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Devastation in Gaza as Israel wages war on Hamas

US, alongside Jordan, airdropped more food into Gaza amid warnings that hundreds of thousands of people are on the brink of famine. US ally Israel continues to obstruct the bulk of aid deliveries, and United Nations experts on Tuesday accused Israel of "intentionally starving" Palestinians in the strip.

Hamas said Tuesday that "any prisoner exchange" would not happen until a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel's withdrawal of troops and entry of aid into the strip. Negotiators continue to work toward securing a deal by Ramadan, which starts in less than a week.
A UN team found "clear and convincing" information that hostages in Gaza were sexually abused, adding there are "reasonable grounds" to believe the sexual violence is ongoing.

Donald Trump is dreaming, he can stop the war, says time for Israel to ‘finish up’ Gaza war...

US presidential candidate says October 7 Hamas attack was brutal, but Israel is now losing international support.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/26...p-gaza-war

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Someone gotting to ready this old man again.

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Israel’s Gallant meets with U.S. officials; Netanyahu axes delegation to U.S. over U.N. vote.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant spoke with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon Tuesday. The meeting — one of a series of meetings with top U.S. officials this week — comes amid a diplomatic rift between the U.S. and Israel, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly canceling a visit by another high-level delegation to the United States after the U.S. abstained from voting on a cease-fire resolution before the U.N. Security Council, allowing it to pass.

At the top of their meeting, Austin told Gallant that the U.S. was working to make “Israel and the region safer.” Austin called the protection of Palestinian civilians a “moral necessity and a strategic imperative,” adding that “the number of civilian casualties is far too high and the amount of humanitarian aid is far too low.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/202...palestine/

No let-up in Gaza war despite UN ceasefire resolution. GAZA STRIP: Israeli troops battled Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday (Mar 26), with no sign of a let-up in the war despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an "immediate ceasefire".

The resolution was adopted Monday after Israel's closest ally the United States abstained. It demands an "immediate ceasefire" for the ongoing Muslim holy month of Ramadan, leading to a "lasting" truce.

It also demands that Hamas and other militants free hostages they took during the unprecedented Oct 7 attacks on Israel, though it does not directly link the release to a truce.

After the vote, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres led calls for the resolution to be implemented. "Failure would be unforgivable," he wrote on social media platform X.

Israel reacted furiously to the US abstention, as it allowed the resolution to go through with all the other 14 Security Council members voting yes, resolution is the first since the Gaza war erupted to demand an immediate halt in the fighting.

Washington insisted that its abstention, which followed numerous vetoes, did not mark a shift in policy, although it has taken an increasingly tougher line with Israel in recent weeks.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/is...re-4221801

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UN expert says she faces threats after Israel-Gaza genocide report. Francesca Albanese had stated there were clear indications Israel has violated three acts in the UN Genocide Convention. UNs expert who published a report saying there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel has committed genocide in its war on Gaza says she has received threats throughout her mandate.

Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, presented a report entitled “Anatomy of a Genocide” to the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, which Israel said it “utterly rejects”.

Albanese said one of her key findings was that Israel’s executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally “subverted their protection functions in an attempt to legitimise genocidal violence against Palestinian people”.

“The only reasonable inference that can be drawn from the unveiling of this policy is an Israeli state policy of genocidal violence toward the Palestinian people in Gaza,” she said, adding that it was a “long-standing settler colonial process of erasure”.

She called“ongoing Nakba” to stop, referring to ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. Israel’s diplomatic mission in Geneva said use of word genocide was “outrageous” said war was against Hamas and not Palestinian civilians. Albanese, an Italian lawyer & academic, is one of dozens of independent human rights experts mandated by UN to report on specific themes & crises.

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Someone got to tell this old man 

Donald Trump is dreaming, he tell Israelcan stop the war, says time for Israel to ‘finish up’ Gaza war... Big Grin

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Israel’s war on Gaza live: US criticised for approving weapons for Israel.

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UN peacekeepers were injured when hit by a blast while on patrol in souther Lebanon. UN is investigating the origin of the explosion.

Fierce fighting is taking place across Gaza. Israeli's military said a soldier was killed in a battle in the north of the territory. A raid at Al-Shifa hospital, northern Gaza, is approaching the two week mark.

On Saturday, more than 32,700 people have been killed in the fighting since October 7,  82 people died over the past 24 hours, the ministry is saying. Israel denied 30% of aid missions access to Northern Gaza in March. UN & others have long warned not enough aid is reaching Gaza, warnings of a looming famine.

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Devastation in Gaza, Israel wages war on Hamas. Negotiations over a potential ceasefire and hostage deal between Hamas and Israel resumed in Cairo on Sunday, Egyptian state-run media said. Talks between the parties reached a stalemate earlier in the week.

16-people were arrested during large protests in Tel Aviv on Saturday calling for release of hostages held in Gaza & the removal of PM Benjamin Netanyahu. As Israeli raid on Al-Shifa Hospital – Gaza's largest medical facility – has entered 2-week mark, with Palestinians inside & around complex reporting civilian casualties and arrests.

Another food aid delivery left a Cyprus port Sat en route to Gaza, where Palestinians face catastrophic levels of hunger due to Israel's throttling of aid and widespread destruction of the enclave.
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news...index.html

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Devastation in Gaza as Israel wages war on Hamas.
Israel's said has withdrawn from Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City following a 14-day siege. Negotiations on Israel-Hamas ceasefire & hostage deal has resumed in Cairo but is stalemate, a high-level talks is U.S. between US / Israel over potential military ops in Rafah take place in Washington, DC today Monday.

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Donald Trump is dreaming, he can stop the war, says time for Israel to ‘finish up’ Gaza war...

US presidential candidate says October 7 Hamas attack was brutal, but Israel is now losing international support.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/26...p-gaza-war

Turkey's main opposition claimed big election victories of Istanbul & Ankara.

A significant blow to Erdogan, who hoped to regain control of the two cities less than a yr after he claimed a 3rd term as president. He led campaign to win in Istanbul, but since he grew up tobe came a mayor.

But Ekrem Imamoglu, who first won the city in 2019, scored a second victory for the secular opposition CHP. Mr Erdogan vowed a new era in Turkey's megacity of almost 16 mil people, but incumbent mayor of Istanbul secured more than 50% vote, defeating the president's AK Party candidate by more than 11 points and almost one million votes.

The President, 70-yr, acknowledged election has gone, he had hoped, but now supporters in Ankara mark "not an end for us but rather a turning point" Ekrem Imamoglu. secular opposition CHP party.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68704375

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Israel air strike on Gaza kills seven aid workers from food charity

The aid convoy from World Central Kitchen was hit despite coordinating movements with the Israeli Defence Force, says the charity.

Food aid organisation World Central Kitchen (WCK) said on Tuesday (Apr 2) that an Israeli strike killed seven of its workers in the Gaza Strip.
Citizens from Australia, Britain and Poland were among the fatalities.

Workers, who also included Palestinians and a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, were travelling in two armoured cars emblazoned with the WCK logo and another vehicle, the US-based charity said in a statement. Despite coordinating movements with the Israeli Defence Force, the convoy was hit as it was leaving its Deir al-Balah warehouse, after unloading more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza by sea, WCK said.

"This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organisations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war," said Erin Gore, chief executive of World Central Kitchen.

"This is unforgivable." World Central Kitchen, founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres, said it was "pausing our operations in the region".

Israeli said it was doing a thorough review at the highest levels to understand the circumstances of what it called a tragic incident. IDF makes extensive efforts to enable safe delivery of humanitarian aid, has been working closely with WCK in their vital efforts to provide food and humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza," the military said.

Andres, who started WCK in 2010 by sending cooks and food to Haiti after an earthquake, earlier said he was heartbroken and grieving for the families and friends of those who died. Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing," he said on social media. "It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians aid workers, & stop using food as a weapon. No more innocent lives lost. Peace starts with our shared humanity. It needs to start now."

AUSTRALIA, POLAND CONFIRM DEATHS
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed the death of Australian aid worker Lalzawmi "Zomi" Frankcom and said his government had contacted Israel to demand those responsible be held accountable.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/is...en-4235511

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US officials say strike on Iranian general ‘a blow’ to Tehran, risks inflaming region. Ex-CIA agent tells NYT alleged Israeli attack aimed to 'punish' Guard Corps for efforts to harm Israelis abroad; retired US general says Iran's options for response 'very limited'.

The attack on tbuilding in Damascus, killed Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the IRGC’s most senior official in Syria, along with his deputy Gen. Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi, & five other IRGC officers and at least one member of Hezbollah.

Faced with ongoing attacks by Iran-backed Hezbollah and Shiite militias in wake of Hamas’s brutal Oct 7 massacre, Israel has strikes back Iran back terror targets in Syria, & Hezbollah Iranian proxy. Israel has increasingly is impatient with daily exchanges of fire with Hezbollah warned of possibility full-fledged war. It does not, as a rule, comment on it's strike but admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties on Iran-backed attempting to gain a foothold in the country over the last decade. 

Israel Forces says to attacks arms ship that bound for those groups, chief among them Hezbollah. As airstrike have repeatedly targeted Syrian air defense. Iran and Hezbollah have vowed to respond to the strike on the IRGC generals, with Iranian state TV reporting country’s Supreme National Security Council, a key decision-making body, met late Monday and decided on a “required” reaction.

Online statement says, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi blamed Israel attack, saying “cowardly crime will not go unanswered.”
“After repeated defeats failures against the faith & will of the Resistance Front fighters, Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its agenda in the struggle to save itself,” his statement added. “Evil Zionist regime will be punished at the hands of our brave men. We will make them regret this crime and the other ones,” Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a message published on his official website.

He told Times that attack was in line with Israel’s long-term strategy of weakening the IRGC and “punishing them for ongoing plots to kill or kidnap Israeli Jews around the world.” The “long-term, carefully developed relationships” built by the senior officers who were killed were eliminated with the attack. 

This Is Israeli version of US strike on Qassem Suleimani,” referring to assassination of Quds Force chief in Baghdad in Jan 2020”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-officia...ng-region/

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Devastation in Gaza as Israel wages war on Hamas. 
US President Joe Biden will speak to Israel Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, according to a US official, marking their first conversation since the deadly Israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen.

WCK founder José Andrés accused Israel's military of "systematically" targeting the seven aid workers and the non-profit has called for an independent investigation. The Israeli military has apologized for the deadly strike, saying it was a "mistake."

The Biden administration recently authorized the transfer to Israel of more than 1,000 500-pound bombs and more than 1,000 small-diameter bombs, according to sources, adding to the country's arsenal despite US concerns over its conduct in the war. The transfer authorization of the bombs occurred before the Israeli strike that killed the aid workers, a State Department spokesperson said.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military has been using artificial intelligence to help identify bombing targets in Gaza, an investigation has found, citing six Israeli intelligence officials involved in the alleged program.

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Netanyahu warns ‘we’ll harm those who harm us’ as Israel braces for Iranian response.Tehran sources tell Reuters that Tehran's retaliation for killing of top IRGC commander in Syria will be designed to avoid escalation; IDF says ready 'for a variety of scenarios'

The Islamic Republic has several options. It could unleash its heavily armed proxies in Syria and Iraq on US forces, use Hezbollah to hit Israel directly or ramp up its uranium enrichment program. That would raise concern among the United States and its allies about Tehran’s potential to make a nuclear bomb, which the West has long sought to curb. Many diplomats and analysts say Iran’s clerical elite does not want an all-out war with Israel or the US that might endanger its grip on power and would prefer to keep using proxies to carry out selective tactical attacks.

Quoting Israeli officials, the Walla news site reported that Israel has made it clear to the US that if Iran strikes from its territory, Israel would have no choice but to respond

Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari in a press statement said Israel was taking every threat against it seriously, and that fighter jets were ready for “a variety of scenarios.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-...-response/

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TEL AVIV: Tens of thousands of Israelis protested against PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday (Apr 6) as Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza reaches its half-year mark.

Organisers said 100,000 people converged at a Tel Aviv crossroads renamed "Democracy Square" since mass protests against controversial judicial reforms last year. Chanting "elections now", protesters called for his resignation as the war in Gaza enters its seventh month on Sunday, AFP correspondents reported.

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Iran told U.S. to "step aside" for the Iran to  help the small Hamas bro, so as they can attack Israel  Rotfl Big Grin
https://www.youtube.com/live/ZWzjDtyNPfM...3tilM8SM-n

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Iran told U.S. to "step aside" for the Iran to  help the small Hamas bro, so as they can attack Israel 
https://www.youtube.com/live/ZWzjDtyNPfM...3tilM8SM-n

It wouldn't surprise me if Hamas or some other terrorist organization attacked the Iranian consulate to draw Iran into a war with Israel.   

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The war in Gaza was triggered when Hamas terror group launched attacks into Israel on 7 October.

They killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in their homes and at a music festival, that included international folks from 30 others nations The terror militant organisation abducted almost 250 hostages, of whom about 100 were released in a swap for Palestinian prisoners during a week-long ceasefire in November.

Israel now blames civilian deaths on Hamas saying it uses Gaza residents as a human shield to protect their own terror men. 

On Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli’s prime minister, restated his determination to achieve “total victory”.

“We are now on the way to eliminating Hamas terror and try to hopefully releasing all the hostages. We will not relent until we have achieve total victory,” he told soldiers in northern Israel.

IDF says troops uncovered 900-meter-long tunnel in al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis. Before being withdrawn from the Gaza Strip, the IDF says troops of the Commando Brigade located a 900-meter-long tunnel in the al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis.

In the tunnel, the IDF says troops found rooms where operatives would reside, along with a large cache of weapons.

The tunnel was later demolished by combat engineers, the IDF says. Next to one of the tunnel entrances, a gunman was killed, the IDF adds.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e...an-younis/

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It wouldn't surprise me if Hamas or some other terrorist organization attacked the Iranian consulate to draw Iran into a war with Israel.   

NEW YORK: House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday marked six-month anniversary of Hamas’ deadly terrorist attack on Israel and blasted the “appalling” lack of support from some Democrats for the country as it continues its war in Gaza, report by the Washington. Since massacre, it’s been appalling just watch anti-Israel rhetoric and support for unconditional cease-fire grow among Democrats in Washington, even as Hamas holds 130 Israelis and Americans hostage in Gaza,” Johnson said in a statement.

Dozens of Democrats in Congress have called for a ceasefire in the region, citing deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza.

His statement on Sunday, Johnson reiterated House Republicans’ support for Israel comes as Biden administration faces pressure from prominent members of President’s own party to stop weapons transfers to IDF because of the continued civilian deaths in Gaza.

“Unlike our Democrat colleagues, House Republicans remain clear-eyed about who the enemy in this fight is, and we will not stop working and praying until each of the hostages is returned home,” Johnson said. The Speaker added that on Hamas attack anniversary, “of all days, Washington must be united in our support for our great ally, Israel, as they fight for their sovereignty and right to exist.”

“It’s time to stop lecturing Israel on how it should best defend itself & begin equipping our friend with resources necessary to eliminate the threat of Hamas, once and for all,” Johnson said.
https://vinnews.com/2024/04/08/house-spe...or-israel/

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US Congress reconvenes as Ukraine aid remains stalled (04/09/2024) April 9, 2024

House Speaker Mike Johnson could face a rebellion within his own ranks as hardline Republicans continue to oppose a funding package for Ukraine.
https://www.dw.com/en/us-congress-reconv...a-68780085

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‘A new abyss’: Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine. For people everywhere, myself included, the awful images that have come out of Gaza and Israel since 7 October 2023 have been inescapable. This war hangs over us like a motionless black cloud that gets darker and more ominous with the passage of endless weeks of horror unspooling before our eyes. Having friends and family there makes this much harder to bear for many of us living far away. Some have argued that these events represent a rupture, an upheaval, that this was “Israel’s 9/11” or that it is a new Nakba, an unprecedented genocide. Certainly, the scale of these events, the almost real-time footage of atrocities and unbearable devastation – much of it captured on phones and spread on social media – and the intensity of the global response, are unprecedented. We do seem to be in a new phase, where the execrable “Oslo process” is dead and buried, where occupation, colonisation and violence are intensifying, where international law is trampled on, and where long-fixed tectonic plates are slowly moving.

while much has changed in the past six months, the horrors we witness can only be truly comprehended as a cataclysmic new phase in a war that has been going on for several generations. This is the thesis of my book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: that events in Palestine since 1917 resulted from a multi-stage war waged on the indigenous Palestinian population by great power patrons of the Zionist movement – a movement that was both settler colonialist and nationalist, and which aimed to replace the Palestinian people in their ancestral homeland. These powers later allied with the Israeli nation-state that grew out of that movement. Throughout this long war, the Palestinians have fiercely resisted the usurpation of their country. This framework is indispensable in explaining not only the history of the past century and more, but also the brutality that we have witnessed since 7 October.

Seen in this light, it is clear that this is not an age-old struggle between Arabs and Jews that has been going on since time immemorial, and it is not simply a conflict between two peoples. It is a recent product of the irruption of imperialism into the Middle East and of the rise of modern nation-state nationalisms, both Arab and Jewish; it is a product of the violent European settler-colonial methods employed by Zionism to “transform Palestine into the land of Israel”, in the words of an early Zionist leader, Ze’ev Jabotinsky; and it is a product of Palestinian resistance to these methods.

This war has never been one just between Zionism and Israel on one side and the Palestinians on the other, occasionally supported by Arab and other actors. It has always involved the massive intervention of the greatest powers of the age on the side of the Zionist movement and Israel: Britain until the 2nd world war, US & others since then. These great powers were never neutral or honest brokers, have always been active participants in war in support of Israel. In this war between coloniser and colonised, oppressor and oppressed, there has been nothing remotely approaching equivalence between two sides, but instead a vast imbalance in favour of Zionism and Israel. This thesis has been starkly confirmed by the events that followed 7 October, the imbalance of power evident in disproportionate levels of death, destruction and displacement: the ratio of Palestinians to Israelis killed so far is about 25-1. 

It is further reinforced by overwhelming level of US political, diplomatic and military support for Israel, combined with that of UK and other western countries, in contrast relatively limited military and financial backing Palestinians by Iran and several non-state actors, much has changed since 7 Oct, the events of the past 6-mths are not unique, and do not stand outside history. We can only properly understand them within the context of the century-long war waged on Palestine, notwithstanding efforts by Israel to deny the relevance of context, and to explain them in terms of the “barbarity” characteristic of its enemies. 

While the actions of Hamas and Israel since 7 October might appear to represent a change or a departure, they are consistent with decades of Israeli ethnic cleansing, military occupation and theft of Palestinian land, with years of siege and deprivation of the Gaza Strip, and with an often violent Palestinian response to these actions.

This episode long war on Palestine ends has clearly had a profound traumatic impact on both Palestinians & Israelis.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...-palestine

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Israel’s war on Gaza live: Israel bombs Gaza camp, raids West Bank towns. Israeli attacks on both the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank continue. In Gaza, Israeli forces bombed the refugee camp while in West Bank, a raid in Tubas governorate has killed at least two Palestinians.

World Health Organization (WHO) has said destruction in Khan Younis & damage to medical sector was “disproportionate to anything one can imagine” after Israeli army withdrawal.

Netanyahu political survival ‘contingent on Israel being at war’

As tensions rise amid expectations of Iranian retaliation Vs Israel following strike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus, analyst says one person who can benefit from an escalation in the region is Benjamin Netanyahu. Why? According to Owen Jones, it’s b'cos prime minister’s political survival is contingent on Israel being on a war footing.

“One of the strategies of the [Israeli] right has always been to create an existential threat to Israel b'cos that creates among the population a demand for protection,” 

Netanyahu is trying to escalate the rhetoric & also undermining backchannels of communication, the associate professor of Middle East studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University said, noting that these have been heavily eroded.

Aid news that entering Gaza just ‘a drop in the ocean’, Despite Israeli military announcing it would allow 500 trucks of aid into Gaza per day, amount actually making its way into the enclave “is less than one would imagine”, reporter Hani Mahmoud from Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip said.
“It is only a drop in the ocean compared to needs of people”, Mahmoud said of the aid entering Gaza, adding that people’s living conditions were deteriorating both in Rafah, where resources are “depleting”, and in northern Gaza, where the hunger crisis is “raging”.

Tehran says UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil should have con­demned Is­rael’s dead­ly air raid on Iran­ian con­sulate in Dam­as­cus. Published On 11 Apr 2024. An ambulance is parked outside the Iranian embassy after a suspected Israeli strike on Monday on Iran's consulate, adjacent to the main Iranian embassy building, which Iran said had killed seven military personnel including two key fi Quds Force fogues in Syrian capital Damascus.

At least 33,634 people have been killed and 76,214 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive.

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US intel said to indicate Iran could strike ‘Israeli soil’ in next 24 to 48 hours

WSJ quotes Iranian saying Khamenei yet to decide on plans, fearing Israel will intercept missiles respond with major strike on Iran’s strategic infrastructure.

US official with knowledge of the matter told WSJ American intelligence reports now indicata a Iranian retaliatory strike within days, “possibly on Israeli soil” as opposed to Israeli interests elsewhere.

Strike could come within next 24 - 48 hours as Israel was preparing for a possible strike on either southern or northern Israel.

Quoting an IRGC advisor, earlier week, the Guards provided Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with several options to strike Israeli interests, said that among... A direct attack on Israel with sophisticated medium-range missiles. simulated attacks best targets in Israel including nuclear facility in Dimona & airport in Haifa, operates flights to Cyprus.

Secretary Austin seeking to lower the flames, Iranian told Reuters Thursday that Tehran has signaled to Washington it will respond in a way that aims to avoid major escalation and it will not act hastily. 

AUSTIN CHIDES GALLANT FOR LACK OF WARNING ON DAMASCUS STRIKE
US intel said to indicate Iran could strike ‘Israeli soil’ in next 24 to 48 hours
WSJ also quotes Iranian official as saying Khamenei yet to decide on plans, fearing Israel will intercept missiles and respond with major strike on Iran’s strategic infrastructure

A handout picture provided by the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei office shows him speaking during the Eid al-Fitr prayer ceremony in Tehran on April 10, 2024.

Iran could launch an attack on Israeli soil within the next 24 to 48 hours, the Wall Street Journal on Friday quoted a US official as saying, citing American intelligence reports.

Israel has been on high alert amid multiple threats and intelligence assessments that Iran would launch a strike on Israeli targets in a bid to avenge the April 1 airstrike on an Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital of Damascus, which killed several Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders, including two generals.

Both Tehran and Damascus have blamed Israel for the strike and vowed revenge, although Jerusalem has not commented on the matter. Tensions surrounding a potential Iranian attack on Israel appeared to reach new heights Thursday as the Israeli military said it was fully prepared for an incoming strike and as multiple international actors warned Tehran against a major assault on the Jewish state.

Israel is “on alert and highly prepared for various scenarios, and we are constantly assessing the situation,” IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said at a press conference.

“We are ready for attack and defense using a variety of capabilities that the IDF has, and also ready with our strategic partners,” he said, referring to the head of US Central Command (CENTCOM) Gen. Michael Kurilla, who arrived in Israel on Thursday morning to hold an assessment with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi on the ongoing security challenges in the region.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant also spoke with his American counterpart Lloyd Austin overnight Thursday. Pentagon statement that said the latter stressed “ironclad US support for Israel’s defense in the face of growing threats from Iran and its regional proxies.”

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (L) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant / Defense Ministry)  add3 “Secretary Austin assured Minister Gallant Israel could count on full US support to defend Israel against Iranian attacks, with Gallant’s office, he told Austin “A direct Iranian attack will require an appropriate Israeli response against Iran.”

Washinton Post: Austin complained to Gallant Washington was not notified b4 the April 1 airstrike. Quoted Austin’s complaint was based on fact the strike increased risks to U.S. forces in the region, restricted its employees in Israel, their family from personal travel outside greater Tel Aviv, Jerusalem & Beersheba areas amid Iran’s threats “out of a abundance of caution.”

Iran’s message to Washington was conveyed by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian during a visit on Sunday to the Gulf Arab state of Oman, which has often acted as an intermediary between Tehran and Washington.

“We are braced and ready, on high alert, defensively and offensively.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-intel-s...-48-hours/

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Austin said “A direct Iranian attack will require an appropriate Israeli response against Iran.”

As Israel is helping U.S. to kill a few more terrorists. As they, the U.S. already existing and unchanged in home front command guidelines and remain so. It is started by Trump  killing on the No-1 and follow up now by Israel. What complaint?.

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Austin said “A direct Iranian attack will require an appropriate Israeli response against Iran.”

As Israel is helping U.S. to kill a few more terrorists. As they, the U.S. already existing and unchanged in home front command guidelines and remain so. It is started by Trump  killing on the No-1 and follow up now by Israel. What complaint?.

Trump signed off on the operation to kill Soleimani after Iranian-backed militia members responded to the U.S. strikes by storming the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad. 

Defense Secretary Mark Esper presented a series of response options to the president took two weeks, including killing Soleimani on 13 Jan 2020.

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Trump signed off on the operation to kill Soleimani after Iranian-backed militia members responded to the U.S. strikes by storming the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad. 

Defense Secretary Mark Esper presented a series of response options to the president took two weeks, including killing Soleimani on 13 Jan 2020.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani

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For attacks orchestrated or attempted against U.S. and other targets abroad, Soleimani was personally sanctioned by United Nations & the European Union. 

He is designated as a terrorist by the United States in 2005.

So U.S.A. military killed off Soleimani in a targeted drone strike on 3 January 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq. 

Iranian govt officials publicly mourned Soleimani's death and launched missiles against U.S. military bases in Iraq, wounding 110 American troops. 

To Iranian propaganda outlets then subsequently represented Soleimani as a national hero.

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For attacks orchestrated or attempted against U.S. and other targets abroad, Soleimani was personally sanctioned by United Nations & the European Union. 

He is designated as a terrorist by the United States in 2005.

So U.S.A. military killed off Soleimani in a targeted drone strike on 3 January 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq. 

Iranian govt officials publicly mourned Soleimani's death and launched missiles against U.S. military bases in Iraq, wounding 110 American troops. 

To Iranian propaganda outlets then subsequently represented Soleimani as a national hero.

Israel / Hamas Terror and War...

https://youtu.be/QvPzJe11E38?si=706v7INVbmun2dNW

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A indian boy said about Israel / Hamas & WW war
















Israel / Hamas Terror and War...

https://youtu.be/QvPzJe11E38?si=706v7INVbmun2dNW

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Attacks orchestrated or attempted against U.S. and other targets abroad, Soleimani was personally sanctioned by UN & the European Union. 

He is designated as a terrorist by the United States in 2005. So U.S.A. military killed off Soleimani in a targeted drone strike on 3 January 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq. 

Iranian govt officials publicly mourned Soleimani's death and launched missiles against U.S. military bases in Iraq, wounding 110 American troops. To Iranian propaganda outlets then subsequently represented Soleimani as a national hero.

Updated April 13, 2024. Middle East has been plunged deeper into uncharted waters as Iran launched dozens of missiles from its territory toward Israel in retaliatory strike. Vast majority of missiles were intercepted outside Israel's territory by aerial defense systems, military said,  no reports of injuries suffered directly through Iranian strike, retaliation to a deadly Israeli strike on Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, earlier this mth. US air defense systems in Middle East intercepted some Iranian drones, US President Joe Biden met his national security team on Saturday, said US' commitment to Israel’s security against Iranian threats "is ironclad."

Israeli military says more than hundred of rockets fired from Lebanon to Israel over past hour

More than 55 rockets have been fired from Lebanon to Israel over the past hour, according to the Israeli spokesperson.

This comes after about 40 rockets were fired at Israel from southern Lebanon on Friday, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Hezbollah militants said they had fired the rockets at Israeli artillery positions in response to recent Israeli attacks and in support of Palestinian people in Gaza

Hezbollah — a Lebanese armed group backed by Iran — has its main area of operations there. Hezbollah has frequently fired missiles into Israel since October 7 and Israel has responded with its own fire, including airstrikes. Israel has ordered the evacuation of communities along the Lebanese border.