Iran Vows to Retaliate After Israeli Attack on Consulate in Damascus
Tehran has warned Tel Aviv of a response following the strike in Syria on Monday in which at least seven died.
Israel’s attack on Iran’s General Consulate in Damascus will not go unanswered, President of the Islamic Republic Ebrahim Raisi has said.
“The Zionist regime [Israel] must bear in mind that it won’t be able to achieve its sinister objectives with such inhumane measures and will have to face the growing strength of the resistance front and also the free nations’ hatred and aversion to its illegitimate nature. This unfair crime won’t go unanswered,” he stated, as cited by Tasnim news agency.
On Monday evening, the Syrian Ministry of Defense reported an airstrike by the Israeli Air Force on the General Consulate of Iran in Damascus. The building also housed the residence of the ambassador of the Islamic Republic to the SAR, Hossein Akbari, who was unharmed during the attack. The missile strike completely destroyed the consulate.
According to a statement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran’s elite military unit, seven IRGC officers were killed in the Israeli attack, among them two high-ranking generals-advisors – Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon, and his deputy, Brigadier General Mohammad Hadi Hajizadeh.
In response to Israel’s attack, the Iranian Foreign Ministry stated that it “reserves the right” to personally respond to Tel Aviv’s airstrike and to determine how “to punish the aggressor.”
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Israeli Strike Kills Foreign Aid Workers in Gaza
Seven aid workers, including four foreigners, providing meals for the World Central Kitchen (WCK) have been killed in a “targeted attack” by Israeli forces in Gaza, the NGO, founded by Spanish-American celebrity chef Jose Andres, has said.
All of the group’s operations in the Palestinian enclave have been suspended following the Monday incident, it added.
Five fatalities were reported initially as a result of the airstrike, but WCK announced an updated death toll in a statement on Tuesday. The victims include a dual US-Canadian citizen, three Palestinians, an Australian, a Pole and a British national, the group said.
According to the NGO, its staff members were attacked in the town of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza as they were leaving a warehouse after unloading tons of food aid earlier delivered to the Palestinian enclave by sea.
The aid workers were traveling through a de-conflicted zone in two armored cars with the WCK logo on them as well as a soft skin vehicle, the NGO said. The convoy was struck despite WCK coordinating its movements with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the statement read.
“This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations, where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable,” WCK CEO Erin Gore said.
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Videos from the scene of the attack show the bodies of several people in World Central Kitchen vests. British, Polish and Australian passports were also seen in the clips.
Andres wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that he was “heartbroken” by what had happened. The Michelin-starred chef urged the Israeli government to stop its “indiscriminate killing,” restriction of humanitarian aid and “using food as a weapon” in Gaza.
Australia has confirmed that one of its citizens was killed in the IDF strike, with the country’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saying that Canberra “expects full accountability for the deaths of aid workers, which is completely unacceptable.”
US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson wrote on X that Washington was “deeply troubled” by the deaths of the WCK staff. “We urge Israel to swiftly investigate what happened,” Watson said.
The Israeli military said it was carrying out a thorough review in order to understand the circumstances of the incident in Deir al-Balah.
“The IDF makes extensive efforts to enable the safe delivery of humanitarian aid, and has been working closely with WCK in their vital efforts to provide food and humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza,” it insisted.
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The UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said last month that 165 of its workers have been killed since October 7, when the IDF began its attacks on Gaza in response to an incursion into Israel by Hamas, in which at least 1,200 were killed and 250 taken hostage. The death toll from Israel’s airstrikes and ground offensive in Gaza has already reached 32,845 people, according to the enclave’s health ministry.
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Virologist Says Imminent New Covid Crisis Among The Jabbed Will Cause Chaos & Collapse Society
Belgian virologist Dr Geert Vanden Bossche has warned that a “massive tsunami” of Covid illnesses and deaths among those who were ‘vaccinated’ it, is imminent. He has also warned that the new covid crisis would […]
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Scientists Prove That Pop Music Has Gotten Worse Over Last 50 Years
A new study looking at lyrics and music over the last 50 years has concluded that pop music has gotten scientifically worse over time. Emotions in the songs have also become more negative and angry. […]
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BREAKING: US Northern Border Wide Open as Chinese Soldiers Train With Canadian Military
Guest hosts and illegal immigration experts Anthony Rubin and Carlos Arellano sit in on the Monday Alex Jones Show and are joined by other open borders experts, Michael Yon, Masako Ganaha and Tom Marazzo to discuss the other U.S. border, the one with Canada.
The northern U.S. border is the largest in the world, and with only small sections that are nominally protected, it is also one of the least protected. While the two first world Western nations have largely managed an orderly relationship in regards to their borders for the last 200 years, the United Nations replacement migration operations put this system in jeopardy, as masses of third-worlders begin to pour into the West.
If that’s not bad enough, the Chinese communists have cozied up to the globalist rulers of Canada and have been running Chinese military dills just north of the U.S. as Sino-American relations continue to degrade.
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Where Trust in The News is Highest & Lowest
Each year, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism publishes a report on digital news consumption.
The latest edition, based on surveys of more than 93,000 people in 46 countries, documents how overall trust in news has slid downwards by two percentage points in the past year. About four in ten people in the total sample say they trust most news most of the time. Among the countries surveyed, Finland remains the country with the highest level of trust (69 percent), while Greece (19 percent) has the lowest.
The share of citizens in all countries surveyed who are “very” or “extremely” interested in news and consume it regularly fell from 51 percent in 2022 to 48 percent in 2023. Many people are choosing to increasingly ration or limit their exposure to news, or at least to news of a certain kind. News that is overly repetitive or deemed “emotionally draining” is often passed over in favor of something more uplifting.
As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according to the report, with the abundance of channels now available, “it is not surprising that news consumers are increasingly feeling overwhelmed and confused, and many are turning away temporarily or permanently. Selective news avoidance and news fatigue have been exacerbated by the challenging times we live in.”
As the study reveals, social networks that rely more on videos such as TikTok, Instagram or YouTube are becoming increasingly important for news.
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In this respect the writers add: “it is clear that most consumers are not looking for more news, but for the news that seems most relevant to them and helps them make sense of the complex issues we face. The new technological disruption of artificial intelligence is just around the corner, threatening to unleash a new wave of personalized, but potentially unreliable, content.”
It is important to note here that this data is based on citizens’ perceptions of the trustworthiness of media or news brands and that these scores are aggregates of subjective opinions. Analysts stress that this means that changes over time are often much influenced by “political and social factors as with the news itself.”
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