Netanyahu is a fucking war criminal and so is the u.s. government and all the governments who have helped israel kill over 40,000 innocent people. It was netanyahu who killed the hostages he is reportedly trying to save, not Hamas. Fuck him and his fascist government and the apartheid state he leads with the unconditional support of the u.s.a.
Hamas statement on deaths of hostages killed in Gaza
The following is a statement by Khalil Al-Hayya, Deputy Head of Hamas in Gaza, to Al Jazeera concerning the six hostages killed in Gaza:
Thousands of protesters rallied across Israel on Sept. 1 condemning Prime Minister Netanyahu for his handling of the hostages being held in Gaza. Protester’s sign in Hebrew reads “Netanyahu’s Legacy.”
The six [Israeli] prisoners (t.me/RNN_Backup/54954) and others could have been released to their families through a real exchange deal while still alive, but the insistence of the occupation army, [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, and his extremist government is the reason these prisoners lost their lives (t.me/RNN_Backup/55040), along with dozens killed directly by the occupation through bombardment, targeting those who were with them, guarding them or living with them.
Some enemy prisoners were killed directly by live bullets from the occupation. Netanyahu and his team do not care about the prisoners. When Netanyahu was asked to choose between Philadelphia and the prisoners, he said, “Philadelphia is more important than the prisoners,” and this is publicly known.
Netanyahu displays bravado and attempts to portray false heroics here and there. These six were directly killed by the occupation and were also targeted in bombings and other actions, as were many before them. I provide here an example of one of them, an “israeli” youth who holds U.S. citizenship.
This young man, for purely humanitarian reasons requested by his family and through the intervention of many people via the Qatari brothers, asked for assurances about his life. We responded for humanitarian and political reasons, to push toward progress in concluding a real deal. We handed the Qatari brothers a video of this young man speaking with his mother and father.
The young man addressed the “israeli” government. After this video, and before some time, Al-Qassam announced that they had lost contact with him and those guarding him, clearly indicating that he was subjected to a direct strike by the “israeli” occupation. Since that day, nothing was known about his life, and today he was found dead with a group of others, which is clear evidence that the occupation targets these individuals.
All stages of negotiation have shown that Netanyahu is not interested in reaching a deal. Instead of sending his army to kill and destroy an entire area to recover two or three prisoners, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians, he could have retrieved them through a real exchange deal, as we did last November.
In November and December, more than 115 to 125 “israelis” and foreigners returned through negotiations conducted with the desire, will and mediation of Qatar. This is an example of how, if Netanyahu truly wanted a prisoner exchange, we were immediately ready. We have shown great flexibility and made significant concessions to achieve an exchange deal, halt aggression and war, and end the suffering of the people.
The United States is responsible for obstructing the negotiations; it does not want to reach a deal and has withdrawn from its previous commitments. Briefly looking back, since last March there have been indirect negotiations between us, the mediator brothers and the occupation. We stopped at the points of a ceasefire, prisoner exchange, the withdrawal of the occupation and reconstruction.
Our demand for the exchange included high standards, such as 500 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for every soldier and female soldier and 250 for others. When the mediators indicated there would be a significant opportunity if we showed flexibility in the exchange criteria, we immediately responded, reducing from 500 to 50 for the female soldiers and from 250 to 30 for the civilians.
The mediators, including those from the U.S., received this flexibility positively. But what did the occupation do? They disregarded it and began a new maneuver in May. In May, the Egyptian mediator brothers presented a complete agreement, to which we immediately agreed. The next day, what did the occupation do? They stormed the Rafah crossing, which remains closed.
Of course amerikkkan military personnel are going to be attacked in other countries, especially in light of what their israeli allies are doing to the population of Gaza. Imperialism is the enemy of the world's people.
Members of Turkish national youth organization in custody after assault on US Marines
Oren Liebermann, Gul Tuysuz and Avery Schmitz, CNN
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More than a dozen members of a Turkish national youth organization were taken into custody in Turkey after local authorities say they assaulted two US Marines.
The Marines, assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, were on liberty in Izmir when the assault occurred Monday afternoon, the US Sixth Fleet said in a statement.
The Marines were assaulted by members of the Turkish Youth Union, according to local authorities, a nationalist anti-American organization that has attacked US service members before.
Video of the assault confirmed by a US official shows several people holding the Marines by force as a speaker on the street screams loudly. One of the Marines shouts “Help!” several times, while the crowd puts a bag over the head of another Marine. The crowd then starts chanting, “Yankee, go home!”
The Marines were able to break away from the crowd with the help of other Marines in the area, the Navy said. They were screened at a local hospital and are not injured. The Marines have returned to the USS Wasp.
The US and Turkey are NATO allies, but relations between the two have often been fraught. Since the start of the war in Gaza, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vociferously criticized Israel, accusing the country of carrying out a genocide. In April, Erdogan hosted Hamas’ political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul. Turkey also blocked Sweden’s ascension to NATO, claiming that Sweden harbored Kurdish terror groups. Erdogan relented when the US moved forward with plans to sell Turkey modern American fighter jets.
Local Izmir police and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service are investigating the incident, the Navy said. No Marines were detained, and those involved in the incident are cooperating with investigators.
“We can confirm reports that U.S. service members embarked aboard the USS Wasp were the victims of an assault in Izmir today, and are now safe,” the US Embassy in Turkey said on social media. “We thank Turkish authorities for their rapid response and ongoing investigation.”
Izmir Governorship said in a statement that local police intervened in the incident and that 15 suspects were taken into custody.
It’s not the first time the Turkish Youth Union has attacked US service members. In 2021, authorities in Turkey arrested 17 members of the group for putting a hood over the head of a US Navy civilian employee, Reuters reported at the time. Their actions were in protest of US policy in the Middle East.
In a similar incident in 2014, members of the organization attacked three US sailors on leave from their ship in Istanbul, placing bags over their heads. The assailants chanted “Yankee, go home!” during the attack.
For the Turkish Youth Union, placing bags over the heads of US service members is a reference to an infamous incident in 2003 known as the “hood incident.” Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, US troops captured Turkish soldiers and placed bags over their heads, detaining them for 60 hours.
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit is part of the USS Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, which is operating in the eastern Mediterranean Sea amid concerns of a regional escalation. The USS Wasp had pulled into Izmir one day earlier, and the Marines were allowed to leave the ship for a break.
This story has been updated with additional information.
The best way to support the struggling and dying people of Occupied Palestine is to oppose your own government, who undoubtedly are helping aid the genocide going on right before our fucking eyes. Fuck the vote. No matter what, the killing of children in the name of " freedom " and " democracy" will continue. All of this shit needs to go.
GAZA LIVE BLOG: Protests in Israel | 281 Attacks in August | US: Final Proposal | Destroying Jenin – Day 332
The general strike began in Israel in solidarity with families of prisoners held in Gaza and in rejection of Netanyahu’s obstruction of a deal. The strike includes schools, universities, Ben Gurion Airport, public transportation, and broad economic sectors.
The United States plans to submit a final agreement proposal to the parties in the coming weeks on the war in Gaza, according to the Washington Post.
At least four Palestinians were killed and others were injured in the Israeli bombing of a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 40,786 Palestinians have been killed, and 94,224 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Monday, September 2, 11:45 pm (GMT+2)
NBC: US President Joe Biden may present the final offer to Hamas and Israel as soon as this week.
LAPID: Israel withdrew from the Philadelphi corridor 19 years ago and Netanyahu supported that.
HAMAS: Netanyahu is looking for an imaginary victory that he failed to market.
ANSARALLAH: We carried out a qualitative operation against a ship in the Red Sea.
Monday, September 2, 10:30 pm (GMT+2)
AL-QASSAM: Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast a video recording of the Israeli captive, Idan Yerushalmi, who appealed to Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to work on concluding a deal to release her.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Thousands of demonstrators surround Likud Party headquarters.
KAN: Senior American officials expressed their frustration in closed talks with Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent steps.
Monday, September 2, 10:00 pm (GMT+2)
BIDEN: US President Joe Biden said that they are still continuing negotiations for a ceasefire and the release of prisoners, adding that the negotiations are taking place with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s team, not with Netanyahu himself.
ABU OBEIDA: Netanyahu and the occupation army alone bear full responsibility for the deaths of prisoners after they deliberately disrupted any deal. Netanyahu’s insistence on releasing the prisoners through military pressure instead of concluding a deal means they will return in coffins. The families of Israeli prisoners must choose between returning them dead or alive.
Monday, September 2, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)
NETANYAHU: The achievement of the four war objectives passes through the Philadelphia axis.
BRICK: We will bring ourselves down if we continue fighting in Gaza.
KAMALA HARRIS: It’s time for a ceasefire in Gaza.
GALLANT: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant expressed his “deep” disappointment over British measures regarding arms export licenses.
AL-JAZEERA: Thousands have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv to demand a prisoner swap deal, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused of obstructing the deal.
Monday, September 2, 8:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI FM: Britain’s decision to suspend some arms exports to Israel “sends an ambiguous message to Hamas and Iran.”
MAARIV: The Israeli Center for Security Studies confirmed that Hezbollah launched 281 attacks on northern Israel last August, killing 3 Israelis and wounding 30 others.
WHITE HOUSE: US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris discussed the next steps to secure the release of detainees in the Gaza Strip.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: The relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant has reached a dead end.
Monday, September 2, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted the town of Houla in southern Lebanon.
DAVID LAMMY: London will suspend 30 arms export licenses to Israel, including equipment used in the current war on the Gaza Strip.
IRANIAN FM: Iran is seeking to reduce tension, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to expand violence in all areas, including the West Bank.
HAARETZ (citing senior Israeli Air Force officer): It is impossible to continue the war without American support. The Israeli officer added that the army is working on a recommendation to increase local ammunition production to reduce dependence on foreign countries.
HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the settlements of Ein Yaakov, Ga’aton and Yehiam in northern Israel for the second time with Katyusha rockets.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Our fighters detonated an explosive device in an Israeli military bulldozer in the schools axis in Tulkarm camp in the occupied West Bank.
GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: Five Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli shelling in front of Al-Fakhoura School, which houses displaced people in Jabaliya camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
Monday, September 2, 6:00 pm (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces blew up residential homes in the middle of Jenin camp, especially on Al-Damj Street in the occupied West Bank.
CHANNEL 12: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will not withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, neither after 42 days nor after 42 years.
ISRAELI MEDIA (citing political official): It is strange that US President Joe Biden is pressuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and not the head of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar.
AL-JAZEERA: Explosions were heard in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
Monday, September 2, 5:00 pm (GMT+2)
BIDEN: Netanyahu is not doing enough to reach a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, as he insists on staying in the Netzarim and Philadelphi axes.
AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians, including a child, were killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a group of citizens northwest of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
NETANYAHU: We will respond forcefully to the killing of the six detainees.
Monday, September 2, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAEL HAYOM: Israeli police arrested 7 demonstrators in Tel Aviv.
HEZBOLLAH: We bombarded the settlements of Ein Yaakov, Ga’aton and Yehiam with Katyusha rockets.
CHANNEL 14: Gunfire targeted an Israeli military site near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
CHANNEL 12: The strike in Israel is in support of Yahya Sinwar.
Monday, September 2, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI MEDIA: The Labor Court issued an order to end the Histadrut workers’ union strike at 2:30 pm local time.
AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli police suppressed protesters against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s torpedoing of the deal in the Ayalon axis in Tel Aviv and arrested some of them.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Our fighters continue to target enemy forces on the battlefronts in Jenin camp.
AL-JAZEERA: Demonstrators demanding a prisoner swap are closing the Ayalon axis, which connects Tel Aviv’s major cities to each other.
CHANNEL 14: Israeli soldiers injured in the Gaza Strip battles did not receive treatment at Sheba Hospital due to the strike.
ISRAEL HAYOM: The newspaper quoted the Minister of Settlement Orit Struck as saying: I went to the military secretary and the security cabinet to declare a state of war in the West Bank.
Monday, September 2, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)
GAZA MUNICIPALITY: The car targeted by Israel belonged to the municipality. One employee was killed.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 40,786 Palestinians have been killed, and 94,224 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
ISRAEL HAYOM: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant summoned members of his party in the Knesset to his office to explain his positions, and informed them that he does not intend to resign.
LAZZARINI: More than 70% of our schools in Gaza were destroyed.
ISRAELI ARMY RADIO (Citing Labor Court Judge): We accept the Histadrut’s proposal regarding the strike, and we will not issue any arrest warrants.
BEN-GVIR: We have the authority, and we are exerting great pressure to oppose the deal, and I hope that the prime minister will not feel confused and that no one will back down.
Monday, September 2, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: The Israeli Federation of Trade Unions informed the Labor Court that the strike will end tonight but Channel 12 reported that workers at Ben Gurion Airport and Israeli Airlines decided to continue the strike and cause chaos at the airport.
LAPID (in a letter to government members): You are complicit in the greatest disaster in the country’s history and bear responsibility for all decisions. The kidnapped are dying one by one and the army is in its deepest crisis.
CNN (citing Israeli officials): We are outraged by the killing of the six hostages, and the government owes their families an apology.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades claimed full responsibility for the Gush Etzion and Karmei Tzur operations near the city of Hebron last Friday.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced that one of its drones fell a short while ago in Ashkelon without causing any injuries, noting that the incident is being investigated.
Monday, September 2, 11:00 am (GMT+2)
KAN: Demonstrators are staging a sit-in in front of the house of Arnon Bar-David, head of the labor unions, in support of him.
CHANNEL 12: 5 shells were detected fired from Lebanon towards the settlement of Matat in the Upper Galilee.
LEBANESE HEALTH MINISTRY: Two people were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a car in the town of Naqoura, south of Lebanon.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army said it bombed Hezbollah military buildings in the areas of Yaroun, Aita al-Shaab, Hanin, Tyre Harfa and Bayda in southern Lebanon.
WALLA: We are considering extending the general strike until tomorrow and expanding it to include larger sectors.
KAN: Dozens of Haredim are demonstrating near the recruitment office in Tel Hashomer, refusing to be recruited.
Monday, September 2, 09:30 am (GMT+2)
WAFA:
At least four Palestinians were killed and others were injured in the Israeli bombing of a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes launched a raid on Nuseirat camp, coinciding with heavy and random gunfire from the occupation’s vehicles north of the camp.
ISRAELI MEDIA: A car bomb was defused at the entrance to the Atarit settlement, northwest of Ramallah in the West Bank.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a civilian car in the vicinity of Al-Rimal Clinic, west of Gaza City.
CHANNEL 12: The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations is calling on the Security Council to hold an emergency session to discuss the situation of prisoners in Gaza.
WALLA: A house in the town of Avivim in the Upper Galilee was directly hit by an anti-tank missile launched from Lebanon.
Monday, September 2, 08:00 am (GMT+2)
PRCS: We received from the occupation forces an unidentified prisoner martyr at the Salem checkpoint west of the city of Jenin.
AL-JAZEERA: General strike begins in Israel in solidarity with families of prisoners held in Gaza and in rejection of Netanyahu’s obstruction of a deal. The strike includes schools, universities, Ben Gurion Airport, public transportation and broad economic sectors.
LAPID: Netanyahu invented the Philadelphi Corridor obstacle to thwart a deal.
UKMTO: A merchant ship captain reports that his ship was hit by two unknown projectiles 70 nautical miles northwest of Al-Salif in Yemen.
Monday, September 2, 06:30 am (GMT+2)
THE WHITE HOUSE: President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet Monday with the U.S. negotiating team following the killing of the American prisoner held in Gaza.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli warplanes targeted a house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
WASHINGTON POST (Citing US officials): The US plans to submit a final agreement proposal to the parties in the coming weeks on the war in Gaza.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a building used by Israeli soldiers in the Avivim settlement, directly hitting it.
AL-JAZEERA: Occupation forces stormed the new Askar camp in Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
