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📹 Scenes from the moment when a rocket hit a soccer field in Majdal Shams, a traditionally Druz town in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, killing at least 11 civilians, including children, while updated reporting puts the death toll at 12.
The Israeli occupation is blaming Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah for the attack, seemingly paving the way for a larger war in Southern Lebanon.
According to occupation army spokesperson Daniel Hagari, "the rocket that hit the soccer field is an Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket, and it carries a warhead of more than 50kg."
It should be noted that the Israeli occupation forces use American-made 500lb (227kg) and 2'000lb (907kg) bombs to target civilians daily in the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding more than 129'000 Palestinians.
According to Hagari, "only Hezbollah" is in possession of these rockets, though he did not provide evidence for his claims.
"Hezbollah carried out this shooting from the sheba area in lebanon," Hagari claimed to the Hebrew media. "The commander who directed the shooting is Ali Muhammad Yahya, a Hezbollah commander from the area."
He further claims that forensic findings from the scene "clearly" indicate the type of rocket, one that "the iranians manufacture and transfer to Hezbollah," the occupation army spokesperson added.
The Biden administration has also expressed concern over the incident, and worried publicly that it could lead to a full-scale war between the Israeli occupation forces and Hezbollah, despite the continued transfer of US weapons to the Zionist entity.
Meanwhile, the Hezbollah Lebanese resistance movement has publicly denied the claims, and says it had no part in the alleged rocket strike.
According to American news outlet Axios, Hezbollah officials spoke with the United Nations, arguing that the rocket strike was the result of an Israeli rocket interceptor hitting the soccer field.
Still, the Zionist entity has wasted no time im blaming Hezbollah for the deadly incident, and is already positioning alleged attack as a framework for escalation in Lebanon.
Axios quoted occupation foreign minister Israeli Katz as warning that "the [alleged] rocket attack crossed all red lines and the response will be accordingly."
📹 Scenes from the mujahideen of the Al-Qassam Brigades, belonging to the Hamas resistance movement, target the forces of the Israeli occupation army with hidden explosive devices at the border fence adjacent to the village of Metulla, near Jenin in the occupied West Bank of Palestine.
The Al-Qassam mujahideen detonate an initial explosive device, luring a unit of Israeli occupation army soldiers to site of the explosion before detonating another device as the soldiers inspect the area.
Soon after, additional forces arrive, again inspecting the area before Al-Qassam detonates a third explosive device.
As a result of the ambush, an Israeli officer and two Zionist soldiers were wounded.
📸 Photographs from the site of the latest massacre of the Israeli occupation army after Zionist warplanes bombed the home of the Abu Shakyan family in Camp-C of the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, murdering 5 Palestinians and wounding others, according to Palestinian public broadcaster PalestineTV.
Gunshots rang out as former President Donald Trump pointed to a chart he unveiled during a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon.
The former President quickly grabbed at his ear before ducking down behind the podium on stage as Secret Service surrounded Donald Trump while he lay on the ground.
A multitude of gunshots could be heard in circulating video of the event.
After the attempted assassination, Secret Service helped the former President to his feet, trying to quickly take him off to safety, however President Trump made the Secret Service wait a moment while he pumped his fist into the air, showing the crowd he'd survived the event.
After a moment of keeping his fist raised, the former President is whisked off the stage while surrounded by a circle of Secret Service members.
Photos appeared to show Donald Trump alive and well, but with some blood on his face, seemingly coming from his ear.
Some reports say the perpetrator or perpetrators got away or have managed to avoid capture up to this moment.
In bizarre series of events on Thursday, when the Israeli entity's psychotic Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused the Neocon administration of Genocide Joe Biden of imposing unfair restrictions, bottlenecking munitions deliveries, and slow rolling arms sales for the Zionist occupation army.
The accusations seem to have been made out of a desire for speeding up the genocide in the Gaza Strip, because murdering nearly 40'000 Palestinians in 9 months doesn't seem to be resulting in the rapid ethnic cleansing of Gaza the Zionist Prime Minister was hoping for.
Netanyahu began his toddler fit with false praise for the Genocide Joe administration, telling reporters in English that “When Secretary Blinken was recently here in Israel, we had a candid conversation. I said I deeply appreciated the support the US has given Israel from the beginning of the war."
Almost immediately, Netanyahu's praise became a backhanded complement when he added, “But I also said something else, I said it’s inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel..."
"Israel," he said again in faux disbelief, "America’s closest ally, fighting for its life, fighting against Iran and our other common enemies.”
"Secretary Blinken assured me that the administration is working day and night to remove these bottlenecks,” the crying man-baby-in-chief continued, adding that “I certainly hope that’s the case. It should be the case.”
But Netanyahu didn't stop there, the Psychopathic-man-baby-in-Chief reportedly accused the Genocide Joe administration of playing into the hands of Iran and its "proxies in the region", including Hamas and Hezbollah, by slowing munitions deliveries.
Asked about the man-baby's breakdown, US Secretary of Murder at the State Department, Antony Blinken, suggested the Zionist occupation's leader was exaggerating, and insisted only a single delivery has been held up.
The top war-mongering diplomat in the State Department went on, pointing to the one shipment the self-propelled grandpa mentioned in a press conference in Washington over a month ago.
"We are continuing to review one shipment that President [Genocide Joe] Biden has talked about with regard to 2000-pound bombs because of our concerns about their use in a densely populated area like Rafah. That remains under review,” Blinken said of the shipment.
"But everything else is moving as it normally would move… with the perspective of making sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself against this multiplicity of challenges [it faces],” the Chief State Department war profiteer added.
When pressed about the issue in a later press conference, the blood-soaked-White-House spokeswoman and terrible-at-her-job-of-being-an-expert-liar, Karine Jean-Pierre, added that "We genuinely do not know what he’s talking about. We just don’t."
Clearly uncomfortable and aware that many of Genocide Joe's voters reject the Zionist genocide in Gaza, but equally conscious of the psychopathic and maniacal flippancy of her counterparts in the Israeli entity, Karine Jean-Pierre added that "There was one particular shipment of munitions that was paused, and you’ve heard us talk about that many times."
"We continue to have constructive conversations with the Israelis for the release of that particular shipment and don’t have any updates on that. There are no other pauses or holds in place… Everything else is moving in due process."
But it's clear from the behavior and words of the crying Israeli man-baby, Zionist Murderer-in-Chief Netanyahu, that his concern lies with wrapping up the genocide as quickly as possible, noting in his earlier statement that increasing the flow of American weapons would "help him finish the war more rapidly."
In his typically over-aggrandizing style, like a 13-year-old girl in a middle school Drama class, the man-baby said “During World War II, [UK leader Winston] Churchill (another historical psychopath) told the United States, ‘Give us the tools, we’ll do the job,'" going to add, "and I say, give us the tools and we’ll finish the job a lot faster.”
According to unsourced reporting in the Hebrew media earlier on Thursday, the Top war-mongerer Antony Blinken promised the man-baby Netanyahu that he would remove any and all restrictions on US weapons transfers to the Zionist entity in the coming days. Information that was likely leaked by the man-baby or his administration themselves.
Despite the crocodile tears, it's become clear Genocide Joe and his administration are not serious about preventing the use of American weapons to kill tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, including thousands of women and children, and will continue funding and arming the destruction of innocents despite the ever escalating concerns from International institutions like the ICJ that were built by the United States itself, along with its closest allies.
In just the latest example of the Genocide Joe administration's ever escalating foreign policy, The Times of Israel, citing the Washington Post, says the Biden administration pressured two lawmakers with a hint of a conscience, Rep. Gregory Meeks and Sen. Ben Cardin, who were holding up a single delivery of 50 F15 fighter jets for several months, into accepting the arms transfer.
Times of Israel:
"Rep. Gregory Meeks and Sen. Ben Cardin have signed off on the deal under heavy pressure from the Biden administration after the two lawmakers had for months held up the sale, the [Washington] Post reported."
The pressuring of lawmakers, the odd relationships leading to bizarre comments from their Israeli counterparts, and the holding up of a single symbolic arms delivery all come together to expose the Biden administration's greatest contradiction: its dedication to Neoconservative foreign policy and US Imperialist domination, while at the same time offering up the occasional virtue-signaling public comments to its base of more peace-prefering voters who, at the very least, don't want to watch a live-streamed genocide occur right before their eyes, funded by their tax dollars.
These contradictions continue to play themselves out before the eyes of the entire world as crying babies and manipulative political figures continue to take advantage of this contradiction, seeing it for the weakness it is and using it, and other weaknesses, to manipulate the Genocide Joe administration into endlessly backing the maniacal and psychopathic Israeli occupation as it forever escalates with its adversaries, hoping the drag the United States into another two decades of war in West Asia.
📹 Scenes from the artillery forces of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP), in conjunction with the forces of the Martyr Omar al-Qasim Brigades, belonging to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DLFP), target the Israeli occupation army as it advances into the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, using 160mm heavy mortar shells.
📹 Scenes from the mujahideen of the Al-Quds Brigades, belonging to Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), target a running Zionist soldier in a sniper operation along the Netzarim axis, southwest of Gaza City, in continuation of the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood.
📹 Scenes from the mujahideen of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP), a marxist-leninist liberation group, fighting in conjuction with the Al-Qassam Brigades, belonging to the Hamas resistance movement, target the forces of the invading Israeli occupation army using mortar shells along the Netzarim axis, south of Gaza City.
📹 Scenes from the mujahideen of the Al-Qassam Brigades, belonging to the Hamas resistance movement, target the invading Israeli occupation forces (IOF) operating in the Jabalia Camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, using anti-armor RPG shells, in addition to sniper operations.
📹 Scenes from the mujahideen of the Al-Qassam Brigades, belonging to the Hamas Resistance movement, in conjuction with the forces of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP), target the forces and military infrastructure of the the Israeli occupation army along the Netzarim axis, south of Gaza City, using heavy mortar shells and "Rajoum" missiles.
The Netzarim Corridor, as the Israeli occupation calls it, is a military infrastructure built in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7th by the Israeli occupation forces dividing the enclave into its northern and southern halves, and preventing the free movement of Palestinians.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague, in the Netherlands, has ordered a halt to "Israel's" military operations in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, and to immediately open the Rafah crossing.
By a vote of 13 to 2, the ICJ says that "in view of the worsening conditions of life faced by civilians in the Rafah Governate" the "State of Israel" must "immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part."
Further, the Court also orders by a vote of 13 to 2, that the "State of Israel" must also "maintain open the Rafah crossing for unhindered provision at scale of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance."
By another 13 to 2 vote, the ICJ goes on to order the "Israel" to take "effective measures to ensure the unimpeded access to the Gaza Strip of any commission of inquiry, fact-finding mission, or other investigative body mandated" by the United Nations, and to "investigate allegations of genocide."
Lastly, by yet another 13 to 2 vote, the ICJ decided that "Israel" must "submit a report to the Court on all measures taken to give effect to this order," within one month.
Hamas delivered a statement today to the Palestinian people, and reported on by Al-Mayadeen News.
The statement begins by addressing the Palestinian people generally, but the people of Gaza in particular, delivers it's sincere message.
According to Al-Mayadeen, "The Palestinian Resistance movement expressed honor and pride in the Palestinian people in Gaza who have endured what no other nation could bear."
The statement then emphasizes the resilience of the Palestinian people of Gaza, "teaching the world meaning of patience, patriotism, and sacrifice for the sake of the dignity of their homeland, despite abandonment and silence that left them to face this brutal war on their own."
The Hamas resistance movement goes on to point to the Gazan people's support for the Resistance, "affirming that this Resistance emerged from these people's suffering and sacrifices and fought with honor and bravery."
"We behold you crafting your own victory," the Resistance is quoted by Al-Mayadeen as saying.
Hamas says that it is working on many levels, and fighting on all fronts along with other Palestinian factions, striving to "offer a little for the people of Gaza" and "correcting the paths to avoid missteps and errors caused by the ongoing Israeli genocide."
The Resistance movement goes on underline its efforts through emergency committees to "correct governmental, relief, humanitarian, security and economic actions, acknowledging its successes and mistakes and exhibiting commitment to pursuing work to this end."
Next, the Hamas movement addresses the women of Palestine, describing them as "the best among women on this earth, and the symbol of victory," and further expressed gratitude, appreciation and respect for them.
The Resistance goes on to declare that Operation Al-Aqsa Flood represents a strategic shift at a critical historical juncture for the Palestinian cause.
The Resistance says its leadership in Gaza decided in this moment, under siege, to excercise its right to resist occupation and respond to the occupation's crimes in the West Bank, dividing the occupied territory and building settlements.
Occupation Al-Aqsa Flood was also a response to the "Judaization and division of the Al-Aqsa Mosque" and "complete control over occupied Al-Quds (Jersusalem), its Mosques, and its Churches," the Hamas movement added.
The Resistance goes on to affirm that the battle was a reaction to the occupation's "discriminatory practices against Palestinians in the 1948 occupied territories," along with the "continuous aggression against detainees," and the Israeli occupation's expansion and presence in the region.
Hamas also emphasized that the Israeli occupation "showed it's true colors to the entire world with its Nazi-like behavior and exposed the true nature of criminality and terrorism of its diminishing entity, which the [Hamas] movement would not have been able to do even if it tried for many years."
Lastly, the Resistance group turns its attention to the Israeli occupation itself, asking the occupation, "Can you just stand there for one moment in your occupation sites or continue your ground operations safely? Can you build fortifications to protect you from our resistance or live a moment of safety in our country?"
Hamas concludes by saying, "we will not answer you, as our answer will be delivered via our actions and not mere words."
📹 Scenes from the Al-Qassam Brigades, belonging to the Hamas resistance movement, target invading Zionist Merkava tanks operating east of the Jabalia Refugee Camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, using domestically produced Al-Yassin 105mm anti-armor shells.
"It just goes to show that Paul and all of these other DC sociopaths don’t care about human rights or democracy or any of that nonsense when they cry crocodile tears about Ukraine; it’s about cold, hard, geopolitics."
