In the early morning hours of October 1 Israel started a land invasion of Lebanon with the support of its air force and artillery following the bombing of several Lebanese cities, including Beirut. This is the first land invasion since 2006.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (R) met Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin (L), Tehran, October 3, 2024
The US president Joe Biden sprang a surprise during a press gaggle with reporters outside the White House on Thursday when he essentially didn’t rule out a potential meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the upcoming summits of the Group of 20 or the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Biden sort of signalled, ‘Barkis is willing.’ As he put it, “I doubt that Putin will show up.”
New developments are unfolding rapidly in West Asia.
Days go by with analyses like “The war is now imminent” and “Now today it is even more imminent”. In reality, the war has already started. We are living it. History will write it as such. We simply refrain from naming it.
According to a statement released by the Civil Defense Operations Room, the Islamic Health Association, 11 paramedics were killed today as a result of Israeli bombardment in South Lebanon.
7 were martyred when an ambulance crew was struck near the Marjyoun Government Hospital, which is now out of service after it was evacuated due to the indiscriminate attack.
Two were martyred in Shakra and another two in Kherbet Selem when an Islamic Health Association facility was hit.
The IOF Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee released a statement earlier, attempting to justify strikes on ambulances and medical personnel; a tactic that was previously employed in Gaza where hundreds who worked in the health sector were killed by “Israel”.
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The Washington Post reported that visuals show that Iranian missiles hit Israeli military sites, adding that the findings raise questions about the full scope of the damage to Israeli military bases.
The findings also suggest that Iran was more successful in evading “Israel’s” defenses than in April, the newspaper added.
On October 1, Iran launched around 200 missiles toward the occupied Palestinian territories, and in one of its statements following the operation, Iran said that three military bases in Tel Aviv were targeted: Nevatim, Hatzerim, and the Tel Nof Airbase.
Two paramedics were killed and several others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted an ambulance belonging to the Islamic Health Association in the southern Lebanese town of Tebnin.
On Thursday, the World Health Organization announced that 28 medical personnel were killed in 24 hours by the Israeli occupation in Lebanon.
Additionally, two hospitals reportedly went out of service in southern Lebanon as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression.
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[Prefatory Note: This post was initially published on the TRT World website on September 30th, having been edited by Shabrina Khatri. It has been modified to take account of subsequent developments in the region including the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut and a widening onslaught against Hezbollah, while tensions mount with Iran. These developments have also affected the US relation to the conflict.]
Netanyahu’s bloody endgame seeks a future Israel with a Minimum Palestinian Presence
In the face of mounting global criticism, Israel is stepping up its military offensive in Lebanon, continuing its genocidal violence against the Palestinians and even intensifying its attacks on the Houthis in Yemen.
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On October 1st, Iran launched scores of missiles at the Zionist entity, in response to the murder of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, among many brazen provocations and escalations targeting the Resistance in recent months. Voluminous footage of key Israeli infrastructure, including military and intelligence sites, being comprehensively flattened by the Islamic Republic’s inexorable onslaught has circulated widely, amply contradicting predictable claims emanating from Tel Aviv and Washington that the blitzkrieg was successfully repelled by Western air defence systems.
When Joe Biden, a key architect of the Obama administration’s “Asia Pivot” policy, became the US president in 2020 and introduced his Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022, his apparent objective was to make the region more “peaceful” and manage its seas according to accepted international “rules”.
A little-noticed report published September 19th by JINSA laid out how the Empire will be on the defence, and at grave disadvantage, in all-out hot war with Iran.
Detail of: Ye Wulin (China), 红星颂 (Ode to the Red Star), 2015.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Seventy-five years ago, on 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong (1893–1976) announced the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It is important to note that the Communist Party of China (CPC) did not name the new state the Socialist Republic, but instead called it the People’s Republic. That is because Mao and the CPC did not foresee China being immediately ushered into socialism; rather, the country was embarking on the road to socialism, a process that would likely take decades, if not a century. That was very clear to the people who began to shape the new state and society. The People’s Republic would have to be built out of the embers of a very long war, one that began when the Japanese invaded northern China in 1931 and that lasted for the next 14 years and took the lives of over 35 million people. ‘From now on our nation will belong to the community of the peace-loving and freedom-loving nations of the world’, Mao said at the first plenary session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference on 21 September 1949. The new China, he continued, will ‘work courageously and industriously to foster its own civilisation and well-being and at the same time to promote world peace and freedom. Ours will no longer be a nation subject to insult and humiliation. We have stood up’.
Israel’s onslaught against the Palestinian people has systematically targeted children in both Gaza and the West Bank. The result is a war against an entire generation.
Tareq S. Hajjaj and Qassam Muaddi
Palestinians children at an UNRWA school in Deir al-Balah, September 9, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)
A year into the genocide in Gaza and the intensifying military and settler onslaught in the West Bank, children have been the most consistently targeted group by Israel in all of historic Palestine.
Wednesday, 2 October 2024 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The maniacal alliance between the U.S. and Israel has exposed the sham of western democracy and the illusion of international law.
Admitting that South Lebanon constitutes a “quagmire” for Israeli troops, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told broadcasters, “None of us want to return to the years in which Israel found itself bogged down in a quagmire in southern Lebanon.”
Lammy further warned, “The price would be huge for the Middle East, and it would have a significant effect on the global economy.”
Moreover, he called on all British nationals in Lebanon to leave the country, stressing that the UK government “cannot guarantee that they will be able to get people out of Lebanon in a speedy fashion” if the airport closes.
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