Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in an open letter to the Iranian people that the “Zionist regime” in Israel will pay for its decision to assassinate a top Hamas official who had been staying in the country to attend the new president’s inauguration.
Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian prime minister, criticized Mark Zuckerberg-owned Meta for displaying its “cowardice” after the social media giant removed a post from his Facebook page offering condolences to a Hamas official after Israel’s assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader.
Each week for the last several weeks we have been reporting on the continued mass murder of Palestinians by the Israeli Defense Force.
Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, accused Israel last week of crossing “red lines” after the country targeted and killed top officials from his group and the top political leader from Hamas in Iran.
A Hamas official rejected news reports in the Western media that Hamas’s top political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a planted device that was smuggled into his room in Tehran a few months earlier and claimed that he was instead killed by an “airborne projectile.”
Unlike the last time Israel escalated war with Iran—when it bombed an Iranian consulate in Syria—Tehran has reportedly rejected calls from the U.S. and regional countries to “temper” its response to Tel Aviv’s recent assassination campaign that claimed the life of Hamas’s top political official in Tehran, according to a report.
The death toll in Gaza reached 39,363 on Monday with over 90,000 injured throughout the enclave. Tens of thousands are believed to be trapped under the rubble.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows he runs the U.S. government no matter which party is in power, but the increased likelihood of a Donald Trump presidency has leaders even less interested in a ceasefire deal with Hamas than before—with Bullshit Biden.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again humiliated President Joe Biden when the U.S. president said Israel agreed to a ceasefire, only to have the Israelis dismiss the agreement and once again tack on new details that were called untenable.
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told an audience at the Brookings Institution on Monday that there is “momentum” building up for an all-out war between Hezbollah and Israel, according to a report.