U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters last week that his bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen was a message to Iran and that Tehran knows not to intervene in the conflict.
Tag: The Israel War
U.S./U.K. BOMBING YEMEN MEANT TO DISTRACT NEWS FROM GAZA GENOCIDE CASE AT THE HAGUE
The U.S. and U.K.-led bombing campaign against Yemen last week was not so much to stop the Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea as to distract the world from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and South Africa’s case for genocide in The Hague.
IDF OPENS FIRE ON 3 PALESTINIANS, KILLING 1, IN APPARENT UNPROVOKED ATTACK
Video emerged last week that claimed to show Israeli forces opening fire on Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank in an apparent unprovoked attack—killing one and injuring two others, which was seen as another example of indiscriminate killing carried out by the IDF.
BLINKEN REJECTS SOUTH AFRICA’S GENOCIDE CASE AS ‘GALLING’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke out last week against the effort by South Africa to hold Israel accountable for alleged genocide in Gaza—calling the initiative “galling.”
GENOCIDE: ISRAELI POLITICIAN STANDS HIS GROUND: GAZA SHOULD BE ‘BURNED’ TO THE GROUND
Nissim Vaturi, a far-right member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, said in an interview last week that he stands by his earlier comment that Israel has been too soft in Gaza and should burn the coastal enclave to the ground.
IRAN SAYS BOMB MAKER RESPONSIBLE FOR MASSIVE ATTACK EARLIER THIS MONTH IS FROM ISRAEL
Iranian authorities said the bomb maker behind the twin attacks at a memorial for Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general, earlier this month was a Tajik national and one of the suicide bombers was Tajik and Israeli, according to a report.
ISRAELI MP SAYS HE SUPPORTS SOUTH AFRICA’S CASE OF GENOCIDE AGAINST ISRAEL, FACES BACKLASH
Ofer Cassif, a member of Israel’s (left wing) Hadash-Ta'al party in the Knesset, faced calls for his ouster after he lent his support behind South Africa’s case of genocide against Israel in the International Court of Justice.
PALESTINIANS IN GAZA STARVING TO DEATH AS ISRAEL TIGHTENS GRIP
Most Gazans face the risk of famine as Israel continues its genocide and food blockade in the coastal enclave—and the UN now forecasts that the city could reach the level of famine by February without intervention.
ISRAEL KILLS SENIOR ADVISER IN IRAN’S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD OUTSIDE DAMASCUS
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.”