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Big Pharma designed WHO’s Global Health Policy from 2000-2009

Corruption and deception, not science, is the foundation of WHO health policy

By Judy Wilyman PhD | Vaccination Decisions | April 1, 2024

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” – George Orwell, 1984

The history of the GAVI alliance, a board that influences the direction and design of WHO’s global health policies, illustrates how these policies have been directly influenced by industry partners from 2000-2009, and not by an objective board selected by the WHO.

This direct influence was hidden from the public in 2009 when the alliance became known as the Gavi board. At this time its composition and function changed to hide the role that industry had played from 2000-2009 in changing the direction of global health policies to a new focus on vaccine production and global implementation.

History of the Gavi Board:

In 1998 the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) was established by the Head of the World Bank after a meeting with pharmaceutical companies and other agencies. The GAVI alliance was established on the advice of industry because the pharmaceutical companies were claiming that there was no incentive for them to provide vaccines to the developing countries.

This meeting led to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation providing the seed funding of $750 million in 1999 and governments then matched this figure to establish an alliance of private-public partnerships in 2000, to fund the vaccination programmes for all countries.

In 2000 the alliance was launched at the World Economic Forum (WEF), not the World Health Organisation (WHO), and it established a working party to work with the WHO to design the International Health Regulations (IHR), yet it was a body established outside of the WHO’s charter.

At this time all stakeholders in the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) were able to directly influence the design of the WHO’s Global Health Policies through this working party (2000-2009), including the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA). They could attend meetings and present information for policy development.

Other stakeholders in the GAVI at this time included the BMGF, the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The influence of these stakeholders led to a new focus on vaccine production and implementation in the WHO’s global health policies.

These global policies were presented to countries in the International Health Regulations (IHR) that came into force in June 2007.

This direct influence of all stakeholders changed in 2009 when the GAVI alliance became known as the GAVI board. Its composition was changed to include only four permanent board members – UNICEF, BMGF, the World Bank and WHO – and other partners would be on a part-time basis.

This change to only four permanent board members, one of which was now the WHO, hides the fact that from 2000-2009 all stakeholders were able to directly influence the design of WHO’s global health policies.

The first recorded meeting of the Gavi board on its website is in 2009. It describes the role of the Gavi board as ‘being responsible for strategic direction and policy-making, oversees the operations of the Vaccine Alliance and monitors programme implementation’ .

This alliance of partners, many of whom profit from vaccines, make donations to the Gavi board and still influence global health policies in a more indirect fashion.

The WHO’s IHR are currently being amended with strong influence from this corporate alliance. If the amendments are approved, the draconian directives implemented during the COVID ‘pandemic’ years, will become binding on every WHO member country, whenever the director of the WHO declares another pandemic. This is removing fundamental human rights and objective scientific evidence from global health policies.

It is time for Australians to make our voices heard to ensure that Australia exits the WHO and joins the World Council for Health to protect both human health and fundamental human rights in all public health policies.

[The information above can be referenced from Ch 3 of my PhD 2015]

Important Information:

  1. Here is the witness statement from ex-Qantas pilot, Captain Graham Hood, describing that lack of evidence for safety and efficacy that was used by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, to mandate this mRNA genetically-engineered injection (called a ‘vaccine’) in the Australian population – Ex-Qantas Pilot, Graham Hood, provides a witness statement in the Australian parliament.
  2. Australian Medical Professional Society (AMPS) presents ‘Too Many Dead’ in Australia, but the Australian government will not investigate and the media does not report these facts.
  3. Study finds the Majority of Patients with Long COVID were Vaccinated
  4. Epidemic of Fraud

April 1, 2024 Posted by | Civil Liberties, Corruption, Deception, Science and Pseudo-Science | , , , , | Leave a comment

Israel Passes Law, Giving Itself Power To Temporarily Shut Down Al Jazeera

By Christina Maas | Reclaim The Net | April 1, 2024

On April 1, 2024, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a sweeping statement indicating the immediate ceasing of Al Jazeera’s operations within Israeli territory. The Prime Minister’s staunch decision followed the legislative green light enhancing the authority of senior ministers to terminate the operations of non-domestic news agencies that are perceived as a potential threat to national security.

Emphasizing his intention to immediately commence action according to newly approved legislation, Netanyahu proclaimed, “Al Jazeera will no longer broadcast from Israel.” The declaration, which received widespread publicity through a post on X, was made right after the final iterations of the law received parliamentary approval.

Netanyahu’s decision can be traced back to an ongoing conflict with the Qatar-based media house, which he accuses of biased reporting against Israel. With a 70-10 majority vote in the Knesset, the legislation empowers the Prime Minister, alongside the Communications Minister, to order the closure of foreign networks in Israel and seize their equipment if identified as a security hazard.

An immediate international reaction to the news came from the White House, where spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre opined that restricting Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel would be “deeply concerning.”

Al Jazeera has denied allegations that its coverage jeopardizes Israel’s security, labeling these claims as “dangerous and ridiculous lies.” The network, known for its critical stance on Israel’s military actions in Gaza, has accused Israeli authorities of deliberately targeting its offices and staff.

April 1, 2024 Posted by | Full Spectrum Dominance | , , | Leave a comment

Killing Babies

On SIDS

Lies are Unbekoming | April 1, 2024

If nature or God had perfected puncturing one creature with substances from another as a pillar of health and vitality, plentiful examples would abound throughout the natural world. Instead, every creature that punctures and injects another only harms the creature being toxxinated by direct blood injections. Simple examples: ticks, fleas, mites, parasites, mosquitos, snakes, scorpions, tse-tse flies, black flies, horse flies. Across all species, there’s over 200 that puncture and suck blood. In no case does blood sucking or toxxine injection benefit the suckee, only the parasitic sucker.

TOXXINES, scientific definition for the ancient blood cult practice of injecting toxins by a predator into their prey. Legend has it that early cult priests observed that in nature, every single example where a predator punctured a prey and sucked blood, or injected into the blood, the prey suffered under some magical or mystical influences wielded by the predator. Priests reasoned they could own this power. Cult priests convinced millions throughout history to give their life forces over to this dark cult. The cult thrived and gained extensive powers over their punctured prey. Where do we see this parasitic class thriving today? What effect do we see upon their suckees? – Anon Reader

This stack is based on AMD’s excellent recent article.

The Century of Evidence That Vaccines Cause Sudden Infant Deaths (midwesterndoctor.com)

Which was an update and revision of AMD’s Aug 2022 piece.

The last time I wrote about SIDS was in Aug 2023, but prompted by AMD’s piece, I thought it was time for another.

Poisoning Babies – Lies are Unbekoming (substack.com)

Let’s do something different here. Let’s start with a test.

Here is a 15-question multiple-choice test based on AMD’s stack. Answers below.

Let’s see how many you get right?

Exam

1.       What is the most common term used for the sudden and unexplained death of an infant?

A) Crib death B) Infant mortality C) Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) D) Shaken Baby Syndrome

2.       Which vaccine has been most strongly linked to cases of SIDS?

A) MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) B) DPT (Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus) C) Polio D) Hepatitis B

3.       In what decade did national immunization programs begin, leading to a rise in SIDS cases?

A) 1940s B) 1950s C) 1960s D) 1970s

4.       What did Dr. Archie Kalokerinos identify as a major contributing factor to infant deaths in Aboriginal communities in Australia?

A) Poor sanitation B) Genetic predisposition C) Vitamin C deficiency D) Parental neglect

5.       What was the name of the 1985 book that led to the withdrawal of the whole-cell DPT vaccine from the US market?

A) “The Vaccine Book” B) “DPT: A Shot in the Dark” C) “Vaccine Safety Manual” D) “What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children’s Vaccinations”

6.       Which country saw a significant reduction in severe reactions and deaths from the DPT vaccine after delaying the injection age?

A) United States B) United Kingdom C) Japan D) Australia

7.       What did Dr. William Torch’s study find regarding the timing of infant deaths after DPT vaccination?

A) Most deaths occurred within 24 hours B) Most deaths occurred within 1-3 weeks C) Most deaths occurred within 2-3 months D) There was no clear pattern

8.       What did Peter Aaby’s study in low-income countries reveal about the DTP vaccine?

A) It reduced overall mortality rates B) It increased mortality rates by 5-fold compared to unvaccinated children C) It had no effect on mortality rates D) It only increased mortality rates in girls

9.       Which type of vaccine has been shown to significantly increase the risk of sudden unexpected death in infants within days of administration?

A) Hexavalent vaccines B) Pentavalent vaccines C) Trivalent vaccines D) Monovalent vaccines

10.   What did studies find regarding the incidence of cardiorespiratory events in premature infants after vaccination?

A) There was no increase in cardiorespiratory events B) Cardiorespiratory events increased by 10-15% C) Cardiorespiratory events increased by 30-50% D) Cardiorespiratory events decreased after vaccination

11.   What trend in infant mortality was observed during the COVID-19 lockdowns when childhood vaccination rates declined?

A) Infant mortality increased significantly B) Infant mortality decreased significantly C) There was no change in infant mortality rates D) The data was inconclusive

12.   According to VAERS data, what percentage of reported infant deaths occur within 7 days post-vaccination?

A) 25.5% B) 48.3% C) 63.7% D) 78.3%

13.   What did a study find regarding the risk of death in infants receiving 5-8 vaccine doses compared to those receiving 1-4 doses?

A) The risk was the same B) The risk was 1.5 times higher C) The risk was 2 times higher D) The risk was 3 times higher

14.   What percentage of Medicare spending is attributed to care in the final year of life?

A) 10% B) 25% C) 40% D) 60%

15.   According to one study, what reduction in overall risk of death was observed when a few non-necessary drugs were removed from elderly patients?

A) 23% B) 41% C) 56% D) 72%

Answer Key:

  1. C

  2. B

  3. C

  4. C

  5. B

  6. C

  7. B

  8. B

  9. A

  10. C

  11. B

  12. D

  13. B

  14. B

  15.            C

Next let’s look at 20 Statistics.

  1. Nearly 10,000 SIDS deaths occur in the United States each year, potentially related to vaccines.
  2. The incidence of SIDS has grown from 0.55 per 1,000 live births in 1953 to 12.8 per 1,000 in 1992 in Olmstead County, Minnesota.
  3. The increase in SIDS as a percentage of total infant deaths has risen from 2.5 per 1,000 in 1953 to 17.9 per 1,000 in 1992.
  4. In Japan, a 85-90% reduction in severe reactions and deaths from the DPT vaccine was observed when the injection age was delayed from 3-5 months to 24 months during the 1970s.
  5. The infant mortality rate in Japan declined from 12.4 per 1,000 births in the mid-1970s to 5 per 1,000 births in the mid-1980s, after the DPT vaccination age was raised to 2 years old.
  6. In a study by Torch, 6.5% of infants died within 12 hours of DPT vaccination, 13% within 24 hours, 26% within 3 days, and 37%, 61%, and 70% within 1, 2, and 3 weeks, respectively.
  7. In 1978-1979, 9 out of 11 infants who died within 8 days of DPT vaccination had been given the same Wyeth vaccine lot, and 5 died within 24 hours.
  8. Vitamin C deficiency, exacerbated by vaccination, led to an infant death rate of over 50% in one Aboriginal community in Australia.
  9. DTP vaccine was associated with a 5-fold higher mortality rate than being unvaccinated in low-income countries, according to a study by Peter Aaby.
  10. Hexavalent vaccines increase the risk of sudden unexpected death in infants by 31.3 times within one day and 23.5 times within two days of vaccination.
  11. A GSK confidential report revealed that 97.9% of all sudden deaths following the first dose of hexavalent vaccination occurred within the first 10 days post-vaccination.
  12. Premature infants have a 30% incidence of cardiorespiratory events within 24 hours of vaccination, with 51.5% experiencing such events after their first vaccination.
  13. During the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, a significant drop in overall childhood mortality was observed, particularly in the 0-4 age range and among ethnic minorities.
  14. All-cause infant mortality under one year of age in Florida decreased by 8.93% in 2021, coinciding with a drop in childhood vaccination rates from 93.4% to 79.3%.
  15. In VAERS, 58% of reported infant deaths clustered within 3 days post-vaccination, and 78.3% within 7 days post-vaccination, a statistically significant difference compared to the 8-60 day post-vaccination period.
  16. For SIDS cases reported in VAERS, 51% occurred within 3 days post-vaccination, and 75.5% within 7 days post-vaccination.
  17. Infants receiving 5-8 vaccine doses were 1.5 times more likely to die than those receiving 1-4 doses, according to a VAERS analysis.
  18. Boys were 1.4 times more likely to die after vaccination than girls, according to the same VAERS analysis.
  19. Care in the final year of life accounts for approximately 25% of all spending by Medicare.
  20. One study found that removing a few non-necessary drugs from elderly patients reduced their overall risk of death by 56%.

Lastly here are 30 Q&As to interact with AMD’s essay.

1.       What vulnerable groups does the pharmaceutical industry often target to maximize profits?

Answer: The pharmaceutical industry often targets prisoners, colonized indigenous populations, the mentally disabled, orphans, children in foster care, the elderly, and infants to maximize profits through unethical human experimentation and creating captive markets for unsafe pharmaceuticals with questionable benefits.

2.       Where was the DPT vaccine first tested in the early 20th century, and what was discovered in 2014 related to this?

Answer: The DPT vaccine was first tested in Irish orphanages in the early 20th century. In 2014, unmarked mass graves belonging to Irish orphans were discovered. Further research revealed these graves belonged to a group of 2,051 children upon whom an early diphtheria vaccine was covertly tested in the 1930s.

3.       Since the DPT vaccine hit the market, what have physicians around the world observed regarding infant deaths?

Answer: Since the DPT vaccine hit the market, physicians around the world have observed waves of infant deaths following its use, which were often sudden and inexplicable, along with many other severe side effects.

4.       What key role did infant deaths play in creating the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act?

Answer: The infant deaths observed after DPT vaccination played a key role in creating the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, as many parents who successfully lobbied Congress to address vaccine injury issues had DPT-injured children.

5.       What did vaccine safety activists predict would happen to infant deaths during the COVID lockdowns when children were skipping their routine vaccines?

Answer: Vaccine safety activists predicted that the COVID lockdowns would lead to an unprecedented drop in infant deaths since children were skipping their routine vaccines.

6.       How do current events with COVID-19 parallel the early days of the AIDS epidemic in regards to Fauci’s actions?

Answer: In both the early AIDS epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci fought to keep effective treatments off the market and instead pushed dangerous and ineffective but profitable drugs like AZT for HIV and remdesivir for COVID-19.

7.       What are two recurring issues that always emerge in the pharmaceutical industry?

Answer: Two recurring issues in the pharmaceutical industry are: 1) Finding ways to regularly test experimental drugs with high potential toxicities to identify commercially successful ones, and 2) Creating guaranteed markets for unsafe pharmaceuticals with questionable benefits.

8.       How have dangerous medical treatments been unethically tested on vulnerable populations throughout history?

Answer: Dangerous medical treatments have been forcibly tested on prisoners, colonized indigenous populations, the mentally disabled, orphans, foster children, and by outsourcing research to third-world countries or using the military’s command structure to compel participation.

9.       What process can be observed in how countless drugs are prescribed to the elderly until their combined toxicity causes significant health issues?

Answer: In the elderly, countless drugs are prescribed until their combined toxicity causes enough degeneration to require hospitalization or nursing home admission. Then, more medical interventions are administered until a critical point is reached and the elder dies, with end-of-life care accounting for a large portion of Medicare spending.

10.   What are some of the key demographics in the United States that are forced to receive vaccinations?

Answer: In the U.S., key demographics forced to receive vaccinations include children, those in foster care, the elderly, prisoners, service members, students, and healthcare workers. Pediatricians and veterinarians also face financial pressures to vaccinate to maintain their practices.

11.   What did a doctor who worked with Robert Mendelsohn recall him saying about why he was willing to sacrifice his eminent position to speak out against the medical system?

Answer: Dr. Mendelsohn said that during his time as Medical Director of Project Head Start in 1968, he was horrified by private White House discussions on controlling poor populations through infant formula, vaccinations, hospital birthing practices, deficient schools, and neighborhood abortion clinics, which deeply conflicted with his faith and medical ethics.

12.   What important book published in 1985 was pivotal in the whole-cell DPT vaccine being withdrawn from the domestic market?

Answer: The 1985 book “DPT: A Shot in the Dark” was a pivotal factor in the more dangerous whole-cell DPT vaccine being withdrawn from the U.S. market and replaced with an acellular version. The book also helped create the political will for the 1986 National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

13.   What did Dr. Archie Kalokerinos discover was the primary cause of many health issues affecting Aboriginal children in Australia?

Answer: Dr. Kalokerinos discovered that many of the serious health issues affecting Aboriginal children, such as pneumonia, ear infections, infant irritability, and inability to feed, primarily arose from severe vitamin C deficiencies due to the destruction of native diets by colonization.

14.   After Dr. Kalokerinos addressed the vitamin deficiencies, what did he then witness regarding the infant death rate in one Aboriginal community following an immunization campaign?

Answer: After initially addressing widespread vitamin deficiencies, Dr. Kalokerinos then witnessed the infant death rate in one Aboriginal community reach an astonishing 50% following an immunization campaign, leading him to realize that the same vitamin C depletion occurred after vaccination.

15.   What did Dr. Kalokerinos later demonstrate in an animal model regarding vitamin C supplementation and vaccination?

Answer: Dr. Kalokerinos later demonstrated in an animal model that vitamin C supplementation could prevent the deaths commonly seen after vaccination, and he eventually convinced local medical authorities to hear his case that vaccines may be causing unintended infant deaths.

16.   How did the DPT vaccine also become linked to childhood ear infections by many physicians like Dr. Kalokerinos?

Answer: Many physicians, including Dr. Kalokerinos, observed a direct link between DPT vaccination and the development of childhood ear infections. One doctor noted a surge in ear infections among children in an Indian ashram after a DPT vaccination campaign, a condition not seen there in the years prior.

17.   What reduction in severe reactions and deaths from the DPT vaccine did Japan observe when they delayed the injection age from 3-5 months to 24 months during the 1970s?

Answer: When Japan delayed DPT vaccination from 3-5 months to 24 months of age during the 1970s, they observed an 85-90% reduction in severe reactions and deaths attributed to the vaccine.

18.   What did Raymond Obomsawin find regarding monitoring infants at home after DPT and Polio vaccination?

Answer: Raymond Obomsawin found that when infants were monitored at home after DPT and Polio vaccination, there was a spike in non-fatal disruptions of breathing that continued for over six weeks post-vaccination, overlapping with the typical period of death observed after these vaccinations.

19.   What tends to happen with SIDS cases when examined at morgues in relation to the infant age and vaccination schedule?

Answer: When SIDS cases are examined at morgues, they tend to cluster at precisely 2, 4, and 6 months of age, rather than evenly throughout the 2-6 month range, which coincides with the timing of routine childhood vaccinations and can only be logically explained as a consequence of vaccination.

20.   How did the diagnostic criteria and classification for SIDS change over time, and what impact may this have had on tracking SIDS incidence?

Answer: Prior to 1969, SIDS was not formally classified as a disease entity. In 1979, the ICD coding system removed vaccinations as an official cause of death, making it impossible to directly link SIDS to vaccines. Changes in diagnostic classifications during the “Back to Sleep” campaign may have also impacted SIDS statistics.

21.   What did a 2011 study find when comparing infant mortality rates across 34 nations in relation to the number of required childhood vaccines?

Answer: A 2011 study comparing infant mortality rates across the 34 nations with the lowest rates found a clear correlation between the number of required childhood vaccines and increased infant mortality, with the United States having the highest number of mandatory vaccines and the highest infant mortality rate.

22.   What were the results of Peter Aaby’s study on the DTP vaccine’s effects on mortality in low-income countries, and what happened after he reported his findings?

Answer: Peter Aaby’s study found that the DTP vaccine was associated with a 5-fold higher mortality rate compared to unvaccinated children in low-income countries, suggesting the vaccine may cause more deaths from other causes than it prevents. After reporting his findings, the results were buried, and DTP vaccination rates continued to increase in these countries.

23.   What specific factors have been found to increase the likelihood and severity of adverse events and deaths following vaccination in infants?

Answer: Factors found to increase the risk and severity of adverse events and deaths after infant vaccination include premature birth, low birth weight, younger age at vaccination, receiving multiple vaccines simultaneously (especially DTP and Polio), and the use of combination vaccines like the hexavalent vaccine.

24.   What did multiple studies find regarding the risk of cardiorespiratory events and death in premature infants after receiving routine vaccinations?

Answer: Multiple studies found significantly increased risks of cardiorespiratory events (apnea, bradycardia, desaturation) and death in premature infants following routine vaccinations, particularly in those with younger gestational age, lower birth weight, and pre-existing respiratory issues. These risks were highest after the first vaccination and with simultaneous administration of multiple vaccines.

25.   How did the COVID-19 lockdowns inadvertently provide a control group to assess the impact of vaccination on SIDS incidence?

Answer: The COVID-19 lockdowns created an unintended natural experiment by disrupting routine childhood vaccination programs globally, providing a rare opportunity to compare SIDS incidence and infant mortality between vaccinated and unvaccinated infants during the pandemic period.

26.   What trends were observed in SIDS and infant mortality in the U.S. during the 2020 lockdowns when childhood vaccination rates significantly declined?

Answer: During the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns in the U.S., when childhood vaccination rates significantly declined, an unexpected decrease in all-cause infant mortality was observed, particularly in the 0-4 age range most affected by SIDS. This reduction was most pronounced in ethnic minority groups, who often experience higher rates of vaccine injury.

27.   How did Florida’s drop in childhood vaccination rates in 2021 appear to affect infant mortality in the state?

Answer: In Florida, a drop in childhood vaccination rates from 93.4% in 2020 to 79.3% in 2021 coincided with an 8.93% decrease in all-cause infant mortality under one year of age, a reversal of the previous year’s trend. This suggests a potential causal link between vaccination and a significant portion of infant deaths.

28.   What patterns can be observed in VAERS data regarding the timing and clustering of reported infant deaths after vaccination, particularly with the DPT vaccine?

Answer: Analysis of VAERS data shows clear clustering of reported infant deaths in the days immediately following vaccination, with the DPT vaccine being most commonly associated. Of reported deaths, 50-75% occur within 3-7 days post-vaccination, representing a 57-69 times higher rate than in the 8-60 day post-vaccination period, a statistically significant difference.

29.   How do the physiological responses to vaccine toxicity tend to be distributed across the population, and what does this suggest about chronic health issues in children?

Answer: Physiological responses to vaccine toxicity follow a bell curve distribution, with severe reactions like death representing the tip of the iceberg. This suggests that for every reported death, there are likely far more unreported cases of chronic health issues in children resulting from vaccine damage, many of which have become increasingly common.

30.   What role does the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) play in perpetuating issues with unsafe vaccines being added to the childhood schedule without adequate safety testing?

Answer: The CDC’s ACIP perpetuates issues with vaccine safety by consistently assuming all newly approved vaccines are safe and effective without adequate testing and recommending their addition to the childhood schedule. This effectively creates captive markets and liability protection for manufacturers, disincentivizing thorough safety studies and allowing potentially harmful vaccines to be widely administered.

April 1, 2024 Posted by | Deception, Timeless or most popular, War Crimes | , | Leave a comment

‘Efforts to Sideline UNRWA Doomed to Fail’: Israel’s Plan for Palestinian Aid Agency Raises Alarms

By Oleg Burunov – Sputnik – 01.04.2024

The Jewish state has yet to verify its allegations that UNRWA – the largest aid organization in Gaza which has been supporting Palestinians since 1950 – was purportedly involved in the October 7, 2023 Hamas incursion.

According to The Guardian, Tel Aviv has demanded that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) be dismantled and its responsibilities and staff transferred to a new entity in exchange for allowing more aid into the Gaza Strip.

The newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying that the proposal was discussed by Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi and UN officials in Israel, and then handed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Under the plan, 300 to 400 UNRWA staff will be transferred either to an existing UN agency, such as the World Food Program (WFP), or to a newly established organization focused on food distribution in Gaza. More UNRWA staff and assets may eventually be transferred, although it remains unclear who would administer the new entity or provide security for its operations.

UNRWA was not involved in the proposal-related talks because of Israel’s reluctance to interact with the agency amid Tel Aviv’s unverified claims that 12 of the agency’s 13,000 Gaza staff participated in the October 7 Hamas incursion.

Tamara Alrifai, the agency’s director of external relations, warned that Israel’s plan would undermine the effective distribution of aid in Gaza, while a number of UN insiders, as well as other aid agencies and human rights organizations, insisted that the proposal actually aims to eliminate UNRWA.

“If we allow this, it is the slippery slope to us being completely managed directly by the Israelis, and the UN directly being complicit in undermining UNRWA, which is not only the biggest aid provider but also the biggest bastion of anti-extremism in Gaza. We would be playing into so many political agendas if we allowed this to happen,” The Guardian quoted an unnamed UN official as saying.

Alrifai, for her part, stressed that if the World Food Program were to start distributing food in Gaza tomorrow, they would use UNRWA trucks and bring food to UNRWA warehouses and then distribute food in or around UNRWA shelters.

“So they’re going to need at a minimum the same infrastructure that we have, including the human resources,” she added.

The same tone was struck by Chris Gunness, a former UNRWA spokesman, who said, “It is outrageous that UN agencies like WFP and senior UN officials are engaging in discussions about dismantling UNRWA.” He recalled that it is the UN General Assembly “which gives UNRWA its mandate and only the general assembly can change it, not the secretary general and certainly not a single member state.”

Martin Griffiths, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, tweeted that “attempts to sideline UNRWA must stop”.

“UNRWA is the backbone of the humanitarian operation in Gaza. Any effort to distribute aid without them is simply doomed to fail. No other agency has the same reach, experience or community trust needed to do the job,” Griffiths pointed out.

Russia’s UN envoy Vassily Nebenzya, for his part, called for a review of the decision to dismiss UNRWA staff and also stressed the need to restore funding to the agency. He was referring to the fact that several countries, including the US, the UK, Germany and Japan, have suspended funding in response to Israeli accusations of UNRWA’s involvement in the Hamas attack.

April 1, 2024 Posted by | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism | , , , , | Leave a comment

Al-Shifa Hospital completely destroyed after Israeli forces withdraw

MEMO | April 1, 2024

The Israeli army withdrew from inside the Al-Shifa Hospital and the surrounding areas west of Gaza City early Monday, leaving scores of casualties and extensive destruction in the hospital and its vicinity, Anadolu news agency reported.

The army fully withdrew from inside the hospital and the surrounding neighbourhoods towards areas south of Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, southwest of Gaza City, witnesses told Anadolu.

The Israeli forces burned all buildings in the hospital resulting in complete cessation of services, the witnesses added.

They also noted that the army destroyed the specialised surgery building and burned the main reception and emergency building.

Israeli forces also burned the buildings of the kidney and maternity wards, mortuary refrigerators, and cancer and burn facilities, and destroyed the outpatient clinic building, according to the witnesses.

According to Palestinian medical sources, the hospital is now completely out of service and the army destroyed all medical equipment in the complex, operation rooms, and intensive care units.

The witnesses reported that scores of scattered bodies were found in the hospital and in the streets surrounding it.

They explained that the army destroyed the makeshift cemetery established by Palestinians in the facility and removed the corpses from it, scattering them in various areas of the hospital.

They further noted that Israeli forces burned and destroyed many homes and residential buildings in the vicinity of the hospital.

The Israeli army raided the hospital, the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip that houses thousands of patients and displaced people, on 18 March.

April 1, 2024 Posted by | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, War Crimes | , , , , | Leave a comment

Israeli officers admit that most Gaza fatalities classified as ‘terrorists’ are civilians

MEMO | April 1, 2024

Israeli officers and soldiers have admitted that most of the fatalities classified by the army as “terrorists” during its war on the Gaza Strip are actually civilians, a report said Sunday.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz collected testimonies from officers and soldiers who have fought in Gaza during the war, which has been ongoing since Oct. 7, 2023.

“The Israeli army says 9,000 terrorists have been killed since the Gaza war began,” the report said.

Israeli officials and soldiers, however, told Haaretz that “these are often civilians whose only crime was to cross an invisible line drawn by the Israeli army.”

“We were explicitly told that even if a suspect runs into a building with people in it, we should fire at the building and kill the terrorist, even if other people are hurt,” one soldier told the newspaper.

According to the testimonies of the officers and soldiers, the Israeli army fires at anyone entering the “kill zone” it has defined, whether armed or civilians.

A reserve officer said that “in practice, a terrorist is anyone the army has killed in the areas in which its forces operate.”

“They ask you how many, and I give a number based on what we see and understand on the ground, and we move on. It’s not that we invent bodies, but no one can determine with certainty who is a terrorist and who was hit after entering the combat zone of an Israeli force,” he added.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing severe criticism within Israel for failing to achieve the goals of the war on Gaza, particularly in eliminating the Palestinian group Hamas and returning Israeli hostages.

April 1, 2024 Posted by | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, War Crimes | , , , , | Leave a comment

PA forces covertly entered Gaza to ‘sow chaos’ in coordination with Shin Bet: Report

The Cradle | April 1, 2024

Gaza security officials have accused the West Bank-ruling Palestinian Authority (PA) of deploying covert operatives to the besieged enclave with the goal of “sowing chaos” within the resistance in a scheme coordinated with Israel’s internal spy agency, the Shin Bet.

According to a senior official who spoke with Arabic media, the covert mission took place on the night of 30 March and saw several PA forces sneak into Gaza via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt by escorting trucks carrying humanitarian aid from the Egyptian Red Crescent.

“The suspicious security force that entered yesterday with Egyptian Crescent trucks coordinated its operations entirely with the occupation forces,” an official from the Gaza interior ministry told Al-Aqsa TV on Sunday.

The plan reportedly called to “create a state of confusion and chaos among the ranks of the [Gaza] home front” in an arrangement reached between Tel Aviv and Ramallah “in their meeting in one of the Arab capitals last week.”

Gaza security forces managed to detain 10 of the operatives and are on the hunt for an unknown number of others who evaded capture. Officials also say Cairo informed the border crossing authority that it was “unaware” of the covert force.

The PA forces are reportedly affiliated with the General Intelligence Service in Ramallah and were deployed on an “official mission under direct orders” from the head of the Palestinian General Intelligence Service, Major General Majid Faraj.

Faraj’s name made headlines last month when Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant put his name forward as a possible candidate to “temporarily manage” the Gaza Strip after the genocide of Palestinians comes to an end.

“The 61-year-old Faraj is a close associate of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas and has close working ties with Israel’s defense establishment … He is responsible for coordinating between Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, American CIA, and other international intelligence organizations,” a report by Israel’s i24NEWS details.

For its part, the PA denied all accusations to Palestinian news agency WAFA, calling them “baseless.” “We will continue to provide everything necessary to provide relief to our people, and we will not be drawn into frenzied media campaigns that cover up the suffering of our people in the Gaza Strip and the killing, displacement, and starvation they are subjected to,” an unnamed PA official told WAFA.

Saturday’s operation came just hours before a new PA government was officially sworn into office as part of a US-drafted plan that calls for a “reformed PA” to control the occupied Palestinian territories.

Popular acceptance for the PA reached rock bottom long before the events of 7 October and the ensuing genocidal war in Gaza, as Palestinians increasingly expressed discontent over the group’s long history of corruption scandals, brutal repression of critics, and deep security coordination with Israel.

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Senior IRGC commander, his deputy assassinated in Israeli attack on Iran Embassy’s consular section in Syria

Press TV – April 1, 2024

A commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Syria and Lebanon has been martyred in an Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus.

Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and his deputy, Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, were killed in the Israeli attack on Monday on the Consular Section of the Embassy.

Syria’s official news agency, SANA, said the strikes were carried out by “the Israeli enemy” and targeted the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus on Monday afternoon.

Iran’s Ambassador to Damascus Hossein Akbari confirmed the reports of the Israeli attack and said the regime had targeted the consular building with six missiles.

Akbari said seven people were martyred in the Israeli aggression but the names and the exact number of martyrs have yet to be specified. He also noted that several Iranian military advisors and diplomats were also martyred in the missile attack, whose names would be announced later.

According to the ambassador, the Consular Section of the Embassy was targeted by F-35 fighter jets and six missiles.

Born in 1960, Zahedi joined the IRGC in 1980 and was a commander of the elite force during the Iraqi-imposed war in 1980-88.

He was the commander of the IRGC Air Force from 2005 to 2006. Later he served as the IRGC Ground Force Commander from 2006 to 2008.

Zahedi served as a commander of the IRGC Quds Force from 2008 to 2016.

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Consular Section of Iranian Embassy in Damascus comes under missile attack

A building next to the Iranian Embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus comes under a missile attack on April 1, 2024. (Photo by Sputnik)
Press TV – April 1, 2024

The Consular Section of the Iranian Embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus has come under a missile attack, with immediate reports of casualties as a result of the act of aggression.

Syria’s official news agency, SANA, said the strikes were carried out by “the Israeli enemy” and targeted the Mezzeh neighborhood in Damascus on Monday afternoon.

“At approximately 00:17 p.m. today, the Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting the Iranian consulate building in Damascus,” SANA said, citing a military source as saying.

“Our air defense media responded to the aggression’s missiles and shot down some of them. The aggression led to the destruction of the entire building and the martyrdom and injury of everyone inside, and work is underway to recover the bodies.”

SANA, citing one of its correspondents, said the Israeli aggression also caused major destruction to “neighboring buildings.”

Unconfirmed reports said several people had lost their lives in the occupying regime’s airstrikes.

Iranian sources added that members of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Damascus, including the ambassador, are unharmed, but the consulate building was destroyed.

The Photo shows the Consular Section of the Iranian Embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus that came under a missile attack on April 1, 2024. (Via Tasnim News Agency)

Meanwhile, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has visited Iran’s Embassy following the missile attack.

Condemning the Israeli aggression, Mekdad said, “The Israeli occupation entity will not be able to influence the relations between Iran and Syria.”

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Ukrainian counteroffensive ‘biggest debacle in modern military history’ – David Sacks

RT | April 1, 2024

The failure of Ukraine’s 2023 summer counteroffensive against Russia was “easily predictable,” according to US tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist David Sacks, who has suggested that the Washington elite should be held accountable for talking up the doomed operation.

Sacks’ comments came in response to a post on Saturday by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who condemned the unnecessary loss of life suffered by Kiev’s forces as they attempted to “attack a larger army” that had superior defenses.

The failed Ukrainian counteroffensive was “one of the biggest debacles in the history of modern warfare,” Sacks said in agreement, adding that Kiev’s soldiers and tanks had effectively run “headlong into minefields while Russian artillery rained down on them from heavily fortified positions.”

“This should have been easily predictable,” the former PayPal COO and founder of the Yammer corporate social network stressed.

According to estimates released in March by the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian military saw over 166,000 casualties during last year’s failed counteroffensive. Kiev’s overall casualties since the outbreak of the conflict with Russia stand at 444,000, the ministry has claimed.

Sacks went on to suggest that US officials such as ex-CIA chief David Petraeus, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and current US Secretary of State Antony Blinken should all be held responsible for encouraging the doomed operation.

“These people are fools who should have no credibility left. But of course the MSM never holds them accountable so we will get more of the same until Ukraine finally collapses,” Sacks surmised.

Musk, meanwhile, has called the counteroffensive “a tragic waste of life for Ukraine,” suggesting that Kiev should not have attacked Russian forces – which had deployed vast minefields and had stronger artillery – while Ukrainian forces lacked armor or air superiority.

“Any fool could have predicted that,” the billionaire said, recalling that one year ago he had recommended that Kiev’s forces entrench and apply all resources to defense.

Musk stated that Kiev would continue to have difficulty holding on to territory, but suggested that Russia was unlikely try to take over the entire country, arguing that it would face “extreme” local resistance in western regions of Ukraine.

He also warned that if the conflict “lasts long enough, Odessa will fall,” and advised Kiev to reach a negotiated settlement with Moscow as soon as possible, before Russia gains more territory and Ukraine loses all access to the Black Sea.

Moscow has stressed that it remains open to meaningful talks with Kiev, and has blamed the lack of a diplomatic breakthrough on the Ukrainian authorities, who refuse to accept the “reality on the ground.”

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Russia-NATO relations worse than during Cold War – Moscow

RT | April 1, 2024

The current state of relations between Russia and NATO can be described as “something more than a Cold War,” the head of Moscow’s delegation at the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov, has said.

During his interview with RIA Novosti on Monday, Gavrilov was asked to comment on French President Emmanuel Macron’s February statement that he “cannot exclude” the possibility of troops from NATO countries being sent to Ukraine to aid Kiev amid the conflict with Moscow.

“The military strategists in Washington and Brussels should realize: if by lifting the taboo on the potential deployment of the bloc’s servicemen to Ukraine they are trying to test our country’s strength, then we are ready for any turn of events,” he replied.

According to the diplomat, the warnings from US President Joe Biden and some other Western politicians, that if Russia defeats Ukraine it is going to take on NATO states next, are actually aimed “to divert the attention of taxpayers from the senseless pumping of their money into the Ukrainian ‘corruption black hole’ as well as to warm up the public opinion in favor of reviving defense industries in their countries.”

His comment echoed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement last week that “the claims that we are going to attack Europe after Ukraine – it is utter nonsense and intimidation of their own population just to beat the money out of them.”

Gavrilov said that during the Cold War, almost all NATO statements began with the evaluation of the possibility of a sudden large-scale attack on the bloc by the USSR and its Eastern European allies. Similar rhetoric is prevalent within the US-led military alliance today, he added.

The diplomat recalled that Russia has been labeled “the most significant and direct threat” in NATO’s Strategic Concept, which was adopted in 2022. “Apparently, now their ideal vision of European security is the borders with our country being wrapped in barbed wire,” he said.

“As a result, Russia-NATO relations can now be characterized as something more than a Cold War,” Gavrilov stressed.

Since fighting between Russia and Ukraine began in February 2022, Moscow has said repeatedly that the US and its NATO allies have become de-facto parties to the conflict through the provision of arms, including advanced weaponry, intelligence-sharing, and the training of Ukrainian troops.

April 1, 2024 Posted by | Militarism, Russophobia | , , | Leave a comment

Finland supports open war against Russia

By Lucas Leiroz | April 1, 2024

Apparently, Emmanuel Macron’s stance on the Ukrainian conflict is gaining supporters among European warmongers. In a recent statement, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen supported the plan to send troops to Ukraine in the future, if Kiev proves unable to continue fighting. The case is further evidence of how anti-Russian paranoia is reaching worrying levels among European states, leading them to almost engage in open war with Moscow.

According to Valtonen, Macron is assuming a position of “strategic ambiguity” necessary for the current stage of the conflict. This “ambiguity” consists of not making it clear whether or not NATO troops will be sent to Ukraine. The precise time of the possible deployment also remains unknown. Valtonen sees this position as correct, since, according to her, Western countries must deliberate on such a strategic decision, choosing the moment to openly engage in the conflict.

Her view is that the West should avoid self-imposing red lines. She praises Macron for not ruling out direct intervention as this gives the West freedom to decide how and when to act. In an interview to the Financial Times, Valtonen stated that she does not see any need for Western intervention in the conflict for now, but supported the plan to send troops in the near future, if “necessary”. For her, the most important thing is that there are no strategic limits for the West, with NATO countries having maximum freedom to make any decision regarding the conflict.

“Now’s not the time to send boots on the ground, and we are not even willing to discuss it at this stage. But, for the long term, of course we shouldn’t be ruling anything out (…) Why would we, especially not knowing where this war will go and what happens in the future, disclose all our cards? I really wouldn’t know (…) What I liked about two recent announcements of President Macron is that he said that actually why should we impose ourselves red lines when Putin basically has no red lines?”, she told journalists.

As we can see, the Finnish official considers the direct deployment of troops as a Western “card”. She seems not to care – or simply not to understand – the catastrophic consequences of an open conflict between NATO and Russia. This shows, in addition to high bellicosity, a true diplomatic inability, which is particularly worrying since she is the head of Finnish diplomacy.

It is interesting to note how fallacious Valtonen’s speech is. She states that Europeans should not rule out direct intervention because “Putin basically has no red lines.” However, since the beginning of the special military operation, it is Russia, not the West, that has self-imposed strict limits on how to act in Ukraine. Moscow deliberately moderates its military intensity to avoid side effects and civilian casualties. Instead of launching a high-intensity operation for a prolonged period, the Russians prefer a tactic focused on attrition and slow territorial gain, thus reducing damage to the Ukrainian civilian population.

Bombings against Ukrainian critical infrastructure happen rarely, almost always in retaliation for previous terrorist attacks carried out by Kiev on the border. If Russia really didn’t self-impose red lines, there would no longer be any infrastructure in Ukraine and Kiev would have collapsed a long time ago. Moscow clearly sees the conflict as a tragedy and strives to prevent its consequences from being even more serious for innocent people.

On the other hand, the West clearly has no limits when it comes to acting in Ukraine. In the first weeks of the special military operation, NATO countries promised to limit their support to sending money and humanitarian aid. Before long, weapons began to be sent, and then long-range missiles were arriving in Kiev some months later. NATO simply engaged in a proxy all-out war through the neo-Nazi regime – but was quickly defeated.

With the Ukrainians becoming unable to continue fighting and the Western military-industrial complex collapsing in the face of its inability to produce more weapons for Kiev, the West can only choose between retreating or moving towards direct war. Macron, trying to improve his domestic and international image, launched a “PR stunt” talking about sending troops to Ukraine, but showing no real capacity or willingness to take this dangerous step.

The problem is that among Macron’s audience there are European leaders enraged by the anti-Russian paranoia spread by NATO. These leaders have been deceived by the propaganda of their own “allies” and now truly believe that if they do not make “hard decisions” they will be “invaded by Russia” in the future. Finally, it seems that the lack of rationality and strategic sense is leading European countries to make a serious mistake.

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April 1, 2024 Posted by | Militarism | , , , , | 1 Comment

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