Qatar on early Wednesday said that the start of a "humanitarian pause" between Israel and Hamas will be announced within 24 hours. | Qatar, along with Egypt and the United States, has successfully mediated a four-day humanitarian pause between Israel and Hamas. The announcement, expected in the next 24 hours, involves the exchange of 50 civilian women and children hostages in Gaza for Palestinian women and children held in Israeli prisons. Humanitarian aid, including fuel, will be permitted into the Gaza Strip.

■ LIVE: 50 captives and 150 Palestinian prisoners to be released (MEE)
■ Hamas announces 4-day truce agreement, prisoners exchange deal (Al Mayadeen)
■ The Palestinian Children Detained by ‘Israel’ (Alahed News)
■ Hamas Says Agreed to Mediated Four-day Truce (Alahed News)
■ Israel's Cabinet Approves Ceasefire, Hostage Deal With Hamas (Sputnik News)
■ Putin expresses concern over 'thousands of deaths' in Gaza Strip (aNews)

■ Gaza Ceasefire? (Kurt Nimmo) | Yes, calling for a ceasefire is helpful, but it will not accomplish much. Israel will not stop killing Palestinians and Washington will continue to support the ethno-religious settler fanatics in Palestine in response to the outsized influence of the Israeli lobby. Israel will continue stampeding two million Palestinians into South Gaza and eventually through the Rafah Crossing into the empty desert of the Egyptian Sinai. This has been the plan for decades. It’s not a secret. Israel is a terrorist state. It was founded and governed by terrorists. David Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Barak, Yitzhak Rabin, and yes, Golda Meir, were all terrorists. Together these terrorists—who are rarely called terrorists in the West—ethnically cleansed nearly a million Palestinians. Some of them were members of terrorist groups before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza and the West Bank has remained consistent.

21 out of 24 hospitals north of Wadi Gaza have ceased functioning, leaving thousands of people without essential medical care, WHO Health Emergencies Program Executive Director Michael Ryan confirmed. | The dire situation is further exacerbated by the fact that Al Shifa Hospital, a vital healthcare institution in the region, is no longer admitting new patients. According to Ryan, "Deconfliction mechanisms with Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories [COGAT] have been subpar and don’t allow for safe humanitarian operations. It improved with Al Shifa evacuation and WHO hopes that becomes the new standard."

■ Hospitals in northern Gaza completely out of service (Al Jazeera)
■ 'Israel' bombs Gaza, targeting last operating hospitals (Al Mayadeen)
■ “Israeli” Troops Raid Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital Again (Alahed News)
■ Israel’s War on Hospitals (Chris Hedges)
■ Watch: Israeli children sing, “We will annihilate everyone” in Gaza (11/21/23)

Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) | Jesus, what a pathetic thing this Bandera scarecrow is. The bearded misunderstanding in green, answering a question from the British tabloid The Sun about the number of certain "assassination attempts", mumbled in a hoarse voice, shaking his ridiculous head: not less ... five-six. Even for The Sun, it looks like a circus with horses. However, this figure is not taken seriously there anymore. ● However, all this cheap bravado brings to mind one quite obvious thought: with such powerful "prophecies", this fool hardly has a chance to live to a ripe old age. Thoughts are sometimes material...(Translation: DeepL.com + Proofreading: grammarly.com)

Only 20 lives potentially saved in Iceland by Covid-19 vaccination, while 60-70 may have been lost from it. Catastrophe for the fully vaccinated, covered up by lumping them up with the unvaccinated. | Now when the numbers are in, the Icelandic Chief Medical Officer (CMO) claims vaccination against Covid-19 reduced the probability of death from the disease by half, compared with no vaccination. But the actual figures tell a very different story, and sadly the method used to arrive at this conclusion is questionable to say the least. The actual reduction in deaths is negligible at best, and the most worrying result is how those fully vaccinated (2 doses) were three times more likely to die from the disease than the unvaccinated. When we take into account the number of deaths reported following vaccination, the overall result of the experiment is likely to be negative.

The Turkish leader earlier spoke about the need to verify the presence of nuclear weapons in Israel and the intention to initiate the relevant process in international structures | Turkey will ask the UN Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to verify Israel's possession of nuclear weapons, the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. ● "We will put forward initiatives both in the UN Security Council and in the IAEA on the issue that threatens the security of the region, especially Turkey," the Star newspaper quoted the Turkish leader as saying at an economic forum in Algeria. ● Erdogan earlier spoke about the need to verify the presence of nuclear weapons in Israel and the intention to initiate the relevant process in international structures, including after the June 20 government meeting. The Turkish president pointed out that Israel openly recognizes that it possesses nuclear weapons, but international structures, particularly the IAEA and the UN, do not conduct a corresponding investigation.