The death toll from Ukraine's January 21 shelling of a market in Donetsk has soared to 27. The attack – slammed by Moscow as a barbaric terrorist act against Russia's civilian population - left 25 more injured. | Western leaders have remained tight­-lipped on the Kiev regime’s deadly terrorist attack against Donetsk on Sunday, with many mainstream media headlines only mentioning the very fact of the event without singling out who was behind the tragedy. ● On Sunday, Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk’s Kirovsky district, a busy area with markets and shops, which are full of people, especially on weekends. It left 27 civilians killed and 25 more injured. ● The BBC went so far as to cite a “Ukrainian army group operating in the region” as saying that they “did not carry out the attack” – despite the fact that Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, confirmed that Ukrainian troops used 152mm and 155mm artillery systems during the shelling. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was the only official who decisively denounced Ukraine’s shelling attack on Donetsk.

■ ‘Barbaric attack using Western arms’ – Moscow decries Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk (01/22/24)

Following the presentation of arguments by South Africa and Israel regarding allegations of 'genocide' in Gaza, 17-judge panel will decide whether to approve petitioner's request for a interim injunction to halt war | Less than two weeks after the opening of hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, as part of a petition lodged by South Africa against Israel for alleged "genocide" in the Gaza Strip, the court is anticipated to deliver in the coming days a ruling on the petitioner's request for a provisional order to halt the war. While deliberations pertaining to the petition could last for months and years, Pretoria seeks to compel Israel to cease hostilities via provisional measures enacted by the court. Should such an order be issued and Israel opts to disregard it, it may face sanctions and international isolation.

■ Gaza’s Death Toll Surges Amid Ongoing Israeli Genocide (Al Manar TV)
■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)

■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)
■ The Expression of Hatred for Gentiles (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Israeli forces have destroyed at least 1,000 mosques during their ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip while desecrating dozens of cemeteries, the territory's officials say. | The Palestinian Information Center quoted Gaza's Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs as providing the information in a statement on Sunday. "The Israeli occupation forces have destroyed more than 1,000 out of 1,200 mosques in the territory since October 7 last year," the ministry said, adding that reconstruction of those mosques would cost around $500 million. The Palestinian ministry added that the Israeli aggression has also destroyed a number of churches across Gaza, including the historical Greek Orthodox Church, as well as Zakat religious committees, schools for teaching the Holy Qur'an, and the headquarters of the Endowment Bank.

■ Israel kills at least 190 people in Khan Younis in 24 hours (PressTV)
■ Israeli soldiers desecrate Jenin mosque during invasion (Al Mayadeen)
■ Israel Resorting to Terror to Make Up for Defeat in Gaza: Iran’s FM (Tasnim)
■ Gaza’s Death Toll Surges Amid Ongoing Israeli Genocide (Al Manar TV)
■ Global support for Israel plummets: Report (Iran Front Page)

It’s unclear when Houthi military capabilities will be sufficiently damaged, officials have told the paper | The US is preparing for a “sustained” bombing campaign in Yemen after ten days of airstrikes failed to undermine the ability of Houthi fighters to target ships in the Red Sea, the Washington Post has reported, citing unnamed officials. ● The administration of President Joe Biden does not expect a protracted operation such as the US campaigns in Iraq or Afghanistan, but at the same time it cannot provide a timeframe for when Houthi military capabilities will be adequately diminished, the newspaper reported on Saturday. ● Washington’s strategy is to curb the ability of the Shiite militant group to target ships off the coast of Yemen, or at least create safe conditions for shipping companies to resume sending vessels through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, sources added. ● The Houthis have launched dozens of drone and missile attacks on commercial ships in the area in recent months, declaring support for Gaza amid Israel’s military operation in the Palestinian enclave.

■ “Mysterious” incidents in the southern Red Sea.. Who is behind them? (Al Jazeera)

The US and its allies are pushing Kiev towards increasingly reckless steps, Russia’s foreign ministry has said | The shelling by Ukraine of the Russian city of Donetsk on Sunday, which claimed the lives of at least 25 civilians and wounded 20 others, was “a barbaric terrorist act” carried out with the support of the West, Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said. Sunday's bombardment of a busy market in the capital of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic was inflicted with weapons supplied to Kiev by the US and its allies, the ministry said in a statement. 💬 “This again confirms [the West’s] direct involvement in the conflict and makes it complicit in the criminal acts of the Zelensky regime, which has once again displayed its inhumanity and hatred towards innocent people,” it said.

■ Blood of Killed Donetsk Civilians on Those Sending Weapons to Kiev - Lavrov at UNSC (Sputnik News)
■ Kremlin condemns Kiev’s deadly attack on Donetsk market as 'monstrous act of terrorism' (TASS)
■ Donetsk Market Massacre: A Local’s Account (Sputnik News)
■ UN condemns Ukrainian attack that killed 27 civilians in Russian city (RT.com)

Firebrand Israeli parliamentarian says in Israel 'there is an assault on freedom of speech of those who raise voice against the war' | Member of Arab-majority Hadash-Ta’al party argues 'region will explode’ if Israel does not get rid of Netanyahu's 'terrible government. Says he supports ICJ genocide case for impartial investigation of Gaza bombardment; save lives. Terms efforts to expel him from parliament 'persecution and silencing' of those who support peace. ● In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with Anadolu, Cassif said rejection of Israel's military response has led to "an assault on freedom of speech," including death threats. 💬 “People are arrested for tweets and posts, not in support of Hamas, of course, but in supporting ending the war, or before even cease-fire. Students are suspended from the universities and colleges. People are fired from their workplaces. The police are brutally violent towards the demonstrators,” Cassif said. ● “There is an assault on freedom of speech of those who raise voice against the war ... there are death threats. Because it's not only violence from above, from the government from the prime minister, legitimization of the violence against the protesters, of course by [Itamar] Ben Gvir (national security minister) and the police, which unfortunately mostly became a kind of a private militia of Ben Gvir. But it also penetrates the society as a whole. And you can see that within the society, a growing a part of the public supports, literally and explicitly, violence against those who oppose the war, including death threats." Cassif said everyone will pay a "huge price" and the entire "region is going to explode" if Israel does not get rid of the "terrible government" headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)
■ The Expression of Hatred for Gentiles (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

A senior member of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the Israel is collapsing at all levels as the regime is committing the most egregious crimes against humanity. | Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas' political bureau, made the statement on Sunday as he pointed to the latest developments regarding Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. 💬 “The Zionist regime is collapsing by committing the biggest crimes against humanity at the internal, social, military and political levels and, today, has been brought to international courts,” Hamad said, referring to lawsuits lodged by South Africa and Indonesia at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the regime’s rights violations in the Gaza war. “Now, this opportunity has been provided for all Palestinian groups to adopt a firm stance and force the international community to reclaim the rights of our nation.” Hamad also praised South Africa for its “great” position at the Hague-based tribunal and said the move will “go down in history.”

■ 178 Palestinians killed in Gaza in last 24 hours, death toll climbs to 25,105 (Anadolu Ajansi)
■ 94 uni professors, 100s teachers, 1000s students killed by 'Israel' (Al Mayadeen)
■ Local news outlet confirms Israel ordered the “Hannibal directive” on Oct. 7 (Natural News)
■ 'Israel' violently bombs Khan Younis, killing and wounding dozens (Al Mayadeen)
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Berlin has declared itself an expert in mass extermination of people by making the move, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says | Russia is not surprised that Germany has decided to defend Israel in a genocide case in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as unconditional support for the Jewish state is obligatory in Washington’s ‘rules-based international order,’ Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. ● In late December, South Africa brought proceedings against Israel at the ICJ, alleging it had breached the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in its aerial and ground bombardment of Gaza in response to the Hamas cross-border attack on October 7. [...] Berlin has disputed the genocide charge. On January 5, a spokesperson for Germany’s Federal Foreign Office said that Israel’s “targeted action against armed attackers; that is, fighters in an armed conflict, is not action with the intention of destroying an ethnic group.”

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A speaker at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland has called on globalist elites to push for farming to be labeled a “serious crime.” | Speaking from the WEF’s summit at the luxury Swiss ski resort, “Stop Ecocide Now” founder Jojo Mehta argued that fishing and framing should be considered equal to “genocide.” Mehta insisted that fishing and farming for food should be a “serious crime” while arguing that it is immoral to make money from these industries. “We have this cultural, very ingrained habit of not taking damage to nature as seriously as we take damage to people or property,” she told world leaders, bureaucrats, and corporate elites at the event. She continued by claiming that farming, fishing, and presumably hunting, are “mass damage and destruction of nature.”

■ Klaus Schwab: ‘All Humans’ Will ‘Have Implant in Their Brains 10 Years from Now’ (NewsAddict)

The unelected leader of the European Union, Ursula Von Der Leyen, has told members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) that her bloc will help advance the globalist agenda through mass censorship of the general public. | For the global business community, the top concern for the next two years is not conflict or climate, it is disinformation and misinformation, Ursula von der Leyen said. The President of the European Commission said this while giving a “special address” on the second day of the WEF’s annual meeting being held in Davos this week. The theme of the meeting this year is “rebuilding trust,” which is wishful thinking.

■ WEF: Dutch Queen Demands ‘Digital IDs’ Track ‘Vaccination Status’ (Slay News)

A Palestinian family in Gaza says they witnessed the summary execution of 15 men when Israeli soldiers raided their apartment last month. pic.twitter.com/JAhbcXNYO1

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) January 18, 2024

With each passing day, there is growing evidence that Israeli troops are functioning as mobile mass execution parties in Gaza. On Thursday, Al Jazeera published video interviews of residents of an apartment building in Gaza City, where residents said Israeli troops systematically tortured and executed 15 men. Heba Selem, a witness, stated: 💬 “They stripped them of their clothes except for their boxers and forced them to lay on their stomachs on the floor. They started to execute the men on the floor. They didn’t leave anyone. I swear to God, they turned the entire place into a bloodbath. ● “It’s a day you can’t forget, I can’t forget it.” Her husband was killed during the execution. “After they tortured my husband in front of us and they broke his jaw, and beat up his face, they beat him until his arms were bleeding. They stripped all the men, tortured them, and humiliated them, then executed them. That all happened while we watched.”

■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)
■ The Expression of Hatred for Gentiles (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Admiral Rob Bauer urged civilians to prepare for cataclysmic conflicts | A top defence chief has revealed that NATO forces are bracing for an all-out war with Russia in the next two decades. Admiral Rob Bauer, the chairman of NATO's Military Committee urged both civilians and governments to prepare for cataclysmic conflicts and the chilling prospect of being conscripted. 💬 'We have to realise it's not a given that we are in peace. And that's why we [NATO forces] have the plans, that's why we are preparing for a conflict with Russia,' Bauer told reporters after a meeting of NATO defence chiefs in Brussels. ● 'But the discussion is much wider. It is also the industrial base and also the people that have to understand they play a role.' In a stark warning, he said civilians must be ready for a conflict in the next 20 years that would require wholesale change in their lives.

■ NATO has five years to prepare for war with Russia (Estonia) (RT.com)
■ Putin: There Will No Longer BE a “Ukraine” – NATO Direct Intervention Will Not Change Outcome (Medeea Greere)
■ NATO plots escalation of Ukraine war against Russia into all out war across Europe (Johannes Stern, Alex Lantier)

Netanyahu has vehemently denied such claims, blaming Iran for the flow of arms and funds to the Palestinian group | EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has openly accused the Israeli government of funding Hamas, an allegation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied. Borrell did not elaborate on the claim, which has been repeatedly made by opponents of Netanyahu and the Israeli media. Speaking at the University of Valladolid in Spain, Josep Borrell said Hamas “was financed by the Israeli government in an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Authority led by Fatah,” according to El Pais newspaper. Netanyahu has blamed the rise of Hamas on Iran, for supporting the Palestinian militant group “with money, training and weapons and technological know-how” and intelligence.

■ How Israel helped create Hamas (The Washington Post)
■ ‘Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas (The New York Times)

■ EU set to sanction 6 tied to Hamas funding; Borrell: Israel boosted the group (Times of Israel) | The European Union has adopted a dedicated sanctions regime targeting Palestinian "terror group Hamas," a high-ranking EU official said Friday, adding that the first measures would target six people [but not israel] involved in the financing of Hamas.

Israel has killed an Iranian Revolutionary Guards military official in a missile strike on Damascus early on January 20, according to Iranian and Syrian media. | The Israeli strike happened in the Mezzeh neighbourhood of western Damascus, an area known for housing several embassies, including those of Lebanon and Iran, video released on the Aparat page shows. Iran’s hardline Keyhan newspaper Telegram channel reported a “number of Iranian [military advisors] were martyred in the Israeli attack.” Official sources have not yet confirmed the statement. ●&nbspThe strike on the pro-Iranian Syrian capital is part of a broader escalation in the region between Iran and Israeli aggression targets residential building in DamascusIsrael that has rapidly escalated in just the last week, including a large-scale Israeli offensive in Gaza that has resulted in more than 21,000 deaths in three months in Gaza alone.

■ Israeli aggression targets residential building in Damascus (Al Mayadeen)

The “Israeli” regime has ramped up its US-backed aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip despite claims about shifting to a "low-intensity phase" in the months-long genocidal war in the besieged territory. | Palestinian media reported on Saturday a surge in “Israeli” attacks in the south of the Gaza Strip, citing witnesses as saying that the regime’s bombardment was mostly focused overnight on Khan Yunis in the south as well as on Jabalia in the north. Reports said “Israeli” strikes targeted Batn al-Sameen neighborhood in the south of Khan Yunis and violent clashes took place in the vicinity of Nasser Medical Complex. ● Palestine's Shehab news agency said the occupation planes also targeted a house near al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza and a baby boy was recovered alive from under the rubble. ● Palestinian Red Crescent announced that its crews had over the past day “dealt with 10 martyrs and 21 injuries as a result of Zionist bombing that targeted various areas in Jabalia.” ● The Gaza health ministry said on Friday that 142 Palestinians had been martyred and 278 injured in the Strip over the past 24 hours, confirming that the total number of Palestinians martyred since the beginning of the “Israeli” war in early October was over 24,620, in addition to more than 6,1830 injured and thousands missing.

■ Israel continues offensives in Gaza, kills 165 Palestinians, injures 280 more in last 24 hours (Anadolu Ajansi)
■ “Israel” Detains 1000s of Gazans during Aggression (Alahed News)
■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)

An outraged Israeli mom has sparked an uproar after accusing the Israeli army of deliberately gassing her son to death while he was being held in a Gaza tunnel. Now she says the Israeli military had her son’s gravestone removed after her critical message went viral. ● His killing follows a pattern of Israeli military attacks on Israeli captives in Gaza, raising questions about the existence of a friendly fire policy to prevent prisoner swaps. | The mother of a now-dead Israeli soldier captured by Hamas militants on October 7 says it was the Israeli military, not Palestinian resistance fighters, who killed her son. In a recently-published post on Facebook, Israeli mother Maayan Sherman wrote that her son Ron was “indeed murdered – not by Hamas,” but in circumstances more akin to “Auschwitz and the showers.” The killing of her son, she wrote, was caused “not from accidental gunfire, nor from crossfire, but from premeditated murder – bombing with poison gas.”

■ Israel gassed own soldier to death in Gaza tunnel: Mother (PressTV)
■ Mother of captive in Gaza says IOF killed her son, not Hamas (01/18/24)

Eight rodents infected with the pathogen 'surprisingly' died within eight days. Critics of the study said: 'This madness must be stopped before [it is] too late' | Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100 percent lethal in mice — despite concerns such research could spark another pandemic. Scientists in Beijing — who are linked to the Chinese military — cloned a Covid-like virus found in pangolins, known as GX_P2V, and used it to infect mice. ● The mice had been 'humanized', meaning they were engineered to express a protein found in people, with the goal being to assess how the virus might react in humans. Every rodent that was infected with the pathogen died within eight days, which the researchers described as 'surprisingly' quick. ● The team were also surprised to find high levels of viral load in the mice's brains and eyes - suggesting the virus, despite being related to Covid, multiplies and spreads through the body in a unique way. Writing in a scientific paper that has not yet been published, they warned the finding 'underscores a spillover risk of GX_P2V into humans'.

France is sending active duty troops to Ukraine | The French Ambassador was summoned today to the Russian Foreign Ministry. During that meeting, the Ambassador was asked why troops from the French Foreign Legion, and active duty troops from the French Army were in Ukraine to fight the Russian Army and why Russia should not simply declare that France is waging war upon Russia? The Ambassador did not have a good answer. Hal Turner Editorial Opinion: Once again, countries of the collective West are shown to be sneaks and liars. Only this time, they've been caught red-handed and suddenly, the boisterous West has nothing to say. This is quite simple: If active duty military troops from a country's government, are fighting Russians inside Ukraine, then THAT COUNTRY is, de facto, at-war with Russia. There is no wiggle room.

■ Russian MFA summons French envoy over elimination of French mercenaries in Kharkov (TASS)
■ Russia's Medvedev says any UK troop deployment to Ukraine would be a declaration of war (RT.com)(12 Jan, 2024)

62,108 people injured in Israeli onslaught since Oct. 7, says Health Ministry | The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 has climbed to 24,762, the Health Ministry in the territory said Friday. In a statement, the ministry added that 62,108 other people had been injured in the offensive. 💬 “The Israeli occupation committed 12 massacres of families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 142 martyrs and 278 injured during the past 24 hours,” the ministry said. “Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” the statement said. Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people.

■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)

As Israel continues the genocide in Gaza, Gazans wake up every day losing more loved ones. pic.twitter.com/ugyqI3fEJm

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 18, 2024

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared the highly aspirational plan at this year’s World Economic Forum summit in Davos. | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky unveiled a diplomatic proposal to end the long-running conflict in the Donbass region this week, but observers say the controversial leader’s “peace formula” is little more than wishful thinking. 💬 “It is the opposite of a peace formula,” said security analyst Mark Sleboda on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program Thursday. “It is a childish demand for Russian unconditional surrender that Russia should withdraw all of its troops from Ukrainian territory – including Crimea – [and] surrender the people of Crimea and Donbass to the tender mercies of Azov* Neo-Nazis.”

Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement has promised a safe passage for international ships sailing in the Red Sea as the country’s armed forces ramp up their retaliatory operations on “Israeli”-owned and -bound vessels in support of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. | Mohammad al-Bakhiti, a member of Ansarullah’s politburo, made the statement in an interview published by the Russian daily Izvestia on Friday and said the Red Sea was safe so long as ships transiting the strategic waterway were not linked to “Israel”. 💬 “As far as ships from all other countries, including Russia and China, are concerned, their navigation in the region is not under any threat whatsoever,” al-Bakhiti said, noting that “Moreover, we are ready to ensure the safe passage of their ships in the Red Sea, because free navigation plays a significant role for our country.” ● Stressing those operations on vessels “in any way connected with ‘Israel’” will continue, he added, “Ansarullah does not pursue the goal of capturing or sinking this or that sea vessel. Our goal is to raise the economic costs" for the “Israeli” entity "in order to stop the carnage in Gaza.”

■ The Houthis announce the targeting of an American ship in the Gulf of Aden (Teller Report/Al Jazeera)
■ Armed Forces announce targeting American ship "Kim Ranger" (Yemen News Agency)
■ Yemeni Army Targets Another US Ship in Fresh Pro-Palestinian Strike (Alahed News)

Al-Qassam Brigades publishes a new video showing three Israeli captives who were killed by the indiscriminate Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip. | Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, published a new video footage titled "We tried to keep them alive but Netanyahu insisted on killing them," referring to the Israeli occupation’s killing of three Israeli captives held in the Gaza Strip. ● The video depicted three Israeli captives: Elia Tolidano, Nick Beezer, and Ron Sherman, who were being held inside a room in a tunnel. Al-Qassam addressed Israeli settlers saying that these three captives "were killed by your army’s weapons," referring to the indiscriminate bombardment that the Israeli occupation forces have been carrying out across the Gaza Strip. 💬 "The situation is unbearable," [one] captive said, "There is a risk that we will die because there are no guarantees that the Israeli army will not bomb us." In fact, up to 60 Israeli captives have been killed since the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip commenced, some by airstrikes while others were killed by the gunfire of Israeli special forces.

■ Gaza communications still cut off, new Israeli massacres reported (Al Mayadeen)
■ Mexico and Chile refer the situation in Gaza to the International Criminal Court (Teller Report/Al Jazeera)
■ UN expert on Palestine: ‘It is very likely a genocide is being committed in Gaza’ (aNews)
■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)