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Roya News
a day ago
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VIDEO: Abu Obaida issues first statement in over four months
Abu Obaida, spokesperson for Al-Qassam Brigades, appeared in a newly released video on Friday, marking his first public statement since March 6, 2025. In the video, he said four months had passed since the 'Israeli' military resumed its aggression on Gaza, accusing 'Israel' of betraying the terms of a previously agreed deal with the resistance. He said that 'Israel' violated the truce and overturned commitments made during negotiations, leading to a renewed escalation in the aggression, in reference to "Israel's" surprise attack on Gaza in March during a declared ceasefire between the two parties. Abu Obaida said Al-Qassam fighters have killed or wounded hundreds of 'Israeli' soldiers in recent months, while thousands more have reportedly suffered psychological trauma and shock. He added that the resistance has introduced new tactics and methods, drawing lessons from what he described as the longest war in the history of the Palestinian people. He revealed that fighters have attempted several operations in recent weeks aimed at capturing 'Israeli' soldiers. Capturing soldiers has been a long-standing goal for the group, often used to negotiate prisoner exchanges. Abu Obaida described Gaza's armed resistance as 'the greatest military school for a people resisting occupation in modern history,' affirming that they remain fully prepared to continue a prolonged war of attrition against the occupation, regardless of the form or strategy of future assaults. He said the current strategy of Al-Qassam's leadership is to inflict maximum losses on 'Israeli' forces, carry out high-impact operations, and pursue the capture of soldiers. In a regional message, he strongly criticized Arab leaders for their silence, saying: 'The enemy would not have committed genocide in full view of the nation's leaders unless it was assured of impunity, guaranteed silence, and bought betrayal.' He stressed that no one was exempt from the responsibility of the bloodshed: 'We do not absolve anyone. Everyone who can act, according to their ability and influence, must do so.' He also praised Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthis), calling them 'truthful brothers' who forced the enemy to face a new front and 'exposed the cowardice of those who remain passive.' Abu Obaida extended his thanks to 'all the free people around the world' who have shown solidarity and attempted to break the siege on Gaza despite risks. He reiterated support for the Palestinian negotiating delegation in indirect talks with 'Israel,' stating that Hamas had offered a comprehensive deal to release all enemy captives at once. 'War criminal Netanyahu and his ministers rejected our offer. It became clear they are not interested in the fate of their soldiers,' he said, accusing the 'Israeli' leadership of preparing the public for the possibility that all prisoners might be dead. He concluded by expressing hope that the ongoing negotiations would lead to a deal ensuring an end to what he called a 'genocidal war,' the withdrawal of occupying forces, and urgent humanitarian relief for Gaza.
Roya News
3 days ago
- Politics
- Roya News
Houthis claim missile, drone attacks on 'Israeli' targets
The military spokesperson for Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement announced on Wednesday that the group's missile force carried out a 'special operation' targeting Lod Airport in 'Israel'. In a separate statement, the spokesperson said that three drone operations were also conducted, targeting Lod Airport, the Negev, and the Port of Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat).
Russia Today
4 days ago
- Politics
- Russia Today
Humanitarian aid from hell: The extermination of Palestinians is being disguised as help
The Gaza genocide is special. And not in one but two regards. As has often been observed, this is the first genocide in history that is, in essence, livestreamed. No genocide before has been committed under the eyes of the world like this one. And second, the Gaza genocide is undermining and, in effect, devastating whole moral and legal orders – or at least longstanding claims to them – in an equally unprecedented way. These two peculiarities are related: The only way the world as a whole could have tolerated the Gaza genocide for almost three years now is by stubbornly disregarding fundamental norms, both written and unwritten. For instance, almost no state – with the exception of Yemen (under de facto control of the Ansar Allah movement or Houthis) – has even tried to comply with its binding and clear obligations under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, namely to 'prevent and punish' the crime of genocide. No one with the power – alone or with others – to do so, not in the Middle East, not beyond it, has come to save the Palestinian victims of the Gaza genocide in the only manner that would work: By stopping their Israeli murderers by massive force. Yet the small but still disproportionately influential part of the world that calls itself the West has gone beyond merely failing to act. That's because, whether the West is a civilization once shaped by Christianity or not, for a long time now, its true inner core has been hypocrisy. And during the Gaza Genocide, the West's compulsive need to rationalize even its most vicious actions into acts of virtue covered by 'values', has led to a new peak of absolute moral and intellectual perversion: Precisely because the West has not only abandoned the Palestinian victims but is actively co-perpetrating this genocide together with Israel, its elites – in politics, culture, the media, the police, and judiciary – have made a sustained, obstinate effort to radically alter our sense of right and wrong, from specific legal norms down to our intuitive and widely shared understanding of limits never to be crossed. Waging, for example, a so-called 'war' by killing or injuring – often maiming for life – over 50,000 children (as of May 2025)? A 'war' in which we receive one reliable testimony after another that many of these children are targeted deliberately, including by drone operators and snipers? A 'war' in which starvation, medical deprivation, and the promotion of epidemics have all been deployed equally deliberately? In the West, we are told to call this 'self-defense'. Indeed, we are asked – with great insistence, to say the least – to believe that this form of mass-murderous, infanticiding 'self-defense' is something to be proud of, even vicariously: The mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, for instance – notorious for his suppression of any signs of resistance to Israeli genocide – has just declared that city hall will keep flying the Israeli flag. In the same depraved spirit, the establishments of the West hand out punishment – from vicious police beatings to crippling lawfare to international sanctions – not to the perpetrators and accomplices of the Gaza genocide, in Israel and elsewhere, but to those who resist it in solidarity with its Palestinian victims. Protesters, journalists worth their salt, and even a UN special rapporteur are treated like criminals, even terrorists for actually standing up against the crime of genocide, as – just yesterday, it seems – we were all officially supposed to do. But 'never again' has been turned into 'definitely again, and as long as the murderers want, since they are Israelis and our friends'. It is in this context of a reversal of morality, law, and meaning so complete the overused term 'Orwellian' for once really applies that we can understand what is now happening to the concept of 'humanitarian' action. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica's back-to-basics definition, a humanitarian is a 'person who works to make other people's lives better,' for instance, by trying to end world hunger. Since modern humanitarianism already has a history of two centuries, historians, such as Michael Barnett in his 'Empire of Humanity', have delivered more complex accounts. Critics have long denounced humanitarianism's limits and even flaws. For French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, it is what's left when a more optimistic humanism decays: A sort of bleak emergency response, a sign that the world has gotten worse, again. In particular, during the post-Cold War decades of American hubris – misnamed the 'unipolar moment' – humanitarianism often allied with Western imperialism. In the war of aggression against Iraq that started in 2003, for instance, humanitarian organizations became servants to the aggressors, invaders, and occupiers. Yet, whatever view of humanitarianism you may endorse, there are things the concept can only accommodate for the completely deranged and limitlessly evil, such as massacring starving civilians and concentration camps. And yet, in Gaza, both have been labeled humanitarian. The so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a shady US-Israeli concoction, has promoted a scheme in which pittances of food are effectively used as bait for lethal traps: Palestinians deliberately blockaded by Israel have been lured to four kill zones masquerading as aid distribution points. Over the past one and a half months, Israeli forces and Western mercenaries have killed at least 789 victims – and injured thousands – at or near these satanic traps. Obviously, killing the unarmed on such a scale is not collateral damage but deliberate. By now, the murderous intent behind the scheme has been confirmed by various sources, including Israeli. No wonder that 170 real humanitarian and human rights group have signed a protest against this fake relief and genuine mass murder scheme. And then there is the concentration camp plan: Israeli leaders have already driven the surviving inhabitants of Gaza – one of the most densely settled places on Earth even before the genocide – into an area comprising only 20% of Gaza's devastated surface. Yet that is not evil enough for them: On the way to what seems to be their idea of a final solution of the Gaza question, they have now pitched a new plan to their US allies, namely, to herd the survivors into an even smaller area. This de facto concentration camp they advertise as a 'humanitarian city'. From there, Palestinians would have only two ways out: By death or by leaving Gaza. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz wants to sell us this as 'voluntary'. It is an irony of history that Israeli genociders now compete not only with the crimes of the Nazis but also with the Germans' horrendous abuse of language. The location of this deadly ethnic-cleansing transit station? The ruins of Rafah. You may remember Rafah, once a bustling city in southern Gaza, as the place Israel's Western allies pretended to try to protect, sort of, for a while. Those warnings were worth nothing, of course. Rafah was flattened, and now the area is earmarked for the concentration camp to end it all. The scheme is so outrageous – but then, that is Israel's ordinary modus operandi – that even its critics can hardly keep up with just how depraved it is. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA – the effective aid distribution organization that Israel has shut down in pursuit of its starvation strategy, killing almost 400 of its local staff – has posted on X that the 'humanitarian city' would amount to a second Nakba and 'create massive concentration camps at the border with Egypt for the Palestinians.' The Nakba was the Zionist ethnic cleansing, interspersed with massacres, of around 750,000 Palestinians in 1948. But Lazzarini is wrong if he believes that the first Nakba ever ended: For the Palestinian victims of Israeli violence, it only initiated an ongoing process of theft, apartheid, and often murder. A process that has now culminated in genocide, as multiple international experts acknowledge, including the eminent Oxford historian Avi Shlaim. This is not a second Nakba, but the Israeli attempt to complete the first one. Lazzarini's comment that the humanitarian city plan would create concentration camps on the border with Egypt is, of course, also true as far as it goes. Yet all of Gaza has long been what (even by 2003) the Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling called 'the world's largest concentration camp ever.' The point is not to be pedantic. What Lazzerini's protest – welcome as it is – still misses is that what Israel is now doing to the Palestinians is creating a fresh hell within a much older one. But not Israel alone. The West is, as always, deeply involved. Let's set aside that the interwar Zionists learned about how to use concentration camps against Palestinians from the British Mandate authorities, as with other methods of vicious suppression, too. Now as well, various Western figures and agencies have become involved in the Israeli schemes of resettlement that drive the humanitarian city plan. Tony Blair's foundation – really a commercial consulting and influence-peddling company systematically working for the dark side wherever it pays well – and the prestigious and powerful Boston Consulting Group have both been caught contributing to Israeli ethnic cleansing planning. And behind that stands the declared will of no one less than Donald Trump, the president of the US, who has long been explicit that he would like to see Gaza rebuilt as a vast, glitzy Trumpistan and without Palestinians. From the beginning of the Gaza genocide, it has been both a brutal crime and a constant attempt to redefine what is right and what is wrong so that this crime would appear necessary, justifiable, and even as a legitimate opportunity to profit. And the West's elites – with far too few exceptions – have joined Israel in this absolute perversion of fundamental ethics and reason no less than in the mass murdering. If both Israel and the West are not stopped at long last, they will use the Gaza genocide to change much of the world into a hellscape where everything we have learned to despise about the Nazis will become the new normal.
Roya News
4 days ago
- Politics
- Roya News
Houthis claims drone strike on 'Israeli' military target in Negev
The military spokesperson for Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthis) announced Tuesday that the group's drone forces had targeted a military installation belonging to the 'Zionist enemy' in the Negev region. In a brief statement carried by the group's media channels, the spokesperson said, 'The Air Force carried out a drone operation targeting a military site of the Zionist enemy in the Negev.' No further details were provided regarding the nature or results of the strike.
Canada News.Net
7 days ago
- Politics
- Canada News.Net
Houthi strike on cargo vessel disrupts key global trade route
DUBAI, U.A.E.: A cargo ship flagged under Liberia, known as the Eternity C, sank in the Red Sea following an attack executed by Yemen's Houthi rebels on July 9. This incident has drawn significant attention due to its profound implications for maritime safety in a region vital for international trade, where an estimated US$1 trillion worth of cargo passes annually. Reports indicate that, out of the 25 crew members on board, only six have been rescued, while at least three others have lost their lives in the assault. The attack on the Eternity C marks the most aggressive action taken by the Houthis along the Red Sea trade route recently. This escalation raises alarming concerns regarding the safety of maritime operations in the Red Sea, which had previously seen a cautious revival as vessels began to return to these waters. Furthermore, the incident comes against the backdrop of escalating tensions due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, which the Houthis claim to support through their military actions targeting commercial shipping. From November 2023 to December 2024, the Houthis have reportedly launched over 100 attacks on vessels in the region, utilizing missiles and drones. However, there had been a pause in their aggression during a temporary ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. Following this, they became the target of significant U.S.-led airstrikes, ordered by President Trump. The simultaneous attack on the Eternity C and the sinking of a separate vessel, the Magic Seas, prompts critical questions regarding maritime security in the Red Sea. Hans Grundberg, the United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, expressed grave concern regarding the recent hostilities, emphasizing the potential for further civilian casualties and environmental degradation. He referred to the attacking forces as Ansar Allah, another name for the Houthis, and reiterated the need for protecting civilian infrastructure. A statement from the European Union's naval mission confirmed that the crew of the Eternity C comprised 22 sailors, predominantly from the Philippines, alongside a security team that included members from different nations. The nature of the attack was brutal; armed militants reportedly employed rocket-propelled grenades and small arms before utilizing drones and drone boats equipped with explosives to engage the vessel. The ship ultimately sank around 7:50 AM local time. The Eternity C was owned by a Greek company and had been targeted, likely due to its connections with Israel, similar to the Magic Seas attack. Notably, neither of the vessels sought protection from the European naval force stationed in the area. While the U.S. military maintains an operational presence in the region with aircraft carriers like the USS Nimitz and USS Carl Vinson, their location in the Arabian Sea places them far from the scene of the attacks, which, interestingly, had no direct ties to American interests. Brigadier General Yahya Saree, a spokesperson for the Houthis, claimed responsibility for the attack via a pre-recorded message, detailing the group's military capabilities in a video showcasing the missile launches aimed at the ship. The footage displayed extensive damage to the Eternity C and indicated a significant oil leak. Observers noted the rebels' chants celebrating the attack, which underscores the deep-seated ideological motivations behind their actions. In the aftermath, Philippe's Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Cacdac communicated that the government is actively engaging with families of the Filipino sailors to provide updates on the ongoing search and rescue efforts. This proactive approach stems from a recognition of the emotional turmoil families face during such distressing times. The international community has condemned these assaults. U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce highlighted the ongoing risks posed by the Houthi rebels to freedom of navigation and regional maritime security, affirming the U.S. commitment to protecting commercial shipping interests. The situation in the Red Sea reflects a complex interplay of geopolitical tensions that extend far beyond Yemen. A balanced approach to diplomacy and conflict resolution is necessary for the region's stability.
