GAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 130

GAZA LIVE BLOG: Sniping Children at Nasser Hospital | Lavrov: No Excuse | Hezbollah: Direct Hits | Rafah Bombing Intensifies – Day 130

▪️Israel admitted to the death of three soldiers and the wounding of 15 more, while invading Israeli forces continue to besiege hospitals and target civilian infrastructure.
▪️Israeli strikes are targeting southern and central Gaza, where at least 16 Palestinians were killed overnight.
▪️China called on Israel to stop military operations and prevent an even more humanitarian catastrophe in Rafah.
▪️Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that there are no prospects for a quick stabilization of the situation in the Gaza Strip due to Israel’s “uncompromising attitude”.
Lavrov said that “Taking into account the uncompromising attitude of the Israeli leadership to continue the military action in Gaza, now extending it to Rafah, we do not see prospects for a quick stabilization of the situation in this sector.” He also said that Russia drew attention to its initiative in the UN Security Council to hold consultation with regional countries to “harmonize their approaches in support of the creation of a Palestinian state.”
▪️The South African Government said that it had submitted an urgent request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding Israel’s intention to expand its military offensive in the densely overcrowded southern Gaza city of Rafah.
In a statement published on Tuesday, the government said it asked the Court “to consider whether the decision announced by Israel to extend its military operations in Rafah, which is the last refuge for surviving people in Gaza, requires that the Court uses its power to prevent further imminent breach of the rights of Palestinians in Gaza.”
▪️Palestinian detainees told Euro-Med Monitor that Israeli civilians were permitted to watch and laughingly film them being tortured and abused by Israeli soldiers.
In a press release on Monday, the rights group shared testimonies from recently released Palestinian detainees stating that “groups of ten to twenty Israeli civilians at a time were permitted to watch and laughingly film Palestinian prisoners and detainees in their underwear while Israeli army soldiers subjected them to physical abuse.” This abuse included “beating them with metal batons, electric sticks, and pouring hot water on their heads. The detainees were also verbally abused.”
▪️133 Palestinians were killed in the last 24 hours, as Israeli forces committed 16 massacres in Gaza, the Palestinian Health Ministry in the Strip said in a statement.

🔸Lebanon’s interest is secured by debilitating Zionist power
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211986/Lebanon-s-interest-is-secured-by-debilitating-Zionist-power
▪️Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday that Hezbollah border offensive is a national duty to protect Lebanon from the Israeli aggression.

🔸Resistance Front is the main responsibility of Muslim Ummah
https://iranpress.com/resistance-front-is-the-main-responsibility-of-muslim-ummah
▪️Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said: “Today, the ‘Axis of Resistance’ possesses great strength, resilience, and enhanced capabilities and the Revolutionary Guards are at the foundation of this resistance, which has taken on the responsibility of supporting oppressed peoples

▪️Lebanon’s Hezbollah Resistance Movement has carried out a rocket attack against an Israeli regime’s spy base in the northern parts of the occupied Palestinian territories.
Al-Radar base was accurately hit by a guided missile, Lebanese media reported on Monday, citing the resistance movement. Hezbollah also said that it had targeted a Zionist barrack with a Falaq-1 missile.
▪️Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has fired two anti-armor missiles toward the occupied territories, Zionist media outlets have reported. According to the reports on Tuesday, Hezbollah fired the missiles toward a Zionist settlement in Al-Jalil, north of occupied Palestine, causing damage in the area.

▪️The Zionist regime’s assassinatiing or defaming journalists is a conspiracy to legitimize the martyrdom of 126 journalists, cover up the martyrdom of 28,000 Palestinians, and lay the ground for the Rafah offensive.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211988/Netanyahu-s-goals-of-assassinating-defaming-Gaza-journalists

▪️Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met and held talks with the head of Hamas’ political bureau Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar on Tuesday.
Earlier, Amir-Abdollahian held separate meetings with his Qatari counterpart and the Emir of Qatar to discuss the bilateral relations between Tehran and Doha, as well as the Israeli regime’s genocidal war against the defenseless Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip.
▪️Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kan’ani has slammed the illegal act of the United States in the seizure of a Venezuelan plane. The Iranian senior diplomat’s reaction came after Washington’s decision to illegally seize a Boeing 747 cargo plane belonging to Venezuela.
Kan’ani described the seizure as illegitimate and a form of hijacking which represents US unilateralism and how it violated the United Nations charter and international law.
▪️The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has successfully launched a long-range ballistic missile from a warship, the IRGC commander said. Salami emphasized that “This new achievement increased the range of influence and our naval power to any desired point because our ocean-going ships can appear anywhere in the world.”

🔸The hands of the regional Armageddon clock strike eleven
by Alastair Crooke
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-hands-of-the-regional-armageddon-clock-strike-eleven
▪️Few in Washington seem to little appreciate ‘how deep-in’ they already are. Or, the extent and speed at which their options are vanishing, and are ineluctably tied to the fortunes of Netanyahu and his far-right coalition government.

▪️Imad Mughniyeh headed Hezbollah’s military, commanding two of West Asia’s most resounding victories in 2000 and 2006 and inspiring the Resistance’s feared Radwan Force.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/who-is-imad-mughniyeh–hezbollah-s-mastermind-legendary-stra

▪️The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine emphasizes the urgent need to take the fight toward the heart of ‘Israel’, starting from the West Bank, in support of Gaza.
The PFLP confirmed the increase in settler attacks on the Palestinian people across the West Bank. These assaults, which include road blockades, land seizures, attacks on homes, and shootings on Palestinians, are occurring concurrently with the genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip. The PFLP asserted that these actions are being orchestrated by the occupation officials and the occupation army.

▪️A source from Gaza’s Resistance tells Al Mayadeen that the Israeli occupation is attempting to hollow out the Paris Document so as not to meet conditions demanded by the Resistance. The Paris Document entailed a three-stage prisoner exchange deal, but the proposal did not meet the Resistance’s conditions, as it neglected the requirements for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from Gaza.
Resistance sources explained to Al Mayadeen last week that the positive response does not imply in any way that the Resistance has been weakened or lost its ability to fight, stressing that it still possesses military capabilities and manpower, enabling it to confront for the longest possible period.

▪️Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reports that strikes by the US-UK coalition targeted the al-Tuhayta directorate in Hodeidah. This attack comes days after the two allies carried out over 10 strikes between Thursday and Friday last week, targeting several areas of Yemeni regions governed by Sanaa.

🔸Egypt reveals alleged Israeli plan to evacuate Rafah civilians
https://thecradle.co/articles/egypt-reveals-alleged-israeli-plan-to-evacuate-rafah-civilians
▪️If 1.3 million Palestinians from the southern Gaza city are forced into tent camps along the sea ahead of a military offensive, Israel will be closer to its goal of expelling strip’s population to Egypt by land and other countries by boat

▪️Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported on 11 February, citing Israeli army radio, that Egyptian officials have informed Israel that they will not object to a ground operation in Rafah so long as Palestinians are not harmed or displaced into the Sinai Peninsula.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry rejected claims that it has greenlit the assault on Rafah.
According to Hebrew media reports, Egyptian officials told Israel that Cairo has concerns that an influx of Palestinians into Egypt could lead to renewed “militancy.”

▪️The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, on 12 February warned Israeli officials about the consequences of launching a ground invasion of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and revealed his office launched an investigation into possible war crimes committed by Tel Aviv.
“I am deeply concerned by the reported bombardment and potential ground incursion by Israeli forces in Rafah. My office has an ongoing and active investigation into the situation in the State of Palestine. This is being taken forward as a matter of the utmost urgency, with a view to bringing to justice those responsible for Rome Statute crimes,” Khan said via social media.

▪️China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, on 13 February, gave a formal condemnation of the Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians in Rafah and called on Tel Aviv to halt its military operations.
“China is closely watching the developments in Rafah,” the spokesperson read. “We oppose and condemn acts against civilians and international law. We call on Israel to stop military operations as soon as possible, do everything possible to avoid casualties among innocent civilians, and prevent a more devastating humanitarian disaster in Rafah.”

▪️The HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier failed to set sail toward Norway’s Arctic coast on 11 February, one week after the HMS Queen Elizabeth was forced to pull out from the largest NATO drills since the end of the Cold War due to a “mechanical failure.”
Over 40 vessels from all 31 NATO nations plus Sweden will participate in Exercise Steadfast Defender off the Norwegian coast in March. The drills are set to run until May and will see the participation of about 90,000 troops.

🔸On Israel’s demolition of every university in Gaza,
by Chris Hedges
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-dr-ahmed
▪️The Israeli attacks on Gaza has included systematic attacks on Gaza’s cultural and educational institutions. Israel has damaged or destroyed all 12 of Gaza’s universities. Some 280 government schools and 65 UNRWA-run schools have also been destroyed or damaged, often resulting in dozens of fatalities.

🔸Israel: Rafah Evacuation Plans Catastrophic, Unlawful – HRW
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/09/israel-rafah-evacuation-plans-catastrophic-unlawful
▪️International humanitarian law prohibits the forced displacement of civilians except when temporarily required for their security or imperative military reasons. During the hostilities in Gaza, Human Rights Watch has warned that forced displacement, a war crime, is becoming more of a risk. Any forced displacement of the population would not relieve Israeli forces of their responsibility to take all feasible measures to protect the civilian population.

“The Second Coming”
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

GAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 129

GAZA LIVE BLOG: Horrific Massacre in Rafah | Resistance Ambushes Soldiers | Gaza Hospitals under Attack | Israel Bombs Lebanon – Day 129

▪️Although Israeli media reported that the Israeli army was “suffering from a difficult situation in Khan Yunis after being exposed to a very large ambush” on Sunday night, the Israeli army only admitted to the killing of two soldiers.
▪️Meanwhile, the bombing of the Gaza Strip continued, with a horrific massacre in the overpopulated city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, which killed at least 67 Palestinians.
▪️Israel announced the rescue of two captives, without providing further details. However, the news has not been confirmed by the Palestinian side.
▪️AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We eliminated 10 Israeli soldiers from zero-range
▪️HEZBOLLAH: We targeted “the spy equipment at the Israeli radar site” with a guided missile, and it achieved a direct hit.
▪️SCOTLAND’S PM: The British government and opposition should “hang their heads in shame as we witness a massacre in which thousands of women and children are killed in Gaza.”
▪️AL-JAZEERA: The Dutch government said it will appeal in the Supreme Court a ruling banning the export of spare parts for F-35 fighter jets to Israel.
▪️AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We set up a precise ambush for an Israeli force east of Khan Yunis. As soon as the force arrived at the ambush site, our fighters surprised it with machine guns, anti-personnel shells, fortifications, and explosive devices, leaving the force members dead and wounded.
▪️ANSARALLAH: We targeted an American ship in the Red Sea and achieved a direct hit.
▪️The UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk has criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza, warning that they amount to “collective punishment.”
UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Turk has criticized Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip, as “disproportionate” and “collective punishment.”
▪️“Targeting Rafah, along with Israel’s continued policy of obstructing access to humanitarian aid, is an actual contribution to implementing the policy of displacing the Palestinian people and liquidating their cause,” the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
▪️Hamas called on the International Court of Justice to document the latest crimes and to adopt a decision to halt the war and take all measures to stop the atrocities. The Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas said on Monday that the Israeli massacres in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, are a continuation of “genocide and forced displacement.”
▪️“Palestinian families eat half a meal every two days while residents in the northern Gaza Strip cannot even find fodder to eat due to the war of extermination that Israel has been waging against the Strip for months,” the Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza, Ismail Al-Thawabta, told Anadolu news agency on Sunday.
“The (Israeli) occupation prevents humanitarian aid trucks from reaching the northern Gaza Strip governorate,” Thawabta said, according to Anadolu, noting that “the humanitarian situation in the northern Gaza Strip is now long past the catastrophic stage.”
▪️Rightwing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that calls not to invade the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah are calls for Israel to lose the war. Netanyahu said “Those who say that under no circumstances should we enter Rafah are basically saying lose the war. Keep Hamas there.”

🔸Hezbollah Missiles Hit IOF Sites near Lebanon Border
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2043538
▪️In support of the Palestinian people and resistance in Gaza and in light of the Israeli aggression on the various South Lebanon villages, the Islamic Resistance continued striking the Zionist occupation sites near Lebanon border.
▪️Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah is scheduled to address the Party’s ceremony held, at Shahed School campus in Beirut’s Dahiyeh on Tuesday (February 13) at 15:00 (Beirut’s Time), in order to mark the anniversary of the Birth of Imam Hussein (A.S.), Imam Sajjad (A.S.) and Abu Fadl Al-Abbas on Shaaban 4 and 5 and honor the prisoners and wounded fighters of the Islamic Resistance.
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2043362

🔸The many ruts US got itself stuck in; sanctions, air power included
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/the-many-ruts-us-got-itself-stuck-in–sanctions–air-power-i
▪️Foreign Policy columnist, Stephen Walt, highlights the failures of the US foreign policy and how “familiar approaches” lead to more damage than good.
▪️Japan and Australia have warned that an invasion of Rafah would have devastating consequences for the millions of Palestinians taking shelter in the city.
▪️🤡 Borrell told reporters that NATO “cannot be an ‘à la carte’ military alliance. NATO cannot be an alliance that works depending on the ‘humor’ of the President of the United States in those days,” stressing that the response cannot be “now yes, tomorrow no.’ … It exists, or it does not exist.”
▪️The spokesperson of the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza warns that over 10,000 people in the Nasser Medical Complex have run out of food amid the ongoing Israeli siege.The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza warned on Monday that sewage water is flooding the emergency department and hindering the work of medical teams at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with fears of it spreading to the radiology section.

🔸NBC: Biden belittles Netanyahu in private but will still support him
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/nbc–biden-belittles-netanyahu-in-private-but-will-still-sup
▪️According to sources, Biden has been referring to Netanyahu as an “a******”, but a spokesperson for the National Security Council claims in a statement that the two still have a respectful relationship.

🔸Bahraini hackers get access to US Navy confidential documents
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211936/Bahraini-hackers-get-access-to-US-Navy-confidential-documents
▪️On Sunday, the hacking group al-Toufan (Flood) Team carried out an operation against the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, which is endangering maritime navigation in West Asia.
The group said that it had obtained documents containing pictures and detailed maps from inside the American military base in Bahrain.
It released a small part of the documents, saying, “What we have is greater, and it will reach those [who are] concerned and support … the operations of the Axis of Resistance against the American Axis of Evil.”

▪️A merchant vessel was attacked in the Red Sea, 40 nautical miles south of the Yemeni port city of Al-MukhaTwo missiles were fired at the ship, the captain said. The crew was not injured, TASS reported.
▪️Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, said on Saturday that the Yemeni Armed Forces will continue their attacks to pressure Israel to completely halt its aggression on Palestinians in Gaza, lift its blockade there, and allow the unrestricted entry of food, medicine, and basic commodities into the coastal territory.
He cautioned Israeli officials against any ground offensive on Rafah, stating that any escalatory measure against the Palestinian population in Gaza would prompt the Yemeni army to up the ante and carry out more operations against the occupying regime’s interests.

🔸INSTC’s rail freights transit through Iran within 3 to 5 days
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211951/INSTC-s-rail-freights-transit-through-Iran-within-3-to-5-days
▪️The International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) has six rail routes in Iran. Two routes are in the east, two routes in the west, and two routes in the north connected to the rail through the Caspian Sea. The two routes in the east of the Caspian Sea are already operational. The freights from the south i.e. the Persian Gulf are transported by rail from Bandar Abbas to Sarakhs and Incheh Borun. Also in the west of the Caspian Sea, Amirabad port is connected to rail and the Caspian port will be connected to rail in the near future.

▪️Ivory Coast won the Africa Cup of Nations for a third time on Sunday by beating Nigeria 2-1 in the final.

🔸The Palestinian Authority government’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has said that by “killing, destroying, and trying to displace Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, Israel wants to reshape the demographic balance to its advantage.
https://iranpress.com/israel-aims-to-reshape-demographic-balance-of-palestine-with-massacres–pm

🔸Israel pummels overcrowded Rafah leaving hundreds of casualties
https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-pummels-overcrowded-rafah-leaving-hundreds-of-casualties
▪️Israeli jets struck the overcrowded city of Rafah in southern Gaza during the early hours of 12 February with approximately 40 airstrikes that killed over 100 Palestinians and injured hundreds more.
▪️After the Israeli army retreats from an area following clashes with the Palestinian resistance, the drones open fire and kill civilians seeking to return to their homes.
The Israeli army converted quadcopter drones, which were initially designed for photography, into tools for intelligence gathering and subsequently as weapons.
Developed by Israeli military industries, the drones have four or five rotors, are one meter in diameter, are easy to program, and are operated remotely.
The drones also have precise eavesdropping instruments and high-quality cameras for surveillance purposes. They can also be modified to carry bombs and can be modified to become suicide drones.
▪️The number of settlers in the occupied West Bank went up almost three percent last year, according to a new report released by a pro-settler organization based on Israeli government statistics.
According to the report, the settler population grew 15 percent over the past five years. It exceeded half a million last year and will see “accelerated growth” in the years to come, it adds.
Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law. However, Israel has continued to expand them without being held accountable.

▪️A Dutch appeals court ordered the Netherlands on 12 February to halt deliveries of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel after upholding an appeal from several rights groups who said supplying the parts would be a violation of international law.
“The court orders the State to cease all actual export and transit of F-35 parts with final destination Israel within seven days after service of this judgement,” the court ruling reads.
“It is undeniable that there is a clear risk the exported F-35 parts are used in serious violations of international humanitarian law,” it added.
▪️Washington is set to proceed with a $23 billion sale of F-16 warplanes, missiles, and bombs to Turkiye following Ankara’s acceptance of Sweden’s NATO bid.
The sale would see as many as 40 of the latest-gen Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70/72 aircraft, 79 upgrade kits, and hundreds of bombs and missiles toward the NATO ally’s fleet.
F-16 sales to Turkiye were tied to Sweden’s acceptance to becoming a member of the NATO military alliance, something that hinged on Turkiye and Hungary’s final approval following months-long delays. Turkiye accepted Sweden’s bid last month, ending a 20-month delay. Now, the Scandinavian nation only has Budapest in its way.
▪️US congressmen John James and Jared Moskowitz have introduced a bill to the House of Representatives that seeks a “full review” of bilateral relations between the US and South Africa, citing Pretoria’s “history of siding with malign actors,” including Russia, China, and Palestinian resistance group Hamas.

GAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 128

GAZA LIVE BLOG: ‘Ready to Invade Rafah’ | PRCS: Patients are Dying | Hezbollah Targets Espionage Equipment | Scores Killed in Rafah – DAY 128

▪️Israeli media says that the plan to invade Rafah is ready and that the army has been waiting for the green light for about two weeks.
▪️Meanwhile, scores of Palestinians were killed in the southern city of Rafah, where nearly 1.4 million people are gathered and have nowhere else to go.
▪️The situation in the hospitals remains catastrophic due to the Israeli siege: patients, medical staff and displaced people are left with no food, water, medicine, or medical equipment.
▪️MAARIV: A week ago, an Israeli occupation army force seized 200 million shekels ($54.29 million) after storming the Bank of Palestine in Gaza City.
▪️WASHINGTON POST: The Biden administration no longer views Netanyahu as a partner who can be influenced even in secret.
▪️PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Several people died of starvation in northern Gaza due to a lack of food supplies.
▪️AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Two Israeli prisoners were killed due to occupation bombing.
▪️OMAN: The Omani Foreign Ministry warned “of the dangerous repercussions of the occupation’s continued aggression against the Gaza Strip and its tendency to storm Rafah,” and appealed to the international community to take “concrete measures to push Israel to cease fire and open the crossings.”
▪️HAARETZ: The government is exploiting the war on Gaza to establish a Jewish neighborhood in the heart of East Jerusalem.
▪️DUTCH FM: “The situation in the Rafah area is very worrying, and we do not see any outcome of the operations there without a greater humanitarian catastrophe.
▪️112 Palestinians Killed in 24 Hours, as Israel Intensifies Bombing of Rafah
Israeli warplanes continue their airstrikes in the Rafah area, amid reports of an imminent ground invasion into the densely populated city, home to over 1.3 million residents and displaced individuals near Palestine’s border with Egypt.
▪️Two Killed inside Nasser Hospital, as MSF Warns against ‘Catastrophic’ Invasion of Rafah
As Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warn about “catastrophic” results of an Israeli ground offensive into Rafah, two Palestinians have been killed and five others wounded after shots were fired into the Nasser Hospital in southern Khan Younis.

▪️‘Strong Condemnation’ – Saudi Arabia Calls for ‘Urgent’ UNSC Meeting to Prevent Israel’s Invasion of Rafah
“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has warned of the extremely dangerous repercussions of storming and targeting the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, which is the last refuge for hundreds of thousands of civilians forced to flee by the brutal Israeli aggression,”
The kingdom renewed “its demand for the necessity of an immediate cease-fire,” noting that “this continued violation of international law confirms the necessity for the UN Security Council to urgently convene to prevent Israel from causing an imminent humanitarian catastrophe for which everyone who supports the aggression bears responsibility.”

▪️Every war has its villains and its heroes. This maxim is more accentuated in the ongoing genocidal Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip than any other. The latest celebrated Palestinian hero is Dr. Amira al-Assouli.
Dr. al-Assouli’s courage requires no video documentation or evidence. Her work at the Al-Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, literally saving lives every single day, speaks for itself.
But a single video made Dr. al-Assouli an international phenomenon. The video showed the brave Gaza doctor bending over as she ran late last night from the compound’s inner gate towards another area in the hospital, to rescue a young man who was shot by an Israeli sniper and was left alone, bleeding.
Israeli snipers have been stationed around Al-Nasser for over 20 days, shooting at everyone, including animals that would dare venture in or out of the hospital. Doctors, patients, relatives, or displaced refugees have fallen that way.
But Dr. al-Assouli was ready to risk her life to save another :
https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1756197489068089516?s=20

▪️The ‘Lion of Gaza’ Roars – Who is Hamza Abu Halima
The photo that was meant to humiliate Hamza did the exact opposite. He is now known as the ‘Lion of Gaza’.

The ‘Lion of Gaza’ Roars – Who is Hamza Abu Halima

🔸Hezbollah Has Waged Over 1000 Attacks on Israeli Occupation Sites in Support of Gaza: Video
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2042834
▪️In support of the Palestinian people and resistance in Gaza and in light of the Israeli aggression on the various South Lebanon villages, the Islamic Resistance continued striking the Zionist occupation sites near Lebanon border.

▪️Islamic Resistance fighters targeted at 04:55 PM on Sunday, February 11, 2024, a gathering of “Israeli” enemy soldiers in Mount Nothor with missile weapons, inflicting a direct hit.

▪️Assad Welcomes Amirabdollahian: Talks Tackle Syrian-Iran Bilateral Relations
President Al-Assad said that “the Zionist entity and the West are in trouble today, and the West is now required to save that entity, and Israel’s escalation in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon is nothing but an attempt to get out of this trouble.”
“The Zionist entity didn’t stop at committing such a terrible amount of crimes against the Palestinian people in its ongoing aggression on Gaza, but it is preparing to complete it crimes in Rafah, while the relevant international institutions, notably the Security Council, were unable to stop those massacres.” the President added.
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2042988

🔸Time has come for death of Zionist regime: Raeisi
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211903/Time-has-come-for-death-of-Zionist-regime-Raeisi
▪️”The Zionist regime is doomed to failue. They want to kill the time, but the time has come for the regime to die,”
“Westerners tried hard to force the Islamic Republic of Iran to stop defending Palestine and the ideals of the revolution with military war, economic sanctions and embargo, but today, 45 years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, it has been proven that the Islamic Republic and Imam [Khomeini] (RA) were right,” the President Ebrahim Raeisi said in a ceremony and huge rally held at Tehran Azadi Square to celebrate the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution on Sunday.
​Raeisi went on to stress that “The bombings on the people of Gaza must stop as soon as possible. Let everyone know that the Zionist regime is dying and the time has come for the death of this regime.”

▪️The United States military base in Al-Khazra village near Syria’s al-Omar oil field and also the base in the Koniko gas field were targeted with rockets and drones by the Iraqi Islamic Resistance. According to SOHR, preliminary reports indicated casualties.
This was the third attack on the US base in less than an hour. The US ground anti-aircraft missiles tried to counter the missiles but could not shoot them down, SOHR said. The report also said the US Koniko base also came under both rocket and drone attacks.
▪️A former Iraqi prime minister urges Baghdad to act more decisively towards ending the United States’ so-called mission in the Arab country.
“The Iraqi government should adopt a clear and simple position, and announce to America the end of its mission in a certain date,” he said.
“American forces came to Iraq [in the first place] in line with a decision made by the Iraqi government, and now [too], they should leave as per the Iraqi government’s notification,” Adel Abdul-Mahdi said.
▪️The armed wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades, says that the Israeli military’s continued bombing of the Gaza Strip has resulted in the killing of two Israeli priosners and the wounding of eight others.
▪️Tehran condemns the illegal presence of the American force in part of the Syrian territory, said the Iranian Foreign Minister.
https://iranpress.com/fm–iran-rejects-us-presence-in-syria

🔸Pentagon’s Tower 22 ‘logistics support base’ is secretly drone base
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/pentagon-s-tower-22–logistics-support-base–is-secretly-dro
▪️What was described by the Pentagon as a “logistics support base” turns out to be a secret drone base for long-range surveillance of fighters in neighboring Syria and Iraq and for 9888989
▪️The mayor of the northern Israeli settlement of “Kiryat Shmona” has highlighted “Israel’s” vulnerability in the face of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force on the northern border.
The mayor of the northern Israeli settlement of “Kiryat Shmona” Avichai Stern said the Israelis are like “sitting ducks” with Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force on the border, Israeli media reported.
He further stressed that “as long as [Hezbollah’s] Radwan Force is not removed by force and military action, nothing will change,”

▪️Pakistani police have issued a warning of cracking down on what they called “illegal gatherings” after imprisoned former PM Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party urged supporters to take to the streets peacefully following last week’s elections.
Independent candidates garnered the most seats in the polls, cutting off the chances of the army-backed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to win a majority, with PTI leaders claiming that they could have taken more seats if it wasn’t for rigging in the votes.
Suspicions arose when a nationwide election-day mobile blackout and the slow counting of results made it seem as if a military establishment was influencing the process to garner success for the PML-N, which is former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s party.

🔸Forwarded from The Cradle:
▪️Egyptian officials warned their Israeli counterparts that any Israeli ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah “would effectively suspend” the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries,
“There is limited space and great risk in putting Rafah under further military escalation due to the growing number of Palestinians there,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Saturday during a press briefing, warning that an escalation would have “dire consequences.”
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Friday that an Israeli ground operation in Rafah, located on Egypt’s border and where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in tents, was necessary to destroy the four brigades of Hamas’ armed wing allegedly present there.

▪️Iraq’s Speaker of Parliament, Mohsen al-Mandalawi, called on 10 February for the Iraqi government to implement the 2020 parliament vote demanding a withdrawal of US troops from the country.
Mandalawi “called on the government to implement the Parliament’s decision related to the removal of foreign forces from Iraq,” Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported on Saturday, adding that he “referred a request signed by more than 100 representatives to the (Legal, Security, and Defense) committees regarding a proposed law to remove foreign forces from Iraq.”

🔸Pakistan election results 2024 —
Imran Khan’s PTI – backed independents in lead amid hours-long delay triggering speculations of rigging
https://www.geo.tv/latest/530489-pti-rules-out-forming-coalition-govt-with-ppp-pml-n
▪️The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday said that it is in a position to form government at the Centre and ruled out forging an alliance with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
He claimed that PTI is winning 150 National Assembly seats and would be able to achieve the required number of seats to form the government at the Centre.
▪️Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) candidate for the premiership, said Friday he seeks to form a united government after his party “emerged victorious” in the February 8 general election.

▪️Latest Results can be seen here:
https://pakelection.pk/

Comment:
Looks like the cozy coterie of USUK, the Pakistan Army and Nawaz Sharif is now in a real quandary after the people of Pakistan have come out in open support for their ‘Captain’ Imran Khan.

Until very recently, Nawaz Sharif seemed certain to be Pakistan’s next prime minister. Assured of the support of the country’s powerful army, which has in effect been running the country through a loyal caretaker government since Parliament was dissolved in August, Mr Sharif, a three-time former prime minister, and his party appeared set to romp home.
That confidence is starting to look premature. Mr Sharif’s path had been cleared by the imprisonment of the country’s most popular politicians, the former prime minister Imran Khan, and de facto outlawing of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. Yet early results suggest that PTI candidates, running as independents, have nonetheless done much better than expected.

Despite all the nefarious activities of the coterie, including jailing and convicting Imran Khan along with other members of his party on frivolous charges, banning his party the PTI from using its electoral symbol, suspending mobile and internet services on election day and now charges of rigging, the people of Pakistan still want their ‘Captain’ back as their prime minister. However, most likely, Nawaz Sharif will still become the prime minister through bribes, blackmail and raw power of the Pakistani Army, in what will be a stolen election.

New Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appointed Syrsky instead of Zaluzhny
https://m.vz.ru/news/2024/2/8/1252563.html
▪️”I have appointed Colonel-General Syrsky Commander – in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the President of Ukraine stated

🔸How Russian troops took the “impregnable” area of Avdiivka
https://m.vz.ru/society/2024/2/8/1252487.html
▪️A new bold and successful offensive was launched by Russian troops encircling one of the most fierce areas of the Ukrainian defense – Avdiivka. The breakthrough was made in a sector that the APU considered insurmountable, and this was done thanks to a special tactical trick. What is it about?

🔸The Russian economy has soared above forecasts over the year: what is the secret of such growth https://www.kp.ru/daily/27564/4889072/
▪️Based on the results of 2023, Russia’s GDP in 2023 increased by 3.6%, and real disposable income by 5.4%, Rosstat calculated. This turned out to be higher than the forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development. What is the secret of such growth?

BILLIONAIRE CAUSED CHAOS NEAR AVDIIVKA: “WHAT IS YOUR STRENGTH, BROTHER?”
https://m.tsargrad.tv/news/milliarder-ustroil-haos-pod-avdeevkoj-v-chjom-tvoja-sila-brat_958016
▪️The followers of Bandera suddenly began to disconnect from the American satellite Internet “Starlink”, which was immediately suspected as sabotage by Musk. And the latter, as if confirming the guesses, quoted Danila Bagrov. What caused communication problems in Avdiivka?
Musk quotes the famous Russian film “Brother 2”
“American, what is your
strength?”
“The truth is the real power.”
Many saw in these words a reference to the cult tape of Balobanov, although in the original the phrase of Danila Bagrov sounds a little different:
Tell me, American, what is the power? Is it about money? So my brother says it’s in the money. You have a lot of money, so what? I think that the power is in the truth: whoever has the truth is stronger!

🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🇺🇸💱🇺🇦USA and personnel changes in Kiev
The White House is shuffling the Kiev deck. Dictator Zelensky should be replaced by the dismissed commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny. Victoria Nuland’s visit demonstrates the manual control of Ukraine by the United States.
🥶The Americans decided to freeze the conflict before their presidential elections.
▪️📈📈⛽️Diesel prices in the EU jumped due to the Houthis. A jump in diesel prices in the EU occurred in January due to the actions of the Houthis against merchant ships.
🛢The Yemeni resistance were able to create a shortage of the said product in “normal countries,” and they did this against the backdrop of raging protests by European farmers.
▪️📝Josep Borrell: The European Union does not have a “magic wand” to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine
📝“Our armed forces emptied their reserves in order to give the ammunition they had in their warehouses to you. Our armed forces are delaying the replenishment of their own warehouses in order to fill yours first ,” said the head of European diplomacy.
▪️🇺🇸The US Marine Corps has confirmed the deaths of all five soldiers who were aboard the CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter that crashed in California. US Marines aboard the helicopter that crashed during a storm in the mountains near San Diego have been confirmed dead, the military says. Authorities say the CH-53E Super Stallion disappeared late Tuesday while returning to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego after training at Creech Air Force Base, northwest of Las Vegas.
▪️🇺🇸🇷🇺Elon Musk began supplying Starlink communication systems to the Russian military – Ukrainian military
It is reported that purchases are being made in bulk, presumably through Dubai. Starlink systems do not operate in the main territory of the Russian Federation, but are active in the North-West region.
📣📣In parallel with this, the signal from enemy stations has been jammed by Russian electronic warfare for several months.

🔸Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
▪️The New York Times, citing anonymous government sources, reports that an Il-76 carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war was shot down by an American Patriot air defense system. In fact, they confirmed the official Russian position. But officials will, of course, continue to play tricks.
▪️General Syrsky was appointed as the new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who commanded first the defense of Artemovsk, and then the counter-offensive near Artemovsk, as a result of which he successfully lost both battles, losing several tens of thousands of people killed.