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FOREIGN MEDICAL WORKERS ARE BEING DENIED ENTRY TO GAZA BY ISRAEL DESPITE THE CEASEFIRE

Israel Has Denied The Entry Of At Least Four American Health Professionals And Dozens More Foreign Medical Workers For Humanitarian Missions In The Gaza Strip.

That is despite the ceasefire that came into effect in October, it was reported on Monday.

One of those denied entry is Feroze Sidhwa, an American trauma surgeon based in California, who has already completed two missions in the besieged enclave, working at hospitals to treat Palestinians injured in Israel’s genocidal military campaign launched in October 2023.

Sidhwa, who has spoken publicly about what he experienced in Gaza, including in testimony to the UN Security Council in May, said that he was informed just a few hours before he was scheduled to leave for Gaza from Jordan last month that his name was not on Israel’s approved list of foreigners to enter Gaza.

The 43-year-old trauma surgeon told the Washington Post that he does not know whether his public testimony about the military onslaught on Gaza affected Israel’s decision as no reason was given for the denial. The paper said Israeli officials did not respond to requests for comment.

The American brokered ceasefire “had promised a surge in humanitarian assistance”, the paper stated, “as tens of thousands of Palestinians still suffer from life-changing wounds.

OVER 3.5M MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS

Sidhwa’s mission would have entailed performed complex surgeries on wounded Palestinians and teaching local doctors “news and safety techniques” for them to carry out the surgeries themselves, the paper stated. The surgeon is considering taking his case to the Israeli Supreme Court next year, it noted.

According to the WHO, the paper reported, more than 3.5 million medical consultations and mover 50,000 emergency surgeries have been performed by international medical volunteers who have been “rotating in and out of Gaza on short term missions.”

Citing a UN official who spoke anonymously, the paper also noted that before the ceasefire took effect, Israel denied entry “to more than a third of those who’d made it through a preapproval process on average.”

Even though the rejection has dropped since the ceasefire, the UN official added, about 20 percent of those seeking entry to volunteer are denied permission at the 11th hour.

PUBLIC TESTIMONY

Another medical professional who has been denied entry twice over the past week and a half is John Kahler, a pediatrician and co-founder of MedGlobal, a Chicago-based nonprofit, the paper reported. He “had planned to assess the needs of the thousands of child amputees, to help set up a new rehabilitation project,” the report stated.

A British plastic surgeon, Victoria Rose, who has been to Gaza thrice during Israel’s military campaign over the past two years, was also rejected for the third time last week. Rose has spoken out about treating victims of the mass shootings of aid seekers linked to the controversial, now disbanded, American and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

She told the paper: “I definitely think the denials are due to the fact that we’ve spoken out.”

However, Nor Rizek, a nurse from Arizona said there was “no reason or rhyme” for her having been denied entry last month. Rizek said she has not engaged in much advocacy publicly or on social media.

Rizek, who worked in an emergency room in northern Gaza earlier this year, said Palestinians “have been exhausted, drained and physically and mentally beat for the past two years.” Therefore, she continued, “allowing in foreign nurses and doctors, the few of us who are allowed in, doesn’t even scratch the surface.”

MINIMAL FUNCTIONING HOSPITALS

Mohammed Subeh, another American emergency room physician, who was denied entry last week, said that he had planned to assist at a Gaza City field hospital that is attending to hundreds of patients daily.

A spokesman for America’s Central Command (CENTCOM) declined to comment about the denial of entry for health workers, the paper said.

According to the WHO, only 14 out of 36 hospitals are partially functioning, while more than 16,500 Palestinians in Gaza are in urgent need of medical care not available in the enclave.

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, Israel has killed 376 Palestinians and injured 981 more since the ceasefire came into effect. The total death toll since October 7^th, 2023, has risen to 70,365, in addition to 171,058 injuries.

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT CYBER SECURITY IS CONTROLLED BY FORMER ISRAELI SPIES

A Company With Deep Ties To Israeli Intelligence Oversees Cyber Security Across More Than Seventy Government Agencies, Including The Department Of Defense And Homeland Security.

Axonius was founded by former spies in Israel’s Unit 8200 and its software, which allows an operator ‘visibility and control over all types and number of devices,’ collects and analyses the digital data of millions of American federal employees.

The stated aim of the Axonius platform is to centralise IT tools to identity and fix security breaches. As a product of Israeli intelligence, however, the scale of Axonius’s use across the American government raises serious questions.

Axonius was founded and is currently run by Israelis Dean Sysman, Ofri Shur and Avidor Bartov, who met in the 2010s while working on the same team within Israel’s Unit 8200 spy service. On his LinkedIn profile, Sysman offers few details of their work for the IDF, describing it simply as having ‘far-reaching implications.’

Sysman left the IDF in 2014 after five years and set up a cyber hacking outfit, while Shur and Bartov stayed on until 2017, a period which encompassed Israel’s 2014 war of aggression against Gaza, during which the IDF murdered more than two thousand Palestinian civilians.

Axonius was established with curious speed. After leaving the IDF in 2017, Shur and Bartov teamed back up with Sysman and immediately received $4 million in seed funding from Yoav Leitersdorf, a San Francisco-based Israeli-American and fellow Unit 8200 veteran, to start Axonius. Leitersdorf, the managing partner at American-Israeli venture capital firm YL Ventures, is a prolific early-stage investor in Unit 8200 cyber start-ups.

The same year Sysman, Shur and Bartov also received millions in seed financing from Israeli firm Vertex Ventures which is run by veterans of Israel’s spy units. Tami Bronner, a partner at Vertex, spent four years in Israeli military intelligence.

Following this early financing from investors close to Israel’s intelligence establishment, the company went on to receive hundreds of millions in investment from a network of American venture capital firms with intelligence links to Israel.

These include Palo Alto-based Accel Partners, which has invested in more than thirty Israeli tech companies, including another Unit 8200 cyber spin-out, Oasis. Nir Blumberger, an Israeli who served in the IDF, was recruited by Accel from Facebook to open its Tel Aviv office in 2016.

Other Axonius backers include San Francisco-headquartered Bessemer Venture Partners which employs former Israeli intelligence operatives in a Tel Aviv office led by Adam Fisher. An American who emigrated to Israel in 1998, Fisher has acted as an intermediary between Zionists in Silicon Valley and the IDF, and during the genocide gave a presentation on how Israel can win the online war. Israeli Amit Karp, a partner at Bessemer Ventures and another former Israeli intelligence officer, sits on the Axonius board.

Menlo Park-based Lightspeed Venture Partners, which has backed Axonius with around $200 million over numerous funding rounds, also has significant ties to Israeli spy units. Yonit Wiseman, a partner at Lightspeed, spent six years in Israeli military intelligence, leaving in 2018. Her colleague, Tal Morgenstern, was a special forces commander in the IDF.

Given the evidence that Axonius is an Israeli intelligence cut-out, the scale of its penetration within the American federal government structure is extraordinary.

The company says its platform is ‘deployed in more than 70 federal organizations’ and is used by four of the five major Department of Defense service agencies. The American federal government contract award website shows Axonius awards for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, which in itself means millions of personnel and their devices.

In November 2024, the company was selected by the Department of Homeland Security to modernise its cybersecurity abilities by centralising ‘data coming from hundreds of separate data sources residing across dozens of federal, civilian, and executive branch agencies.’ Just a month later, in December 2024, the company was contracted by the Department of Defense to upgrade its system of 24/7 surveillance which oversees all on-site and off-site DoD computers and IT networks, a capability known as ‘continuous monitoring and risk scoring.’ And in April this year Axonius obtained authorisation for any American federal agency to use its cloud-based cyber surveillance system.

Other federal departments integrating Axonius software include energy, transportation, the Treasury and many others. Data from the American spending awards site shows the American Defence Logistics Agency, responsible for managing America’s global weapons supply chain, is the single largest Axonius customer, spending $4.3 million in 2023 alone. The Department of Agriculture has paid nearly $2 million for Axonius tools and the Department of Health and Human Services has spent $1.3 million since 2021.

Axonius is commonly described as an American company. While its headquarters and administrative functions are in New York, its founders, senior executives, and its primary financiers are all Israeli, and, critically, its software and engineering functions are based in Tel Aviv. Axonius has more than eight-hundred employees, and a search of LinkedIn profiles confirms that a majority of Axonius’s engineers in Tel Aviv have a background in Israeli military intelligence.

The pitch for the Axonius system is that it centralises data from all the security and IT tools an organisation uses into one place for easier analysis, control and fixes. And that place is Tel Aviv, where the hundreds of former Israeli spies working as engineers for Axonius have unprecedented access and visibility into the habits and movements of millions of American federal government employees.

With this visibility an Axonius operator can connect individual devices with individual IDs as well as seeing all login/logoff data and website usage. An operator can also order an account to be disabled, a device to be quarantined, or a user to be removed from a group.

In addition to this, Axonius has a separate R&D division within the company known as AxoniusX, a skunkworks unit focused on developing new cyber tools, run by another Unit 8200 spook, Amit Ofer.

Perhaps none of this matters, and Axonius is simply indicative of the sleazy, symbiotic nature of the relationship between the American regime and its colonial outpost.

This would be a fair argument if it wasn’t for Israel’s long history of espionage in the United States. From recruiting Hollywood producers who ran front companies that stole nuclear technologies, to selling bugged software to foreign governments, spying (especially cyber spying), has been central to Israel’s foreign policy. Robert Maxwell, the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, was a spy for Israel, and a significant amount of circumstantial evidence suggests Jeffrey Epstein was also an Israeli military intelligence asset. More recently, during Trump’s first term, Israel planted miniature spying devices around the White House and other American government buildings in Washington DC to monitor American officials.

American authorities, then, have allowed former spies from a country with a known history of espionage within the United States to establish a framework of cyber intelligence access across almost the entire federal government apparatus.

To put it another way, the American regime has effectively subcontracted its federal-level cyber security infrastructure to Israeli intelligence.

Whether Axonius has used, or has any intent to use its unprecedented access maliciously, is impossible to know. For anyone with knowledge of Israel’s history of spying, however, the embedding of cyber software made by former Israeli spies within the American federal computer system network should raise serious alarms.

More broadly, Axonius shows how a militarised Israeli state takes billions in American funding every year to build its digital architecture of apartheid and genocide, and then sells these capabilities back to America. American taxpayers, then, effectively pay Israel twice. And when the American regime buys back the technologies their taxpayers funded in the first place, they are inviting in trojan horse capabilities and making Israeli war criminals rich in the process.

The good news is that millions of ordinary Americans are wising up to the reality that Israel is not the great deal for America that political leaders have, for so long, sold it as.

The Axonius story confirms, once again, just how bad this deal is.

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN EASTERN GAZA CITY WERE DESTROYED BY ISRAEL

Eyewitnesses Say The Demolition Caused Loud Explosions, Sent Thick Columns Of Smoke And Caused Shrapnel To Fall In Several Neighbourhoods.

The Israeli army has demolished homes in the east of Gaza City, in areas under its invasion and control inside the blockaded enclave.

Israeli forces detonated several residential buildings in the Shejaiya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, causing loud explosions that echoed across wide parts of the city, an Anadolu Agency correspondent, citing eyewitnesses, reported on Saturday.

The witnesses added that thick columns of smoke were seen rising from the demolition sites, and reports indicated that shrapnel from the blasts fell in several neighbourhoods of Gaza City due to the intensity of the explosions.

In recent days, the Israeli army has intensified its ground, naval, and aerial bombardment across various parts of Gaza that fall within areas it occupies.

According to eyewitnesses and the Anadolu correspondent, the bombardment has hit eastern areas of Gaza City, the town of Beit Lahia in the north, the eastern parts of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the centre, the city of Rafah, and the towns of Al-Qarara and Bani Suhaila east of Khan Younis in the south.

Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement it signed with Hamas, having committed around 497 violations and killed more than 342 Palestinians since October 10^th, according to the Gaza media office.

Israel has killed nearly 70,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in its carnage in besieged Gaza since October 2023.

It has reduced most of Gaza to ruins and practically displaced all of its population.

Do you need any more information to learn the actual nature of the sadistic, racist Israeli regime?

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN HAS BEEN DREDGED UP AGAIN TO BASH TRUMP’S UKRAINE PEACE DIPLOMACY

This Is In Light Of Actual Progress Toward A Peace Proposal In The Russo-Ukrainian War, Warmongers Scrambled To Hurl Their Favorite Smear At The Trump Administration.

According to them, anything less than a total crushing victory over Russia is no different than British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany in 1938 and paves the way for further Russian aggression.

We’ve heard this accusation thrown around time after time from neocons, Democrat politicians, the propaganda press, and really anybody who is personally offended when America stays out of a foreign conflict for more than two seconds. Continuing in that vapid tradition, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a piece titled “Trump’s Neville Chamberlain Prize.”

The piece was based on initial reports of a proposed 28-point peace plan offered by the White House. That plan would cap Ukraine’s military strength at 600,000 troops (which would still make it among the largest militaries in the world), prohibit NATO troops from being stationed in Ukraine, and give Russia all of the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, the majority of which are already under Russian control. The White House announced Sunday that talks with Ukrainian officials about the peace plan had yielded a “updated and refined peace framework” but did not give details.

Given the current state of the war, these seem like reasonable terms. Russia gains a modest amount of Russian-speaking territory — ostensibly one of its main reasons for launching the war in the first place — from Ukraine, and it receives a de facto guarantee that Ukraine won’t join NATO.

But to Friedman, this is giving in to Hitler all over again. “If you force [the peace plan] upon Ukraine as it is, every one of your names will live in infamy alongside that of Chamberlain.”

[Chamberlain] was the British prime minister who advocated the policy of appeasement, which aimed to avoid war with Adolf Hitler’s Germany by giving in to his demands. This was concretized in the 1938 Munich Agreement, in which Chamberlain, along with others in Europe, allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain boasted it would secure “peace for our time.” A year later, Poland was invaded, starting World War II and leading to Chamberlain’s resignation — and his everlasting shame.

In his most outlandish sentence in the whole piece, Friedman predicts doom and subjugation for all of Europe as a result of this deal: “By rewarding Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine based on his obsession with making it part of Mother Russia, the U.S. will be putting the whole European Union under Putin’s thumb. Trump’s message to our allies will be clear: Don’t provoke Putin, because as long as I am commander in chief, the United States will pay no price and we will bear no burden in the defense of your freedom.”

First off, the United States has certainly “paid the price” for Ukraine’s defense, quite literally to the tune of nearly $200 billion, including under President Trump, and our military-industrial complex has certainly carried the burden, dealing with munitions shortages that have left us vulnerable to other threats like China.

Second, if anything, this war should help Putin realize that his forces would have absolutely zero chance against the full might of NATO, decreasing the chances of future aggression. Russia has suffered more than a million casualties and lost untold billions of dollars in military equipment it can ill afford to lose. If that’s the price it had to pay for two small provinces in eastern Ukraine, the price was far too steep.

The Ukrainians have held on for nearly four years, through generous American and E.U. aid, with a population of around 35 million and a GDP of around $190 billion. NATO (which, mind you, includes the awesome military power of the United States) contains nearly a billion people in its 32 member nations, and its combined GDP is estimated to be between $50 and $60 trillion. By contrast, Russia has a population of 140 million and a GDP of $2.1 trillion.

As to the historical analogy to Chamberlain’s appeasement policy: It’s so tiresome and lazy. One could go into lengthy detail about why this analogy makes no sense and why appeasement was actually a shrewd policy by the Western Allies at the time.

Long story short for the uninitiated: The Allies engaged in appeasement to give themselves time to rearm. They knew time was on their side when it came to military production, and the longer they could delay a war, the more advantages they’d have against the Germans. Hitler and his generals were very aware of this fact, and it contributed heavily to their decision to go to war in 1939.

We could chalk this up to a lack of imagination or a lack of critical thinking skills on the part of the warmongers. But the real answer is far more cynical. They simply don’t care about presenting history accurately or correctly using historical events to connect to modern problems, and they never have. They’ll twist facts, distort context, and just flat-out lie to get what they want: more pointless, costly wars for the American regime to drain its strength in.

And, in truth, it doesn’t matter what the Ukraine peace plan ends up including. Their pathological hatred for Russia as an entity and for the man trying to broker peace means no peace deal could ever be good enough for them. Ukraine could get a million square miles of new territory and Moscow out of the peace deal, and the warmongers would still compare Trump to Chamberlain.

Most wars throughout history have ended in a negotiated settlement. Wars of annihilation are a relatively new development and always cause far more destruction. Terrible historical analogies to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement only make peace harder to reach and show that the war hawks hold a total disregard for historical truth.

THE WAY FOR TRUMP’S VENEZUELAN MURDERS WAS PAVED BY OBAMA

The Trump Administration’s Murders Of Scores Of Venezuelans Are Justifiably Provoking Outrage Among Those On Earth Who Still Have A Hearts And Souls That Actually Function.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, “We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists.” Donald Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama.

In his 2017 farewell address, Obama boasted, “We have taken out tens of thousands of terrorists.” Drone strikes increased tenfold under Obama, helping fuel anti–American backlashes in several nations.

As he campaigned for the presidency in 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama declared, “We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers.” Many Americans who voted for Obama in 2008 expected a change in Washington. However, from his first weeks in office, Obama authorized widespread secret attacks against foreign suspects, some of which spurred headlines when drones slaughtered wedding parties or other innocents.

On February 3^rd, 2010, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair stunned Washington by announcing that the administration was also targeting Americans for killing. Blair revealed to a congressional committee the new standard for extrajudicial killings:

“Whether that American is involved in a group that is trying to attack us, whether that American has—is a threat to other Americans. We don’t target people for free speech. We target them for taking action that threatens Americans.”

But “involved” is a vague standard—as is “action that threatens Americans.” Blair stated that “if we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that.” Permission from who?

Obama’s first high-profile American target was Anwar Awlaki, a cleric born in New Mexico. After the 9/11 attacks, Awlaki was showcased as a model moderate Muslim. The New York Times noted that Awlaki “gave interviews to the national news media, preached at the Capitol in Washington and attended a breakfast with Pentagon officials.” He became more radical after he concluded that the Geoge W. Bush administration’s Global War on Terror was actually a war on Islam. After the FBI sought to squeeze him into becoming an informant against other Muslims, Awlaki fled the country. He arrived in Yemen and was arrested and reportedly tortured at the behest of the American government. After he was released from prison eighteen months later, his attitude had worsened and his sermons became more bloodthirsty.

After the Obama administration announced plans to kill Awlaki, his father hired a lawyer to file a challenge in federal court. The ACLU joined the lawsuit, seeking to compel the government “to disclose the legal standard it uses to place U.S. citizens on government kill lists.” The Obama administration labeled the entire case a “State Secret.” This meant that the administration did not even have to explain why federal law no longer constrained its killings. The administration could have indicted Awlaki on numerous charges but it did not want to provide him any traction in federal court.

In September 2010, The New York Times reported that “there is widespread agreement among the administration’s legal team that it is lawful for President Obama to authorize the killing of someone like Mr. Awlaki.” It was comforting to know that top political appointees concurred that Obama could justifiably kill Americans. But that was the same “legal standard” the Bush team used to justify torture.

The Obama administration asserted a right to kill American citizens without trial, without notice, and without any chance for the marked men to legally object. In November 2010, Justice Department attorney Douglas Letter announced in federal court that no judge had legal authority to be “looking over the shoulder” of Obama’s targeted killing. Letter declared that the program involves “the very core powers of the president as commander in chief.”

The following month, federal judge John Bates dismissed the ACLU’s lawsuit because “there are circumstances in which the Executive’s unilateral decision to kill a U.S. citizen overseas” is “judicially unreviewable.” Bates declared that targeted killing was a “political question” outside the court’s jurisdiction. His deference was stunning: no judge had ever presumed that killing Americans was simply another “political question.” The Obama administration’s position “would allow the executive unreviewable authority to target and kill any U.S. citizen it deems a suspect of terrorism anywhere,” according to Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Pardiss Kebriae.

On September 30^th, 2011, an American drone attack killed Awlaki along with another American citizen, Samir Khan, who was editing an online Al Qaeda magazine. Obama bragged about the lethal operation at a military base later that day. A few days later, administration officials gave a New York Times reporter extracts a peek at the fifty-page secret Justice Department memo. The Times noted, “The secret document provided the justification for [killing Awlaki] despite an executive order banning assassinations, a federal law against murder, protections in the Bill of Rights and various strictures of the international laws of war, according to people familiar with the analysis.” The legal case for killing Awlaki was so airtight that it did not even need to be disclosed to the American public.

Two weeks after killing Awlaki, Obama authorized a drone attack that killed his son and six other people as they sat at an outdoor café in Yemen. Anonymous administration officials quickly assured the media that Abdulrahman Awlaki was a 21-year-old Al Qaeda fighter and thus fair game. Four days later, The Washington Post published a birth certificate proving that Awlaki’s son was only 16-years old and had been born in Denver. Nor did the boy have any connection with Al Qaeda or any other terrorist group. Robert Gibbs, Obama’s former White House press secretary and a top advisor for Obama’s reelection campaign, later shrugged that the 16-year-old should have had “a far more responsible father.”

Regardless of that boy’s killing, the media often portrayed Obama and his drones as infallible. A Washington Post poll a few months later revealed that 83% of Americans approved of Obama’s drone killing policy. It made almost no difference whether the suspected terrorists were American citizens; 79% of respondents approved of preemptively killing their fellow countrymen, no judicial niceties required. The Post noted that “77 percent of liberal Democrats endorse the use of drones, meaning that Obama is unlikely to suffer any political consequences as a result of his policy in this election year.” The poll results were largely an echo of official propaganda. Most folks “knew” only what the government wanted them to hear regarding drones. Thanks to pervasive secrecy, top government officials could kill who they chose and say what they pleased. The fact that the federal government had failed to substantiate more than 90% of its terrorist accusations since 9/11 was irrelevant since the president was omniscient.

Sovereign immunity entitles presidents to kill with impunity. Or at least that is what presidents have presumed for most of the past century. If the Trump administration can establish a prerogative to preemptively kill anyone suspected of transporting illicit narcotics, millions of Americans could be in the federal cross-hairs. But the Trump administration is already having trouble preserving total secrecy thanks to controversies over who ordered alleged war crimes. Will Trump’s anti-drug carnage end up torpedoing his beloved Secretary of War Hegseth and his own credibility with Congress, the judiciary, and hundreds of millions of Americans who do not view White House statements as divine revelations handed down from Mt. Sinai?

So, do you still think you live in a constitutional democracy with a free population if they can be murdered at any time by the regime with impunity?

THE AMERICAN REGIME HAS PLANS TO ERASE REFUGEE CAMPS THAT PALESTINIANS WANT TO RETURN TO

Palestinians Displaced From Refugee Camps In The Northern West Bank Are Demanding To Return To Their Homes After An Israeli Military Takeover Of The Camps.

They fear that proposed American plans for rebuilding the camps will completely erase them.

It has been well over 200 days since the people of the Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and Jenin refugee camps were forced out of their homes by the Israeli army during its offensive in the northern West Bank dubbed “Operation Iron Wall.” Over 40,000 Palestinians from these camps have been displaced for the past eleven months, many of them living in deplorable conditions, and without a clear return to their homes on the horizon.

These thousands of families have been displaced within their own cities, and are totally reliant upon community resources for survival. Israeli forces are now stationed in the now-depopulated camps, and has kept them empty as it aims to uproot armed Palestinian resistance groups, which were based in the camps before the Israel’s operation.

Last Thursday, Human Rights Watch released a report based on its analysis of satellite imagery, concluding that about 850 buildings in the three refugee camps were destroyed or sustained heavy damage within six months of the start of the Iron Wall offensive in January. Human Rights Watch stated that “Israeli forces committed forcible displacement in violation of the law of occupation under international humanitarian law that amount to war crimes.”

The conditions imposed on Palestinians from these camps impact every aspect of their daily lives, adding to the humanitarian burden on the limited resources of the cities and their community.

“The most obvious impact is currently on the education of children, who used to go to the UNRWA schools in the camps, which have now been closed down,” Hussein Sheikh Ali, a social activist in Tulkarem, said. “Thousands of children haven’t attended a day of school for 10 months.”

“After a lot of waiting, some children in primary school age were relocated to government schools in the afternoon, but not middle or high school students,” he added. “This is creating a growing crisis of young people without school in the city.”

Another side of the crisis is health, Ali continues. “Thousands of chronic disease patients depended on UNRWA health centers, and they have lost that support, especially the elderly,” he added. “But beneath the obvious sides of the crisis, there is the increasing poverty of hundreds of families from the camps, who depend on working permits in Israel and whose permits have been revoked by the occupation, as well as those who had small shops and businesses in the camps who also lost everything.”

“In our association, the Wadi Al-Hawareth Charity Association, we have been distributing over 1,000 hot meals to displaced families every day,” Ali noted. “We rely on donations from the community and local donors, but the need is much greater than our resources, and recently we reduced our distribution to once every two days to cover as much need as possible.”

Ali stresses that the current response by local civil society to the needs created by the displacement of the camps “is not sustainable in the long term, and all local associations act in the hope that there will be a solution soon.”

Meanwhile, displaced Palestinians continue to struggle to maintain their social cohesion while responding to their needs. Najat Butmeh, a displaced Palestinian from the Jenin camp, who is a school teacher and the director of the “Warm House” women and children’s center in the camp, said that “the most important thing that displaced people from Jenin refugee camp are holding onto is their sense of community, staying in touch with each other, and trying to help each other out.”

YOUTHS’ VIEWS ON ISRAEL RESULT FROM ‘PURE PROPAGANDA’ ON SOCIAL MEDIA ACCORDING TO HILLARY CLINTON

She Has Claimed That Young Americans — Including Young Jewish Americans — Hold Critical Views Of Israel Because They Are Being Misled By “Pure Propaganda”.

Speaking at a summit in New York hosted by Israel Hayom on Tuesday, Clinton repeatedly suggested that widely documented information circulating online about Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza is fabricated, and expressed concern that students “don’t know the history and don’t understand.”

Clinton described it as “a serious problem” that young people rely heavily on social media for their information, despite the fact that the videos, documentation, and reporting she dismissed have been independently verified by journalists, human rights organizations, UN bodies, and legal experts investigating Israeli war crimes and genocide.

CLAIMS OF “PURE PROPAGANDA”

Clinton argued that an “organized effort” began on October 8^th to mislead the public about Israel’s actions, although she offered no evidence for this allegation.

She also insisted that supporters of Palestinian rights do not know “what river, what sea” refers to in the chant “From the River to the Sea,” characterizing students as uninformed rather than acknowledging the well-documented context of Israeli occupation and ongoing Palestinian displacement.

Clinton went on to say that Israel “had the worst PR of any group,” suggesting that criticism of Israeli actions stems from communications failures rather than the scale of destruction in Gaza, which has been described as unprecedented since World War II by humanitarian agencies.

She also said it was “very difficult” to engage in “reasonable discussion” with them because “they did not know history, they had very little context, and what they were being told on social media was not just one-sided, it was pure propaganda.”

SOCIAL MEDIA EVIDENCE VS. CLINTON’S ASSERTIONS

More than 50 percent of young Americans receive their news primarily from social media — a trend Clinton framed as a threat to democracy. However, young people’s shifting views align closely with the findings of major human rights organizations, UN reports, the ICJ genocide case, and extensive independent investigations, whose conclusions directly contradict Clinton’s assertion that online content is “totally made up.”

Her comments come amid mounting frustration within pro-Israel political circles that Israel has been unable to control public opinion as the scale of the Gaza genocide has become visible worldwide.

Clinton’s criticism also stands in contrast to Israel’s extensive and documented use of social media influencers to shape public opinion during its assault on Gaza.

In recent months, Israel has been turning to social media influencers in what is seen as the information war surrounding its genocidal assault on Gaza, as well as a turning tide of opinion against the occupation state.

Last month, two American organizations lodged a formal complaint with the Department of Justice regarding “apparent violations” by a group of American social media influencers who appear to be operating as unregistered agents of the Government of Israel.

“So just pause on that for a second. They are seeing short-form videos, some of them totally made up, some of them not at all representing what they claim to be showing, and that’s where they get their information,” she added.

It was also reported in August that Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs escorted a group of influencers into Gaza under military guard, according to Israeli media. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that these hand-picked content creators were given privileged access to aid warehouses and distribution points. Their videos, polished and widely shared on Instagram, TikTok, and X, depicted rows of aid packages and convoys of trucks, casting the image of an efficient humanitarian operation, contrary to the reality on the ground.

According to Israel Hayom, the summit was hosted by American-Israeli billionaire Dr. Miriam Adelson who is a major Republican funder and top financier of the 2024 Trump campaign. Adelson, whose wealthy father was prominent in the Zionist Mapam Party, which aided in ethnically cleansing some 750,000 Palestinians from their homes between 1947-49, served in the Israeli military herself. She is also the publisher of Israel Hayom, Israel’s most-read newspaper.

POLL SHOWS FALLING SYMPATHIES FOR ISRAEL

According to the results of a poll last month, sympathies for Israel have fallen “to a historic low” among registered voters in the United States, with “a plurality” of voters agreeing that “what Israel has done in Gaza amounts to genocide.”

The survey results on the question of “are your sympathies more with Israel or more with Palestine” show that just under 3 in 10 (29.1 percent) of American voters currently side with Israel while just over 2 in 10 (21.14 percent) now side with the Palestinians.

“In a clear indication of growing weariness over the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the largest share of voters at 29.9% now say they sympathize with ‘Neither’,” the research company said in a statement.

In particular, the survey results also showed growing support among young Republicans aged 18-29 of whom 33.4 percent prefer Palestine over 27.9 percent who support Israel.

The shift is even more evident among President Donald Trump’s “America First” base, with 40.8 percent of 25-29 year-olds expressing sympathy for Palestine, and 24.5 percent expressing support for Israel. A total of 30.6 percent chose “Neither”.

GAZA GENOCIDE

Starting on October 7^th, 2023, the Israeli military, with American support, launched a genocidal war against the people of Gaza. This campaign has so far resulted in the deaths of over 70,000 Palestinians, with more than 170,000 wounded. The vast majority of the population has been displaced, and the destruction of infrastructure is unprecedented since World War II. Thousands of people are still missing.

In addition to the military assault, the Israeli blockade has caused a man-made famine, leading to the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians—mostly children—with hundreds of thousands more at risk.

Despite widespread international condemnation, little has been done to hold Israel accountable. The nation is currently under investigation for genocide by the International Court of Justice, while accused war criminals, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are officially wanted by the International Criminal Court.

TRUMP HAS BEEN INVITED TO A COCAINE LAB DEMOLITION AMID TRUMP’S ATTACK THREAT BY COLOMBIA’S PETRO

Colombian President Chides Trump, Saying 18,400 Cocaine Laboratories Have Been Destroyed ‘Without Missiles’ Fired.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has invited President Donald Trump to visit his country and participate in the destruction of cocaine laboratories after Trump said any country trafficking drugs into the United States could be attacked, “not just Venezuela”.

Trump issued his warning during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday at the White House, where he singled out Colombia for producing cocaine and selling it into America.

“I hear Colombia, the country of Colombia, is making cocaine. They have cocaine manufacturing plants, oK, and then they sell us their cocaine,” Trump said.

“Anybody that’s doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack,” he said.

Petro responded swiftly to Trump in a post on social media, pointing out that his government had destroyed 18,400 cocaine laboratories “without missiles”.

“Come to Colombia, Mr. Trump,” Petro said.

“Come with me, and I’ll show you how they are destroyed, one laboratory every 40 minutes,” Petro said, “to prevent cocaine from reaching the US”.

Petro also warned against threatening Colombia’s sovereignty, which he said was a declaration of war that “will awaken a Jaguar”.

“Do not damage two centuries of diplomatic relations. You have already slandered me; do not continue down that path,” Petro said, apparently referring to Trump’s previous public assertions that the Colombian leader was involved in the drug trade.

“If there is a country that has helped stop thousands of tonnes of cocaine so that North Americans do not consume it, it is Colombia,” Petro added.

Still, Colombia remains the dominant source of cocaine entering America: According to the American Drug Enforcement Agency, 84 percent of the drug seized in the country in 2024 originated in Colombia.

Trump’s administration has deployed a huge military force to the Latin American region under the pretext of stemming the flow of drugs to America from Venezuela, and has carried out missile attacks on vessels in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, killing at least 83 people in the process.

Trump made his remarks on expanding attacks against narcotics-exporting countries while seated next to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is under scrutiny for a so-called “double-tap” strike in September that killed two survivors from an earlier American attack on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, which had already killed nine people.

Legal experts said the second attack on the two survivors as they clung to the wreckage of the destroyed vessel was potentially a war crime, and both Democrat and Republican lawmakers have promised to investigate the circumstances of the killings.

Hegseth defended the secondary strike but said on Tuesday that while he had watched the first attack on the suspected drug smuggling vessel in real time, he had not seen survivors or the second deadly American attack.

The Pentagon chief maintained that he only discovered, some hours later, that Admiral Frank Bradley, head of special operations command, had ordered the second strike on survivors.

Washington has provided no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the victims, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused the American regime of planning to remove him from government under the guise of its anti-drug operation.

BODIES RETURNED BY ISRAEL SHOCK GAZA FAMILIES WITH THEIR SEVERED FINGERS AND INCISIONS

Hopes Of Closure For Grieving Families Give Way To New Anguish As They Confront The Unrecognisable Condition Of Their Loved Ones’ Remains.

The bodies handed over by Israel arrived in Gaza frozen, numbered and silent.

Palestinian families hoped their arrival would finally answer their two-year-long questions about the fate of their missing relatives.

But with these answers came new questions, leaving many families in limbo even after they were finally able to bury their loved ones: what had happened to their bodies?

Many of the remains delivered to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis were difficult to identify – some with severed parts, others bearing long-stitched incisions.

This has led families to suspect that vital organs or body parts were taken while their relatives were in Israeli custody.

Yet forensic doctors in Gaza say they cannot confirm or refute these claims, as the Ministry of Health lacks the equipment needed for full examinations.

“My brother Ahmed went missing on the first day of the war,” Muhammed Ayesh Ramadan, a resident of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, said.

“We did not know anything about him, or how he disappeared, but I kept saying he was missing and kept searching for him, hoping to find him.”

When bodies were returned from Israel as part of the ceasefire signed with Hamas in October, the Palestinian Ministry of Health displayed photos of them at Nasser Hospital for families to inspect.

Ramadan searched for three days without success. On the fourth day, he finally spotted the clues he had been looking for.

“I identified him with around 70 percent certainty from his face,” he recalled.

‘There was a stitched incision running vertically from his chest downward; it looked like they had opened his body’

– Muhammed Ayesh Ramadan, Gaza resident

When Ramadan further inspected the body, he also found distinctive marks he recognised on the torso, and ultimately confirmed his 37-year-old brother’s identity.

“The body was burned, and there were around six to seven bullets in his body. It was extremely stiff and completely frozen,” he explained.

Ramadan noticed that one of his brother’s toes had been cut off. Forensic doctors, however, say this was the case with almost all the bodies they received, apparently due to DNA examinations conducted in Israeli custody.

“There was also a stitched incision running vertically from his chest downward; it looked like they had opened his body,” he added.

“My brother had never undergone any surgery, and he had never had stitches before the war. I even asked his wife, and she confirmed that he had never had any stitches and his abdomen had never been opened.”

“MANY REMAIN UNIDENTIFIABLE”

Doctors and forensic teams in Gaza are often unable to determine whether organs are missing due to a lack of equipment and essential materials.

Khalil Hamada, director general of forensic medicine in Gaza, said that bodies handed over by Israeli authorities can only be examined externally, with no possibility for internal inspection.

“The bodies arrive in such extreme freezing conditions that we sometimes leave them for a day or two until the ice melts and their details become visible. Some bodies even arrive partially decomposed,” he said.

“Handling the bodies is extremely difficult. What we do is not a full forensic examination, as we lack the necessary capabilities. The process is limited to documenting individual distinguishing features so families can identify their loved ones.”

Hamada added that proper examinations would require DNA testing and 4D CT scans, which are not available in Gaza.

“This severely limits our ability to conduct precise forensic examinations and fully identify bodies. Many remain unidentifiable, and we are forced to bury them without names,” he said.

Israel has returned the bodies of 345 Palestinians to Gaza. Only 99 have been identified so far.

The rest were mostly buried in mass graves without identification.

Hamada also confirmed that Israeli authorities amputate certain body parts, such as thumbs on hands as well as feet, before returning the bodies.

“They may take just the tip of a finger or the first phalanx, but they often remove the entire thumb. In most cases, these fingers are amputated for DNA purposes before the body is handed over to us,” Hamada said.

HANDS AND FEET BOUND

In the handover process, Israel does not provide names, forensic reports, condition reports or cause-of-death information to Palestinian authorities or families.

After each batch of bodies arrives, the Ministry of Health invites families to Nasser Hospital, where photos of the remains are displayed on a large screen, each marked with a number.

Families who recognise a relative report the number before viewing the body in the morgue and arranging burial.

Because some relatives cannot attend and the viewing period is short, the ministry also maintains an online page showing images of unidentified bodies, with details such as date received, gender, and body number.

The photos include close-ups of body parts, such as the jaw, skull, fingers and toes, as well as distinctive marks that relatives may recognise, in addition to the clothing worn by the missing person.

Zeinab Ismail Shabat, from Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, was browsing the page when she identified her 34-year-old missing brother, Mahmoud Shabat.

“As soon as we saw his hair and eyes, his upper features, we recognised him,” Shabbat said.

“The next day, my mother, father, my brother’s wife, and my uncle went [to Nasser Hospital], and they recognised him.”

Mahmoud’s family confirmed his identity to the hospital by recognising a head injury he had sustained during the 2018 Great March of Return protests against the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

“One of his index fingers was severed. His hands were tied behind his back. His legs were also bound, and the marks of the metal restraints had left dents in his feet,” Shabat said.

“It was clear that he was martyred while restrained. He was completely stripped of clothing. There was a gunshot in his thigh, and there were small pieces of wood on his chest.”

According to Mahmoud’s mother, his face appeared to have been struck so violently that his skull was fractured, and his neck bore marks suggesting he had been hung.

Independent medical personnel in Gaza report that many of the bodies received bore clear signs of torture, fractured bones, and, in some cases, were bound at the hands and feet with their eyes blindfolded.

Nagah Ismail al-Jabari, a sister and mother of two missing Palestinians whose bodies were handed over by Israel recently, said she could mainly identify them by their clothes.

“My brother, Fahd, was 35, and was martyred at the beginning of the war. He was among those who went out to watch [on the aftermath of October 7^th attack], and he was killed,” she said.

“I recognised him by his sandals and clothes. Some of his features and teeth were not heavily decomposed. I recognised him from the photos, then went with my brother, and they brought the body out of the freezer so we could identify him further.”

As with nearly all the bodies received, Jabari said that her brother’s left index finger and big toe were amputated.

“There was also a tooth that was missing. But there were no incisions or stitches on his body. This is mainly because my brother was killed immediately, so I don’t think they would attempt to take organs from someone already dead.” she added.

“As for my son, he was 20 years old. I identified him by his clothes and underwear,” she recalled.

“Two of his teeth were missing and he had a wound in his left thigh. There were also shrapnel fragments in his back.”

DON’T LET THE EMPIRE DELUDE YOU INTO BELIEVING THAT YOU ARE POWERLESS

There Are Always Things You Can Do To Fight The Sadistic, Evil, Greedy Monsters, And There Are Always Things You Can Do To Improve Your Own Life.

It’s so easy to fall into the trap of believing there’s nothing we can do. Nothing we can do to fight the machine because it’s too large and entrenched, and nothing we can do to change our own personal circumstances because the deck is stacked so unfairly against ordinary people.

It’s a strong illusion because at a surface glance it appears to be true. Our political systems are locked down by the rich and powerful to ensure that our votes don’t inconvenience them in any way, and any new political movement which challenges establishment power structures will find itself facing sabotage from the outside and from within. Our voices are kept marginalized and our countrymen have been turned into mindless empire automatons by a lifetime of propaganda indoctrination.

And at first glance we appear to be just as powerless in our personal lives as well. Unless you’re lucky enough to have obtained some capital which you can use to extract labor from the working class or to possess some special aptitude that our system happens to value, you can spend your whole life struggling in poverty. The life of a worker is getting harder and harder, and it’s easy to feel like there’s nothing you can do about your own unhappiness and psychological dysfunction because you’re laboring under a system that’s so abusive and unfair.

So while it is true that there are many doors that are closed to a denizen of our dystopia, that doesn’t mean you are powerless to change things. Believing that you are powerless serves no one but the powerful.

We are never truly powerless because we always have the ability to help foment a revolutionary zeitgeist, and because we always have the ability to heal ourselves. As a collective we have the power to inform and educate the public to help them understand that they’ve been deceived their whole lives about our society, and that a better world is both needed and possible. As individuals we have the ability to do inner work to heal our trauma and liberate ourselves from the delusion of ego, which will have radically transformative effects on our quality of life in a whole host of ways.

There is nothing our rulers can do to take these abilities away from us. We will always have the ability to do something to help awaken the people to the need for revolution, and we will always have the ability to heal our inner wounds. Every single day there are concrete actions we can take toward both of these ends.

It serves nobody but the powerful to believe there’s nothing we can do to change things. Too many socialists are content to just sit around smugly knowing better than everyone else and having all the correct opinions about things while expressing distain for everyone who tries to expand awareness or make the world a better place. Get active in your community. Produce dissident media. Make revolutionary art. Have conversations. Change minds. Open some eyes. Wake people up so that one day there will be enough of us to force real change.

It serves nobody but the powerful to believe you are doomed to a life of misery. Too many people are content to blame all their internal dysfunction on the abuses of capitalism and just spend their days masturbating their inner wounds in meetings and online without doing the rigorous inner work necessary to come to inner peace. Get curious about your internal processes. Research the many modalities for inner healing that are available online. Listen to the brilliant minds who’ve been sharing groundbreaking new insights about trauma and inner work lately. Investigate the possibility that spiritual enlightenment is a real phenomenon that is entirely achievable in this life. Take responsibility for your own inner wellbeing, and start doing something about it.

We don’t need to sit around paralyzed by power-serving learned helplessness. We don’t need to sit idly by waiting for some resolution to our plight. We don’t need to resign ourselves to a life of suffering and making the same mistakes over and over again because we’re being whipped about by unconscious forces within us that we’ve never taken the time to investigate.

There is always something we can do. We can never do everything, but we can always do something. There’s no good reason not to do that something we can do, every single day of our lives.