Ilana Mercer | The totem words and adjectives we use to describe Israel, a perverse and pornographically murderous society, fail. One day flows into the next, each indistinguishable in the level of sadistic torture and carnage dreamed up by the IDF Einsatzgruppen. | The crimes of genocide, the making and mass-marketing of online snuff films featuring murdered Palestinians, and the commission of extra-judicial assassination the globe over—these Israel has already de facto legalized in what passes for law in that thugocracy. By the Middle East Monitor’s telling,

💬 “A Gaza detainee allegedly sexually abused by Israeli soldiers at Sde Teiman … suffered ‘a ruptured bowel, a severe injury to his anus, lung damage and broken ribs’ as a result of the immense torture he was subjected to by Israeli occupation soldiers. …One of the nine Israeli soldiers arrested for abusing him was released without charge. Deliberations about the other eight are continuing.”

■ Israel Learns of a Hidden Shame in Its Early Years (Chris McGreal)

Massive destruction captured at Hamad City in Khan Yunis after lsraeli occupation forces withdraw from the area. pic.twitter.com/XuCmA38qWs

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) August 24, 2024

Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance conducted multiple operations on Saturday, striking several Israeli occupation sites and intensifying strikes on spy equipment with rockets and attack drones. | First Operation: The initial statement reported that at 08:30 on Saturday morning, August 24, 2024, the Islamic Resistance fighters directly struck a gathering of Zionist soldiers at the Harmon Israeli site using an attack drone. Second Operation: The second statement reported that, at 12:00 pm., Hezbollah’s fighters targeted the Al-Raheb Israeli occupation site, with artillery shells achieving a direct hit. Third Operation: According to the third statement, at 12:15 pm, the group’s fighters targeted the spy equipment at the Al-Raheb site with a suicide bomber and hit it directly. Fourth Operation: At 10:15 a.m., Hezbollah fighters targeted Zionist soldiers deployed around the Misgav Am Israeli occupation site with appropriate weapons, scoring a direct hit. Fifth Operation: Aerial Attack - The fifth statement declared that in response to the Israeli enemy’s attacks on steadfast southern villages and peaceful homes, Islamic Resistance fighters launched an aerial attack on Saturday using an explosive-laden drone. The attack targeted the newly established command headquarters of the Western Brigade, located south of the Ya’ara Israeli settlement, precisely hitting the positions of its officers and soldiers. Sixth Operation: The sixth statement indicated that at 2:10 p.m., the group’s fighters targeted a deployment of enemy soldiers around the Hadab Yaroun site with artillery shells, achieving a direct hit. Seventh Operation: According to the seventh statement, at 4:45 p.m., Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Al-Ramtha Israeli site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shuba hills with rockets, scoring a direct hit. Hezbollah’s military media eighth statement reported that at 4:40 p.m. on Saturday, Islamic Resistance fighters targeted the Zibdin Israeli occupation site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with rockets, achieving a direct hit. At 5:15 p.m., the group’s fighters carried out their ninth operation of the day by directly targeting a deployment of enemy soldiers at the Bayad Blida Israeli site with appropriate weapons. The tenth statement declared that at 5:25 p.m., the fighters targeted a gathering of Zionist soldiers in the vicinity of the Hanita Israeli site with artillery shells. The eleventhth statement for the day reported that at 7:10 p.m. on Saturday, Hezbollah fighters targeted a military intelligence unit and war force near the Al-Raheb Israeli site with rockets, achieving a direct hit.

■ Ex-minister of military affairs: Israel lost war in north to Hezbollah (PressTV)
■ Hezbollah: Mission Complete, Sayyed Nasrallah to Refute Israeli Claims in Later Speech (Mehr News)
■ Hezbollah drone hits Israeli warship, leaves casualties (Mehr News)
■ Lebanon’s Hezbollah paralyzes Ben Gurion airport (Mehr News)
■ 10 foreign airlines cancel flights to Israel amid cross-border escalation with Hezbollah (Anadolu)
■ Au moins trois morts dans des frappes israéliennes sur le Liban-Sud | Notre direct (L'Orient-Le Jour)
■ Israel launches massive strikes on southern Lebanon (Anadolu)
■ The Zionist Entity Was Never Prepared For A War Of Attrition (Robert Inlakesh)

The Russian billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, was arrested on Saturday evening upon arrival at Le Bourget Airport in Paris, according to French TV channel TF1. | The 39-year-old businessman, who has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was reportedly met by police officers at around 8pm on Saturday after flying to the French capital on his private jet from Azerbaijan. ● According to the French authorities, Durov, who is estimated to be worth €13.9 billion by Forbes, is being charged as an accomplice to crimes including drug trafficking, fraud, terrorism and crimes against children over Telegram’s alleged “lack of moderation and cooperation with law enforcement’, as well for Telegram’s use of disposable numbers, and for allowing cryptocurrency transfers that cannot be monitored by the authorities. ● The arrest has surprised many, as Durov had long proven himself to be a canny operator in terms of ensuring his personal safety, leaving Russia in 2014 when he refused demands by Russian intelligence services to censor the VK social media platform, which he owned at the time. Since 2017, Durov and Telegram have been based in Dubai. [...] Neither Durov nor Telegram has either confirmed his arrest or commented on it. However, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Sunday that Russian diplomats in Paris were working to learn more about Durov’s arrest.

■ Snowden slams Macron for taking Telegram's Durov 'hostage' (Al Mayadeen)
■ US trampling on free speech – David Sacks on Durov’s arrest (RT.com)
■ RE.: задержание российских граждан местными властями (Maria Zakharova)
■ Durov’s detention raises question if Western NGOs demand his release — diplomat (TASS)
■ Elon Musk believes Europeans to be executed for social media likes soon (TASS)
■ #FreePavel: Elon Musk reacts to Durov’s arrest (RT.com)
■ ‘Darkness descending’: Tucker Carlson reacts to reports of Durov’s arrest (RT.com)
■ US is behind Durov’s arrest – senior Russian official (RT.com)
■ Censorship, Suppression of Free Speech at Heart of Telegram Crackdown – Ex-CIA Analyst (Sputnik News)
■ 'Demons are Losing Control': Influencers React to Pavel Durov's Detainment (Ekatrina Blinova)

Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Дмитрий Медведев) | Some time ago, quite some time ago, I asked Durov why he didn't want to cooperate with law enforcement on serious crimes. "This is my principled position," he stated. "Then there will be serious problems in any country," I told him. ■ He thought he had the biggest problems in Russia, and left, then got citizenship/residence permits in other states. He wanted to be a brilliant "man of the world" living perfectly without a homeland. Ubi bene ibi patria! ■ He miscalculated. For all our common enemies now, he is Russian - and therefore unpredictable and dangerous. Of a different blood. Certainly not Musk or Zuckerberg (btw., actively cooperating with the FBI). Durov should finally realize that the Fatherland, like the times, cannot be chosen...(DeepL + Grammarly)

Paul Craig Roberts | We can add Richard Medhurst to Tulsi Gabbard, Scott Ritter, Amb. Craig Murray, Julian Assange, and many others who are harassed, arrested, imprisoned by police state authorities in the US, UK, EU, and Canada for practicing the disappearing profession of journalism. | When Richard Medhurst can be arrested in a London airport for “expressing an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organization,” we know freedom is dead and journalism no longer exists. All that Western journalists are permitted to do today is to support the official lies in the official narratives that are used to construct the false reality in which we live. ■ We no longer have the BBC, the New York Times, the London Times, ABC, NBC, CBS to hold government accountable. What we have are propaganda ministries that support official narratives. The job of the Western media is to lie to the people in behalf of the establishment that rules them.

A pro-life activist who was arrested for quietly praying outside of an abortion clinic has been paid approximately $17,000 USD from the West Midlands Police in Birmingham, England, according to Fox News. | After the arrest she filed a claim accusing the police of false imprisonment, assault and wrongful arrest. She was detained for allegedly violating a Public Space Protection Order, the police said at the time. The women, UK March for Life Director Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, said:

💬 "Clearly, I'm delighted to have this, but there's almost a bit of déjà vu. While I'm saying I'm delighted, I feel vindicated." "I remember saying something similar when I came out of court, after having to go to court over being arrested and yet, two weeks later [after being acquitted], I was arrested again for my silent prayers. So, I do hope that the police have finally learned a lesson that silent prayer is not and can never be a criminal activity," she continued. "I think the bigger point is that I shouldn't have had to go to these lengths to be getting some kind of an apology or payout from the police. That wasn't what I wanted to do. I just want fair treatment, and I think that would be the case with all Christians, with all pro-lifers. We just want some fairness and some justice to happen. We shouldn't have to be threatening to go to court," she said.