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— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) August 31, 2024

A high-ranking official with the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says the six Israeli captives found dead in a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip were killed in Israeli airstrikes against the besieged coastal territory. |

💬 “The ones who kill our people daily are the Israeli colonizers with American weapons. The captives found in Gaza were not killed by us but by the relentless Zionist bombardment,” Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the political bureau of Hamas, said in a statement on Sunday. He further criticized the United States, saying,

💬 “If President [Joe] Biden truly cares about the lives of Israeli hostages, he should cease his support for this enemy with money and weapons and pressure Israel to end its aggression immediately.”

Rishq emphasized that Hamas had been more concerned about the lives of the hostages than Biden himself, citing Hamas’s agreement to a ceasefire proposal and the UN Security Council’s resolution, both of which were rejected by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ■ Earlier on Sunday, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesperson, alleged that Hamas murdered the six captives, whose bodies were found inside a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

■ Resheq holds Israel and US responsible for captives’ death in Gaza (PalInfo)
■ Hamas: Two more Israeli captives killed by regime bombing (PressTV)
■ Aid workers killed in Israeli strike on humanitarian convoy (MEE)
■ 22 Palestinians martyred in Jenin, Tubas and Tulkarem (Mehr News)
■ By day 331 of Israeli genocide in Gaza: 40,738 killed, 94,154 injured (Al Mayadeen)

Polio vaccination for Palestinian children in Gaza has started amid Israel's persistent military attacks, with the campaign aided by temporary ceasefires to allow healthcare workers to administer vaccines. | A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said on Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave and the occupied West Bank reeled from Israel's military attacks. A small number of children in Gaza received vaccine doses a day before the large-scale rollout and limited pauses in the fighting agreed to by Israel and the UN World Health Organization.

■ Live: Israel’s assault on Jenin intensifies as Gaza bombing continues (MEE)

AI RAID SIRENS are activated in the Lipetsk region of Russia! At the same time, residents can hear Ukrainian drones flying over the city. Russian air defenses are engaging. | Air alerts in Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Bryansk, Oryol, Lipetsk and Volgograd regions of Russia. The shrapnel of shells seriously riddled an apartment building, with a store and pharmacy on the ground floor suffering the most damage.

 ● Massive Ukrainian UAV strikes on Russia, some Russian sources say the biggest Ukrainian attack so far.
 ● A Ukrainian drone flies over Baskakovo in the Tula region of Russia just now!
 ● Ukrainian drones are being intercepted over the city of Belgorod in Russia.
 ● Ukrainian drone intercepted on path to Moscow!

Russian air defenses destroyed a Ukrainian drone headed towards the capital in the airspace over Podolsk in the Moscow region of Russia.

■ Russian air defenses repel large-scale Ukrainian drone attack – MOD (RT.com)
■ Nine drones taken down on approaches to Moscow — mayor (TASS)

Foreign Minister Szijjártó sat down for three hours with the CEO of the Russian energy giant. | Less than 24 hours after clashing with the EU’s foreign policy chief at a meeting of EU foreign ministers, Hungary’s top diplomat Péter Szijjártó made a surprise trip to Russia. ■ The foreign minister sat down with the head of state-owned energy giant Gazprom on Friday, the day after a Foreign Affairs Council meeting where Hungary’s position on the war in Ukraine and its simplified immigration program for Russians and Belarusians were challenged by his colleagues. [...] After his three-hour meeting with Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller — who has been sanctioned by the United States and United Kingdom for his role in supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine — Szijjártó wrote that Hungary’s energy security “cannot be guaranteed” without Russian gas.

The activist is being charged over two speeches that he made, Palestine Action said on social media | Richard Barnard, the cofounder of pro-Palestinian activist group, Palestine Action, was charged under the Terrorism Act by UK police on 29 August. ■ Barnard is being accused of “expressing an opinion that is supportive of a proscribed organization contrary to section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000.” He also faces two charges of encouragement or intention to encourage criminal damage. A hearing will be held at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 18 September. ■ The charges against Barnard originate from a probe launched by the UK Counter Terrorism Policing North West (CTPNW) unit into a protest held on 8 October, one day after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, in Manchester.

Ian DeMartino | On Monday, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was detained in France immediately upon landing in the country. He was eventually charged with a litany of crimes, including “importing a cryptology tool.” It is only the latest attack in a war against privacy that goes back more than three decades. | The 90s – In late January 1991, a then 48-year-old senator from Delaware named Joe Biden, introduced Senate Bill 266: the Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act of 1991. Buried in the last third of the proposed bill’s text was a section on “electronic communications” that imposed requirements for providers of electronic communication services. Essentially, SB266 would have required companies to create backdoors to enable the government to snoop on their customers, making it impossible to have truly private conversations digitally.

From using pepper spray to assault and arbitrary arrests, security personnel in Germany are adopting brutal tactics against minors and women during peaceful demonstrations. | For Bosnian-Croat mother Amina, the German police’s use of unnecessary force is something she has grown used to in every pro-Palestine protest she has attended in Berlin. ■ But even then, she was not prepared for the kind of brutality unleashed by the force last week on a group of people demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israel’s war on Palestinians that has killed more than 40,000 people since last October.

Doctors in Germany are now facing a crackdown from the government if they refuse to push experimental Covid mRNA shots onto their patients. | The first German doctor to be hit with punishment was fined 2,500 euros ($2,799 USD) for warning about people dying due to the Covid mRNA injections in 2021. ■ Dr. Heidi Göldner declared she was “stunned” by the decision from the State Medical Association. Instead of standing behind doctors and supporting them in the exercise of their oath, the medical board stabbed them in the back. ■ As Apollo News reported, Dr. Heidi Göldner of Braunfels in the federal state of Hessen posted a written note in her practice in the fall of 2021 warning about the dangers of the experimental shots.

💬 “Dear patients, due to repeated inquiries: Due to the disproportionately high number of sometimes serious side effects and the more than 40 (more likely 50) deaths in connection with COVID-19 vaccinations experienced in the local community, I will continue not to carry out Covid-19 vaccinations in my practice!”

In response, the Hessen Medical Association initiated legal proceedings against Dr. Göldner. The Association stressed that it would investigate all complaints against doctors who allegedly make “false claims” about the COVID-19 jabs.