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Hezbollah strikes Ben Gurion airport
Today, on the 40th day since Hassan Nasrallah’s reported assassination, Hezbollah launched missile strikes targeting Tel Aviv, including Ben Gurion Airport, coinciding with a speech by the Secretary-General of Hezbollah Naeem Qassem.
Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen reprised his Borat character on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Many users on social media complained about the Anglo-Israeli’s use of tired stereotypes, but what few know, however, is his deep connections to both the US and Israeli national security states. A MintPress News investigation from @Alan.R.MacLeod delves into this murky relationship.
Cohen once casually revealed that his movie, Brüno, was made with the help of the CIA. Documents abstained under the Freedom of Information Act also show the US military was involved.
Baron Cohen also starred in the Israeli series “The Spy”, made with the help of the Israeli military and the Mossad. The show now serves as a central part of Mossad’s recruitment campaign.
From an early age, Baron Cohen showed a passionate, almost fanatical support for Zionism, and grew up idolizing Shimon Peres. To this day, he maintains extremely close relations with the Israeli state.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed Yoav Gallant as Defense Minister and appointed Israel Katz in his place.
Netanyahu also named Gideon Saar as the new Foreign Minister, filling the position previously held by Israel Katz.
"There is something about the state of Israel that connects deeply to me."
Glenn Beck, CEO of Blaze Media, has expressed strong support for Israel, describing a personal commitment to standing with the Jewish community and identifying as a Zionist.
Israel has killed over 3,000 people in Lebanon since it started its war in September
The death continues to climb in Lebanon as the Israeli military indiscriminately bombs civilian homes under the pretext that Hezbollah hides missiles in almost every home in the country, a clearly false claims. In addition to 3,002 killed, a further 13,492 people have been injured.
A hacker group online known as "Radwan Cyber Pal" has reportedly infiltrated Israel’s Ministry of National Security, accessing sensitive information on more than 5,000 Israeli military personnel and armed settlers.
In addition to this personal data, the breach allegedly exposed a range of many other classified documents belonging to the Zionist entity.
A distress call has been issued as occupation forces continue a heavy bombardment on Kamal Adwan Hospital, severely impacting all facilities.
Numerous injuries have been reported among medical staff and patients, while medical teams are unable to move between departments or assist their wounded colleagues.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has called for people to boycott both the Democratic and Republican parties at the US elections
The Leftist Palestinian resistance movement considers both American Parties to be complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. This call comes at a time when many American voters discuss the concept of “lesser of two evils” voting which attempts to speak on behalf of Palestinians.
An Israeli born Jewish Professor had been arrested by the British police over alleged “terrorism”, after a pro-Palestine speech
Haim Bresheeth, a Jewish professor whose parents were survivors of Nazi Holocaust and had himself been a member of the Israeli army, has been arrested for a speech at a pro-Palestine protest under the Terrorism Act of 2000. At one point in the speech, the professor said that Israel “cannot win against Hamas, they cannot win against Hezbollah, they cannot win against the Houthis. They cannot win against the united resistance to the genocide they have started.”
"Since you became minister, there have been more attacks, more murders, more terror, and more citizens dying."
The Zionist entity's 'leader of the opposition,' Yair Lapid, calls out Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Minister of National Security.
Palestine Action seizes busts of Israel’s first President Chaim Weizmann from Manchester University
The Palestine Actionists stole busts of the first Israeli President as their way of marking the 107 year Anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration, Britain’s promise to grant the land of Palestine to the European Zionist movement, while classing the Palestinian majority in the territory as “non-Jewish” residents.
An anonymous group in Ottawa, Canada, have launched a campaign to sabotage the production of engines for Israeli fighter jets
"We cut the wiring inside all of the heat pumps on the Gastops roof, locked them out with official Ministry of Health and Safety lock-out tags, shut off the gas, broke the handles for their systems, and cut the lines to their backup communication system on the way out” the unidentified group said. The activists who targeted the factory left a note stating that a campaign has been launched to force the company Gastops to sever its ties to Lockheed Martin and halt the use of their sensors in F-35 fighter jets that are used to bomb Gaza.
“We’ve come to the point where we don’t want rallies… we want an uprising.”
Nicholas Hanna in his new documentary The Last Sky explores the reasons why so many Palestinians support the armed resistance.
Palestinian refugee Mahmoud Hashem expresses his frustration with the Arab people for not doing more to confront their rulers who collaborate with the Zionist entity. Mahmoud argues that protesting is not enough and that people must do more to end the Zionist entity’s mass slaughter in Gaza.
Israel’s actions against journalists raise alarm as media casualties reach unprecedented numbers, surpassing WWII and Vietnam combined, with Western media still backing the alarming attacks on press freedom.
Read Robert's full news brief via the following link: https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-press-freedom-journalists-killed-wwii-vietnam-combined/288531/
An 82-year-old Muslim woman named Cemile Telli was hospitalised after suffering an Islamophobic attack
The elderly woman was said to have been attacked by her neighbour, in The Hague, Netherlands. As a result; the Muslim woman spent two days in the intensive care unit. Although the woman responsible was arrested and held for two days by the police, Telli says that the harassment is continuous and when she calls the police they side with the Dutch woman.
Former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has narrowly survived an assassination attempt, as army units attacked his car. Morales has claimed that his former allies in the Bolivian government were “totally involved” in the attack.
Morales, a socialist, governed the country from 2006 until 2019, when he was deposed in a US-backed coup. He is widely expected to run for president in 2025. How did Morales go from unquestioned leader of a country and a mass movement to being attacked by his former allies? MintPress explains here.
The UK’s armed forces are now using Israeli rifle technology that was tested in the Gaza Strip
The Israeli company, Smartshooter producing precision targeting equipment and has been battle tested on Palestinians since 2018. While the British army says its soldiers will be equipped with the new technology that attaches to assault rifles and reportedly “turns every soldier into a sniper” for the purpose of shooting down drones, it has also been admitted that it is used for ground targets too. The Israeli company was able to market this technology in September arms exhibition that was sponsored by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD). Another one of Smartshooter’s products, that was deployed at checkpoints in the West Bank and mounted on military vehicles, was an AI powered automatic weapon used for “crowd control”.
Israel has destroyed 40,000 homes in Lebanon since the start of the war
37 towns in Lebanon have been almost entirely erased from the map and over 40,000 housing units destroyed as Israel openly targets civilian infrastructure throughout Lebanese territory. Some of the worst destruction has occurred in the southern border villages, where Israeli soldiers have entered and detonated large swaths of the houses in order to clear the territory for their troop incursions and have published videos of them bragging about it. Similar to what occurred with the ground invasion of Gaza, Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves looting homes and wearing women’s clothes.
Hundreds of Turkish activists stormed a ship that was transporting explosives to Israel
Raising the Palestinian flag, the protesters boarded the MV Kathrin with the explicit aim of preventing the ship from leaving and delivering deadly explosives to the Israeli military’s use. This comes amidst growing tensions between the Turkish public and their government in Ankara that refuses to stop trade with Tel Aviv.
"We don't know where the bombing is coming from!"
Video footage shows the chaotic moments Israeli occupation forces target the Kamal Adwan Hospital with airstrikes.
Children, patients, doctors, and staff can be seen fleeing in every direction, desperately trying to escape without knowing where safety lies.
Malaysia calls for Israel to be removed from the UN
Malaysia’s PM Mahathir Anwar announced that his country is part of a coalition drafting a resolution to remove the Zionist entity from the UN General Assembly, citing human rights violations and genocidal acts.
Addressing parliament yesterday, Anwar noted that the resolution is under negotiation and could soon be presented for approval, stressing the need for “decisive action” against the Zionist entity within the UN.
Israel withdraws military brigades from southern Lebanon
Reports indicate that Israeli occupation forces have withdrawn a number of brigades from southern Lebanon after failing to achieve their objectives in the region.
The Zionist entity aimed to drive Hezbollah away from the border, create a secure buffer zone, and facilitate the return of hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers to the northern parts of occupied Palestine who were evacuated since the onset of Hezbollah's operations last year. None of these efforts have been successful so far.
The entity's deployment of 50,000 troops to Lebanon, a force exceeding three times that of the 2006 war, still did not result in meaningful control over any Lebanese villages.
Hundreds of forces who identified as Israelis have died since the attempted ground incursion into southern Lebanon, with thousands more wounded, according to sources from the Zionist media.
The Israeli army is facing a crisis in a lack of soldiers, needing at least 7,000 urgently
A call has been made to conscript 7,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews to the Israeli military as the army faces a manpower crisis. Despite previously calling up hundreds of thousands of reservist soldiers, recent Israeli media reports suggest that many of those soldiers are not showing up when called to continue fighting in Gaza and Lebanon.
"I consider it a war."
Video footage shows Hassan Chami questioning Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump on whether they view the situation in Gaza as genocide.
Both politicians refused to label it as such.
"The easier way is to say to finish them..."
Two women who identified as Israelis were interviewed by Atif Hashwi and asked what they thought should happen to the Palestinians.
Their responses were hardly surprising.
Priti Patel has been appointed shadow foreign secretary by the new Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch.
Patel previously resigned as Home Secretary following revelations of unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials, where she reportedly sought to direct British taxpayer funds to the Israeli army.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar did not eat for the last three days of his life
Israeli forensic experts have reported that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, had not consumed food for 72 hours prior to his assassination on October 16.
This revelation follows an autopsy reported by media sources from the Zionist entity, which confirmed that Sinwar’s body showed no signs of food intake in the three days leading up to his assassination.
Kit Klarenberg explores the 1984 conference that fortified Israel’s narrative control, highlighting the troubling dynamics between media, politics, and public perception in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Read Kit's full analysis via the following link: https://www.mintpressnews.com/1984-hasbara-conference-israel-influence-us-media/288534/
Israeli occupation forces blow up a mosque in southern Lebanon
Video footage has emerged showing Israeli occupation forces in southern Lebanon laughing and cheering as they detonate a mosque.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. recently visited Israel to meet with wounded Israeli occupation soldiers, referring to them as “heroes and warriors” and expressing pride in their service in the genocide in Gaza.
During his visit, he donated $100,000 worth of bulletproof vests to support them.