The 1st round of retaliatory #UnitedStates strikes against #Iran-linked militants in #Iran & #Syria killed dozens of fighters & several #civilians, acc/to statements from Iraq government, #militia groups & a local monitoring network on Sat, as the #Biden admin attempts to respond to the killing of 3 US soldiers & injuring of >30 others at #Tower22 in #Jordan w/o escalating the regional conflict.
#Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces said 16 of its fighters were killed & 25 injured in a #UnitedStates strike on a #CommandCenter in the western Iraqi province of #Anbar. DC has linked #KataibHezbollah, an Iran-backed faction within the #PMF, to the #drone attack that killed the 3 US reservists Sun at a remote outpost in #Jordan near the Syrian border.
The Iraqi govt also put the death toll at 16, but said it included an unspecified number of #civilians.
It's nothing to see. It's another act of the most moral army in the world using precision bombing to prevent any civilian casualties as Blinken told the world.
Children wait in line to get a meal in a refugee camp, somewhere in Gaza. This little boy has been through a lot, and he -like 2 million people in Palestine- still is in a life-threatening situation but he's keeping his spirits up. Foto by Muhammad Smiry.
Sara El-Jafi : "Over the last 111 days, since October 7, Isræl has consistently denied targeting civilians. Well, in this video, I am going to show you that in the history of its occupation, not only does Isræl actively target civilians, but they specifically target children."
Today in Labor History January 25, 2003: Fifty activists left London for Baghdad to serve as human shields. They intended to stop the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing civilians. Kenneth O'Keefe, an ex-U.S. marine and Persian Gulf War veteran led the action. They called it the TJP (Truth Justice Peace) Human Shield Action to Iraq. He believed that thousands of human shields would make the invasion politically impossible. However, Saddam Hussein deported him several days before the invasion. And they never came close to attracting thousands of volunteers. At best, no more than 500 human shields made it to Iraq before the March invasion. None of the human shields died in the war. And the coalition forces did not destroy any of the sites where they were staying.
In this case with Joe Biden, you know, he is clearly trying to make an appeal not just to Black voters, but really trying to fend off criticism that he is #racist, that he is sponsoring a #genocide. And that criticism is completely well founded, because he is sponsoring a genocide, and genocide is the most extreme form of racial violence that there is. And so, to use the pulpit at Emanuel AME in this manner, to make it a prop, essentially, for Joe Biden’s reelection bid, to me, is the greatest assault on truth. I know Joe Biden stood there in the pulpit and said that there is an assault on truth that’s happening right now. Joe Biden is, in many ways, leading that assault. And I know that he’s running against Donald Trump, who we know is also a serial liar, but Donald Trump is not the one who is currently in office right now. It is Joe Biden. #StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation #GenocideJoeKnows #AntiPalestinianMcCartyIsm
Bree Newsome Bass on Democracy Now- And this effort to use the church, not just the Black church, but the site of racial violence, of a mass murder, to deflect from the fact that Joe Biden himself is bombing churches, bombing mosques, bombing places of worship and #murdering many #civilians, people who have sought shelter in those places, it just exposes the complete hypocrisy of this entire situation and the vacuum of moral leadership at the top. And that’s why I took offense to it. I think that’s why many people who watched it took offense to it. I’m very glad that the young people stood up and protested, because even though they were few in that audience, they represented the majority of people worldwide. L #CivilianCasualtiesViolateGeneva #UNisCivilSociety#ThankGoodnessForSouthAfrica #ApartheidIsThePoliticsOfRacistTropes