1h ago (21:50 GMT) https://www.aljazeera.com/ Israel ordered to provide information on prison for Gaza detainees Israel’s top court ordered the government to provide information about the conditions inside a shadowy military facility where Palestinians from Gaza are detained. Whistleblowers who worked at the facility and Palestinians who believe they were held there have reported that detainees are handcuffed and blindfolded at all times, fed only meagre snacks, held inside pens under harsh floodlights and not allowed outdoors. The desert facility, called Sde Teiman, is the major detention centre where Israel has held thousands of Palestinians pulled from Gaza during large-scale raids. A coalition of rights groups is petitioning the high court to shut the facility down, alleging that it doesn’t meet Israel’s own standards for how detention facilities should operate during wartime. Israel has barred the International Committee of the Red Cross from accessing all military detention facilities since the start of its war on Gaza.
Netanyahu's Strategy Is War, War and More War A second-front operation in Lebanon looms, risking disaster for Israel. June 25, 2024 By Marc Champion https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-06-25/israel-s-netanyahu-does-have-a-gaza-strategy-more-war Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Photographer: Shaul Golan/AFP/Getty Images At least it’s now clear: Benjamin Netanyahu has a strategy for the war in Gaza, and it commits his country to indefinite conflict. That seems the only logical conclusion to draw from the TV interview Israel’s prime minister gave to Channel 14 on Sunday, which was as worrying as it was clarifying. In his first sit-down with domestic media since Hamas carried its terrorist assault more than eight months ago, Netanyahu rejected the terms of a US-mediated and United Nations Security Council-approved cease-fire proposal for Gaza, and said he was prepared to open a second front against Hezbollah, in Lebanon. None of this is to deny that Israel faces extraordinarily difficult decisions, or to exonerate Hamas from the primary guilt it bears for the disaster it has brought on Gaza’s Palestinians since Oct. 7. Yet it’s increasingly difficult to dismiss the claims of critics in Israel, who say Netanyahu needs the war to avoid right wingers collapsing his government, leaving him to face a personal reckoning for the security failures. Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, shares this need for the war to continue. He believes — correctly — that it serves his purpose of weakening and ultimately destroying Israel. Netanyahu told reporters the intensive phase of the war in Gaza would wind down “soon,” giving way to a new stage in which Israel retained security control in the strip, while “mowing” Hamas’s remaining forces whenever necessary. He also said Israel would transfer responsibility for civilian administration to unspecified Palestinians (though not the Palestinian Authority), backed by countries from the region. At the same time, however, Netanyahu ruled out any path to a Palestinian state and said he’d accept only a temporary cease-fire to secure the release of hostages still held by Hamas, after which fighting must resume. The prime minister's office has since appeared to walk that back, saying Israel remained committed the US-led peace proposal, which aims for a lasting end to hostilities — even if the process is divided into stages. Israel’s Arab neighbors, meanwhile, have made clear they would get involved in postwar Gaza only with a permanent cease-fire and road map to Palestinian statehood in place. In other words, the only achievable element of Netanyahu’s strategy is Gaza’s long-term military occupation. Factor in the explosive situation in the West Bank, where hardliners in Israel’s cabinet have starved the Palestinian Authority of funds and supported the activities of Jewish settlers, and the outlook for any kind of settlement looks worse still. Most concerning of all for the still-young Israeli state is that Netanyahu said he’d move troops freed from the war in Gaza to Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, saying Israel would fight on multiple fronts if that’s what it took to stop Hezbollah from firing the rockets and missiles that have forced evacuation of Israeli towns and villages along the border. Last week, clearly concerned that Netanyahu now plans a full-scale invasion, Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened a war with “no restraint and no rules and no ceilings” if Israeli forces should invade. That looks increasingly likely. All of this conflicts with the core aims of the US administration, which are to end the bloodshed in Gaza that’s adversely impacting both American interests across the Middle East and President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, while at the same time avoiding any escalation to a regional war that might draw in not just Hezbollah, but also its patron Iran. Here, too, Netanyahu is playing hardball. On Sunday, he doubled down on his claims — roundly denied by officials in Washington — that the US has cut back on arms supplies to Israel, with only a trickle arriving for the last four months. The details of US arms shipments aren’t public, but this seems an obvious attempt by Netanyahu to scapegoat the US for his own failure to deliver on the unrealistic goal he set of eradicating Hamas. As I and many others have said before, it is possible to punish Hamas militarily and to degrade its capacity to attempt a second Oct. 7, but not to make it disappear, short of removing all Palestinians from Gaza. No quantity of weapons will change that. Next month, Netanyahu looks set to take his brinksmanship a step further, addressing the US Congress amid a presidential election campaign. No matter what Israel’s extraordinary political survivor may say to the contrary, this is an aggressive and deeply partisan move. As with so much he’s doing, Netanyahu’s uncompromising approach will have the backing of many Israelis still traumatized by Oct. 7 and anxious to restore the sense of security they enjoyed before. Yet that confidence proved an illusion. Netanyahu’s strategy risks expanding the war on multiple fronts, distancing potential Arab partners, and causing lasting damage to the bipartisan American support that has sustained Israel’s security for decades. This will delight Hamas and keep Netanyahu’s government from collapse. In the longer term, it promises disaster for Israel, Lebanon and the Palestinian people. Tens of thousands of Israelis protested at the weekend, calling for the return of all hostages and early elections to elect a government better able to lead Israel out of the cul-de-sac of violence that Netanyahu and Hamas have led it into. They were right.
Israel, a nation of humans which has studied 'God' so much, they have become clueless. The more they studied the more they became lost. It gives other humans a clue, who knows the mind of God, does studying the bible or Torah reveal him to us? The deluded humans (predominantly religious people) will claim they know God. Ecclesiastes 1 King James Version 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. 5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. 6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. 7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. 8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. 10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. 11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. 12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. 16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. 17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. 18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
The more we 'learn' about God, the more we pray, the more we practise our religion, the more we lose our way.
Biden and Blinken, don't forget to keep sending bombs to Israel so Netanyahu can keep walking all over you. Blinken and Biden, two zionists powerless to drain their own swamp. Middle East 21 hours ago https://www.trtworld.com/middle-eas...ce-deal-vows-to-continue-war-on-gaza-18176539 Netanyahu torpedoes Biden's truce deal, vows to continue war on Gaza Israel and US appear to be moving further apart over Gaza ceasefire as Netanyahu pledges to continue war to pursue his ambitions of eliminating Hamas resistance group, a goal declared far-fetched by many experts.
59m ago (22:00 GMT) Risks to humanitarian workers in Gaza are ‘intolerable’ The United Nations says it has pressed Israel for more effective coordination with aid groups, approval for the UN to use essential security equipment and for the Israeli military to facilitate aid deliveries. “Humanitarian operations have repeatedly been in the crosshairs in Gaza,” the UN’s secretary-general’s spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, told reporters. “The risks, frankly, are becoming increasingly intolerable.” He said the head of UN safety and security met on Monday with COGAT, the Israeli military branch responsible for aid transfers, to discuss UN difficulties working in Gaza amid the ongoing war. “Every day, we assess the situation and look at how we can operate safely, both for our own staff, but most importantly for those who are receiving the aid,” Dujarric said. “Every day we need to grab whatever opportunities we can.” (Al Jazeera)
Biden, just keep on supplying your guns to these murderous goons while wearing your rose tinted jesus glasses.
The pier is finally working — but aid is still not getting to Gazans https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/25/gaza-pier-humanitarian-aid-00164869 Humanitarian organizations tasked with moving the aid refuse to resume operations due to security concerns. A U.S. soldier gestures as trucks loaded with humanitarian aid arrive at the U.S.-built floating pier in Gaza on Tuesday. | Leo Correa/AP By Lara Seligman and Erin Banco 06/25/2024 Aid is now flowing reliably onto the beach in Gaza via the troubled U.S. military-built pier — but it is still not reaching any of the desperate Gazans inside the enclave. Tons of food and medical supplies are now piling up on the beach awaiting distribution, as the humanitarian organizations tasked with moving the aid refuse to resume operations due to security concerns, according to U.S. officials and aid group representatives. And there is increasing alarm about food going bad the longer it sits in the marshaling area, according to people involved in the project. The backlog is part of a wider problem throughout Gaza, where aid groups have suspended much of their work because of fears they could be targeted by Israeli airstrikes. The U.N. has threatened to halt all of its aid operations across the enclave unless Israel takes urgent steps to better protect their workers, the AP reported on Tuesday. “The hostile operating environment makes it nearly impossible for humanitarian operations to deliver food aid,” said Steve Taravella, a spokesperson for the World Food Programme. “Restoring order is crucial for an effective humanitarian response to meet soaring needs. UN agencies and others need a safe environment to be able to access people and scale up.” The pier resumed normal operations on Tuesday after a scheduled maintenance pause on Monday, according to a Pentagon spokesperson. The resumption follows weeks of intermittent operations, as bad weather forced U.S. military personnel to remove, repair and then re-anchor the pier to the beach several times. On Sunday, U.S. military personnel moved 720 metric tons, or 1.5 million pounds, of aid across the pier to the beach, the most delivered on a single day so far, Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Monday. But aid groups, including the World Food Programme — the U.N. group charged with distributing the aid from the pier — have stopped traveling to the beach to pick up the aid in part because of the fallout of a deadly Israeli hostage operation June 8, according to three aid representatives working in Gaza. They and others were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive ground operations. The U.N. has suspended operations as the organization conducts a “security assessment,” a USAID spokesperson told POLITICO on Monday. The Israel Defense Forces used a truck that bore the appearance of an aid vehicle — but did not have an aid group insignia — to travel inside Gaza to rescue the four from the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central part of the enclave, two senior aid representatives working inside Gaza said. The IDF also landed a helicopter near the pier as a staging ground for exfiltration. The raid set off a fierce firefight between Hamas and the IDF, killing hundreds of civilians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. Now, aid staffers fear they will be targeted. The potential risk to aid workers “was something WFP and the UN pushed back on from the beginning,” said one senior aid representative. “They knew the concerns and expressed those concerns upfront. What the IDF did made everything more difficult.” The Pentagon this month dismissed claims made on social media that the IDF used the pier for the raid. “The pier, the equipment, the personnel all supporting that humanitarian effort had nothing to do” with the Israeli rescue operation, Ryder told reporters on June 11. U.S. officials hope the movement of aid can resume soon. “Humanitarian conditions are absolutely dire in Gaza. Particularly with ongoing uncertainty over onward distribution from land crossings, and periodic windows of bad weather, sending more aid into Gaza currently is beneficial so that once the security conditions allow, aid can quickly be moved for onward distribution,” the USAID spokesperson said. The spokesperson said officials working on the pier have prioritized “shelf-stable aid that is able to withstand fluctuations in weather.” But some people involved in the project are particularly concerned that much of the food aid that has been delivered and is sitting exposed to the sun will go bad, for instance beans and flour. “There are food kits that are designed to be more stable and are packaged to withstand the elements. But a good portion will soon be unusable,” said one person working on the pier operation. “I believe we will have a problem with spoilage with some of the food if it sits too long,” the person said. “This is not a good story for the Pentagon,” one aid representative said. “This is something they’ve invested a lot of time and money into and it is not unfolding the way they thought it would.”
How Biden and Netanyahu turned ‘frosty’ amid the Israel-Hamas conflict Don't believe the bullshit. Biden and Netanyahu are together like a couple of working crooks. Media being manipulated. Biden will continue to do Bibis bidings.