Warsaw covets its “historic lands,” the Russian president has claimed | Any attempt to send Polish troops into Ukraine could end in a long-term occupation, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned in an extensive interview with journalist Dmitry Kiselyov, set to be aired by the Russia 1 TV broadcaster and RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

💬 “If Polish troops enter the territory of Ukraine in order to, as they say, secure the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, for example, or in some other places to free up Ukrainian rear military units to participate in hostilities on the front line, then I think that Polish troops will never leave,” Putin said, according to excerpts from the interview.

The deployment of NATO troops to Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia is “not unthinkable,” Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski claimed last week. He was commenting on a statement by French President Emmanuel Macron, who said late last month that he “cannot exclude” the possibility of soldiers from the US-led military bloc being sent to aid Kiev. Putin believes that Polish officials dream of returning...

💬 “...those lands that they consider historically their own, and which were taken from them by… Joseph Stalin, and transferred to Ukraine.” “They certainly want them back. So if official Polish units enter there, they are unlikely to leave,” he claimed.

■ Poland's Foreign Minister Says The Presence Of Nato Troops In Ukraine Is 'NOT Unthinkable' (Daily Courier)
■ NATO has secret agenda for troops in Ukraine – Russia (RT.com)
■ ‘Your vampire ball is over’ – Putin to Western elites (RT.com)
■ Vladimir Putin Holds Interview With Rossiya Segodnya Chief Kiselev (Sputnik News)
■ Интервью президента РФ Владимира Путина Дмитрию Киселеву. Стенограмма и видео (RG.ru)
■ Западные аналитики считают, что на самом деле будет так (рис. 2). (Дмитрий Медведев)

Hezbollah on Tuesday pounded Israeli sites with more than hundred rockets in response to the Zionist aggression on Bekaa a day earlier. | In a statement, Hezbollah Military Media declared that the Islamic Resistance fighters fired, at 07:00 am on Tuesday, the command headquarters of the air and missile defense in Kela Barracks and the missile and artillery base in Yoav, as well as the surrounding emplacements in the area with over a hundred Katyusha rockets. The statement stressed that the strike was “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza and the brave and honorable resistance, and in response to the Israeli assaults against our people, villages, and cities, most recently in the vicinity of Baalbek city which resulted in the martyrdom of a citizen.” Al-Manar correspondent reported that several barrages of rockets were fired from Lebanon at Golan Heights and Galilee Panhandle. The rocket barrages were also reported by activists on social media, with photos and videos being posted. For its part, Israeli media reported that some 100 rockets were fired from Lebanon.

■ Hezbollah attacks two Israeli bases with 100 rockets (Dawn.com)
■ Officials’ Remarks about War with Hezbollah Make Israelis Hold Their Breath: Zionist Analysts (Al Manar TV)
■ Hezbollah rocket attacks trigger Israeli economic collapse (Albawaba.com)

The Iranian foreign minister says the continuation of the Israeli regime’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip in the holy fasting month of Ramadan sounds the alarm about the “most unprecedented disaster of the century.” | Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a letter addressed to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the head of the UN Security Council, the secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as well as the foreign ministers of Islamic countries and other states across the world. ● Pointing to the months-long Israeli war on Gaza, the top Iranian diplomat censured the United Nations Security Council’s inability to stop the brutal aggression on the Palestinian territories and called for “serious measures” to help people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. ● Abdollahian denounced the continued inability of the UNSC to stop the war against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank due to the US's prevention of the council's effective actions through excessive resort to the "right of veto." ● He asserted that, 💬 “With the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, it is absolutely necessary for the international community to find practical ways and take serious measures to support the Palestinian people, immediately stop the military attacks against the Gaza Strip and find a way out of the current dire situation.” The Iranian foreign minister also underlined that the Israel regime “deliberately” pursues the policy of the complete destruction of Gaza by imposing a total siege on the Palestinian territory. ● Israel began the genocidal war on October 7, 2023, after Hamas-led Palestinian resistance groups carried out Operation al-Aqsa Storm against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

■ Israeli rabbi calls for genocide of all Palestinians in Gaza (Al Mayadeen)
■ Israel’s ‘war on children’ kills more children than in four years of worldwide conflict (PressTV)
■ UNRWA: ‘Israel’s’ War on Gaza Children Kills more Children than in Four years of Worldwide Conflict (Alahed News)
■ IOF assaulted and humiliated Gaza medics after hospital raid: BBC (Al Mayadeen)
■ In 157 days, 'Israel' detained 7,530 Palestinians in West Bank (Al Mayadeen)
■ “Shocking” Israeli violence in occupied West Bank (Ali Karbalaei)
■ War on Gaza: The Discovery of a Mass Grave (02/10/24)
■ UNICEF: “Number of children killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, reaches unprecedented levels”

Meir Baruchin, a senior history and civics teacher, dismissed from his job due to his social media posts related to Palestinians | An Israeli teacher said that since Israel has waged a military offensive on the Gaza Strip following an Oct. 7 cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas, the Israeli society has been increasingly pushed to the far right and that there has been a growing crackdown on those speaking out against the persecution faced by Palestinians. ● In the aftermath of Oct. 7, Israeli law enforcement and judiciary have detained dozens of Palestinians and issued detention orders against them due to their social media posts. The pressure exerted by the Israeli police on social media is not limited to Palestinians alone. ● In an interview with Anadolu, Meir Baruchin, a senior history and civics teacher who was dismissed from his job due to his social media posts related to Palestinians, shared his legal struggle against the Israeli authorities and the pressures he faced.

■ Israeli teacher who was locked up and persecuted for opposing war on Gaza speaks up (02/11/24)