I can only imagine how terrifying it must be to face the pressure of an entire government for sharing information. Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Aaron Swartz, Reality Winner, and many more people have bravely shared information at great personal cost and have faced consequences because of it. I wish Mr. Li the best of luck, because long after he is forgotten by most of the Internet he will still be suffering blowback for the brave act of spreading truth. Not all heros wear capes, but some may look like cats.
[Not defending Israel] As a rule of thumb, I wouldn’t trust the word of an interested party in accusing the other party.
Maybe they had 7 hostages and Israel killed 3, or maybe Israel released 4 and Hamas killed the rest, or maybe those 3 were killed earlier for whatever reason, or anything in between.
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Click here to see the summaryThe Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, has said a failed arson attack that took place in Prague last week was “very likely” organised and financed by Russia.Speaking after a meeting of the Czech National Security Council, Mr Fiala said the failed attack was evidently part of a “hybrid” campaign of sabotage being run by Moscow against European countries.Police said a foreign citizen was arrested on Saturday in connection with the incident and was being held in custody on terrorism charges.He was described as “a Spanish-speaking man originally from South America” and had apparently been in the country for five days. Police beefed up patrols across the Czech capital last Friday after claims of a heightened risk to security.They released CCTV footage apparently showing a dark-haired man paying for items in a shop or petrol station. On Sunday afternoon a criminal prosecution was launched, and today [Monday] a court ordered he be remanded in custody,” Mr Vondrasek told journalists at a news briefing. The man - described as a 26-year-old of South American origin - is accused of trying to set fire to buses at a public transport depot in Prague’s Klicov district in the early hours of Thursday morning.Local media initially reported that he had spilt petrol over several buses at the depot, but failed to set them on fire. However, a spokeswoman for Prague’s public transport authority was quoted by news outlet Novinky.cz as saying the man had set several buses alight, and the fires were subsequently extinguished by depot workers. The fires caused an estimated 200,000 Czech crowns (£6,864; $8,738) of damage, she said.He now faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted under terrorism legislation - 30 if given an exemplary sentence.Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Czech government has become one of Ukraine’s most ardent supporters, providing military assistance including artillery, tanks and ammunition.However the mutual antipathy predates the February 2022 invasion.The government in Prague says Russia’s GRU intelligence service was behind the 2014 explosions at a Czech arms dump that left two people dead.The Czech Republic was the second country - after the US - to be placed on Russia’s list of “unfriendly nations” after a series of diplomatic expulsions that followed an investigation into the explosions.Moscow denies any involvement in the incident. — Saved 28% of original text.
Palestinian militants armed with machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades opened fire on the rescuers, as Israel called in heavy strikes from land and air to cover their evacuation to the coast. “A lot of fire was around us,” Hagari said.
It was this bombardment that appears to have killed and wounded so many Palestinians.
Funny you mention that. Israeli brain surgeons saved Yahya Sinwar’s life by removing a tumor when he was imprisoned in Israel for torture and murder of several Palestinians and Israelis. He “thanked” the lead surgeon by having his grandson abducted on October 7.
Key quote with no fuckin substance. Israel dropped a bomb on a refugee camp that shoots shrapnel outwards in a football field sized radius. Gee, I wonder what killed so many civilians. smh
The “beautiful” thing about perfidy is that it’s a particularly well defined war crime and it’s relatively easy to prove in the era of cameras everywhere.
What isn’t permitted is fighting in civilian clothes, but if you read the article, there is nothing indicating that they did. It is entirely legal to move about and set up an attack in civilian clothes, provided they are discarded immediately before striking.
lol get over yourself. I didn’t stalk you. lemmy ain’t that active and we both clearly have a common ground in wanting to voice political opinion. I just happen speak out against propaganda while you shill for izzy and the feds. I hope they are at least paying you.
For clarity on what is actually disgusting though, dressing up like you are going to provide aide to suffering people only to murder them is gross as fuck. Even if it were “legal”, which it isn’t.
Eyewitnesses tell Asharq that beside the disguised troops, other special forces snuck into the Nuseirat camp inside an aid truck. The IDF has denied using humanitarian transports for the operation.
From the link you posted, it seems this would still be a war crime if it’s true, unless I’m misinterpreting the text:
Ruses of war are permitted. Warships and auxiliary vessels, however, are prohibited from launching an attack whilst flying a false flag and at all times from actively simulating the status of protected vessels such as hospitals ships, small coastal rescue craft or medical transports.
I assume the aid truck they were using would qualify as an “auxiliary vessel”, and they were using it to impersonate “medical transport”.
Ukraine accused Russia […] of using toxic chemicals in more than 200 attacks on the battlefield in January alone, a sharp increase in what it said were recorded instances of their use by Russian forces since they invaded two years ago.
CS gas […] is banned on the battlefield by the international Chemical Weapons Convention which states in Article 1: “Each State Party undertakes not to use riot control agents as a method of warfare.”
[…] The Ukrainian general staff said: “815 cases of the use of ammunition loaded with toxic chemicals by the Russian Federation were recorded. Of these, only in January 2024 – 229 cases.”
It’s right there in the title: “…the US government says”.
I am not whatabouting anything, I am just highlighting that the US government has lied about similar things before and that maybe we should be hesitant to automatically consider it an accurate or reputable source of publicly disclosed geopolitical information.
@trevron, It’s good practice to name source. Read my other post in this thread on the same topic citing another source, and feel free to post sources you deem more reliable.
This is where in a sane world independent journalists would see allegations like these and properly investigate and bring us the truth of the matter. But we don’t live in a world where that happens often anymore.
The disinformation campaigns in the states have been robust. The intelligence agencies have made sure the truth is hard to discern. That coupled with the average person just ingesting a headline and moving on is pretty concerning.
There are some real journalists out there still but they usual receive a lot of pressure from the state.
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