Al Jazeera – September 29, 2024
105 killed in more Israeli attacks on Lebanon
Israel has bombed the Kola area of Beirut in its first attack on the Lebanese capital outside of the southern suburbs since the beginning of its expanded offensive.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks have killed 105 people in the last 24 hours as army jets continue nonstop bombardment across the country.
Israeli troops, along with military equipment and vehicles, are reportedly amassing near Lebanon’s border as fears grow about a potential ground invasion.
Israel has also continued its attacks across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 28 people in the last day.
The Israeli Air Force has targeted a power plant and seaport in the Yemeni port cities of Hodeidah and Ras Isa, killing at least four people.
In Gaza, at least 41,595 people have been killed and 96,251 wounded in Israeli attacks since October. In Israel, the number killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is at least 1,139, while more than 200 people were taken captive.
Al Mayadeen – September 29, 2024
Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port, airport, power stations
Local sources told Al Mayadeen that more than 10 airstrikes targeted Hodeidah port, causing explosions that shook the city.
Israeli airstrikes struck oil tanks at Ras Isa Port in Yemen, with additional strikes onﾠHodeidah Port on the Red Sea, west of Yeme, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported on Sunday.
Local sources told Al Mayadeen that more than 10 airstrikes targeted Hodeidah port, causing explosions that shook the city.
Our correspondent explained that the Israeli aggression in western Yemen targeted the al-Hali power generation station in the coastal city of Hodeidah.
Israeli strikes also targeted the Hodeidah International Airport, according to local sources.
The spokesperson for the Sanaa-based Yemeni Ministry of Health told Al Mayadeen that five people were killed and 45 others were injured in the preliminary toll of the Israeli aggression on Hodeidah Governorate.
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Al Mayadeen – September 29, 2024
Day 359 of Gaza genocide: 41,595 martyrs and 96,251 wounded
The crimes of the Israeli occupation continue in Palestine with a still increasing death toll, deliberate starvation, and the spread of highly contagious dangerous diseases.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Sunday that the number of Palestinians killed in the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Strip since October 7 has now reached 41,595, with 96,251 injured as the war marks its 359th day.
Additionally, the Ministry stated that the Israeli occupation continued to commit massacres against families in the Strip, killing 9 people and injuring 41.
It noted that thousands of victims of the aggression remain trapped under the rubble and on roads inaccessible to ambulance and civil defense crews, as the occupation continues to prevent rescue teams from reaching them.
Al Mayadeen – September 29, 2024
Lavrov says US had prior knowledge of 'Israel's' pagers attack
The Russian foreign minister accused Tel Aviv of converting civilian technology into a deadly weapon.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has asserted that the US was likely aware of "Israel's" intentions to carry out a “terrorist attack against Lebanon using communication devices".
He suggested that the attack's complexity and the subsequent leaks to Western media imply possible complicity from Washington.
Last week, a coordinated series of explosions involving thousands of hand-held pagers and wireless receivers occurred simultaneously across Lebanon, resulting in dozens of killings and thousands of injuries.
The Israeli attack, largely attributed to the Mossad spy agency, faced international backlash, with UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Turk labeling it a “shocking” and “unacceptable” act that violates human rights laws.
Norwegian man wanted over Israeli-led pager attack goes missing
In a related development, Norwegian police issued on Thursday an international search warrant for a Norwegian-Indian man, Rinson Jose, allegedly linked to the terrorist Israeli electronic attacks on Lebanon.
"Yesterday, the Oslo police district received a missing person report in connection with the pager case. A missing persons case has been opened and we have sent out an international warrant for the person," the police said.
Jose, 39, the founder of a Bulgarian company allegedly involved in the pager supply chain, went missing during a work trip to the US on 17 September.
Russia warns West against ‘fight to victory with a nuclear power’
UNITED NATIONS: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday told the United Nations that it was senseless to ignore alternatives to Ukraine’s peace proposals, warning the West of the danger of trying to “fight to victory with a nuclear power.”
Addressing the U.N. General Assembly, Lavrov took aim at backers of Ukraine who support Kyiv’s peace proposal.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Nine months later Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced a 10-point peace plan to bring a just end to the war on the basis of the founding U.N. Charter and international law. Moscow rejected the plan.
“I’m not going to talk here about the senselessness and the danger of the very idea of trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power, which is what Russia is,” Lavrov said.
“Equally senseless, the Western backers of Kyiv swearing that there is no alternative to negotiations based on the infamous peace formula.”
Invoking Western allies’ plans in the 1940s to “destroy” the Soviet Union, he accused the West of trying to deal a “strategic defeat” to Russia in Ukraine.
“The current Anglo-Saxon strategists are not hiding their ideas. For now they do, it’s true, hope to defeat Russia using the illegitimate neo-Nazi Kyiv regime, but they’re already preparing Europe for it to also throw itself into this suicidal escapade,” Lavrov said.
Russia is not increasing its nuclear arsenal and while it had suspended participation in the New START treaty with Washington, it would remain guided by the treaty until it expires in 2026, Lavrov said.
“We suspended our participation in it, but we did say that we will comply with the levels, and we will exchange some types of information with the Americans,” he said.
Lavrov also challenged the United States over its support for Israel as the conflict with Lebanon’s Hezbollah escalates and the war with Palestinian militants Hamas drags on in Gaza.
In a news conference at the U.N., he said the killing of Hezbollah’s leader on Friday was a “political assassination” and raised concerns that Israel may be seeking to draw Iran into a direct conflict.
“My perception is that there are those who are looking to provoke Iran, to subsequently provoke the United States, and then to unleash a full blown war in the entire region there,” Lavrov said.
Lavrov credited Iran’s leadership for “behaving extremely responsibly” by not reacting to those provocations.
“It’s important to just stop the bloodshed and stop using terrorist methods for political score settling,” Lavrov said.
Daily Sabah – September 28, 2024
Jews are driving Western civilization to suicide
BY IHSAN AKTAŞ
Jews are dragging humankind into a total catastrophe. By doing so, the modern world is signing the death warrant of Western civilization
Some try to explain the catastrophe that has befallen the world by the Zionists. But the fact is that Zionists are a group born out of the Jewish community. If wealthy Jews of the world did not fund these people, they probably would not be able to play with Western values so easily.
One of the most prominent thinkers of Türkiye, professor Saadettin Öktem, offers profound insights in concise videos. He is an expert in both Eastern and Western civilizations, with deep knowledge of the spiritual essence of Islam, Judaism and Christianity.
I watched a short evaluation of him the other morning. He says: “Modernity is dead. It promises nothing but blood to the universe.”
It is not easy for a thinker like Saadettin Öktem, who has a broad vision and is aware of the East and the West, to make this statement. Just a few years ago, he said that wisdom was still in the West; knowledge, understanding, science and technology were still in the West; and that it had not passed to us. It is quite a remarkable assessment for such a thinker to use such an expression today that “modernity is dead.”
Western values
After the medieval Inquisition and Papal domination, despite the subsequent eras of colonialism and Western hegemony that marginalized the people of Asia and other civilizations, the West still managed to produce value, at least for itself, through science based on experiment and observation. Western states were able to establish broad intellectual and legal frameworks, such as democracy, human rights, environmental rights, the right to life and access to food, though often, these rights were primarily extended to their own citizens only.
After World War II, also with the influence of the Left, the concepts of honesty, justice and human rights actually developed in the West. It almost became the backbone of Western thinking.
The Jewish people, who were subjected to Adolf Hitler's persecution in World War II and wandered around Europe being left alone, generated extraordinary measures to ensure this would not happen again.
Flashback fear
In fact, Jews are afraid of Christians because they are aware that if the hatred of the Christians of the Middle Ages comes back, 30 million Jews will be crushed to dust by 2.5 billion Christians. Of course, we do not advocate for such a peril. However, in their pursuit of permanent security, they have taken control of all the power monopolies in the world.
First of all, the monopoly of finance was created for Jews, and almost 90% of all the wealth in the world is currently in Jewish hands.
They also created a media monopoly, and today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who murdered 40,000 people, children and women in Palestine, is being presented as a hero in the world. And none of the media outlets in the world give a fair, just and honest news report. If you just ask the question “Who is the murderer?” and if you do research among media groups, and if you ask “Who is the murderer of 40,000 children?” they will not be able to give any answer and will try to cover up the truth with a lot of false information.
Enslaved Christians
The monopoly of the Jews over Christians is not only a monopoly of finance and media but also a monopoly of governance. One by one, they dominated all Western parliamentarians, especially in the United States. Just as Nazis occupied European states, Zionist Jews have occupied all Western states. Neither an artist, a parliamentarian, nor a citizen has the right to speak the truth on the street. In a way, the globe is invaded by vampires.
It is a fact that 30 million Jews dominate and enslave nearly 2.5 billion Christians. This domination is now being executed by Christian soldiers, Christian TV commentators and Christian intellectuals. The whole Christian world is enslaved by the Jews.
Today, in the streets of Germany and the U.K., in the universities of the U.S., in Scandinavian countries, in South America, in fact, all over the world, the streets are screaming that Israel is a genocidal state. Yet, when you look at the parliaments, no one dares to raise their voice, paralyzed by fear.
In the same way, the United Nations General Assembly witnessed a scene. The President of the Republic of Türkiye and the respected leader of the Islamic world, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as well as the leaders of Jordan, Qatar, Colombia, South Africa, Maldives and many others, took to the rostrum of the U.N. and called for an end to this atrocity.
With Israel's attack on Lebanon, the Pope has posted an announcement on X, saying that this situation has escalated to a very critical level and that the international community must take action. While many world leaders have called for an end to the atrocity, either falsely or genuinely, as Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been doing for a while, Jews, who have enslaved all Christians, are not lifting a finger.
There are Jews who believe in democracy and justice and do not believe in Zionism. They must take action first and foremost because these murderers and vampires were inspired by Jewish discourse.
Therefore, today, as professor Öktem said, Jews are dragging humankind into a total catastrophe. By doing so, the modern world is signing the death warrant of Western civilization. This silence of Christianity against Jews is the suicide of Western civilization.
İhsan Aktaş is Chairman of the Board of GENAR Research Company. He is an academic at the Department of Communication at Istanbul Medipol University.
https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/columns/jews-are-driving-western-civilization-to-suicide
Kashmiris protest Israel’s killing of Hezbollah chief Nasrallah
Hundreds of protesters have rallied in Indian-administered Kashmir denouncing the Israeli assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, with top pro-India politicians suspending their campaigning for the ongoing regional elections.
Over the weekend hundreds of protesters took to the streets holding up pictures of the Lebanese leader and chanting slogans including “Oh martyrs of Palestine, we are with you!” They raised signs and banners with messages denouncing Israel and the United States.
Abbas Ali, 25, a college student who protested in the main city of Srinagar on Saturday, told Al Jazeera that Nasrallah had stood against oppression and injustice.
“We despise the world leaders who remain silent as the bloodshed in Gaza and Lebanon continues,” Ali told Al Jazeera.
“This protest is not just for our dear leader Hassan Nasrallah but also for the oppressed people of Palestine, for Lebanon and for everyone suffering at the hands of oppressors, particularly Israel. Kashmir has always stood for justice for the Palestinian people and will continue to do so, despite the fear and injustice we face ourselves. We cannot be silenced forever.”
Amal Mirza, 20, who took part in protests in the Saida Kadal locality of the city, told Al Jazeera: “Whatever Israel is doing, we will not stay silent.
“We are not afraid of dying, but of staying silent. We stand with the oppressed.”
All Jammu and Kashmir Shia Association (AJKSA), a union of Shia groups, has called for a protest on Sunday evening at Imam Bargah Zadibal in Srinagar.
“We honour Syed Hassan Nasrallah’s life, and legacy, remembering his unwavering resolve, strategic leadership, and compassion. His martyrdom will not diminish our resolve to strive for justice and equality,” senior Shia leader Imran Ansari said.
Hundreds of policemen have been deployed in Shia-majority localities to prevent any law-and-order issues amid ongoing protest rallies.
The solidarity protests have been organised despite criminalisation of pro-Palestine protests by the authorities, particularly since the region’s semi-autonomous status was stripped in 2019 by the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Kashmiris have long expressed solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance to Israeli occupation, which has been declared unlawful by the International Court of Justice.
Modi has moved India closer to Israel, changing the country’s traditional stand on the decades-old Israel-Palestine conflict, with Indian companies supplying arms and other commercial goods to Israel during the 11-month war on Gaza.
Many religious and political leaders in the region expressed grief about the killing and some suspended their election campaigns on Sunday as a “mark of protest”.
India is holding elections in the Muslim-majority region for the local legislative assembly for the first time since 2014.
Modi’s hardline policies to integrate Kashmir with mainland India have angered Kashmiris in a region that has seen decades of armed rebellion against Indian rule.
Former chief minister and president of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party, Mehbooba Mufti, announced she was cancelling her campaign for the final stage of voting “in solidarity with the martyrs of Lebanon and Gaza especially Hassan Nasrallah”.
“We stand with the people of Palestine & Lebanon in this hour of immense grief & exemplary resistance,” she wrote on X.
Aga Ruhullah Mehdi, member of parliament from Kashmir, who was canvassing for National Conference party candidates, also suspended his campaign.
“The Muslim ummah [global Muslim community] is in grief now so that’s why I ended the election campaign.”
Jammu Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) vice president Omar Abdullah, who is a former chief minister, also condemned Israel’s actions.
“JKNC VP Omar Abdullah condemns the actions of Israel and calls for world support to end the ongoing massacre of innocent people in Gaza and Lebanon,” JKNC’s account wrote on X.
ANI September 29, 2024
All India Shia Personal Law Board condemns killing of Hassan Nasrallah by Israel
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 29 (ANI): Maulana Yasoob Abbas, General Secretary of the All India Shia Personal Law Board (AISPLB), on Saturday strongly condemned the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah by Israel.
Maulana Yasoob Abbas, in a statement, paid tribute to Nasrallah and highlighted his important contribution in protecting the holy shrine of Hazrat Zainab, daughter of Imam Ali, during ISIS attacks.
Maulana Yasoob Abbas described Hassan Nasrallah as a strong Shia-Muslim leader who always supported the oppressed people of Palestine against Israeli forces. He expressed deep grief over the death of Nasrallah, calling it a great loss for the Muslim world and held the Israeli forces responsible for his killing.
Maulana Yasoob Abbas has appealed to the Shia community to observe three days of mourning and hoist black flags on the roofs of their houses.
He urged the United Nations to put pressure on Israel to stop its aggression against the people of Palestine and Lebanon. He stressed that Nasrallah's death was an "irreparable loss" and that the world would remember him as a sympathiser of oppressed people.
Meanwhile, a protest march was held in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam on Saturday against the killing of Hassan Nasrallah by the Israel Defence Force (IDF).
President, JK Anjuman-e-Sharie, Shian Aga Syed Hassan Mosavi Al Safavi, said, "No matter how much we mourn his (Hassan Nasrallah) death, it will always be less. He wanted Palestine to be free for the people of Palestine. I wanted to say to the entire humanity and Islamic people, that this will bring something extraordinary for which he has sacrificed his life. His loss can't be measured, but thousands of Nasrallah will be born from his blood and will take this mission forward and achieve success."Earlier in the day, Israel Defence Forces (IDF) confirmed the killing of Hassan Nasrallah in the airstrikes carried out by the Israeli military in Beirut.
In a statement, IDF said, "Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorise the world."The IDF said that alongside Nasrallah, the commander of Hezbollah's so-called Southern Front, Ali Karaki, was also killed, along with other commanders, The Times of Israel reported.
Nasrallah was targeted at Hezbollah's main headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold known as the Dahiyeh, on Friday. The headquarters is underground, beneath residential buildings in the Dahiyeh, according to the IDF.
"The strike was carried out while the top brass of Hezbollah were at their headquarters and engaged in coordinating terror activities against the citizens of the State of Israel," the Israeli military said.
The IDF also said that dozens of anti-ship missiles stored by Hezbollah under buildings in the Lebanese capital of Beirut were also destroyed in Israeli airstrikes overnight. (ANI)
