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"As Israel's claims regarding a premeditated mass rape campaign on October 7th continue to fall apart, new horrifying evidence is emerging of mass sexual violence against Palestinians committed by the Israeli military...."
Robert Inlakesh exposes Israel's sexual violence against Palestinians.
This video was produced in partnership between MintPress News and Behind the Headlines.
Roger Waters and Lowkey to livestream a concert for Palestine
Legendary rockstar Roger Waters and iconic rapper Lowkey, along with Yusuf Cat Stevens, will be live streaming their concert in aid of peace, freedom, and justice for Palestine.
The live streaming will be available exclusively on Double Down News on YouTube at 18:30 GMT on Friday, June 21.
Israel boycotts the Red Cross
On Tuesday, Israeli officials informed the High Court of Justice about their plans to establish a new mechanism to replace visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to Palestinian prisoners from the West Bank and Gaza held in Israel. Since the start of the war in Gaza, Red Cross visits to these prisoners have been discontinued.
Wes Streeting is backed by private healthcare interests and the Israel Lobby
DeclassifiedUK has revealed that Streeting has received nearly £30,000 from Britain's influential pro-Israel lobby.
Labour MP Wes Streeting was the first shadow minister under Keir Starmer to visit Israel, a trip sponsored by the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) in 2022. This organisation works closely with the Israeli embassy in London. Streeting has received over £20,000 in donations from prominent pro-Israel lobbyists such as Sir Trevor Chinn, Lord Mendelsohn, and David Menton, with the latest contributions made as recently as April of this year.
Additionally, he has collected £175,00 in donations from businesses associated with the private healthcare industry, which has sparked concerns that he may attempt to further privatise the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah publicly reveals the scope of the group’s weaponry following an Israeli study detailing potential military scenarios in Lebanon.
Read Robert's full news brief via the following link: https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-study-hezbollah-military-capabilities/287632/
A co-owner of Chelsea FC exposed as an Israel lobbyist
Jonathan Goldstein, co-owner of Chelsea FC, is also an Israel lobbyist.
Goldstein has coordinated with the Israeli government as head of the Jewish Leadership Council. He was also a key figure in the coup against Jeremy Corbyn. Goldstein visited Israel in 2017 for meetings with state ministers and was pictured with Ambassador Gilad Erdan during his tenure as Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs. His company, Cain International, has joined with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund to pump almost a billion dollars into Swiss hotel chain Aman. Goldstein has come out recently in support of Labour leader Keir Starmer and previously funded David Lammy's failed mayoral campaign.
An Israeli soldier published a video showing the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which is almost completely destroyed and inoperable.
Israeli forces have burned and demolished facilities, including arrival and departure halls, as part of ongoing attacks on Rafah, particularly the Philadelphi Corridor, a demilitarised buffer zone along the Gaza-Egypt border.
Quentin Tarantino’s visit to Israeli military bases ignites controversy and protests, highlighting the disconnect between Hollywood and the American public.
Read Robert's full news brief via the following link: https://www.mintpressnews.com/quentin-tarantino-israel-visit-controversy/287623/
"It's inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunition from Israel."
In a recent video, Netanyahu publicly attacked the Biden administration and called on the US to send more weapons and ammunition "to finish the job."
Hezbollah publishes drone reconnaissance footage of sensitive Israeli military sites
Hezbollah has released a 9-minute-long video in which their drone comfortably collects high resolution footage of sensitive infrastructural and military facilities around the city Haifa and its surroundings. The video demonstrated the inability of Israeli air defences to combat such drones.
Israeli forces killed 274 Palestinians and injured nearly 800 others, while killing 3 of its captives, in order to released 4 Israeli captives
In what the US government praised as a “daring” military operation on June 8, Israel inflicted one of the largest civilian massacres of the entire war, with American help.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has announced that Malaysia aims to join the BRICS group.
In an interview with Chinese media outlet Guancha, Anwar stated that his government will initiate the membership process once it receives feedback from South Africa, the current BRICS chair. "Our policy is clear, and we will begin the formal process soon. We fully support the Global South," Anwar said.
BRICS expanded its membership in January 2024 to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy could soon face trial under India’s contested “anti-terror” laws, sparking outrage from free speech advocates
An official, from far-right Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gave the go-ahead for Roy’s prosecution over comments she had made about the repression of human rights in Kashmir back in 2010. The case is coming to highlight the ongoing crackdown on freedom speech under the Hindu nationalist BJP.
Footage shows German police brutally suppressing a peaceful pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin.
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Hotels in Japan turn away Israelis over fears of links to the Israeli military
Israelis have posted numerous complaints on Facebook that they are being turned away by hotels in Japan due to possible links to the Israeli military and complicity in war crimes.
Israel Lobby backs almost 200 members of parliament
180 current British MPs have received money from Israel Lobby groups or individuals, according to research by @DeclassifiedUK
Some 130 Conservative MPs, 41 Labour MPs, along with 3 Liberal Democrats, 3 members of the DUP, 2 independents and Reform’s only MP have been identified as receiving funds from the Israel Lobby in the UK.
In addition to this, between these politicians there were some 240 paid-for trips to Israel, at a cost of over half a million pounds to the Israel Lobby.
“Opening Cypriot airports and bases to the Israeli enemy to target Lebanon would mean that the Cypriot government is part of the war, and the resistance will deal with it as part of the war.”
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah issued a stark warning to Cyprus, declaring that Hezbollah is prepared to engage in a conflict "with no rules and no red lines" if Cyprus aligns with Israel in its war against Lebanon. In response, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides emphasised yesterday that Cyprus is not involved in the conflict, asserting that his country is "part of the solution."
It was previously revealed by DeclassifiedUK that Cyprus and Israel have a bilateral defence cooperation agreement, which includes conducting joint military exercises, and that Israeli fighter jets involved in bombing Gaza have been using a UK air base located in Cyprus.
"We say settlement, settlement, settlement..."
Itamar Ben Gvir, the Israeli Minister of National Security, spoke in the Knesset, urging full control of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. He proposed that Israel should proceed with the construction of settlements, framing it as encouraging "voluntary immigration" while aiming to ethnically cleanse Palestinians.
Egypt arrests football fans for pro-Palestinian chants
In Alexandria, Egyptian security forces detained over 250 Al Ahly fans at Borg El Arab Stadium for pro-Palestine chants and displaying the Palestinian flag, reports a local rights group.
This is part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestine activism in Egypt since October, with over 120 people, including students and children, detained for protesting Israel's war on Gaza.
The ADL voted "unreliable" by Wikipedia editors
Wikipedia editors added the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a New York-based Israel lobby group, to a list of banned and partially banned sources. The ban comes after an overwhelming majority of editors at Wikipedia raised concerns regarding the organisation's inability to distinguish between legitimate criticism of Israel and antisemitism, as well as its strong pro-Israel stance. One editor pointed out that the Israel lobby group "acts primarily as a pro-Israel organization and tends to label legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism."
“ADL no longer appears to adhere to a serious, mainstream, and intellectually cogent definition of antisemitism," said one of the Wikipedia editors, "but has instead given into the shameless politicization of the very subject that it was originally esteemed for being reliable on.”
Kosovo signs a visa-free agreement with Israel
According to the Kosovar Foreign Ministry, an agreement signed on Tuesday enables citizens from Kosovo and Israel to travel to each state without needing a visa. The agreement was signed by Kosovo's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Donika Gervala, and Israel's Minister of the Interior, Moshe Arbel.
This decision, approved by Israel at the request of Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, will be effective on September 19, 2024.
Top Tory Donor John Caudwell Switches Allegiance to Labour
Billionaire John Caudwell, a prominent Conservative Party donor who contributed £500,000 in 2019, has declared his support for Keir Starmer's Labour Party in the upcoming general election in July.
The Phones4U founder praised Starmer's transformation of Labour, saying, "I have been amazed by how Keir Starmer has transformed the Labour Party and brought it back from that Corbyn brink."
"As real as it seems, the American Dream ain't nothing but another calculated scheme..."
Vintage footage of a teenage Tupac Shakur rapping his song "Panther Power" at the age of 17.
Gaza is officially the most dangerous place in the world for aid workers, according to the United Nations
Since October, over 250 aid workers have been killed, nearly 200 of whom worked for UNRWA, the main UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
Aid organisations report that the primary threat comes from Israeli bombardment and airstrikes, which have devastated Gaza, killing over 37,000 Palestinians.
Israeli forces have burned down segments of the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt, rendering it inoperable
The arson has been condemned as a "clear war crime”, as Israeli soldiers who had seized the Rafah Crossing, in early May, have been repeatedly requested to reopen the border crossing in order to allow aid and the passage of civilians.
Keir Starmer backed by former head of Britain's largest spy agency
Sir David Omand, former head of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), has endorsed Labour, giving a significant boost to Keir Starmer.
Omand praised Keir's national security stance, stating that the party could be trusted to "stick to serious defence policy." He commended Labour's pledge to allocate 2.5% of GDP to defence and continue supporting Ukraine against Russia.
Some 2,187 cases of rape, reported by Kenyan women, are resurfacing after they were originally dismissed by an internal investigation of the U.K. armed forces
Allegations of rape committed by British soldiers in Kenya have been ongoing since the 1950’s, yet the evidence has always been dismissed and the victims voices ignored. Such as happened in 2006 when more than 2,000 accusers were dismissed as having produced “no reliable evidence” by a U.K. internal investigation that didn’t collect DNA from nearly 70 children whose mothers say they were conceived of rape.
Palestine Action send a message to the CEO of Elbit Systems after successfully blockading Scotiabank in central London
10 Palestine Actionists were arrested after causing a major disruption to Scotiabank’s central London office. Despite slashing their stake in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons firm, Scotiabank continues to invest some $230 million in the company responsible for fuelling the ongoing war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
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"It’s a very rich country with poor people."
Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis highlights the close, identical positioning of both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party ahead of the general election in the UK, expected to take place on July 4th.
"We could not live in this land if even one such Islamo-Nazi remains in Gaza."
Former Likud Member of the Knesset, Moshe Feiglin, uses a statement from Hitler to explain what needs to be done in Gaza.
In an interview with Al Jazeera in October, Feiglin advocated for the "complete destruction of Gaza before invading it... destruction like Dresden and Hiroshima."