The Palestinian group Hamas launched a massive rocket attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip, prompting Tel Aviv to declare a state of war the following day and launch retaliatory strikes. | Israel has imposed a complete blockade on the Gaza Strip, home to more than two million people, cutting off supplies of water, food, and fuel. ● Both Israel and Palestine have reported more than 1,000 deaths and thousands of injuries as a result of the escalation. ● On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the parties to the conflict to use diplomacy rather than military force to find a way to end hostilities and return to the negotiating process.

■ UK to send navy ships and spy planes to support Israel [help Israel kill all Palestinians in Gaza] (The Guardian)
■ [Jewish ruled] U.S. Plans To Ethnically Cleanse Gaza (MoA)
■ Israel Informs United Nations to EVACUATE its Staff - and ONE MILLION Residents within 24 Hours (Hal Turner)
■ Hamas says 13 hostages, including foreigners, killed following Israeli shelling of Gaza (TASS)
■ Israeli Defense Minister: "We have abolished all the rules of war. Our soldiers will not be held responsible for anything. There will be no military courts” (10/12/23)
■ L’ONU et l’OMS appellent Israël à annuler immédiatement l’ordre d’évacuation à Gaza : « Les conséquences humanitaires seront dévastatrices » (Le Média en 4-4-2)

David Livingstone | Israel Created Hamas to Avoid Peace | Israel does not want peace. Israel created Hamas as a pretext to wage war on the Palestinians. Israel does not want peace. They want all of Palestine, and their belligerent settlement practices confirm that. But the Israelis are posturing as being willing to talk "peace", only to actually stall that peace process, so as to advance the further colonization of Palestine. Hamas' rockets are mere peashooters compared to Israel's air force but they provide another excuse for ethnic cleansing. 💬 "The masses are naive and fail to suspect the Machiavellian extremes that certain leaders will resort to. This includes creating a false enemy, in this case, Hamas, whereby the right-wing leadership of the Israelis can point the finger at some "enemy" to blame for supposedly stalling the process."

Paris has banned rallies nationwide, claiming they were a threat to public order | French police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters who thronged the streets of Paris Thursday in support of the Palestinian people despite a ban on pro-Palestinian rallies initiated earlier in the day. ● Seemingly undeterred by the prohibition, crowds of demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans before heavily armed riot police arrived on the scene. ● Video posted to social media shows massive water cannons drenching reluctantly-dispersing crowds. Another clip shows protesters – including elderly and women – being crushed into a stone railing as they are pursued by riot cops and tear gas clouds, shrieking as police push them with plastic shields.

■ Germany vows to prosecute burning of Israeli flag (RT.com)
■ France "BANS" Pro-Palestinian Protests/Speech/Flags - Paris Now Erupting in Riots (10/12/23)