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zvaigzdelasas · 7 months

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[AlJazeera is Qatari State Media]

[5:18 GMT - 7:52 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

[5:18 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

The leader of Hamas’s military wing says the group has launched a new operation against Israel. In a rare public statement, Mohammed Deif said that 5,000 rockets had been fired into Israel early Saturday to begin “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm”. Israel also reported an infiltration from Gaza. “We’ve decided to say enough is enough,” Deif said as he urged all Palestinians to confront Israel.[...]

[5:26 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Here are some more lines by the statement of Mohammed Deif, head of the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas: “We have already warned the enemy before. The occupation committed hundreds of massacres against civilians. Hundreds of martyrs and wounded died this year due to the crimes of the occupation. “We announce the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, and we announce that the first strike, which targeted enemy positions, airports, and miltary fortifications, exceeded 5,000 missiles and shells.”[...]

[5:45 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

More than 5,000 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel in the first 20 minutes of the operation, Hamas’s armed wing has said. “We decided to put an end to all the crimes of the occupation (Israel), their time for rampaging without being held accountable is over,” the group said. Israel said it had activated its Iron Dome defence system.[...]]

[5:49 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

The Israeli army says it has declared a “state of readiness for war”.[...]

[5:50 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Saleh al-Arouri, deputy chief of Hamas in the occupied West Bank, has issued a call to arms.[...] “The West Bank is the final word in this battle, and it can open a clash with all the settlements in the West Bank. We call on our people to participate in the battle of Al-Aqsa Flood.”[...]

[5:53 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

The Israeli army says it has started an operation aimed at Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. “There are many pictures circulating on social media especially Palestinian Telegram channels showing Israeli soldiers in Gaza, but as captives,” Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem said.[...]

[6:05 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Videos circulating on social media have shown Palestinian fighters driving Israeli army vehicles into Gaza.

[6:06 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

“On the streets, we’ve also seen the military vehicles in Gaza with Palestinian youth in the vehicles roaming about the streets happily,” she said. “The Israeli response to all this is going to be different from other times because nothing that has come out of Gaza before has been this strong. This is a first in the history of Gaza, for soldiers to go into Israeli towns, hold armed confrontations,” she added.[...]

[6:09 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Rockets are still being launched from Gaza towards Israel. The sound of Israel’s Iron Dome defence system being activated in response can be heard.[...]

[6:12 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Hamas fighters have taken control of the police station in Israel’s Sderot and a number of people have been injured in a fire exchange, the Israel Broadcasting Authority has reported.[...]

[6:14 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Organisers of protests against the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul plan have cancelled their weekly demonstration scheduled for Saturday night.

“We stand with the residents of Israel and give full support to [the security forces],” the protest organisers said in a statement quoted by the Israeli media. They also called on the people who were planning to participate in the protest “to play their part to safeguard the security and health of the residents of Israel”.[…]

[6:18 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group has said it is “part of this battle”. “Our cadres stand alongside their brothers in Hamas, shoulder to shoulder, until victory,” a spokesperson said.[…]

[6:20 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Israeli Defence Minister Joav Gallant has approved the mobilisation of reservists, according to his office.[…]

[6:35 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr says that Hamas’s call for others to join their operation against Israel could be interpreted as a reminder to Tel Aviv that if attacks against Gaza continue, there will be a response from other fronts.[...] “So far there has been no response from the armed groups in Lebanon. But what have we seen in the past? There has been coordination every time there is a flare-up, or heightened tension in Palestinian territories,” she added.[...]

[6:43 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Stephanie Hallett, the charge d’affaires at the US embassy in Jerusalem, has slammed the rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel. “I condemn the indiscriminate rocket fire by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians,” she said in a statement on social media platform X. “I am in contact with Israeli officials, and fully support Israel’s right to defend itself from such terrorist acts,” she added.[...]

[7:13 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Reporting from the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera’s Youmna ElSayed says that rockets are still being fired “very intensely” from the area. “We’ve seen pictures and videos of Israeli soldiers being killed and videos of Palestinian fighters celebrating around Israeli armed vehicles set on fire,” she said. “We also received a video showing two Israeli soldiers being captured. The video shows that the soldiers are alive and confrontations are still taking place inside those Israeli towns,” she added.[...]

[7:11 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Hundreds of residents in the Gaza Strip have fled their homes to move away from the border with Israel, an AFP correspondent has reported. Men, women and children were seen carrying blankets and food items as they left their homes, mostly in the northeastern part of the Palestinian territory, the reporter said.

[7:29 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Akiva Eldar, a columnist at the Israeli daily Haaretz, says the attack by Hamas should be a wake-up call for Israel. “You can’t go about normalising relations with Arab countries while also trying to expand into Palestinian territories,” he told Al Jazeera. “The image of status quo that you [Israel] can keep Gaza under blockade, you can keep expanding the settlements, and the Palestinian will sit back and say we approve your normalisation with the Gulf countries as long as workers from Gaza can make some money, isn’t going to work,” he added.[...]

[7:29 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

We now have the statement by Ismail Haniya, the head of Hamas’ political bureau[...]

“The enemy besieging Gaza has planned to surprise it and escalate the aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip, in addition to the settlement and aggression that continues every moment in the West Bank, which seeks to uproot our people and expel them from their land, and the crimes of the occupation against our people in the 1948s, as it stands behind all the killing and assassination operations there, and the occupation’s continuation of detaining our prisoners for decades, and reneging on agreements when he re-arrested those liberated from the swap deal. “For all of this, we are waging a battle of honour, resistance and dignity to defend Al-Aqsa, under the title that was announced by Brother Commander-in-Chief Abu Khaled Al-Deif, “Al-Aqsa Flood”. This flood began in Gaza and will extend to the West Bank and abroad, and every place where our people and nation are present.”[...]

[7:47 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Israeli ambassador to the US calls “the free world to unequivocally condemn” the attacks by Hamas and support Israel’s “right to self-defence”.[...]

[7:50 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

President of the European Council Charles Michel says “EU stands in solidarity with Israeli people”. “Strongly condemn the indiscriminate attacks launched against #Israel and its people this morning inflicting terror and violence against innocent citizens,” he wrote on Twitter.[...]

[7:52 GMT, 7 Oct 23]

Israeli army launches ‘Operation Iron Swords’ against the Hamas group in the Gaza Strip, in response to attacks from the territory. Israeli raids have started, as witnesses tell Reuters news agency that explosions are heard in the Gaza city.

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reasonandempathy · 3 months

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The Israeli military has been posting grotesque videos of dead Palestinians on a racist Telegram channel. It’s typical for the ‘anything goes’ platform. Representatives from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) admitted to running a notoriously violent and racist Telegram channel following an investigation from Haaretz. On October 9, 2023, the Telegram channel “72 Virgins—Uncensored” started posting gore-filled photos and videos from the frontlines of Israel’s war on Gaza. An investigation from Haaretz revealed in December that the Israeli military ran the channel. The IDF initially denied the accusation but reversed course after an internal investigation, Haaretz reported on Sunday. It’s an unsurprising revelation that highlights the grotesque appeal of Telegram, and how governments increasingly use the platform to spread propaganda. Videos and images on the channel included the dead bodies of Palestinian civilians and resistance fighters alongside racist text. “Exterminating the roaches…exterminating the Hamas rats…Share this beauty,” one post said above pictures of captured Palestinians. Another post showed an Israeli soldier dipping their gun into a liquid. “What a man!!!! Lubricates bullets with lard. You won’t get your virgins,” the text on the video said, according to a translation from Haaretz. In the past months, several unconfirmed videos have gone viral on social media purporting to show soldiers mocking Palestinians by dipping their bullets in pig fat, which is forbidden under Islam. Since October 7th, Nearly 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, where Israeli occupation forces have blocked almost all humanitarian aid from entering the densely-populated Palestinian territory.

Some quotes:

"What a man!!!!! Greases bullets with lard. You won't get your virgins."

""Garbage juice!!!! Another dead terrorist!! You have to watch it with the sound, you'll die laughing."

The IDF wants the world, and Israeli citizens, to know of and revel in their genocide.

#idf #genocide #haaretz #iof #gaza #original content #ethnic cleansing #palestine #palestinians

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adham10 · 2 days

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With the decline and weakness of the white peoples, a new renaissance began for the African, black, Arab and Islamic peo

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mariacallous · 7 months

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Far-right figures in the United States are making violent threats against Muslims in response to what they believe is a planned “global day of jihad” today.

The violent rhetoric comes in response to comments made in a statement by Khaled Meshaal, the founder and former leader of Hamas, to Reuters on Wednesday. Meshaal called for protests on October 13 across the Arab world in support of the Palestinians before adding: “To all scholars who teach jihad ... to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application [of theories].”

While Meshaal very specifically made the calls for protests in “the Arab and Islamic worlds,” his comments were quickly mistranslated online to become a “global day of jihad,” a phrase he did not use.

In the toxic stew of misinformation and disinformation that has circulated online in the days since Hamas’ attack on Israel, those misinterpreted comments have been weaponized by right-wing lawmakers and influencers to suggest that Hamas is planning attacks on non-Muslims. This latest round of online disinformation now threatens to spill over into real-world violence.

Users of pro-Trump message boards and extremist channels on Telegram, as well as mainstream platforms like X, formerly Twitter, repeatedly claimed that they would be carrying firearms today; some claimed they would be prepared to use those weapons if or when they encountered Muslims. In many cases, people referred to Muslims using racial slurs.

In response, some police authorities in US cities, including New York and Los Angeles, announced that they plan to boost officer numbers to counter any potential violence. Some schools in the US and in the UK have closed due to concerns about “an international day of rage ” or “out of an abundance of caution.”

The situation was made worse today by two separate incidents of violence in China and France.

In Beijing, the Israeli embassy confirmed that a diplomat was stabbed in broad daylight outside the embassy building. In Arras, France, a teacher was stabbed to death outside the school they worked in by someone who shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack, according to witnesses.

Videos purporting to show both attacks, which WIRED has not been able to independently verify, are circulating online and are being shared by right-wing figures as proof that the “global day of jihad” is real.

Yesterday, FBI director Christopher Wray attempted to assure the Jewish community in the US that his agency is taking any threats seriously. “I am not, in any way, trying to alarm you, but I want you to be confident that the FBI is most assuredly paying attention,” he said during an update on domestic security guidance following the Hamas attacks. “We remain vigilant to the potential of this event to inspire violence.”

The terms “jihad” and “day of rage” were both trending on X this morning, having been boosted by prominent accounts, including one belonging to hard-right representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia. “If we are not going to vote today for a Speaker, why don't we just go home and regroup next week? I’ll buy ammo while I’m home,” Greene wrote on X.

Rogan O’Handley, a former Hollywood lawyer who has become a influential far-right figure under the pseudonym DC Draino, falsely claimed that Hamas had called for “an international day of terrorism.” O’Handley, who has 1.1 million followers on X, added, “I will not be changing 1 thing about my daily life b/c I will not let terrorism win,” he wrote. “I will, however, be carrying an extra mag. Be safe y’all.”

A WIRED review of Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok found dozens of posts highlighting Meshaal’s comments and the potential threat from the “day of jihad” but little evidence of threats against Muslims posted on those platforms. On Instagram yesterday, popular right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk wrote: “Day of Jihad? Arm up.” The post has received 34,000 likes. Meta did not respond to a request for comment about Kirk’s post.

Amidst the flurry of threats, disinformation, and real acts of violence, it appears that X is attempting to limit search results for the terms “global day of jihad” and “jihad,” both of which returned no results when WIRED searched on mobile, desktop, and in different countries. While a search for the term “jihad” on X didn’t return any posts, it did suggest three people to follow, the first of which was US president Joe Biden.

X did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment about the violent threats on its platform or the lack of search results for terms related to jihad.

The calls for violence from right-wing accounts online echo violent responses from extremist groups in the days following the outbreak of the war.

While many right-wing groups have posted Islamophobic content and calls for violence against Muslims, many others have doubled down on their antisemitic worldview and are posting violent threats against Jews.

In a post on Telegram, the Texas chapter of the extremist group the Proud Boys, using multiple antisemitic slurs to describe Jews, called for the “extermination” of the Jewish people.

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workersolidarity · 7 months

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🇱🇧🇵🇸🇮🇱 HEZBOLLAH STATEMENT ADDRESSING THE SUCCESS OF OPERATION AL-AQSA FLOOD

Hezbollah’s statement

in solidarity with the victorious Palestinian resistance and the resistant and patient people of Palestine, three positions of the Zionist occupiers in the occupied lands was attacked in Shebaa Farms in Lebanon, which include: the radar headquarters, Zebedin site and Roysat al-Alam site, with a large number of artillery shells and precision guided missiles, and these centers were directly hit.

NOURNEWS- The following text is the statement of martyr Imad Mughniyeh brigade’s commander regarding Lebanese Islamic resistance movement and their actions against the Zionist regime:

In the name of Allah, the Merciful

“Permission has been given to those who fight because they have been wronged, and indeed, God is Able to grant them victory.”

The commander of the Martyr Haj Imad Mughniyeh unit in the Islamic resistance, stated this morning, Sunday, October 8: On the way to liberate what is still in the hands of the occupying forces in Lebanon, and in solidarity with the victorious Palestinian resistance and the resistant and patient people of Palestine, three positions of the Zionist occupiers in the occupied lands was attacked in Shebaa Farms in Lebanon, which include: the radar headquarters, Zebedin site and Roysat al-Alam site, with many artillery shells and precision guided missiles, and these centers were directly hit.

And the victory is only mine with Allah, the Exalted, the Wise.

#source

WorkerSolidarityNews Telegram Channel

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atbaa-as-salaf · 1 year

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Some of the Pious Predecessors said:

((يومك مثل جملك، إن أمسكت أوله تبعك آخره))

“Your day resembles your camel in that if you take hold of its beginning the end will follow you.”

So, the one who doesn’t take hold of the beginning of his day by establishing the prayer, what can he hope for the remainder of it?! This is why from the magnificent fundamentals of opening the doors of good for yourself and others is preservation upon the religious duties of Islam and execution of the obligations of the religion and the prayer comes in the forefront of all that.

Book: How Can You Become a Key Towards Good

Author: Shaykh ’Abdur-Razzāq ibn ‘Abdul-Muhsin al-‘Abbād al-Badr

Published by: Maktabatulirshad Publications

Translated by: Qaasim Mujahid

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chashmenaaz · 3 months

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اللَّهُمَّ آتِ نَفْسِي تَقْوَاهَا وَزَكِّهَا

O Allāh, grant my soul its piety and purify it.

(Sunan an-Nasa'i 5458)

#dua #supplication #islam #islamic #english #translation #arabic #reference #telegram #gateway of islam #channel #share #hadith #taqwa

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lieahsblog · 2 months

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I’m writing this post today because i believe that there are people out there, kind people, like my friend Mohammed, who help people. open up their homes to people.

Let me begin by saying this: the last four months, i have seen videos and pictures from gaza i will never be able to unsee. ever. every video and picture i’ve seen from a palestinian in gaza, i cant help but notice the heartbreak, the bone-deep exhaustion in their eyes. They’ve been locked in with their killers, and no one has made any move to free them from this perpetual hell. They have been condemned. can you imagine being in their position? do you ever look up at the ceiling of a room and wonder, how does something like this collapse on top of a human body? how does something like this collapse on top of a child’s body? a baby’s body? there is torture of human bodies in gaza. from collapsed buildings, to bullets ripping flesh, to skin engulfed by burns, to stomachs eating themselves from starvation.

Every image coming out of gaza, every story, seems to be worst than the last. the levels and the forth of cruelty on display right now… i’ve never seen anything like this in my whole life. the fact this is all being streamed onto our phones. palestinians are clinging onto any way to save their loved ones, their families.

Among those families is my friend Mohammed. There is one thing i’ve come to know about him in the short time i’ve known him: he is incredibly kind. When people in the north of gaza were forced to evacuate by the occupation, they had no shelter. Mohammed opened up his home, in the middle of everything, to four different families from the north. He himself has been forced to evacuate as well, and is no longer in his home. In this freezing weather, people in gaza have only a tent to protect them from the cold. His beloved parents have recently been displaced to a tent: I don’t think we can imagine the pain of seeing your loved ones in that condition and not being able to help them.

People in gaza had a life before this current genocide. For Mohammed, this involved his new company that he recently launched. the building of his company is in pieces now. He has a beautiful wife, and two beautiful children. he loves them very much, and they love him too.

Amongst the heartbreak, the violence, the cruelty, palestinians in gaza have constantly helped each other in any way they could. There is man named Ehab, who i met on twitter. His team’s account @GazaDirectAid on twitter, and his account is @rida_ehab on twitter. Being a displaced person himself, he has been working tirelessly throughout these past four months collecting donations to provide food, shelter material, sanitary products, diapers. you name it, he’s provided it. He was recently ill with a virus, and on the telegram channel where his team posts updates, they translated his messages and the first thing he wanted to was hand out more relieved to the children in his displaced community, whilst being actively ill with covid like symptoms.

Time and time again, palestinians in gaza have shown everyone the meaning of humanity, though they themselves have been denied it. In gaza, people who have nothing give everything. Palestinians in gaza have found that they can only rely on each other. Let’s show them that they can rely on us, too.

Mohammed has a campaign to raise funds for evacuation. Just 300 people donating $88 will be all that it takes for Mohammed’s donation goal to be reached. 300 people giving $88 to his campaign will be all that it takes to save a palestinian family who has been abandoned by the rest of the world for four months. I know that there are more than 300 people who are disgusted with the genocide gaza is being subjected to. I know that there are more than 300 people who want to help palestinians wherever they can. I know that this can be accomplished very quickly, because time is not a luxury gaza has right now.

I’m writing this post today because i believe that there are people out there, kind people, like my friend Mohammed, who help people. open up their homes to people. I’m writing this post today because i believe that 300 of these people will see my post, and donate $88 to my friend mohammed, the kind man.

@reesepiece2

@humanvoicebox

#free gaza #free palestine #there’s a name behind each face #there’s a story behind each name #save palestine #save gaza #gaza strip #gaza genocide

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beardedmrbean · 1 year

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Iran has executed two men who were convicted of "burning the Quran" and "insulting the Prophet of Islam", the country's judiciary says.

Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli-Zare ran dozens of social media accounts "dedicated to atheism and desecration of the sanctities", the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported.

Mr Mehdad's lawyer had insisted that he was innocent and his sentence unjust.

A rights group called their executions "a cruel act by a medieval regime".

There has been a surge in executions in the Islamic Republic amid continuing anti-government unrest, but those for blasphemy convictions are rare.

Mizan said Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli-Zare were hanged at Arak Prison in central Iran on Monday morning.

The two men were arrested in 2020 and accused of running a Telegram channel called "Criticism of Superstition and Religion", according to Iran's Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). They were held in solitary confinement for the first two months and denied access to a lawyer, it said.

In 2021, the Arak Criminal Court convicted Mr Mehrad and Mr Fazeli-Zare on blasphemy charges and sentenced them to death, HRANA added. They were also given six-year prison sentences for "running groups to act against national security".

The Supreme Court rejected their appeals against the verdicts and upheld their death sentences later that year, Mizan said, adding that both men had "clearly confessed to their crimes".

Human rights group say Iranian courts regularly fall far short of providing fair trials and use false "confessions" obtained under torture as evidence.

"The execution of Yousef and Sadrollah for 'insulting the Prophet' is not only a cruel act by a medieval regime, it is also a serious insult to the freedom of expression," said Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of Norway-based group Iran Human Rights.

"These executions must be a turning point in the relations between the Islamic Republic and countries respecting the freedom of expression," he added. "Lack of a strong reaction by the international community sends a green light to the Islamic Republic and their ideological allies worldwide."

On Saturday, a Swedish-Iranian dual national accused of being behind a deadly attack on a military parade in 2018 was hanged. The European Union condemned "in the strongest terms" the execution of Habib Chaab.

Iran is second only to China in the number of executions carried out annually.

It has put to death more than 200 people since the start of this year, according to a tally by Iran Human Rights.

The group has said the number of executions rose by 75% to 582 last year, as authorities sought to "spread fear" among those taking part in the nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini in September.

#nunyas news

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oldnready · 5 months

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Hamas LIES

s Hamas fighters rampaged through Israeli villages outside Gaza on the morning of October 7th, killing roughly fourteen hundred people, some paused to take videos of themselves with Jewish children at Kibbutz Holit. In one piece of footage, a fighter in an Adidas T-shirt vigorously pats the back of a crying baby who is pressed against his shoulder—the same shoulder carrying his Kalashnikov. Another fighter, wearing a camouflage uniform, bandages the foot of an Israeli boy of toddler age, then puts the boy on his lap while jerking the crying baby back and forth in a stroller. A camera zooms in on the confused face of the boy as an unseen fighter, speaking broken English, instructs him to repeat the Arabic word meaning “in the name of God.” “Say bismillah,” the fighter says. The boy complies, in a soft Hebrew accent.

Hamas released the bismillah video on a Telegram channel six days after the attack. At a moment when the Western news media, and some major Arab outlets, were full of reports about the many civilians who were slaughtered, and Israeli officials were likening Hamas to ISIS, the footage was apparently Hamas’s rebuttal. At one point in the video, a masked fighter holds up the two children and addresses the camera: “Look at the mercy in our hearts. These kids—we didn’t kill them like you do.” (At least six children died from rocket fire on October 7th, and Israel’s Channel 12 has named at least nineteen others killed by militants.)

If Hamas meant to humanize its fighters to audiences in Israel or the West, the video was stunningly counterproductive. The group’s propagandists hid the identity of the fighters by blurring out their faces and, in most scenes, distorting their voices. The resulting faceless growls made them look and sound only more monstrous. The Kalashnikovs next to the children, the ungentle pushing of the stroller, the Jewish child goaded into Muslim prayer, the absence of the boys’ parents—the whole scene was alarming. (The children turned out to be brothers: Negev, who is three, and Eshel, who is about five months old. Their mother was killed in the raid, and their father was away. Hamas brought the children into Gaza, but released them almost immediately.)

Michael Milshtein, a retired Israeli intelligence official who specializes in analyzing Palestinian media, told us that the bismillah video “demonstrates Hamas’s arrogance toward the West—that they think all Westerners are stupid, that, if they show images of these barbarian terrorists holding babies and hugging them, people in the West will say, ‘Oh, they are so sweet. We were wrong about them!’ It’s ridiculous.” Many Israelis have observed that their government’s vulnerability to the October 7th attack showed a profound failure to understand Hamas. Milshtein argued that Hamas’s release of the bismillah footage, which displays little comprehension of the audience in Israel and the West, proved that the misunderstanding was mutual.

Yet to Palestinians and other Arab viewers—a very different audience, and one that is more important to Hamas—the awkward bismillah video served its purpose. It was posted to Al Jazeera’s Facebook page for Egypt, and has been viewed more than 1.4 million times. Nearly seventy-five thousand viewers have liked it, and nearly three thousand have left comments, many of them admiring. One commenter praised “the morals of the fighters of the Islamic resistance.”

Source: Qassam Brigades / Telegram

Three days later, another surreal video appeared, this one from an Israeli hostage who identifies herself as a twenty-one-year-old named Mia Shem. In the footage, her dazed eyes seemingly dart to read cue cards as she delivers a statement about the medical care that Hamas has provided for a serious wound to her arm. “They are taking care of me and giving me medicines, everything is fine,” she says flatly, avoiding the subject of who caused her injury in the first place. Since then, Hamas has released videos showing a few handovers of released hostages—including one in which an elderly Jewish Israeli bids “shalom” to her Palestinian captor.

However unpersuasive or ham-fisted such propaganda might seem in the West, Ghaith al-Omari—a former adviser to the Western-backed Palestinian Authority and a longtime opponent of Hamas—told us that such videos had convinced many Arabs that the group’s fighters, unlike ISIS, “are humane and respect Islamic laws of war.” He added, “It has resonated throughout the Arab world. This is now the line you see not only in Hamas media but in most Arab media, in Jordan, Egypt, and North Africa. The dominant narrative has become the narrative of Hamas.”

Hamas began shaping that narrative moments after its fighters streamed through the breached barriers surrounding Gaza. As the assault unfolded, a split screen on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV network juxtaposed footage of burning cars in Israeli towns with a video of a cluster of young Israeli men whose arms are tied behind their backs. A news anchor, addressing Palestinians everywhere, declared, “This picture is your picture, this might is your might, this flood is your flood, and this blessed action is for all of you!”

A review of Hamas’s propaganda on October 7th makes clear that a major objective of the group’s assault was to spark a broader uprising among the Palestinians of the West Bank. After the news anchor delivered the “blessed action” soliloquy, the network cut to a recorded message from Saleh al-Arouri, the bellicose deputy chief of Hamas’s political bureau, who explicitly urged Palestinians to rise up against both the Israeli settlers in the West Bank and the soldiers protecting them. The Israeli military “won’t be able to attend to confrontations on other fronts,” Arouri said. “After today, no one can hold back his rifle, bullet, pistol, knife, car, or Molotov cocktail.” Similar calls for an uprising in the West Bank were made in statements released during the attack by the Hamas military commander Mohammed al-Deif and by the masked Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida. The statements were broadcast repeatedly on Al-Aqsa TV and on Al Jazeera.

Although no West Bank uprising materialized, Hamas propagandists were still revelling days later in a triumph measured in bloodshed. On October 9th, as Israel was successfully repelling the last remaining Palestinian fighters from its territory, Shadi Asfour, a reporter for Al-Aqsa TV, announced from a hospital inside the Strip that “the men of the resistance are still clashing right now on the lands usurped in 1948, in the occupied interior, and reports coming from those lands are that the morale is very high.” Israeli officials at the time had confirmed the deaths of more than seven hundred citizens. “We know that these numbers are certainly false,” Asfour said. “It will soon be acknowledged that the numbers are rising!”

Observers on all sides of the conflict agree that Israel’s launch of a brutal air campaign against Gaza has rallied sympathy for the Strip’s beleaguered residents and buttressed Hamas’s story of heroic resistance. Talal Okal, a columnist in Gaza for the Ramallah-based newspaper Al-Ayyam, said of the media war, “Honestly and objectively, Israel defeated itself.”

But Al Jazeera, owned by the rulers of Qatar, has done the most to disseminate images of the devastation caused by the air strikes. The network, which has more cameras in Gaza than any other news outlet, has repeatedly broadcast footage of bodies trapped in rubble and of anguished parents clutching children wrapped in shrouds. The network’s anchors and reporters have hewn closely to Hamas’s preferred vocabulary for the conflict, speaking about “resistance fighters” battling against an “occupation army.” One of Al Jazeera’s most prominent journalists, Majed Abdulhadi, celebrated Hamas’s attack as it happened by reciting a kind of prose poem: after rhapsodizing at length about the astonished surprise of an Israeli soldier who was captured in his tank, Abdulhadi concluded that, “in one fell swoop,” the assault had “wiped away dark layers of despair.” The video clip is still circulating on Arab social media, where it has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people.

Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael al-Dahdouh, has covered many conflicts between Israel and Hamas, and the group’s leaders have sometimes saluted his coverage for conveying their perspective. In an interview on the network in 2021, Dahdouh, who is Palestinian, said that about twenty members of his family had been killed in clashes with Israel. (At least four relatives belonged to the militant group Islamic Jihad.) Dahdouh continued, “Perhaps this is among the difficult moments in the life of a Palestinian journalist—when he goes to report on an incident and discovers the incident is his brother or cousin.”

On October 25th, Al Jazeera broadcast footage of Dahdouh on a Gaza rooftop, shrieking in agony while receiving a phone call telling him that an air strike on a refugee camp had hit his family. (It killed his wife, a sixteen-year-old son, and a six-year-old daughter.) A video posted on social media captured him moments later, at a hospital, still wearing his blue press flak jacket, as he cried over the shrouded body of his son. “Are you taking revenge through our kids?” he asked, staring into the camera. “They are child killers, no more, no less. . . . The army of occupation must be driven away!” On Friday, Dahdouh was on the air again, telling viewers that he saw “no escape” from his duty to report on Palestinian suffering.

The other pan-Arab networks—Al Arabiya, which is controlled by the rulers of Saudi Arabia, and Sky News Arabia, which is controlled by the rulers of the United Arab Emirates—initially appeared to resist Hamas’s story line. The Saudis and the Emiratis loathe Hamas and its Islamist allies. The U.A.E. formalized diplomatic ties with Israel in 2020; Saudi Arabia has signalled that it expects to do the same. Al Arabiya and Sky News Arabia both started off broadcasting critical reports about what they called the Hamas attack. On October 8th, the Sky News Arabia journalist Nadim Koteich appeared to justify Israeli retaliation by comparing Hamas’s slaughter to Al Qaeda’s attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. The Hamas assault, Koteich said, was “a premeditated coup against the Arab-Israeli peace plan.”

But as the Gaza death toll has climbed, and as Arab opinion has swung toward Hamas, the networks have seemingly capitulated to the feelings of their viewers. Putting aside “the Hamas attack,” newscasters now increasingly refer to the Israeli “war on Gaza.” And the networks have joined Al Jazeera in carrying extensive footage of suffering and carnage in Gaza. “Residents of a neighborhood in Gaza, most of them women and children, lying under the rubble,” an Al Arabiya headline declared, on October 26th. At the same moment, a chyron repeated a report, by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, saying that in the preceding hours another four hundred and eighty-one Palestinians had been killed by Israeli air strikes.

When referring to dead Palestinians, both networks still appear to favor the relatively neutral term “victims.” But at one point Ahmad Harb, an Al Arabiya reporter in the Gazan city of Khan Younis, briefly spoke of eleven casualties as “martyrs”—the term that Palestinian groups invariably use to describe those killed in the conflict. Harb, apparently being interrupted by a producer speaking into his earpiece, quickly corrected himself, reverting to “victims.” On October 24th, the clip of his gaffe went viral on Arab social media, where it was portrayed as a glimpse of the effort by the network’s overseers to check the sympathies of their journalists in the field.

Israel’s military dominance grows more evident by the day; according to officials of the Gaza Health Ministry, Israeli forces have killed more than eight thousand people. Yet Israeli, Palestinian, and Western analysts all told us, emphatically, that in the Middle East the winner of the propaganda war is Hamas.

Ghassan Khatib, a political scientist at Birzeit University, in the West Bank, and a former official in the Palestinian Authority, told us that he plans to release poll results showing a jump in support for Hamas among West Bank Palestinians. “Hamas is getting more popular because it is perceived to be standing up to the oppressive Israeli occupation, and because of the brutal retaliation by Israel,” he said. Americans and Israelis, he added, sometimes assume that the current war began on October 7th. But Arabs, and especially Palestinians, had been paying closer attention in the preceding days and decades. Khatib told us that this audience sees the Hamas attack as retribution for decades of “piecemeal repression,” including the expansion of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the increase in settler violence against Palestinians. He noted, “People here accept a message that what Hamas did was a response to something that Israel has been doing every day for years and years.”

As Arab opinion shifts toward Hamas, Arab leaders are growing more reluctant to buck it. A statement from the Arab League on October 11th—which condemns “the killing and targeting of civilians on both sides,” including by Hamas—surprised many in the region. But on October 24th, at a United Nations meeting on the conflict, that evenhandedness evaporated. Arab foreign ministers from across the region took turns fulminating against the human cost of the Israel air strikes; all avoided discussion of the ghastly role Hamas had played in setting off the latest round of conflict.

Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, recently spoke by phone with the President of Venezuela, and an initial readout released by the authority’s news agency describes Abbas as having said that Hamas’s actions and policies “don’t represent the Palestinian people.” Just a few moments later, however, this account of Abbas’s criticism of Hamas disappeared from the news site. Current and former officials of the authority told us that Abbas had demanded a retraction.

Nasser al-Qudwa, a nephew of the late Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat and a former foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority, has long condemned Hamas. But in a phone interview he told us that he could no longer do so in public. “I’m not willing to criticize them now,” he said. “How could I while bombs fall on people’s heads?”

For Israel, the growing embrace by Palestinians and other Arabs of Hamas’s self-portrayal—of outgunned resistance fighters revolting against an unjust occupation—compounds the difficulty of finding any path forward. Israeli leaders have vowed to “destroy” Hamas, but have declined to elaborate on what that means in practice. And how could Israel’s goal be achieved when the idea of Hamas is gaining more support each day of the war?

Shibley Telhami, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who studies Arab public opinion, said that Israeli and American talk of destroying Hamas was playing into the group’s hands. Telhami told us, “When people in the Arab world hear ‘destroy Hamas,’ they think, ‘destroy Gaza.’ ” Telhami argued that unflinching American support for Israel’s retribution had now firmly tied Washington to the losing side of the propaganda war, adding, “In the Middle East and across the Global South, Joe Biden has become the same as the George W. Bush of the Iraq War. And, right now, there is no way around it.” ♦

#israel #terrorism #hamas lies #hamas evil #hamas terrorist #feedom #love #hate

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sachkenntnis · 7 months

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watching leftist meme channels on telegram or instagram suddenly post massively islamophobic memes that might as well be taken from 4chan is willllddd

like all of this talk about western queers being sooo hypocritical when they defend palestinian civilians bc hahaha homophobia in islam amirite

#islamophobia #palestine

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The anti-Semitic riot at the Makhachkala airport on Sunday came as a “shock” to the Putin administration and constituted a “total emergency” for the president’s team, Meduza has learned from sources close to the Kremlin and the country’s ruling United Russia party.

According to one person close to the Putin administration, at the beginning of the recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents in the North Caucasus, officials and political strategists who work in the administration sent each other videos of Dagestan residents “looking for Jews.” They shared the clips “just for laughs,” the source explained.

On October 28, residents of the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt gathered at the Flamingo Hotel after a Telegram channel posted rumors suggesting the hotel was “full of Jews.” The same day, people in Cherkessk, the capital of Russia’s Karachay-Cherkess Republic, held an anti-Israel rally, where they demanded that Jews be “expelled” from the region. The following morning, on October 29, unidentified arsonists set fire to an unfinished Jewish cultural center in the town of Nalchik in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.

But it wasn’t until Sunday evening, when anti-Semitic rioters broke into the Makhachkala airport, that members of the administration “realized the situation was far from a joke,” one source told Meduza.

The local authorities in Dagestan were quick to blame the unrest on “enemies and Banderites.” The Kremlin announced that Vladimir Putin plans to hold a “major meeting” to address the riots, and his press secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists that the topics of discussion will include “the West’s attempts to use events in the Middle East to divide Russian society.”

Meduza’s sources said the Putin administration will most likely blame the riots on Ukrainian intelligence services in its official statements. However, a source from the office of the Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasus told Meduza they believe it would be difficult for anyone to organize a gathering as large as the airport riot over an issue that doesn’t directly affect Dagestan — unless someone from the local political establishment was involved. In other words, the source believes that individuals who are dissatisfied with Dagestan Governor Sergey Melikov likely played a role in the unrest.

Melikov comes from a military background; after fighting in the First Chechen War, he became the Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasus before serving as the deputy of Russian National Guard Director Viktor Zolotov. An acquaintance of Melikov told Meduza that Melikov’s approach to governing Dagestan is “actually quite simple”: “Many people in the Caucasus have ties to the Islamic underground, and this needs to be forcefully eliminated. He’s seen enough of war. Plus, he believes in using a firm hand and a vertical structure.” The source said this approach has led to numerous conflicts between Melikov and other influential Dagestanis.

The Kremlin believes that the country’s security forces “overlooked the situation in Dagestan” and did too little to “work with the population on the issue of anti-Semitism,” according to Meduza’s sources. At the same time, a source who is in contact with the Federal Security Service (FSB) and other law enforcement agencies said that the security community believe it was the Kremlin’s failure that led to the unrest. “Interethnic relations is their domain. Prevention is what’s important here — working with influential opinion leaders and curbing the influence of undesirable individuals. If that’s not taken care of, you end up with a fire,” said the source.

At the same time, the source noted that the weekend’s anti-Semitic riots are unsurprising given the numerous protests Dagestan has seen in recent years: “There are social problems — people are unsatisfied with their lives.” In summer 2023, for example, residents of the republic held multiple street protests against power and water outages, and in the fall of 2022, Dagestan was the site of the country’s largest anti-mobilization protests.

Not a single one of the sources Meduza spoke with expects to see major personnel changes in the wake of the anti-Semitic incidents in the North Caucasus. “The war is a contributor — now is not the time for internal disputes,” said one source.

Two sources close to the Kremlin said they’re confident Russia’s leaders will manage to “curb the negative effects” of the airport riot through propaganda. State-run TV networks have already aired segments about how the local authorities competently handled the unrest while also describing the rioters as “protesters with anti-Israel slogans.” “It should be emphasized that anti-Semitism is not what we’re dealing with here. People are specifically unhappy with the actions of the State of Israel,” said a source close to the Putin administration.

Another source acknowledged that the events in the North Caucasus could create rhetorical difficulties for the Kremlin’s political bloc in its preparations for the 2024 presidential elections. According to him, the riots will make it harder for Putin to sell a message about “national harmony” and the “peaceful coexistence” of Russia’s various ethnic groups. At the same time, the sources said they doubt this will be a serious problem for the Kremlin: “[People have even] forgotten about the Wagner revolt. They’ll forget this too.”

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