🔴 Video shared by Press TV correspondent Hadi Hoteit appears to show the moment an Israeli drone targeted him with a strike while he was filming in southern Lebanon. Hoteit notes he was standing in an open area, clearly identified as press with markings on his car, vest, helmet, and equipment, when the drone targeted his position. He was wounded by six different pieces of shrapnel, and described the attack as a war crime.
Full video below.
it's kind of funny how this scene was very clearly written to make AJ look like a pretentious dick but in hindsight... yeah, he was one hundred percent right, SBC is basically the fucking devil
I had asked about this horrific crime by Israel — using drones to broadcast recordings of crying children so they could shoot Palestinians who were lured — when I first saw it reported in Gaza in 2024.
The Biden admin spokesperson saw no evil.
The Trump spokesperson hasn’t had a briefing in almost a year.
Now Israel is reportedly doing it in Lebanon. Video by @decensorednews
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Washington), top ranking Democrat on the committee, says that of course he does not like Netanyahu (like all good Democrats say now) but that "we benefit from that technology partnership..Israel's been actually having to fight."
This is known as the "Palestine Laboratory." Israeli weapons are tested in real time on the bodies of Palestinians, which the Israeli weapons industry uses in its marketing. Smith is arguing that we should benefit from that human experimentation too.
Netanyahu saying it was “my plan to shift the framework for U.S.-Israel defense cooperation from aid to partnership.”
We had Josh Paul on BP this morning to break down what this means. It would give Israel extraordinary leverage over the U.S. by embedding their technology in our supply chains and weapons systems.
There was a point, 3 yrs ago, when Israel felt compelled to explain its attacks on hospitals. Then it realized Western govts aren’t fussed about such war crimes & Western media was happy to justify them. And so here we are: dozens of hospitals bombed in Gaza, Iran & Lebanon.
Israel just carried out another horrific massacre in South Lebanon.
Dropping massive bombs near Jabal Amel Hospital in Tyre — wiping out 3 apartment blocks full of civilians.
People are still buried under the rubble.
This is an American-backed, American-funded genocide.
So the feds are dropping charges against the Israeli citizen caught in Las Vegas with an illegal biolab, after he was caught in LA with an illegal biolab https://t.co/4KAU8mbNNB
The IDF shot up a family of 6 in a car. 2 parents and 4 kids aged 5-11.
Then they removed the 11 year old who survived and beat him.
*After* they beat him, they asked him who they had just killed. The boy said his family, and they kept yelling at him, calling him “liar, liar”.
This was not in Gaza where the genocide is happening. This was in the West Bank where illegal Israeli settlers live under Israeli civil law and Palestinians live under Israeli military law - officially and explicitly. And yet Israel nonsensically claims there’s no apartheid.
There’s always been violence against Palestinians in the West Bank but it has massively ramped up since the Iran war started. Dozens of murders, over a hundred cases of settler violence, and 180 Palestinians kicked out of their homes by illegal Israeli settlers.
There is a pattern many have noticed. When there’s a distraction - anything ranging from the Super Bowl to a full fledged war - Israel ramps up the war crimes. One can only conclude this is calculated and intentional.
I call them illegal Israeli settlers because for half a century, the UN and International Court of Justice have ruled these settlements are illegal.
Beginning in 1979, the UN Security Council resolved the settlements were illegal and in 1980 that they must be dismantled. The 1980 vote was 15-0. Even the US affirmed the resolution.
In 2004, the International Court of Justice formally upheld that these settlements were illegal.
At the end of 2022, the UNGA asked the highest court in the world for another opinion.
And in 2024 the ICJ formally gave it. They plainly stated:
1) Israel’s continued occupation of the OPT is illegal (not only Gaza and the West Bank, but also East Jerusalem)
2) All ~750,000 Israeli settlers must leave the OPT
3) Israel must pay reparations
4) All countries must acknowledge the occupation is illegal and must not aid Israel in any way in maintaining its illegal occupation
Obviously Israel is blatantly spurning the highest court in the world.
The framing is important. This isn’t just a few bad apples doing a few bad things.
This is 50 years of blatantly illegal and wildly oppressive occupation, enacted by 750,000 Israelis, by direct and official policy from all of Israel, and it is largely ignored, tolerated, and in some cases financially supported by The West.
The call to Free Palestine thus isn’t some abstract, obscure, or whimsical ask. The International Court of Justice has very clearly ruled that Israel must GTFO of Palestine. We simply want Israel to follow basic international law and leave Palestine alone. And we want the world to do something about it if Israel won’t.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
This is probably the very best explanation of Allahu Akbar ever made and it is also realtime shown and proven in the video with real time US-Israeli bombs literally dropping almost onto the crowd
Insane framing.
He was anally gang-raped.
He was severely beaten and then anally gang-raped on camera. Both a knife and a taser were reportedly used.
There was a hole in his rectal wall. He got surgery for it.
Because he was anally gang-raped by the IDF (on camera).
He also had 7 broken ribs and other injuries as well.
After it happened, Israelis staged multiple large protests in the streets. Not because they believe these soldiers did anything wrong, but because they were infuriated that the soldiers were arrested for anally gang-raping a Palestinian on camera.
These protests weren’t just random people. They included multiple high ranking Knesset members (their Congress) who defended the anal gang/rapists.
They didn’t stop there. They went after the lawyer who leaked the video. She was publicly smeared, was forced to resign, and was arrested.
And now the anal gang-rapists who were caught on camera have had their charges dropped. They didn’t win in court. They weren’t somehow exonerated. The charges were completely and indefensibly dropped. The Jerusalem Post reports that there was sufficient evidence to take this to trial.
This is part of a larger pattern of torture and impunity. NYT and many other major outlets have extensively detailed the abuses at the Sde Teiman torture factory. NYT reported that Prisoners lose 30+ pounds, a nurse was anally raped by a metal rod, another man was raped by a dog, and another was anally raped by a fiery hit rod until he died. Yes, the NYT reported all of that. I’ll share sources in the replies. Torture and sexual assault are commonplace at Sde Teiman, and many prisoners die in the process.
The UN concluded that rape from IDF soldiers is so commonplace that it constitutes official “strategy of war”.
And of course these monsters virtually never face jail time. Because Israelis by and large don’t have any problem with any of it.
This is just what their society does.
They torture Palestinians.