Meanwhile...

 

If you've been wondering...

 

Everywhere you've looked in the past however many years since the "horror" of October 7 has made this claim.  I've always wondered, because I remember the false claims of babies being thrown out of incubators to make Americans support the invasion of Iraq.  Also, I watched "Wag the Dog".

Wasted breath

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Israel to reverse a pending ban on 37 nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

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Israel banned the humanitarian groups for failing to meet new registration rules requiring aid groups working in the occupied territory to provide “detailed information on their staff members, funding and operations”. It has pledged to enforce the ban starting March 1.

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The targeted groups include several country chapters of Doctors Without Borders (known by its French acronym, MSF), the Norwegian Refugee Council, and the International Rescue Committee.

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In a statement on Friday, Guterres called the work of the groups “indispensable to life-saving humanitarian work”, according to spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. He added that the “suspension risks undermining the fragile progress made during the ceasefire”.

  alJazeera

What progress? What ceasefire? Israel has been bombing Gaza all along. Getting ready for Trump family hotels and golf clubs.

To date, Israel has killed about 500 aid workers and volunteers in Gaza throughout its genocidal war. All told, at least 71,271 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023.

Gaza peace deal going great

 Meanwhile, in Lebanon...

Cory is a huge disappointment

 Are we supposed to think Cory has any leaderly - or otherwise - influence whatsoever in Israeli action?

That's laughable.  It's quite the other way around.

And there it is

 

“The war is over,” declared President Donald Trump on his way to Israel. This announcement, however, rang hollow with Palestinians, mediators, and every expert I have spoken to. One immediate red flag was the total absence of protestation from Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right allies, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who had repeatedly vowed to quit and collapse the government if Israel ends the genocide in Gaza.

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It didn’t take long before Israel resumed killing and besieging Gazans. Within 24 hours of the ceasefire’s beginning, Israel killed at least 35 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 72 others. On Tuesday morning, the day after Hamas released all living captives, Israel resumed aerial bombardment in Gaza with an airstrike that reportedly killed five civilians in Shejaiya and another that killed two in Khan Younis.

Israel then officially declared it would continue to close the Rafah crossing, Gazans’s only gateway to the world, although it was supposed to open both ways immediately after the hostages’ release. Israel also announced restricting humanitarian aid entering the enclave under the pretext that Hamas was “not taking sufficient steps to locate the bodies of [dead] hostages.”

  Zeteo

 

Peace for Gaza but not for Lebanon

 And by "peace" I mean a possible pause in attacks.*

*UPDATE 04:27 pm:

Jared's back

 

UPDATE 10/14/2025:  That didn't last long.  No surprise here.

A Greek aid ship broke trough

 

UPDATE 10/07/2025:  Report from a ship that was detained:

I'm reading that Greta Thunberg was submitted to similar treatment.

Gaza aid blocked again

 

The Italian government pulled its escort ship just before this happened.  The Italian people are voicing their objection.

Spain standing up

 

Scorched earth, genocide

 

War crimes is not a strong enough descriptor

 

The goal has always been the same

 

Boycott Israel

UPDATE 09/18/2025:

More reports of Israeli war crimes

 The bombing of innocents isn't bad enough.

Scorched earth in Gaza

Great.  Is there a Palestine left?

 

What's the word beyond "obscene"?

 

But you can't come here.

Israel continues ethnic cleansing war crimes in Gaza

 

Israel should have been tamped down years ago, but the US kept supporting and protecting its increasing aggression.  Now, the damage is permanent.

Clearing the land for a Trump hotel