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June 15, 2025
Palestine Open Thread 2025-133

News & views related to the war in Palestine …

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Macron is busy protecting Israel with jets and missiles and yet people think he should mediate. He blamed Iran for colonial Israel attacking it.
Who can even trust the evil entity to keep its promises?

Posted by: Georgie | Jun 15 2025 13:31 utc | 1

https://t.me/intelslava/76129

Posted by: Apollyon | Jun 15 2025 13:39 utc | 2

Missile alerts in Israel. They write that there are about 50 missiles in the salvo.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/131270

Posted by: Apollyon | Jun 15 2025 13:41 utc | 3

Hebrew media reports that the latest attack from Iran targeted Netanyahu’s residence in ‘Caesarea’ and a power station in Hadera.

Posted by: Apollyon | Jun 15 2025 13:43 utc | 4

An appeal to the Iranian Authorities:
Please, please, send a few missiles to the Rafah border post with Egypt and destroy it. Aid can then flow into Gaza! This is a great opportunity!
Tonight, you say? Right on! I had earlier requested that the IOF forces around Gaza should also be visited by your missiles. Please consider this request too.
Piruzi!
Posted by: gb_grave | Jun 15 2025 12:28 utc | 1237

They need to do it plus destroy all military airports. Iran is too reactionary. They need to attack places colonial Israel does not expect. I am still not impressed by what they have done so far. The colonial state of Israel’s main strength is their air force. Why are the bases that house the fighter jets not wiped out? Bomb them in the places they occupy in southern Lebanon too. Work with Hezbollah to take back those places after the bombardment.
Destroy the bases in Gaza and around the prisons where Palestinians are imprisoned. Bomb the drone factories. So there are less drones produced to attack Gaza.
Destroy Lod airport aka Ben Gurion because it is used to bring weapons into the evil entity. The cargo planes got rerouted whenever North Yemen sent a missile. Destroy it now. Those settlers that want to leave can do it through Jordan and SA.

Posted by: Georgie | Jun 15 2025 13:45 utc | 5

4 Arab women – mother, 2 daughters and a sister-in-law – killed by Iranian missile in the city of Tamra, near Haifa. (…)
Residents of the Arab Israeli city have long warned that there is a dearth of bomb shelters in the area, and that almost no homes have a safe room attached. By law, buildings constructed in Israel since the 1990s are required to include a bomb safe room; however, there is limited enforcement by local and national authorities. (…)
“>https://www.timesofisrael.com/three-killed-near-haifa-as-iranian-missile-barrage-targets-northern-israel/

Shelters in Israel are only for the God chosen.

Posted by: Apollyon | Jun 15 2025 13:47 utc | 6

Is there a way for Gaza to take advantage of the Iran strikes? Attack IOF during the strikes.
The evil entity has now caused floods in Tehran by attacking civilian infrastructure.

Posted by: Georgie | Jun 15 2025 14:13 utc | 7

Fact 1) The internet and fixed-line communications were down in Gaza until Israel allowed repairs to start on Saturday night.
Fact 2) The IDF uses the internet to issue forced displacement orders to the Palestinians.
Fact 3). The new “food aid” group, GHF, uses Facebook to list the hours and sites that food aid will be available in Gaza.
Saturday morning, with the internet still down, people approached the food centers in the hopes that one would be open. (None were.) The IDF immediately killed 15 of them.
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[…] Internet and fixed-line communications were down across Gaza after Israeli forces bombed the territory’s last remaining fiber optic cable on Thursday. Israel prevented repairs to the internet and telecommunications infrastructure until Saturday evening, when service was finally restored. This move is seen as an effort to further isolate Gaza and restrict news coverage of Israeli attacks.
This move had left Palestinians in Gaza in an information blackout and unable to reach loved ones.
“But why did Israel bomb the main internet fiber route? Why is Israel insisting on isolating Gaza from the world? So we are now deprived from food, water, electricity, and internet,” wrote Gaza-based journalist Hind Khoudary.
That also meant they could not see new forced displacement threats issued by the Israeli military. They also could not access announcements from the GHF, a scandal-plagued organization backed by the US and Israel, created to bypass the UN’s established aid delivery infrastructure in Gaza.
GHF uses only Facebook to communicate with Palestinians in Gaza. Starving aid seekers approached its centres on Saturday morning. Deliberate gunfire from Israeli soldiers killed at least 15 of them.
On Friday, an Israeli military spokesperson warned that operations in Gaza would continue “with extreme force” and on Saturday new forced displacement threats were issued for parts of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
“Famine worsens, the siege intensifies, and the dead are everywhere,” Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif wrote in a post on X, saying Gaza was “immersed in complete isolation from the world”.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said, “Keep Your Eyes on Gaza, even as Israel opens a new front with Iran”, warning that Israel is “likely to exploit the diversion of global attention to escalate its attacks on Palestinians.”
Don’t Forget Gaza
Palestinians in Gaza, who has been massacred, starved, and displaced by the Israeli occupation, are calling on the world to stand with Gaza and end the ongoing Israeli genocide.
“While the world’s attention is shifting toward Israel’s attacks on Iran, Israel’s assault on Gaza has not stopped, and the massacres continue,” wrote al-Sharif on X.
“Let us refocus on what’s happening in Gaza, especially the severe health crisis and the devastating famine. It is our responsibility to keep Gaza’s voice alive, to share the reality of the ongoing siege and destruction.”
https://qudsnen.co/israel-opens-new-front-with-iran-but-gaza-still-bleeds/
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Many starving Palestinians killed as they tried to get food near the Netzarim Corridor and in Rafah’s al-Mawasi area.
Israeli forces have killed 23 Palestinians across Gaza, with at least 11 of them while they were trying to get food at aid sites operated by the United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), local authorities have said. [This is just on Sunday morning. An updated number from half an hour ago reports that more than 45 people have been killed in Gaza in a series of attacks across the Gaza Strip since Sunday morning, half of whom were targeted while waiting for aid at US-Israeli distribution points.]
Medics at al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza on Sunday told Al Jazeera that at least three people were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire as they tried to approach a GHF site near the so-called Netzarim Corridor.
Two others were killed and more than 50 injured in a shooting at starving Palestinians near the GHF aid point in Rafah’s al-Mawasi area. The dead and the wounded were taken to the nearby Red Cross Hospital, according to medics.
Also, multiple Israeli air raids since dawn on Sunday killed at least 12 Palestinians in southern Gaza. Seven others were killed when an Israeli strike targeted a group of people in Beit Lahiya town in the north of the enclave, medics said.
On Saturday, at least 79 Palestinians were killed, many of them while seeking aid. Medics at al-Awda and Al-Aqsa hospitals in central Gaza said at least 15 people were killed as they tried to approach the GHF aid distribution site near Netzarim Corridor. [Note: internet was down at this time.]
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/15/israel-kills-23-palestinians-in-gaza-half-of-them-while-trying-to-get-aid
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Posted by: teri | Jun 15 2025 14:19 utc | 8

Why did they allow the internet back on?

Posted by: Georgie | Jun 15 2025 14:24 utc | 9

Macron is busy protecting Israel with jets and missiles and yet people think he should mediate. He blamed Iran for colonial Israel attacking it.
Posted by: Georgie | Jun 15 2025 13:31 utc | 1
Macron is as deeply engaged with Israel as Starmer is. The Lobby is at least as powerful in France as it is in UK. (I don’t compare to the US, as the situation is very different).

Posted by: laguerre | Jun 15 2025 14:39 utc | 11

Saturday in Gaza: Another Aid Trap Massacre; 79+ Killed Since Dawn
https://imemc.org/article/saturday-in-gaza-another-aid-trap-massacre-79-killed-since-dawn/
Sunday in Gaza: Another 5 Palestinians Killed at ‘Aid Distribution’ by Israeli Forces
https://imemc.org/article/sunday-in-gaza-another-5-palestinians-killed-at-aid-distribution-by-israeli-forces/
West Bank Update: Israeli Forces Shoot 2 in Al-Ram; Abduct 17
https://imemc.org/article/west-bank-update-israeli-forces-shoot-2-in-al-ram-abduct-17/
Jenin: Israeli Forces Shoot One, Abduct Many, Raid Homes
https://imemc.org/article/jenin-israeli-forces-shoot-one-abduct-many-raid-homes/

Posted by: Dan Kelly | Jun 15 2025 14:45 utc | 12

Why did they allow the internet back on?
Posted by: Georgie | Jun 15 2025 14:24 utc | 9
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From what I can tell, the Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority is in charge of the internet and phone services in Gaza, and they could not get to the section that was damaged by Israel until Saturday night due to continued Israeli bombing in that area.
I.e., Israel didn’t say they couldn’t make repairs, they simply made sure no-one could safely enter the damaged area for three days.

Posted by: teri | Jun 15 2025 14:46 utc | 13

3 power stations ✅
2 rafineries ✅✅
1 big airport

…. Orot Rabin (Hebrew: אורות רבין, lit. Rabin Lights) is a power station located on the Mediterranean coast in Hadera, Israel which is owned and operated by the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC).
As of 2022 it is Israel’s largest power station and contains six thermal generation units capable of producing a total of 2.59GW of electricity using coal as the primary fuel. In addition, under construction at the site are two single-shaft natural gas-powered combined-cycle units capable of generating 630 MW each.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orot_Rabin

Posted by: Exile | Jun 15 2025 14:54 utc | 14

Thank you b for the new thread. You are awesome!
Some Jewish friends explained to me a few years ago that they don’t believe in Satan. I haven’t much either but have recently come to the conclusion that is because Satan is the Zionist god.
How else can you explain intentionally violating multiple Abrahamic commandments?
Dial shalt not covet other people’s land
Thou shalt not steel other people’s land
Thou shalt not murder people in order to steal said coveted land.

Posted by: cc | Jun 15 2025 15:29 utc | 15

Apologies I hit the wrong button before finishing the thought and correcting spelling.
Thou shalt not hold any god above me (such as land that is owned by other people.)
Thou shalt not lie about murdering people in order to steal said coveted land that is worshipped as their true god.

Posted by: cc | Jun 15 2025 15:35 utc | 16

Ukraine and World Affairs: Weekly Update, 13th June 2025: May be useful to some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-8c6 Some coverage of Gaza and Iran.

Posted by: The Busker | Jun 15 2025 15:39 utc | 17

@ cc | Jun 15 2025 15:35 utc | 16
That’s Mosaic law, not Abrahamic (no such thing as the latter), and those commandments apply only to Israelite behavior toward other Israelites.

Posted by: malenkov | Jun 15 2025 16:18 utc | 18

Posted by: Liam | Jun 15 2025 18:08 utc | 19
What is your goal, honestly? Do you want to throw mud at Russia’s reputation, or do you want to ridicule NATO with your dilettantism?

Posted by: BlindSpot | Jun 15 2025 18:28 utc | 19

The reason Netanyahu flew to Greece was because he thought Khamenei was hit. Trump is lying when he says he stopped him from killing Khamenei.

Posted by: Georgie | Jun 15 2025 18:51 utc | 20

Well netanyahu’s back in the Occupied Territories surveying the damage, doesn’t look too happy.
IOF have been redeployment from West Bank and Gaza to Jordan Syria and Iraqi borders.

Posted by: Suresh | Jun 15 2025 21:06 utc | 21

Cancel culture weaponized: Zionist lobby’s covert war on Irish rap group Kneecap
Sunday, 08 June 2025 4:14 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 10 June 2025 6:08 AM ]
By David Miller
Kneecap, a popular Irish hip-hop group, has been the target of a massive cancellation campaign by the Zionist movement in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
All the usual suspects have been involved, including public letters from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the misnamed Campaign Against Antisemitism.
However, there is another key Zionist group that prefers to operate undercover whenever possible.
Sometimes it mobilizes openly, as it did on 12 October 2023, when it called for support of the Israeli regime as it “takes the necessary steps to defend its citizens.”
In other cases, it conducts its bullying campaigns — supporting genocide — in the shadows.
Press TV show Palestine Declassified obtained private correspondence sent to the Glastonbury Festival, attempting to intimidate the organizers into cancelling Kneecap.
Marked “Private and Confidential,” the email states that the authors wanted to “raise” Glastonbury’s “awareness” about Kneecap. The message further claims the band is “propagating hate” and therefore should not be protected by “free speech,” a notion the letter writers claim to support.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/07/749376/cancel-culture-weaponized-zionist-lobby-covert-war-irish-rap-group-kneecap

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jun 15 2025 22:51 utc | 22

Hamas fighters have lots of balls running up and planting explosive behind israeli tank.
This is why we don’t have MSM reporting on how successful the new Israeli offensive into Gaza is. Because it isn’t. And netanyahu needs to start his war on Iran to distract the failures in Gaza.
https://i.imgur.com/eT4xGeT.jpeg

Posted by: Surferket | Jun 15 2025 23:58 utc | 23

Here’s A Rundown on the State of Things in Gaza [MUST SEE]
https://x.com/justinpodur/status/1934368798393389277
Israel pays private contractors per Gaza building destroyed…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 16 2025 0:03 utc | 24

Malaysia announces the “Fleet of a Thousand Ships” initiative to break the siege on Gaza
Civil society organizations in Malaysia have unveiled a major international initiative—described as the largest of its kind—aimed at breaking the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip through a global maritime movement involving a thousand ships departing from multiple continents. The initiative is being hailed as an “uprising of human conscience” in support of Palestinians and a call to hold Israel accountable for its ongoing crimes.
This announcement was made during a press conference held in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, where Azmi Abdul Hamid, President of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organizations (MAPIM), said that the initiative is a response to the escalating Israeli aggression and the genocidal crimes being committed against Gaza’s population. He emphasized that the project is gaining growing support from organizations across Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
https://english.palinfo.com/news/2025/06/15/341324/

Posted by: Dan Kelly | Jun 16 2025 0:56 utc | 25

cc 16
It’s considered a bit naff on MoA to blame Jews for the Nazism of Netanyahu.
We shouldn’t be racist against racists.
In Liberal, Christian circles ‘Judge not , lest ye be judged’ means that nobody has the right to criticise criminal behaviour. Which is frankly weird.
The West is so busy not criticising the USUKIS genocide, that it gives the impression of approval. The West has forgotten what the practice of a religion means. It is the constant practice of good Deeds by mindfulness of God and awareness that God is witness ot our actions and is recording everything.
The constant practice of doing good Deeds is the best protection against committing major crimes.
What you see in the West is a total surrender to our government’s crimes and nothing positive in our own lives to set against the psychopathic criminals in power. In the US, the psychopaths have succeeded in persuading the Christian community that this genocide is a good deed.
In order to understand how our countries are involved in Bombing Foreign countries, we have to understand that Western countries give shelter and asylum to foreigners , both Jews and Muslims but also other creeds, who are paid as spies against their own countries, in exchange for information about how the West can colonise those foreign countries.
Liberalism suppresses criticism of Western Crimes, but liberalism is a useful tool for accessing the information about how to colonise faraway nations by offering asylum to discontented people from around the world.
The best alternative to the evils of Liberalism is the discipline of mindfulness of God, Islam. The Jews perverted their religion many millennia ago, and the current manual for life is now Islam.

Posted by: Giyane | Jun 16 2025 0:57 utc | 26

Why couldn’t everything that is happening against “Israel” now have been done within a week or two after the start of the genocide almost two years ago? Everything was obvious and undeniable by then was it not?
Why was there any reason to wait while people were being killed and Gaza reduced to rubble? While Lebanon was being invaded and harassed? While Syria fell?
I’m unsure why but I guess in general the nearly complete global indifference by those in power is the main reason, no one but the resistance dared stick their necks out or felt very comfortable hiding behind blather.
Don’t forget it.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jun 16 2025 2:04 utc | 27

meanwhile back at the Ranch
as I have said before, as bad as the nazis
see the two photos at the link
https://x.com/Alqawasmi_Rula/status/1934281505557131319
Rula Alqawasmi @Alqawasmi_Rula
Gaza a while ago
A criminal Israeli soldier sniped this young man directly just for fun while he was carrying a bag of flour.
He was killed hungry, searching for food to feed his family 💔

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 16 2025 2:12 utc | 28

Will Netanyahu survive til the end of this week?

Posted by: Suresh | Jun 16 2025 3:06 utc | 29

Suresh 30
Politically no. Physically no.
Spiritually yes inshallah to start his perpetual.punishment , first in storage in slime and puss, then toasted in fire 70 times hotter than the hottest furnace for eternity.

Posted by: Giyane | Jun 16 2025 3:32 utc | 30

Giyane @31
Keep up mate, this was postponed due to the little satan starting a new war.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-politics-ultraorthodox-military-hamas-war-5bb3b23b3a85ac94e4a095d77106db48

Posted by: Suresh | Jun 16 2025 3:40 utc | 31

Suresh 32
Did you hear the joke about Satan and the farmer who wanted to shag his horse.
He had set up his stepladder and said
‘I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the Accursed’.
Satan says, ‘Excuse me, mate . How many thousands of years I have been tempting human beings on earth, I have never thought of the idea of doing that.’

Posted by: Giyane | Jun 16 2025 4:31 utc | 32

The Port of Haifa’s new look.
video
https://x.com/accesstothepath/status/1934420281210368006

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jun 16 2025 7:02 utc | 33

see the 24-second video at the first link. Graphic
https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1932974337285378543
Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_
⚡️⭕️Earlier today:
Harsh scene.. martyrs and injuries among children as a result of their bombing by the occupation in Mawasi Khan Younis
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/after-last-us-veto–un-to-vote-to-demand-immediate-gaza-ceas
After last US veto, UN to vote to demand immediate Gaza ceasefire
The UN General Assembly’s vote demands an immediate and permanent ceasefire, aid access, and Israeli withdrawal.
….Diplomats anticipate overwhelming support for the measure from the 193-member body, despite lobbying efforts by “Israel” to dissuade countries from participating in what it called a “politically-motivated, counter-productive charade.”…..
…..The General Assembly’s draft resolution calls for the immediate release of captives held by the Palestinian Resistance, the return of Palestinians detained by “Israel”, and a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
It also demands unrestricted humanitarian aid access and strongly condemns the use of starvation as a method of warfare, while citing the unlawful denial of vital supplies and the willful obstruction of humanitarian relief efforts as violations of international law……
….In October 2023, 120 countries voted in favor of a ceasefire agreement. By December, that support had grown, with 153 countries backing a call for a ceasefire, and later, 158 voting in favor of an immediate, unconditional, and permanent halt to hostilities.
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1933059291088306399
Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo
🇺🇸🇺🇦 US Defense Secretary Pete Hegsett confirmed that approximately 20,000 laser-guided 70mm APKWS rockets, originally scheduled for delivery to Ukraine, have been sent to US bases in the Middle East.
Washington attributed this decision to the “urgent need to protect US forces from Houthi drones and their Iranian allies.”

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 16 2025 9:07 utc | 34

YoHo Ho! HasbaRats
How’s the packing going?
No planes except for the elites. You are not allowed to flee.
Ports are going to be unusable any second now.
Now you gonna need to rush to pharaoh to get away carrying what you can and what you will hide in your stomachs.
Been trying to tell you that because most of youse are there as deluded colonialists settlers for Masters who need you to be an excuse for their conquests.
They made you Zionists Fascists with supremacist delusions and fantasy entitlement.
You need psychiatric help for that realisation and change.
Or you can dash your selves against the rocks of Truth.
The Russian Federationis finally moving towards reversing the error that Stalin made at Yalta – allowing the creation of the illegal apartheid entity in that corner of The Levant where the British Empire had illegally given a declaration in WW1 – For the Zionist Fascist Master Plan of imperialist colonisation.
‘Levan Gudadze
@GudadzeLevan ‘
1h
The Russian Embassy in Israel recommends that Russians leave the country – there is an opportunity to cross the border with Egypt through a 24-hour border crossing…
Jun 16, 2025 · 7:35 AM UTC ‘
Take that option NOW or you really will be gathered in trucks and shipped to that border and dumped there with NOTHING. Not even the worthless jewels you will hide in your guts will be of any use. Go home. Or where you are wanted. Or perish.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jun 16 2025 9:14 utc | 35

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegsett confirmed that approximately 20,000 laser-guided 70mm APKWS rockets, originally scheduled for delivery to Ukraine, have been sent to US bases in the Middle East.
Washington attributed this decision to the “urgent need to protect US forces from Houthi drones and their Iranian allies.”
Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 16 2025 9:07 utc | 35
Israeli air defence stocks must be getting low also. Which means Ukraine is going to get very little.
How long will the Israeli stocks last before not being able to be replaced. Find themselves in the same position as Ukraine ?
Now is the time China should take back Taiwan. Open up a 3 front war against the US. Who can’t supply one front never mind 3.
Putting it altogether …
If the Israelis can’t get regime change before they run out of air defence missiles..It’s over and just like Ukraine will be asking for a freeze to the conflict.
Their whole strategy was a quick knock out punch to provide the conditions of regime change. As you can’t bomb a country the size of Iran into submission. When Israel is about the size of greater london.
All that’s left is keep trying to change the regime until their AD runs out and the clock is ticking. Therefore , Iran needs to keep up the pressure on exhausting Israeli AD.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jun 16 2025 9:30 utc | 36

Did Russia ever deliver those S-300s to Iran? we now know why they needed them with the Zionist gangsters saying they control the airspace over Iran.

Posted by: Englishman | Jun 16 2025 9:40 utc | 37

I Think everybody knows it.
Even the fascist war mongering pig Trump.
” We’ll let them fight for a while and see what happens ”
We’ll keep trying to change the regime until Israel can no longer defend itself. Then ask for a freeze in the conflict.
Now let’s try and clear something else up. Listen to Trumps language since the attack started. It is a copy and paste job of the language he has been using during the Russian SMO.
He knew the attack on Russian airfields was happening, he knew drones had been infiltrated into Russia. Hegseth was definitely watching it in real time.
Just listen to the language and the plans were identical, First the assassination attempts, then the terrorist attacks and then the main strike. While killing Russian generals in Moscow.
Sound familiar ? – the strategy is is identical.
Trump knew and is behind and pushing both war fronts. MAGA, peace through strength is peace on American terms and protection of the US rules based order.
Putin should treat him like Biden and not even pick up the phone.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jun 16 2025 9:43 utc | 38

Once the Israeli’s have run out of AD and failed to change the regime.
Trump will say Russia is going to help us freeze the conflict. Help Iran come to a deal.
Like the fat fucking lying fascist that he is.
But everybody will know it was because Trumps attempt at regime change failed as Israel ran out of AD and couldn’t be replaced.
He’s nothing but a fucking gangster who lied to his base to get elected.
” Now listen Michael– whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting — he’s the traitor. Don’t forget that. ”

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jun 16 2025 9:52 utc | 39

see the 42-second video at the link. 💔💔
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1934375219365364182
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
A young girl grieves for her 13-year-old brother, Hamza, who left home this morning to fetch food for their family in Rafah. He came back as a corpse, shot dead by Zionist soldiers.
@GazaHolocaust

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 16 2025 10:00 utc | 40

Did Russia ever deliver those S-300s to Iran? we now know why they needed them with the Zionist gangsters saying they control the airspace over Iran.
Posted by: Englishman | Jun 16 2025 9:40 utc | 38
It’s not that big a deal for 3 reasons.
1. Most is underground just like the Yeman. Mobile launchers are used. They couldn’t stop Yemen so they can’t stop Iran.
2. Iran is too big.
3. Russia has bombed the shit out of Ukraine who has no air defence and the Ukrainians are still fighting.. Still firing drones and missiles into Russia after 3 years of being bombed heavily.
Now Israel in the other hand is about the size of greater London. AD is crucial for them. When they run out of AD missiles its over.
The clock is ticking and my guess is they have a week to 10 days left to try and complete their regime change mission. Going by how quickly they started to run out of stuff 6 months ago.
All Iran has to do is keep Israeli AD active until it exhausts itself.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jun 16 2025 10:04 utc | 41

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegsett confirmed that approximately 20,000 laser-guided 70mm APKWS rockets, originally scheduled for delivery to Ukraine, have been sent to US bases in the Middle East.
Russia drops that every month on Ukraine and has done for 3 years .
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s no game changer Iran is too big. It will take the West four months to send another 20,000.
Regime change is their only hope.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Jun 16 2025 10:14 utc | 42

Today’s Cross Talk has a very lively debate, making, amongst others, the following points:
– This is not an anti-nuclear operation as advertised by Israel, but a regime change operation
– The US have been actively involved since day one, refuelling Israeli aircraft over Syria
– Assad’s removal, opening the Syrian airspace to Israeli jets, was an intended preparatory step to make the current operations possible
– Mossad played a key role in this, launching a massive cyber attack that took out Iran’s air defense during the first hours of the IDF attacks
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/619355-us-iran-israel-war/

Posted by: grunzt | Jun 16 2025 10:44 utc | 43

Israel is just a berserk killer. In Gaza this morning:
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Sources in Gaza hospitals: 43 martyrs by Israeli occupation fire in the Strip since dawn today, including 26 aid recipients.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
The Israel Prison Service:
We raided Palestinian prisoners in a central Israeli prison after they cheered during the recent Iranian airstrike. [‘Raided’ means they entered the prisoners’ cells, beat them, hog-tied them and blindfolded them before kicking them to the floor and hitting them again.]
Israeli Army Radio:
The army is withdrawing the 98th Division from Gaza and strengthening its presence on the Jordanian and Egyptian borders.
The army has nearly tripled the size of its forces on the Jordanian border.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Posted by: teri | Jun 16 2025 12:55 utc | 44

Internet and phone down again in Gaza due to new Israeli strikes on the infrastructure.

Posted by: teri | Jun 16 2025 14:14 utc | 45

‘Horrifying’: UN slams Israeli actions in Gaza as more aid seekers killed
UN rights chief Volker Turk says Israel’s warfare methods ‘inflicting horrifying, unconscionable suffering on Palestinians’. […]
His comments came as medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 48 Palestinians have been killed since dawn across Gaza on Monday, including 33 seeking aid for their hungry families at distribution points, mostly in the Rafah area in the south. The sites are operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is backed by the United States and Israel and operates in areas tightly controlled by the Israeli military.
Two Palestinians trying to get food at the Rafah site, Heba Jouda and Mohammed Abed, told The Associated Press news agency that Israeli forces fired on crowds about 4am (01:00 GMT) at the Flag Roundabout, a traffic circle just metres from the GHF centre, which has repeatedly been the scene of shootings.
Three more aid seekers were reported killed in northern Gaza and two in an attack on Gaza City.
“Israel has weaponised food and blocked lifesaving aid,” Turk said as he presented his annual report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. […]
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/16/horrifying-un-slams-israeli-actions-in-gaza-as-more-aid-seekers-killed

Posted by: Apollyon | Jun 16 2025 16:57 utc | 46

see the 32-second video at the links
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1934396479382098345
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs
GAZA.
IS.
STARVING.
And Israel keeps on bombing it.
https://x.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1934013529788453171
Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani
This is Gaza – This is Horrific
At least 12 people were killed and many others injured when the Israeli military opened fire on a crowd GATHERED TO GET AID near the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 16 2025 17:33 utc | 47

To understand the degree to which the American policy shapers and makers are divorced from reality it is worth reading this piece on Fox News, THE showcase of American ignorance, arrogance and delusion.
It is truly unbelievable, but important to be aware of.
Fox News is a source of information for millions of Americans, a hard line pro-Trump channel. It is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has openly spoken about his role in removing and installing governments, including in the UK.
Could private security contractors be the ‘day after’ solution in Gaza?
Trump administration briefed on plan that could stabilize region where Biden-Netanyahu talks stalled
Caitlin McFall By Caitlin McFall Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/world/could-private-security-contractors-day-after-solution-gaza
While the idea of private security contractors for aid distribution “the day after” in Gaza is not new, this is a modified “vision”. (Never mind that the Palestinian resistance has emphatically stated that Palestinians will decide on “the day after”, not others).
I am certain that Martians would have a better understanding of Palestine, Israel, Hamas and the region then these people.

Posted by: JB | Jun 16 2025 18:39 utc | 48

Everyone keeps telling us the obvious about what Israel is doing in Gaza and now Iran but don’t tell us what the hell they are going to do to stop it?

Posted by: Englishman | Jun 16 2025 19:13 utc | 49

Further to #26…
Egypt Tries To Sabotage Global March To Gaza
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/15/aotm-j15.html
“…On Wednesday, Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz branded the participants of the two convoys ‘jihadist protesters’ and called on the Egyptian government ‘to prevent the arrival of jihadist demonstrators to the border of Egypt-Israel and not to allow them to carry out provocations and to try to enter into Gaza.’
He added, ‘This will endanger the security of Israeli soldiers, and we will not allow it.’ Katz warned that if Cairo failed to stop the march, the Israeli military would do so.
The actions of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi – whom US President Donald Trump once described as ‘his favourite dictator’ – are of a piece with Egypt’s longstanding role since the 1979 Camp David Accords, as a direct accomplice in Israel’s suppression of the Palestinians.
In return for its role as border guard and regional policeman, Egypt receives the second largest US military aid in the world after Israel. For the last 20 months, el-Sisi has backed Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian enclave and deepened his collusion with the fascist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…”
Down with USrael and all accomplices and collaborators including our own ‘representatives’. Silence is complicity. Resist don’t collaborate. The solution – revolution.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 16 2025 21:18 utc | 50

1. Hamas: Aid distribution points, supervised by the Zionist occupation with American cover, have turned into mass death traps, used as weapons of murder, humiliation, and starvation.
2. Islamic Jihad Movement: This morning, the occupation forces deliberately bombed crowds of people gathered to receive relief supplies in the Khan Yunis area, resulting in the death of more than fifty martyrs and the injury of more than two hundred, all of whom were civilians, the majority of whom were children and women.
– This repeated criminal behavior leaves no doubt that what the occupying entity is practicing is a clear war of extermination that aims to kill the largest possible number of our people.
– We call on the media to continue exposing the war crimes and genocide committed by the enemy in Gaza and the West Bank, and to thwart the entity’s opportunity to commit massacres and crimes off-record.
3. Youssef I swear. By God, with all the pain, I want to write to you and publish it so that people know the truth of what is happening. In the American death zones
yesterday. They posted on the GHF page that the delivery would start at 10 am. Never mind the injuries and martyrs who were martyred before the scheduled time. After 10 o’clock, they were planting soldiers on the way to the delivery, and the tank made people believe they were withdrawing. After people submitted, after the scheduled time, they started hunting people exactly like ducks. Whoever falls is martyred or injured. And if you are lucky enough to enter the delivery site, you will find the Americans and a handful of your countrymen. They will welcome you with a pepper gas cannon that is so powerful that you won’t know how to get your help, and you will run away. The ones who benefit from this ridiculous offer are the merchants… only the merchants.
This is a small part of the scene, from an experience I have only done once, and I will not repeat it again.
@youseffares19
All from journalist Youssef Fares, may he stay safe and see the liberation of his homeland.
@youseffares19

Posted by: JB | Jun 17 2025 9:37 utc | 51

Sources in Gaza hospitals:
74 martyrs by Israeli fire since dawn today, including 56 aid recipients.
Journalist Youseef Fares
This is what the US/Israel do – kill hungry people at “aid sites” they set up – to kill the hungry.
They kill the defenseless, starved civilians from morning till morning, they bomb civilian structures in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, but they can’t stand up to Iran in a real fight, so the Trumpericans are apparently going to “save them”.

Posted by: JB | Jun 17 2025 10:18 utc | 52

Ahmed Al-Najjar
@Ahmed_A1Najjar
No beds or vacant places for the wounded— they’re left laid on the floor as medical personnel are crippled in chaos following the Israeli bloody aid massacre that has claimed the lives of +40 Palestinians and wounded hundreds so far according to Nasser Hospital officials.
https://x.com/Ahmed_A1Najjar/status/1934868918633390177

Posted by: Menz | Jun 17 2025 10:28 utc | 53

asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل
@asadabukhalil
Western reporters still don’t know who is killing those tens of thousands of Palestinians. A serial killer is suspected?
https://x.com/asadabukhalil/status/1934865208444416407

Posted by: Menz | Jun 17 2025 10:29 utc | 54

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AJ+
@ajplus
Israel shut down communications in Gaza to commit genocide in the dark, killing dozens more Palestinians desperately trying to get food.
https://x.com/ajplus/status/1934871382174913002

Posted by: Menz | Jun 17 2025 10:39 utc | 55

Furkan Gözükara
@GozukaraFurkan
Israeli army using underground of hospitals as a military base
https://x.com/GozukaraFurkan/status/1933987603906503096

Posted by: Menz | Jun 17 2025 10:44 utc | 56

Why are Egyptians so quiet when their county is helping in the genocide of Palestinians?
I wish Iran could bomb the colonial state’s bases in Gaza.

Posted by: Georgie | Jun 17 2025 15:32 utc | 57

USraeli Forces Shoot Dozens As Gaza Aid Site Killings Multiply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N0MlpCqPHY
If America stops its support this ends. When will Americans stop the criminality of THEIR representatives? Silence is complicity. Resist don’t collaborate!

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 17 2025 17:35 utc | 58

Many Americans do not know what is happening at the aid centers.

Posted by: Georgie | Jun 17 2025 20:41 utc | 59

meanwhile back at the genocide Ranch
see the 3:40 video at the link
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1934998370075996462
Drop Site @DropSiteNews
American physician Dr. Mark Brunner from Oregon, currently volunteering in Gaza, spoke from the Nasser Medical Complex:
“Every time there’s a so-called food distribution, we know there’s going to be annihilation,” he said.
He described the horror of today’s aid massacre in Gaza:
“I don’t see any evidence of warriors. I see malnourished fathers and daughters. I see pregnant women with their babies ripped from their womb by shrapnel. I see small children, comfortable in their red sweater, having it ripped off and their arms completely annihilated.”
He said Israeli forces today not only opened fire on malnourished civilians waiting for food, but also launched tank shells into the crowd.
“The first couple days we were seeing isolated injuries — head, chest, abdomen. Today it’s reported tanks have been used at food distribution centers. Which makes sense… We’re seeing multi-trauma.”
“This is something that’s just got to stop,” Dr. Brunner pleaded

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 17 2025 21:54 utc | 60

There is a very good article on Gaza here:
https://braveneweurope.com/jonathan-cook-greta-thunberg-tried-to-shame-western-leaders-and-found-they-have-no-shame#comment-294017
Jonathan Cook does not mince his word on this genocide which is being ignored deliberately by the whole of the west. Europe has no claim any more to be any kind of civilisation.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jun 18 2025 9:18 utc | 61

I have an idea:
I just asked DuckAssist if 6 million could, theoretically, live comfortably in 7215 km2… 😉
“Yes, theoretically, 6 million people could live comfortably in 7,215 km², as this would allow for a population density of about 832 people per km², which is manageable in urban areas with proper infrastructure and resources. However, the actual comfort level would depend on factors like housing, access to services, and environmental conditions.”
The French could be generous to the zionists and give them the Kerguelen Islands. They have no indigenous population, only some French scientists at Port-aux-Français, and are isolated enough. Zionists claim they made the desert “bloom”, so I’m sure they can do the same in the tundra, and with their “ingenuity”, even raise some of the sunken Kerguelen Plateau, or reclaim land along the shoreline for more living space, and true to their tribal nature, live a life of tribalism and sheep/reindeer herding free from hostility? And, if the dual passport holders go to their countries of origin, the rest, single-passport holders who would not wish to remain in a Free Palestine would have even more space on that island.
Perfect solution!
Pity for the seals and penguins though…but hey, some compromises must be made?
Free Palestine will be fully given to the Palestinians, and made officially secular, and Jerusalem will be made an international “holy city” for the 3 Abrahamic religions where their respective followers can make pilgrimages. Problem solved and no civilian must die. What is there not to like?

Posted by: jure | Jun 18 2025 14:46 utc | 62

LIVE: Member of Irish rap group Kneecap arrives at court
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcuKA3v5W20

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jun 18 2025 22:06 utc | 63

Kneecap Member Liam O’Hanna Exits Court After Being Charged with Terrorism Offence | APT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC3NK19r6Yg

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jun 19 2025 0:21 utc | 64