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The Wafa news agency reports that today in Jerusalem Israeli police shut down access for Muslims to al-Aqsa mosque. It says: “Authorities tightened entry into the mosque since the morning, where only the elderly were allowed to enter. However, this quickly changed and all worshippers of all ages were denied entry into al-Aqsa mosque, which was an unusual move not taken for months.” It reports that Jewish residents wishing to pray within the compound were allowed entry, “in violation of the status quo”, which has been that the compound is only available for Muslim worship. x

Kinda fascinating how so many of the "so much for the tolerant left" conservatives suddenly think it's completely fine to kill someone for being homophobic all of a sudden (here referring to people that argue the genocide in Gaza is okeydokey, because palestinians are about as LGBTQ-friendly as the average american)

Baltic Pagan is instant

I might misrember things but didnt American POWs complained about horrible conditions and then it was revealed that was just the living standard of vietnam thanks to the war?

The war’s toll so far:

Live updates: Israeli planes strike targets as US seeks more time to free hostages | AP News

Fucking hell

🟢⚫️🔴♦️🟩 Statement issued by the Palestinian forces: Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement), Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command:

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The five Palestinian powers held a leadership meeting, in Beirut, today, Saturday, October 28, 2023, to discuss the course of Al-Aqsa Flood Battle with the zionist enemy and its brutal aggression against the Gaza Strip.

In their statement, the five powers saluted the martyrs of our Palestinian people and our steadfast and proud people in the Gaza Strip who are facing an organized campaign of extermination, stressing that they are the people of pride, dignity and steadfastness and that they are the people of victory who are loyal to their cause and their homeland, and [the Palestinian forces] pledged to them to continue on the path of resistance until victory is achieved over the zionist enemy.

The attendees affirmed the following:

• This heroic epic is the battle of the entire Palestinian people, which they are waging in defense of their land, their sanctities, their existence, and their right to freedom, against a barbaric enemy that does not spare any of our people from its crimes. It targets hospitals, mosques, churches, universities, and ambulances, and cuts off electricity, water, fuel, the Internet, and cellular communications for our besieged people.

• Adhering to national unity is a main pillar in confronting the zionist war of genocide against our people, as well as rejecting the enemy’s attempts to divide our people or monopolize any part of it. We stress unifying efforts and closing ranks in this fateful battle.

• We call on the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation and the free people of the world to continue their movements to stop the American-zionist aggression, open the border crossings, bring in humanitarian aid and fuel, and remove the wounded from the Gaza Strip.

• We salute the resistance forces in our nation, especially in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran, and we affirm that our Palestinian people are not alone in this battle.

• We hold the United States of America fully responsible for the war of genocide against our people as it chose to support, escalate, and participate in the war of genocide against our people, which requires a strong response from the Arab and Islamic countries as well as countries friendly to our people to stop this ongoing massacre of our Palestinian people.

• We demand the opening of the Rafah crossing and the entry of aid, humanitarian needs, fuel, and medical and relief teams to our people without delay, allowing the wounded to be transported to Egypt and the Arab and Islamic countries, without interference from the occupation or any of the aggression countries.

• We call on the masses of our people throughout occupied Palestine to escalate all forms of resistance and struggle against the zionist enemy, targeting its soldiers and settlers, and strengthening popular initiatives of struggle in the face of settler attacks and the encroachment of enemy forces.

• The enemy’s cutting of all access to Gaza, besieging it, and cutting off communications and the Internet completely is a cover for a major crime of genocide that the enemy does not want witnesses to, and we stress breaking this siege with an “official and popular” Arab position.

• We adhere to the right of our people to resist, and its confidence in the victory of our people in this battle, as we fight this battle in defense of our land, our people, and our sanctities, and for the sake of liberation, return, self-determination, and the establishment of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Glory to the martyrs.

Healing for the wounded.

Freedom for the prisoners.

Victory to our people and their valiant resistance.

Saturday, October 28, 2023

IDF tanks are storming Gaza from all eastern and northern directions. A major battle is currently taking place in the area of the separation fence.

Darkest Speaker election timeline:

• No speaker is elected for months
• Government shuts down
• Biden gets Congress to agree that military spending is national security and that they can vote on it without a speaker
• This becomes the norm and any non military spending is forever halted because there is never another Speaker
• All new laws are exclusively Executive Orders

Our longing has grown.
The time for revenge has come.

🔴 Breaking News 🔴

Health Ministry iGaza: Over 700 killed during the past 24 hours, including more than 300 children

(Source Al Masirah)

Tank, Artillery & Jets all pounding the Gaza strip from all directions right now as we speak, a Gaza channel says it's total confusion right now as to what's unfolding.

Thousands rally in Chile in support of the Palestinian people

Thousands of people gathered on Thursday in Chile’s capital Santiago to rally in support of Gaza.

The country has the largest Palestinian diaspora community outside of the Middle East.

that's actually really interesting, Chile has that many Palestinians??

Ukrainian Rezident channel claims Zelensky is furious at Biden’s egregious $100B aid package because it’s too large as to be realistic and appears more a deliberate virtue signal or token attempt at help:

Ukrainian channel Rezident: Our source in the Office of the President said that the Office of the President considers the actions of the Biden Administration destructive regarding financial support for Ukraine for 2024. Instead of a realistic relief package for our country, the White House is asking for record amounts that will definitely be blocked by the Republicans. All these actions are aimed at disrupting financial and military assistance to Ukraine in order to agree with the Kremlin to freeze the conflict in our country along the front line.

So the stabbed in the back theory being floated here is that Biden is hoping his big bazooka funding request for Ukraine will fail so he can wash his hands of the blame. That he intentionally made a proposal the house republicans won’t accept.

From https://open.substack.com/pub/simplicius76/p/sitrep-102423-avdeevka-victories

Various westerners are coming to terms with technology not actually being a magic element that makes one side invincible.

Chuds but I think the fact they're discussing something we've all been saying for years is notable.

National March for Palestine: Saturday, Nov. 4 in Washington, D.C.

Let's send a message to Genocide Joe

Some rumours from leftist Arab sources on Twitter that American ships have been hit in the Red Sea by Houthi rebels. Waiting for confirmation.

Today, the top Israeli commander for the occupied West Bank, Brigadier General Avi Bluth, in a meeting with secular leaders, said that ‘we have now taken our gloves off in our war with Hamas in Judea and Samaria’ – that’s how Israel describes the occupied West Bank.

He went on to say we’re going to see more offensive operations to cleanse – in his words – ‘terrorists nests’ like we saw being done in the Nur Shams camp. I’m referring to a raid last week by the Israeli military on that camp – 14 people were killed, including two children aged 10 years old.

they're going to 'cleanse' ~~cockroach nests~~ terrorist nests. totally not fascists btw.

Acting Prime Minster Richard Marles announced earlier that the country would send a "significant number" of ADF troops and two RAAF aircraft to the Middle East.

Unusually, for what he labelled "operational and security reasons", the acting prime minister would not confirm where the troops would be stationed, or their number.

"They will join an existing aircraft which is in the Middle East, so that takes the total to three and with them will be a contingent of Australian personnel which is a pretty significant contingent of personnel," he said.

"australia is a middle power with global interests"

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hahaha im more terminally online than you guys hahahaha

ha

im going to bed now

the date is 10/26/23, we are hearing about another 1/10th of a 9/11 occurring in Maine. There have been 30 or so 9/11's since 10/7/23 in Israel alone. Over 100 9/11's since this past 9/11. Even more if you were to count Palestinians. When will the 9/11's themselves wake up to their own 9/11? Every moment has become a worse tragedy since the last 9/11 and every 9/12 before me looks to become another 9/11 stretching into the abyss. Infinite, recursive 9/11. An inescapable cataclysm in which we are all embodied in the large, jet-fuel-drenched towers, suffocating amongst the melted steel beams. An infinite number of passenger jets are crashing into an endless expanse of financial headquarters. I am born each day at 8:46 AM. The world is watching. I die each morning at 10:28 AM as the North Tower collapse before me. The world grieves for me, but I only crave more blood. I open my eyes and I am born again. The date is still 9/11

Iraq base with US troops again targeted by rockets: Report

Citing two security sources, the Reuters news agency says two rockets landed inside Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts US and other international forces west of Baghdad.

US officials have said the base is among several in Iraq and Syria that have been targeted amid the conflict in Gaza.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the most recent attack or if there were any injuries, although top US diplomat Blinken earlier today broadly blamed recent attacks on US targets in the region on “Iran proxies”.

A Pentagon spokesman is expected to hold a news briefing later this afternoon; We will bring you more information about this when we have it.

from Al Jazeera. this is new I think

My anti-Zionist jewish friend sent me this tumblr post from another anti-Zionist jew talking about the "how to be Anti-Zionist without being antisemetic" subject, and told me its the first one of those posts that she's largely agreed with.

My friend asks that y'all not leave comments or anything please :)

I think its interesting that the post says that the "they can just go back, dual citizenship" rhetoric that Ive seen people here using is a problem because it doesnt reflect reality.

Person seems to be pretty comited to ending aparthied so I dont think they're coming at this in bad faith. And so I think these are good points to keep in mind.

Famous last words: https://nitter.cz/plovejet/status/1718348201504166161

I swear to God one of the most exciting parts about entering Gaza will be the fact I won't be on Twitter and seeing all the god awful takes on this conflict.

I guess we're at the "collateral damage" phase of the war.

I heard the phrase for the first time on American tv news ~1 minute ago.

The head of the World Health Organization said the agency had lost touch with its staff in Gaza, as well as its health facilities, health workers and the rest of its humanitarian partners on the ground. “This siege makes me gravely concerned for their safety and the immediate health risks of vulnerable patients,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the W.H.O., wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/27/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/c5a17168-c7b8-548e-984d-85aafb17ddc5?smid=url-share

have people seen this thing about the national march on washington for palestine? are people planning on joining, do we know if there's a way to help out without actually going (because i am immunocompromised and very sick rn)

should someone make this a post and pin it maybe?

🇸🇾🇺🇲⚡️There are reports of a powerful explosion at a US base near the al-Omar oil field in Deir ez-Zor province. The facility has been attacked before.

C-Span caller, heavy southern accent but Democrat: "the Speaker of the House needs to be non-bi-..."

The Speaker needs to be non-binary.

Remember when some Ukraine Bros painted the road in front of the Russian embassy in the UK as the Ukraine flag and started crying when cars drove over it.

Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh taken to see bodies of his family

Al Jazeera’s managing editor has confirmed that correspondent Wael Dahdouh lost his wife, son and daughter in an Israeli air raid on a house they were sheltering in.

how the fuck do you go on after this? how can anyone with an ounce of humanity blame these people for resisting in any way possible? I hope Hezbollah levels Israel

Still think this is one of the funniest things Ive seen on twitter

Footage shows crowds, displaced people at threathened al-Quds Hospital

Aerial footage of al-Quds Hospital shows significant gathering of displaced individuals seeking refuge in the hospital’s courtyards.

Hospital authorities report receiving five warnings from the Israeli army, with warnings that the premises will be bombed imminently. The hospital is located in Tal al-Hawa, in Gaza City, and affiliated with the Palestinian Red Crescent. Hundreds of citizens have flocked to the hospital as it continues to admit victims of the ongoing Israeli bombardment in Gaza.

The footage, shot hours before the Israeli threats and obtained by Al Jazeera on Sunday, also reveal the presence of ambulances and medical teams stationed at the hospital’s entrance. The hospital is sheltering 12,000 displaced civilians, with a majority being children and women.

Sounds like a misfired PIJ rocket is going to go off soon, why would the PIJ do this

the sun just rose in Gaza

In more fascist infighting news, look at how Charlie Kirk had to carefully thread the needle in order to not have his audience split between "I hate Jews more than Arabs" and "I hate Arabs more than Jews" factions: https://nitter.cz/charliekirk11/status/1716471746063466882. It's extremely telling he waited until today to even address the church bombing.

Remember, no doomer

Multiple Israeli Raids now reported from various locations of the Gaza Strip

This might be starting.

These Raids are still ongoing but new incursions by the israeli army at different locations in the gaza strip are being reported.

These are a "special kind" of raids as reported by one source.

Israeli raids with CAS on hand

Israel media: There is news blackout imposed of a dangerous event on the Gaza Strip border.

Withdrawal of the Israeli forces in Gaza now.