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Every Accusation is a Confession

Posted by: Exile | Jul 23 2025 16:22 utc | 1

What next?
Right now there are still people alive in Gaza. The zionist “Israelis” might never manage to finish off Hamas even after all the civilians are dead but already we have seen the many attacks on Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen, and the remaining parts of Palestine; they might pause or decrease their activity but they will never stop unless stopped by others just like the US and everyone else will never stop supplying them with bombs and weapons or oil or food or propaganda or so many other things until they too are stopped.
Gaza is not disappearing after the last civilian is dead nor if all resistance there is stopped; the crime of genocide remains forever.

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Where is Al-Jalani?

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‘Bottom of darkness’: Children raped in ritual ceremonies expose the horrors

Multiple women recount organized abuse including ritual ceremonies conducted by people they knew, even close family members – after months of interviews with victims, their families, treatment professionals and experts in Israel and abroad, a disturbing picture emerges with descriptions difficult to read.
‘Bottom of darkness’: Children raped in ritual ceremonies expose the horrors
“I suffered painful sodomy, truly felt like I was splitting in two. It’s a terrible experience, but there’s something about these things, perhaps in their strangeness, that’s like… maybe the hardest component is that if you tell people about these things, they’ll think you’re crazy. I remember many types of severe sexual abuse, but there’s something about these ritualistic abuses that makes them the bottom of darkness.”
In direct words and with a clear voice, Emunah (pseudonym, like all victims’ names in this article) describes the severe abuse she allegedly experienced in her childhood. Organized sexual abuse that included “ceremonies” with supposed religious significance. Horrifying ceremonies in which religious people, some from her own family, sacrificed her as an offering for spiritual transcendence or redemption.
Emunah is not alone. More than ten women between the ages of 20-45 with whom we spoke describe a severe phenomenon raising serious concern that in Israel, like many countries worldwide, organized sexual abuse of children is occurring right under everyone’s nose.
“Perhaps the world knows that rape occurs, that incest exists, but this the world doesn’t know,” Emunah said. “These acts have been kept secret for years, perhaps because of their insanity… it was always very, very strange. As if there was an internal logic, but it was so crazy… very strange things happen there, normalized in a ritualistic and orderly manner. There’s a specific time, there’s when to say this verse and when to say that verse, there’s an order as if things are supposed to be done this way…”
Each woman we interviewed during our investigation has a different life story. They come from different areas of the country, from north to south. Each is at a different place in her life. Some are students, others work and manage careers and family lives, and there are also young women barely surviving, clinging to life by their fingernails.
These women did not know each other previously, grew up in different communities, and come from different sectors and religious streams. Yet the ritual abuse stories they describe are similar in ways that compel us to listen and not turn a blind eye. Some were harmed in early childhood educational settings or in girls’ schools, others in their family homes, yeshivas or synagogues. In this article, we present only a very small sample from many hours of interviews and information, and some descriptions in this article are difficult to read. The great fear expressed by everyone who spoke with us is that organized sexual abuse of children continues even today.
“Blessed who releases the bound”
Victim. Sacrifice. Punishment. Correction. Transcendence. Redemption. These are recurring concepts in the testimonies. The prayers, the mutterings, the ecstasy surrounding the victims. The extreme pain, humiliation, and torture. The crushing of personality and soul. Testimony after testimony after testimony from women who experienced organized childhood abuse that included group rape performed within ceremonial and ritual frameworks.
We met these women over the past few months. We spoke with family members of some victims, with treatment professionals, and with experts in Israel and abroad specializing in trauma and dissociation (a range of conditions from emotional detachment to complete disconnection from feelings, sensations, memories, and more). We collected information about organized ritual child abuse – a phenomenon recognized worldwide.
The picture emerging from all gathered information is disturbing and difficult. It requires, at minimum, a deep and meaningful investigation by law enforcement authorities. “It is a religious-national mission to expose this phenomenon and uncover the truth,” a treatment professional in the religious community familiar with details of the phenomenon told Israel Hayom.
Most women we interviewed come from religious Zionist or ultra-Orthodox communities, although Shishabbat received additional testimonies about similar cases in secular society. Therefore, it’s important to emphasize that these findings don’t target any specific sector, but rather direct a beam of light toward suspected crimes of the most severe kind imaginable – crimes committed in a parallel world transparent to sight, though deeply dark and sinister.
“Illustration: Talia Drigues
Several rabbis’ names appeared repeatedly in some testimonies. Multiple complaints filed at different police stations around the country were all closed relatively quickly. Even when suspicions arose previously about a network harming children in Jerusalem, police investigators, at best, lacked sufficient tools or knowledge to properly investigate.
In that case, extensively exposed in 2019 on the TV program The Source, suspicions arose about a pedophile network that harmed dozens of children in the Nahlaot neighborhood. Investigators tended to dismiss it as an “invention,” “exaggeration,” or “panic” by parents and treatment professionals, and closed the case with almost no relevant indictments.
A man named Benjamin Satz was convicted and sentenced in 2013 to imprisonment for committing indecent acts and sodomy against girls and boys aged 5 to 8. Another suspect was acquitted due to reasonable doubt. In practice, dozens of children remained traumatized and required years of emotional therapy.
“Not outsiders in the community”
“I remember a pentagram on the floor, usually in red. When the ceremony was in the forest, the pentagram was marked with a hoe and surrounded by lit candles in a circle. The rabbi would bless, ‘Blessed who releases the bound,’ men around prayed with prayer shawls, sometimes dressed in black, while the rabbi wore a white robe. There were several men and boys around the ages of 16-17 who participated in ceremonies for spiritual transcendence.
“There was one time they asked me to dig a hole and lie in it. Other times, they injected me with something and said, ‘Now you’ll feel better,’ after which my body went limp. They would repetitively read Psalms, like ‘A Psalm of David, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.’ They told me ‘you are special, you are chosen’ and they would insert… I remember a palm branch, Hanukkah candles, a shofar.”
Limor (pseudonym) grew up in a religious-ultra-Orthodox home. Her father, she says, always acted violently toward her and her mother. Throughout the years, she required medical treatment at a hospital and was accompanied by a professional due to injuries caused by the violent abuse she experienced.
According to her testimony, her father was the one who brought her to these “ceremonies.” Being delivered by family members is characteristic of many testimonies we gathered. Limor says sometimes the ceremony took place in a forest, other times in a secluded apartment. There were instances when she witnessed and heard other children being abused. Testimony regarding additional child victims repeats across multiple cases. In many testimonies we documented, women also participate in the ceremonies and abuse.
“Organized rape of children is one of the most horrifying phenomena I encounter,” Dr. Anat Gur said, a psychotherapist specializing in treating women and trauma, head of the Psychotherapy Program for Sexual Trauma Treatment at Bar-Ilan University and the Tel Aviv Rape Crisis Center. “It’s a phenomenon probably much more widespread than we imagine. It exists in many places you wouldn’t expect to find it.”
Boaz (pseudonym), a senior treatment professional in the religious community, agrees, “The abusers are typically not outsiders in the community. One patient told me, ‘Understand, he’s the one who blows the shofar on Rosh Hashanah.’ The shofar symbolizes a channel – the person considered most spiritually worthy blows the shofar because he’s closest to God. And he’s the one telling her she is evil, that he’s helping with her atonement in this lifetime. Do you understand the distortion?”
“Crime without witnesses”
Beyond the women who dared to meet and speak with Israel Hayom, professionals possess information about additional victims who report sadistic ritual abuse during childhood. The content emerging from these accounts shows remarkable similarities. From all gathered information, it appears that in most cases, the sexual abuse began in very early childhood at home, perpetrated by a father, grandfather, or other family member. In other cases, the abuse occurred in educational or therapeutic settings.
“What I’ve observed over the years,” Dr. Gur said, “is that whoever endures these things suffers catastrophic damage. That’s also one of the challenges with exposure – the victims are so shattered that they’re difficult to believe. The more cruel and sadistic the abusers are and the younger the victims, and the more horrifying the abuse, the smaller the chance that perpetrators will face justice, because there’s no one left to testify. The abusers so thoroughly destroy the victims’ souls that it becomes a crime without witnesses, which of course serves a society that continues to abuse or maintain these rituals.”
Dr. Joanna Silberg, an international expert in treating dissociative disorders among children and adolescents and former president of the International Society for Trauma and Dissociation, guided the treatment of 70 children who allegedly fell victim to organized abuse in Israel over five years. In Chapter 14 of her book “The Child Survivor,” she describes the severe symptoms the children suffered “due to multiple forms of abuse – physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual.”
Dr. Silberg notes several sources for the numerous testimonies about cases of organized abuse in Jerusalem. In one case reported in professional literature, a child abused in Israel and treated in the US described how several men tortured him and recalled an incident where they submerged his head underwater.
“When the ceremony was in the forest, the pentagram was marked with a hoe and surrounded by lit candles in a circle.” Photo credit: Getty Images
Descriptions of sadistic abuse appear consistently across all testimonies we collected, as in Emunah’s story: “There was a ceremony like a circumcision that I underwent. I was 10 or 11. It took place in the settlement’s synagogue. They tied me up, similar to the binding of Isaac, and wounded my genitals.
“My father is there, my mother is there, a rabbi from the settlement. I’m tied to a table, looking at the window and imagining how I could jump through it, how I might tie a rope and rappel down to the stones. I constantly wanted it not to be happening. That’s what characterizes it… I continuously thought about how it wasn’t happening, how I could escape. I kept telling myself I wasn’t there. It’s extremely difficult to understand that I was actually there. That it’s me – the bound child.”
“The youngest and most vulnerable”
Organized sexual abuse occurs, as noted, throughout the world. Researcher Michael Salter defines it as “a conspiracy of several attackers to abuse several victims.”
Rabbi Dr. Udi Furman quotes in his article “Ritual Abuse in Israel” Salter’s definition of ritual abuse as an ideological framing in organized contexts of child sexual abuse, “functioning as strategic practices through which abusive groups instill in victims a misogynistic worldview, violently, to control them.”
“In other words,” Rabbi Furman writes in his article, “ritual abuse occurs when a religious, political, or spiritual authority uses their position of power to manipulate victims’ belief systems and thereby control them.” According to him, “ritual abuse is primarily a strategy employed by groups involved in producing images of child abuse, child prostitution, and other forms of organized abuse, and does not constitute a separate category of violence.”
Rabbi Furman also presents research by Johanna Schröder and additional researchers from Germany, who examined attitudes among 165 adults who testified that they were victims of organized ritual sexual abuse, as well as attitudes of 174 professionals who supported victims of this type of abuse. In 88% of reports from both groups – therapists and victims – identical ideological expression emerged. The ideological content and objectives were also presented in a similar order: “justification of violence,” “justification of sexual exploitation,” and “maintaining power and control,” followed by “maintaining group commitment and ensuring redemption.”
“The researchers conclude that ideologies are primarily means to justify organized sexual violence,” Rabbi Froman said. However, in his article, Froman argues that some reports in Israel suggest ideology wasn’t merely a means to justify organized sexual violence, but formed the foundation of the abuse.
Rabbi Furman references, for example, the Nahlaot case, which “is just one of many similar cases, most occurring in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. For instance, a private ultra-Orthodox court writes that ritual sexual abuse is cruel and frequent, accompanied by traumatic, accusatory, and confusing ceremonies. The abuse is carried out by large criminal organizations and/or cults and/or secret organizations, with financial investment and recruitment of assisting personnel. The abuse carries for its perpetrators substantial profits such as satisfaction of deviant urges, commerce and pornography, threats and extortion, and more.”
According to Furman, the court document describes the practice of organized abuse: “From preparing the scene, through recruiting collaborators from educational institutions and transportation drivers, to the ceremonies themselves… The ceremony takes place under the leadership of an important rabbi. After a Torah lesson, approximately every two weeks, parents gather with children for what is called ‘soul correction.’ All couples recite Psalms together, sing verses repeatedly with melody, all while standing without clothes. They stand in a circle, naked, praying, lighting candles. The children are positioned in the middle of the circle, also naked.”
In the document, intended for parents, educators, and rabbis, the ultra-Orthodox court “Shaarei Mishpat” in Jerusalem details numerous methods and actions taken by abusers, aiming to warn and raise awareness of this spreading phenomenon and to protect children. Among other things, the document states that to shield themselves from exposure, abusers deliberately act in extreme ways contrary to logic, “so that even if children tell, they will sound completely delusional.”
Dr. Anat Gur. Photo credit: Efrat Eshel
In a “partial” list, actions are described, including abusers using disguises and masks, alongside sadistic torture such as forcing children’s hands into boiling water, submerging them underwater for several seconds, or threatening them with aggressive animals to frighten them and intensify the trauma effect. Additional mentioned actions include inserting objects and work or kitchen tools into the children.
To humiliate children and instill feelings of guilt and shame, perpetrators show them pictures of themselves naked or give them food while telling them they ate “carrion,” organize mock “wedding” ceremonies between children, force them to eat feces, and stage their burials.
“They collapse all self-trust and ability to resist,” Rabbi Froman said. “The regular and frequent abuse is so destructive that the children despair of ‘normality’ and the abuse becomes their life routine. Psychiatrists have diagnosed a complete ‘personality fracture’ in the normal part, allowing the child to continue functioning normally in school.”
According to Dr. Silberg, in each group, individual participants may have their own motives, such as sexual deviations, bizarre ideological affiliations that include conducting ceremonies, or economic enrichment, for example, through human trafficking for sexual exploitation, or producing images of child sexual abuse. These motives are not necessarily shared by all members.
Dr. Silberg further notes that networks engaged in producing and distributing child pornography, including organized abuse, have been exposed worldwide, and “despite the recurring, almost ideological skepticism, there have been several successful convictions of members of organized abuse networks worldwide.”
Over the years, there have been multiple examples of cases where authorities successfully exposed and convicted members of such networks. According to Dr. Silberg, as well as other researchers, since the development of the internet, and especially the emergence of peer-to-peer networks and the dark web, the phenomenon of sexual assaults on children has intensified significantly.
“These are the youngest and most vulnerable victims in society,” it is claimed. “Live streaming platforms from home allow children to be exploited in front of a camera and videos of the acts to be broadcast worldwide, without leaving traces.”
On the other side of the screen, cyber investigation specialists recognize the high demand among consumers for the most horrific videos, including sadistic abuse of children. In conversation with Israel Hayom, Dr. Silberg emphasizes the extreme difficulty in tracking members of such organizations, as most activity occurs on the dark web.
“I had hoped that in Israel there would be an understanding that this is an international phenomenon and that there would be cooperation between Israeli authorities and other countries,” she said, but in practice, “when a complaint arrives and a case is opened in Israel – the police did not conduct the investigation properly. The investigators treated each case as if it were isolated. If you separate each case and don’t look at the overall picture, you don’t ask where all the dots lead. And perhaps they did their best, and the attackers were simply more sophisticated.”
Dissociation
“I don’t want to go to school, I don’t want to!” Ayala (pseudonym) says, crying. “I never want to again. Ever. I don’t want to! No! No! At school, the teachers are scary. I don’t want them to take me from school. I don’t want to go to that class anymore.”
Ayala’s words blend with tears. In these very moments, she is pulled backward with the memory attack. Although chronologically she is 25 years old, right now she is 9, and nothing can convince her that the danger has passed. Even when her partner reminds her, “You know you’re grown up now?”, trying to bring her back to the present, she remains terrified. Trembling deep in the past.
Like many victims we met, Ayala also struggles with dissociation challenges. This is a survival disconnection mechanism that protects the child’s psyche during abuse, which will be explained later. Ayala grew up in a religious settlement in a family with many children. “In many community settlements, children wander around alone,” she said. After years of sharp deterioration in her mental state, including severe anxiety attacks, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, severe suicide attempts, and ongoing suffering – she developed the clear internal knowledge that she had been raped.
The memories began surfacing in severe flashbacks in which, to this day, she re-experiences the abuse incidents she endured. This too is a known phenomenon that repeats itself in some cases we encountered.
Professor Daniel Brom, a clinical psychologist and the manager and founder of “Metiv,” the Israel Center for Psychotrauma in Jerusalem, listened to a recording in which Ayala is heard during a memory attack, describing how they take her from school to a frightening place, where they beat her, tie her up, and lead her to a place where things happen that cause her pain.
Rabbi Dr. Udi Fruman. Photo credit: Eliora Efrati
“She talks about rabbis who abuse her and control her with statements about having a direct connection with God,” Professor Brom wrote. “The form of conversation is familiar to me as a conversation with a woman with dissociative identity disorder. I have seen such phenomena in the clinic quite frequently. Since 1990, I have repeatedly met children and adults who tell of organized abuse by men who not only sexually abuse, but also film their acts.”
“Silence, conceal, erase, move”
“Some abuse occurred in a building and some in the forest,” Ayala continues, “some in a cemetery and some in a synagogue, in all kinds of unusual places. In the building, you go downstairs and reach a very messy room with many tools, paint cans, and many boards. In the middle of the room is a bed, more like a wooden table. It seems there are more rooms there, because there are incidents where I clearly remember being in one room and hearing a child being abused in another room, and then I know what they’ll do to me.
“I hear children screaming, crying. It’s always a dark place. There are between six and nine men there. They tie me to the bed by my hands and feet, stand in a circle, mutter prayers or blessings, and there’s the rabbi who always leads the situation and tells everyone what to do, and everyone listens to him. There’s a ceremony, and each one of them rapes me.
“Sometimes the great rabbi arrives, and then he leads the ceremony. He speaks with God, and God tells him what to do. He puts one hand on my heart, one hand on my genitals, and it hurts when he talks to God. There are times when I scream, and there are situations where I stop because I know they’ll hit me in the head. There were cases where I didn’t cooperate or cried and knew I deserved punishment. There were various punishments, bizarre things: they put my head in a bucket of water for a long time, beat me with a cable, there’s also a ritual bath and purification, where they clean me thoroughly, and then immerse in a water source and explain to me that I need to be pure.
“There was one time they took out a Torah scroll and opened to the binding of Isaac. One of them read, and they simply did what they were reading to me. They tied me up, put the knife to my neck, and God said to lower the knife. Then there was rape.
“There was an event in the cemetery, and I saw a place with stones that had many words written on them, and then they told me to enter a hole, and they covered me with sand. It’s not clear to me how I remained alive.”
Noya was sexually abused by educational figures who cared for her in early childhood. These people, she says, invited additional men to the setting who participated in ritual abuse. The abusers acted with severe violence and used extreme and strong sensory stimuli, which helped her consciousness to split.
“I always had symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder,” she says. “I was hospitalized, had nightmares, and eating disorders. I also had flashbacks of small fragments of moments from the abuse, but I didn’t understand their meaning. In adolescence, dissociative attacks began that looked like epileptic seizures. When I would return home beaten and bruised from abuse, for example, with a head injury or blood from my lips, I said I had a seizure on the stairs.
No one asked too many questions, and at an older age, when the abuse ended, Noya consciously decided to forget. “I told myself nothing happened to me. I had a mantra that I repeated continuously: ‘silence, conceal, erase, move, disguise, turn off, conceal, throw away, disconnect, forget.’ And I really did forget, for several years.”
During those years, Noya fulfilled dreams and established her life–until the difficult memories began to bombard her consciousness. Over the years, and later also in therapy, “figures” that were created during the abuse began to surface, figures that held the difficult memories in her place.
“When there is such massive and extreme abuse, the symptoms are most severe, especially dissociation,” says Silvia, a therapist from central Israel who treats victims of complex post-traumatic stress disorder due to prolonged childhood abuse. “This is a defense mechanism of the psyche that is expressed in disconnection at different levels. It can be disconnection from body sensations, from emotion, from thoughts, and from memories. Dissociation allows the victim to get up the next morning and conduct life as usual – go to school, play with friends, learn, and build her personality despite the massive threat she is under. The mechanism is activated during the abuse as a response to an existential threat or unbearable pain, or as a result of the use of consciousness-altering substances by the abusers.”
Dr. Sagit Blumrosen-Sela, a clinical psychologist specializing in trauma therapy for sexual abuse, dissociative identity disorder, and autism, recognizes in her clinical cases dissociative disconnections and patients coping with dissociative identity disorder (DID). “Today we’re discovering that dissociative identity disorder is more common than previously thought. Many of those affected are not diagnosed – either they hide it, or they don’t acknowledge it to themselves. Many of them are hospitalized and receive incorrect diagnoses. Many psychiatrists are not familiar enough with the phenomenon, and it’s important they understand that these can be patients who lead normative lives, work, study, raise children. There are real gaps between normative functioning and the abysses that aren’t expressed in the outside world.”
An Illustration of the attempted sacrifice of Isaac from the 19th century. Photo credit: Luc/Getty Images
According to her, “This is a mechanism created as a defensive response to intense physical or emotional pain, when there is no possibility or it’s dangerous to fight or flee, and parts of the experience are extracted from the accessible stream of consciousness. When the abuse is repetitive, a system of identities may be formed that carries the traumas, while disconnecting the memories and feelings associated with them from normal consciousness.”
Based on testimonies from around the world over the years, there are situations where abusers are aware of the possibility of producing such a disorder in young children. “One patient underwent repeated sadistic attacks, with the abusers intending to cause a split in consciousness, so she wouldn’t remember and wouldn’t tell. When she was an adult, she even met one of the attackers in a mall and didn’t recognize him,” Dr. Blumrosen-Sela said.
As if evil itself has intuition
“There’s an atmosphere of excitement, as if we’re performing the most sacred and elevated act in the world,” Nurit says. “I was very young. In the images, people and verses appeared… I have scars on my genitals. They injured and damaged them. It involved tremendous cruelty, abuse, humiliation, control, and ownership, all disguised as religion and elevated spiritual work. It’s appropriating God to serve urges. This remains central to my traumas. While such specific events may happen once, the abuse itself becomes a way of life… creating enormous internal destruction. So yes, the damage and implications are terrible.”
Through his extensive experience, Boaz has encountered dozens of cult survivors harmed in ceremonies, but also many patients harmed through home-based ceremonies, “typically by fathers or uncles who, chronically over the years, employed ceremonies they invented, incorporating religious texts and content.”
According to him, “This represents consciousness control. The child is forced into a tailored role. If told, for example, they came to repair the world and must therefore suffer, or that suffering must intensify beyond what they’ve already learned to survive, because they are the chosen victim. The child is told that if not they, another family child would be chosen for sacrifice.
“Ceremonies include invented prayers, mutterings, and songs with religious texts. I believe that through these mantras and mutterings, not only does the victim dissociate, but the abuser creates dissociation for himself. Immediately afterward, he can attend synagogue and blow the shofar. There are cases of institutionalized organizations worldwide where techniques for creating dissociation in children follow consistent patterns.
“I think the abusers I encountered through my patients were diabolically sophisticated, but in my opinion, they didn’t learn these methods from some manual—they developed them through intuition. It’s as if evil itself has intuition. In one case, a patient underwent massive abuse that caused physical injury, extreme humiliation, and contempt. Even today, decades later, she believes she’s a creature from another world. Though intellectually she understands this isn’t true, emotionally she feels destined for this role.
“Consider how easy it is to tell a child they were born from the power of impurity and therefore must suffer. These mantras penetrate deeply, especially when a child is abused and brought to the brink of death—certainly psychological death, but in several cases I encountered, part of the abuse involved nearly killing the victim before allowing them to survive. In such states, consciousness transforms, and implanted beliefs become part of one’s very essence, because what creates a stronger bond than nearly dying—and then surviving?”
“Organized, planned ceremony”
As we prepare to part, Eden’s mother shows me a photograph of her daughter with a broad smile and laughing eyes. “Look what a child I lost,” she says painfully. “Write for her sake.”
“When Eden was 25, she began remembering childhood rape,” Corinne, her mother, said. “It was highly unusual. She described it as a group rape conducted like a theatrical performance where everyone played an assigned role. When flashbacks occurred, memories surfaced, and she revealed shocking details. Men from the settlement acting together, conducting group rape with extreme violence, drugs, and nudity. Somehow, afterward, she returned home clean and intact—it’s unclear how. She filed a police complaint that was subsequently closed. She completely broke down from the experience.”
According to her mother, Eden began suffering severe anxiety attacks and reached states classified as psychotic, though she was primarily expressing extreme terror while convinced the main perpetrator would murder her. “She genuinely felt she was being stalked. There’s an entire community here concealing things, and apparently, many people have something to hide, while others either close their eyes or are too weak to act. Eden spoke about six men participating in the rape—such things require secrecy. Fighting an entire community is incredibly difficult. And some people simply cannot bring themselves to believe it.”
Many women we interviewed described ceremonies involving supposed reenactments of biblical stories. The “binding of Isaac” reenactment, for example, appears in five separate testimonies.
Nurit describes: “They tied me up, creating an imitation of the ‘binding of Isaac,’ though it wasn’t exactly the same because I’m female. They took a specific symbol, used it as they wanted, and connected it to a form of circumcision… Nothing in Jewish law requires performing the binding of Isaac this way. Nevertheless, I sensed they were reading texts, reciting passages, conducting a deliberately organized, planned ceremony with a specific process. It serves to legitimize evil.”
Arnon, a senior clinical psychologist who guides trauma therapists, encountered ritual abuse indicators four decades ago and several clear cases in recent years, leading him to “fear this represents some kind of network.”
According to him, “These individuals distort Kabbalistic sources through misinterpretation. I believe they’re psychopaths using Kabbalah to objectify and exploit victims. When ‘Kabbalistic’ forces combine with sexual exploitation desires, that creates an explosive situation. Anyone truly God-fearing should carefully avoid this movement, as they would be fired.
Dr. Sagit Blumrosen-Sela. Photo credit: Courtesy
“I’m certain similar practices exist in secular contexts. Spiritual frameworks can be misappropriated to justify deviations from norms while demanding blind faith. They deliberately choose synagogues, confronting our most sacred spaces. They perform these acts wearing holy garments, pronouncing divine names, exploiting the concept that certain individuals are permitted—even commanded—to behave contrary to normal expectations.
“But the notion that prohibitions don’t apply to specific individuals is completely foreign to authentic religious tradition. What makes this dangerous is that eventually they believe their own justifications when performing these horrific rituals you’ve heard described. These are the most shocking accounts I’ve encountered in my entire life, and I fear they genuinely believe they’re drawing closer to God through these means.”
To rob faith
“For survival, children often bond with their attackers out of necessity,” Boaz said. “It resembles Stockholm syndrome. They believe their abuser’s claim that they serve some cosmic purpose. Part of the catastrophic healing process comes when, after 30 years, a person suddenly realizes, ‘What? I never had a special role? It was simply evil?’ This creates an enormous, potentially suicidal break because it collapses their entire worldview. Their inner faith is completely stolen.
“At school, they pray and discuss divine providence—how everything has a purpose and God manages the world—but He wasn’t there for them. This represents profound mind control, requiring many years of therapy to address this pain. Therefore, any testimony you hear represents merely a fraction of what actually occurred. The spiritual injury is utterly unbearable. Just as sexual abuse damages trust in people, spiritual injury robs a child of faith. In my professional assessment, faith serves a fundamental function in the human soul—and whoever has had that faith stolen will carry that wound forever.”
Noga, who reports she was in a “cult” that conducted organized ritual child abuse until she reached late childhood, explains that “there exists some agreement with the gods. The entire theory revolves around ‘correction.’ The phrase ‘the great correction’ recurs constantly. To achieve the great correction, one must suffer, primarily because suffering purifies and advances redemption…
“The gods I remember are Baal Peor and Ashtoreth. I vaguely recall statues. I remember them saying ‘our lord Peor and our lady Ashtoreth.’ What makes this truly disturbing is that these are observant Jews who meticulously follow Jewish commandments, minor and major alike, not as a performance. They genuinely adhere to Torah commandments according to Orthodox tradition. They express contempt for Reform Jews while simultaneously, in a parallel existence, practicing literal idol worship.
“I had a connection to something I can’t quite explain. I possessed both strong faith and an innocent connection to God, which they exploited. For a child who is spiritually open and connected, it’s easy to implant messages and create twisted distortions.”
Q: What messages?
“Messages stemming from deliberate confusion between fundamental values, between heaven and earth, darkness and light, evil and good. They claim to reach the root of existence through the most defiled, lowest places, supposedly elevating them to holiness, and through this concept they create numerous distortions. They essentially blur boundaries between good and evil, between sexuality and love, and family. Whatever can be mixed and intermingled, they do it. Their ceremonies included cross-gender dressing, like transvestites, extremely promiscuous sexuality involving men with children, men with women, and even within family units.”
“Both religious and national obligation”
Throughout our investigation, we encountered difficult, horrifying, and incomprehensible descriptions. How is it possible that such horrific crimes against children continue for years right under everyone’s noses, particularly law enforcement agencies?
“Even we as treatment professionals have an existential need for denial,” Dr. Gur said. “When you hear that a woman who collaborated with abusers washed the abused child to remove evidence of the abuse, your entire soul screams—this cannot be real.
“Just as the child dissociates, knowing that remembering what happened would make continued existence impossible, we as witnesses must make a choice, consciously or unconsciously, whether we’re willing to believe such horrifying things occur. It undermines our very personal existence, creating a command of silence that operates not just externally, but at a deeply internal level.”
“In religious terms, these represent the most serious offenses possible. Exposing this phenomenon is crucial, particularly apprehending perpetrators and bringing them to justice. Beyond the physical and sexual harm, this involves profound spiritual abuse,” explained a religious figure familiar with victim accounts who is deeply troubled by the information he’s encountered in recent years.
“It’s essential to understand—these constitute the most serious offenses possible within Judaism,” he continued. “From a religious perspective, this is desecration of God’s name. Many ritual victims are delivered to these ceremonies by family members who also sexually abuse them, committing the sin of incest. If perpetrators have religious motivation, they’re engaging in idolatry. Therefore, exposing this phenomenon and uncovering the truth represents both a religious and national obligation, and anyone valuing religion should demand a thorough investigation.”
Alongside the defensive doubting mechanism that naturally arises when confronting the terror of death embedded in victims’ bones, understanding the crushing rocks of silencing, and the satanic chains of threats that bound victims, denying without investigation becomes a privilege we cannot allow ourselves.
The alleged crimes described in testimonies collected by Israel Hayom never reached courtroom discussion or a thorough investigation. Though these serious offenses may lack specific legal formulation, existing legal frameworks—including human trafficking and rape statutes—obligate law enforcement authorities to investigate complaints about monstrous evil that defies description.
Responses
Israel Police stated: “Every complaint received undergoes thorough and professional examination, with investigators working as necessary to identify possible connections between similar cases, according to findings arising during investigation. The subject mentioned in your inquiry is familiar to police and under examination; naturally, at this stage we cannot elaborate further.”
Dr. Naama Goldberg, CEO of “Not Standing By – Assisting Women in the Prostitution Circle,” stated: “Unfortunately, I’ve been hearing similar testimonies for many years describing identical patterns of abuse. Sometimes they’re so shocking that doubts arise regarding credibility. However, since these reports consistently repeat across victims who don’t necessarily know each other and come from different regions of the country, they appear well-founded.
“Moreover, from my professional experience working with crime victims, those who’ve approached me over the years display behavioral patterns consistent with profiles of people sadistically abused in childhood.
“The dissociative elements, time gaps before disclosure became possible, and other factors confirm complainants’ exposure to such harm at early ages. This represents a terrible story that must be heard loudly and clearly, and thoroughly examined by authorities.”
Orit Sulitzeanu, CEO of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, stated: “In recent years, our Association has received inquiries regarding ritual sexual abuse. These violations typically occur in closed communities under the pretext of religious ceremony. Undoubtedly, the conspiracy of silence within religious society often prevents exposure of severe exploitation and abuse cases, making it tremendously important to bring these violations to light, giving words to what’s happening and allowing victims to release their secrets.”
Read More

https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/04/23/bottom-of-darkness-children-raped-in-ritual-ceremonies-expose-the-horrors/

Posted by: Exile | Jul 23 2025 17:56 utc | 5

Hey, does anyone know if I can give money to a “GoFundMe” deal through PayPal? I really don’t like just to give my debit card number to anyone. PayPal already has it. I’m very leery to spread it around, otherwise. Or, do I have to give it directly to GoFundMe? Anyone have experience with this? Thanks.

Posted by: jonboinAR | Jul 23 2025 18:06 utc | 6

Statement: Without Immediate Intervention, the Last Reporters in Gaza Will Die
https://www.blackagendareport.com/statement-without-immediate-intervention-last-reporters-gaza-will-die-agence-france-pressesociete
“Gaza is being starved – while it is being continuously bombed = to extinction. For the most part, the Western media has been almost silent about, if not complicit in, this 21-month long live-streamed genocide…”
Kampmark: Impotent Effusions – The Joint Statement on Gaza
https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/impotent-effusions-the-joint-statement-on-gaza/
“…Another one of those flossy effusions made by, as Macbeth might have said, idiots full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The idiots numbered many: 28 international parties, including the foreign ministers of 27 states…These statements are always interesting for what they omit…”
Tell Carney: Starvation Is A War Crime
https://www.cjpme.org/tell_carney_to_sanction_israel
“Sanction Israel Now.”
Time to force the issue – by any means necessary. All out against genocide. Silence is complicity. Resist don’t collaborate. Down USrael. Free Palestine.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 23 2025 18:15 utc | 7

Having read the last few hundred comments I’m amazed at the inability of the so-called anti-Zionist left, united with the pro-Hitler Islamists, to provide a proper analysis.
1. A ceasefire in Gaza is possible immediately if Hamas releases the hostages and dissolves itself like the PKK. Of course, one could also say that a ceasefire is possible immediately if Israel ceases its offensive. The answer to this question will be decided on the battlefield. Hamas is sacrificing its own people, just as Hitler sacrificed the German people.
2. Milli Görös supporters, who were even born in Germany, tell me openly that if Hitler were still alive, they would vote for Hitler. When I asked her why, she replied: Because he killed the Jews. Worthy successors to Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who visited Hitler in Berlin in 1944 and helped establish Muslim SS divisions. The British refrained from arresting him after the war, even though an arrest warrant existed.
3. I repeat, Palestine was partitioned by the UN, with the voice of the Soviet Union under Stalin against the voice of the Arab states, Iran, and Turkey. Molotov appealed in vain to these states to agree to the partition.
4. Instead of robustly enforcing the resolution, the UN, and especially British imperialism, tolerated or approved the invasion and annexation of the land allocated to the Palestinians. The Soviet Union, through Czechoslovakia, ensured the survival of the Jewish state.
5. Unfortunately, Israel, like Germany, Vietnam, and Korea, found itself caught between the fronts of the Cold War. Germany achieved peaceful unification, effectively annexing the GDR to the Federal Republic. Vietnam achieved its unity on the battlefield, thanks in part to the help of the People’s Republic of China, but above all to the Soviet Union. In Korea, the United States succeeded in stationing its troops in South Korea as UN troops. The Soviet Union deliberately abstained from the vote instead of vetoing it. The US can still hide behind a UN resolution today.
6. Incidentally, Turkey was only admitted to NATO when it was willing to send its own troops to Korea!!!
7. Turkey and Israel will solve the Middle East problem. Neither of these two states, nor the arch-capitalist Trump, nor the Russian national democrat Putin, nor Xi Jinping, who still invokes Stalin and Mao Zedong’s ideas, have any interest in any feudal-capitalist or partially theocratic states that rule by terror.
8. Muslims should really consider why the vast majority of terrorist groups conduct their bloody business under the flag of Islam, be it in Russia, China, India, Thailand, the Philippines, Mozambique, or Boko Haram in Nigeria. But even here in Germany, this flag of terror is held high.
Otto Kern
DE-37412 Herzberg-the Esperanto City.

Posted by: Otto Kern | Jul 23 2025 18:28 utc | 8

I think I’m going to donate to the “Oxfam” Gaza relief fund. It takes Paypal. Anyone know anything about Oxfam? It seems to be run by Quakers.

Posted by: jonboinAR | Jul 23 2025 18:37 utc | 9

Otto Kern
DE-37412 Herzberg-the Esperanto City.
Posted by: Otto Kern
There is a scene in Tropic Thunder where Tom Cruise responds to the ransom demands of the Golden Dragon, or whoever.
That advice comes to mind, immediately.

Posted by: Not Ewe | Jul 23 2025 18:39 utc | 10

The chef who gave the Zio-Monster Netanyahu food poisoning – has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 23 2025 19:00 utc | 11

The Likud is sacraficing its own people. A retired IDF general was quoted about a year ago that the IDF was suffering 10,000 casualaties/month. The situation has only gotten worse since then.
The sooner the Likud accepts the Peking declaration, the sooner Israelis can have a lasting and secure peace. The alternative is an Algerian outcome.

Posted by: Exile | Jul 23 2025 19:04 utc | 12

There never will be a ‘Hamas’ is gone endpoint. Resistance to Colonialism is an enduring idea and struggle. With what Israel has done they have pushed more people to join armed struggle and Palestinians have every right to do so. And they keep doing it over and over for 80 years expecting Palestinians to roll over and submit.

Posted by: Anon | Jul 23 2025 19:06 utc | 13

I see that MoB has it’s very own hasbara Zionist entering the chat in the form of ‘Otto Kern’

Posted by: Anon | Jul 23 2025 19:09 utc | 14

Lets also add to this the French news reporters in Gaza from AFP – who are not reporting properly from Gaza, because staff are spending most of their time running around looking for enough food.
“UNRWA warned that people in Gaza, including its own staff, are fainting from hunger and dying from severe malnutrition. Thousands of aid trucks remain blocked at the border, with Israel preventing their entry since March.
UNRWA called for the immediate lifting of the siege to allow life-saving aid into the Strip”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 23 2025 19:14 utc | 15

Time to publish the relevant polititians home addresses,
Let them put skin in this ugly game or resign.
At the momment they are detached from the reality of this mass murder by the israelie terrorist state.
Clearly.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 23 2025 19:16 utc | 16

see the 22-second video at the third link
https://x.com/SallyMayweather/status/1947858790713335927
Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather
No country that kills 50k children has a right to exist.
https://x.com/DanMKervick/status/1947722075528974695
Dan Kervick @DanMKervick
“I’m not supplying cyanide gas to the Nazis. I’m just supplying them with defensive shields so nobody can shoot at them while they are gassing their victims”
https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1947407423138144415
Gaza Notifications @gazanotice
🚨This young man came back alive from a death defying journey carrying a single bag of flour for his family after crossing Israeli fire, chaos, and blood.
In besieged Gaza, this is now the only way to get flour.
https://x.com/Middle_Eastern0/status/1947741198380089721
Middle Eastern Affairs @Middle_Eastern0
🚨🇾🇪🇺🇸 URGENT | Sanaa instructs all car import companies and offices to immediately cease purchasing or contracting the import of any vehicles manufactured or assembled in the United States, regardless of their brand.
This comes in response to Washington’s support for the genocide in Gaza, as part of the economic boycott campaign.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 23 2025 19:34 utc | 17

Re:
Posted by: Exile | Jul 23 2025 17:56 utc | 5
Dumping reams of irrelent garbage about sexual abuse, during a deliberately organised and imposed famine, is unjustifiable Thread Abuse.
A link would have been sufficient.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jul 23 2025 19:36 utc | 18

Exile | Jul 23 2025 17:56 utc | 5
Thanks for that. I have often wondered if a similar style of abuse of children is at the bottom of the appalling attitudes of Politicians etc. in the west (as abusers, of course). Pushing those involved into a sort of self-serving sect? What is it, about 15’000 chidren a year disappear? or is that in the US alone?

Posted by: Stonebird | Jul 23 2025 20:03 utc | 19

https://x.com/propandco/status/1947796165732536621
Propaganda & co @propandco
Fuck the entire Arab world
Absolutely disgusting betrayal
And this isn’t just on the leadership
The leaders do nothing because their people apply little to no pressure
How can Sisi sit comfortably in Egypt as this happens?
How can King Abdullah sit comfortably in Jordan?
How can Saudis party until 4 am?
There should be riots in the streets demanding action.
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1947788307670446435
Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws
⚡️🇵🇸JUST IN: Hamas Official Statement:
We are astonished by the official Arab and Islamic silence in the face of the systematic genocide and criminal starvation taking place in Gaza. The current responses fall far short of addressing the catastrophe faced by 2.25 million people.
This deafening silence betrays the hopes of our oppressed people in the leaders of the Ummah and emboldens the war criminal Netanyahu to continue his policy of starvation and extermination in Gaza.
Our people are being starved and deprived of water, while thousands of aid trucks pile up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing. Meanwhile, the occupation imposes a brutal system of death and humiliation to manage the starvation.
We strongly condemn the failure to implement the resolutions of the Extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit held in Riyadh in November 2023. We call for an end to the silence and demand a historic stance—by activating all means of pressure to stop this starvation policy, break the siege, and allow immediate entry of aid.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 23 2025 20:06 utc | 20

I just got at update from Hani at
https://www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-in-gaza-daily
“To the incredible souls fueling the Gaza Soup Kitchen, We don’t have the right words to thank you—but we’re going to try. Because of you, our pots are still warm. Because of you, our doors are still open. Because of you, children ate today who would’ve otherwise gone hungry. That line might sound like a tired cliché. But it’s not. Our souls might be tired, yes. Our hearts are bitter—very bitter. But they’re also full of gratitude. Gratitude for you. For choosing to care. For choosing to act. Even when doing the right thing comes at a cost. Behind every bowl is a battle.
And we want you to understand how deep that battle goes. Right now, in Gaza: Over 90% of the population faces acute food insecurity Real children—not statistics—are giving up. Their bodies are shutting down from hunger, and they don’t even know it’s not normal.
Famine isn’t a theory—it’s not in some academic journal. It’s in the streets, in the shelters, in the makeshift tents Parents are skipping meals so their kids can eat People are walking 2, 5, 8 miles on foot just for a single scoop of lentils Many collapse from hunger before ever reaching our kitchens
A doctor told us this week: > “We’re seeing fewer patients. Not because they’re healing—because they don’t have the strength to walk here.” Let that sink in.

Posted by: Mary | Jul 23 2025 20:35 utc | 21

Continued from Hani”s update above:
Note that gofundme donations are tax deductible in the US. That’s another verification as reporting is required & the IRS does not fool around!
“Here’s my interview with CNN talking about my friend, Amjad who was killed as he had hoped to get back to mom with some flour. Rest in peace
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CtaSXoP6J/
We operate 11 kitchens across Gaza. Today, only 5 are functional. Some are running at just 70% capacity, because food is nearly impossible to find. We rotate, we stretch, we improvise—just to survive. Still, our team doesn’t give up. Not now. Not ever.
They source food in a war zone. They call every contact from 40 years of work in Gaza— Farmers with hidden plots. Vendors who stash away grains. Friends who whisper: “Try this alley… there might be rice.” Every bag of lentils is a mission. Every scoop of soup is a triumph.
Even grapes became a precious offering this week. Not because we’re living in luxury— But because flour wasn’t available, and grapes were. And because a farmer who dares to grow under war deserves our support. So we bought the grapes. And we gave them away. To families who haven’t tasted fruit in months.
Some moments break us. Like when a child tells us they haven’t eaten in three days— And still doesn’t make it to the front of the line. Like when we have to stop delivering meals to hospitals— Because we couldn’t source enough flour. Even though doctors are starving. Even though they’re surrounded by death 24/7. And even though the lies about them cut deeper than any wound.
But some moments lift us. Like the way you showed up. With your donations. Your kindness. Your belief. That maybe, just maybe, this world can be less cruel if we insist on love We want to be honest with you: ➡️ Do we need money today? No. ➡️ Will we need it next week? Maybe not. ➡️ But next month? Without a doubt. Because every single day is a test of how long we can hold the line. We want to be Gaza’s last light. Not flickering in the dark— But standing tall. And with your help, we can. Yes, there are other heartfelt efforts happening across Gaza. We honor them. But at this scale—11 kitchens, 60+ brave staff, thousands of meals—there is no one doing it quite like this. Please remember: You are part of this. This is your compassion. Your love. Your impact—served warm in bowls that nourish not just stomachs, but souls. With full hearts, tired hands, and unshakable hope, —The Gaza Soup Kitchen Team

Posted by: Mary | Jul 23 2025 20:49 utc | 22

Continued from Hani”s update above:
Note that gofundme donations are tax deductible in the US. That’s another verification as reporting is required & the IRS does not fool around!
“Here’s my interview with CNN talking about my friend, Amjad who was killed as he had hoped to get back to mom with some flour. Rest in peace
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CtaSXoP6J/
We operate 11 kitchens across Gaza. Today, only 5 are functional. Some are running at just 70% capacity, because food is nearly impossible to find. We rotate, we stretch, we improvise—just to survive. Still, our team doesn’t give up. Not now. Not ever.
They source food in a war zone. They call every contact from 40 years of work in Gaza— Farmers with hidden plots. Vendors who stash away grains. Friends who whisper: “Try this alley… there might be rice.” Every bag of lentils is a mission. Every scoop of soup is a triumph.
Even grapes became a precious offering this week. Not because we’re living in luxury— But because flour wasn’t available, and grapes were. And because a farmer who dares to grow under war deserves our support. So we bought the grapes. And we gave them away. To families who haven’t tasted fruit in months.
Some moments break us. Like when a child tells us they haven’t eaten in three days— And still doesn’t make it to the front of the line. Like when we have to stop delivering meals to hospitals— Because we couldn’t source enough flour. Even though doctors are starving. Even though they’re surrounded by death 24/7. And even though the lies about them cut deeper than any wound.

Posted by: Mary | Jul 23 2025 20:51 utc | 23

How long are we gonna continue with the pretense that Hamas and Mossad are not like the US and Al Qaeda: servants of the same master?

Posted by: Ludovic | Jul 23 2025 20:53 utc | 24

How long are we gonna continue with the pretense that Hamas and Mossad are not like the XYZ and Al Qaeda: servants of the same master?

Posted by: Ludovic | Jul 23 2025 20:55 utc | 25

In case anyone else comes across it on the internet the following seems to be a complete fake since the front page of the printed edition for the same date shown on the Daily Express website doesn’t look anything like it 🙁

UK newspaper Daily Express 23 July 2025 fake full front page with real picture of starving Palestinian child in Gaza.
Headline (all caps): For pity’s sake stop this now
Under the headline: The suffering of little Muhammad clinging on to life in Gaza hell shames us all

If I am wrong please tell me and share why/how any confusion came about.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jul 23 2025 21:07 utc | 26

Okay another comment missing (Daily Mail front page), let’s see if it ever shows up.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jul 23 2025 21:08 utc | 27

Posted by: Ludovic | Jul 23 2025 20:53 utc | 24
Irrelevant. Occupied peoples have a right to armed struggle. Occupiers do not.
Isn’trealis can fuck off to wherever they came from if they don’t want to be cooked alive inside their tanks.

Posted by: Arganthonios | Jul 23 2025 21:37 utc | 28

— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Al-Qassam Brigades have released footage of targeting Israeli tanks and soldiers in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, where the IDF has recently been operating.
@Middle_East_Spectator

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jul 23 2025 21:43 utc | 29

An Iranian Navy helicopter has intercepted the US destroyer USS Fitzgerald in the Sea of Oman, issuing warning signals and ultimately forcing the American vessel to alter its course southward.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jul 23 2025 21:47 utc | 30

see the 1:53 video at the first link
see the 57:44 video at the second/third link. Chris Hedges interviews Alaister Crooke. dynamite; informative.
https://x.com/declassifiedUK/status/1948050481030512664
Declassified UK @declassifiedUK
🚨We asked the UK’s air force chief why he spies on Gaza for Israel.
The RAF has sent more than 500 surveillance flights over Gaza since December 2023.
This is how he responded👇
https://scheerpost.com/2025/07/10/everything-you-need-to-know-about-war-with-iran-w-alastair-crooke-the-chris-hedges-report/
Everything You Need To Know About War With Iran (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO3jNWfyWNI
Everything You Need To Know About War With Iran (w/ Alastair Crooke)
……Chris Hedges
Let’s talk about the strikes on Israel. Of course, because of military censorship in Israel, we don’t know the full picture. We know that refineries were hit in Haifa. We know the Weizmann Institute was hit. Reading it from a distance, it does appear that Israel was probably a little surprised at the extent of the damage that the Iranians were able to inflict.
Alastair Crooke
I think they were very shocked by it. They were attacked as they’d never been attacked before. I mean, they might have been used to a few Katyusha rockets from Gaza, but this was a completely different order. As you say, there’s been a complete news blackout, but subsequently, from satellite images, it’s clear that at least five military sites were destroyed by the Iranians apart from, if you like, the main ones, which was the HaKirya, which was the equivalent of the Pentagon, the Mossad headquarters in Herzliya, and various other sites as well, as well as other damages. And those other ones are very important because this is key in their economic sense, that first of all, there was the attack on Haifa and the destruction of the refinery at Haifa.
And the Israelis say it will not be able to operate for at least a month. And then there was the attack on the Ashdod Port which destroyed the electric power system…….
……Chris Hedges
I have two last questions, but just on Gaza, because in the meeting in the White House, when reporters were allowed in, Trump and Netanyahu were talking about depopulating Gaza. Netanyahu very cynically said it’s not a prison. People who want to leave, of course, there’s enforced starvation since March 2nd, should have the right to leave. Just your thoughts on what’s happening in Gaza.
Alastair Crooke
What’s happening in Gaza is that Netanyahu and the right are intent on first of all pushing all the Palestinians into what amounts to a concentration camp in one small part. They will be put in but they will not be allowed out of it. And it is a stage towards, it’s politely called voluntary expatriation but it is of course mandatory, if you like, removal of the population from Gaza.
And the same is going on in the West Bank. Huge process. [Bezalel] Smotrich is in charge of this aspect. And there is a real effort being made because they think they believe they can persuade Trump to annex most of the West Bank…….

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 23 2025 21:52 utc | 31

🇮🇱The Israeli Knesset voted for the annexation of the West Bank
Now talks about a Palestinian state hardly make any sense, at least without Israel’s consent to give up the territory.
@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Jul 23 2025 21:56 utc | 32

Genocide by bombs and starving l…
What do you expect from a bunch of uni-party rulers in U$$A who participated in and covered up rich men at luxury resorts raping little girls?

Posted by: paddy | Jul 23 2025 22:07 utc | 33

I’m a US American settled on lands of almost totally forgotten, extinguished peoples, the original inhabitants of California, so I have no moral standing above what Israelis are doing to Palestinians. But when I see public opinion polls reflecting the overwhelmingly eliminationist sentiments of Jewish Israelis, I have to wonder how our respective peoples — US Americans and Israeli Jews — could possibly have sunk so far below minimal standards of human decency.
This is worth reading as carefully as it was written — Someone else disturbed by notions of Christian or Jewish supremacy; an early essay from Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question. One paragraph excerpted as a taste:

The Christian state can behave towards the Jew only in the way characteristic of the Christian state – that is, by granting privileges, by permitting the separation of the Jew from the other subjects, but making him feel the pressure of all the other separate spheres of society, and feel it all the more intensely because he is in religious opposition to the dominant religion. But the Jew, too, can behave towards the state only in a Jewish way – that is, by treating it as something alien to him, by counterposing his imaginary nationality to the real nationality, by counterposing his illusory law to the real law, by deeming himself justified in separating himself from mankind, by abstaining on principle from taking part in the historical movement, by putting his trust in a future which has nothing in common with the future of mankind in general, and by seeing himself as a member of the Jewish people, and the Jewish people as the chosen people.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jul 23 2025 22:09 utc | 34

Many remark the widespread sudden appearance of Gaza’s hunger holocaust in the Western msm. CBC did an unprecedented National News episode on the starvation, bringing this ‘news’ tellingly late to the dwindling population of Canadian viewers who still imbibe their toxic lies. What’s up?
Having so devotedly and malevolently acted as USrael’s cheerleader throughout this Palestinian holocaust, the change is significant. So they now attempt to redeem and repair their soiled credibility at the 11th hour of this monstrous zio-nazi genocide.
It won’t work. We have their names. We know their Masters Voice and will never forget nor forgive. There must and will be a settling of accounts with these awful propagandists and collaborators. Still, their sudden ‘interest’ clearly indicates that reality has overcome their nooze and must now in a limited way be accommodated.
Keep pushing. Truth over lies. Resist don’t collaborate. Don’t let them take us to war to save themselves, their profits and the empire of chaos. Organize to take back the people’s power. Down USrael. Free Palestine.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 23 2025 22:31 utc | 35

please Check out: By Denzel Washington
The Fall of the Israel Lobby Has Begun — And This Is Just the Start | Denzel Washington speech
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CmUYWY9hffQ
Thank you

Posted by: lulu | Jul 23 2025 22:58 utc | 36

I’m a US American settled on lands of almost totally forgotten, extinguished peoples, the original inhabitants of California, so I have no moral standing above what Israelis are doing to Palestinians. But when I see public opinion polls reflecting the overwhelmingly eliminationist sentiments of Jewish Israelis, I have to wonder how our respective peoples — US Americans and Israeli Jews — could possibly have sunk so far below minimal standards of human decency.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jul 23 2025 22:09 utc | 34
#########
The Reconquista is in progress.
Look at what is happening in England, a few more generations and it will no longer be majority Anglo.
That’s happening to the US as well—Germany, France, Italy, etc.
Reverse colonization is inevitable.
What has been sewn will bear harvest.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 23 2025 23:41 utc | 37

How does colonization happen?
A messianic view of oneself and a “culture” not premised on history or values.
Anything goes in pursuit of profit.
The Enlightenment was mostly borrowed from Islam via the Ottomans and Persians (see Goethe’s thinking). Many European “philosophers” were crypto-fascists and nihilistic about the beauty and dignity of sentient life. What sort of ghoul comes up with post-modernism?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 23 2025 23:50 utc | 38

Mahmoud Fanana
“Today I cried, for more than a day without eating bread. I felt my body was tired and I was unable to walk, so tears fell from my eyes involuntarily. I wiped them away and said, “O God, I seek refuge in You from hunger.” I did not get uptight, but rather said, “God is the one sought for help, to God is the one to complain.” Even if I saw someone eating bread, I would be ashamed to say to him, “Feed me.” I am content.😔”
This is Mahmoud Fanana singing (at left of frame).
https://t.me/youseffares19/58673
This was before the current starvation policy, but after a year of conflict, that included famine.

Posted by: Ornot | Jul 24 2025 0:08 utc | 39

Hoarsewhisperer 18
Sexual abuse of children happens everywhere in the world, in every culture, and you may be right in saying that picking on sexual abuse of children in Israel is irrelevant to the genocide.
But Satanism isn’t. Satanism, the deliberate breaking of moral boundaries in order to divide the collective consscience, Normalise criminality, and corrupt faith in God, these are the nuts and bolts of the Zionist Genocide.
Otherwise it just becomes a political exercise in colonial land theft.
Karma is a bitch, especially when it is applied by an all-knowing God. On the subject of revenge Allah says in the Qur’an that it is a tooth for a tooth etc, like the Bible but anybody who takes revenge unjustly, for example against an innocent person who has done no injury to the person who wants revenge, the consequences will be dire.
The Palestinian people have never done any wrong to Jews or Europeans. If Jews want revenge against Nazis, don’t take revenge on Palestinians.
When people mix religion with Satanism, children with sex, violence with sex, incest with school, they are doing it with the sole purpose of breaking boundaries.
The Israelis , and the Western world that supports the Palestinian genocide have had all.of their moral boundaries trashed. The Muslims who massacre have had their boundaries trashed by chemical torture brainwashing.
Anyway , God will give power to the people whose moral compassesies are intact, not to the people who have deliberately trashed the boundaries.
With that certainty I daily read this and other sources of information. Israel trying to force square pegs into round holes might get Palestine destroyed but it goes beyond the limits of revenge against European Nazism and that injustice in itself will bring about Israel’s catastrophic destruction.
And they know it. Perversion is highly relevant to this topic. Perversion of sex, Perversion of the truth and perversion of logic.

Posted by: Giyane | Jul 24 2025 0:29 utc | 40

[Al Janoub: You insist on not differentiating between the journalistic duty of the profession and the humanitarian duty to remain with the people through life’s bitterness. The sweetness of life has left Gaza until further notice. In this noble insistence, we discern a resounding message, despite the “suicide of logic and morals.” A message to the enemy, its “society,” and those aligned with it in the world: They “must understand that the resistor is the son of the diaspora, the son of displacement, and the son of this suffering. Those who resist are our children. Therefore, attempting to separate the resisting side from the suffering of displacement, or to favor one part over another, is greatly harmful to the identity of the Palestinian and to the reality of his situation in the Gaza Strip.”
Fares: The justification of our behavior, we Palestinians, is always revealed when we trace the conflict back to the beginnings. In the language of beginnings, which the world tries to erase with the passage of time, there is a people expelled from their land by strangers. The sons of this people are victims, and the greatest victims of “Israel” are the armed resistance fighters, whom this occupation has forced to take a path that differs from the normal life experienced by their fellow humans anywhere in the world. Isn’t he who sacrifices the prime of his life and youth and is martyred on the path to achieving the dream of a dignified life for his people and family a victim of this occupation?
Gaza is not the Mosul that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi’s group entered and ruled with fire and weapons. All attempts to distort the authentic relationship between the resistance fighter and his community, on the assumption that it is possible for the one who resisted to pay the price for his actions and be exiled from the country, are a blindness to the fundamental truth that those who bear arms are our children. They did not live a better life than us, neither before nor during the war, and they paid the price squarely.
To establish this correctly, it is important to honor the resistance fighter again in the responsible press, as the highest and most noble of human being in the raging battle between barbarism based on theft, oppression, and rape, and civilization based on adherence to rights and defense of life.
For the spirit of the martyr Weam Abu Hajjaj
Journalist Yousef Fares – Occupied Palestine]
https://t-me/youseffares19/84106

Posted by: Ornot | Jul 24 2025 0:32 utc | 41

Al-Aqsa Palestine
[The tree of injustice does not bear fruit, and those who sold their consciences do not see the truth even when it cries out before them.
And here is Gaza, crying out for months…]
Journalist Youssef Fares
[All that can be written about the horror of this day is a betrayal of reality. Neither words, nor tears, nor wailing can describe the madness we witnessed. Those we met from the returnees recounted that the enemy tanks surrounded the starving people searching for a piece of bread from all sides and began to reap lives, with artillery, volleys of bullets, and bombs dropped by quadcopters. More than a hundred martyrs and two hundred wounded, and hundreds of missing and trapped in the event that has been ongoing since nine o’clock in the morning until this moment. In the hospital courtyards, mothers are crying and examining the faces of the unknown martyrs, hoping to find their loved ones. In the streets, people are hungry and exhausted, disheveled and dusty, as if they had just emerged from the graves… What is happening is beyond capacity, beyond description. This is a torment that cannot be encompassed in language.
Photography: Muhammad Mahmoud Balousha.
Journalist: Youssef Fares – Occupied Palestine]
https://t.me/youseffares19/84101

Posted by: Ornot | Jul 24 2025 0:38 utc | 42

Gaza as Squid Games:
https://youtu.be/QjYobbUhO8A?si=iB1P2QGGuJv1_zUG

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jul 24 2025 0:40 utc | 43

Finklestein get to own Piers:
The Resonance
@Partisan_12
When Piers Morgan asked Norman Finkelstein how he thought his Holocaust-survivor parents would have reacted to oct 7, He Replied:
“They had the right to hate the people that destroyed their lives, & the people of Gaza have the right to hate the people who destroyed their lives.”
Video (4:33)
https://x.com/Partisan_12/status/1947667102342496745

Posted by: Menz | Jul 24 2025 0:57 utc | 44

Zeteo
@zeteo_news
“Isn’t it amazing that Zionism is premised on the idea that people can come back to a land thousands of years later, but Palestinians should forget what happened 70 years ago?”
Watch @mehdirhasan
& Alana Hadid get unfiltered about Trump, Gaza, & more.
Full video link in replies
Video (1:28)
Zeteo
@zeteo_news
“Isn’t it amazing that Zionism is premised on the idea that people can come back to a land thousands of years later, but Palestinians should forget what happened 70 years ago?”
Watch @mehdirhasan
& Alana Hadid get unfiltered about Trump, Gaza, & more.
Full video link in replies

Posted by: Menz | Jul 24 2025 0:58 utc | 45

Thank you Michaelj72 @ 20 for the latest Hamas statement.
I am equally astonished by the silence of my own government and fellow Canadians.
What next? Feeling alone in a crowd i’m afraid.

Posted by: simon crow | Jul 24 2025 1:07 utc | 46

The Yemeni People Have Reached The Highest Levels Of Anger & Sadness (& vid)
https://x.com/justinpodur/status/1948184886977655102
“Either Gaza is in the world or the world lives what Gaza lives.”
Beware. What goes around comes around.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 24 2025 1:24 utc | 47

see the 2:03 video at the first link
see the 48-second video at the fourth link. Scene from the movie Schlinder’s List – because it reminds me of what the fascist mercenaries of the USA/israel are doing to the Palestinians at the ‘aid food centers’
https://x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1947213966905651522
Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth
“There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled”
Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population.
https://x.com/ahmedabd_gaza/status/1946922338957644078
Ahmed Abd @ahmedabd_gaza
If Egypt opened Rafah crossing for just one day, thousands of children would survive.
https://x.com/SprinterObserve/status/1947057822740742453
Sprinter Observer @SprinterObserve
UNICEF Regional Spokesperson:
🔹Due to the indifference of the international community, Gaza is today a graveyard for children.
🔹Israel is the main cause of the humanitarian catastrophe.
🔹The siege and prevention of humanitarian aid entry have led to a dramatic increase in mortality in Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YnpQ1f8Qo8
Schindler’s List – Amon Goeth – Balcony Scene

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 24 2025 1:27 utc | 48

Exile@5
Your post is ridiculously long. You should edit it down to no more than three paragraphs.

Posted by: SLM | Jul 24 2025 2:06 utc | 49

LoveDonbass | Jul 23 2025 23:41 utc | 37
*** The Reconquista is in progress.
Look at what is happening in England, a few more generations and it will no longer be majority Anglo.
That’s happening to the US as well—Germany, France, Italy, etc.
Reverse colonization is inevitable.
What has been sewn will bear harvest.***
So how come the instigators and promoters of mass-invasion are the political/corporate Establishments of the countries which are being demographically altered?

Posted by: Cynic | Jul 24 2025 2:34 utc | 50

Exile | Jul 23 2025 17:56 utc | 5
*** https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/04/23/bottom-of-darkness-children-raped-in-ritual-ceremonies-expose-the-horrors/ ***
Have to wonder whether it is a latter-day manifestation of the widely reported child-abuse rituals/murders we are nowadays ordered to think did not result from medieval kabbalism, and did not happen at all.
Which would seem to be quite an ongoing cesspit of nasties…
Centuries ago, probably inflicted by internationally travelling cult groups rather than local, temporarily hosting, Jewish communities … but then rather stupidly covered up, as their culture/religion strongly demands, by these communities. By which time the actual offenders would have moved elsewhere, to continue their practices.
Now in Israel itself — especially given the Israeli view of Palestinians as mere animals — then (illegal imports aside?) they’d really only have Jewish children available for such ritual abuse.

Posted by: Cynic | Jul 24 2025 2:58 utc | 51

Columbia University agrees to pay more than US$220M in deal with Trump to restore federal funding https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/columbia-university-agrees-to-pay-more-than-220m-in-deal-with-trump-to-restore-federal-funding/

NEW YORK — Columbia University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than US$220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was cancelled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus, the university announced Wednesday.

Unmitigated Trump fail. imo.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 24 2025 4:28 utc | 52

I don’t think the Uyghurs will follow a leader who runs away to Idlib because of a few bombs on Damascus. Could anybody use a small army right now looking fir a fight, going cheap?

Posted by: Giyane | Jul 24 2025 4:43 utc | 53

These clowns have no shame:

🇮🇷⚡️🇮🇱 Amnesty International has accused Iran of using cluster munitions during the 12-day war, while turning a blind eye to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime.
__
Once again, Amnesty proves what many already knew, Western human rights orgs only remember international law when it’s time to lecture the enemies of the empire.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jul 24 2025 5:03 utc | 54

Amnesty is without a doubt an evil racist organization.

Posted by: Exile | Jul 24 2025 6:10 utc | 55

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.
This is not just my conclusion. A growing number of experts in genocide studies and international law have concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza can only be defined as genocide.” –Omar Bartov

Posted by: Apollyon | Jul 24 2025 8:15 utc | 56

Cynic 51
When your society becomes as Nazified as Israel and Ukraine, you are asking to be trashed. Shoot the pigeon flying into the city from outside whose crop is full of fresh grain and vegetables. Don’t eat the pigeon flying out of the city who’s tummy is full of discarded chicken n chips n dead rat.
The immigrants are wiser and morally steadfast, to reinvigorate your population after they have been sexually abused as kids. The PTB know that they need an abused population to achieve genocide, and after using them , discard them and bring in fresh Jews from outside.
Cynic, we will never be as cynical as the PTB. Not even half.

Posted by: Giyane | Jul 24 2025 9:06 utc | 57

Apollyon 56
Now he knows? The genocide started 80 years ago. He should pay his salary back.

Posted by: Giyane | Jul 24 2025 9:10 utc | 58

see the photo at the first link
see the photo at the second link
see the 2:06 video at the third link. boo hoo hoo the poor darling israelis aren’t so welcome in Greece these days. wonder why?
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1948147301308092645
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
🇪🇸 ✈️ 21 year old Israeli teacher who made her students chant genocidal slogans on a @vueling
plane was arrested by Spanish Guardia Civil.
https://x.com/Scottludlam/status/1948176632235397536
Scott Ludlam @Scottludlam
After 21 months of the Gaza genocide, the Australian govenment has finally begun issuing sanctions… against a Greens Senator.
https://x.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1948104124026753395
i24NEWS English @i24NEWS_EN
‘This week has been troubling for the thousands of Israelis traveling to Greece, a country where they’re usually welcomed warmly. Israelis have been blocked from docking, teens were chased with knives, and now 2 out of 4 travel warnings have been issued.’
i24NEWS’ @Nicole_Zedeck

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 24 2025 9:33 utc | 59

Live Blog: Netanyahu Assassination Plot Alleged While Gaza Famine Claims Dozen of Lives – Day 655
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/live-blog-gaza-children-die-from-hunger-as-famine-worsens-yeman-strikes-tel-aviv-day-655/
“According to the Gaza medical relief director, the Strip has entered a danger phase of famine, expecting mass death among women and children…”
Mobilize the Working Class To Stop the Gaza Genocide!
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/24/duio-j24.html
“…Six months ago, Trump pledged that Warshington would ‘take over Gaza’, expel the Palestinians, ‘level it out’ and turn it into a beach resort, the ‘Riviera of the Middle East.’ Now Israeli officials are working to implement this plan.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 24 2025 10:15 utc | 60

Can’t make this shit up:

🇺🇳🇮🇱⚡🇮🇷 The World Human Rights Organization: Iran has committed war crime against Israelis by using cluster bombs.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jul 24 2025 11:10 utc | 61

Death to WasNeverReal.
Decolonise decolonise the Zionazis
Bring them home to Anglo Europe and its crazed eyes.
The shapeshifters must be purged from humanity or else they will always plant to emerge.
Lol. There was some deal done with Donny The Touserless and Karp and his elite shapeshifter wizards play the eternal stringpulling game on us wasterals.
Macaroon, Herr von der lying, the starmztrooper and all the nasty Eurocrats and Shelensky are all directed to grab some survival of their millennial long never ending project of the ziofascist world ownership project.
How much longer can they pretend?
Will they actually seal themselves into the deep mines under the seas even to survive a century to re-emerge like zombies and vampyres from these tombs? Ready to lay claim upon the earths resources and surviving humans?
The unanimity of humanity must make sure they don’t get a free hit at that attempt to crawl out of the ground and feed upon our future generations.
From The River To The Seas.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 24 2025 11:31 utc | 62

see the 2:33 video at the first link
see the 3:58 video at the third link
https://x.com/HindRFoundation/status/1947728342003941631
The Hind Rajab Foundation @HindRFoundation
EXPLAINER: @HindRFoundation Chairman Dyab @Aboujahjah outlines why #Belgium 🇧🇪 arresting two Israeli soldiers at the @Tomorrowland festival over Gaza war crimes is a landmark moment for universal jurisdiction.
The arrests followed an urgent legal complaint by the HRF and @GLAN_LAW. Our resolve is stronger than ever.
‼️We are ready—with evidence, legal teams, and a global network—to challenge Israeli impunity.
Full details ▶️ https://bit.ly/4ogNtrx
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1948282974174171465
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Today in Baku, Azerbaijan, a high-level meeting is expected between Israel and Syria, facilitated by the United States. The choice of venue—on Iran’s doorstep—is no coincidence. Initiated by Benjamin Netanyahu and backed by Washington, the meeting aims to send a clear signal to Tehran: Israel is operating within its strategic periphery, and Syria is aligned with the anti-Iran axis and is submitted to Israel.
https://x.com/Aboujahjah/status/1948004081131249830
Dyab Abou Jahjah @Aboujahjah
The genocide in Gaza has now reached Stage 5 famine. This is extermination.
We can raise awareness, seek accountability, and apply public pressure, but we cannot stop this. Only states have the power to make Israel stop.
If they fail to act,they are complicit in genocide.
#GazaStarving #GazaGenocide #HindRajabFoundation

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 24 2025 12:02 utc | 63

@ Jane:
I think I am remembering correctly that you had asked a question about the JCPOA – the Iran nuclear deal – and whether any of it was still in effect, given that the US was the one that broke it. (I am being lazy and not going back through all the comments. Apologies if I am totally misremembering.)
Richard Medhurst is in Iran right now working on a documentary about Iran and the nuclear deal. He has given a recap of all the details, including the number of times and the ways the US and other signatories broke the deal, and the resulting reactions of Iran each time.
The summary is shorter than the documentary will be, but he gives an amazing summary in time sequence in this video, which I will give a link to. I think this video is about 25 minutes long – I didn’t time it and it doesn’t have a timer embedded. He speaks quickly and doesn’t pontificate, which I really appreciate. It’s all facts and no opinion.
I think he is one of the only Western journalists (he’s from Great Britain) ever allowed to interview the Iranians high up in the nuclear program in Iran.
Link here:
The truth about Iran’s nuclear program.
Richard Medhurst
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLJRQ5VIRWm/
Hope it’s of interest!
– Teri

Posted by: teri | Jul 24 2025 12:41 utc | 64

‘Danger Will Reach Your Doorstep Too’: Yemen Warns Arab States Over Silence on Gaza
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/07/24/751765/Yemen-Arab-states-penalties-Israeli-Gaza-genocide
“The chairman of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council has called on all Muslims and Arab countries to take strong action against Israel, warning they will face penalties too if they do not break their silence on the regime’s genocide and starvation of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement sent to Yemen’s official Seba news agency on Wednesday, Mahdi-al-Mashat said the Zionist machine of deceptions, lies and propaganda has silenced the world in the face of the ongoing Israeli war of extermination in the besieged Gaza.
He added that those who fail to take a stance on Gaza will be unable to escape danger when it comes for them, adding that those unmoved by the starving victims have lost their faith and dignity. ‘We must unite to erase our shame before history condemns us; the responsibility is on everyone…”
Indeed. And all must take it up. Silence is complicity. Resist don’t collaborate.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 24 2025 12:49 utc | 65

Middleeasteye and others are now reporting that the number of Palestinians who have died from starvation has risen to 115.
Israel is really going all out to blame everything on Hamas. A couple of examples from yesterday and today:
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Israel says it will only grant one month visas to UN aid staff
Accusing the UN of “cling[ing] to its political agenda” and “bias”, Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon has told the UN Security Council that the country would only grant one-month visas to the international staff of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“Hundreds of OCHA employees are now undergoing security vetting,” he said on Wednesday, claiming without evidence that some OCHA staffers were even involved in the October 7 attacks.
“Israel will no longer grant automatic visas to OCHA’s staff. Visas will be limited to one-month terms.”
He added that Jonathan Whittall, OCHA’s head of office, will not have his visa renewed and must leave the country by July 29.
https://aje.io/2ewa76?update=3852684
——————
The interim US ambassador to the United Nations, Dorothy Shea, told the Security Council on Wednesday that use of the term ‘genocide’ to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza is nothing more than “propaganda” fueled by Hamas.
“The representative of Israel has addressed allegations of genocide made by some in this room. I am also compelled to speak on this. These accusations are politically motivated and categorically false. They are part of a deliberate, cynical propaganda campaign as Hamas attempts to win symbolic victories to compensate for total defeat in war,” Shea said.
“The United States refutes these allegations entirely. America fully supports Israel’s right to defend itself. Israel has taken numerous measures to limit harm to civilians and to address humanitarian needs. The loss of civilian life in Gaza is tragic, but the responsibility for this rests with Hamas, which could also stop the fighting today by agreeing to a cease fire already accepted by Israel.”
None of the ceasefire agreements agreed to by Israel or the US have included a permanent end to the war, which Hamas has insisted on. 
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/using-term-genocide-just-hamas-propaganda-us-diplomat-says?nid=425676&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=546588
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Israel has responded to a statement signed by over 100 aid organisations earlier on Wednesday by describing reports of the mass starvation of NGO staff in Gaza as “the propaganda of Hamas”. 
“Instead of challenging the terror organization, they embrace it as their own,” its foreign ministry claimed. 
Besides the 109 NGOs who are co-signatories to the letter, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has repeatedly highlighted the severity of food insecurity in Gaza. […]
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-claims-over-100-aid-groups-lying-about-starvation-their-staff?nid=425676&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=546588
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Posted by: teri | Jul 24 2025 12:56 utc | 66

JohnGilberts@65…..would not surprise me one bit if the nuclear bombs moved by the US to the UK are for Yemen…….
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jul 24 2025 12:56 utc | 67

@ sean 67 These monsters are capable of anything.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 24 2025 13:43 utc | 68

teri 66
“The interim US ambassador to the United Nations, Dorothy Shea, told the Security Council on Wednesday that use of the term ‘genocide’ to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza is nothing more than “propaganda” fueled by Hamas.”
We don’t need the Epstein files to tell us whose personalities have been split by early childhood sexual abuse.
They are exposing themselves by their ridiculous denials of the starvation in Gaza and denial of the facts.
If not childhood sexual abuse, organised marital sexual abuse . The budget for swingers and shrinks must be bigger than the budget for bombs and nukes.
The budget for the Adultery Industrial Complex nust be bigger than the budget of the Military Industrial Complex.

Posted by: Giyane | Jul 24 2025 14:30 utc | 69

A war criminal is to help other war criminals – rebuild Gaza into some sort of superrich riviera – of course the rightful owners the land, the people of Gaza will need to be starved then murdered, and those that survive starvation – will be forcefully rounded up, and put into concentration camps, then murdered.
“News has emerged that the Tony Blair Institute has been involved in planning a post Palestinian Gaza, which would be marketed as a utopia on the sea.
The organization has helped draw up a map of how the strip would look, including a spot named after Elon Musk and the Trump Riviera.
Rather than an abbreviation of his behavior, this is a continuation of his work over decades in war profiteering and directly serving Zionist aims.
The Tony Blair Institute has, over the last few years, received at least 200 million pounds from tech billionaire Larry Ellison.
Ellison is a very close friend of Benjamin Netanyahu and even offered the Israeli prime minister a place on the board of directors of his own data firm, Oracle, which processes the data of many UK government institutions.
Ellison is also the largest funder of the Israeli military in history. He’s a trusted friend of Elon Musk and lent him $1 billion with which Musk obtained social media company Twitter.
Blair, together with Netanyahu, is currently a patron of the JNF, the largest settlement building organization in Palestine, while at the same time he is a peace envoy to Palestine.
Blair is also a special advisor for global affairs at Israel lobby group and spy network, the ADL.
His wife, Cherie Blair, was also ethics advisor to the Israeli intelligence firm, NSO group, which crafted the Pegasus spyware.
Blair also has a long history of war profiteering in West Asia. After resigning as prime minister, Blair was employed as an advisor to the Korean oil company UI Energy Corporation. During the same period, UI Energy Corporation acquired three Iraqi oil fields.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 24 2025 14:44 utc | 70

see the 52-second video at the first link
see the 2:44 video at the second link
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1947723050331607158
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
Israeli tourists try to provoke a young Japanese man who raised the Palestinian flag in the streets of Tokyo, but he responded firmly and wisely, thwarting their attempts to intimidate him. (Qudsn) 🇯🇵📢🇵🇸
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1947730322562683136
☀️👀 @zei_squirrel
Mearsheimer has said Israelis are Nazis long before. From months ago: “It’s not just Israeli leaders who support the genocide. You don’t see any protest among the Israeli public. It’s sickening. You have to file all this under the Nazification of Israel. They are like the Germans under Hitler.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/22/live-israel-kills-60-in-gaza-hamas-says-working-on-truce-to-stop-famine
‘Nobody does a thing’ as Israel starves 2 million people in Gaza: Oxfam
Bushra Khalidi, policy lead in the Occupied Palestinian Territory at UK charity Oxfam, has denounced governments around the world for failing to stop Israel’s starvation policy in war-battered Gaza.
She condemned the takeover of aid distribution by the Israel-US military contractor group GHF from UN-led agencies, which has “turned food into a deadly trap” in the Strip.
“This is not a humanitarian failure, this is a deliberate policy. There are massacres every single day and they don’t address any needs that Palestinians in Gaza need right now,” Khalidi told Al Jazeera.
The international community needs to act immediately to halt Israel’s war and ramp up the entry of vast amounts of humanitarian relief, she said.
“A civilian population of two million people are dying slowly before the world’s eyes and nobody does a thing… States and governments – stop waiting. There’s no time left. If you are a government that claims to follow human rights, you need to act now. We are begging you.”

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 24 2025 15:40 utc | 71

@Arganthonios
And people have a right to know the empirical truth, whether you find it personally irrelevant or not. The epistemic phenomena are no mere curiosity in this case, but rather constitute a key fact in understanding how a hegemonistic Western imperial power operates with regard to its own people—not to speak of the Other. Do you think that the fact that Hamas is criminal, hated by untold numbers of Palestinians in Gaza, is irrelevant? Do you think Hamas is not exceedingly corrupt, grossly undemocratic, and prone to operating by extrajudicial means at will? Do you think Hamas is not the jailer from within, like the Jewish capos in the Nazi concentration camps? Do you not think that the Israelis themselves have never escaped being under the thumb of such capos—hiding in plain sight like wolves in sheep’s clothing—until they no longer have to hide their Nazi ugliness, because they have, over the decades, spread the psychosis throughout their own body politic until it burst forth following October 7, literally like fascism reincarnate? Do you think Hamas itself is not ultimately a faithful mirror or simulacrum of this warped, European-inherited insanity?

Posted by: Ludovic | Jul 24 2025 15:48 utc | 72

From Al Mayadeen:
NRC says staff in Gaza fainting due to hunger amid Israeli blockade
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) announced on Tuesday that it has completely run out of humanitarian supplies in the Gaza Strip, with some staff members now facing hunger.
“We distributed our last tent, our last food parcel, and our last relief item. There is nothing left,” said NRC Secretary-General Jan Egeland in an interview with Reuters.
The NRC operates in Gaza with 64 Palestinian staff members and two international employees. Due to escalating threats and “Israel’s” forced displacement of Gaza’s residents, 33 employees had to be relocated from Deir al-Balah on Sunday.
With fuel supplies dwindling, the council warned that clean drinking water is rapidly running out. In recent weeks, NRC was able to provide water to approximately 100,000 people in central and northern Gaza, but that supply is now nearly exhausted.

Posted by: Mary | Jul 24 2025 15:51 utc | 73

Otto Kern 8 – the UN had no right to partition any portion of Palestine without the approval of the Palestinian people, and they did not and never did have that approval.
Besides the Zionists never obeyed the limits of the partition. They were violated from the get go, with massacres of civilians in Haifa, and Judea and Samaria and confiscation of the Palestinian vineyards, orchards, farmland, pastures and homes and businesses.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Christians and Muslims were evicted from the their homes or murdered.
The State of Israel was founded on one big lie in order to act as a refuge for Eastern Europeans at the expense of Palestinians.
77 years later we still see the State of Israel staging massacres and starving Palestinians to death in the Gaza enclave and committing daily genocidal acts.
Hamas, much like the IRA swims in the Sea of the Palestinian people, and will never be defeated.

Posted by: tobias cole | Jul 24 2025 15:55 utc | 74

🇮🇶 | Iraqi Resistance Leader Abu Ali al-Askary (H):
The agreement between the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and the Prime Minister regarding the withdrawal of the American enemies from Iraq has only two months remaining. So far, we have not seen any change in the status of these occupying forces. He must adhere to what was agreed upon—starting with their removal from joint operations, the airport, and Ayn al-Asad, and the withdrawal of all their aircraft from Iraqi airspace. We have given him ample time—and more—but he must comply, or else we will have a different stance.
🔹@enemywatch

Posted by: JB | Jul 24 2025 15:55 utc | 75

For those who do not know, Al Arabiya and Al Hadath, are propaganda outlets often spreading dangerous falsities. Do not waste your time with those two.
Here is a current example:
Important: Statement Issued by Hezbollah’s Media Relations:
Hezbollah’s Media Relations categorically denies the reports aired by Al Arabiya and Al Hadath channels, which were attributed to Hezbollah, claiming its readiness to confront the Lebanese state, along with other falsehoods. It affirms that these reports and information are entirely baseless, fabricated lies stemming from the imagination of those channels, serving suspicious agendas aimed at creating confusion and destabilizing Lebanon.
Consequently, Hezbollah’s Media Relations calls on all media outlets to disregard these fabricated reports and refrain from using them as a basis for analyses or positions. It reiterates the importance of referring to the relevant authority within Hezbollah to verify its stances and perspectives on events and developments, especially during these critical and sensitive times.

Posted by: JB | Jul 24 2025 16:00 utc | 76

I am very disappointed that Afghans living in Iran are said to have helped Israel destroy them Iranian Air Defenses. I think Alistair Crooke has said that it wasn’t Afghan interference with AD , but Israeli cyber hacking, which would have required very long term and large scale, military planning.
The Afghans, like the Kurds in Northern Iraq, are exhausted by the continuous machinations of USUKIS over 100 years of interference.
There has been a major breakthrough between Baghdad and Erbil about the payment of wages to municipal workers, which haven’t been paid by Barzani since May.
Trump has threatened Barzani and three months’ wages have been promised.
USUKIS is constantly bullying the whole region which gives them so much oil and gas.
For USUKIS to blame the Israeli hack on Iran’s AD on the honourable Afghan Muslims is typical of USUKIS arrogance.
The whole region is fed up with USUKIS lies and aggression.

Posted by: Giyane | Jul 24 2025 16:24 utc | 77

LuboVix 72
Your lies are a pain in the arse. Try baby lotion. It’s kinder on the lips.

Posted by: Giyane | Jul 24 2025 16:30 utc | 78

Ansar Allah scores, again:
https://x.com/IranObserver0/status/1948382855559549389
Oops, there goes another ship full of Western goods. Plus, this time they took the whole ship.
Can there be a bigger failure than Trump’s useless bombing of sand?

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jul 24 2025 17:00 utc | 79

Adding: the ship was carrying livestock. Looks like delicious kababs are back on the menu, boys!

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jul 24 2025 17:09 utc | 80

The Likud is sacraficing its own people. A retired IDF general was quoted about a year ago that the IDF was suffering 10,000 casualaties/month. The situation has only gotten worse since then.
The sooner the Likud accepts the Peking declaration, the sooner Israelis can have a lasting and secure peace. The alternative is an Algerian outcome.
Posted by: Exile | Jul 23 2025 19:04 utc | 12

I wish someone would hack their military medical database. Hezbollah hit them hard too and they hid the number of their dead soldiers.

Posted by: Georgie | Jul 24 2025 17:09 utc | 81

@ JB | Jul 24 2025 16:00 utc | 76
Arab, international countries condemn Israeli motion over West Bank sovereignty https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2025/07/24/arab-international-countries-condemn-israeli-motion-over-west-bank-sovereignty-
A group of Arab and international countries issued a joint statement on Thursday condemning the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a declaration calling for the imposition of “so-called Israeli sovereignty” over the occupied West Bank.
The statement was issued by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Nigeria, Palestine, Qatar, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the League of Arab States and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 24 2025 17:12 utc | 82

A report by +972 – says that once the Zio-Monsters bomb a site in Gaza, they wait a bit until loads of people and rescue workers try and dig the people out, those that are lucky enough to still be alive that is – the Zionist, then bomb the same bit again – to kill all the rescue workers and those civilians trying to help the injured.
https://nitter.poast.org/BtSIsrael/status/1948386025807438065#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 24 2025 17:19 utc | 83

How and when the British government decided to proscribe Palestine Action.
“The UK government was secretly advised that Palestine Action is “highly unlikely” to advocate for violence while officials struggled to produce evidence the group posed a national security threat, it can be revealed.
Despite this, the activist group was banned earlier this month when Home Secretary Yvette Cooper proscribed it under terrorism legislation.
It is the first time in British history that a direct-action group has been branded a terrorist organisation.
Only 26 MPs voted against the ban, which provoked a wave of civil disobedience across Britain, with protesters holding placards saying: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”.
Over 100 people have now been arrested under the Terrorism Act for allegedly showing support for the group, including an 83-year-old priest and a man holding a Private Eye cartoon.
Declassified has now seen documents which detail why, how, and when the decision to proscribe Palestine Action was made. They form part of the material relied upon in the group’s High Court challenge to the ban.”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how-palestine-action-was-banned/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 24 2025 17:23 utc | 84

“ A group of Arab and international countries issued a joint statement on Thursday condemning the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a declaration calling for the imposition of “so-called Israeli sovereignty” over the occupied West Bank.”
That and a dollar will get you 100 pennies.

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 24 2025 17:25 utc | 85

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 24 2025 17:25 utc | 85
Better than a Zio JDAM up yer cultural sites.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 24 2025 17:32 utc | 86

An Egyptian man fills water bottles with baby formula, rice and flour and throws them in the sea hoping they reach Gaza.
https://nitter.poast.org/ElonBuksh/status/1948380686223610045#m
A wonderful way of showing solidarity but it also shows how weak Egyptians are.

Posted by: Georgie | Jul 24 2025 17:37 utc | 87

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 24 2025 17:25 utc | 85
They condemn while continuing to work with the evil entity.

Posted by: Georgie | Jul 24 2025 17:38 utc | 88

The crises we see unfolding in Gaza right now has been deliberately timed to coincide with politisions going home for their summer break.
How fucking sick is that !
So much for the fake concern by them.
I hope they burn in hell.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 24 2025 17:56 utc | 89

Peace talks stall out again. Hamas wants a permanent ceasefire, while the US and Israel will only agree to a 60-day truce, with Israel allowed to resume bombing if there is no longterm agreement by the end of the 60 days.
The US calls the Hamas position “selfish” and pulls its team from negotiations. Now, says Witkoff, the US will consider “alternative options” on getting the hostages out and creating a “more stable environment” for the people of Gaza. This is frightening. The last idea the Americans had was those damn ‘aid’ stations where they lure staving Palestinians in only to murder them.
Hamas:
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A senior Hamas source told Reuters on Thursday that there was still a chance of reaching a Gaza ceasefire agreement but it would take a few days because of what he called Israeli stalling.
The source said Hamas’ response to the latest ceasefire proposal included requesting a clause that would prevent Israel from resuming the war if an agreement was not reached within the 60-day truce period.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/still-chance-reaching-ceasefire-agreement-despite-israeli-stalling-hamas?nid=425676&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=546618
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US/Israel:
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US Special Envoy for Peace Missions, Steve Witkoff, announced on X on Thursday that the Trump administration is recalling its Gaza ceasefire negotiation team from Doha, Qatar after what he described as a “selfish” response from Hamas.
Witkoff did not detail what that response entailed, but Hamas has said publicly that it seeking nothing less than a full end to the war, rather than a short-term truce. The US and Israel have only proposed 60-day ceasefire deals.
Washington, Witkoff added, is now considering “alternative options” to locate the remaining captives in Gaza.
“We have decided to bring our team home from Doha for consultations after the latest response from Hamas, which clearly shows a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire in Gaza,” Witkoff wrote.
“While the mediators have made a great effort, Hamas does not appear to be coordinated or acting in good faith,” he added.
“We will now consider alternative options to bring the hostages home and try to create a more stable environment for the people of Gaza. It is a shame that Hamas has acted in this selfish way. We are resolute in seeking an end to this conflict and a permanent peace in Gaza.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-considering-alternative-options-negotiated-ceasefire-deal?nid=425676&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=546618
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Posted by: teri | Jul 24 2025 17:56 utc | 90

And their spawn.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 24 2025 17:57 utc | 91

The security level for Yehiel Lasri, the mayor of the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, has been raised to the highest level, reportedly following an assassination attempt against him.
A gag order has been imposed on the circumstances of the incident.

https://x.com/SprinterObserve/status/1948433565663760525
UNTENABLE.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 24 2025 17:57 utc | 92

Zionists attacking Zionists. The world is talking about and shunning Zionists.
How far we have come.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 24 2025 18:02 utc | 93

Ansar Allah = stone cold pimps and players
EU and NATO = bitchez

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jul 24 2025 19:01 utc | 94

I have never heard of a war where both sides agree to the extermination of one side, namely the side for which one of the two sides ostensibly fights. Yet that is precisely what happened on Oct 7. It takes real sociopathy to not simply risk, but see through a war of extermination from an armchair in Qatar, while the West enables both the war of extermination and your continued relaxed existence, qua Hamas, in Qatar. If you had wanted to gift casus belli to Israel on the cheapest of cheaps you couldn’t have done better. Hamas is evidently the Wile E. Coyote of insurgents, not the Stalin of Stalingrad but the gallows joke that laughs into the ear of any world leader with eyes to see that it’s just Israel and the West against something they themselves created, which would hate itself if it had an independent brain to think, and which, most likely, is a “rough beast” assigned to Saudi Arabia to fund, for the convinced purpose of ridding itself of the inveterate revolutionary nature of Gaza, at whatever cost to Israel.

Posted by: Ludovic | Jul 24 2025 19:32 utc | 95

Not long ago Josep Borel stated that the situation in Gaza was « testing » EU’s fundamental principles. Remember, EU, this garden in a jungle. I wonder how are those principles still existing by now…

Posted by: scc | Jul 24 2025 20:02 utc | 96

Posted by: Ludovic | Jul 24 2025 19:32 utc | 95
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Unless you suffer from a deep form of amnesia, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict did not start in October 2023.
The remainder of your charabia doesn’t worth commenting.

Posted by: scc | Jul 24 2025 20:16 utc | 97

The Guardian
‘Laughing and out of breath, he thanked us for the snowball fight’: fans on the magic of Ozzy Osbourne
5 hours ago
BBC
Ozzy’s death is like losing a brother – Tony Iommi
1 hour ago
By Joan Cummins
CBC
The unique contributions of Ozzy Osbourne to heavy metal and reality TV
22 hours ago
By Sabina Wex
BDS …

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 24 2025 20:20 utc | 98

On gofundme from an NPR article:
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/16/nx-s1-5025629/a-palestinian-american-raises-more-than-1-million-to-feed-his-family-and-others-in-gaza
“At GoFundMe, our mission is to help people help each other,” the email reads. “During humanitarian disasters and other crises, our role is to provide a platform where people can raise funds for those who need help quickly and safely,” while also elevating the personal stories of those in need.
The crowdfunding platform set up guidance for organizers fundraising on behalf of their families in Gaza, and the GoFundMe team works with organizers to understand the flow of funds and assure that they reach the intended beneficiary safely, the spokesperson tells NPR.

Posted by: Mary | Jul 24 2025 20:26 utc | 99

The Times of Israel
Superman’s new origin story is no less than a blood libel
22 hours ago
The Independent
James Gunn blames ‘anti-American sentiment’ for Superman’s box office haul
7 hours ago
Deadline
James Gunn Blames “Anti-American Sentiment” For ‘Superman’s Lower International Haul
19 hours ago

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 24 2025 20:48 utc | 100