated that it is “more effective in realizing Palestinian goals than its rival, Fatah.” 

the key issues related to Palestinian statehood are left unanswered, including the issue of sovereignty, Jewish settlements, the status of East Jerusalem, a necessary West Bank/East Jerusalem with the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian right to return, and so forth. 

Meanwhile, Arab states managed regional expectations by continuing to pay lip service to Palestinian issues while scuttling any opportunities behind the scenes. With few Arab state allies left, Palestinians themselves had no cards left to leverage – until 7 October. 

Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan mentioned that “the obstacle has been there since the first day when the first Paris Document was presented, and Hamas dealt with it realistically,” adding that “from the first day, it was clear that all the Americans and Israelis wanted was a temporary truce, while they refused to cease hostilities permanently.” He said that Washington is concerned about being accused of covering the crimes of the Israeli occupation, noting that both the United States and “Israel” are maneuvering and trying to win some time. Touching on aid to the Gaza Strip, he highlighted that all air-dropped aid does not exceed the load of two trucks, pointing out that the US is taking part in the siege on Gaza. He underlined that the more “Israel” escalates its aggression, the more it pushes the resistance to higher levels, highlighting that the current battle has shown that “the Axis of Resistance is moving to another stage that will lead us to comprehensive liberation.” Hamdan insisted that this battle has a victorious path and the Palestinian people will be the ones to triumph, saying, and “This battle is the first in the history of the conflict with the entity where the Palestinian narrative wins, thanks to the Resistance media.” The official said that if there was a minimum of justice in international institutions, the Israeli occupation entity and its leaders would have been tried for war crimes.

Israeli attack kills three sons of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh

An Israeli attack in northern Gaza has killed three sons of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh as Israel continues its bombardment of the besieged enclave on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

In an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic, Haniyeh confirmed the killing of his children Hazem, Amir and Mohammad along with a number of his grandchildren on Wednesday. Shehab news agency reported that at least three grandchildren of the Hamas leader were killed in the attack. Haniyeh said they were targeted as they were visiting relatives for Eid at Shati refugee camp.

 “Through the blood of the martyrs and the pain of the injured, we create hope, we create the future, we create independence and freedom for our people and our nation,” he said, adding that around 60 members of his family, including nieces and nephews, have been killed since the start of the war.

The Hamas political leader, who is based in the Gulf state of Qatar, decried what he described as Israel’s brutality in Gaza and stressed that Palestinian leaders will not back down if their families and homes are targeted. “There is no doubt that this criminal enemy is driven by the spirit of revenge and the spirit of murder and bloodshed, and it does not observe any standards or laws,” Haniyeh said. “We’ve seen it violate everything on the land of Gaza. There is a war of ethnic cleansing and genocide. There is mass displacement.”

Israel had said earlier this month that it withdrew its troops from southern Gaza to “prepare for future operations”, but Israeli attacks on Palestinians throughout the enclave have persisted. For its part, Hamas aired footage on the 12 of April, of what it said was an ambush that killed at least 10 Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.  The next day, Haniyeh said the attack on his family is evidence of Israel’s “failure” as it continues to face Palestinian fighters in Gaza, adding that the killings will not change Hamas’s position in ongoing indirect ceasefire talks. He stressed that Hamas would not withdraw its demands, which include a permanent ceasefire and a return of displaced Palestinians to their homes. “If they think that targeting my children at the peak of these talks before the movement’s [Hamas’s] response is submitted will cause Hamas to change its positions, they are delusional,” Haniyeh said, referring to Israel. “The blood of my children is not more valuable than the blood of the children of the Palestinian people … All the martyrs of Palestine are my children.”

Later on Wednesday, Hamas echoed Haniyeh’s message, saying that the intensifying Israeli “terrorism” and massacres in Gaza will not improve Israel’s negotiating position.The group said Haniyeh received calls expressing condolences from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The Gaza Government Media office described the deadly strike on Haniyeh’s family members on Wednesday as a “massacre” during the Muslim holiday.

The United States has been calling on Hamas to accept a temporary ceasefire that would see a surge in humanitarian aid to Gaza, the release of Israeli captives in the territory as well as freeing an unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

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Israel closes Karem Abu Salem crossing after Hamas rocket attack

Hamas says its forces launched rocket attack at a military target near the Karem Abu Salem crossing between Israel and Gaza.

Aid trucks carrying medicine and humanitarian aid to Gaza enter through the Karem Abu Salem crossing on January 17, 2024

Israel has closed the main crossing point for humanitarian aid to enter into Gaza after a Palestinian armed group fired rockets at a military base in southern Israel near the site, killing three soldiers. The Israeli military said that it closed the Karem Abu Salem crossing, which Israel calls the Kerem Shalom crossing, to aid convoys after the attack.

The Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, said the attack targeted a group of Israeli forces in the area of the crossing and its surroundings. In a video released later, it said the rockets hit Israeli military “command headquarters and mobilisations” at the crossing, “leaving soldiers dead and wounded”.

The Israeli army said it detected 10 projectiles that were launched from Gaza’s southern city of Rafah towards the area. It added that it detected and struck the source of fire and other Hamas military infrastructure.

The crossing was one of the key passages for aid entering the besieged Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities announced it’s reopening in mid-December following mounting pressure from the United States amid a dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. Despite its reopening, Israeli authorities have allowed only a trickle of assistance needed to address the needs inside the Palestinian territory.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Rafah in southern Gaza, said the targeted military base has been used as a launching pad for Israeli attacks on targets in Rafah. He said the attack came as ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel in the Egyptian capital Cairo seemed to have reached an impasse.The attack “could be a sign that negotiations are really hitting a deadlock,” Abu Azzoum said.

Israel reopened the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing into northern Gaza on the same day as a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, but Israeli settlers attacked two aid convoys sent by Jordan. Israel said it will invade Rafah with or without an agreement with Hamas as the group is expected to respond to a ceasefire proposal shortly.

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