#fuad shukr

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The IDF in an official announcement:

Fuad Shukr, also known as "Seid Muhsen", the most senior military commander in Hezbollah and the head of the organization's strategic apparatus, was killed on today's strike in Beirut.

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روال نماز میت اینگونه است که نمازگزار پس از نیت "نماز میت" پنج(شیعه)چهار(سنی) تکبیر میگوید که بعد از هر تکبیر دعای مختصر یا مفصل مخصوص هر تکبیر را میخواند و با آخرین تکبیر نماز تمام میشود

همانطور که در ویدیو ملاحظه میکنید خامنه ای سرش رو به پایین است و در حال گفتن نیت "نماز میت" قبل از تکبیر اول است که صدا و نوری (تحرک عکاس و فیلمبردار) در بالاسرش یکدفعه چنان توجه اش را جلب میکند که مسئول پخش مستقیم مراسم در صداوسیما سریع به یک دوربین دیگر سوییچ میکند ((و در پیرو آن در روزهای بعد ، تمام خبرگزاری های طرفدار نظام قسمت واکنش عجیب خامنه ای در وسط نیت نماز را از روی سایت های خود حذف میکنند))

خامنه ای پس از نظاره موشکافانه اطراف ، وقتی ادامه نیت را شروع میکند دوربین عوض میشود و او را نشان میدهد

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اگر طرز نگاه و سر چرخاندن و قطع نیت "نمازمیت" و توجه کامل خامنه ای به آنچه در بالاسرش رخ داد را به هرکسی که اصلا نمیداند در دنیا چه اتفاق هایی در حال رخ دادن است نشان دهیم با این پیش فرض که کمی از زبان بدن و عکس‌العمل مطلع باشد و آداب نماز میت و اهمیت حواس جمع هنگام گفتگو با خدا (برای مسلمانان) را بداند ، اگر نگوید این واکنش از روی ترس بوده مطمعنا میگوید نمازگزار یکدفعه از چیزی نگران شد

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واژه "نگران" از طرف این فرد قضاوت کننده‌ی بی طرف وقتی عوض میشود که به او بگوییم

اسماعیل هنیه همین "��یت" در یکی از امنیتی ترین روزهای سال در یکی از امنیتی ترین ساختمان ها با چیزی! از آسمان (پرتابه‌ای از آسمان) ترور شده است

و اتفاقا چند ساعت قبل با همین نمازگزار راس یعنی خامنه ای روبوسی داشته است

و البته چند روز قبل تر هم یکی از مهمترین فرماندهان ارشد حزب الله لبنان به نام "فوآد شکر" که به خاطر دست نیافتنی بودنش برای دشمنانش معروف به "شبح" بود و از سال 1983 به دنبالش بودند و برای سرش 5میلیون دلار جایزه تعیین کرده بودند در یک ساختمان فوق امنیتی ترور شد آنهم باز از آسمان

که اتفاقا همین نمازگزار راس از دوستان و هامیان هر دو بوده

آنوقت آنوقت است که قضاوت کننده ما چیز دیگری میگوید

مخصوص اگر باز بداند که دم دمای صبح خامنه ای ۸۵ساله را برای کسب تکلیف به عنوان رئیس کل قوا از خواب بیدار میکنند و خبر مرگ اسماعیل هنیه را به او میدهند

که در چند وقت اخیر کم نبوده از این خبر دادن ها به او یا نماز میت خواندن های او

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برای اطلاع آن تحلیگرانی که میگویند آن قسمت دانشگاه تهران که خامنه ای در حال خواندن نماز میت بود سقف دارد باید بگویم مگر اسماعیل هنیه زیر پشه بند در پشت بام خوابیده بود یا میگویند بالا سر رهبر مرمت شده بود و او داشت آنرا نگاه میکرد باید بگویم ، به به چه وقت شناسی خوبی برای نظاره‌گری یک بنا آنهم به آن صورت که سرت پایین است و داری زیر لب نیت میکنی بعد هوس نظاره‌گری مخلوط شود در گفتگو با خدا

تو را به خدا نگویید که "نه ، رهبر در حال آدامس جویدن بود و هنوز نیت نماز شروع نشده بود" ، البته از شما طرفداران نظام بعید هم نیست اگر چنین بگویید

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مشخصا این "نه" را من باید بگویم که بدانید

اولا

خامنه ای از تسلیحاتی خبر دارد که از آسمان میآید و سقف بتـُنی هم حریفش نمیشود چه برسد به آن سقف که شما میگویید

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دوما

از تسلیحات بالاتر ، خامنه ای از نفوذِ اطلاعاتی ایی باخبر است که نمیداند آنکه پشت سرش الله اکبر میگوید یا بالا سرش فیلمبرداری میکند "‌صَریمی بُرَک" دهه شصت است یا "ابن ملجم مرادی" دهه اخیر

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Le Mossad a piraté le système de communication interne du Hezbollah

Les services de renseignement israéliens ont piraté le système de communication interne du Hezbollah pour éliminer le chef de la branche militaire de l’organisation, Fouad Chokr à Beyrouth. Une source de l’organisation terroriste chiite l’a rapporté à un journaliste du Wall Street Journal . Les auteurs de l’article écrivent que Fouad Chokr, l’un des fondateurs du Hezbollah et l’auteur de son…

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Israel & Iran on Collision Course

As the time of the end draws closer, we can expect more attempted deadly activity from Iran towards Israel.

Daniel 10:13-14 The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia, and came to make you understand what is to happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come.” The context of the verses from Daniel is the “latter days”. We know the angel Michael…

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Cutting Through: Israel kills Hamas leader in Tehran and Hezbollah leader in Beirut

What will be the ramifications of Israel‘s latest radical attempt to expand its genocidal actions in Gaza into a regional conflagration? Find analysis of Israel’s assassinations yesterday in Beirut and Tehran at Cutting Through. Please support my work by subscribing there. 

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Israel claimed responsibility for killing Hezbollah’s top military commander in Beirut

Israel claimed its Beirut strike in Lebanon killed the highest-ranking Hezbollah military commander blamed for the deadly attack in the Golan Heights.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) stated that “Israeli Air Force fighter jets eliminated the Hezbollah terrorist organisation’s most senior military commander” Fuad Shukr. However, Hezbollah and Lebanese authorities have yet to confirm the death.

An Israeli strike on a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon killed at least three people and wounded 74 others, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said in a social media post that “Hezbollah crossed the red line” minutes after the Israeli military claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s retaliatory strike. Meanwhile, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir claimed that “every dog shall have its day.”

The IDF said that Shukr, also known as al-Hajj Mohsin, “has directed Hezbollah’s attacks on the state of Israel since October 8, and he was the commander responsible for the murder of the 12 children in Majdal Shams in northern Israel on Saturday evening, as well as the killing of numerous Israelis and foreign nationals over the years.”

We don’t want this to escalate into a wider war and ultimately whether this escalates or not very much depends on how Hezbollah reacts now.

Shukr is a senior adviser to Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and serves on “the highest military body, the Jihad Council,” according to US government sources. The US State Department set a $5 million reward for information on him.

In September 2019, the State Department named him a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive Order 13224,” more than four years after the US Treasury Department had imposed sanctions on Shukr and two other Hezbollah leaders.

Read more HERE

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By  Ryan Saavedra

President Joe Biden threatened to cut U.S. support for Israel in a private call with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week after Israel killed multiple top terrorists in the region.

The call, which included Vice President Kamala Harris, came after Israel killed Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s top military commander, on Tuesday and is believed to be behind the Wednesday killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the top leader of Hamas. Shukr was targeted after Hezbollah murdered 12 children inside Israel over the weekend and Haniyeh was targeted in response to the October 7 attacks.

Axios reported that Biden and his aides were furious after Israel carried out the strikes and demanded that Netanyahu move toward a hostage deal with Hamas. The Biden-Harris administration has repeatedly blamed Israel for not securing a hostage deal with Hamas even though it is Hamas that has repeatedly led negotiators along and backed out of talks.

The report said that Biden warned Netanyahu “that he expects no more escalation from the Israeli side,” even though Israel was protecting itself against those who are responsible for killing large numbers of Israelis.

“Biden also warned Netanyahu that if he escalates again, he shouldn’t count on the U.S. to bail him out,” the report added.

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by Jack Elbaum

Anti-Israel groups across the US have planned major protests in response to the assassinations of top Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, social media posts reveal.

This week, Israel killed Fuad Shukr, the No. 2 leader in the Hezbollah terrorist organization, in a targeted strike on a building in Lebanon. The assassination came as a response to a Hezbollah rocket attack on the Druze village of Majdal Shams, located in the Golan Heights, which hit a soccer field and killed 12 children.

Then, on Wednesday, the leader of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed when a bomb exploded in his hotel room while staying in Tehran, the capital city of Iran, for the inauguration of the country’s new president. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in the attack.

In response to these high-profile assassinations of top terrorist leaders, anti-Israel groups in the West mobilized in support of the terrorists.

In New York City, the group Within Our Lifetime hailed the men as martyrs, chanting that the “martyr is loved by Allah” and that “Zionists are the enemy of Allah.” They also chanted, “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada.”

Among the rallygoers, there were a number of Hamas and Hezbollah flags, signaling explicit support for the US-designated terrorist organizations.

A number of other groups are also planning protests on Saurday.

An organization called Montreal 4 Palestine is hosting a protest in order to “Honor his [Ismail Haniyeh’s] last demand,” which they claim was to mobilize across Israel, the Palestinian territories, and around the world to “support our people in the Gaza Strip and to free our prisoners in the occupation’s prisons.”

“You can’t kill a movement,” they wrote on X/Twitter.

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Israel has declared a “special situation” for 48 hours and shut down Ben Gurion Airport as an escalation between it and Hezbollah appears to be developing.

Israeli forces struck southern Lebanon in the early hours of Sunday in what they say was a “preemptive” attack launched when they detected Hezbollah preparing to attack northern Israel.

Hezbollah launched “a large number of missiles” towards Israel in what it says is a response to the killing of commander Fuad Shukr at the end of July.[!][...]

While Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging tit-for-tat attacks across the border with some intensity since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, this marks a significant escalation.

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Israel's extrajudicial assassination of Ismail Haniyeh while he's in Tehran within 24 hours of assassinating Hezbollah's most senior commander, Fuad Shukr, in Beirut really makes it clear how Israel is begging for this to turn into a regional war; Israel has obviously not achieved any of its stated "goals" in its onslaught on Gaza for 10 whole months, and with mounting international condemnation, they would rather be tangled up in a war than a genocide.

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isreal launched an air strike on haret hreik, in dahieh subrubs south of lebanon. goal to take out hezbollah commander fuad shukr. resulting in 3 dead and 74 injured(not including fuad who's death is still contested). here is the apartment building partially collapsed

edit: sense originally posting this fuad has been confirmed dead under the rubble, as well the number of killed and injured civilians has increased to 4 and 80 respectively

the attack was allegedly in response in response to the majdal shams attack, where a rocket fired on majdal shams(a town in northern golan heights) killed 12 and injured 42 people, most victims(and all killed) being teens and kid. israel blames hezbollah, meanwhile hezbollah denies responsibility and claims it was an iron dome projectile. talli is still up as far as i know

edit: fixed a grammar mistake

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if you just woke up from a 15-month coma to check on the Middle East, it looks like a total US victory. everyone thirsting for American blood (Iran, Russia, Hezbollah) is in shambles, US allies (Israel, Saudi, Turkey) are ascendant

the US worked long and hard to PREVENT this 

so, here's a quick recent-history lesson on winning vs. not:

Oct '23: I notice how strange it is that Americans only talk about ENDING wars, they seem to have forgotten that wars can end in VICTORY or in STALEMATE and that this is the crucial difference

Oct-May: Israel moves painstakingly through Gaza hunting for Hamas. this period accounts for 80%+ of the casualties in Gaza (~35k by May, ~8k since)

meanwhile Israel is eating rockets from Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen with limited response, 10,000s of Israelis internally displaced 

5/31: the election race is heating up, and Biden needs a boost. he's demanding that Netanyahu END the war, stating that Israel has met its goals and there's nothing more it could achieve. Brooklyn fills with "Ceasefire Now" window signs and weekly "free Palestine" protests

June '24: Bibi insists that actually Israel's goal in Gaza is lasting security, not merely to fuck around, and that this requires buffer zones and keeping terrorists in prison. He faces massive pressure from within and without to give up hopes for victory and take a stalemate

27/6: Biden debates himself out of the race, and suddenly the White House and the American people have more important worries than Khan Younis. from July onward the US has no active executive branch. Biden drops out and goes to the beach on 7/21, brat summer officially begins

July '24: Israel takes out Hamas' military mastermind Mohammad Deif in Gaza and Hamas chairman Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran

Hezbollah fires a rocket that kills 12 children playing soccer in Majdal Shams, and in response Israel takes out Hezbollah top commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut 

17/9: beep beep

27/9: Nasrallah out

16/10: Sinwar out

26/11: ceasefire in Lebanon, Hezbollah pushed north of the Litani and cut off from the Iran Axis

27/11: HTS et al storm Aleppo

6/12: Syria's new leader is giving interviews about human rights and inclusivity to US media 

when you see how rapidly victory after victory came as soon as Biden went on vacation, you realize how hard his and Obama's administrations worked to avoid winning for 12 years 

US did do two important things: 1. mostly secured the Red Sea by striking the Houthis until they pulled back 2. helped intercept the Iranian missile barrages in Iraqi airspace, reassuring it's Sunni allies that this isn't a fatal threat to them

result: 1. US Navy has uncontested control from the Gulf of Oman to the Mediterranean, which Russia is now forced to abandon 2. 75+% of Chinese oil imports now come from US protectorates and can be cut off by US in case of war 3. an American can ~safely drive from Dubai to Beirut

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Even Israel’s friends overseas often have trouble understanding its conduct in the Israel-Hamas war and its ancillary conflicts with Hezbollah, Iran, and the Houthis. While some may be forgiving about the high numbers of civilian casualties as an inevitable part of urban warfare, it is harder for many to swallow Israel’s reluctance to allow enough humanitarian aid to reach Gaza or its seeming indifference to the massive collateral deaths involved in rescuing hostages and targeting Hamas leaders. Many are mystified by Israel’s willingness to risk what could be a devastating war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah or Iran. The back-to-back assassinations at the end of July of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh were unusual displays of state violence by the standards of any government, much less one that regards itself as a liberal democracy.

Israel has traditionally taken an aggressive military stance toward its enemies. But in the 10 months since the outbreak of the war in Gaza it has become more lethal than ever—killing some 40,000 people in Gaza alone. Israel’s harshest critics assert that its purpose is to destroy the last vestiges of Palestinian nationalism—or worse, to commit genocide against Palestinians. But the real explanation for the change is more complicated.

The aim of Israel’s ultra-nationalist right is, in fact, to make life unbearable for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. However, only a small minority of Israelis hold such extreme views, and the far-right ministers who echo them have little or no say over war policy. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been careful to keep that under his personal control with a handful of like-minded officials.

Where the extreme right does have an impact—and mostly an indirect one—is on humanitarian issues. Far-right leaders don’t have so much a war strategy as a desire to see Palestinians suffer and for the war to go on. Anxious to ensure that the extreme right remains in the governing coalition, Netanyahu has bent to their will by taking a tough line on cease-fire negotiations and has only enabled sufficient humanitarian aid to reach Gaza when international pressure left him no choice. As Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the leader of the rightist Religious Zionist Party, told a conference of rightists on Aug. 5, he would have no problem allowing the people of Gaza to starve. “We bring in aid because there is no choice,” he explained by way of an apology to his audience.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has allowed inhumane conditions at the Sde Teiman detention facility for Palestinians arrested in the war to fester by refusing to move inmates to the civilian facilities under his control. He called nine soldiers suspected of sexually abusing a prisoner at Sde Teiman “our best heroes” and may have told police to back off when rightist extremists tried to block their arrest by military police last month.

To a degree, a desire for punishment and revenge is shared by the troops in Gaza, including the vast majority who have no use for the extreme right. The atrocities of Oct. 7, which remain very much alive in the Israeli consciousness, have inevitably left many soldiers at best indifferent to Palestinian suffering and at worst out for revenge. The military advocate general, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, said in June that she was investigating some 70 cases of alleged wrongdoing, and that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Some observers contend that Israelis have become more violent, or at least more tolerant of violence. Certainly, among extremist settlers violence toward Palestinians has grown and is regarded as a legitimate tool to further their political ends. But even among settlers, they represent a small minority. Overall, the rate of violent crime in Israel is low by developed-country standards and until last year had been falling.

In all events, the actions of soldiers on the ground in Gaza don’t explain what is clearly a change in Israeli policy at the top. Here, the decisions made by Israel’s political and military leaders to order assassinations, bomb the Houthi-controlled port of Hodeidah at a cost of 80 Yemeni lives for one Israeli, or risk war with Iran reflect a new realpolitik.

In the wake of their momentous victory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Israelis had gradually come to feel that their country’s existence was no longer imperiled. It was a gradual process that developed as one Arab country after another either reached peace agreements with Israel and acknowledged its existence (Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco) or lost the capability to mount a war (Syria). Normalization with Saudi Arabia looked to be on the horizon. The rise of the high-tech economy, growing foreign investment, and two decades of buoyant economic growth that turned Israel into a powerful and prosperous economy seemed to confirm that. The talk turned into how to “contain” the Palestinian conversation because no solution was needed.

This Weltanschauung had practical effects. From the early 1990s, defense spending as a share of gross domestic product declined. Of the three pillars of its defense strategy—victory in war, deterrence, and intelligence—Israel abandoned the first, allowed the second to erode, and therefore became overly reliant on the third. From the 1980s, Israel’s wars with unconventional forces never ended in decisive victory. With that, Israel’s ability to deter its enemies waned, as evidenced by Hamas’s willingness to repeatedly go to war with Israel from 2008 on. In place of decisive victory and effective deterrence, Israel came to rely more and more on defensive measures—walls, fences, and high-tech early-warning systems.

Israel paid a steep price for these policies on Oct. 7. Even if it quickly turned back the Hamas attack, Iran and its proxies appreciated the magnitude of the intelligence and organizational failure. Hezbollah began attacks over Israel’s northern border just a day later and the Houthis were soon firing missiles and drones at Red Sea shipping and Israel itself. In April, Iran crossed a red line in its long-running conflict with Israel by staging for the first time a direct missile and drone attack rather than using proxies.

The “total victory” that Netanyahu promises is unlikely to ever be achieved against Hamas, much less against Hezbollah or Iran. Restoring Israel’s deterrent ability is a more realistic goal, but not a painless one. Facing non-state actors with an ideological commitment to ending Israel’s existence, it is not enough to demonstrate effective defensive capabilities. It requires a willingness to strike out even in response to relatively small provocations and to go on the offensive.

For policymakers and public opinion in the United States and Europe, Israel’s recent actions seem dangerous and disproportionate, and there is no denying they risk sparking a regional war. But Israel doesn’t have very good choices. Despite its image as an always-triumphant military power, it is worthwhile remembering that Israel is a small country in terms of population, geography, and economy. It cannot afford to be taken by surprise, fight long wars, or maintain a heightened defense posture indefinitely. Israel now fully appreciates that for every new friend it has in the region, it has an implacable enemy. The Middle East remains a tough place.

The ordinary Israeli isn’t party to the calculations behind restoring deterrence. Public opinion nevertheless backs the country’s newly aggressive stance for more existential reasons.

The Hamas attack of Oct. 7 did not pose a fundamental threat to Israel, but its psychological impact was profound. For Israelis, the images of terrorists engaged in an orgy of murder, rape, and kidnapping were a tangible reminder that the threat to Israel’s existence was not idle talk by its enemies and that the consequences of even a brief moment of failure to secure the country’s borders would be severe. The months of pummeling of the country’s north by Hezbollah rockets, drones, and anti-tank missiles and the Iranian missile barrage in April have given Israelis a taste of how the end may come.

Yossi Klein Halevi captured the new national mood in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed: “Even as we maintain the pretense of daily life, a part of us is permanently alert. We tell ourselves that we’re steady and joke about the apocalypse, because that’s the Israeli way. But during one recent sleepless night, I literally jumped when a passing motorcycle sounded like an explosion.”

Opinion surveys bear that out. An Israel Democracy Institute poll found that those expressing optimism about the future of Israel’s national security had dropped from close to 47 percent in November 2023, when the war in Gaza appeared to be going well, to 31 percent in June. Another recent survey by the Institute for National Security Studies showed that just a quarter of Israelis have a high or very high sense of personal security.

Israel faces a unique threat among nations at war or threatened with it. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping would like to erase Ukraine and Taiwan, respectively, from the map, but neither wants to destroy or expel the Ukrainian or Taiwanese people. Not that life would likely be pleasant under their rule, but the Ukrainians or Taiwanese would be allowed to remain in their homes and live their lives, albeit as Russian and Chinese citizens. These are (or will be) wars of empire and conquest. Israel faces the threat of existence. For a time, Israelis thought otherwise—they no longer do.

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[ 📹 Scenes from the first moments after the Israeli occupation army attacked a civilian vehicle in which Al-Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and photographer Rami al-Rifi were traveling, killing the two correspondants in what is being called an assassination in the Palestinian media. ]

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GENOCIDE IN GAZA DAY 299: ZIONIST OCCUPATION LASHES OUT ACROSS THE REGION, HAMAS LEADER ISMAIL HANIYEH MURDERED IN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE ON TEHRAN, OCCUPATION BOMBS HEZBOLLAH COMMANDER IN BEIRUT SUBURBS, PALESTINIAN FACTIONS UNITED AGAINST THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION FOR THE FIRST TIME, ZIONIST COLONIAL SETTLERS STORM AL-AQSA MOSQUE, UN SAYS PALESTINIANS TORTURED IN ISRAELI PRISONS, GENOCIDE CONTINUES UNABATED AS VIOLENT AIRSTRIKES TARGET GAZA

On the 299th day of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 3 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of no less than 45 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, while another 77 others were wounded over the previous 24-hours.

It should be noted that as a result of the constant Israeli bombardment of Gaza's healthcare system, infrastructure, residential and commercial buildings, local paramedic and civil defense crews are unable to recover countless hundreds, even thousands of victims who remain trapped under the rubble, or whose bodies remain strewn across the streets of Gaza.

This leaves the official death toll vastly undercounted as Gaza's healthcare officials are unable to accurately tally the number of those killed and maimed in this genocide, which must be kept in mind when considering the scale of the mass murder.

The Israeli occupation on launched a missile strike on Wednesday morning targeting the Hamas Politboro leader Ismail Haniyeh while he visited his residence in the northern suburbs of Tehran, the Iranian capital, where he had arrived to attend the swearing-in ceremony of newly elected Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian.

The Hamas resistance movement has since confirmed the death of Haniyeh, while Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei warned that the Zionist regime would receive a "harsh punishment" for the assassination of the Hamas political leader on its territory.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Ayatollah Khamenei offered his condolences to the Islamic Ummah, the axis of resistance, and the Palestinian nation over the martyredom of their "valiant leader and the prominent mujahid”.

"The criminal and terrorist Zionist regime, with this measure, prepared the ground for a harsh punishment for itself,” Khamenei stated.

The Iranian leader continued by warning that “We consider blood revenge for him (Haniyeh), who was martyred inside the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as our duty."

Iran's foreign ministry said in its own statement that the blood of Haniyeh won't be wasted, and will instead strengthen the deep and unseparable bonds between Iran and Palestine.

In response to the assassination of Haniyeh, the National and Islamic forces of Palestine announced a general strike and marches, condemning the assassination and issueing a statement mourning his death.

The forces stressed in their statement that this "cowardly assassination" will not break the will and steadfastness of the Palestinian people, but will instead increase their determination and resolve to move forward by adhering to their rights and national principles until freedom and independence can be won.

Meanwhile, prior to the assassination of Haniyeh, the Israeli occupation lashed out in another attack, launching an airstrike on the suburbs of Beirut, on Tuesday night, targeting Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, called the "right-hand man" of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in the Zionist media.

According to the Times of Israel, the airstrike blew a large hole into the side of an 8-story apartment building in southern Beirut on Tuesday night, which the occupation army claims killed the Hezbollah commander.

The Lebanese Islamic resistance movement has not yet confirmed the death of Shukr.

In more news on Wednesday, July 31st, the various Palestinian factions have united for the first time to stand against the Israeli occupation.

According to the Lebanese National News Agency, the many different Palestinian factions have agreed to end their divisions and strengthen Palestinian unity by signing the Beijing Declaration, on Tuesday morning, in the Chinese capital.

The declaration was signed after the closing ceremony following a reconciliation dialogue held with the various Palestinian factions in Beijing over the period of July 21st through the 23rd.

The compact encompassed a total of 14 different Palestinian factions, including the leaders of bitter rivals Fatah and the Hamas Islamic resistance movement, with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi present for the ceremony.

Previously, the Hamas and Fatah factions met in China in April for discussions around reconciliation to end 17 years of bitter disputes.

In more news, violent Zionist colonial settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday, backed by the Israeli occupation forces who turned the Old City area of occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) into a military barracks, according to local reporting.

Palestinian media stated that the Israeli occupation army deployed hundreds of troops around the Old City and Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in particular placing a heavy military presence in the vicinity of the gates to the compound, while Zionist soldiers tightened restrictions and measures at the compound's gates, as well as the gates to the Old City, and imposed restrictions on Islamic worshippers.

In further news for Wednesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a statement stating that Palestinians kidnapped and detained by the Israeli occupation army during the ongoing aggression and genocide in the Gaza Strip were mostly held in secret detention centers, and in some cases, where subjected to treatment that "may amount to torture."

Since the start of the Israel occupation's genocidal war in Gaza, "staggering numbers" of men, women, children, doctors, journalists and human rights defenders have been detained in deplorable conditions, while most have been held without charge or trial.

According to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, Palestinian detainees have faced extremely poor treatment, torture and other violations of basic human rights without due process, which has raised concerns about the arbitrary and punitive nature of the arrests and detentions.

Testimonies collected by the agency point to conditions in prisons run by the Israeli occupation that are worsening, while Palestinian children are among the detainees, who are allegedly being held in some cases with adults.

The UN Commission reported that detainees are being held in "cage-like facilities, stripped naked for long periods, and left in diapers," while other detainees told the Commission they were blindfolded for long periods and subjected to electric shocks, burned by cigarettes, and deprived of food, sleep and water.

"Some detainees reported that dogs were set on them, while others reported being waterboarded, or having their hands tied and their bodies hung from the ceiling. Men and women also reported being subjected to sexual and gender-based violence," according to High Commissioner Turk.

Turk went on to emphasize that international humanitarian law protects all detainees and requires they be treated humanely and protected from all acts of violence or threats of violence.

"International law requires that all persons deprived of their liberty be treated with humanity and dignity, and strictly prohibits torture or other ill-treatment, including rape and other forms of sexual violence. Prolonged incommunicado and secret detention may amount to a form of torture,” Turk said.

The High Commissioner went on to call for prompt, thorough, independent, impartial and transparent investigations into all incidents resulting in serious violations of international law, and to ensure that any perpetrators be held accountable, while all victims and their families have a right to redress and reparation.

Meanwhile, dozens more Palestinians were killed and wounded over Tuesday and Wednesday, while the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued their unparalleled destruction of Gaza's housing, infrastructure and public facilities.

According to local reporting, the occupation army launched a bombardment of a residential house in the Al-Mawasi area, northwest of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, where thousands of Palestinians have been directed towards after being evacuated from their homes and shelters in other areas of Gaza. As a result of the strike, several civilians were killed and wounded.

At the same time, reports stated that a number of wounded civilians arrived at a Red Cross field hospital after the Israeli occupation forces opened gunfire on the tents of displaced Palestinian families in the Al-Mawasi area.

Local healthcare sources also reported the death of one Palestinian and the injury of 4 others after Zionist warplanes bombed the town of Abasan Al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

IOF artillery shelling also hammered the Al-Zaytoun, Al-Shujaiya, and Al-Tuffah neighborhoods of Gaza City, resulting in large numbers of casualties among civilians, including women and children.

Occupation artillery shelling went on to pummel neighborhoods east of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, while violent explosions were recorded in conjunction with heavy gunfire from Zionist military vehicles in the same area.

In another horrific atrocity, a Zionist drone bombed a gathering of civilians in the vicinity of the Electric company in the town of Al-Zawaida, in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 8 Palestinians who were transported to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah.

In another war crime and atrocity, two Al-Jazeera journalists were killed in a direct attack by the Israeli occupation army on a civilian vehicle in Gaza City.

Local reporting stated that Al-Jazeera correspondant Ismail al-Ghoul and photographer Rami al-Rifi were killed on Wednesday evening when the Israeli occupation forces bombed their car in the Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City.

Video clips of the incident showed a civilian vehicle the two journalists were traveling in reduced to rubble, with smoke rising from the remains and blood spattered across the wreckage.

According to Palestinian reporting, more than 155 journalists have been killed by the occupation army since the start of the genocide on October 7th, 2023, while another 100 headquarters of journalistic institutions have been destroyed and over 100 additional journalists have been arrested or detained by the Zionist entity.

As a result of the Israeli occupation's ongoing war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, the endlessly rising death toll now exceeds 39'445 Palestinians killed, including at least 10'300 women and over 15'700 children, while another 91'073 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

This brings the total number of casualties in Gaza to well over 130'518, or the equivalent of 5.67% of Gaza's 2.3 million residents.

July 31st, 2024.

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Immediate aftermath of Israel's targeted assassination today of Hezbollah's Fuad Shukr in the """Hezbollah stronghold""" of Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon. So far there has been no confirmation of Shukr's death, but at least one Lebanese civilian was killed. Shukr is wanted by the US as well for the 1983 bombing of a US Marines barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 US Marines. 30 July 2024