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GAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 124

GAZA LIVE BLOG: Khan Yunis, Rafah Shelled | Israel Bombs Syria | Netanyahu Blocks Blinken | Riyadh: Palestinian State First – DAY 124

▪️The Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas timed its response to the Paris ceasefire proposal with the arrival of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region. The response gives a reason for optimism, said Qatar.

‘Our Conditions’ – Full Text of Hamas Response to Ceasefire Proposal

▪️Meanwhile, intense Israeli shelling continues in Khan Yunis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, while the Palestinian Resistance continues to score direct hits against invading Israeli soldiers on all fronts.
▪️Amidst the grave humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip, an UN Relief Agency truck carrying humanitarian aid has been bombed by Israeli occupation forces.
“This morning a food convoy waiting to move into Northern Gaza was hit by Israeli naval gunfire – thankfully no one was injured,” Thomas White, the Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza said on X on Monday. Two photographs of the truck clearly showing the damage accompanied his post.
▪️The Spanish Foreign Minister declared on Tuesday that Spain has suspended all arms exports to Israel since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 7.
The Spanish minister has highlighted how Israel has bombed United Nations facilities, schools and hospitals in the Gaza Strip, and urged all parties to comply with the orders of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Outrage following Release of Viral Image of Stripped, Wounded Palestinian

▪️A now viral image of a handcuffed, stripped and wounded Palestinian man at the hands of an Israeli soldier has sparked outrage and raised serious concerns about torture and abuse of detainees.

🔸Israeli War on Gaza Enters 124th As Palestinian Resistance Continues Heroically Confronting the Aggression
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2040854

▪️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.
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2041008

🔸There is no justification for Americans presence in region
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211797/There-is-no-justification-for-Americans-presence-in-region
▪️There is no justification for the presence of American forces in the region, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi said, adding that foreigners’ presence in the region does not solve the problem but it causes the problem itself.

▪️The Israeli army announced that the deputy commander of the 601st Battalion of the Combat Engineering Corps of the army’s 401st Armored Brigade Major David Shakuri was killed in the Gaza war on Tuesday night.
According to the Zionist media reports, the number of wounded announced by the Israeli army differs greatly from the those provided by the Israeli hospitals.
▪️Local media reported an explosion in the capital of the Zionist occupying Israeli regime, with preliminary reports suggesting that one person was injured in the blast.
▪️A US report says 32 captives held by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip have been killed in Israeli bombings as the occupying regime continues its brutal war on the besieged territory.
Israel’s chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said on Tuesday that 31 of them were pronounced dead.

https://x.com/democracynow/status/1754511219875070444?s=20
▪️Nearly the entire population of Gaza faces extreme hunger as a result of Israel’s four-month war and the severe restriction of food and other aid into the territory. Alex de Waal of
@WorldPeaceFdtn
says that unless Israel changes course, Gaza will soon enter famine.

https://thecradle.co/articles/hamas-presents-three-stage-truce-deal-demands-full-israeli-withdrawal-from-gaza
▪️The resistance group has called on Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye, Russia, and the UN to act as guarantors of the truce deal, stressing that its demands cannot be ‘compromised’ and that any obstacles can be ‘ironed out’ after negotiations start

▪️No diplomatic relations with Israel without independent Palestine: Saudi Arabia
“Regarding the discussions between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America on the Arab-Israeli peace process, and in light of what has been attributed to the US National Security [Council] spokesperson, the ministry of foreign affairs affirms that the position of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has always been steadfast on the Palestinian issue and the necessity that the brotherly Palestinian people obtain their legitimate rights,” the Saudi statement asserts.
“The kingdom has communicated its firm position to the US administration that there will be no diplomatic relations with Israel unless an independent Palestinian state is recognized on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital and that the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip stops and all Israeli occupation forces withdraw from the Gaza Strip,” the statement adds.

▪️Several civilians were killed and injured by Israeli airstrikes on the central Syrian governorate of Homs early on 7 February
“At approximately 12:30 AM today, the Israeli enemy launched an air attack from the direction north of Tripoli, targeting a number of points in the city of Homs and its countryside. Our air defenses intercepted the missiles and shot some of them down,” a Syrian military source told SANA.
“The aggression led to the martyrdom and injury of a number of civilians, and some material losses to public and private property,” the source added.

🔸Theatre of the Absurd playing out in Washington
by Alastair Crooke
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/theatre-of-the-absurd-playing-out-in-washington
▪️Stupidity’ (and ignorance) reign. This might be an object of passing curiosity as to its precise psychological causes, were it not so consequential. Is it not visible that, to a large extent, how today’s ‘events’ unfold will be the pole around which the global future will revolve?

A New and True Arab Spring – Part Two

▪️Spring is the season of flowering, including for the Arab and Islamic people, who are increasingly united in their revolutionary struggle for national liberation.

🔸The Western Press Are Just Printing Straight Up Nazi Propaganda About Middle Easterners Now
by Caitlin Johnson
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/02/07/the-western-press-are-just-printing-straight-up-nazi-propaganda-about-middle-easterners-now/
▪️It sure is an interesting coincidence how all this mass media demonizing and dehumanizing of Muslim populations is happening at the exact same time the western empire is raining military explosives upon nations full of Muslims.

Thank you, dear Larchmonter445 and dear AHH, for sharing whatever little information you have about the Captain of our ship – globalsouth.co
We shouldn’t be disheartened as our dear Amarynth had herself stated that she would be taking a hiatus in the Daily Chronicles. Given her many talents and resourcefulness, she may even have become an advisor for the South African case against Israel at the ICJ for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip. Perhaps she may have some surprises for us in the near future 🙏

The burden of running this site has fallen upon the broad shoulders of our dear friend AHH. He has even covered the site fees so far. Surely we ought to share the burden somehow.
I’m not very financially talented, but I would certainly contribute if advised to do so by a convenient method.

A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE WAR: IRAN’S RING OF FIRE LEAVES THE US NO CHANCE
https://m.tsargrad.tv/articles/do-vojny-neskolko-dnej-ognennoe-kolco-irana-ne-ostavljaet-ssha-shansov_956189
▪️As the IDF leveled the Palestinian capital block by block, Islamic leaders made loud statements. But no one dared to directly interfere in the fight. Why? Because Washington is not afraid of this — it needs a huge massacre. Recently, the Pentagon accused Iran of ordering a drone attack on a US base in Jordan and the death of its soldiers. And experts immediately declared that the US war with Iran is a settled issue…
…However! Who said that rational people are in power in the West? Recently, it increasingly seems that this is a real sect, and its goals and objectives go far beyond the issues of international influence and economics and are somewhere in the realm of subtle matters — where Good fights Evil. It’s easy to guess who’s on which side.”

🔸Zelensky’s associate tried to transport 14 kg of explosives to Russia, but was detained in Georgia
https://ukraina.ru/20240205/1053093527.html
▪️The State Security Service of Georgia has seized a large amount of explosives and six explosive devices hidden in two batteries for electric vehicles from a citizen of Ukraine. In Georgia, the explosive devices were imported from the city of Odessa in Ukraine. The route of movement of the car with the forbidden goods passed through Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.
The investigation found that the explosive devices contain military-made plastic explosive C-4, which can be activated using an electric detonator and a special timer. The total weight of the explosive substance reaches 14 kilograms. The containers also contained 6 detonators and 6 special keys. In all six separate boxes of the explosive device, the same number of electronic trigger timers were installed, in which the trigger time was already programmed.

🔸Yandex has become a Russian company
https://m.vz.ru/economy/2024/2/5/1251985.html
▪️The Netherlands-based Yandex N. V. has agreed to sell its Russian business to a consortium of private investors and managers of the company. The transaction amount will be 475 billion rubles, which will be paid in two stages. The main owners of Yandex will be its managers.

🔸The aviation expert named the reason for the Emirates accusations in the poor quality of Boeing aircraft
https://m.vz.ru/news/2024/2/5/1251953.html
▪️British media report that the head of Emirates Airline Tim Clark accused the American corporation Boeing of a “progressive” decline in quality standards. He called on the aircraft manufacturer to review its own production processes.

🔸The front in Avdeevka collapsed – Russian troops broke through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the north of the city
https://avia-pro.net/news/front-v-avdeevke-posypalsya-rossiyskie-voyska-prorvali-oboronu-vsu-na-severe-goroda
▪️According to the latest data, Russian troops have achieved significant success in Avdeevka, breaking through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the north of the city and advancing deeper into the urban area.

🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️Today, the US and British air forces struck Hodeidah, Yemen.
Strikes in Yemen could not completely prevent Houthi attacks on ships – head of the British Defense Ministry

🔸Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
▪️Greece has stated that it will not transfer its S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine. But she didn’t specify about the other air defense systems. Greece is armed with old Soviet air defense systems “Buk”, “Thor” and “Osa”. The United States has long been putting pressure on Greece to transfer several air defense systems and missiles to Ukraine by weakening its air defense. Missiles for old Soviet air defense systems are now in great short supply.
▪️The enemy confirms the further advance of the Russian Armed Forces near the flooded quarry, both to the west and to the east of the quarry. The situation in the northern part of Avdeevka is becoming more complicated for the enemy.
The supply road is still quite functional, although there are periodic arrivals along it.
▪️The front line in the northern part of Avdeevka according to https://t.me/jnb_news
About 900 meters in a straight line to the key supply road.

🔸Forwarded from Zergulio:
▪️🇺🇦The Russians have advanced into the Avdeevka development zone, there are street battles in the city, and the situation has become critical. If measured in a straight line, the advanced enemy units are located one and a half kilometers from the entrance to the city. Two weeks ago, the enemy managed to enter two streets on the southern outskirts of the city. The situation is critical (c) chief editor of “CensorUA” Ukronazi Yuri Butusov
According to the degree of screeching of Ukronazis🐽You can learn with high reliability about the advances of our troops.
Today, it still flew very well across Krivoy Rog. And in factories, and in warehouses, and in substations. It’s still burning.

🔸Forwarded from Older than Edda:
▪️Rumors that Zaluzhny will go to live in England after his resignation are not without meaning; Valera, in this case, is an ideal canned food, especially when playing the long game, which the British love so much. Everything will be squeezed out of Zelensky, it is he who will have to make all the unpopular decisions: total mobilization, “improving strategic positions by leveling the front,” the anger of the controlled population, mass impoverishment.

At this time, Zaluzhny will write books like: “Notes of an Undefeated General”, give out interviews in which he will denounce the current political regime in Kiev, which, firstly, buried hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, and secondly, at the last moment did not give him defeat Moscow.

With all this, the discontent of the army and the people will grow even more and, having waited for the right moment (after all the difficult decisions have been made), the canned food will be opened and brought to Kyiv for hetmanship. Zelya, deep down in her soul, probably understands this too, but hopes to get by relying on cocaine, acting talent and the “Wreath Army”.

🔸Forwarded from Andrey Medvedev:
▪️Indeed, everything looks like Congress, or rather the Republicans, are firmly and clearly bringing down Comrade Biden. Not just him personally, but the team, of course. However, what is more important here is not to record the fact, but to understand why and why they do this. And it’s not just what politicians do but the establishment in general. After all, the American system of power is when parties (yes, both of them) and politicians are tied to the interests of elite, industrial groups, and corporations. In the external circuit as well.

Actually, not so long ago, Biden (well, yes, his team) completely satisfied all the elite groups. The war in Ukraine was nice to everyone, and the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan did not irritate, and the politics in the Middle East. Domestic politics did not cause much irritation among the American elites. Well, within the framework of political tradition, the Republicans pecked at Biden, well, Tucker Carlson on FOX gave jazz. But it’s part of the American political ritual.

But now it is obvious that everyone is seriously against Biden (and the elite groups that stand behind him). What exactly happened over the last year or six months, why such an attitude?
I don’t have a clear answer. But, probably, the American system has really stopped coping with some external challenges (Iranian attacks on US bases are an example of this). Yes, and with internal ones too. We just don’t understand from here what the fentanyl problem is in America. Who remembers the 90s here: it’s like the heroin epidemic and the mass cooking of “crocodile” combined.

But Biden can hardly be blamed for the fact that the United States does not export goods everywhere. It’s just that the American model needs some revision in principle. The old man simply fell into a bad time and became the president, on whom all the mistakes will probably be blamed. Moreover, even very loyal people in the United States talk about the need for reforms in politics, the army, and the economy. Those who carved out victories for America. Erik Prince, for example, is confident that the Pentagon in its current form is completely ineffective. The fact that the United States does not understand how to defeat the Houthis, to some extent, confirms that he is right.

“Abrupt and violent surprises force people to change their way of life.”
But remember what the Pentagon’s response to 9/11 should have been: They said the best they offered the President of the United States in the days after 9/11 was missiles, bombs and a raid Rangers into Afghanistan.
And they wanted to wait until next April to launch a mechanized invasion of Afghanistan through Pakistan. It was the best thing the US military could come up with while their headquarters was literally burning.

Remember that Lincoln had to fire five Union Army leaders to finally find “Someone who will fight. Any large organization is inherently bureaucratic, risk-averse, ignorant, and it is usually the breakthrough individuals – through sheer force of will – who simply push it in a different direction.”

A qawwali inspired by Rumi :
https://youtu.be/NoHCQEUja4Y?si=0Lm-a-bbNa-CTdgJ

GAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 121
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-live-blog-al-shifa-hospital-under-siege-again-us-aggression-on-middle-east-continues-scores-of-palestinians-killed-israeli-officer-killed-day-121/
▪️Israeli forces continue to besiege hospitals in Gaza and to pound several areas in the Strip, killing and wounding scores of Palestinians.
▪️The Israeli army confirmed that at least one soldier was killed on Sunday in battles with the Palestinian Resistance in the Strip.
▪️Meanwhile, the United States carried out more airstrikes in the Middle East, this time targeting sites belonging to the Yemeni armed forces affiliated with the Ansarallah group.
▪️A number of civilians were killed late last night as Israeli occupation forces bombed a kindergarten hosting displaced Palestinians east of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
▪️A delegation of 16 French opposition lawmakers demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza on Saturday during a visit to Egypt.
The officials said they privately expressed concerns about human rights abuses by Israel to leaders of their governments and institutions.
▪️More than 800 civil servants from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have released a statement criticizing their governments’ support of Israel in its ongoing aggression on Gaza, warning that such policies could be contributing to war crimes and violations of international law.
The ‘transatlantic statement’ emphasized that Western governments risk being complicit in “one of the worst human catastrophes of this century” by failing to hold Israel to the same international humanitarian aid and human rights standards they apply to other countries.

▪️Ben-Gvir is feeling more empowered by the day. Unhinged, due to the growing popularity of his far-right party, he is now attacking Washington, the very country that made genocide possible in Gaza.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir told the Wall Street Journal that he would oppose any deal with Hamas and that Israel would get more support if Trump was in power.

▪️Along with questions raised about the accuracy of events on October 7, are concerns surrounding the ZAKA volunteer group which immediately began collecting bodies in the aftermath of the Resistance operation.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/zakas-world-how-an-israeli-organization-used-october-7-to-tell-lies-and-make-money/

🔸Al-Manar:
▪️Al-Qassam Birgades Spokeman Abu Ubaida: 43 Israeli vehicles destroyed and 15 soldiers killed in the last days
▪️Al-Quds Brigades says resistance fighters engaged in clashes with Israeli occupation forces, killed 2 soldiers at point-blank range.

🔸Arabs need to know peace process with Israel over
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211675/Arabs-need-to-know-peace-process-with-Israel-over
▪️Arab states stayed silent in the face of Israel’s recent stances, which violated all peace treaties with Israel. This silence will not only be costly for the Palestinians, but it will have grave consequences for Arab world…

▪️The spokesman of the Qassam Brigades, the Hamas military wing, said Sunday that their forces killed 15 Israeli soldiers in Gaza at point-blank range, while 43 Israeli vehicles were destroyed .
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211678/Qassam-spox-says-15-Israeli-soldiers-killed-at-close-range

▪️The chief of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Falih al-Fayyad, stressed the necessity of “cleansing” Iraq from all foreign military presence.
▪️Media outlets reported that eight rockets hit the illegal US base in Syria’s Koniko gas field on Saturday night.

▪️The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is to hold an emergency meeting on the recent United States airstrikes on Iraq and Syria.
The emergency meeting of the Security Council to discuss the US aggression was requested by permanent member Russia and is scheduled to take place at 4:00 pm local time (2100 GMT) on Monday.

▪️The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell expressed deep concern over reports that the Israeli military intends to take its battle against Hamas to the town of Rafah at Gaza’s border with Egypt where more than a million people have escaped the fighting, Euronews reported.
The EU foreign policy chief said that around 1 million Palestinians “have been displaced progressively against the Egyptian border. They claimed they were safe zones, but in fact what we see is that the bombing affecting the civilian population continues and it is creating a very dire situation.”

🔸For a shot at the downed IL-76, the Ukrainian Armed Forces received data from the West
https://m.vz.ru/news/2024/2/4/1251776.html
▪️”Information about the target was received at the control point of the complex through the Link-16 data transmission system. Therefore, the complex itself was not detected before launch, as it did not emit probing signals,” Leonkov told RIA Novosti.
He added that the Patriot air defense system used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which launched two missiles at the Russian Il-76, worked without a radar detection station.
The use of the Link-16 indicates that the operation to destroy the Russian plane with Ukrainian prisoners was planned by the Western side.

🔸BLOW UP THE MIDDLE EAST: THE US DID NOT NOTICE THE MAIN THREAT-THE HOUTHIS SUGGESTED
https://m.tsargrad.tv/news/vzorvat-blizhnij-vostok-ssha-ne-zametili-glavnoj-ugrozy-husity-podskazali_955897
▪️By fomenting another “hot spot”in the Middle East, Washington seems to have failed to foresee the consequences that will hurt America itself. Now the Yemeni Houthis, having caused a lot of problems for the Americans, are threatening to undermine the fiber-optic cable that runs along the bottom of the Red Sea. This will happen if the United States and the United Kingdom decide to attack airports in Yemen again. The threat is more than serious: damage to the cable will disrupt communication channels connecting Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🇮🇱 In Israel, amid the escalation of the conflict in the Gaza Strip, food prices have increased significantly.
A local resident publishes a photo of a sales receipt and complains about growing inflation:
📝“The bill for 4 pieces of cheese, 2 butter and 2 liters of milk comes out to 102 shekels, which is equivalent to 28 dollars.”
The media explain the sharp rise in prices in the southern regions of Israel by high unemployment due to the war, the destruction of some enterprises in the Gaza Strip, and complicated logistics.

▪️🤡 British aircraft carrier was unable to depart for NATO exercises due to a breakdown, LOL
Commissioned in 2017, the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth was unable to depart for the largest NATO exercise since the Cold War due to a breakdown. The British Navy reported that the ship “will not sail.”
🔹London previously said it would send 20,000 troops to participate in NATO exercises Steadfast Defender.
https://t.me/lawyersoflight/13366

🔸Forwarded from Older than Edda:
▪️I noticed a strange trend, as if it were copied from crests. After each successful (successful for the enemy) attack on our critical infrastructure, call this action with the term “damaged as a result of falling fragments.” Today, the governor of the Volgograd region said that “a downed drone damaged an oil refinery.”

Listen, this looks like some kind of shamanism session, where if you don’t call evil by its real name, it will disappear on its own. In fact, we see (the photo is in full on the Internet) that the strike of the enemy UAV destroyed the distillation column, and whether it was shot down or not is not so important, it achieved its goal, shamanic spells do not eliminate questions about air defense or electronic warfare, but the enemy in turn, he can write this down as a result, although of course the plant itself is not destroyed and will be restored in a fairly short time.

For our part, it’s high time to knock out the enemy’s entire infrastructure, primarily the energy infrastructure, and not limit ourselves to half measures when, after several successful strikes, a pause occurs and the crest restores the energy supply. There should be virtually no energy facilities, oil depots, refineries, and, if possible, traction substations left in Ukraine. This, on the one hand, will ease the situation at the front. On the other hand, it will make the wild lands even wilder and not so interesting for Western curators. They will think ten times about whether it is worth giving tens of billions more dollars and, in return, getting nothing but cannon fodder and of very dubious quality at that.

The British are stuttering about the expeditionary force that the West should supposedly bring to Ukraine. In fact, this is preparation for the occupation and subsequent division of western and central Ukraine, so let them think that in addition to a direct clash with the Russian Armed Forces, they will have to invest tens and hundreds of billions more in the occupied lands, restoring facilities and feeding the hungry and embittered population, which In addition, he has thousands of weapons in his hands.

🔸Forwarded from
Military chronicle:
▪️The Houthis are again threatening to damage fiber optic cables running under the Red Sea if the US and UK again strike Yemen’s airports. These cables control communication channels connecting Europe, Africa and the Middle East. If they are damaged, it could affect geopolitical stability, financial markets and information security in several regions.

How many cables are there underwater off the coast of Yemen?
There are 19 such cables in total, and each of them has its own name:
⬛️ G2A (Gulf2Africa) – channel between Oman and Somalia;
⬛️ Falcon is a canal between Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Iran, Egypt and India. It runs along the bottom of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea;
⬛️MENA (Middle East North Africa Cable System / Gulf Bridge International) – connects the Gulf countries and Egypt with Europe and runs along the bottom of the Mediterranean and Red Seas;
⬛️ RAMAN – canal between Jordan, Oman and India;
⬛️SeaMeWe-4 is one of the longest maritime communication cables. Its length is 20 thousand km. It connects Europe with Africa, as well as the Gulf countries and Asia, including India, Myanmar and Malaysia;
⬛️EIG (Europe India Gateway) is an underwater communication channel with a length of 15 thousand km. Connects Ireland and Great Britain with Europe, Africa and the Middle East;
⬛️IMEWE – channel between Europe and Asia;
⬛️SEACOM/Tata TGN-Eurasia – connects Asia with the countries of Southern Africa;
⬛️FEA (FLAG Europe-Asia) is an underwater communication channel with a length of 28 thousand km. Connects Europe with Asia, including mainland China and Japan;
⬛️ SeaMeWe-3 is a channel with a length of 39 thousand km. Connects half the world: Europe with the Gulf countries, Africa, Asia, including Thailand and Vietnam, South Korea and Australia;
⬛️ AAE-1 (Asia Africa Europe-1) is one of the newest communication channels, laid in 2017. Its length is 25 thousand km. Connects Europe with continental and island Asia (Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand).

In addition, the cables SeaMeWe-5, SeaMeWe-6, PEACE Cable, IEX (India Europe Express), EASSy (Eastern Africa Submarine System), DARE1 (Djibouti Africa Regional Express1), 2Africa, Africa-1 run along the bottom of the Gulf of Aden.
If the Houthis decide to damage one or more cables, a problem will arise. The depth of cable laying varies depending on the site, on an average is about 4-5 thousand m. This ensures protection of the cable from external influences and reliable operation of the communication system for many years. In the Red Sea and parts of the Gulf of Aden, the depth is much shallower, but this does not make things easier for the Houthis.
Damaging the cables would require deep-sea equipment, which the Yemeni rebels do not have. However, the most vulnerable area may be the bottleneck – the entry point into the Bab el-Mandeb Strait between Djibouti and Yemen, where critical communications cables converge in a narrow area. In the case of the Houthis from Ansar Allah, it all comes down to whether they have the courage to destroy these cables and whether the necessary equipment is available.

🔸Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
▪️In the middle of the day after the Lisichansk tragedy.
1. 28 dead (including 1 child), 10 wounded. All civilians.
2. More than 65% of the rubble has been cleared.
3. The strike was delivered from the HIMARS MLRS.
4. Today is a day of mourning in the LPR.

▪️Iraq imposed sanctions against Jordan for providing its territory for attacks on Iraq. Baghdad limits oil supplies to this country, which amounts to up to 8% of total consumption.
Jordan has options for replacement, but this is a very specific signal to the local monarchy that, in addition to internal pressure on Amman from local Palestinians, other Arab countries also have economic leverage over Jordan.
▪️US military base in Al-Harir, Iraq was shelled. No casualties or damage were reported.
As previously stated, US strikes in Iraq and Syria cannot stop attacks on American bases, just as strikes in Yemen cannot stop Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea and off the coast of Yemen.

GAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 120

GAZA LIVE BLOG: Scores of Palestinians Killed in Israeli Strikes | US Aggression on Syria, Iraq | Israeli Forces Storm West Bank – DAY 120

▪️Scores of Palestinians were killed and wounded in Israeli strikes targeting residential buildings in Rafah, Deir Al-Balah.
▪️The United States bombed several sites in Iraq and Syria but Tehran denied the presence of Iranian bases in the targeted areas.
▪️Israeli forces stormed the city of Bethlehem and the adjacent Dheisheh refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and detained several Palestinians.
▪️IRAQI GOVERNMENT: Spokesman for the Iraqi government Bassem al-Awadi: 16 martyrs and 25 wounded in US bombardment of two separate areas in Iraq.
Americans are lying when they say they have coordinated their attacks with the Iraqi government.
We reject using Iraq as a platform for score-settling.
The international alliance has exceeded its responsibilities and is now a source of instability.
▪️More than 100,000 Palestinians are either dead, injured, or missing and presumed dead in the besieged Gaza Strip, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced.
▪️A US federal judge has acknowledged the government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, calling on President Joe Biden to reconsider his position, while simultaneously dismissing the case due to lack of jurisdiction.
▪️Nowhere Left to Flee: Rafah to Become Israel’s New Battlefield in Gaza War:
If the Israeli tanks keep coming, “we will be left with two choices: stay and die or climb the walls into Egypt,” said Emad, 55, a businessman and father of six, reached on a mobile phone chat app.
“Most of Gaza’s population are in Rafah. If the tanks storm in, it will be a massacre like never before during this war.”
Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, said on Thursday that troops would now “eliminate terror elements” in Rafah, one of the few areas not yet taken in an almost four-month-old assault.

🔸Day120: Palestinian Resistance Continues Confronting Israeli Barbaric Attack on Gaza
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2038962
▪️On the 120th day of its aggression on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli enemy continued committing genocidal crimes against the civilians, claiming more martyrs.
The Zionist warplanes targeted the various towns and cities of Gaza, especially Khan Younis, leaving hundreds of martyrs and injuries.

🔸Yemenis ditch UAE–Saudi coalition for Gaza
https://thecradle.co/articles/yemenis-ditch-uae-saudi-coalition-for-gaza
▪️The Gaza war and renewed US–UK strikes on Yemen are shattering what remains of the UAE–Saudi-led coalition. Now Yemenis of all stripes are flocking to embrace the Sanaa government and its resistance stance.

▪️The US Air Force carried out strikes on 85 sites in the border regions connecting Iraq and Syria early on 3 February. According to sources speaking with Al-Mayadeen, most of the sites targeted by US warplanes Saturday had been completely evacuated before the attacks were launched. The assault targeted sites near the cities of Deir Ezzor, Al-Mayadeen, and Al-Bukamal and nearby towns in eastern Syria on the Euphrates River.
▪️The strikes targeted sites affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).
The US also targeted a weapons warehouse and three houses belonging to Kataib Hezbollah in Anbar province in western Iraq.
▪️ISIS took advantage of the US bombing of targets in Iraq and Syria by launching an attack on the army and the PMU forces in the area of ​​Kilometer 160 on the Al-Sakkar highway near the town of Rutba in Anbar.
The US has occupied the nearby Al-Tanf Base on the Syrian side of the border since 2015 and has used it to arm and train ISIS militants.

🔸US conducts aerial attacks in Syria, Iraq
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/211602/US-conducts-aerial-attacks-in-Syria-Iraq
▪️United States President Joe Biden has confirmed the US airstrikes on targets in eastern Syria and western Iraq in retaliation for the death of three soldiers died on Jan. 28, pledging that the attacks will continue.

▪️The US Department of Justice has seized more than 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil, according to media reports.
The US Department of Justice has announced criminal charges against the buyers of Iranian crude oil in China, Russia, and Syria, AP News reported on Friday.

▪️The US and Britain have conducted a fresh round of air strikes on different areas of Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada, according to local media.
Yemeni media reported that three rounds of airstrikes hit areas in the eastern province of Sa’ada early on Saturday.

▪️Iran advances to Asian Cup semi-final after beating Japan. Iran defeated Japan 2-1 to qualify for round of 4 in Asian Cup quarter final on Saturday.

🔸Zaluzhny admitted that Ukraine is not only targeting military targets
Читайте на http://WWW.KP.RU: https://www.kp.ru/daily/27562.5/4886627/
by Viktor Baranets
▪️The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valery Zaluzhny, wrote an article for the American CNN under the intriguing title “The design of war has changed.” Curious and unique for a number of reasons: the general appears in it as quite a strategist (not Sun Tzu or Clausewitz, but still). And at the same time, he sets out not only his vision of the situation on the battlefield, but also with extreme frankness reveals the plans for further actions of the Ukrainian army, gives his “recipes” for victory (which, of course, will be paid attention to by the Russian General Staff). There’s a lot to think about here. Well let’s try to do this…

🔸Knocked out the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the “Tsar’s Hunt” by going to the rear through an underground pipe: https://www.kp.ru/daily/27562.5/4886488/
by Alexander Kots
▪️The fortified area “Tsar’s Hunt” in the southeast of the city was not easy for us to attack for a long time. It was once a restaurant complex that was popular with local residents. But during the years of “Minsk timelessness,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces turned it into a powerful outpost, which, in fact, became the “southern gate to Avdievka.”
Where the idea about the pipe came from is a dark matter. Let’s say the old-timers remembered that such a structure existed. And this painted a good prospect. Through a large pipe buried underground, it was possible from our positions to go exactly to the rear of the impregnable enemy defense. But when military intelligence officers reached this pipe, the prospects dimmed slightly. It was almost filled to the top with rubbish that had accumulated over decades. Moreover, it is flooded with sewage. Suicide!

🔸Zelenskiy. To the birthday of “providnyka”
by Rostislav Ishchenko
https://ukraina.ru/20240125/1052893354.html
▪️Zelensky in Russia is used to being called the Fuhrer, associating Ukraine with the Third Reich. As you know, any association cannot be absolutely complete. In this case, we have to keep adding that both the Reich is incomplete, and the Fuhrer is some kind of caricature…

“IVANOVETS” FOUGHT TO THE END: CHRONICLE OF THE DEATH OF ANOTHER SHIP OF THE BLACK SEA FLEET. WHAT ABOUT THE CREW?
https://m.tsargrad.tv/articles/ivanovec-dralsja-do-konca-hronika-gibeli-eshhjo-odnogo-korablja-chernomorskogo-flota-chto-s-jekipazhem_955271
▪️On the night of February 1, Ukrainian unmanned boats attacked and destroyed a large missile boat in the waters of Lake Donuzlav in the south-west of Crimea. The attack by sea drones was launched synchronously with a powerful missile strike on the peninsula, during which enemy aircraft fired about 20 air-launched missiles.

🔸Putin: “Pantsiri “in the international arms markets is in hot demand, like hot cakes
https://m.vz.ru/news/2024/2/2/1251595.html
▪️Russian Pantsir missile systems are highly in demand in a special military operation and are in high demand on international markets, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting :
“I must say that last year we also decently delivered, oddly enough, our military equipment to the world markets – for billions of dollars. As for defense enterprises in general and Tula in particular, of course, now we all understand that there are a lot of orders there. < … > “Pantsiri” – highly demanded. I must say that they are very popular on the international arms markets, they are snapped up like hot cakes”

🔸 Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🇷🇺The Investigative Committee published evidence that the missile that shot down the Il-76 near Belgorod was included in the contract under which these weapons were supplied to Ukraine.
It is noted that the MIM-104A missile is from the very first batches produced in 1986-1987. It was previously assumed that the oldest ones transferred by the Americans were MIM-104D (PAC-2).
📣📣By the way, the version of the downing of Il-76 by the American Patriot system was confirmed by ABC News:
📝 “A French military official said the country’s military had concluded that Ukrainian forces used a battery of Patriot surface-to-air missiles to shoot down an Il-76, firing from a distance of about 50 kilometers (about 30 miles) .”

▪️❗️The International Court of Justice refused to consider a number of issues within the framework of the claim of Ukraine against the Russian Federation on the application of the genocide convention
▪️❗️The case of genocide concocted by Ukraine fell apart – Maria Zakharova
📝“ The court heeded Russia’s preliminary objections and agreed that the charges brought by Kiev are not related to the Convention ,” said a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The unprecedented intervention in the cause of the “collective West” did not help Kyiv either. As many as 47 countries (mostly NATO and EU members) have declared their intention to support Ukraine by joining the process; of these, 33 submitted relevant applications already at the jurisdictional stage.

▪️⚡️US Air Force B-1B Lancer strategic bombers leave Lakenheath air base for the Middle East – Sky News Arabia

🔸Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
▪️The Israeli army carried out 2,269 massacres in Gaza in 116 days. Since October 7, Israeli forces have used 66,000 tons of explosives in the Palestinian exclave.

▪️The US Central Command published a new statement on the results of the first day of February: American ships took part in repelling three attacks by the Houthis. First, a drone was shot down over the Gulf of Aden .
The destroyer Carney was involved in the interception. Then a semi-submersible surface vehicle was destroyed in the south of the Red Sea. This is only the second recorded case of the use of unmanned boats by the Houthis. The first one was noted in January. Considering how effective BeKs can be (the example of the SVO proves this) , their more widespread use by the Houthis should be expected. Moreover, the Iranians are already actively testing drones of this type.
A little later, the Houthis launched two anti-ship missiles from their territory, which shot down American ships. Based on its trajectory, the target was the container ship Koi, which had recently left Djibouti.

▪️The US launched new missile attacks on Yemen. Arrivals in two provinces.
We can expect responses from the Houthis regarding US and British commercial and military ships in the next 24 hours.

🔸Forwarded from Older than Edda:
▪️Since the beginning of the operation in the Gaza Strip, Israel has been reported to have used 66 thousand tons of ammunition of various calibers. About 26 thousand people died, half of them children. That is, in order to kill one person, Israel spent almost 3 tons of ammunition, and if we take into account that Hamas militants among all the dead, well, maybe 1 out of 10, then the costs generally become sky-high. And all this on a very small theater of operations, in conditions of complete superiority of the IDF over the enemy.

I say this to the question that some “expert commentators” write: Why is it really impossible to completely bomb the Ukrainian? War is an extremely expensive business, and a bomb, a shell, or a rocket does not kill everyone around. The same, by the way, applies to tactical nuclear weapons, which domestic strategists and warriors dream about so much.