Daily Archives: February 8, 2024

2024-02-08: News Headlines

Staff (2024-02-08). Headlines for February 8, 2024. democracynow.org Truce Talks Continue in Egypt, Humanitarian Catastrophe Continues in Gaza as Netanyahu Rejects Ceasefire Proposal, 6-Year-Old Gazan Girl and 2 Rescue Workers Remain Missing 10 Days After Last Signs of Life, Palestinian American Woman Samaher Esmail Missing After Being Taken by IDF, U.S. Strike in Iraq Kills Senior Figure of Kata'ib Hezbollah, Hundreds Protest Biden in NYC, Arms and Military Sites in Chicago and California, Senate Delays Border Measure After GOP U-Turn; Schumer Calls for Vote on Israel, Ukraine Funding, Biden Officials Meet with Arab American Leaders in Michigan as Group Urges Voters to Reje…

Staff (2024-02-08). Ex-UNRWA Official: Funding Cuts Make Donor Countries Complicit in Starvation of Gaza. democracynow.org As Israel's assault on Gaza has displaced the majority of Palestinians in Gaza, more than half are sheltering in facilities run by UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. Despite being the largest humanitarian agency in Gaza, UNRWA says it may run out of funds by the end of the month, after at least 18 states or institutions, including many of the agency's biggest funders, announced they were suspending their donations in January. The cuts came after the Israeli government accused several UNRWA employees of participating in the Hamas attack on October 7. Israel made the allegations in a docum…

Hans Stehling (2024-02-08). To End War, Israel Must Pay Reparations to 600,000 Palestinian Refugees, Victims of Naqba 1948. globalresearch.ca

Gideon Polya (2024-02-08). Western Media and Politician Complicity in US-Israeli Massacre of Palestinian Children. dissidentvoice.org The 2023-2024 Gaza Massacre has continued now for nearly 4 months while the World looks on. The Zionist-subverted and US lackey Australian Labor Government has fervently assisted Apartheid Israel diplomatically, with key arms supplies, intelligence, weapons targeting and now with cessation of support for UNRWA — racist Labor is complicit in the US-Israeli massacre of …

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies (2024-02-08). US Chooses Genocide Over Diplomacy in the Middle East. dissidentvoice.org Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in Rafah, the last refuge in southern Gaza. Photo credit: MENAFN On February 7, 2024, a U.S. drone strike assassinated an Iraqi militia leader, Abu Baqir al-Saadi, in the heart of Baghdad. This was a further U.S. escalation in a major new front in the U.S.-Israeli war on the …

Dalal Yassine (2024-02-08). Biden's UNRWA aid suspension is an attack on women. electronicintifada.net The damage of White House actions and inaction over Gaza to America's reputation and Palestinian lives will be permanent.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-02-08). Netanyahu's War on Truth. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Scahill Israeli soldiers detain blindfolded Palestinian men in a military truck in the southern Gaza Strip on Nov. 19, 2023. Photo: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images Two weeks before Hamas commandos led a series of raids into Israel on October 7, Benjamin Netanyahu stood before an empty chamberOpens in a new tab at the United Nations headquarters…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-02-08). The U.S. Failed 'Shock and Awe' Aggression in Iraq and Syria — with Seyed Mohammad Marandi. libya360.wordpress.com Vanessa Beeley From Tehran — Seyed Mohammad Marandi discusses the imminent decline of U.S. allied hegemony and the global humiliation of Israel The Syrian Ministry of Defence issued the following statement (translated from Arabic) on the U.S. attacks carried out at dawn on the 3rd February: Today at dawn, the American occupation forces launched a…

PACBI (2024-02-08). West Asian Football Federation Calls on FIFA to Ban Genocidal Apartheid Israel From Football. bdsmovement.net

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-02-08). Vetoing Justice in Gaza: The Collapse of the UN Security Council. libya360.wordpress.com Mohamad Hasan Sweidan The rise in civilian deaths and global conflict shatters all illusions that the UN has any ability to maintain the peace. A US veto at the UNSC to protect genocide in Gaza is the very last straw. Article 1 of the founding charter of the UN boldly proclaims the organization's primary aim: To maintain international…

Edward Hunt (2024-02-08). U.S. Officials Acknowledge Moral Issues at Stake in Gaza. fpif.org

Global Research News (2024-02-08). Selected Articles: A "False Flag" Operation to Justify the Israel-U.S. Genocide Against the People of Palestine. globalresearch.ca By Although South Africa's legal initiative was directed agains…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-02-08). A "False Flag" Operation to Justify The Israel-U.S. Genocide against the People of Palestine. globalresearch.ca Israel's "false flag" is a complex military-intelligence undertaking, carefully planned, in liaison with the US. "Israeli officials obtained Hamas's battle plan for the Oct. 7 … more than a year before it happened" (NYT).

greenleft.org.au (2024-02-08). Palestine solidarity supporters call on Labor to boost funding to UNRWA. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2024-02-08). Freezing aid to Gaza: Israel's war against UNRWA. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2024-02-08). Peter Khalil MP targeted again for not speaking out for Palestine. greenleft.org.au

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