🔻Palestinian members of Fatah (PLO) defending Magen Avraham, the oldest Jewish synagogue in Wadi Abu Jamil district of Beirut, Lebanon. At that time Yasir Arafat was viewed very favorably by the Lebanese Jews of Beirut.

Prior to the Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon's Jewish community was stable, and even after the 1948 war was actually growing. Israeli bombs destroyed the synagogue -yes, you read that right, ISRAELI bombs- on August 12, 1982. The New York Times actually wrote about it in an article entitled "Beirut's Only Synagogue is Casualty of the Israelis", published the same day.

The synagogue is currently undergoing a restoration under agreement with Shif Hezbollah and financed by the Sunni Muslim family of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri -and, yes, you read that right as well, Shii and Sunni Muslims in Lebanon are restoring Beirut's oldest Jewish synagogue.
So much for the narrative.

Credit: Shibli Zaman

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Ukraine pressures the US to authorize it to attack Russian territory

The news site Politico reported that Ukraine has been putting heavy pressure on the US in recent days to change its policy and authorize it to attack Russian territory using American weapons.

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The Soldiers said they would play Hide and Seek with us— A horrifying testimony from Al-Shifa Hospital

“The soldiers entered the hospital wards and called out to the men through loudspeakers, ordering them to go downstairs.

They informed them that they would play a game of hide-and-seek, and whoever disobeys their orders would be killed.

We stayed for two nights, when suddenly Israeli soldiers stormed the hospital amid heavy shelling. I was terrified; it was as if the Day of
Judgment had begun. We were lying on the ground between the corridors. The screams of children and women were deafening.

I didn't dare look out the windows for fear of being sniped by the soldiers, after they executed a young man next to me when he looked out of a window. We watched as he slowly bled out in front of us until he took his last breath, and no one could save him”

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Former Israeli Defense Minister says Hamas is handling the war better than Netanyahu

Israel Today, on the authority of former Zionist Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman:

The War Council is leading us towards loss, and the government is not planning anything

The Netanyahu government has no vision and no plan on how to manage operations

Netanyahu lost international support for Israel due to his floundering

Everything the Israeli government does is aimed at political survival, and its neglect has caused a major rift in society

Hamas and Sinwar are managing the war from the tunnels better than Netanyahu

All those responsible for the failure on October 7 must leave, including Netanyahu, the Minister of Defense and the Chief of Staff

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At least eight strikes were carried out by the Israeli occupation forces on aid workers' convoys and premises in Gaza since October 2023 even though aid groups gave their coordinates to the Israeli occupation authorities to make sure they are protected, Human Rights Watch reported.

HRW added that the Israeli occupation did not issue any warning to any of these organizations before the strikes that killed or injured at least 31 aid workers and others accompanying them.

HRW said that these eight attack incidents show major flaws in the "deconfliction system" set to shield aid workers and permit them to safely deliver life-saving humanitarian assistance in Gaza.

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