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2024-03-13 05:19:44

On the 158th day of the war on Gaza, various Palestinian Resistance factions continue to engage in fierce confrontations with occupation forces at multiple axes, especially east of Khan Younis and west of it in the city of Hamad, south of the Strip.
This comes amidst ongoing attempts by occupation forces to fortify their positions and advance toward further locations within the besieged Strip.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced the targeting of two infantry forces in a well-planned ambush at the L Towers complex in Hamad City.
The Brigades mentioned that its fighters engaged the two forces at point-blank range, adding that Zionist helicopters were observed evacuating the dead and wounded soldiers after the ambush.
Al-Qassam targeted a Merkava tank with a homemade al-Yassin 105 shell in the same city.
Al-Qassam fighters also detonated two anti-personnel explosive devices against two infantry forces and engaged their members, resulting in casualties, in the K and J Towers complexes in Hamad City.
Meanwhile, al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, claimed responsibility for detonating a powerful explosive device against a Zionist force of six soldiers holed up in an apartment in Hamad City.
Al-Quds Brigades’ fighters shelled Zionist military gatherings with mortar shells in the city center and targeted an Israeli military vehicle and a D9 bulldozer with RPG shells.
The Brigades’ Resistance fighters confirmed after returning from battle zones in the al-Qarara area, north of Khan Younis, that they blew up a house where a special occupation force of seven soldiers was holed up, resulting in casualties.
They also detonated a booby-trapped tunnel in a group of occupation soldiers northeast of al-Qarara.
On its part, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced that its fighters shelled a gathering of occupation forces and their vehicles with a barrage of heavy mortar shells in Hamad City.
In the same city, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades’ fighters engaged a military vehicle with an RPG shell.
Earlier on Tuesday, the occupation military confirmed the killing of one of its soldiers, who was killed and held by the Palestinian Resistance on October 7.
With the latest announcement, the number of occupation troops killed since the start of the war on October 7 now stands at 590.Huge rocket barrage from Lebanon
The Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah continues five months on to pound Zionist military points and positions alongside the occupied Palestinian-Lebanese border area.
Hezbollah declared on Tuesday that it carried out 13 operations in total against the occupation, including the interception of a hostile drone in Lebanese airspace, publishing footage of its fighters attacking the “Mount Addir” in northern occupied Palestine with a precision missile, with numerous occupation soldiers being seen as fleeing from the area.
In the initial action Tuesday morning, the Resistance fired over 100 rockets at the occupation entity.
The Resistance also launched Burkan rockets toward the “Branit” military site, the Zebdine military site in the occupied Shebaa farms, and the Ruweisat al-Alam military site in the occupied Kfar Chouba Heights.
Furthermore, the occupation forces were attacked at the “Zar’it” barracks, the Jerdah military point, and the Hadab Yarin and al-Raheb military sites, all of which resulted in severe casualties for occupation forces.
The Resistance also conducted operations targeting the Jal al-Alam and Birket Risha reconnaissance sites, dealing extensive damage to the espionage equipment within them.
Moreover, the Resistance intercepted a drone in the airspace of the occupied border area, forcing it to withdraw and head back to the occupied Palestinian territories.
In response to occupation attacks in the vicinity of the city of Baalbek, which led to the martyrdom of civilian Mustafa Gharib on Monday, the Resistance bombed Tuesday the headquarters of the air defense command in the “Kilaa” barracks, the missile and artillery base in “Yoav”, and the artillery positions in its vicinity with more than 100 Katyusha rockets, as was mentioned earlier.Operations overview
– At 07:00, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the headquarters of the air defense command in the “Kilaa” barracks, the missile and artillery base in “Yoav”, and the artillery positions in its vicinity with more than 100 Katyusha rockets.
– At 10:15, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the al-Raheb military site with a Burkan rocket.
– At 12:45, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Jirdah military site with a Burkan rocket.
– At 14:00, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the espionage equipment at the Birket Risha reconnaissance site.
– At 14:25, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the espionage equipment at the Jal al-Alam reconnaissance site.
– At 16:00, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Jal al-Alam military site with Burkan rockets.
– At 16:00, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Hadb Yarin military site with Burkan rockets.
– At 16:00, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Birket Risha military site with Burkan rockets.
– At 16:15, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters intercepted an Israeli drone in the airspace of the border area with occupied Palestine.
– At 16:45, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the “Zar’it” barracks with Burkan rockets.
– At 17:00, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Branit barracks.
– At 17:55, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Ruweisat al-Alam military site in the occupied Kfar Chouba Heights.
– At 18:05, the Islamic Resistance’s fighters attacked the Zebdine military site in the occupied Shebaa farms.Top-tier weapons yet to be unleashed
Last Tuesday, the head of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc in Lebanon, Member of Parliament Mohammad Raad, affirmed that the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon has not yet utilized all its weapons, stating that “the weapons of the great war have not yet been unleashed.”
Raad explained that the Resistance adheres to “precise equations of deterrence imposed on the occupation, which attempts to evade the requirements of the status quo but cannot annul them.”
“When you are strong in facing the enemy and have the means to demonstrate this capability, the other side will surrender, not the other way around,” Raad highlighted. He said that “Israel” is not expanding the war into Lebanon because it is being forced to do so by the Resistance, which has underlined clear responses to breaches in the rules of engagement.
“Deviating from these rules would lead to a major catastrophe,” the Hezbollah MP stressed.
“We exercise patience to avoid a devastating open war, […] where the ultimate loser and [the one that will suffer a strategic loss] would be the Zionist enemy,” Raad underscored.
Hezbollah has launched near-daily operations against Israeli occupation forces since October 8, amounting to more than 1,200 operations that have seen a wide array of targets being hit. The group’s leader have made it crystal clear that Hezbollah fighters will continue to target occupation sites and troops until the aggression on the Gaza Strip ends.
source: Al Mayadeen, Resistance News Network
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/13/massive-rocket-barrage-from-lebanon-gaza-resistance-inflicts-losses-in-khamn-younis/
#alaqsa #gaza #hamas #palestine #pflp #pij #resistance #westAsia
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2024-03-06 03:30:15

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine strongly condemned the statements made by UN Envoy Pramila Patton, accusing “the resistance factions in Gaza of committing sexual violence crimes, torture, and harsh treatment against hostages and detainees on October 7,” asserting that these statements are shameful, far from the truth, and biased towards the entity.
The Front clarified that the purpose of these statements is to cover up the brutal crimes and practices of the occupation against our Palestinian people, which are fully documented by the United Nations and international institutions. In contrast, this UN envoy did not rely on any reliable evidence of the resistance factions committing any practices; instead, she relied on reports and testimonies of zionist origin that have been proven to be false.
The Front added, “Since the beginning of its war of genocide on the Strip, the zionist enemy, in its attempt to justify this crime against the Strip, has spread lies and fabricated narratives and stories about the resistance factions on October 7. However, in light of the absence of clear evidence, the publication of fabricated videos, and their exposure to the global public opinion, it forced heads of states, international institutions, and media entities to apologize.”
The Front emphasized that the resistance, with testimonials from international institutions and even by the admission of the released detainees and hostages, ensured to uphold ethics and good treatment of detainees, providing all forms of comfort and even protecting them from zionist bombing and treachery. At the same time, the world was shocked by the proven and documented reports and testimonies of the occupation committing sexual violence and torture against a large number of women during their arrest and detention in Khan Younis and other areas penetrated in the Gaza Strip.
The Front concluded its statement by calling on the UN envoy to retract and apologize for these dubious statements, to cease the double standards policy and equating the victim with the executioner, and to conduct a serious investigation into the ongoing practices of genocide in the Gaza Strip, not to cover up these crimes, or attempt to absolve the occupation, which has been intensified due to the lawsuit filed by South Africa in the International Court of Justice, revealing the atrocious reality of these crimes to the entire world.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Office
5-3-2024
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/06/pflp-statements-by-the-un-envoy-patton-are-disgraceful-false-and-biased-towards-the-entity/
#gaza #palestine #pflp #westAsia
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2024-02-17 20:24:56

As civilian casualties continue to mount in Gaza, global calls for countries to halt arms sales to Israel grow. The United States Senate has approved a bill committing $14bn to support Israel’s war on Gaza this week.
Even before the start of the war last October, the US firmly supported Israel with the supply of military equipment, contributing $3bn annually in military aid. Many other countries provide military support to Israel via arms sales.Civilian casualties continue to mount in Gaza – currently standing at more than 28,000 dead with thousands more trapped under rubble and presumed dead in just four months of bombardment and ground invasions. The rising death toll is prompting international condemnation.On Monday, the European Union foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, commented on US President Joe Biden’s description of Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas attacks as “over the top”. “Well, if you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms in order to prevent so many people being killed,” Borrell told reporters.
So which countries continue to send weapons to Israel?Who supplies arms to Israel?
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s arms transfers database, 68 percent of Israel’s weapons imports between 2013 and 2022 came from the US.
The US military also stockpiles weapons on the ground in Israel, presumably for use by the US army itself. However, the US has allowed Israel to make use of some of these supplies during the Gaza war.
Besides the US, Israel also receives military imports from other nations.
Weapons imported from Germany make up 28 percent of Israel’s military imports. Germany’s military exports rose nearly tenfold in 2023 compared with 2022 after it increased sales to Israel in November, according to figures from the German Economic Ministry. Germany primarily supplies Israel with components for air defence systems and communications equipment, according to the German press agency dpa.
The United Kingdom has licensed at least 474 million pounds ($594m) in military exports to Israel since 2015, Human Rights Watch reported in December 2023. These exports included aircraft, missiles, tanks, technology and ammunition, including components for the F-35 stealth bomber used in Gaza.
In Canada, dozens of civil society groups have recently urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to end arms exports to Israel. The government says it does not send full weapons systems to Israel, but these civil society groups claim it is downplaying the amount of military support it provides. “Canadian companies have exported over $84m [114 million Canadian dollars] in military goods to Israel since 2015,” said Michael Bueckert, vice president of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, an advocacy group, adding that the government has continued to approve arms exports since the start of the war.
Australia’s foreign affairs minister has said the country has not provided weapons to Israel since the start of the war. However, The Australian Greens party’s defence spokesperson, David Shoebridge, has asked for the government to be more transparent about exactly what items have been exported to Israel, adding that the country has one of the most secretive weapons export systems in the world. Amnesty International has also called on Australia to halt arms sales to Israel and claims the country has approved 322 defence exports to Israel over the past six years.
In France, a pro-Palestine demonstration on February 7 called on French companies, including Dassault Aviation, to stop selling arms to Israel. Demonstrators said, according to the Anadolu news agency, “all French companies that sell arms to the Tel Aviv administration are complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza”.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/17/which-countries-supply-arms-to-israel/
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2024-02-11 04:48:24

One APD vehicle was burned overnight as an initial response to the repressive operation of February 8, which involved three house raids and the arrest of John “Jack” Mazurek, who is being held without bail.
We wish to dispel any notion that people will take this latest wave of repression lying down, or that arresting alleged arsonists will deter future arsons.
Jack is accused of participating in the arson attack of July 1, 2023, when eight APD motorcyles were burned at the current police training center that Cop City is intended to replace. The group that claimed responsibility for that action called for the movement against Cop City to develop into an urban guerrilla struggle. This is still the only sensible course of action for anyone in Atlanta who considers themselves a serious revolutionary.
In light of recent arsons of construction equipment belonging to Cop City contractor Brent Scarbrough, the police needed to make a move to reassure their contractors and funders. Let’s not panic or be discouraged; we have them on the back foot. We will answer their aggression by keeping up the pace of attacks.
The cop car we burned was part of the APD’s “take-home car” program. There are at least 40 (well… 39) cops around Atlanta with patrol cars parked right in front of their houses. The opportunity to have a shiny new take-home car is reportedly the number-one reason for police retention. It is also intended to act as a crime deterrent in the neighborhood; we think that’s funny. This particular car was in Lakewood, the same neighborhood where two of the house raids took place. Our message is simple: if our comrades cannot sleep soundly in their homes, neither can the pigs.
We are not special. Our skills are not overly technical or advanced, and our tools are simple to acquire. If you are reading this, you are capable of doing what we do. We all have something to lose; it is simply a matter of living out our beliefs or submitting to the police state. Inaction is a choice just as much as action, and we all have to live with the choices we make.
Submitted Anonymously Over Email
Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
Note: photo not associated with action
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/11/apd-patrol-car-torched-in-lakewood/
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2024-01-12 05:09:47

A horrifying situation is unfolding in Jackson, Mississippi, where 215 bodies were recently discovered in unmarked graves behind a state jail. The families of those buried, in what is known as the “pauper’s field” behind the Hinds County Penal Farm, were never informed of the death of their loved ones, let alone given the chance to retrieve their bodies and pay their respects.
The extent and scope of this travesty and utter disregard for human life is still largely being kept under wraps. However, what has been reported thus far is chilling. The gravesites of the victims are identifiable only by a number and a metal rod. The bodies were not embalmed, given coffins, or properly buried. The graves were dug by inmates and it is likely the burials were carried out by the same inmates.
One activist, known as Arthur “Silky Slim” Reed, who has been outspoken on the events, described a morbid scene at the burial ground when visiting, reporting that buzzards fly overhead, attracted to the disturbing stench that emanates from the improper burials and shallow graves.
The shocking revelation was unearthed only due to the persistence of Bettersten Wade, who spent seven months looking for her middle child, Dexter Wade, who suddenly went missing in March 2023. Bettersten would not find out the truth about her son until October 2023. Dexter had been killed shortly after leaving his mother’s home, hit by a Jackson police car while crossing a nearby interstate highway.
Police were aware of Dexter’s identity, as he was killed with identification on him, and yet still failed to notify the family. Instead, the police department let Dexter’s body remain unclaimed for months in the county morgue.
Bettersten repeatedly called the Jackson Police Department to ask the police if they had any information on her son after officially reporting him missing to the police on March 14, 2023, just days after he went missing. The grieving mother emailed pictures of her son to the police and requested they show the photo on television. Finding no help from the authorities, she took to social media to appeal to the public to look out for her missing son.
Bettersten reported to NBC News that the decision to call the police was difficult for her because of her lack of trust in the department. Her 62-year-old brother died at the hands of the Jackson police in 2019 when an officer slammed him to the ground. The officer was convicted of manslaughter but is appealing.
It was not until August, several months later, when a new investigator took over Dexter’s case and finally notified the Wade family of the death. It took Bettersten two more months before she could track down her son’s body in the pauper’s field. Moreover, like the other victims buried in the same plot, it cost the Wade family a $250 fee to claim Dexter’s body.
On a Tuesday afternoon in early October, accompanied by a sheriff’s deputy and two inmates in jumpsuits, Bettersten, her sister and daughter were taken to plot No. 672 where Dexter was buried. Dexter Wade was the father of two girls.
Since the initial revelation, several more harrowing stories have come to light over the bodies buried at the Hinds County Penal Farm.
Marquita Moore was notified of the death of her older brother, Marrio Terrell Moore, 40, from an online article revealing cases of two dozen homicide victims in which the Jackson police had failed to notify the public or the families. Moore’s brother was the second on the list.
All two dozen victims were from a single year.
Moore read the news of her brother’s death on October 10. However, the article reported that Marrio had been killed on February 2, over eight months earlier. NBC News reports that upon learning of the tragedy, Moore shuddered and cried out: “Lord, this is my brother … Someone done killed my brother.”
After discovering the truth, Moore immediately went to the Jackson Police Department’s headquarters to find out more information but was told that no one was available.
Moore would later learn that Marrio had been bludgeoned to death, wrapped in a tarp and left on the street. For months, his body had lain in the Hinds County morgue, unclaimed. Then, on July 14, inmates at the county penal farm had buried his remains in the pauper’s field.
Like the dozens of other families, the news has wrecked the Moore family. “What are you hiding?” Moore said in a recent interview. “Why can’t you just come and just tell somebody that their child is gone?”
Marrio was buried the same day and in the same place as Dexter Wade.
On December 4, the family of Jonathan David Hankins, 39, learned of his death from news outlets. Hankins was first reported missing in June 2022, nearly a year before the first two cases, suggesting that the practice of burying victims in the pauper’s field has been going on for years.
Jonathan Hankins was discovered dead by the authorities just days after he went missing, on May 23, 2022, in a hotel room in Jackson. The death is widely believed to have been due to an overdose. Investigators were able to verify his identity with no problem or delay. However, like the other cases, the Jackson Police Department did not inform the family, and the county inmates were made to bury his body alongside the others. Jonathan’s grave was plot No. 645.
The Hankins story echoes the first two. For over a year, Jonathan’s mother Gretchen contacted the sheriff’s office every few weeks asking for any news. She was told time and again that they had no information.
Speaking with NBC News, Gretchen Hankins said: “I want people to know that somebody is not doing their job and making folks go through what I’ve been through … They can’t even do the job of notifying a dead person’s next of kin. They probably just thought, ‘Another drug addict, gone.’”
The pauper’s field graveyard revelation has made headlines on and off again since the first major case was unveiled last fall. However, the news coverage is not nearly proportional to the scale of the crime nor to the level of public outrage. Moreover, there are countless pressing questions that must be answered, including the identity of the remaining bodies.
Predictably, there appears to be very little effort from the establishment to carry out a formal investigation and critical details are still being kept from the public.
The most moving and heartfelt accounts of the situation can be found on social media, as hundreds of thousands of workers and young people react and grieve for the families.
In reaction to one Tik Tok that went viral on the story, commenters expressed their widespread reactions. One user, “emma,” writes: “I really want to say I’m shocked but I’m just … not anymore.” The comment has eight thousand “likes” and is filled with replies such as, “Me too, and the fact that I’m not shocked actually breaks my spirit.”
Other comments complain, “How is this not huge national news!?!?” and “This needs more attention.” Another video with over a million “likes” has a comment noting, “the only place I have heard about this is TikTok. Wild.” Of course, countless more express pure outrage: “This sickens me to the core to hear”; “the system is corrupt everywhere”; and “I trust nothing if it comes from our government.”
There are dozens of videos on all social media platforms that echo these same sentiments.
The public reaction speaks volumes about the state of social relations in the United States and more broadly. Workers are outraged, horrified, heartbroken and deeply angered by the events. However, there is very little surprise to be found. It is largely considered predictable that the state institutions would be so quick and careless to disregard human life. Nearly four years of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has needlessly cost the lives of millions, has revealed clearly that both political parties and all the major state institutions value profits over the lives of workers.
There are countless threads of the immense social crisis woven into this awful situation. In all three of the cases mentioned here, the victims were known to have been struggling with addiction of some sort. Officially, over 100,000 people die of a drug overdose every year, no doubt a drastic undercounting. Hundreds of thousands more battle addiction everyday with little to no publicly funded resources for help.
Many of the victims were well known to the police department, having spent time behind bars before. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, in 2023 almost 2 million people were held in 1,566 state prisons, 98 federal prisons, 3,116 local jails, 1,323 juvenile correctional facilities, 181 immigration detention facilities, and 80 Indian country jails, as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the US territories.
The violence and callousness present in society seeps into nearly every aspect of life with horrific consequences. The lives and struggles of the victims buried at Hinds County Penal Farm are not unique. They are a snapshot of conditions that face millions of workers and their families throughout the US in 2024.
There have already been attempts by various groups to paint this purely as a racial issue but early signs show that this narrative is not being accepted by the public as easily as in previous events. Activist Arthur Reed, for example, has noted multiple times to the press that the issue extends “beyond race,” as the dead buried in the pauper’s field are both black and white alike.
Common among all of the victims is that they are working class and poor.
Gwen Leigh
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/10/dncr-j10.html
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/01/12/215-bodies-known-to-police-found-in-unmarked-graves-behind-jail-in-jackson-mississippi/
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2024-01-01 16:38:02

NARRM.
From the river to the sea.
Always was always will be.
Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. blood money since WWII, shamelessly funding genocide, occupation and ethnic cleansing in Palestine for 75+ years.
U.S. terrorists have provided unwavering support for the IOF and show no remorse for the 30,000 martyred as a result of their murderous actions.
The people of Narrm condemn the U.S. for its crimes against humanity and refuse the existence of the U.S. consulate on Stolen First Nations Land.
LONG LIVE PALESTINE.
LONG LIVE GAZA.
LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
Source: Radical Graffiti
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/01/01/attack-on-us-consulate-in-narrm-melbourne-in-solidarity-with-palestine/
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2023-08-13 18:49:56

How do you get world attention for a cause to help save your people? The freedom fighters of West Papua asked that very question.
On February 7, 2023, 37-year-old Phil Mehrtens, a New Zealand pilot, was kidnapped by the West Papua Liberation Army, the military wing of the Free Papua Organization. Spokesperson for the separatists Sebby Sambom said the fighters, led by group commander Egianus Kogoya, set fire to the plane and seized its pilot as part of their struggle for independence after it landed in Nduga, a mountainous district.
The plane, operated by Indonesian aviation company Susi Air, was carrying about 990 pounds of supplies from an airport in Timika, a mining town in Papua.
Phil Mehrtens is far from the first hostage to be taken. Nearly three decades ago in the neighboring district of Mapenduma Papuan, freedom fighters kidnapped a group of environmental researchers from Europe and held them for five months.
The history of the island’s conflict can be traced back to 1962 when West Papua was a colony of the Dutch. At that time the U.S. facilitated what became known as the New York Agreement, which handed West Papua over to the United Nations and then to Indonesia. Since that time West Papuans have been subjected to violent human rights abuses, environmental and cultural dispossession, and mass killings under Indonesian rule as well as mass immigration policies.
Sambom said, “New Zealand, Australia, and America must be held accountable for what they have done in creating a genocide where at least 200,000 Papuans have been killed over the past sixty years.”
Mehrtens remains isolated along with 20 or so Freedom fighters within the jungles of Papua. Attempts by the Indonesian military have all failed to rescue Mehrtens; the West Papuans prevailed.
They say, “Our people have suffered far too long and these attempts to bring attention to our cause are a reminder that the outside world needs to understand our desperate situation in which so far all have turned a blind eye.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/08/13/the-struggle-for-freedom-in-weat-papua/
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