How Israeli forces trapped and killed ravers at the Nova Festival
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New evidence points to Israeli security forces, not Hamas, for causing the most fatalities at the music festival - civilian deaths that were then utilized to justify Tel Aviv’s Gaza genocide.
Israeli officials allege that Hamas carried out a pre-mediated and carefully executed massacre of 364 Israeli civilians at the Nova music festival near Gaza on 7 October as part of the Palestinian resistance’s Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. They claim that Hamas and other Palestinians had hours to murder Israeli partygoers before the army reached the scene.
However, new details have emerged showing that Israel’s Border Police was deployed at the Nova site before Hamas stumbled on the festival, causing the eruption of a major battle.
While some ravers were indeed killed by the Palestinian resistance - whether by intent or in the chaos of battle - the evidence now suggests that the majority of civilian deaths were likely inflicted by Israeli forces themselves.
This was due to the overwhelming firepower employed by occupation forces - including from Apache attack helicopters - and because Tel Aviv issued the controversial Hannibal Directive to prevent Hamas from taking Israeli party-goers as captives.
Operation Philistine Horseman
At 6:30 am, just after sunrise on 7 October, fighters from the Hamas military wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched its military operation, firing a barrage of missiles toward Israel. Thousands of its fighters and those from other factions breached the Gaza border fence in multiple locations to attack surrounding Israeli military bases and take captives in settlements as leverage for a mass prisoner swap deal.
Though it would take the army hours to respond, units of the Border Police were quickly deployed. At 6:42 am, a mere 12 minutes after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was launched, the Southern District Commander of the Israeli Police, Amir Cohen, gave an order code-named “Philistine Horseman,” sending police officers and Border Police who were on alert to the sites of various battles.
This included members of the Yamam, and Tequila commando units that have no police duties but conduct military and counter-terrorism operations, including undercover assassinations in the Gaza Strip and occupied-West Bank.
According to a senior Israeli officer speaking with by the New York Times, the first formal reinforcements to southern Israel came from commandos that arrived by helicopter.
Sagi Abitbol, a policeman working as a security guard at the festival, was among the first to confront Hamas fighters near Nova, and witnessed the early arrival of these helicopters.
During the fighting, 59 Israeli police officers were killed, including at least 17 at the Nova festival.
Hamas did not plan to attack the festival
Avi Mayer of the Jerusalem Post asserted that Hamas carefully planned to attack the concert in advance, intending to murder as many Israeli civilians as possible. The facts, though, tell an entirely different story.
An Israeli police investigation reported by Haaretz indicates that Hamas was unaware of the festival in advance. The official findings suggest that the intended target was Re’im, a settlement and military base located just down the road - on Route 232 - from the Nova site.
A major fight did indeed take place at Re’im, home to the Israeli army’s Gaza Division, the Palestinian resistance’s stated military target. The commander of the base was forced to call in airstrikes from an Apache helicopter on the base itself just to repel the Hamas attack.
The police investigation also indicates that Hamas fighters reached the festival site from Route 232, rather than from the Gaza border fence, further supporting the claim that the festival was not a planned target.
Following the launch of missiles from Gaza - and before Palestinian resistance fighters arrived on the scene - the organizers of the festival promptly ceased the music and initiated an evacuation.
According to a senior police officer quoted by Haaretz, roughly 4,400 people were present at Nova and the “vast majority managed to escape following a decision to disperse the event that was made four minutes after the rocket barrage,” while the first shots were not heard for another half hour.
Trapping civilians: Israel police blocked the vital 232 Road exit
However, as people exited the festival site by car and moved onto Route 232, Israeli police established roadblocks in both directions, leading to a traffic jam that trapped many partygoers in the area where fighting between Hamas and the Border Police would eventually break out.
“There was a lot of confusion. The police barricaded the road, so we couldn’t go near Be’eri. We couldn’t go near Re’im, the two near kibbutzim,” says one witness, Yarin Levin, who was trying to evacuate the area with his friends.
Levin, a former Israeli soldier, said this is when they had their “first encounter of the terrorists… fighting against the police that are there… two terrorists got lost in some kind of gun fight, so they found us.”
Another witness, Shye Weinstein, also confirms the Israeli police roadblocks that blocked the main exit from the festival. He took photos of a Border Police vehicle and a heavily armed policeman in combat gear impeding the road in front of his car.
A cell phone video from a concert attendee shows Israeli police and security forces using their vehicles to block the road near the festival site and exchanging fire with Hamas fighters.
When gunfire erupted, those trapped on the road fled east into open fields, whether in their cars or by foot. Many made it past the fields and hid near trees, under bushes, and in ravines.
But body cam footage shows heavily armed Israeli police units taking up positions on the road and firing across the open field into the trees where civilians had taken cover.
Photos of destroyed cars near the Nova music festival
As Nova attendee Gilad Karplus, also a former Israeli soldier, told the BBC:
“We pretty much knew they would probably block the road. I’m pretty sure a lot of people got killed on those roads...We drove into the field and tried to hide from them… afterwards we got a bit deeper into the fields and then they started firing sniper rifles on us from different places and also heavy artillery.”
Though Karplus and other partygoers were being fired on by the Border Police, they couldn’t make sense of this, and initially believed the shooting was from Hamas fighters disguised as police or soldiers. In other words, these witnesses actually saw Israeli forces firing on them.
For Hamas to have executed a plan involving elaborate disguises, the Nova operation would have had to be pre-planned, and the Israeli police investigation has already ruled that Hamas was unaware of the festival in advance. Moreover, no other site of clashes on 7 October reported sightings of Palestinian fighters donning Israeli uniforms - neither at the various breached settlements, nor at the Israeli military bases they entered.
Friendly fire
In short, both the Border Police and Apache attack helicopters were deployed to the festival site immediately. According to Israeli Air Force (reserve) Colonel Nof Erez, the helicopters were in the air by 7:15 am - 45 minutes after the launch of Al-Aqsa Flood - with a significantly larger number deployed throughout southern Israel within a few hours.
A survivor of the festival, Noa Kalash described hearing gunfire from both Hamas and Israeli forces, as well as airstrikes from attack helicopters and warplanes, while hiding in the bushes for hours to stay alive.
“We hear guns all over the place and people shooting and we can already recognize if its terrorists shooting or if it’s the army. Or it is an airplane, or a helicopter or rockets,” Kalash recalled.
It is abundantly clear that helicopter fire killed some of the terrified concertgoers. Haaretz quotes a police source saying that Apache helicopters “fired at the terrorists and apparently also hit some of the revelers who were there.”
Multiple eyewitnesses who visited the Nova site after the battle ended described the horrific destruction. As another news report states:
“It’s impossible to describe the scenes there in words. You can only list the sights that go on for a kilometer. There are hundreds of burned and bullet-riddled cars, huge wet bloodstains buzzing with flies and emitting a sickening odor, bags with body parts collected by the ZAKA [rescue] organization, thousands of bullets and casings and shrapnel of every kind.”
A Times of Israel journalist who visited the site days later recounted that, “dozens of cars were parked in rows, some of them burnt husks containing charred bodies of young festival-goers who were shot and burned alive.”
Saving bullets for soldiers
Incredibly, Israeli officials claim it was Hamas fighters who destroyed hundreds of cars at Nova, burning their passengers alive. But Hamas did not have this kind of firepower.
The group’s fighters were armed only with light machine guns and RPGs, and their ammunition was limited to what they could bring with them in pick-up trucks from Gaza.
Guardian journalist Owen Jones noted this while discussing a 43-minute compilation of video footage from 7 October shown to select journalists by the Israeli army. He says Hamas fighters “urge bullets to be saved for killing soldiers. One terrified reveler in a car is asked, ‘Are you a soldier?’”
As Jones notes: “So there is clearly some distinction being made between civilians and soldiers in the footage selected by Israel of the thousands of hours of footage which we don’t see.”
While Hamas’ ammunition was limited, the Border Police were heavily armed and Apache helicopters are equipped with Hellfire missiles and 30 mm automatic chain guns, which can hold up to 1,200 rounds of ammunition and fire 625 rounds a minute.
This suggests Israeli forces caused most of the death and destruction at Nova - which could be confirmed If Israel were to release all of its video footage from 7 October.
The Hannibal Directive
Israeli forces had not only the fire power, but also an official order to kill Israelis at Nova.
A major reason Hamas launched the Al-Aqsa Flood operation was to take Israeli captives that could be exchanged for the thousands of Palestinians held captive in Israeli prisons. But Israeli forces were determined to prevent Hamas from taking captives back to Gaza, even if this meant killing the captured civilians.
An investigation of Israel’s long-controversial Hannibal Directive concludes that “from the point of view of the army, a dead soldier is better than a captive soldier who himself suffers and forces the state to release thousands of captives in order to obtain his release.”
But, on 7 October, according to a Yedioth Ahronoth investigation, the Hannibal Directive - which has previously only applied to army captives - was issued against Israeli civilians as well. The Hebrew-language daily writes that "at noon on October 7, the IDF [Israeli army] ordered all of its combat units in practice to use the ‘Hannibal Procedure’ although without clearly mentioning this explicitly by name.”
The order was to stop “at all costs any attempt by Hamas terrorists to return to Gaza, that is, despite the fear that some of them have abductees,” the investigation concludes.
In the days and weeks after the incident, Israeli authorities made a great show of distributing images of vehicles destroyed at the festival site, fully implying that the cars - and the dead victims inside - had been burned to a crisp by Palestinian fighters. The Yediot report completely upends that claim:
“In the week after the attack, soldiers of elite units checked about 70 vehicles that were left in the area between the settlements and the Gaza Strip. These are vehicles that did not reach Gaza, because on the way they were shot by a combat helicopter, an anti-tank missile or a tank, and at least in some cases everyone in the vehicle was killed,” including Israeli captives.
Nof Erez, the Israeli Air Force colonel noted above, similarly concluded, in regard to Israel’s indiscriminate use of helicopter firepower that day, that “The Hannibal directive was probably deployed because once you detect a hostage situation, this is Hannibal.”
An apparent instance of this at the Nova festival was inadvertently documented by the BBC, which reported that video footage showed a woman who was taken hostage, but who:
“Suddenly reappears two minutes later. She jumps and waves her arms in the air. She must think help is at hand - by this time, the Israeli Defence Forces had began their efforts to repel the incursion. But seconds later she slumps to the floor as bullets bounce around her. We don’t know if she survived.”
The rationale for the Hannibal Directive was further explained by Brigadier General Barak Hiram, who ordered a tank to open fire on a home to resolve a hostage situation in Kibbutz Be’eri, “even at the cost of civilian casualties.” The strike killed 12 Israelis, including 12-year-old Liel Hetzroni, and dozens of Hamas fighters.
“I am very afraid that if we return to Sarona [Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv] and try to hold all kinds of negotiations [to free hostages], we may fall into a trap that will tie our hands and not allow us to do what is required, which is to go in, manipulate, and kill them [Hamas]...”
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US govt staffers prepare mass walkout to protest Biden’s Gaza policies
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Federal employees across 22 US government agencies will hold a “Day of Mourning” on 16 January and are planning to walk off the job in protest of the White House’s unconditional support for Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza, according to organizers who spoke with the DC-based news outlet Al-Monitor.
Calling themselves the “Feds United for Peace,” the leaders of the dissent effort say the expect “easily hundreds” to join the walkout after having secured commitments from staff at nearly two dozen agencies, including the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Agency, the Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Naval Research Laboratory.
“Others expected to join in the protest work for agencies including the Food and Drug Administration, the National Park Service, the Federal Aviation Administration and Environmental Protection Agency,” Al-Monitor reports.
“What you’re seeing with this effort is something very unusual, and that is for dissent to be manifested via a physical act,” the organizers said, adding that the protest action “grew out of a collective desire to do what we could to influence the Biden administration’s policy on this issue.”
Israel’s well-oiled PR machine collapses
▻https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/18488
Tout l’article mérite lecture....
Despite the vast disparities between Palestinians and Israelis in terms of capabilities, technologies, material resources, and major media reach, social media became the great equalizer in this information war, making it increasingly difficult for establishment outlets to ignore the new global discourse on Palestinian developments and events.
Equally important to Hasbara’s failing is recognition of the Palestinian performance and narrative in the information war:
Israelis are now forced to chase down their top allies to help salvage their narrative shotcomings, as in when President Herzog complained to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak about defining Hamas as a terrorist organization. UPDAY, Europe’s largest news group, was revealed to have instructed its staff to prioritize the Israeli point of view, minimize coverage of Palestinian deaths, avoid pro-Palestinian headlines, and formulate comments by Israeli politicians in a way that dehumanizes their adversaries. These kinds of revelations have prompted audiences everywhere to take their media with a pinch of salt.
Oman seizes drones bound for UAE-backed forces in Yemen
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Ce qui est étonnant, ce n’est pas la tentative de contrebande, mais surtout le fait que Oman, traditionnellement « neutre » dans les affaires régionales, ait saisi la cargaison et surtout l’a fait savoir. Le vent tournerait-il ?
Omani customs authorities seized a shipment of drones hidden in a truck from the UAE heading for Yemen on 10 January.
“The Directorate General of Customs seized a truck at the Hafeet crossing loaded with wireless drones coming by transit system from the United Arab Emirates heading to the Republic of Yemen,” said the customs authorities.
“Customs inspectors were able to discover the shipments hidden professionally in places specially prepared for smuggling them in the truck. The concerned authorities began investigating the case in order to complete the rest of the legal procedures against the suspects,” the authorities added.
How the drones were intended to be used is unknown, but officials in Yemen’s Ansarallah-led government in Sanaa claimed Wednesday that UAE-backed mercenary groups in Yemen are preparing to carry out false flag attacks against commercial vessels. This would allow them to implicate the Sanaa government and open the door to a military response from the US Navy.
US gives Spain ultimatum to ’rectify its decision’ and join anti-Yemen alliance
▻https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/18221
Les Espagnols sommés de se coucher devant les USA.
Pentagon officials are pressuring Spain to “reconsider its refusal” to take part in the Red Sea Operation Prosperity Guardian (OPG) and have set an 11 January deadline for Madrid to “join with a ship or, at least, with personnel stationed in the area,” according to informed sources who spoke with Spanish daily El Confidencial.
As the US-led alliance struggles to make an impact against the pro-Palestine actions of the Yemeni armed forces, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Brown, on Monday contacted his Spanish counterpart, Admiral Teodoro Lopez Calderon, to reiterate Washington’s “desire to work with all nations that share an interest in defending the principle of freedom of navigation and ensuring safe passage for global shipping.”
“Spain is a vital NATO ally and shares a long and strategic relationship with the US,” says the US navy readout of the phone call.
In parallel to this conversation, which was made public, a separate phone call took place between the US Secretary of the Navy, Carlos del Toro, and the Spanish ambassador in Washington, Santiago Cabanas, during which the Pentagon official “in much more direct language” pressed Madrid to take part in the naval coalition in support of Israel.
“[Del Toro] gave [Cabanas], at the end of the conversation, a kind of ultimatum: He wants to know, at the latest on Thursday the 11th, if Spain corrected its decision,” El Confidencial reports.
Spain has been the most vocal NATO member to reject being named part of this “coalition of the willing,” vetoing a vote at the EU that called for support of the coalition and making it clear that its forces committed to Operation Atalanta – a counter-piracy operation off the Horn of Africa and in the Western Indian Ocean – would not join OPG.
The veto by the Spanish mission to Brussels was a direct order from Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, according to local reports.
This public pushback prompted US President Joe Biden to contact Sanchez in late December to discuss the crisis in Gaza and warn him about the “Houthi threat” in the Red Sea.
Nonetheless, Sanchez maintained his decision against joining OPG and also refused to join a statement that the US and its main European and Asian allies published on 3 January in which they issued a collective warning to Yemen. France did not subscribe to this text either.
Gaza destroys western divide-and-rule narratives
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Analyse du séisme dans l’opinion arabe de l’après 7-septembre. [On espère en entendre davantage sur les opinions occidentales vis-à-vis d’Israël mais, pour une fois, les sondages ne sont pas très bavards.]
It could be a clean sweep. Decades of western-led narratives crafted to exploit differences throughout West Asia, create strife amid the region’s myriad communities, and advance western foreign policy objectives over the heads of bickering natives are now in ruins.
The war in Gaza, it transpires, has blown a mile-wide hole in the falsehoods and fairytales that have kept West Asia distracted with internecine conflicts since at least the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.
Shia versus Sunni, Iran versus Arabs, secular versus Islamist: these are three of the west’s most nefarious narrative ploys that sought to control and redirect the region and its populations, and have even drawn Arab rulers into an ungodly alliance with Israel.
Israel’s Gaza withdrawal, a prelude to full-out war
▻https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/17608
Evaluation intéressante de la situation au Proche-Orient, trois mois plus tard...
At the start of the new year, Israel’s occupation army began implementing the withdrawal of a large portion of its forces from the northern Gaza Strip.
This withdrawal did not mean the end of the war on Gaza, and it certainly did not suggest calm on the Lebanese-Israeli front. On the contrary, reducing the pace of the war in the Gaza Strip increases the possibilities of an Israeli war on Lebanon.
The battles taking place between the occupation army and Hezbollah along the southern Lebanese border since 8 October, in support of the resistance in Gaza, have been increasing in intensity day after day.
Washington and Tel Aviv have sought to maximize pressure on Hezbollah by warning of the possibility of a large-scale war between Israeli forces and the Lebanese resistance. These tactics were in effect long before the assassination of Hamas’ Deputy Head of the Political Bureau Saleh Al-Arouri on 2 January by an Israeli air strike in Dahiyeh, the southern suburb of Beirut. The killing of Al-Arouri now increases the chance of the war expanding.
The third stage is coming
The first stage of Tel Aviv’s war was the mass destruction and occupation of northern Gaza; the second stage is the occupation of key points in the south of the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian civilians have flocked for safety. The current troop withdrawal from the territory’s north means that the Israelis are cementing their southern plans and preparing to move on to phase three: the long, low-intensity war.
As it enters the third stage, the occupation army intends to maintain a geographical buffer surrounding the northern Gaza Strip. It also plans to continue occupying the Gaza Valley area (central Gaza), while completing its operations in Khan Yunis in the south.
The fate of the Philadelphia axis – or Salah ad-Din Axis – a strip of land on the border between Gaza and Egypt which Israel wants to control, will be left to deliberations between Tel Aviv and Cairo. This is to ensure that incidents do not occur that lead to tension between the two parties, as well as to guarantee that refugees do not flow from the south of the Gaza Strip towards Sinai.
Israel’s ground withdrawal from northern Gaza is taking place primarily because the occupation army’s target bank has been depleted. All targets prior to the start of the war have been destroyed, and all new operational targets have been bombed.
Despite this, the Palestinian resistance continues to carry out operations against Israeli forces. These organizations remain relatively unscathed in the entire area of the northern Gaza Strip, which will increase the ability of the resistance to inflict losses on occupation ranks, now and in the future.
This clear Israeli loss – in terms of Tel Aviv’s stated war objectives – has been made evident by two basic factors: First, that the occupation army cannot ’cleanse’ the northern Gaza Strip house by house or tunnel by tunnel, because this process will take years, expose more of its soldiers to danger, and cannot be implemented without further displacing the entire population of northern Gaza or massacring them. It should be noted, despite Israeli attempts to portray matters otherwise, that hundreds of thousands of civilians are still present in the north.
Second, the Israeli government needs to gradually re-inject reserve soldiers into the country’s economy to jump-start it, and to ensure that the productive sectors are not exposed to damage from which recovery will take a long time. This, despite the fact that the US and much of Europe appear ready to assist Israel’s economy, if necessary.
These measures are being taken because Israel has patently failed to achieve the two main goals of its war, namely, eliminating the Hamas-led resistance in Gaza, and liberating the Israeli prisoners captured by the resistance on 7 October.
There remains a basic motive that must be noted: The Israeli army is currently putting all its efforts into implementing a US decision to push the war from its first and second phases into the third phase before the end of January 2024. This requires the war to be managed at a slower boil, drawing less attention to Israeli carnage and the mass suffering of Palestinians.
After three months of brutalities, Washington has assessed the Israeli army as unable to eliminate the resistance or the possibilities of regional escalation, and has noted the significant harm caused to the US administration of Joe Biden as he enters the presidential primary season.
An escalation with Lebanon
As the Israeli occupation army moves to focus its operations on the southern Gaza Strip, the intensity of military operations along the Lebanese border between Hezbollah and the Israeli army has also been ratcheted up.
Hezbollah increased its targeting of occupation soldiers, both in their visible locations and inside the settlements of northern Palestine.
The information capabilities of Hezbollah have developed in both sophistication and accuracy during the past months. The Lebanese resistance fighters have employed missile types not previously utilized, which have a greater range and better destructive capacity than previous generations.
On the other hand, Tel Aviv has doubled the firepower it used in southern Lebanon. The Israelis continue to limit their operations to the area south of the Litani River, and are not expanding their scope except to target resistance groups that carry out strikes across the border. In recent weeks, the occupation army’s destructive power has risen dramatically since the early days of the battle.
By increasing its strikes, Israel’s leadership seeks to inflict the greatest possible number of losses among the ranks of the resistance fighters, as well as to spread panic among southern Lebanese residents – displacing more of them, and destroying the largest possible number of homes. This places a burden on both Hezbollah and the Lebanese state in the reconstruction process after the end of hostilities.
But there is a longer-term goal to this Israeli military performance. The government in Tel Aviv, according to its official statements, wants Hezbollah to withdraw from the south of the Litani, to ensure the security of Israeli settlers in northern Palestine who abandoned their homes, either voluntarily or under evacuation orders from their army. By some estimates, the number of Israelis fleeing their settlements in occupied north Palestine has reached more than 230,000 people.
In parallel with the public statements, messages began arriving in Beirut, from the US and from European capitals, demanding what they call ‘the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701,’ meaning Hezbollah’s withdrawal from the south of the Litani River.
According to emerging information, Tel Aviv is betting that Hezbollah will be deterred, as the 2019 economic collapse from which Lebanon has not yet recovered and the country’s long-running internal tensions are factors that will ultimately prevent Hezbollah from waging war.
Israel is therefore hoping that Hezbollah will yield to pressure and meet its demands regarding the withdrawal of its fighters from the border area with occupied Palestine.
The Israeli assessment of Lebanese affairs preceded its assassination of Al-Arouri in Beirut on 2 January. But in the same way that Israel military commanders and politicians have under-estimated and dismissed armed Palestinian resistance initiatives within occupied lands prior to 7 October, they continue to cling to a dated Israeli calculus that Hezbollah will never fully retaliate, or that it will only do so in a way that stops short of war.
Granted, Hezbollah does genuinely seek to limit the scope of the military confrontation, and has often pushed for a Gaza ceasefire to end hostilities throughout the region. Hezbollah is equally concerned about not disrupting the lives and livelihood of southern residents.
But while Hezbollah takes into account the complex political and economic Lebanese reality, it is not prepared to make concessions. Sources in the resistance axis say that Israel, as Hezbollah sees it, is not in a position to go to war with Lebanon when it cannot even compensate or digest the massive strategic losses it has incurred from Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
Despite its desire to not expand the war, Hezbollah has already begun to prepare for it. Hezbollah’s party statement, issued after the assassination of Al-Arouri, indicates this, and field measures and developments will begin to appear in time.
What Israel was unable to achieve in Gaza (restoring deterrence) while facing the tight ranks of the region’s Axis of Resistance, it will most certainly not be allowed to gain in Lebanon.
The first signs of this will appear in the plans that Hezbollah is expected to carry out in response to Israel’s 2 January raid on Dahiyeh to assassinate Al-Arouri – the first of its kind since August 2006 – and to which its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah had previously threatened he would respond.
The bottom line is that Tel Aviv’s assessment of a war with Lebanon is based on its reading that Hezbollah wishes to prevent a major confrontation at any cost. Not only is this calculus wrong, but it has also muddled Israeli minds to the point where this may itself lead to the outbreak of a destructive war between the two sides
US claims responsibility for killing Iraqi resistance leader
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The US military has announced responsibility for an air strike in Baghdad on 4 January against an Iraqi resistance leader it blames for attacks against US forces in Iraq, killing him and another person, a US official speaking with Reuters said.
The US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to the US news outlet, “said the strike hit a vehicle in Baghdad. It targeted a leader of Harakat al Nujaba, the official said, without naming the person.”
Iraqi sources reported that Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi, the leader of the 12th brigade of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as Harakat al-Nujaba, was killed during a drone strike in the Iraqi capital Thursday.
Four missiles targeted Saidi’s vehicle as it was entering the PMU headquarters in Baghdad, located meters away from the Iraqi interior ministry complex.
Donc les USA quasi bombardent le ministère de l’Intérieur d’un pays que leurs forces présentes dans le pays sont supposées protéger !
Israel defender Alan Dershowitz named in Epstein court docs
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The documents say convicted pedophile and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein forced an underage girl to have sex with the famous lawyer and Israel advocate on multiple occasions
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Court filings from a lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking conspiracy case have been unsealed, US news outlet Axios reported on 4 January, revealing new details of the relationship between prominent US lawyer and Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz and Epstein.
The documents revealed the names of roughly 150 people mentioned in previously redacted parts of the suit against Epstein’s associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of operating a sex trafficking ring with Epstein and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Epstein’s black book containing his client list was not released after Ghislaine’s trial.
The newly revealed documents contain details about Dershowitz, the former Harvard law professor who is being considered to defend Israel against genocide charges being brought by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Dershowitz has also promoted unsubstantiated claims that Hamas committed mass rapes against Israelis on 7 October during the Al-Aqsa Flood attack. (...)
Updated 9 hours ago - Politics & Policy
4 janvier 2024
Epstein court documents unsealed
Rebecca Falconer, Sareen Habeshian, April Rubin
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(...) Alan Dershowitz, who helped disgraced financier Epstein get a sweetheart plea deal, features prominently in the filings, which predate a lawsuit in which Giuffre alleged she was trafficked to him. She withdrew it in 2022, saying she “may have made a mistake in identifying him.” Dershowitz welcomed the release of the filings Wednesday.
Jean Luc Brunel, the former modeling agent and longtime Epstein associate who was found dead in a jail cell in France in 2022 while facing charges — which he denied — over his alleged participation in the sex trafficking of minors, appears in several of the documents.
Context: Last month, Preska ordered most of the material within 187 entries listed under the pseudonym “J. Doe” be released after Jan. 1. in regard to the suit.
Between the lines: The court issued an order earlier on Wednesday extending the anonymity of two of the Does.
Doe 107 has until Jan. 22 to submit support that revealing her name would bring her physical harm.
Doe 110’s inquiry is under review by the court.
Editor’s note: This article has been updated with new details throughout and to correct a quote from Virginia Giuffre regarding why she withdrew a lawsuit against attorney Alan Dershowitz.
Qassam Brigades kill Ukrainian mercenaries in Gaza
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Une des explications (voir aussi vers la fin de l’article) qui expliquent les pertes « relativement faibles » de l’armée israélienne à Gaza. On a également parlé de mercenaires espagnols (▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231105-spain-neo-nazi-mercenary-among-others-helping-israel-in-). Il y a d’autres nationalités sans doute, sans compter les bi-nationaux bien entendu.
Fighters from Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, ambushed and killed at least seven Ukrainian mercenaries who were fighting with the Israeli army in Gaza, Quds News Network reported on 21 December.
According to sources speaking with the network, Qassam fighters targeted the mercenaries on 14 November after spotting them on Hassanein Street in the Shujaiya neighborhood, one of the main centers of Palestinian resistance to the ongoing Israeli ground invasion.
The sources added that “the occupation army did not include the dead among the numbers it acknowledges about its losses among soldiers in Gaza,” and that the ambush killed soldiers from the Israeli army as well.
According to the sources, a video that circulated on social media of a unit of Ukrainian mercenaries in a Shujaiya school was recorded on the same day as the attack.
The video showed one mercenary writing in the Ukrainian language on a chalk board in the school.
It also showed a group of Ukrainian mercenaries in a neighborhood of Gaza City, hiding behind a wall.
Ukrainians fighting for Israel is a reversal of a dynamic that appeared in 2022, as reports emerged of hundreds of Ukrainian-born Israelis and several native Israelis traveling to Ukraine to join volunteer units after the Russian invasion.
The Quds Network report comes as the Israeli military announced the deaths of three additional soldiers on Thursday, Lavi Gehati, Omri Schwartz, and Yacoub Elian, during battles in the Gaza Strip. This brings the number of Israeli soldiers killed to more than 136, according to Israel, since the start of its ground invasion in Gaza on 27 October.
However, as The Cradle has reported, Israeli military leaders seeks to hide many of their soldiers’ deaths, and the number killed and wounded is likely much higher than the military’s official acknowledgements.
Israel tells Washington to stop talk of ’two-state solution’
▻https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/15696
Israeli officials have been urging the White House in secret from publicly talking about a two-state solution as a by-product of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on 7 October, four Israeli and US officials have told the Times of Israel.
“A two-state solution after what happened on October 7 is a reward to Hamas,” one of the Israeli officials said.
The message has been voiced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former war chief Benny Gantz, President Isaac Herzog, and even opposition leader Yair Lapid.
“Netanyahu is the one saying it loudly and bluntly, but there truly isn’t any appetite right now in Israel across the political spectrum for the idea of two states,” an Israeli official added.
Gantz commented on a two-state solution on Thursday night, although he refrained from using the term “state.”
“It is clear to both us and our partners that the old concepts and the reality of the past decades need to change and be forward-looking,” Gantz said.
Herzog had told AP that he urges "against just saying ‘two-state solution.’ Why? Because there is an emotional chapter here that must be dealt with. My nation is in bereavement. My nation is in trauma.”
Such concerns by Israeli officials echo a similar claim made by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian earlier this week when he said that the only thing Iran and Israel share is that neither believes in a two-state solution.
Border surveillance footage from 7 October ’disappears’: Israeli officers
Israeli reserve officers say surveillance video and audio recordings from the Gaza border during the Hamas attack have been deleted, potentially to prevent an investigation into what happened that day
News Desk | DEC 3
▻https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/14346
▻http://thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/articles/f1039f7a-91e7-11ee-9280-00163e02c055.webp
Israeli military surveillance video from the Gaza border from 7 October, the day of Hamas’ surprise attack, has disappeared, Israeli news site Walla reported [ ▻https://news.walla.co.il/item/3626341 ] on 3 December.
During a visit by a senior female officer from the Israeli army general staff to the various division headquarters, senior officers in the reserves commented that “an invisible hand” had deleted videos from the various military surveillance cameras showing the events of that day, the Hebrew language outlet stated.
The videos were deleted from the military network known as “ZeeTube,” potentially to prevent their use in an in-depth investigation of how thousands of Hamas fighters managed to breach the border fence and infiltrate Israel to carry out the attack.
“We sat down with one of the generals and were going to show him a video about one of the events, and we found out that someone had deleted the videos,” said a senior reserve officer from one of the divisions, adding, “It was very embarrassing. Then suspicion arose as to why someone would do that. And at the end the excuses started that it was decided to give special privileges to certain officers to view the footage. Do officers in our ranks need privileges? It looks like a war between generals and officials. There is a feeling that everyone is now trying to take care of themselves for the day after,” when an investigation into events of that day takes place.
Israeli officials, including top generals and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have acknowledged the Hamas attack, in which 1,200 Israeli soldiers and civilians were killed, resulted from an intelligence failure. However, they insist the events of that day cannot be investigated until after the war in Gaza, in which some 20,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombing, ends. (...)
Critical IDF surveillance videos from Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7 missing
Critical recordings from Oct. 7 had been removed from the central database • the IDF’s official statement on this issue is that the videos were restricted to authorized personnel
By AMIR BOHBOT/WALLA!, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
DECEMBER 3, 2023 13:27
Updated: DECEMBER 3, 2023 18:42
▻https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-776318
The surveillance camera footage along the Gaza border from October 7 has not been deleted or missing, the IDF announced on Sunday evening after speculations about the security footage vanishing started floating around.
“All the materials from the operational systems of the IDF related to documented events, are preserved and accessible to the relevant parties,” the IDF wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Like other operational materials, access to the materials is blocked to those who are not required to deal with them. Any other claim is baseless.”
בניגוד לפרסומים העולים ביממה האחרונה, חומרים והקלטות המתעדים את אירועי ה-7/10 לא נמחקו או הועלמו. כלל החומרים מהמערכות המבצעיות של צה"ל הקשורים לאירועים מתועדים, שמורים ונגישים לגורמים הרלוונטים>>
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) December 3, 2023
During a recent visit by senior IDF officers to various brigade headquarters, a troubling revelation came to light. It became apparent that surveillance camera footage along the Gaza border, dating back to the day the war with Hamas broke out, had mysteriously vanished. Furthermore, critical recordings from that Black Shabbat had been removed from the central database. These developments have raised suspicions and fueled a sense that everyone is primarily looking out for their own interests with an eye on what comes next.
The IDF’s official statement on this issue is that the videos were not deleted, but rather restricted to authorized personnel. (...)
France interfering in Lebanon’s internal affairs: Report
The French special envoy to Lebanon has been pushing for an extension of the Lebanese army chief’s term on behalf of the ‘five-nation group’ on Lebanon
News Desk | DEC 1, 2023
▻https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/14272
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The leader of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), Gebran Bassil, held a heated conversation on 30 November with France’s special envoy to the country, Jean-Yves Le Drian, who is currently visiting the Lebanese capital.
“The French envoy was swift in moving from the discussion of the presidential file, which is supposed to be the core of his mission, to the issue of extending the term of General (Joseph) Aoun,” Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported on 1 December.
“Le Drian stressed that vacuum in the army command would harm Lebanon’s security and the security of France and Europe,” it added.
According to the report, Bassil was surprised by “France’s interference in the appointment of an army chief in Lebanon, asking the French guest about the logic behind his call for violating the law and the constitution.” (...)
AI plays ‘central role’ in Israeli assault on Gaza: Report
Experts have cast doubt on Israeli claims that using AI technology helps reduce the loss of civilian life
News Desk | DEC 1, 2023
▻https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/14224
Israel has been using AI to generate targets to strike during its war on the Gaza Strip, The Guardian reported on 1 December.
The war which broke out after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October has given Israel the opportunity to “use [AI] in a much wider theatre of operations and, in particular, to deploy an AI target-creation platform called ‘the Gospel,’ which has significantly accelerated a lethal production line of targets that officials have compared to a ‘factory,’” the outlet reported.
According to The Guardian, the Gospel AI platform has played “a central role” in the Gaza war.
The platform works to produce targeting recommendations “through the rapid and automatic extraction of intelligence … with the goal of a complete match between the recommendation of the machine and the identification carried out by a person,” the Israeli army said in a statement last month. (...)
‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza | Israel | The Guardian
►https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets
Thousands of foreign workers flee Israel following 7 October : Report
▻https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/13861
Quelqu’un aurait-il trouvé des infos sur les flux de population vers et depuis Israël depuis le 7 octobre ?
According to a report by Israeli newspaper Maariv, over 17,000 foreign workers have left Israel following the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on 7 October.
Eyal Sisso, the Director of Israel’s Immigration and Population Authority at the Ministry of the Interior, informed the newspaper that since 7 October, a total of 9,855 Thai agricultural workers, 4,331 construction workers, and 2,997 nursing workers have departed Israel. He added that this, coupled with the restriction on 85,000 Palestinian workers from the occupied West Bank entering Israel, has resulted in a shortfall of approximately 100,000 foreign and Palestinian workers.
Sisso added that the departure of thousands of Thai workers occurred following a request from the Thai government. During its surprise attack on military bases and settlements surrounding Gaza on 7 October, Hamas captured some 240 people, including 54 Thai men working on farms. 33 Thai men were killed in the attack.
Hamas has so far released 17 of the Thai workers as well as 51 Israelis as part of a captive exchange with Israel that has seen some 150 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons.
The director added that the ministry has been operating non-stop to address the demand for foreign labor, successfully bringing in 3,485 workers from India, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka. Additionally, efforts were made to considerably increase the quota of workers from India from 30,000 to 50,000, and the quotas for workers from Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan were also elevated.
Sisso further stressed that Israel is undergoing a national emergency, affirming that Tel Aviv is determined to extend workers’ permits to foreigners in the sectors of nursing, agriculture, and construction.
A temporary three-month permit has been issued to private firms, allowing them to recruit foreign workers based on specific criteria. Sisso noted that Israel is still employing Jordanian workers in the hotel industry, with 1,100 currently working in Eilat’s hotels.
In May, Israel planned to bring 10,000 workers from India to fill positions in the construction and nursing industries in a sign of deepening economic and political cooperation between Tel Aviv and New Delhi, in addition to replacing Palestinian workers with foreigners.
mmh ! il semblerait que ces statistiques soient trimestrielles (et en hébreu…)
UNHCR Israel – PIBA Statistics on Foreigners in Israel
▻https://www.unhcr.org/il/en/publications/piba-reports
le dernier rapport porte sur 2023T3, publié (en hébreu) le 8 novembre
▻https://www.gov.il/he/departments/publications/reports/zarim_q3_2023
(apparemment, on ne peut pas utiliser gg:translate avec l’adresse de la page)
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ici les infos sur 2023T1, publiées début mai
Immigration to Israel from Western countries down in first quarter of 2023 - report | The Times of Israel
▻https://www.timesofisrael.com/immigration-to-israel-from-western-countries-down-in-first-quarter-of
Was October 7th a Hamas or Israeli massacre?
William Van Wagenen | NOV 24, 2023 | The Cradle
▻https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/13624
A farewell ceremony was recently held for 12-year-old Liel Hezroni, an Israeli girl from Kibbutz Be’eri who died during the Hamas-led Al-Aqsa Flood military operation on 7 October. There was no traditional burial, just a ceremony, because her body has never been found.
Israeli officials initially claimed that the Palestinian resistance killed 1,400 Israelis that day, including 112 in Be’eri. Though Liel died on “Israel’s darkest day,” no government official attended the farewell ceremony to offer condolences to her family. Nor has the Israeli government investigated her death or told her relatives how she died.
This is because Leil was likely not killed by Hamas, but by the Israeli army.
Liel died when Israeli military forces fired two tank shells into a home in Be’eri that held 15 Israeli hostages and the 40 Hamas fighters who had taken them captive.
Yasmin Porat, 44, is one of two Israelis to have survived the incident. She remained with Liel and other hostages for several hours in the house, guarded, she says, by fighters who treated them “humanely,” and whose “objective was to kidnap us to Gaza. Not to murder us.”
Porat’s bombshell revelation was that when Israeli forces arrived, “they eliminated everyone, including the hostages,” the mother of three told Kan. “There was very, very heavy crossfire.” (...)
Israeli media deletes damning 7 Oct evidence
Hebrew media outlets are censoring their own reports containing evidence the Israeli army targeted its own soldiers and civilians with tanks and Apache helicopters during the 7 October Hamas attack
NOV 21, 2023
►https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/13231
Military censors are deleting details from Israeli media reports showing that Israeli forces killed many of their own soldiers and civilians during the Hamas attack on 7 October in which 1,200 Israelis were killed.
Israel claims that Hamas massacred all 1,200 Israeli soldiers and civilians during its surprise attack on settlements surrounding Gaza. Hamas also took some 240 Israelis captive back to Gaza.
But recent reports have shown that many of the Israelis killed during the attack were killed by Israeli forces themselves.
Rather than negotiate with Hamas fighters who had barricaded themselves inside homes with Israeli captives in numerous settlements surrounding Gaza, Israeli forces used tank fire to destroy the homes, killing everyone inside.
As Hamas fighters and Palestinian looters were taking captives back across the Gaza border in cars and on foot, Israeli forces used Apache helicopters to gun them down.
This was further confirmed in a report from the liberal Israeli daily, Haaretz on 18 November. Haaretz reported that according to an investigation by Israeli police, Apache helicopters had opened fire at both Hamas fighters and Israelis at the Nova festival.
Previous Hebrew media reports indicate Israel helicopter pilots had difficultly distinguishing between Hamas fighters and other Palestinians who breached the Gaza border and entered Israel on the one hand, and the Israelis they sought to take captive back to Gaza, on the other.
However, the Haaretz report has now been edited to omit the admission that Apache helicopters targeted the music festival.
The following passage has now been removed:
“The terrorists intended to reach Kibbutz Reim and nearby kibbutzim. According to a police source, an investigation into the incident also revealed that an IDF combat helicopter that arrived at the scene from the Ramat David base fired at the terrorists and apparently also hit some of the revelers who were there. According to the police, 364 people were killed at the festival.” (...)
« L’Histoire est toujours (ré)écrite par les vainqueurs ».
« Et Dieu créa la mouvance Qanon. Et il vit que cela était bon » ...
#post_vérité
Israeli Security Establishment: Hamas Likely Didn’t Have Advance Knowledge of Nova Festival - Israel News - Haaretz.com
▻https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-18/ty-article/.premium/israeli-security-establishment-hamas-likely-didnt-have-prior-knowledge-of-nova-festival/0000018b-e2ee-d168-a3ef-f7fe8ca20000
Haaretz | Israel News
Israeli Security Establishment: Hamas Likely Didn’t Have Advance Knowledge of Nova Festival
Senior Israeli security officials estimate that Hamas found out about the Nova music festival through drones or from those flying in parachutes, and directed the terrorists to the location using their comms system
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The forest where the Nova desert party was held, near Kibbutz Reim, in October.Credit: Eliyahu Hershkovitz
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Nov 18, 2023 5:49 pm IST
The growing assessment in Israel’s security establishment is that Hamas terrorists who committed the October 7 massacre didn’t have advance knowledge about the Nova music festival held next to Kibbutz Re’im, and decided to target the party spontaneously. According to police, 364 people were murdered at the festival.
The assessment is based on terrorist interrogations and the police’s investigation of the incident, among other things, which reveal that the terrorists intended to infiltrate Re’im and other kibbutzim near the Gaza border.
According to a police source, the investigation also indicates that an IDF combat helicopter that arrived to the scene and fired at terrorists there apparently also hit some festival participants.
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Senior security officials estimate that Hamas found out about the party through drones or parachutes, and directed the terrorists to the location using their comms system. In a video from one of the terrorists’ bodycams, he is heard asking a captured citizen for directions to Re’im.
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Cars belonging to participants in the Nova desert party, in October.Credit: Eliyahu Hershkovitz
One of the findings reinforcing this assessment, according to police and other senior security figures, is that the first terrorists arrived at the location from Route 232, and not from the direction of the border.
In addition, according to police sources, the party was originally planned for Thursday and Friday, with an extra day on Saturday added only on Tuesday of that week, at the organizers’ request. The last-minute change strengthens the assessment that Hamas hadn’t known of the event.
“The event was attended, according to our estimate, by some 4,400 people, the large majority of whom managed to flee following the decision to disperse the event made four minutes after the rocket attack,” a senior police source said.
Police analysis shows that many of those attending the festival managed to flee because it was decided to stop the party half an hour before gunfire was first heard.
►https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/13231
Un article de The Cradle qui nous révèle qu’une partie de l’article d’origine de Haaretz a été réécrite.
A l’origine, ce paragraphe a été rédigé comme suit :
The following passage has now been removed:
“The terrorists intended to reach Kibbutz Reim and nearby kibbutzim. According to a police source, an investigation into the incident also revealed that an IDF combat helicopter that arrived at the scene from the Ramat David base fired at the terrorists and apparently also hit some of the revelers who were there. According to the police, 364 people were killed at the festival.”
ça reste flou. 1/ Haaretz écri(vai)t « aurait », au conditionnel (très probable...) 2/ on a toujours pas idée de la proportion de morts non-gazaouis tués par l’armée israélienne, dans ce cas, comme dans d’autres (au char, lors de reprises de kibboutz et dont au moins un témoignage atteste).
il n’y a pas que la doctrine. violent, physique, outillé, le travail militaire est l’un de ceux qui cause le plus d’accidents, en l’occurence aux armées (manœuvres, erreur de feu), et dans un tel cas à des civils qui n’ont pas forcément été a priori classés parmi les dégâts collatéraux éventuels ou inévitables (c’était la grosse panique chez IDF, arrivées très en retard).
Que des opérations militaires puissent occasionner des « dégâts collatéraux », soit. Qu’un organe de presse se voit imposer une réécriture d’une partie de son article, ce n’est pas tout à fait pareil, non ?
c’est partout sur les RS ou « some » (?) est remplacé (comme dans The Craddle) par « many » (?)
Erreur de ma part : un paragraphe a bien été supprimé et non réécrit comme je le disais dans un post précédent. Voici l’article de Haaretz comme il se présente actuellement :
The growing assessment in Israel’s security establishment is that Hamas terrorists who committed the October 7 massacre didn’t have advance knowledge about the Nova music festival held next to Kibbutz Re’im, and decided to target the party spontaneously. According to police, 364 people were murdered at the festival.
The assessment is based on terrorist interrogations and the police’s investigation of the incident, among other things, which reveal that the terrorists intended to infiltrate Re’im and other kibbutzim near the Gaza border.
According to a police source, the investigation also indicates that an IDF combat helicopter that arrived to the scene and fired at terrorists there apparently also hit some festival participants.
Et voici la partie qui selon The Cradle a été supprimée :
The terrorists intended to reach Kibbutz Reim and nearby kibbutzim. According to a police source, an investigation into the incident also revealed that an IDF combat helicopter that arrived at the scene from the Ramat David base fired at the terrorists and apparently also hit some of the revelers who were there. According to the police, 364 people were killed at the festival.
Haaretz fait toujours état de 364 victimes tuées mais dans l’article modifié et que l’on peut lire actuellement, on a l’impression que ces victimes ont été tuées par les combattants du Hamas, alors que dans le paragraphe d’origine, on met bien en évidence que les 364 victimes tuées l’ont été à cause de l’intervention de l’hélicoptère de l’armée israélienne. C’est subtil et, en même temps, bien dégueulasse.