Re: Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Zambeezi]

Georgian Parliament votes to override Presidential veto on ‘foreign agent’ law


https://rumble.com/v4y1juf-georgian-parliament-votes-to-override-presidential-veto-on-foreign-agent-la.html?mref=331eul&mc=atat4

[Zambeezi]

► SouthFront | Shackled Kiev Awaits For Surprise | May 28 2024


https://rumble.com/v4y33l9--southfront-shackled-kiev-awaits-for-surprise-may-28-2024.html?mref=331eul&mc=atat4

[刘汉]

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egyptian-soldier-second-killed-gaza-border-fire-israeli-forces

Second Egyptian soldier dies after Rafah border shootout with Israeli forces
Ibrahim Islam Abdelrazzaq succumbed to his wounds after being shot at the Egypt-Gaza border, local sources tell Middle East Eye

A second Egyptian soldier has died after being wounded in an exchange of fire with Israeli troops near the Rafah crossing with Egypt's Sinai on Monday, local sources told Middle East Eye.

Ibrahim Islam Abdelrazzaq, a 22-year-old infantry soldier deployed in Rafah after 7 October, was critically wounded and taken to hospital on Monday.

The first Egyptian soldier has been identified online and verified by MEE as 22-year-old Abdallah Ramadan, though the military has yet to confirm his identity.

Ramadan's funeral was held on Monday in his home village of al-Ajamiyyin, near Faiyum, 110km south of Cairo. It was attended by family and members of the local community. No senior military officers were present.

Abdelrazzaq also hails from the Faiyum governorate. His funeral was held on Tuesday night in his village Sanhour Qibly. It was live streamed on Facebook and widely shared by Egyptian social media users.

[Zambeezi]

► Ukraine Planning Large Scale use of Toxic Substances - NBC Defense Chief


https://rumble.com/v4y3e6z--ukraine-planning-large-scale-use-of-toxic-substances-nbc-defense-chief.html?mref=331eul&mc=atat4

[刘汉]

[Mr Badger]

🪖 — The Belarusian President Lukashenko signs a law suspending the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

https://t.me/BellumActaNews/122064

[刘汉]

That's why Egypt will not retaliate:

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/05/28/under-pressure-from-washington-cairo-resumes-aid-to-gaza/

Under U.S. law, Washington can withhold military assistance to any country that is preventing or hampering the delivery of American humanitarian aid. Biden should remind Sisi that Cairo must continue the flow of aid to Gaza and uphold its longstanding peace treaty with Israel — or else jeopardize the more than $1 billion in annual U.S. military assistance to Egypt. After years of contributing to the problem in Gaza, Sisi must now work with Washington and Jerusalem to become part of the solution.

[刘汉]

A conservative Egyptian newspaper: Al Ahram

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1204/524397/AlAhram-Weekly/Opinion/Lining-up-behind-Palestine.aspx

Hussein Haridy
Tuesday 28 May 2024

It goes without saying that I do not consider Hamas to be a “terrorist organisation.”

The history of Israel since its establishment in 1948 after the first Palestinian Nakba has taught us never to trust Israeli promises. And the Israelis have never missed a chance to prove us wrong.

On 26 May, the Israeli army targeted a Palestinian encampment in Rafah, killing 40 people and wounding scores of others. As usual, the Israeli army said it was targeting “terrorists.”

No one should believe a word it says. The ultimate Israeli objective is to push the Palestinians out of their homes and the land of their ancestors. We are witnessing a second Nakba.

The writer is former assistant foreign minister.

[刘汉]

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2513286/middle-east

Moroccans in pro-Palestinian march rally against Israel ties

Thousands of Moroccans demonstrated Sunday in Casablanca in support of the Palestinian people and against ties with Israel, an AFP journalist said, more than seven months into the Gaza war.
Protesters in Morocco’s commercial capital chanted “Freedom for Palestine,” “If we don’t speak out, who will?” and “No to normalization,” and many wore keffiyeh scarves or waved Palestinian flags.

[Mr Badger]

Internet and communications have been completely cut off in Rafah in the southern #Gaza Strip, coinciding with heavy bombing and the incursion of IOF vehicles.

https://t.me/PalestineResist/41895

[刘汉]

Dozens of people sat in front of the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul to protest against Israel's treatment of Palestinian refugees displaced from Rafah. pic.twitter.com/KEgZqKR04Y

— Tech News (@TechTdv) May 28, 2024

[刘汉]

[Mr Badger]

#UkraineRussiaWar
Ukraine, under NATO control, continues to strike at the strategic defense infrastructure covering the territory south of Russia, including protecting Iran from a possible nuclear strike.
France allowed the use of Western weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation. This is a new round of escalation of the conflict in Ukraine.
The Russian Armed Forces break through the defenses in the South Donetsk direction. In the near future, several villages will come under Russian control.

Russia And Iran Under Threat From The South | France Allowed The Attack. Military Summary And Analysis For 2024.05.29

[刘汉]

Next disgusting thing from Haley:

“Russia provided Hamas with intelligence about the IDF to facilitate the October 7th attack”

– Nikki Haley

Yeah yeah I remember it was a birthday present to Putin, right? pic.twitter.com/2CPeniF7ij

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) May 28, 2024

[Mr Badger]

This quote from Prof. Theodore A Postol was posted yesterday on X:

"Ukrainians have now attacked a second critical Russian nuclear strategic early warning radar at Orsk.

This radar looks towards the Indian Ocean and has some overlap with the radar fans from the already damaged radar at Armavir.

The initial indicators are that the amount of damage to the Orsk is likely limited, but it cannot be ruled out that the radar is not functioning for the moment due to the attack.

This is a very serious situation.

Unlike the United States, the Russians do not have space-based satellite warning systems that can see ballistic missile attacks globally. This means that the radar coverage lost by the attacks on these radars greatly reduces the warning time against attacks on Moscow from the Mediterranean and Indian oceans.

The Russians have a radar operating in Moscow that can see arriving warheads but they would only begin to see the warheads above the horizon at very short times before impacts.

My estimates (based on real analysis, not bullshit) is that the radar early morning time has been reduced from about 15 to 16 minutes to about 10 to 11.

This amount of warning time might quite possibly eliminate the possibility of any deliberation-time on the part of Russian leaders if they were confronted with a decision of whether or not to launch Russian strategic nuclear forces in response to a nuclear attack on Moscow.

Russian political leadership in Moscow would have almost no time to assess the situation if they believed a possible attack from the south was underway.

The extreme time-pressure on Russian leadership could thereby significantly increase the possibilities of a catastrophic nuclear accident.

The fact that Blinken and his national security team have provided a “go ahead” to the Ukrainian government to attack Russian sites outside of Ukraine, means that either Blinken has recklessly told Ukrainians they can engage in such acts that would have a potentially catastrophic consequence for the United States, and the entire planet.

If Blinken is not aware of the danger that is posed by these attacks, he is so incompetent that he should be removed along with his entire team from any position of authority.

If he is aware of this danger, you should also be removed with his entire national security team.

I have extensive personal experiences with people at the White House that indicate to me it is entirely possible that Blinken and his team are not aware of the dangers they are knowingly allowing to occur.

I will not spend time herein describing my personal experiences and observations, but I can do so at any time on any notice. It cannot be ruled out that the White House is completely unaware of the danger.

Please feel free to give me a call at any time if you would like to hear further about my concerns.

I cannot emphasize enough how frightening and dangerous this development is – at least to me, who I think can claim a rather detailed knowledge of the nuclear strike systems of both Russia and United States."

Prof. Theodore A Postol

[Zambeezi]

— / NEW: Ansarullah in Yemen downed an American MQ-9 drone, in nearly perfect condition

[Zambeezi]

Excerpts from FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the meeting with participants of the Time of Heroes programme (Solnechnogorsk, May 28, 2024)

A special military operation started in conditions that did not emerge overnight. For many years, we had been warning the West that this situation was unacceptable. We were left with no choice, about which the President of Russia talked in detail.

The scale of unity of our people is unprecedented. This is unity against injustice. The President and the Government are working to make sure that we will never depend “on one nail” from the West in such critical areas of our life as security, food, energy and military equipment and that we will be able to produce all this ourselves. The economy must become independent of anyone.

The term suggested by President Vladimir Putin – “the time of heroes” – is about you, about those who fight together with you, who fought upholding our vital interests and the rights of people whose ancestors had lived for centuries on the territory of Donbass and Novorossiya, who were building cities and roads, and creating industrial enterprises that some people are trying to declare alien.

It's a holy job. Life has arranged it so that now you are heroes. Now you are role models. Young people should look up to you.

The West tried to turn Russia into a middle power. They have not given up this idea. They are fighting against us because they see that we are becoming independent. They really want to cut us to size.

Russia is one of the leading, great powers of the modern time – this place belongs to it by right. It will retain this place. The World Majority countries – Africa, Latin America and Asia – realise well that this is not only about the destiny of the Nazi regime in Ukraine but about the West’s reluctance to give up its hegemony.

By will of fate, we have found ourselves on the edge of struggle for a new equitable and fair world order. It will be based on the principle of sovereign equality of states.

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[Zambeezi]

The leader of the Moldovan opposition party "Chance" Alexei Lungu was detained at Chisinau airport on his return from Moscow, where he participated in the BRICS forum
https://t.me/druschbaFm_en/38718

[Zambeezi]

Israel's Armed Forces again struck a Palestinian tent city in Rafah

Reuters writes that at least 7 people were killed. Arab sources write that the number of casualties is in the dozens.
https://t.me/druschbaFm_en/38715

[Zambeezi]

A looming famine is imminent in the northern Gaza Strip amid Israel's closure of the border crossings with the enclave, according to the Gaza Government Media Office.

[Zambeezi]

BREAKING: Israeli warplanes perpetrate a massacre against children in the Al-Salam neighborhood in Khan Yunis, resulting in several casualties, including these two kids.

[Zambeezi]

Medical sources at the Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City state:

What we are doing is attempting to save what can be saved. Intensive care is not available at the hospital, so any patient needing intensive care is essentially sentenced to death.

Many injuries are head or skull injuries, which we also cannot deal with. Some cases result in death, while others continue living.

Some cases require intensive care after surgery, and in the absence of ICU rooms, these cases pass away after surgery.

Most of the medical stock is running out, especially medical screens used in operations and replacements.

Many painkillers and antibiotics are not available, along with some anesthesia drugs. Different threads used in surgeries, as well as plates and platinum used in fractures, are not available. We are forced to use inappropriate tools not designed for some injuries.

All spaces in the hospital have been filled with the wounded, as we have started placing them in places not designated or prepared to receive patients, such as stairwells.

[Zambeezi]

Hundreds of angry demonstrators hurled Molotov cocktails and stones at the Israeli occupation's embassy in Mexico City in protest of the recent Israeli atrocities against innocent civilians, including children, in Rafah.
https://t.me/QudsNen/107913

[Zambeezi]

Palestinian journalist Diaa Al-Kahlout, a former prisoner in the Israeli detention camp of Sde Teiman, shared the following on his Facebook account:

"I, along with all those who were released from the Seddi Teiman detention camp, still suffer from wounds and the effects of these wounds from sitting on gravel, where we were forced by guards to lay on the ground to ensure that our feet were wounded by the guards.

My knee still oozes pus, and the skin color at the site of the injury has turned black. Hundreds of people from Gaza are still in Seddi Teiman and other prisons, forgotten without care, medical attention, or even continuous mention of their suffering."

[刘汉]

Iran's Tasnim news agency: Iran made sea-launched ballistic missile available to Houthis https://t.co/8rTSCx1P6x

— Reuters Iran (@ReutersIran) May 29, 2024

[Böhse Tante]

Dunno what's the reason, since ~1-2 hours my internet connection goes on and off. 

[KneelB4Zod!]

— / NEW: Ansarullah in Yemen downed an American MQ-9 drone, in nearly perfect condition

This one is in pretty good condition:

The Houthis shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone in the airspace of Marib province.

The drone appears to be fairly intact, so the wreckage is highly likely to be handed over to Iran for study. pic.twitter.com/wpMiwaA47R

— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 29, 2024

Houthis pose with a downed American MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance and strike drone pic.twitter.com/mJ4tbzbvfl

— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 29, 2024

[KneelB4Zod!]

Well, this is pretty expensive accident...

https://x.com/i/status/1795622497989091415

[KneelB4Zod!]

ISRAELI EMBASSY, MEXICO pic.twitter.com/g3YAzajK85

— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) May 29, 2024

[Zambeezi]

Ukrainian media counted 10 countries that are ready to allow Kyiv to strike the Russian Federation with their weapons.

The list includes Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland, France, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Estonia, writes the League. News publication.