■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainess Affairs Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club have confirmed the martyrdom of prisoner Mohammad Al-Sabbar, the eighth Palestinian to die in “Israeli” prisons since October 7. | The Committee and the Palestinian Prisoner's Club confirmed that Al-Sabbar, a 21-year-old from Al-Dhaheriya, Al-Khalil, was martyred in the “Israeli” “Ofer” prison. ● Al-Sabbar had been detained since May 2022 and has been deprived of medical treatment in the “Israeli” prison as he was suffering from health issues related to the stomach and intestines which required him to need treatment and specific dietary needs. ● A statement by both committees indicated that although he was arrested nearly 2 years ago, the brutality of the “Israeli” occupation forces was multiplied after October 7 and Al-Sabbar was denied essential treatment.

■ War on Gaza: Anger grows over viral image of wounded Palestinian stripped to underwear (02/07/24)
■ ‘Torture was severe’: Gaza doctor recounts ordeal in Israeli captivity (02/06/24)

The United States President Joe Biden stressed that “Israel’s” military response to the October 7 operation by Hamas in Gaza was “over the top”. | “I’m of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip, has been over the top,” he told reporters at the White House. Biden highlighted his efforts on reaching the long-awaited deal and a sustained pause in fighting: “There are a lot of innocent people who are starving, a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and dying, and it’s gotta stop.”

■ Israel killing too many civilians – US (RT.com)

Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip is now in its fifth month, with the focus of onslaught being the southern city of Rafah, which hosts more than half of the Palestinian population. | Israeli troops and warplanes bombed areas in Rafah on Thursday. Tanks shelled some areas in the eastern part of the city. ● The health ministry said at least 27,840 people have been killed in the territory since Israel began its war in October. The latest toll includes 130 deaths over the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said, while a total of 67,317 people have been wounded in Gaza since October 7. ● Also in Rafah, mourners wept over the bodies of those killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood.

■ Israeli Troops to Attack Rafah as the UN Warns of ‘Large-Scale Loss of Civilian Life’ (The Libertarian Institute)
■ Biden: ‘Israel’s’ Response in Gaza Over the Top (Alahed News)

Julian Assange will soon find out whether he will be granted a final appeal in the U.K. in his fight against extradition, or will soon face the cruel vengeance of the U.S., says Mary Kostakidis. | In Julian Assange’s extradition case, Magistrate Judge Venessa Baraitser determined he would not survive imprisonment in a U.S. Supermax facility – that he is very likely to commit suicide. ● One of the final witnesses in the 4 week extradition trial in 2020 was an American lawyer whose client Abu Hamza was held in ADX Colorado where Julian is likely to be sent. Abu Hamza has no hands. He was extradited from the U.K. following assurances by the U.S. that the prison system was able to deal with the special requirements of such a prisoner. ● His lawyer testified that despite assurances he would not be placed in total isolation, that is indeed where he was kept, under Special Administrative Measures, and the U.S. had also failed to delivered on other undertakings to protect his human rights – he did not have a toilet in his cell he could operate – he was stripped of all dignity, contrary to guarantees.

During the interview, Putin stated that Ukraine decided to terminate its negotiations with Russia at the request of the US. | On Thursday, American journalist Tucker Carlson aired his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, marking the first occasion of a Western journalist conducting such an interview since the launch of the special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022.

■ Putin-Carlson interview: FULL TRANSCRIPT (2nd Smartest Guy in the World)
■ Tucker Carlson streams interview with Vladimir Putin (full conversation) (RT.com) - VIDEO
■ Tucker Carlson’s Exclusive Interview with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow – Partial Transcript Released (SOTN)
■ Talks on Ukraine and Elon Musk: What Putin spoke about in interview with Carlson (TASS)
■ Russia’s goal is to stop war unleashed by Ukraine in 2014, says Putin (TASS)
■ Tucker-Putin Interview to Erode Funding Crusade for US Proxy Conflict in Ukraine – Ex-CIA Agent (Sputnik News)
■ Ukraine is ‘artificial state’ – Putin (RT.com)
■ Clinton attacks Carlson over Putin interview (RT.com)

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan army, said in a statement that 12 people, including 10 security forces and law enforcement agencies personnel, were killed and 39 others were injured in these attacks that took place mostly in the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and southwest Balochistan provinces. | "With the deployment of 137,000 army personnel and civil armed forces at approximately 6,000 selected most sensitive polling stations and over 7,800 quick response force teams, a safe and secure environment for the public was ensured," said the ISPR. During various operations, five terrorists were also killed, it added.