Following previous examples of mockery targeting besieged Palestinians for their lack of access to basic necessities like food, clean water, and electricity, there are now reports of some Israelis making derogatory comments about Palestinian mothers who have lost their children during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. | An Israeli SFX makeup artist, Eve Cohen, created a TikTok video that has gained significant attention on social media. In the video, she attempts to suggest that Palestinian mothers aren't genuinely losing their children due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. ● In this video, Cohen, dressed as a Palestinian mother, uses ketchup and baby powder for inexpensive SFX makeup to simulate fake blood and debris, which she applies to her face. In one scene, she feigns being a Palestinian martyr by smearing ketchup on her forehead. ● In another, she portrays an injured Palestinian mother holding a make-believe baby with a fruit for a head. Throughout the video, Cohen adds a director's command, shouting "Cut!" in the background, and the clip concludes with the sound of applause as she discards the fruit and smiles. ● The video faced substantial backlash from online users who criticized her for displaying insensitivity towards the gravity of the Israel-Palestine conflict. ● This video comes in the wake of another incident involving an Israeli TikToker who created a 'Get Ready With Me' video that was perceived as mocking Palestinians who have been affected by the ongoing conflict. She deleted her video following a backlash from the online community.

■ The Mask Comes off: Israeli Officials Show True Nature of Conflict (Hal Turner)

Israel is looking into flooding Hamas’ tunnel system before starting its ground operation in the Gaza Strip, US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said, citing sources. 💬 "A well-informed American official told me that the Israeli leadership is known to be considering flooding Hamas's vast tunnel system before sending in its troops, many of whom have had only a few weeks of training in the maneuvers and coordination required for the invasion," Hersh said in his column published on Substack. Hersh said Israel is in the process of turning Gaza City into rubble, via constant bombing, and is also planning to begin the ground invasion soon. Flooding the tunnels could mean that Israel was ready to "write off the hostages still in jeopardy," Hersh said.

■ Israel Plans to Turn Gaza Into 'Hiroshima' But Without Nuclear Weapons (Seymour Hersh)(Sputnik News)
■ Zionist think tank publishes blueprint for Palestinian genocide (Kit Klarenberg)(The Greyzone)
■ List of war crimes and crimes qualifying as genocide committed by Israel in Gaza between 7th & 14th October 2023

Majed Abusalama | I am writing this letter as news continues to reach me of relatives, neighbours, and friends being killed in Gaza by Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment. | I, like millions of Palestinians, am living through the worst nightmare of yet another round of mass death and destruction unleashed on our people – something you would often simply call “an escalation” of the “Palestinian-Israeli conflict”. ● As I write these lines, al-Ahli Hospital was bombed, killing hundreds of children, men and women, who had sought safety on the premises of the hospital. Hours earlier, the news of the death of my friend Mohammed Mokhiemar, his wife Safaa, and their three-month-old baby Elyana reached me. ● They were killed after evacuating with other families to the southern part of Gaza, following Israeli orders. They and 70 other Palestinians were killed by Israeli air strikes. ● The only word I can think of that comes close to what I feel right now is “qahr” in Arabic; it is not just pain, anguish and anger. It is the feeling passed on through generations, accumulated more than 75 years of ethnic cleansing, mass killings, injustice, oppression, colonisation, occupation and apartheid. It is a feeling ingrained in every Palestinian, something we have to live with all our lives.

M. V. Zakharova (Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman) | Those in power in Washington and other capitals of the countries of the "collective West" obsessed with anti-Russian sentiments. | Speculation is spreading in Western countries regarding the next round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in an attempt to accuse the Russian Federation of involvement in supplying Hamas paramilitary structures with weapons and ammunition. There are even fantastic insinuations about the alleged establishment, with Russian assistance, of the production of small arms and light weapons and ammunition on the territory of the Gaza Strip. In this regard, I would like to say the following. ● The Russian Federation has established one of the most effective and well-tried, in practical and legislative terms, export control systems for the realization of military-technical cooperation (MTC) with foreign partners. ● In contrast, the worldwide hunt for Soviet/Russian arms and ammunition by NATO countries, their partners and satellites, as well as their unrestrained desire to support the Kyiv regime's armed formations by any means possible through the supply of increasingly advanced Western military equipment, testify precisely to their irresponsible approaches and double standards in matters of export-control regimes in the sphere of interstate transfers of military products. ● There is also blatant forgery and the use of "gray" schemes in the purchase on the world market of everything that could in any way support the armed formations of the Kyiv regime. We are talking about using unscrupulous brokerage companies, front companies, fictitious contracts and end-user certificates, and other supply documentation. ● In reality, everything supplied to the thoroughly corrupted Kyiv regime by its Western masters is being distributed uncontrollably around the world. Not only Ukrainian officials and criminal structures are profiting from this, but also transnational criminal syndicates and, naturally, those in power in Washington and other capitals of the countries of the "collective West" obsessed with anti-Russian sentiments. (Translation: DeepL.com + Proofreading: grammarly.com) (Original article in Russian: Комментарий официального представителя МИД России М.В.Захаровой относительно снабжения вооружением палестинского движения ХАМАС)