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A new migrant caravan has set off from southern Mexico, consisting of thousands of people who set out on foot after being denied transit visas by Mexican authorities. The group formed in the area of Arriaga, Chiapas state.
This closely follows another migrant caravan at the end of December 2023, the largest of the year, consisting of 10,000 people and labelled the “poverty exodus.”
In both cases, migrants had been waiting for an extended period at Mexico’s southern border in the hope of obtaining a transit visa, in some cases promised to them by lawyers and other scammers who prey on those waiting desperately.
However, in line with Mexico’s cooperation with the US in stopping migrants from reaching their border, local authorities have denied most of these requests, forcing those gathered to march through on foot.
Though Mexico is collaborating with the US to enforce anti-migrant policies, President AMLO has tried to raise the issue of US sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela being a driver of this mass movement of people, as well as the need for developmental policies in other countries that are experiencing an exodus of people.
The US has nevertheless ignored this and persisted in its interventionist policies in Latin America, as well as its sponsorship of right-wing governments that have been generating poverty and, in turn, generating mass migration.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 23,210, with more than 59,167 injured.
🟡 Israel’s war of extermination has killed, wounded, or disappeared around 4% of the Gaza Strip’s population in three months of bombardment.
🟡 Hamas thwarted yet another Israeli attempt to free an Israeli captive held in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp.
🟡 The Israeli army officially announced the start of the third phase of its war on the Gaza Strip, spokesperson Daniel Hagari told the New York Times.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces executed three Palestinians after surrounding their house in a village near the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm. An Israeli army vehicle later runs over one of the bodies. Since October 7, at least 340 people have been killed in the West Bank.
🟡 Attacks by Jewish settlers in occupied Palestine have displaced 22 Palestinian Bedouin communities in 2023, including 10 communities displaced after October 7, the Palestinian Settlement Commission reported.
🟡 Lebanon’s Hezbollah targeted the headquarters of the Northern Command of the Israeli army in occupied Palestine in response to Israel’s assassination of one of Hezbollah’s commanders. Since October 7, at least 154 Hezbollah members have been killed by Israeli forces.
🟡 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for the unification of the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank under the establishment of an independent Palestinian state during his current visit to the Middle East.
🟡 The Supreme Court of Israel rejected a petition that would’ve allowed journalists to enter the Gaza Strip without an Israeli military escort, reported Israeli news website Walla.
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“Most of the massacres were carried out by perfidious American aircraft.” – Watch this child inside Gaza commenting on Antony Blinken’s Middle East tour, the US Secretary of State.
Blinken’s fourth diplomatic tour since October 7th with regional allies aims to prevent the Israel war on Gaza from further inflaming regional tensions and sparking a new war with Hezbollah. Meanwhile, the US maintains unwavering support for Israel, including military aid and diplomatic protection against UN ceasefire votes or the South African-led ICJ genocide case.
The US has prioritized Israel’s needs, providing a $14 billion military aid package along with a massive operation to resupply Israel with vital military equipment, including Iron Dome air defense missiles. Israel has received the highest amount of military assistance from the US compared to any other nation since World War II, with aid exceeding $124 billion.
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Hundreds of fascists marched in Italy doing the Roman salute used by the fascist leader Benito Mussolini until his death in 1945. The mob gathered on the anniversary of a far-left ambush attack against the youth organization of the far-right Italian Social Movement (MSI) party, the de facto successor party to Mussolini’s regime.
The attack by militant revolutionaries in 1978 left two dead outside the MSI headquarters during the violent power struggle period between communist and fascist groups, dubbed “the years of lead.” Another member of the MSI youth wing died in the ensuing riots on the same day.
The recent ceremony was also attended by local authorities, including Francesco Rocca, president of the Lazio region, and Miguel Gotor, the Councilor for Culture. Leaders of the ruling far-right Brothers of Italy party also expressed their support for the tribute.
Italy’s current Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, also took her first political steps in the MSI youth movement at the age of just 15. Her mother was also active in the MSI and later joined its successor party, National Alliance.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 Hezbollah targets Israeli intel HQ with 62 rockets, an initial response to the Israeli assassination of Palestinian militant leader Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut.
🟡 Israeli Security Minister Yoav Gallant said it is “getting close to the point where the hourglass will turn over” regarding a full-scale war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
🟡 At least two journalists were killed in the Gaza Strip after their vehicle was targeted in an Israeli airstrike, including the son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael Dahdouh.
🟡 The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is conducting a fourth Middle East tour since October 7 to “prevent regional escalation of the Gaza war.” The US is the primary sponsor of Israel’s war on Gaza.
🟡 Israeli government grappling with a “plague of leaks,” said the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 22,835, with more than 58,416 injured.
This is the heartbreaking moment when veteran journalist Wael Dahdouh said goodbye to his dead son, who was killed by Israel today. Our reporters in Gaza captured the scene in the hospital.
"Hamza was everything to me, the eldest boy. He was the soul of my soul." Wael Dahdouh vowed to carry on despite the pain of one loss after another to show the world what is happening in Gaza.
According to reports from Al Jazeera correspondents, Hamza and Mustafa's vehicle was attacked as they attempted to interview civilians displaced by earlier bombardments.
Wael Dahdouh is the head of the Al Jazeera Gaza bureau and has already lost most of his family to Israeli air strikes. His wife, son, daughters, and grandson were all killed in October 2023. Israel's war on Gaza's press has already killed over 100 journalists since October 7.
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Did you know that some Nazis that fled to Latin America after the Second World War were recruited by US and West German intelligence to fight communism? Today Germany and the US are the biggest cheerleaders for Israel and "never again," conveniently forgetting the decades they spent employing Nazis as intelligence assets. Watch Ollie Vargas explain how two key NATO powers used those responsible for the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust to help crush working-class movements in Latin America.
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This week’s photo dump featuring people in struggle and major events worldwide. 🌎 📸
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan – A Japan Airlines plane catches fire after colliding with a Coast Guard aircraft on a runway of Haneda Airport, killing five people.
🇺🇸 Boston, US – Protesters hold up placards as they march in solidarity with Palestine on New Year’s Eve.
• Srinagar, Kashmir – Kashmiri Shia Muslims observe a candlelight vigil in memory of the at least 89 victims of the bomb attack at a ceremony in Kerman, Iran.
🇾🇪 Sana’a, Yemen – People protest in solidarity with Palestine and against increasing US attacks against Yemen.
🇸🇴 Mogadishu, Somalia – Women hold a Somali flag during a protest following the signing of a deal between Ethiopia and the breakaway Republic of Somaliland.
🇱🇧 Beirut, Lebanon – People gather at the site of an Israeli drone strike that killed seven, marking the first such attack since 2006.
🇵🇸 Gaza, Occupied Palestine – Palestinian children watch a lion in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip at one of the last remaining zoos in the enclave.
🇷🇸 Belgrade, Serbia – Anti-government protests have rocked the capital since early December’s general election, with domestic and international observers reporting election fraud.
🇮🇳 Amritsar, India – Farmers protest against the state and central governments.
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Did you know that a white South African communist and legendary anti-Apartheid activist was Nelson Mandela's housing minister? 29 years ago today Joe Slovo died from cancer at the age of 68. A long-time comrade of Nelson Mandela he dedicated his life to the struggle against Apartheid and racism while fighting for a socialist revolution that would end racial and class inequality in South Africa. Slovo also supported Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation.
In 1961 he helped found uMkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) which would lead the resistance against Apartheid. Due to political persecution from the Apartheid government, Slovo was forced into exile to the United Kingdom, Angola, Mozambique, and Zambia. He returned to South Africa in 1990 and following the 1994 elections was appointed minister of housing in Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid government.
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Students in São Paulo, Brazil, are leading protests against a hike in metro fares signed by the local right-wing governor. This is part of broader plans to privatize public transport in São Paulo, something transport workers were mobilizing against a few weeks ago, paralyzing the city as they went on strike. The plans will raise fares from R$ 4.40 to R$ 5.
Governor Tarcísio de Freitas, former Minister for Infrastructure under former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, has already privatized other services such as electricity and water. During Bolsonaro’s rule, he pushed through a similar plan, privatizing 12 ports and 13 airports.
Unions say that selling off electricity has been a disaster and led to multiple city-wide blackouts due to the mass layoffs enforced by the private company Enel, which recently took over the service.
Freitas sees himself as a possible heir to Bolsonaro and the far-right politics he represented. He’s hoping to use his position as governor to launch himself for a possible election run, though mass protests and strikes could jeopardize that.
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Deadly police violence crushed protests in Nepal organized by job seekers, leaving two protesters dead and several injured. Hundreds took to the streets against what they condemned as stricter job conditions abroad.
Protesters set a Nepalese minister’s car on fire while police forces dispersed the crowd with tear gas.
Last year, Nepal plunged into its first recession in six decades as economic performance was hit by inflation and political instability. It was the first time the government officially acknowledged that the country was in recession.
Unemployment is rising due to the struggling economy and lack of job opportunities, forcing young people to leave the country to work abroad. The protesters were mainly young Nepalese people applying for jobs in South Korea.
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France keeps losing influence in its former colonial African states: the French embassy in Niger’s capital has now closed – an extremely rare measure. The shutdown marks just the latest blow in a long series of political defeats for Paris in the region, including the withdrawal of all French troops from the country. But why are they in the Sahel region anyway?
Ever since France’s direct colonial overlordship over large parts of Africa ended in the 1950s and 60s, France has maintained a neo-colonial presence in much of the continent, not to lose access to precious natural resources and its profitable control over its former colonies’ central banks.
In 2011, France sought to reassert its domination of the continent when it led the charge for the war on Libya, a war that caused a wave of instability to flood the Sahel region. In response, France sent thousands of troops to “stabilize” the area, but more than a decade later, the opposite happened. In this video, we break it down.
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Happy Birthday CLR James! A pioneer of the Black Marxist tradition. Born in Trinidad, he'd go on to author one of the most important texts on the history of the Haitian Revolution, "Black Jacobins", as well as applying his Marxist approach to analyzing his favourite sport, Cricket.
His critical Marxism often put him in conflict with other parts of the left, but his intellectual contributions to the Pan-African movement and the socialist tradition as a whole are undisputed.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 22,313, with more than 57,296 injured.
🟡 An Israeli drone strike targeted the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, killing seven people, including Hamas deputy chief and co-founder of its military wing Saleh Al-Arouri, the most senior Gaza ruling group official killed since October 7.
🟡 Hamas has frozen talks on a Gaza ceasefire or a possible prisoner deal with Israel following the targeted assassination of its senior leader.
🟡 Lebanon’s Hezbollah warned that Israel’s killing of Saleh Al-Arouri in the Lebanese capital “will not go unanswered or unpunished.”
🟡 A general strike is being observed across the occupied West Bank following the eruption of mass protests regarding the assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri. Palestinian parties and factions had called for joint action and protest rallies.
🟡 Egypt officially informed Israel of freezing its role as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinian factions, aiming to conclude a new exchange deal in light of the assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri.
🟡 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that ministers not make statements to the media regarding the assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation reported.
🟡 October 2023 was the deadliest month in any 21st-century war, as Israeli forces killed 395 per 10,000 people. Around 70% of the dead are women and children, with one in every 148 Gazan children killed since October 7, the UN reported.
🟡 Israel is holding the bodies of 450 Palestinians, including those of 21 minors, five women, and 18 Palestinian detainees who died inside Israeli jails in secret burial sites, a local NGO claimed.
🟡 Israeli forces bombed the Palestinian Red Crescent Al Amal hospital in Khan Younis, where 14,000 displaced Gazans are sheltering. At least five people were killed, including a five-day-old baby.
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Is the US a democracy with fair justice and the rule of law? Malcolm X debunks one of the key myths that underlie American exceptionalism and moralizing about the so-called superiority of their system and 'separation of powers', which in reality only exists for some.
Black Americans have never enjoyed the rights and access to justice that the constitution claims to provide. For Malcolm X, recognizing that fact is the first step to dismantling that system.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 Over 10 children a day lose a limb in Gaza due to Israel’s attacks across the Gaza Strip. Amputation operations on children were done without anesthetics due to the major shortage of doctors and nurses and medical supplies like anesthesia and antibiotics, Save the Children International reported.
🟡 Medical staff at Al Aqsa Hospital, the only functioning hospital in central Gaza, has been forced to leave as Israeli occupation forces designated areas surrounding the hospital as “red zones,” meaning that it will be targeted.
🟡 Israel has killed more Palestinians in Gaza since October 7 than it has killed in the last 36 years combined, according to Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.
🟡 The Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian driver with his wife in addition to a four-year-old girl who was in another car at a checkpoint near Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank. Since October 7, Israel has killed at least 337 people in the West Bank.
🟡 Chinese shipping giant COSCO halted its operations at Israeli ports in occupied Palestine. COSCO’s decision will affect Israeli shipping line ZIM, which will have to operate more ships on the Far East routes, leading to higher shipping costs since IM will be short of ships.
🟡 In response to the US aggression on the Iraqi-Syrian border, 30 rockets targeted the US al-Omar oil field base in northeast Syria. Meanwhile, the Iraqi government has begun the process of withdrawing foreign troops from its soil following last week’s US drone strike on Baghdad, which killed the leader of an Iraqi resistance group.
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Watch former CIA agent Philip Agee reveal that the agency deliberately fought "left-wing forces" and communists in Western Europe after the Second World War. According to Agee, the CIA aimed to "shove them aside" and "isolate" them in favor of "forces" that were more pro-American. During the 1980 interview, Agee added that the agency wanted European leaders in charge who were in favor of US corporate interests.
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Aleida Guevara, doctor and daughter of Che Guevara sends a message of solidarity to the people of Gaza along with an offer to assist on the ground. – "I am a doctor, I can be there, I must be there, count on me at any time, whenever you want, I can be with you...what matters is that we are firm and truly supportive of each other.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 Palestinian prisoners from the occupied West Bank who were recently released from Israeli prisons refer to “exact copies” of the infamous Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay detention camps.
🟡 The Saudi-allied government in Yemen announced the merger of its intelligence service with that of the United Arab Emirates into a unified command.
🟡 The US is offering a $10 million bounty for financiers of the ruling group in Gaza or anything that leads to the disruption of the group’s financial mechanisms, the State Department said on Friday.
🟡 Israeli forces have almost completely withdrawn from the northern Gaza Strip, with the exception of two regions.
🟡 The French and Jordanian air forces have dropped seven tons of urgent humanitarian and medical aid to a field hospital in Khan Yunis.
🟡 According to Hezbollah, it has carried out over 670 operations against Israel in the past three months.
Israel’s bloody war on the Gaza Strip leaves not only humans starving but also animals. In one of the last few zoos left in the Gaza Strip, zookeepers in Rafah city struggle to save the remaining animals from starvation. With only extremely limited supplies left for Gaza’s human population, the animals are left with little to nothing. In the zoo in Rafah, two lion cubs, four monkeys, and several birds have died in the past weeks while the remaining rest are struggling for their lives. “The animals barely survive. The situation is indescribably tragic,” said one of the zookeepers.
There used to be six zoos in total in Gaza, housing various animals, most of which were smuggled in from Egypt through underground tunnels before 2007. When Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip began in 2007, caring for and providing for the animals became even more challenging. Many decided to close their zoos and transfer the animals to Jordan or Egypt, where they could receive better care. Some of the zoos, including their animals, were attacked in previous Israeli aggression against Gaza.
With the ever-increasing severe shortage of food, water, and medical supplies as Israel’s relentless war drags on, entering its 13th week, it’s uncertain how many of Gaza’s animals will survive.
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With the participation of the Yemeni Air Force and the first public sighting of its SU-22 fighter bomber, around a million people attended another massive protest in solidarity with Palestine in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. Under the slogan “the blood of the free on the path to victory,” Yemenis marched through the capital. It was widely assumed that Saudi Arabia had succeeded in disabling the Yemeni Air Force’s capabilities in early March 2015, proving that Ansarallah’s military capabilities are likely much bigger than previously expected.
Similar protests have taken place across Yemen after Ansarallah commander Abdul-Malik al-Houthi called on the Yemeni people to go out in massive marches in support of the Palestinian people.
Since October 7 and the beginning of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, Yemen has become an increasingly effective and influential front against Israel, starting with ballistic and cruise missile and drone attacks, to the poignant impact on the Israeli economy and trade by preventing Israeli-linked ships and ships heading for occupied Palestine from passing through the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Bab Al-Mandab Strait, and the Red Sea.
With the establishment of a US naval task force in the area and the targeting of naval Ansarallah troops, the risk of a more significant confrontation erupting becomes ever closer.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 22,600, with more than 57,910 injured.
🟡 Israel is preparing to expel hundreds of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship from occupied East Jerusalem to the occupied West Bank, citing alleged ties to terrorism, according to the Israeli army.
🟡 One million internally displaced Palestinians who fled Israeli bombardment reside in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, raising the city’s population to five times more than before; 268,000 live in public squares and make-shift tents on the streets.
🟡 The Israeli military launched air, land, and sea attacks on more than 100 targets across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. The bombardment targeted Deir el-Balah, including the Nuseirat, Maghazi, and Bureij refugee camps, in an attempt to force the remaining residents of the area to evacuate.
🟡 Hamas fighters have partially or fully destroyed six Israeli military vehicles, detonated a building housing Israeli soldiers, and targeted six field commanding posts and soldiers gatherings with artillery shells over the past 24 hours.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces carried several raids throughout the West Bank, where Israeli forces murdered a 17-year-old Palestinian in Ramallah, raising the death toll in the West Bank since October 7 to at least 326.
🟡 In a first, Yemen’s Ansarallah used an unmanned surface vessel in their latest attack on a vessel heading to occupied Palestine. According to Bloomberg, Ansarallah’s attacks have led to a 173% increase in container shipping prices. Meanwhile, five warships from international countries are patrolling the Red Sea.
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Another threat of war on the Red Sea? A historic deal between Ethiopia and the breakaway Republic of Somaliland sparked mass protests in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, as tens of thousands took to the streets against a signed treaty that would give landlocked Ethiopia access to Somaliland’s port, a military base on the Red Sea and the Suez Canal further north.
Somaliland declared independence from Somalia unilaterally in 1991 but is not officially recognized by any other country except Taiwan. The new deal would make Ethiopia the first African country to recognize Somaliland’s independence.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Somalia’s government spoke of a move “contrary to international law” and viewed the deal as selling its land under a foreign flag. They recalled their ambassador from Ethiopia and requested a special session of the UN Security Council. “Somaliland is part of the Republic of Somalia, and Ethiopia has violated international norms,” it said in a statement. Somalia vowed to “defend every square inch” of their country.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 22,313, with more than 57,296 injured.
🟡 US forces carried out an airstrike against Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMU) headquarters in Baghdad, killing a senior commander and marking the third US attack on the Iraqi capital since October 17. At least 9 PMU members were killed by US attacks Since October 17, according to local media.
🟡 Israeli forces killed at least 300 Palestinians and injured more than 1,000 who were seeking protection in UN shelters across the Gaza strip In the past three months, said Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of UNRWA.
🟡 Israel is holding at least 51 female captives from Gaza, including children and elderly women, in Damon prison, the Palestinian Prisoners Club revealed.
🟡 Israel has bombed Gaza with more than 45,000 missiles and bombs that weighed more than 65,000 tons in total, including using around nine internationally banned bombs and missiles against civilians, according to the government media office in Gaza.
🟡 Israeli forces continue their aggression in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm for the second day in a row,raiding homes, destroying infrastructure and firing bullets at civilian houses.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces detained at least 30 Palestinians during overnight raids across the occupied West Bank. Since October 7, Israeli forces have detained at least 5,630 Palestinians in the West Bank.
🟡 Lebanon’s Hezbollah carried out 10 cross-border attacks on Israeli military targets in northern occupied Palestine. Meanwhile, nine Hezbollah members were killed in Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours.
🟡 The Israeli Supreme Court delayed the implementation of a law passed by the parliament as part of the controversial “Judicial Reform” legislation. The law aims to limit the possibility of isolating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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With the start of the new year, the Korean peninsula is seeing unprecedented aggression. In 2023, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) tested its largest ballistic missiles and launched its first military spy satellite. For 2024, the DPRK vowed to launch three new spy satellites, build military drones, and boost its nuclear arsenal, according to state news agency KCNA.
The escalation comes as the President of the Republic of Korea (ROK, commonly referred to as South Korea), Yoon Suk Yeol, ditched the historic inter-Korean military agreement and conducted unprecedented joint military drills together with the US and Japan, all the while the US deployed more military assets to the Korean peninsula.
Unlike his predecessor, Moon Jae-in, Yoon has been pursuing a hawkish stance toward the DPRK since he came to power in 2022. The recent escalation on the Korean peninsula comes ahead of a year that will see pivotal elections in both the ROK and the US. How do you think the military escalation will affect those elections?
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Palestinians took to the streets across the occupied West Bank to protest the assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri in Beirut, the founding commander of Gaza’s ruling group’s military wing. The Israeli assassination marks their first strike on Beirut since 2006 and a significant cross-border escalation with Lebanon’s resistance forces.
The protests also spread to cities and refugee camps across Jordan and Lebanon. Yemen’s Ansarallah, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and communist parties condemned the assassination. All Gaza-based political factions and their armed wings called for a general strike and confrontation with the Israeli occupation forces on all fronts.
According to the Lebanese security forces, three Israeli missiles hit Beirut, killing at least seven people. Along with Al-Arouri, the Gaza ruling group’s head of operation for the south of Lebanon was killed. Egypt officially informed Israel of freezing its role as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinian factions, aiming to conclude a new exchange deal.
Al-Arouri’s sister said his “blood is not more precious than those who are being killed in the besieged Gaza Strip, particularly children; this is the path he took, knowing that this is how it’s going to end.”
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