Jordan has called on the UN Security Council to impose a total arms embargo on Israel, citing its attacks on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, UN peacekeepers, journalists, humanitarian workers, and Lebanese soldiers.
„Countries that truly want an end to the dangerous regional escalation and seek peace and security in the Middle East must immediately stop supplying Israel with the weapons it is using in its aggressions,“ Jordan‘s foreign minister Ayman Safadi wrote on X.
No food has entered northern Gaza since the start of October, putting 1 million people at risk of going hungry, the World Food Programme told CNN on Friday.
Israel’s five-finger plan dates back to 1971, when it was formulated and implemented by the commander of the southern region in Israel at the time, Ariel Sharon, which aimed to divide the Gaza Strip across five regions that include military bases and settlements.
It sought to impose a new demographic situation in Gaza to reduce Arab population centers and cut off communication between them.
The Israeli army did not mistakenly target the Blue Helmets; it acted deliberately to eliminate inconvenient observers
(October 11, 20248:29 PM GMT+2Updated a day ago)
The leaders of France, Italy and Spain on Friday condemned the recent targeting of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, by the Israel Defence Forces and said such attacks were „unjustifiable“ and should „immediately come to an end.“
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Nicaragua is breaking off diplomatic relations with Israel, the Central American nation said on Friday, calling the Israeli government „fascist“ and „genocidal.“
The death toll in Gaza from Israeli attacks since last October has risen to 42,175, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
An additional 98,336 people have been wounded during this period, the ministry reported.
(October 12, 2024)
Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon Friday left 26 dead and 144 injured, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health’s Emergency Operations Center.
The attacks are part of an ongoing conflict that has claimed 2,255 lives and injured 10,524 since the aggression began.
(October 11, 2024)
The death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon since October 2023 has risen to 2,229, with 10,380 people injured.
Over the past 24 hours, 57 airstrikes were recorded, bringing the total number of Israeli assaults since the start of the aggression to 9,588, according to a statement released Friday by the Lebanese Government Emergency Committee
In 2007, former Nato commander Wesley Clark recounted a meeting at the Pentagon shortly after the US invasion of Afghanistan. An officer told him: “We are going to attack and destroy the governments in seven countries in five years. We’re going to start with Iraq, and then we’re going to move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.”
Clark added of the neoconservatives: “They wanted us to destabilise the Middle East, turn it upside down, make it under our control.”
As I documented in my 2008 book Israel and the Clash of Civilisations, Israel was supposed to carry out a central chunk of Washington’s post-Iraq plan, starting with its war on Lebanon in 2006. Israel’s attack there was supposed to drag in Syria and Iran, giving the US a pretext to expand the war.
This was what the US secretary of state of the time, Condoleezza Rice, meant when she spoke of the “birth pangs of a new Middle East”.
The plan went awry largely because Israel got bogged down in phase one, in Lebanon. It blitzed cities like Beirut with US-supplied bombs, but its soldiers struggled against Hezbollah in a ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
The West subsequently found other ways to deal with Syria and Libya.
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This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict.
The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear.