Israeli forces were seen last week driving bulldozers in cemeteries across Gaza to excavate bodies and said rescuing hostages and finding and returning their bodies was a key element of their mission in the coastal enclave.
Category: 23 January 2024
ISRAEL KILLS HEZBOLLAH OPERATIVE IN LATEST STRIKE ON LEBANON
Israel said it carried out drone strikes on several southern Lebanese villages and killed a Hezbollah operative Sunday but a high-level commander, who was the main target, survived.
KIRBY: NO EVIDENCE ISRAEL IS COMMITTING WAR CRIMES IN GAZA
U.S. National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby said last week that Washington sees no evidence that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza as Mexico and Chile announced that they asked the International Criminal Court to investigate.
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT: ISRAELI FORCES INCREASE RAIDS IN WEST BANK
Israeli forces continue to conduct deadly raids in the West Bank—mainly refugee camps—in part of the country’s crackdown after the 7 October Hamas attack that killed 1,200 Israelis.
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT CREATED, FUNDED HAMAS TO COUNTER PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY: TOP EUROPEAN DIPLOMAT
Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy head, said in a speech last week that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been opposed to a two-state solution for 30 years, and it was Israel that created Hamas.
ISRAEL FACES CIVIL WAR AMID MASSIVE PROTESTS AGAINST NETANYAHU AND EXTREMIST GOVERNMENT
Israel faces the prospect of civil war as crowds take to the streets against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist government that is relying on the Gaza war to stay in power.
IDF WITHDRAWS FROM WEST BANK CITY AFTER CLASHES WITH NON-ZIONIST SECT
Israeli forces withdrew from the occupied West Bank city of Modi’in Illit after violent clashes with the city’s ultra-Orthodox Peleg Yerushalmi sect, which is opposed to mainstream Zionism and cooperation with the Jewish state, i24News reported.
BEN & JERRY’S CALLS FOR PERMANENT CEASEFIRE IN GAZA, COULD ANGER PARENT COMPANY
Ben & Jerry’s, the famous U.S. ice cream company, called for a ceasefire in Gaza last week, despite the risk of clashing with its parent company Britain-based Unilever.
PROFESSOR CALLS U.S. APPROACH TO THE ISRAELI WAR ‘NOTHING OTHER THAN HYPOCRITICAL’
You must be blind if you don’t see the blatant hypocrisy from the U.S. in its approach to the Israeli War on Gaza, Mehran Kamrava, a professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar said.
IRAN TO U.S.: DON’T ‘TIE DESTINY’ TO NETANYAHU’S MURDEROUS REGIME
Iran’s top diplomat said in an interview last week in Davos that the U.S. and the Biden administration would be wise not to pin their future on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel carries out genocide in Gaza.