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Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
Interesting, Hamas has already opened a new office in Iraq Palestinian militias, including Hamas, are continuing to coordinate militarily and politically with Iranian-backed Iraqi militias. The PFLP, Hamas, and PIJ delegations’ visit to Baghdad comes amid reports that Hamas plans to relocate its political leadership to Iraq. Emirati media reported in late June 2024 that Hamas plans to move its political leadership to Iraq due to growing pressure from the United States and Qatar on Hamas to show greater flexibility in ceasefire negotiations with Israel.[v] Iran will reportedly be responsible for protecting Hamas personnel and offices in Iraq. The Emirati report followed the opening of a Hamas political office in Baghdad in early June 2024. https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/iran-update-july-10-2024 -
Bit more detail here, it was actually a deputy manager at RT. The bot farm allegedly originated from a deputy manager at RT — a Russian state-backed news agency — and spread disinformation on the X social media platform. The FBI and international partners targeted a total of 968 accounts, seizing a portion of them, while the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, voluntarily suspended the remaining trove of sham users identified in court documents that authorized their seizure, the Justice Department said in a prepared statement. It did not specify how many accounts were seized by the U.S., nor the remaining amount taken down on X, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “Russia intended to use this bot farm to disseminate AI-generated foreign disinformation, scaling their work with the assistance of AI to undermine our partners in Ukraine and influence geopolitical narratives favorable to the Russian government,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2024/07/us-allies-take-down-kremlin-backed-ai-bot-farm/397912/
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Good news thaibeachlovers New Zealand commits further $16m to support Ukraine The coalition government has committed a further $16 million in support for Ukraine, bringing New Zealand's total financial aid contribution since 2022 to more than $130m. The prime minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters made the announcement at the start of Christopher Luxon's four-day visit to the United States. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/521727/new-zealand-commits-further-16m-to-support-ukraine
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Whether you support his politics or not, he's made the right decision here to carry on from the Tories. Keir Starmer signaled Ukraine can use Britain’s Storm Shadow missiles to strike military targets inside Russia, confirming he would continue the previous UK government’s policy on the use of its long-range weapons in the Russia-Ukraine war. Starmer agreed that it was up to Ukraine how it used the Storm Shadow missiles donated by the UK when asked by a Bloomberg reporter. He was speaking to journalists while traveling to the NATO summit in Washington on Tuesday evening. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-10/starmer-says-ukraine-can-use-uk-missiles-to-strike-inside-russia https://archive.ph/bvcjT
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Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
The terrorists doing what they do best, using human shields and infrastructure. The UNRWA HQ again. IDF raids UNRWA HQ in Gaza City it says was used by terror groups During the raid, troops killed and detained several gunmen and located a large amount of weaponry, according to the IDF. Also in the past day, the IDF says troops with the 98th Division killed dozens of gunmen in Gaza City’s eastern Shejaiya neighborhood, amid a separate operation there. A tunnel was also demolished in Shejaiya, the military says. Meanwhile, operations also continue in southern Gaza’s Rafah, where the IDF says troops with the 162nd Division killed several terror operatives, located weapons, and destroyed tunnels in the past day. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-raids-unrwa-hq-in-gaza-city-it-says-was-used-by-terror-groups/ Israeli troops operating in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood have demolished so far six Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad tunnels amid the latest operation there, launched less than two weeks ago, according to the IDF. At least three more tunnels have been located and are in the process of being mapped out and demolished. One of the destroyed tunnels is considered by the IDF to be Islamic Jihad's "flagship" tunnel in Gaza City. The recently discovered 2.5-kilometer-long tunnel was used by the terror group for command and control, according to military assessments. Troops found laptops, weaponry, and intelligence material inside, indicating it was still being used by the terror group recently. -
Because Al Jazeera supports the terrorists that's why. Hamas critic beaten by masked men in Gaza A Palestinian activist known for organising anti-Hamas protests in Gaza has been taken to hospital after an attack by a group of masked men. Amin Abed, 35, was admitted in critical condition after being kidnapped near his home by five assailants on Monday afternoon. A well-known activist, Mr Abed told the BBC: “I will not stop using my right to express my rejection of the 7 October attack." Public dissent against Hamas has grown in recent months as residents of Gaza grow angry at the huge toll inflicted on the enclave since the start of the war. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx82xx9pj5do Hamas faces growing public dissent as Gaza war erodes support “I am an academic doctor,” he says, “I had a good life, but we have a filthy [Hamas] leadership. They got used to our bloodshed, may God curse them! They are scum!” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0vewvp14zdo https://x.com/AIPAC/status/1810278944442069287 https://x.com/ariel_oseran/status/1809162418926354559 https://x.com/ariel_oseran/status/1809162418926354559
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From the UN UN assessment suggests Ukraine's largest children's hospital was hit by Russian missile A deadly strike on Kyiv’s Ohmatdyt children’s hospital – Ukraine’s biggest paediatrics facility – was likely caused by a direct hit from a Russian missile, the head of the UN’s human rights monitoring mission said. Danielle Bell, head of mission for the UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, said: Analysis of the video footage and an assessment made at the incident site indicates a high likelihood that the children’s hospital suffered a direct hit rather than receiving damage due to an intercepted weapon system.
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Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
No this is about a blood thirsty group of terrorists who carried out the worst massacre of Jewish people since the holocaust. They also took around 250 hostages and since then been committing war crime's every day they hold them. They have probably raped and tortured along with murder a few, they are certainly also holding dead bodies as hostages. To imply its Netanyahu putting the spanner in the works is the just plain false. Unnamed sources from some unnamed mediators does not mean all. The US mediators have certainly not implied this This is about article 14 and the US are to come up with a compromise to bridge the gap between Israel and Hamas on the issue. This has already been made clear by ISW and its also here https://www.axios.com/2024/07/05/gaza-ceasefire-hostage-deal-hamas-israel-us-commitment -
Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday boasted that military pressure — including Israel’s ongoing two-month offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah — “is what has led Hamas to enter negotiations.” Hamas, an Islamic militant group that seeks Israel’s destruction and took control of Gaza in 2007, is highly secretive and little is known about its inner workings. But in recent internal communications seen by The Associated Press, messages signed by several senior Hamas figures in Gaza urged the group’s exiled political leadership to accept the cease-fire proposal pitched by U.S. President Joe Biden. The messages, shared by a Middle East official familiar with the ongoing negotiations, described the heavy losses Hamas has suffered on the battlefield and the dire conditions in the war-ravaged territory. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to share the contents of internal Hamas communications. https://archive.ph/NsXIG https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/08/israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal-gaza-war/b6c16634-3cf1-11ef-83bf-e35a32077d3e_story.html -
Russian terrorists hit Major Ukraine cities with hypersonic missiles including a hit on Ukraine's largest children hospital in Kiev https://x.com/sumlenny/status/1810239644597936362 Seven killed in hypersonic missile attack on Kyiv - children's hospital hit At least 13 dead as other cities also hit in Russia's barrage https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-latest-updates-putin-kyiv-hypersonic-sky-news-blog-12541713
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Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
Yes I know and the Hamas stance is? Let me repeat it again for you, you seem to think this is all down to Netanyahu. Its not. -
Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
So Hamas did not refuse the deal put forward by Biden then.....oh that's a new one...lol -
Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
What makes you think I have not read and understand what his statement implies. Why are you ignoring the fact that Hamas are the ones who refused the deal to start with and put in place extra demands? -
Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
Hardly irrelevant, Hamas have put in place added demands to the original deal, ISW has made those clear. -
Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
Again, your avoiding my questions: -
Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
They are reporting on Hamas demands are you saying they are lying? -
Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
Lame deflection ISW a credible source -
Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
That did not answer my question though did it. From ISW Hamas’ most recent ceasefire position demonstrates that the group has not meaningfully shifted its position since negotiations last stalled in June and that it still seeks to undermine the agreement’s phasing. Axios reported on July 6 that the outstanding gaps between Israel and Hamas center on the language regarding and time-delimitation of negotiations to transition from the first phase of the ceasefire deal to the second phase.[4] The current proposal says that the United States, Egypt, and Qatar will “make every effort” to ensure negotiations during the first phase end in a transition to the second phase and a sustainable calm. Hamas is attempting to remove “make every effort,” replacing it with “ensure“ and dropping the original six-week time limit for the first phase.[5] This change would make the initial ceasefire effectively permanent from the start and would commit the United States, Qatar, and Egypt to securing a ceasefire and enable Hamas to draw out negotiations for the transition to the second phase indefinitely, if needed.[6] The language and removal of the time-delimited first phase makes it more difficult for Israel to resume operations to pressure Hamas and extract concessions without breaking the agreement entirely or appearing to scuttle negotiations over the transition to phase two. This could allow Hamas to secure a complete ceasefire without adhering to commitments under phases two and three, which include the release of Israeli hostages. The categories of hostages in phase two and three include Israeli soldiers, whom Hamas is reticent to release. -
Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Bkk Brian replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
ISW is, are you sure its Netanyahu? What issues is he raising that are outside the previous Biden/Israel deal that was endorsed by the Security Council?