BBC takes 6 reporters off air as probe opened into pro-Palestinian posts on X

The BBC has taken six of its reporters off the air as an investigation has been launched into their pro-Palestinian posts on the social media website X.

The BBC News Arabic reporters were accused of breaking the so-called impartiality rules of the British broadcaster by making posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, that appeared to be in support of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement or critical of Israel’s position in the ongoing war in the besieged Gaza Strip.

“We are urgently investigating this matter. We take allegations of breaches of our editorial and social media guidelines with the utmost seriousness, and if and when we find breaches we will act, including taking disciplinary action,” the BBC said in a statement on Monday.

One message is reported to have said: “Israel’s prestige is crying in the corner”, reported The Daily Telegraph.

According to media reports, all the posts have been taken down, although the reporters have not been formally suspended.

The reporters, including those based in Egypt and Lebanon, were also accused of liking posts that appeared to be in support of Hamas or critical of Israel.

In a separate statement, the BBC said that a member of its News Arabic team in Tel Aviv had been stopped and assaulted at the end of last week by Israeli police in a vehicle marked as media.

“Journalists must be able to report on the conflict in Israel-Gaza freely,” the British broadcaster said.

MSNBC takes Muslim journalists ‘out of the anchor’s chair’

Last week, American broadcaster MSNBC quietly took three prominent Muslim journalists, including Mehdi Hassan, “out of the anchor’s chair” in the aftermath of the current war between Palestinians and Israel.

NBC claimed that the changes are ”coincidental” and denied that the hosts – three of the most high-profile Muslim on-air personalities on the network – are being sidelined, saying that the three Muslim journalists continue to appear on air to report and provide analysis.

The apparent dismissals came after the editorial board of the New York Post published a scathing attack on MSNBC for its “shameful” coverage of the Palestinian operation, accusing the news organization of having “run interference for Hamas.”

Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against Israel on October 7, in response to the regime’s violations at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East al-Quds and growing settler violence.

The surprise raid shook the usurping entity’s security establishment, leaving about 1,300 Israelis dead.

In response, Israel launched deadly strikes on the Gaza Strip. More than 3,000 Palestinians, many of whom children and women, have been killed and over 12,500 others injured in the coastal territory, according to Palestinian official news agency Wafa.

The military campaign has seen the Israel regime leveling entire districts and using banned white phosphorous munitions against densely populated neighborhoods.

How Zionist lies, amplified by Biden, led to 6-year-old Muslim boy's murder in US


By Maryam Qarehgozlou

The gruesome murder of a 6-year-old Palestinian Muslim boy in the US state of Illinois by his landlord, who also critically wounded his mother, came days after US media and politicians peddled lies about Israeli children being “beheaded” by Palestinians. 

Joseph Czuba, a 71-year-old white supremacist Islamophobe from Plainfield, stabbed Wadea Al-Fayoume 26 times on Saturday and seriously wounded his mother because they were Muslims.

The slain boy’s mother Hanaan Shahin, 32, was reportedly stabbed more than a dozen times and is currently battling for her life in the intensive care unit of a local hospital.

“Both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,” Will County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, referring to the Israeli regime’s genocide of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, shared text messages sent by Wadea’s mother to his father.

According to the group, when the woman opened the door, the hate-spewing landlord attempted to choke her first and then immediately stabbed her, yelling “You Muslims must die!”

The mother frantically ran to the bathroom to call police and in the blink of an eye she found that the 71-year-old man had also stabbed her 6-year-old son. “It all happened in seconds,” she wrote in a text.

At a news conference on Sunday, Ahmed Rehab, the CAIR executive director, said the family did not see it coming as Czuba previously shared a good relationship with his Muslim tenants, even building a tree house for Wadea, bringing him toys and allowing him to swim in a makeshift pool.

But he was incensed by the news regarding developments in the Gaza Strip, Raheb said, connecting the dots between the Muslim boy’s gruesome murder and the disinformation campaign about Palestine.

Palestinian resistance group Hamas launched the ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Storm’ (Also known as Al-Aqsa Flood) on October 7 and broke through the regime’s much-hyped security systems following the recurrent desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque and the rising tide of violence against Palestinians.

The Israeli regime responded with indiscriminate bombing of the densely-populated coastal strip, targeting civilians and flattening Gaza’s infrastructure, not even sparing hospitals and homes.

The regime’s genocidal campaign was accompanied by rampant disinformation that sought to demonize and dehumanize Palestinians and legitimize the unprecedented military action against them.

To support their blatant pro-Israel bias, mainstream Western media led by the CNN news network began pushing a coordinated disinformation campaign, particularly against the Hamas resistance group.

Social media platforms, such as Elon Musk’s X, have been also awash with false and misleading posts, and fake footage of past events linking them with what’s unfolding in the occupied territories.

One of them was the fabricated news of “40 babies beheaded by Hamas resistance fighters.”

The hoax circulated on social media networks at a dizzying pace and was amplified by prominent Western politicians and social media influencers, including US President Joe Biden.

On October 10, Nicole Zedek, a journalist for Israeli news channel i24, in a live broadcast from Kfar Aza kibbutz near the Gaza border, claimed that an Israeli soldier had told her they “witnessed… bodies of babies with their heads cut off.”

Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson Tal Heinrich repeated the unverified claim even though the 124 correspondent had failed to provide evidence to back her claim.

CNN said Heinrich had confirmed the report of beheaded babies, and quoted another Israeli military official as saying that he had “never seen anything like this” in his military career.

US President Joe Biden also jumped on the bandwagon and irresponsibility amplified the unverified claims, saying he had seen pictures of the mutilated infants.

“I never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children,” he said in his remarks on Wednesday, joining the disinformation crusade of the Zionist regime.

The White House had to walk back Biden’s claims. It announced that the US president had not in fact seen any images but his comments were based on news reports and claims by Israeli officials.

Without any clinching evidence, the false claims of children being beheaded and women being raped made headlines and were used to justify Israel’s horrendous war crimes and collective punishment of civilians in Gaza.

The Western media, biased in favor of the Israeli regime, have resorted to one-sided narratives by amplifying unsubstantiated claims, manipulating the truth, and fueling anti-Muslim hate crimes.

The incident in Illinois is directly connected to lies peddled by the Western media and political leaders such as Biden, so they are directly complicit in the cold-blooded murder of 6-year-old Wadea.

Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestine, unrelenting persecution of Palestinians and the regime’s project of settler-colonialism have rarely been evaluated critically by Western media.

In the wake of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, Westerners have become obsessed with condemning Hamas while the regime’s actions over the past several decades have been conveniently ignored.

Hamas is a resistance movement that is fighting for the rights of Palestinians and for the liberation of occupied territories. The operation they launched has to be seen in the context of what has been unfolding in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank in recent years.

The Zionist disinformation project, promoted by the Western media, is aimed at deflecting attention from real truth – the truth of who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed.

Hamas condemns votes cast against draft UNSC resolution on Gaza

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly criticized governments that voted against a Russian-drafted UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire amid Israel’s continued aggression against the Gaza Strip.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, Hamas said countries that rejected the draft resolution will be responsible for shedding the blood of people in Gaza.

The statement said voting against the draft resolution gives a green light to the Israeli regime to commit more crimes in Gaza and intensify the genocide being unfolded in the besieged Palestinian territory.

The Russian-drafted resolution failed to get the minimum nine votes needed to pass in the 15-member UNSC on Monday. Furthermore, for the Council to adopt a resolution, none of its five permanent members should oppose or cast a veto.

Four countries, including the US and the UK, voted against the draft resolution, five, including China, Russia and the UAE, voted in favor and there were six abstentions.

The one-page draft text was proposed by Russia on Friday with the aim of working out a mechanism under which humanitarian aid can be delivered to Gaza, a small territory on the Mediterranean where 2.3 million people have been suffering for the past 10 days because of incessant bombing and shelling by the Israeli regime and Tel Aviv’s blockade.

The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Gaza has risen to 2,808, while 10,850 others have sustained various injuries in the coastal territory, according to Palestinian official news agency Wafa.

Israel started its bombardment of the Gaza Strip after Hamas, which is based in Gaza, started Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on October 7, and launched attacks on settlers and military forces that killed some 1,400 people.

The draft UNSC resolution had also called for the release of hostages and the safe evacuation of civilians in need.

The Russian-proposed text failed to pass through the UNSC because it apparently had not designated Hamas as terrorist, as demanded by Western governments supporting Israel, while it had condemned the violence against civilians.

Hezbollah conducts fresh attacks on Zionist regime positions

The Zionist regime military said that three of its troops were wounded in the Metulla district attack when the Hezbollah fighters attacked an armored vehicle with guided missiles on Tuesday morning, Times of Israel reported.

Hezbollah further announced in a statement on Tuesday that its fighters struck a tank at Ramim site on Tuesday afternoon, inflicting heavy casualties

According to Al-Manar TV English website, Hezbollah fighters said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon that they attacked a gathering of Israeli soldiers at Al-Bayyad Blida, inflicting heavy losses upon them.

In a separate statement, the Lebanese Resistance movement announced that its attacks killed and injured a number of Israeli soldiers after firing precision missiles at Branit site.

It further announced that four of its fighters were martyred in border clashes with the Zionist regime\s troops.

Jordan king to hold meeting with US, Egypt presidents

King Abdullah II will host a four-way summit in Amman on Wednesday with US President Joe Biden, Egypt President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, and Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas to discuss dangerous developments in Gaza, its regional impact, & ensuring the provision of aid to the Strip, Roya News reported.

“The primary agenda of the summit is to discuss the critical developments in Gaza and their impact on the wider region. A key objective is to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian and relief aid to the Gaza region,” the court added in a statement.

Egypt has been communicating with the Palestinian and Israeli regime sides in a bid to achieve calm in Gaza, which has seen worsening humanitarian conditions amid unrelenting Israeli strikes over the past 10 days.

Biden said on Saturday that the US is working with Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and the UN to create the proper conditions for aid flow to Gaza.

Egypt has received tons of humanitarian aid from donor countries but they remain stranded in El-Arish, North Sinai, as Israel refuses to allow the aid into Gaza and has launched repeated strikes on the neighboring Rafah border crossing.

Egypt will host a summit on Saturday to discuss the recent developments in Gaza with regional and international partners, Egyptian TV channel Al-Qahera News reported.

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on October 7 , penetrating deep into the territories occupied by the Israeli regime, by carrying out large-scale air, land, and sea strikes.

The group said the operation was a reaction to the recurring desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied al-Quds as well as intensified Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Israel responded with intensive airstrikes on civilian targets in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 2,808 Palestinians in Gaza and wounding some 10,859 others, according to the territory’s health ministry.

The regime has also intensified the siege of Gaza, leaving the city, home to more than 2.3 million Palestinians, without water, electricity, fuel and internet.

Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed over 2,800 Palestinians and left nearly 11,000 injured, with the vast majority being women and children.

The ongoing missile strikes have left Gaza in ruins, with countless homes reduced to rubble, and its 2.3 million residents struggling with severe shortages of essentials like food, water, and electricity.

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German chancellor makes new anti-Iran allegations

Scholz, who not only ha not condemned the Zionist regime’s crimes against the defenseless Palestinians and the total blockade of the Gaza Strip, but also declared strong support for the Zionist regime stressed, “I once again strongly warn Hezbollah and Iran against joining this conflict.”

“Together with our allies, we are making every effort to ensure that there should be no escalation,” Scholz claimed, TASS reported.

Speaking in his weekly presser on Monday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kan’ani categorically rejected Tehran’s involvement in Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Storm operation.

Allegations like this are politically motivated aiming at manipulating public opinion from the crimes of the Zionist regime in Palestine, he underlined.

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on October 7 , penetrating deep into the territories occupied by the Israeli regime, by carrying out large-scale air, land, and sea strikes.

The group said the operation was a reaction to the recurring desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied al-Quds as well as intensified Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Israel responded with intensive airstrikes on civilian targets in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 2,808 Palestinians in Gaza and wounding some 10,859 others, according to the territory’s health ministry.

The regime has also intensified the siege of Gaza, leaving the city, home to more than 2.3 million Palestinians, without water, electricity, fuel and internet.

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Explainer: Why are anti-Iran lobbyists in West cheering genocide of Palestinians


By Ivan Kesic

As we enter the eleventh day of the Israeli regime’s aggression on the Gaza Strip, which has so far claimed the lives of almost 2,900 Palestinian citizens, including more than 700 children, the international community has come out openly in defense of the occupying entity.

Even Muslim and Arab countries have been reluctant to unequivocally condemn the genocide of Palestinians in both the besieged Gaza Strip as well as the occupied West Bank.

Iran, which has extended its full support to the Palestinian resistance movement, has warned that the war will expand beyond Gaza and occupied territories if the regime launches the ground offensive.

Top Iranian officials, including President Ebrahim Raeisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, have in recent days spoken to leaders of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, calling for a united front against the Israeli regime.

Western media and politicians have strongly backed the Israeli aggression on Gaza, including the bombing of densely-populated civilian areas and hospitals, and fanned the disinformation campaign.

Remarkably, joining them are anti-Iran lobbyists in Western countries, especially in the US and the UK, who have found a common cause with Zionists – cheering the genocide of Palestinians.

Exiled monarchists

Reza Pahlavi, the son of the deposed Western-backed Iranian dictator, has explicitly supported the Israeli regime’s aggression against the people of Gaza and the Palestinian resistance movement.

He described the Palestinian groups as “terrorists with a murderous ideology” and “forces of evil,” repeating the already-debunked propaganda that they “kill children, women and innocents.”

The US-based rabble-rouser promoted and amplified similar gross disinformation about Iran during last year’s riots, such as the Iranian police “killing and torturing” a 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini.

Pahlavi went on to state that the Israeli regime is “under attack from the same poisonous ideologies that returned the once progressive and prosperous region to the dark ages,” indirectly glorifying the times when Iran was a puppet petro-state under his father, a Western-backed tyrant.

His statements are fully in line with the official positions of Washington and Tel Aviv.

He also called for complete submission to American and Israeli plans to dominate the region and to hand over neighboring countries to their dictators and Takfiri terrorists.

Pahlavi’s connection with the Israeli regime is not new. This year he visited the occupied Palestinian territories, glorified the Israeli army, and met with the regime premier Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu and the Israeli regime have supported him with anti-Iran propaganda, which is evident from the increase in internet bots aimlessly rooting for the return of the monarchist dictatorship.

MKO terror cult

Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist cult, in her social media posts, accused Iran of “instrumentalizing the Palestinian issue, saying it is “a well-known tactic of the Iranian government that does not deceive anyone.”

On X (formerly Twitter), she shared an article from The Wall Street Journal that claimed Iran had helped Hamas in planning the operation, something even American officials haven’t acknowledged.

Rajavi and her cult’s close relationship with the Israeli regime has been known for years, as the Zionist lobby funds their bases, activities and annual events, where regular guests include the most radical American Zionists and high-ranking Israeli officials.

As Albanian historian Olsi Jazexhi explained to Press TV in one of his recent interviews: “Many of the people who speak in their conferences are die-hard Zionists who support Israel and want the extinction of the Palestinian people.”

He said the MKO is being used as a tool to pressure Iran to stop its support for Palestine.

The fact that the Islamic Republic, since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, has staunchly supported the oppressed people in Palestine has created bad blood between Rajavi and Palestinians.

Also, because Tel Aviv is backed by the US military-industrial complex, which bankrolls Rajavi’s Albania-based terror cult and its extensive troll farms, she has found common cause with the regime.

Celebrities and shame

Support for the Israeli regime in its terror campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip has also come from a number of individuals who have been bent on creating social unrest in Iran through disinformation.

One of them is Ali Karimi, a Dubai-based former Iranian footballer who during last year’s riots aggressively lobbied for the “regime change” in Iran and the return of the former dictator’s son.

On the X platform, Karimi commented on the aggression against Gaza by saying that “Israel will take care of itself” and that “Iran and the Iranian people will pay for the crime in lives and money.”

Masih Alinejad, a US-based and CIA-funded anti-Iranian propagandist and self-proclaimed spokeswoman for Iranian women, also jumped on the bandwagon and played the devil’s advocate.

She called for the removal of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution’s page on the X platform, spoke in favor of normalizing relations between the Israeli regime and Arab countries, and called on Western countries to blacklist the Iranian Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist organization.”

Alinejad played a key role in fanning the flames of Western-backed riots in Iran last year and has continued to peddle lies about the Islamic Republic in line with the Western agenda.

Another self-proclaimed Iranian women’s spokeswoman, British actress Nazanin Boniadi, also came out in support of the Israeli regime and made outlandish accusations against Iran and the IRGC.

Anti-Iran media and Israel

Anti-Iran media outlets based in the West, including Iran International and Monato as well as some Persian-language media channels, have also been aggressively batting for the Israeli regime.

After the Hamas resistance group launched the Al-Aqsa Storm (also known as Al Aqsa Flood) operation last Saturday, Iran International anchors were visibly frustrated and couldn’t hide it.

The guest analysts appearing on the two propaganda outlets run by anti-Iran groups and bankrolled by the US and its European allies have clearly and unapologetically supported the apartheid regime.

One of the reporters for Iran International even admitted on air that we was airlifted from the US and taken to the occupied Palestinian territories to help spread the Israeli narrative of the war. 

The same outlets last year fanned the flames of deadly riots in Iran, which led to the killing of innocent civilians and policemen by West-backed armed rioters.

The same outlets have been spearheading the propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic with an aim to bring about a “regime change” in the country, without any luck. 

How Palestinian resistance gained upper hand with strategic military operation


By Julia Kassem

The Israeli regime’s humiliating withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 placed the coastal strip at the center of the illegitimate entity’s wrath as Gazans rejected the comprador authority that ruled the West Bank, marking a reversal and upheaval of the plan of Zionists.

After that, Gaza was subjected to a brutal blockade, depriving it of clean water, strictly limiting its food, and every once in a while shelling the world’s largest open-air prison.

Before the Tel Aviv regime launched its genocidal aerial bombardment campaign, it was caught by complete surprise on the morning of October 7, 2023, when the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement launched the ‘Al-Aqsa Storm’ operation.

Following the barrage of rockets that pounded the occupied territories, Hamas’s Izzidin al-Qassam brigade fighters broke through the regime’s highly-fortified fence and ambushed bases in Israeli-occupied Beit Hanoon (called Erez by the occupation) border crossing, the Zikim base, and the Gaza division headquarters at Reim.

Within a few hours, the Palestinian resistance fighters had already captured 35 Israeli military personnel, killed dozens, and captured vast swathes of occupied towns. They dragged out senior Israeli regime commander Nimrod Aloni – who was responsible for planning operations against resistance groups – in his undergarments.

Almost immediately, the resistance eliminated the entire Israeli battalion responsible for overseeing, monitoring and surveillance of the besieged Gaza Strip.

This knocked out the occupation’s intelligence capabilities to the extent that PM Benjamin Netanyahu himself had no clue about it even hours after the operation, and Israeli units failed to respond – let alone inform the public – for at least 6 hours.

The information then revealed that one of the bases ambushed by the resistance was a publicly unknown one – and not only did the Palestinian fighters know where the base was, but were able to specifically target and destroy the communications infrastructure there.

It was entirely the work of Palestinian resistance – despite a Wall Street Journal article claiming the operation was carried out with the help of Iran – an erroneous lie, especially the reference to “Hezbollah security sources”.

Iran’s United Nations office dismissed the claim while reaffirming the Islamic Republic’s unflinching support for the Palestinian resistance and the surprise operation.

The lie was later retracted by the Pentagon, issuing a statement that there was no evidence of Iran’s involvement, but already, it was clear that Iran was also a target – likely at the request of a desperate regime in Tel Aviv, who realized that its security, like its impenetrable wall, was completely broken.

The Palestinian resistance was victorious not because of any co-incidence or luck, but because of its strategic vision and military prowess, which is lacking on the other side.

The Palestinian resistance’s operation, which came in response to daily atrocities against Palestinians as well as the repeated desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque by regime forces and settlers, exposed not only chinks in the regime’s military apparatus, but also the complete absence of strategy in the Zionist entity, so it had to resort to propaganda and false narratives.

As the threat of a ground invasion becomes more pronounced, the Zionist entity finds itself at a crossroads: either to back down and accept defeat or move ahead with ground invasion and face the wrath of all fronts of the resistance axis.

The latter scenario almost ensures the Zionist entity’s crushing defeat – both in terms of being pulled across two fronts as well as facing Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, which has grown considerably stronger since its thumping victory over Israel in 2006.

The prospects of an Israeli defeat are particularly high as the events that unfolded on October 7 reveal. The regime’s lack of strategy pushes it into the fold of ideology and cruel, sadistic idealism, producing its “tactics” (if you can call them that) of shock-and-awe terror and intimidation, of mass genocide of Gazans to produce civilian intimidation, devastation where military victories cannot be matched up.

Despite the Palestinian resistance’s superior intelligence capabilities and strong command of strategy, the Zionist entity could drum up nothing more intelligent than a propaganda campaign equating the Palestinian resistance, particularly Hamas, to the Daesh terrorist group – alongside other orientalist tropes aimed at dehumanizing Palestinians – to justify horrific war crimes and mass murder carried out in the absence of a strategy.

The Palestinians were projected as bloodthirsty savage men with appetites for rape and murder who had nothing better to do than to target scantily-clad white settler women and murder children.

These tropes, present in different forms during the Al-Aqsa Storm operation (also known as the Al-Aqsa Flood), were quickly debunked.

The most notorious of these Zionist lies was that 40 babies were beheaded by Hamas in the kibbutz of Kfar Aza on October 10. The lies were debunked over and over again, (with the Zionist entity adding insult to injury in tweeting an AI-generated image of a burned “baby”) but the damage in invoking a sensationalist reaction to orientalist tropes stuck.

Israel used it not just to justify its aerial bombardment of civilians in Gaza, but also to manufacture consent for such a campaign amongst Americans, whose support is so critical for Tel Aviv to even consider launching its ground offensive, and whose public has grown more hesitant to pour more money for wars abroad – especially post-Ukraine.

On October 13, the Israeli regime demanded North Gaza’s nearly 1 million inhabitants evacuate to the south of the territory, warning them of an incoming, unforgiving aerial bombardment campaign. The order even applied to hospitals that were teeming with critical patients.

Gazan authorities immediately slammed the warnings as psychological warfare, with Hamas leadership urging citizens not to fall into Zionist schemes “to create another Nakba.”

Hamas pointed out in an English-language telegram statement that targeting hospitals was a violation of international law. Yet Israel pressed harder in forcing a mass evacuation – or at least making it look like they had warned Palestinians before their brutal annihilation.

When terrified Palestinians heeded the threatening orders and traveled south, the humanitarian corridor became a target for the regime, which rained bombs on numerous convoys, massacring and injuring over 200 civilians, mostly women and children.

In the short term, the regime has sought to wipe out Gaza of not its resistance, but of its inhabitants, first by aiming to establish a security belt from the North of Gaza before moving in to wipe out Gaza of its entire population, tear through underground tunnels, and washing away its crimes by reinstating the illegal occupying settlements (“Gush Katif”) removed as part of the occupying entity’s withdrawal in 2005.

These campaigns of terror and mass murder serve a nefarious displacement project – one that would see Gaza’s two million inhabitants dead – or, in the long term, pushed, permanently displaced, into Egypt’s Sinai to live in tents (and forever panhandle from the liberal wing of Global Zionism as begging recipients of paltry “aid”), as recurrent Israeli proposals have indicated.

Just as Daesh’s forced displacement of Syrians and Iraqis from the region’s oil-rich north enabled trillions in US oil extortion to take place, the forced exodus of Palestinians squashes out any hope for Palestinian sovereignty over land and resources – including an estimated $15 billion in offshore oil wealth in occupied Palestinian maritime boundary.

Like Daesh, the Zionist entity functions outside of any legal or humanitarian standards or laws, be it religious or liberal-secular.

Like Daesh, the Zionist entity invokes indiscriminate campaigns of mass murder and violence to cleanse the population and uphold an ever-expanding ethno-state.

Like Daesh, the Zionist entity upholds its reign of terror through supremacists, a twisted ideology that disregards vision for nihilistic dogma.

And like Daesh, the Zionist entity carries out its genocidal campaigns essentially to the benefit of the West, with whom it finds itself in collusion with chaos-inducing means to plunge Palestine and the Arab world into a reactionary, servile end.

Yet like Daesh, the illegitimate regime’s genocidal goals executed with a lack of a constructive vision and harnessed by death and destruction come amid waning US hegemony that Israel is completely dependent upon. So the future looks particularly bleak for the regime.

On the other hand, the resistance axis, following the latest developments, clearly holds the upper hand in this battle – a battle that will end in the annihilation of the apartheid regime.   

Julia Kassem is a freelance writer, having contributed to Detroit’s own Riverwise, Against the Current, and nationally syndicated outlets such as Counterpunch, Mintpressnews, and TruthOut.

(The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)

                                                                                                            

Israel must expect all scenarios if continues its atrocities

“We are witnessing an unequal war against Palestinian people in Gaza, and the onslaught is followed by numerous crimes,” Nasser Kan’ani said during an interview with Lebanon’s Aabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network.

“We are witnessing genocide against Palestinians. All those who follow Israeli affairs acknowledge that the Zionist regime is not what it used to be prior to October 7. The resistance’s hands are not tied up. It will not stand idly by and will deliver a deterrent response.”

He added, “The Axis of Resistance is not constrained to one specific front, and the Zionists should consider any scenario as fairly likely.”

On Monday, Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement, emphasized that his comrades are “not intimidated” by the Israeli regime’s threat of launching a ground aggression against the Gaza Strip.

“Threatening us with ground invasion does not intimidate us, and we are ready to deal with any brutal force,” he said, warning, “Gaza will only be a graveyard for its invaders and its sands will swallow you up.”

On October 7, Hamas launched Operation al-Aqsa Storm deep into the territories occupied by the Israeli regime. The operation involved large-scale air, land, and sea strikes.

The group said the operation was a reaction to the recurring desecration of the al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied al-Quds as well as intensified Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Israel responded with intensive air strikes on civilian targets in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 2,866 Palestinians in Gaza and wounding some 12,000 others, according to the territory’s health ministry.

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