Hezbollah rockets kill seven people in northern Israel

Hezbollah rockets kill seven people in northern Israel

By Joshua Marks

Seven people were killed and one person was seriously wounded on Thursday in two separate Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel’s north.

The first attack triggered sirens at 11:37 a.m., and two projectiles from Lebanon landed in an open area outside the largely evacuated Upper Galilee city of Metula, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

The fatalities were an Israeli farmer and four foreign workers, and the seriously wounded individual was another foreign worker, Metula council head David Azoulai told the Kan News channel. The Israeli casualty was named as Omer Weinstein, 47, from Kibbutz Dafna.

Later on Thursday, another attack from Lebanon killed two people, while lightly wounding another, in a field off Route 79 near the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Ata, Magen David Adom first responders reported.

“Paramedics provided medical treatment and CPR, following which a 30-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman were pronounced dead, and a 71-year-old man was evacuated to Rambam Hospital due to minor shrapnel wounds,” the emergency service said in a statement.

Three Israelis were wounded in Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel on Wednesday, according to medics.

A 70-year-old man was lightly wounded when rocket shrapnel hit his car in the Upper Galilee, the Magen David Adom emergency service said. The victim suffered a minor head wound and was evacuated to Ziv Hospital in Safed.

Earlier, two farmers were wounded, including one seriously, when a Hezbollah rocket struck an agricultural field near the evacuated Israeli border town of Metula. The other victim was lightly wounded.

On Wednesday morning, the Iran-backed terror army launched a missile that triggered sirens as far south as Netanya. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the missile broke up in the air.

The IDF also reported that three drones had crossed from Lebanon into the Western Galilee, all of which were intercepted. No injuries were reported in the incidents.

Additionally, a drone strike early Wednesday in Nahariya caused minor damage to an aerospace component facility. The IDF was investigating why alarms weren’t triggered by the attack.

Hezbollah regional commander killed in IAF strike

An Israeli strike in Lebanon this week killed a Hezbollah regional anti-tank missile commander, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed on Thursday.

Muhammad Khalil Alian was eliminated in an attack in the Southern Lebanese village of Burj Qallawiyah, according to the IDF.

He led the Iranian proxy’s anti-tank missile array in the Hajir area as part of the terrorist group’s “Nasser” unit, which is responsible for attacks on northern Israel’s Ramim Ridge region.

According to the Alma Research and Education Center, Nasser is one of three geographic units operating under Hezbollah’s southern front command.

“The Nasser unit is responsible for the area between the border with Israel and the Litani River … together with the Aziz unit,” according to Alma.

“Since Oct. 8, 2023, the Nasser unit has been a very central element in the fighting against Israel. Its operatives (the vast majority of whom live in southern Lebanon) are responsible for many of the rocket, mortar, UAV and anti-tank missile launches into northern Israel,” the Alma article continued.

 Also Wednesday, the Israeli Air Force eliminated a terrorist cell in Hezbollah’s aerial unit that had launched a rocket at an IAF aircraft in the area of Mazraat El Yahoudiyeh, north of Tyre.

Over the past 24 hours, 150 Hezbollah and Hamas targets were hit in Lebanon and Gaza, respectively, according to the IDF.

Working The System - How To

The System...How To....

Kit Knightly

Are you an aspiring oligarch, dictator or autocrat? Do you want to wield power whilst maintaining a façade of popular support and democratic mandate? Do you want to make your proles believe they have a choice?

Well then, welcome to the first of our “How to…” series. A selection of articles dedicated to teaching aspiring authoritarians how to hide tyranny behind a reassuring mask of  freedom.

Here we’ll go into the finer points of how it’s possible to have “elections” that mean almost nothing.

First things first, we need to establish what we mean when we talk about “election rigging”.

Controlling the outcome of an election is a comparatively simple, even vulgar, process. All you need to do is manipulate the count and/or simply lie about the result.

However doing this efficiently  – rigging an election with as little effort as possible and disguising that fact is more difficult.

In short, if your rigged election is entirely reliant on simply forging ballots you have done something wrong. If you want to reliably and consistently control the results of your “elections” you need to be more creative than that.

The vast majority of your work pre-election will be dedicated to laying the groundwork, building infrastructure, and lubricating the public.

The vote itself is the final destination in a long journey that starts with…

1. THE SYSTEM

Your first priority when constructing your system should be establishing an infrastructure that is not significantly impacted by elections.

Unelected civil servants,  intelligence agencies, military officers, judges, NGOs, corporate interests and lobby groups should form the permanent foundations of the power structure, while “elected officials” should ideally be mere window dressing and wall-paper, with zero opportunity to act independently.

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PM to hold security cabinet meeting Sunday night amid Iranian threats

PM to hold security cabinet meeting Sunday night amid Iranian threats

Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his national security cabinet on Sunday at 9:30 p.m. in Tel Aviv, one of the minister’s offices tell The Times of Israel.

The meeting comes as Iran threatens to strike Israel again, and as the US pushes for a ceasefire in Lebanon.

EU Warns "Citizens" To Prepare For A Nuclear Disaster

EU Warns "Citizens" To Prepare For A Nuclear Disaster

Mac Slavo

The European Union has warned its “citizens” (the slave class) to prepare for a nuclear disaster. A report on the matter further warned that households under rulership should also be prepared for cyberattacks and the use of chemical weapons.

A report published on Wednesday by former Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, says that EU citizens should start stockpiling three days’ worth of goods in order to be ready for various potential disasters, including a nuclear conflict. The initiative is part of the EU’s push to make the bloc more resilient in the face of supposedly mounting threats, ranging from natural disasters to a major military conflict, according to a report by RT. 

The report encourages EU households to stockpile “basic self-sufficiency” goods that would last for at least 72 hours for fear of potential shortages in case of “armed aggression through conventional means” or other hostile activities such as “cyberattacks or the use of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons.”

Warnings of a nuclear war or disaster have been circulating for years, and so far, nothing has come of it other than fear. This seems like it may just be a way to panic the slave class and inject more fear into an already scared public.

“One click can switch off power grids and plunge whole cities into the dark,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the presentation of the report.

The report also calls for long-term financial and military support for Ukraine.

“Member States should strengthen their cooperation on European defense, jointly investing more to close long-standing gaps in our military and defense industrial readiness,” Niinisto said.

It also blames Russia for the warning issued by the bloc.

“Given the increasing use of sabotage by hostile third countries, notably Russia, it is an area where internal security and military security are very much interlinked,” the report noted.

Niinisto also urged to “strengthen EU intelligence structures step-by-step towards a fully-fledged EU service for intelligence cooperation.”   

This means the ruling class seeks full obedience and compliance with its demands.

Saudi Arabia’s smart city ‘The Line’: Big on Agenda 2030 and big on human rights violations and workers’ deaths

Saudi Arabia’s smart city ‘The Line’: Big on Agenda 2030 and big on human rights violations and workers’ deaths

Rhoda Wilson

The Line is a 105-mile (170-kilometre) long, linear smart city being built in Neom, Saudi Arabia.  The city is designed to be a mirrored architectural masterpiece standing 500 meters tall and 200 meters wide.  The project, launched as part of Saudi Vision 2030, aims to transform the country into a global tourism hub.

The Line is designed to be a car-free city, with all transportation systems integrated into a single, efficient network.  The city will be powered entirely by renewable energy sources, including solar, wind and hydrogen-based power generation. And it features embedded smart technologies, with services continually optimised by artificial intelligence (“AI”) to ensure efficient use of resources and minimise environmental impact.

Not only is it humiliating for Saudi Arabia that the 105-mile-long £1 trillion flagship project has been reduced to 1.5 miles but it holds a dirty secret.  The construction of it has faced human rights concerns, including allegations of forced displacement of local tribes, and exploitation and death of migrant workers.

On 27 October, ITVX aired a documentary ‘Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia’ made by a female journalist who went undercover to investigate what life is really like in Saudi Arabia, an increasingly autocratic state.

According to the documentary, over 21,000 workers have died since 2016, with many more suffering from poor working conditions, exploitation and human rights violations. The statistics are staggering, with Nepalese workers alone reporting over 650 unexplained deaths.

The documentary exposes the brutal reality of working conditions in NEOM, including 16-hour days, exceeding Saudi law’s 60-hour weekly limit, workers being forced to work without proper rest, leading to mental fatigue and physical torment, lack of food and sleep resulting in accidents and illnesses, and migrant workers being treated like “trapped slaves” and “beggars.”

It also highlights the systematic exploitation of migrant workers, including missed payments, with some workers going months without receiving wages, and lack of access to healthcare, with workers being forced to pay exorbitant fees for medical treatment.

Reporting on ITVX’s documentary, Middle East Eye quoted Nicholas McGeehan, director at the UK-based human rights organisation FairSquare, as saying that the working hours of the labourers at The Line were “way beyond what the international minimum standards permit.”

“The reality is that workers all over Saudi Arabia are subject to deeply abusive and dangerous exploitation. The abuses are systematically happening across the country,” McGeehan said.

To access ITVX you are required to register with a postcode, unless you live in the UK you may not be able to watch its documentary. However, in September DeCode released the reportage below giving an update on The Line.  The report discusses the human rights abuses relating to the forced displacement of local tribes with the use of lethal force and arrest for anyone who resisted or criticised the project online. It also discussed the financing of the project, with some financiers pulling out after the forced displacement of people came to light, and The Line’s progress, or lack of progress.