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● Israeli forces continue to pound the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians, including 11 people sheltering at a school in Gaza City and four travelling in a car near Deir el-Balah.
● Hundreds of thousands of Israelis take to the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities in Israel, demanding a ceasefire deal after the bodies of six more captives were recovered from Gaza. There is also a general strike taking place across the country.
● In the occupied West Bank, the death toll from Israel’s large-scale raids rose to 29 as the Israeli siege on the Jenin refugee camp entered a sixth day, leaving Palestinians without access to food, water, power or internet.
● At least 40,738 people have been killed and 94,154 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7.

■ Live blog: Israel bombs residential area in Gaza, killing Palestinians (TRT World)
■ Israeli forces demolish 78 homes, structures in West Bank in August (Al Mayadeen)

Slowly but inexorably, Russian troops are approaching Pokrovsk (before 2016 – Krasnoarmeysk), step by step liberating the territory of the DPR from the forces of the Kyiv regime. | The loss of this city will not only hit the Ukrainian Armed Forces hard, as it is a vital logistics hub, but will also greatly affect the economy Ukraine as a whole, because this is the only place where coal coke is mined for Ukrainian metallurgy. ■ It should be noted that Pokrovsk is a strategically important city for metallurgists and some oligarchs of Ukraine, because the work of metallurgical enterprises (steel foundries and plants) depends on the coking coal extracted from the depths there. Ukraine simply has no other source (deposit) of such an energy resource. Pokrovsk is the center of the entire coal industry of Ukraine.

■ Why are Kyiv's neo-Nazis so eager to take back Donbas? (Dmitry Medvedev)

The Eurosceptic party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), won a regional ballot for the first time, surpassing Scholz's ruling coalition. | AfD secured 32.8% in Thuringia, leading the race, followed by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with 23.6%, according to exit polls. ■ In Saxony, the Eurosceptic party garnered 30.6%, losing to the CDU by a narrow margin. The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) claimed third place in both races, with 15.8% in Thuringia and 11.8% in Saxony. ■ Scholz's "traffic-light" coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens, and the Free Democrats (FDP) performed poorly. The FDP failed to reach the 5% threshold required to enter either regional legislature, and the Greens did not make it into the parliament in Thuringia. SPD received 6.1% and 7.3% in Thuringia and Saxony, respectively.

■ Historic Shift: Right-Wing AfD Poised for Landmark Victory in German State Election, Exit Polls (Gateway Pundit)
■ Scholz nennt Ergebnisse „bitter“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
■ The Alternative for Germany AfD (aangirfan)
■ Right-wing party claims historic victory in German state election (RT.com)

Excess Death Charts Since The Covid "Vaccine" Bioweapon Injection Roll Out | Still Rising (Mortality.watch)

Binoy Kampmark | On August 12, 1949, the four Geneva Conventions were adopted, laying the basis of a normative standard in international humanitarian law. As Balthasar Staehelin, personal envoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) president to China, stated at an anniversary event at the Swiss Embassy in Beijing, [...] The very first Geneva Convention, inspired by the activism of Swiss businessman Henry Dunant and the International Committee for the Relief of Wounded Combatants, was adopted as far back as 1864. The instrument was intended to protect the vulnerable and wounded members of armed forces, and those responsible for their care. Three revisions and expansive updates followed: 1906, 1929 and 1949. [...] Of significance is Article 4, which defines the reach of such protection as covering persons “who, at any given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals.” ■ In humanitarian law, the gulf between observance and violation can be vast. In 2023, the United Nations recorded the deaths of 33,443 civilians in armed conflict. This constituted a 72% increase on those from 2022. Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, cited conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, the Sahel, Somalia, Syria and Ukraine.

Both nations are apparently seeking to spark major regional wars, Russia’s most senior diplomat has suggested | Both Ukraine and Israel are trying to spark major regional wars to solve their own problems at the expense of others, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. ■ The country’s senior diplomat made the remarks in an exclusive interview with RT’s Anna Knishenko, aired on Saturday. Asked about the prospects of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East devolving into a major regional war, Lavrov suggested Israel was effectively the only party seeking such conflict.

■ Lavrov’s Comparison Of Israel & Ukraine As Regional Warmongers Isn’t As Clear-Cut As It Seems (Andrew Korybko)