lsraeli occupation forces kill a 12-year-old girl near Nablus, occupied West Bank. The victim was shot inside her house by an lsraeli snipper who was providing support for lsraeli colonial settlers while carrying out a barbaric attack on Qaryoot village, south of Nablus city. pic.twitter.com/FQiYXl4bqo

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) September 6, 2024

In his poignant report to the UN General Assembly, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food highlights the severe humanitarian crisis unfolding in the besieged territory. | A UN expert has accused "Israel" of conducting a "starvation campaign" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, warning that the entity is weaponizing humanitarian aid to inflict harm on residents of the besieged area. ● In a report presented to the UN General Assembly this week, Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, stated that since the Israeli military aggression against Gaza began in early October of the previous year, the flow of food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies has been severely restricted.

💬 "By December, Palestinians in Gaza made up 80 percent of the people in the world experiencing famine or catastrophic hunger," Fakhri stressed. ● He further noted, "Never in post-war history had a population been made to go hungry so quickly and so completely as was the case for the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza."

Fakhri also highlighted that reports of the destruction of Gaza’s food system have been received since the Israeli aggression began, with documentation provided by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other sources. He emphasized that “Israel then used humanitarian aid as a political and military weapon to harm and kill the Palestinian people in Gaza.”

Kiev is sitting on a “trillion dollars’ worth of minerals” that are “good” for the US economy, US Senator Lindsey Graham says | US Senator Lindsey Graham has openly said Washington needs Ukraine’s natural resources and that, therefore, military aid to the country must continue until Kiev is able to “win” its conflict with Russia. ● The South Carolina Republican, one of the top backers of Kiev within the US establishment, made the remarks on Friday in Kiev, speaking alongside leader Vladimir Zelensky. He praised the Ukrainians and their purported resolve to fight Moscow no matter what, noting that this means that Americans themselves don’t have to do this, only to provide the weaponry.

💬 “They [the Ukrainians] are sitting on a trillion dollars’ worth of minerals that could be good to our economy. So, I w nt to keep helping our friends in Ukraine. We can win this. They need our help,” Graham stated.

[...] Graham’s new admission matches the assessment of the US motives recently outlined by Russia’s ex-president and the incumbent deputy chair of the National Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev. Last week, Medvedev claimed both Kiev and its Western backers have been focused on holding their grip on Donbass solely over its natural-resource riches.

💬 “According to open-source data, the total value of Ukraine’s former mineral resource base is estimated at almost $14.8 trillion, but $7.3 trillion of this is now in the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics. That means almost half of the former Ukraine’s national wealth is in Donbass!” Medvedev explained in a lengthy Telegram post. “To get access to the coveted minerals, the Western parasites shamelessly demand that their wards wage war to the last Ukrainian. They are already directly voicing such intent without hesitation,” Russia’s former leader added.

■ Graham urges more aid to 'trillion dollars’ worth of minerals' Ukraine (Al Mayadeen)
■ Assets worth 12 trillion: US Senator Graham named the reason for supporting Ukraine (06/10/24)
■ The Increase in Ukrainian Casualties (Glenn Diesen)

Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Дмитрий Медведев) |Donald Trump has taken offense and is threatening to lift sanctions on Russia. Will he lift them if elected? | No, of course not. For all his apparent "non-systemicity", Trump is ultimately a systemic figure. Yes, he is a flamboyant narcissist, but he is also a pragmatist. As a businessman, Trump realises that sanctions are hurting the dollar's dominance in the world. But not so much that he would stage a revolution in the US and go against the anti-Russian line of the notorious deep state, which is far more powerful than any Trump. ■ And what about Harris? All the more reason not to expect any surprises from her. She is inexperienced and, as her detractors claim, just plain stupid. She will be prepared with nice, meaningless speeches and boring, correct answers to questions that she will read from a teleprompter whilst laughing infectiously. ■ Sanctions against the USSR were in place all through the 20th century. They have returned in the XXI Century on an unprecedented scale. Therefore, for all of us, sanctions are forever. Or rather, until the US implodes in an inevitable new civil war. After all, Hollywood makes movies about it 😂 for a reason. (Translation: DeepL + DeepL Write)

■ Trump Jokingly 'Very Offended' by Putin's Endorsement of Harris (Sputnik News)

Shiite movement Ansar Allah (the Houthis) ruling northern Yemen s shot down US reconnaissance drone MQ-9 Reaper in northwestern Yemen, which was carrying out reconnaissance over Marib province, the eighth since last fall, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria said on Saturday.

💬 "An American MQ-9 drone was shot down while carrying out enemy missions in the skies over Marib province. This drone was the eighth aircraft of this type shot down during the battle and holy jihad in support of Gaza," Saria told Al-Masirah broadcaster.

Earlier, Ansar Allah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi threatened to expand operations against Israel and Western countries supporting it on land. He stressed that "enemies will be caught off guard on land just as they were caught off guard at sea with the help of new technologies that will help to harm them." Al-Houthi also said that the response to the Israeli bombing of the port of Hodeidah in western Yemen is approaching.

Military-technical cooperation between Russia and Mongolia includes the supply of weapons to Ulaanbaatar and the training of military personnel, currently Russia has already trained 340 Mongolian soldiers, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said on Tuesday.

💬 "The supply of weapons and military equipment, repair, maintenance, modernization," Fomin outlined the areas of cooperation, adding "... we are cooperating on the military-technical line. And in the military as well. We teach. We have already trained about 340 people this year."

One of the training sites for Mongolian military personnel is the presidential cadet school in Kyzyl, the official said. ● Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Mongolia at Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh's invitation on Monday to attend celebrations of the 85th anniversary of the Soviet-Mongol victory over militarist Japan on the Khalkhin Gol River.

■ Asian nation told ICC to ‘get lost’ with Putin warrant – Medvedev (09/04/24)
■ Putin invites Mongolian president to BRICS summit (09/03/24 )