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Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jews refused enlistment on the first day they were requested to join the army, storming a military base in protest
After the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jews must enlist in the military, mass protests erupted. On the first day of implementing this decision crowds of protesters were filmed by Israeli media showing the police chasing ultra-Orthodox Jews inside the conscription office in the Tel Hashomer army base, after many had refused conscription orders.
"We prefer the rule of Hamas here!"
An Orthodox Jewish protestor demonstrating against military conscription in Israel asserts that he would prefer to live under Hamas rule.
Nasrallah claims Israel is unable to defend itself without US protection
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, during a speech held at the memorial ceremony of Sayyed Mohsen, highlighted that the illegal entity is unable to protect itself without the help of the US.
He asserted that Americans are deceiving the world by pretending to be dissatisfied with Netanyahu's war on Palestinians, while in reality, they are supplying him with vast amounts of weapons.
The Secretary General further remarked in his speech that the dynamic between the Lebanese resistance and the illegal entity is no longer what it once was, emphasising that sites worth billions can be targeted and destroyed in less than an hour.
Poland will evacuate citizens from Israel
Poland is preparing to send military planes to evacuate its citizens from Israel, as announced by President Andrzej Duda on Sunday, in anticipation of an Iranian strike on the entity.
Iraqi resistance factions launch strike on US base
The al-Asad air base in western Iraq was hit by two Katyusha rockets, resulting in injuries to at least five US personnel at the Ain al-Asad military base.
It is still uncertain whether this attack is related to Iran's sworn retaliation for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, a prominent leader of Hamas.
Israel has only defeated 3 of 24 Hamas battalions
A new analysis of the fighting in Gaza has concluded that Israel has only defeated 3 of 24 Hamas battalions, contrary to Israeli claims that “victory is in sight."
According to a report published by CNN, a joint analysis conducted by the U.S. media outlet, the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project and the Institute for the Study of War, Israel’s claims to have defeated the majority of the Hamas fighting battalions in Gaza is false. The analysis claims that out of 24 identified battalions, only 3 were rendered combat ineffective, while 13 were in some way degraded and another 8 are to be considered combat effective. This report did not account for the some 10 other Palestinian armed factions that have also been fighting alongside Hamas in Gaza.
Gaza’s Civil Defence received 80 decomposed bodies inside 15 body bags and are trying to identify them
Israel released the bodies of the murdered Palestinians without identifying who they were and specifying whether they were taken captive and killed inside Israeli detention facilities, or if they were murdered inside Gaza. After a proper inspection to try and give bereaved families the knowledge of who the bodies are, they are set to be buried in a mass grave in Khan Younis.
Prime Minister of Bangladesh resigns and flees
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled the country, according to Reuters.
Her resignation followed a dramatic escalation in unrest within the country, with thousands of protesters storming her official residence. Clashes between police and protesters on Sunday led to the deaths of at least 93 individuals, including 14 police officers, and leaving over a thousand others injured.
These nationwide protests, demanding Hasina's resignation, have become among the most lethal since the unrest began earlier in the summer.
Yemen displays a recently downed US Reaper Drone
The Yemeni Armed Forces have published footage showing an American MQ-9 Reaper Drone being destroyed with a locally made surface-to-air missile while it was conducting hostile operations in Saada’s airspace.
Valued at $30 million, this is the seventh drone of its kind that Yemeni forces have downed since October 7.
Yemeni Armed Forces have successfully shot down another US Reaper Drone.
The drone was struck by a surface-to-air missile while conducting hostile operations in the airspace of the Saada Governorate. This marks the seventh MQ-9 Reaper drone that the Yemeni resistance has shot down to date.
The MQ-9 Reaper is estimated to cost around $30 million.
Hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza have contracted skin diseases
According to the World Health Organisation, skin diseases like scabies, lice and skin rashes are so rampant amongst children in the Gaza Strip due to poor sanitary conditions caused by overcrowding, something that had occurred due to Israel’s bombing campaign and issuance of fliers that have packed around 1.3 million people in against each other close to Khan Younis.
Israel kills paramedic in southern Lebanon
Footage shows the site where an Israeli drone strike killed Lebanese paramedic Mohammad Hammadi as well as a Lebanese resistance fighter in Mays al-Jabal, southern Lebanon.
A crowd of angry demonstrators stormed an Israeli prison this week. Held inside were several soldiers who were credibly accused of raping Palestinian captives. But the crowd was not protesting against them; they were demanding they be freed.
Rape, unfortunately, has been a central pillar of the Israeli occupation of Palestine ever since the 1948 Nakba.
In this series, MintPress goes over the long history of rape being used as a weapon of war and as a tactic of psychological intimidation used by Israeli forces.
Nine months later, hundreds of thousands of protesters continue to occupy the streets in London, England, calling for an immediate end to Israel's occupation in Palestine
Footage: Essad_48
US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, released an official statement denying the election results in Venezuela.
Openly opposing the results of Venezuela’s latest democratic election, which saw Nicolas Maduro reelected President, the American Secretary of State decided to back the Venezuelan opposition's claims that the election was rigged. The Venezuelan opposition cites data from a CIA-linked group, which had no actual access to the relevant information.
Iran, Hezbollah and Yemen are expected to launch a joint military operation targeting Israel
According to sources who spoke to The Cradle, the retaliatory attacks that Yemen, Lebanese Hezbollah and Iran have all vowed to launch against Israel, will all take place in coordination with one another in order to inflict a large blow on the Israel.
Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich would starve 2 million Palestinians if he could
Speaking at the Katif Annual Conference about the entity's decision to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated that it might be “justified and moral” to starve all 2 million Palestinians in Gaza to death.
However, the Zionist lawmaker complained that the international community would never permit it.
Tommy Robinson mocks British Army veterans murdered by Israel
Far-right influencer, Tommy Robinson, tweeted that he believes “British people doing aid work in Gaza are cucks”, after three U.K. army veterans doing aid work with the World Central Kitchen were murdered in a series of targeted drone strikes by Israel.
The campaigner who has made a career out of attacking Muslims and Asylum seekers online, leading hate protests and working to spread fake news, calls himself a patriot, yet mocks a foreign military killing British army veterans.
Hezbollah hits Israel
Illegal Israeli settlers in northern occupied Palestine have spotted multiple drones launched by Hezbollah this morning. These drones entered the entity's airspace without triggering alarms.
Footage shows one such drone en route to a military site near Nahariya.
The Israeli military is using Amazon cloud to store data on civilians in Gaza
It has been revealed that the Israeli army records information about residents in Gaza using cloud storage from Amazon.
Israeli Colonel Racheli Dembinsky let the information slip at a recent conference titled "IT for IDF."
Seven Israeli soldiers were wounded, 4 critically, in southern Gaza’s Rafah, after anti-personnel explosive devices were detonated on them
Al-Qassam fighters, from the Hamas armed wing, detonated two anti-personnel and anti-vehicle explosive devices against an engineering force in the Zalata area, east of the city of Rafah. Israeli media reported that the soldiers belonged to the Israeli military’s 205th Reserve Armored Brigade’s 9215th Battalion.
"Free Palestine. F*** the EDL."
Footage shows a local in Birmingham, England, interrupting a Sky News broadcast by shouting, "Free Palestine!" followed by, "F*** the EDL."
Local residents of Birmingham are gathering to protect their community from racist riots that are spreading across the UK.
Racists set alight to hotel housing refugees as riots rock England
Supporters of pro-Israel Islamophobe Tommy Robinson commit arson against a hotel, located in Tamworth, which is being used to house refugees.
Days of break-ins, clashes with the police, arson against cars, hotels, home, businesses and more, has left various areas throughout the England in ruins. Racist hooligans have attacked people in their cars if they are identified as not being “White” and “English”. The hooliganism began when an anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant riot broke out in reaction to a crime committed by a British born man that far-right influencers had claimed was a Muslim asylum seeker.
Andrew Tate compares Muslims in Britain to the Israeli occupation of Palestine
Andrew Tate, in a new tirade, defended the recent racist riots in the UK and slandered Muslims for opposing them. Tate compared the riots to Palestinians resisting Israeli occupation.
Two US soldiers die in Iraq in suspicious circumstances
Two soldiers from the Georgia National Guard have died in Iraq under circumstances the U.S. Army has labelled as "unrelated noncombat deaths." The soldiers were part of a mission at undisclosed locations within the country.
Specific details about the incidents remain undisclosed; however, these deaths occur amidst recent reports that the Islamic Resistance in Iraq planned to resume attacks on U.S. bases in both Iraq and Syria.
"He is moving..."
Graphic footage of a Palestinian man left to bleed to death after being shot by an Israeli sniper in the north of Gaza. His current condition is unknown.
Mali have officially cut ties with Ukraine over links to terrorism for supporting of a border ambush
The Malian interim government has cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine, citing Ukraine's alleged support for a Tuareg rebel attack against Malian and Russian Wagner forces near the Algerian border. Shortly after the attack took place last month, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence service, Andrey Yusov, stated that his agents assisted the rebels with “necessary information, and not just information, which enabled a successful military operation against Russian war criminals."
"My father and brother are martyrs!"
A young Palestinian boy in Gaza cries hysterically, mourning his father and brother, who were murdered by Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza.
Jordan to "confront violators" of its airspace in anticipation of Iran's response to Israel
Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister, Ayman Safadi, declared that Amman will protect its airspace from any violations and will not permit the country to become a “battlefield.” Jordan's commitment to "protect" its airspace comes amid Israel's anticipation of Iran's response to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital.
In April, during Iran's retaliation against Israel, Jordan opened up its airspace for Israeli fighter jets to assist in intercepting missiles aimed at the Israeli entity.
During his Friday sermon at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ekrima Sa'id Sabri eulogised Palestinian leader Ismail Haniyeh.
This has prompted Israeli police to arrest the imam. Additionally, Zionist national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for an "immediate investigation."
The Israeli Interior Minister has urged the Attorney General to revoke Sheikh Ekrima Sabri's identity card and his residency permit in occupied Jerusalem.