A top Iranian military official was killed in an Israeli Christmas strike in Syria, prompting Tehran to say the “savage Zionist regime will pay for this crime.”
Category: THE ISRAEL WAR – Jan 9 2024
ISRAEL RAMPING UP WAR TO FIGHT AN ‘AXIS,’ NOT A SINGLE ENEMY
Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defense head, said in an interview that Israel is not fighting a single enemy, but rather an entire “axis” and “the world needs to understand this is different.”
ISRAEL CONTINUES ITS MASS KILLING OF REPORTERS IN GAZA
Want to know what journalists are reporting as to what is going on in Israel’s Gaza War? Forget about it. The only “news” you will hear is what is being reported by Israel and its Western mouthpieces.
GAZANS FIND IT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BURY THEIR DEAD AMID ISRAELI ONSLAUGHT
As Gaza’s death toll topped 30,000—about 70 percent women and children—survivors are having a difficult time burying the dead because of the amount of bodies and the unsafe conditions amid the ongoing war.
IRANIAN PRESIDENT SAYS OCTOBER HAMAS ATTACK WILL BRING AN END TO ISRAEL
Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian president, told a crowd at a funeral honoring the 89 people killed in an ISIS-claimed suicide attack that the Al-Aqsa Flood operation “will bring about the end of the Zionist regime” and promised to retaliate.
ISRAEL KILLING HAMAS’S AL-AROURI RAMPS UP WAR WITH LEBANON
Last week Saleh al-Arouri, a top envoy between the group and Iran, was killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut, which also raises the question as to why Israel continues its massive bombing campaign in Gaza.
IRAN BLAMES U.K. FOR ROLE IN ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES AGAINST PALESTINIANS IN GAZA
Iran’s top diplomat held a phone call with Britain’s David Cameron, the foreign secretary, on Sunday and blamed the U.K. for its role in the war crimes and genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza—noting that the conflict’s history did not begin on 7 October.
ISRAEL TO U.S.: FU
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s pro-settler (land stealer) national security minister, warned the U.S. that his country is “not another star on the American flag” after the Biden administration denounced earlier comments from top Israelis that Palestinians in Gaza will need to vacate the area for good.
ISRAEL CLAMPING DOWN IN WEST BANK
Since Hamas attacked Israel on 8 October and Israel launched its war on Gaza, the Netanyahu government and his ultra-right-wing political supporters have enforced severe restrictions in the West Bank, locking people up, killing hundreds, and stealing their money.
REPORTS ON ALLEGATIONS OF HAMAS RAPES SCRUTINIZED
Max Blumenthal is editor at The Grayzone. Having spent time in Israel and Palestinian-occupied territory, Blumenthal who is Jewish—so he cannot be labeled an anti-Semite by those who support Israel’s wars and stealing Palestinian land in the name of “settlements”—has long been critical of Israeli actions.