Aletho News

ΑΛΗΘΩΣ

Israeli attack on Damascus was terrorist act – Moscow

RT | April 2, 2024

The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, has described Monday’s airstrike on the Iranian Consulate in the Syrian capital as a terrorist attack committed by the Israeli government.

Speaking to reporters after a meeting with his Belarusian counterparts on Tuesday, the spy chief condemned the strike, which reportedly killed several Iranian diplomats as well as seven officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including two generals – Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi.

Naryshkin described the attack as “an ugly and criminal step in relation to the sovereign state of Iran, and in relation to the sovereign state of Syria, on whose territory this terrorist act was committed.”

He added that the SVR has received additional information about the incident, and reactions from various countries, but did not provide further details.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has also condemned the bombing of the Iranian compound in Damascus, stressing that any attacks on diplomatic missions, which are protected under the Vienna conventions on diplomatic relations, are unacceptable.

The ministry noted that the strike posed a high risk to Syrian civilians, as the building is located in a residential area, and warned that such brazen acts by Israel could trigger a major escalation in the region.

Israel has yet to comment on the attack, but officials have previously admitted to targeting Iran-linked forces on the territory of Syria.

April 2, 2024 Posted by | War Crimes | , , , , | Leave a comment

Russia Reiterates Call on Int’l Organizations to Conduct Probe Into Bucha Events

Sputnik – 02.04.2024

Moscow reiterates its call that international organizations conduct an investigation into the events in the city of Bucha and reveal the names of the victims, the time and the reasons for their deaths, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday.

“Once again, we demand that international agencies stop covering up for the Kiev regime and ensure a thorough investigation that will finally reveal the names of the victims, the time and the cause of their death, the signs of the bodies having been moved from one place to another, and the individuals responsible for this terrifying crime by the Kiev authorities,” Zakharova said in a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Russia has sent “multiple” requests to international organizations, including to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Tuerk, but they remained unanswered, Zakharova said, adding that this shows that the “organisers of this heinous act have things to hide.”

“The propaganda-driven disinformation campaign in Bucha came as a response to our goodwill gesture to withdraw troops from the Kiev and Chernigov regions which was made in the wake of progress at the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul on March 28, 2022. Clearly, the goal of this campaign was to disrupt the dialogue between the parties and to launch a package of pre-arranged Western sanctions on Russia at the behest of London,” Zakharova also said.

She added that Kiev intended to distract the international community’s attention “from its own crimes and inconsistencies” of the Bucha “provocation” and to spread a “fake theory” about the civilians allegedly killed by the Russian military among the public in Western countries.

Immediately after the start of Moscow’s special military operation in February 2022, Russia took control of the territory of the Kiev Region, including Bucha, a small city located northwest of Kiev. Following the Russian military withdrawing from the region, Ukrainian authorities accused Russia of numerous killings of civilians in Bucha and surrounding areas.

Moscow has denied its role in the killings of civilians and insists that the footage of the murdered local residents, which was distributed in the Western media, is nothing more than a staged provocation on the part of Ukraine to put pressure on the Western ruling circles in order to achieve their goals in the conflict with Russia.

April 2, 2024 Posted by | Deception, False Flag Terrorism | , | Leave a comment

Update on the Crocus terror attack

By Gilbert Doctorow | April 1, 2024

Day by day, the Russian security officials are expanding upon their claims that Ukraine financed and directed the terror attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue. Sunday evening’s edition of News of the Week hosted by Dmitry Kiselyov pointed to crypto currency payments and other financial channels which were used by the Ukrainians, as the latest results of interrogations and further arrests have revealed. A substantial success reward is said to have awaited the assailants upon arrival in Kiev.

Meanwhile various Western media outlets including Deutsche Welle tell us the Kremlin has demanded the hand-over of the head of Kiev’s Security Service (SSB), brigadier general Vasyl Malyuk on charges of directing terrorist attacks in Russia. To be sure, Malyuk himself has claimed responsibility for the 2022 bombing of the Kerch (Crimea) bridge. But we may now assume that the Russians have evidence to hold him to account for directing the Crocus City Hall atrocity.

There is speculation in social media that Kiev’s refusal to surrender its terror campaign leaders would allow Russia to declare Ukraine a terrorist state. This would open the possibility for ‘neutralizing’ top Ukrainian officials on justifiable grounds.

However, we need not speculate about what may come next. De facto, Russia’s current offensive against Ukraine has escalated to a new, vastly more threatening level. There are daily punishing aerial bombing and missile attacks on military command centers across Ukraine, on training centers, on concentrations of foreign mercenaries. And then there is a new dimension to the destruction of Ukraine’s electricity network.

In the winter of 2022-2023, all the Western media spoke of Russian attacks on the energy infrastructure, on how Russia was allegedly seeking to impose misery on the Ukrainian civilians by depriving them of heat and light in the midst of freezing cold. But back then the reality was that Russia only struck substations and other distribution points.  Such destruction was meant to knock out power for tactical advantage over the Ukrainian armed forces. It was obvious that the substations and other gear could be replaced in a matter of weeks or months.  By contrast what is now going on is Russian destruction of power generating stations. Replacing them will be a matter of years, not months.

Very much to the point, the mayor of Kharkiv yesterday remarked to the press that the city’s power supplies have been utterly destroyed.  This development corresponds very nicely to the calls that were  made on the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov talk show last week for Kharkiv’s inhabitants to be sent packing in their cars headed west ahead of the city being razed to the ground. The intent was to end once and for all the missiles and artillery shells that Kharkiv has been sending daily into the neighboring Belgorod region of Russia to kill civilians in the greatest numbers possible.  Kharkiv may not yet be razed, but it certainly is on the way to becoming uninhabitable.

In the face of this massive and undeniable destruction by the Russians both on and off the battlefield, the bravado of Zelensky and his clique is fading. Indeed, the Ukrainian president has finally said publicly that it may be time for peace negotiations.

Let us hope that Russia’s post Crocus viciousness may bring the Ukrainians to their senses and end this awful war.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2024

April 2, 2024 Posted by | False Flag Terrorism, Militarism | , | Leave a comment

Why is Western Press Trying to Revive Havana Syndrome Hoax?

By Ekaterina Blinova – Sputnik – 01.04.2024

US broadcaster CBS has claimed there is reason to believe that American officials struck by the so-called Havana Syndrome were “attacked” by Russia, despite five US intelligence agencies debunking the theory last year. What’s behind this new round of hysteria?

In what appears to be a bad April Fools joke, a group of Western mainstream media outlets, namely CBS’ 60 Minutes, The Insider, and Der Spiegel, has brought a busted “Havana Syndrome” theory that points the finger at Russia back to life, again.

The latest 60 Minutes show featured a retired army lieutenant colonel, an FBI agent, a Washington DC-based lawyer representing Havana Syndrome sufferers, and Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev, well-known for his anti-Russian bias and accused by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in December 2022 of working hand in glove with the Ukrainian security agents on a plan to hijack several Russian warplanes. CBS’ interlocutors asserted to the broadcaster that “there are no barriers on what Moscow” could do.

What’s Havana Syndrome?

Havana Syndrome is a condition that was seemingly first reported in 2016 by employees of the US Embassy in Cuba who complained about vertigo, migraines, hearing and memory loss, and nausea. The symptoms described by the sufferers are often reported to follow pressure in their heads or strange sounds.

Later, some American government, military and intelligence officials and their family members cited similar symptoms at US embassies around the world, triggering speculation about the use of some sort of mysterious energy weapon. Cuba, Russia and China were named as potential culprits behind what the US mainstream media called a “hostile power attack”.

US Intelligence Agencies Debunked Claims of Russian Involvement

After conducting a thorough investigation into the matter under the Biden administration, the US intelligence community (IC) concluded that it was highly unlikely that the collection of debilitating symptoms was caused by unidentified foreign actors’ attacks.

The Washington Post reflected on the IC’s years-long probe, which included the review of approximately 1,000 cases of “anomalous health incidents”, on March 1, 2023.

“Five of [the US intelligence] agencies determined it was ‘very unlikely’ that a foreign adversary was responsible for the symptoms, either as the result of purposeful actions — such as a directed energy weapon — or as the byproduct of some other activity, including electronic surveillance that unintentionally could have made people sick,” the newspaper wrote.

The IC said it found no pattern or common set of conditions that could link the cases in question. It also did not find any proof, including forensic information or geolocation data, that would indicate that a potential adversary had used some sort of “directed energy such as radio waves or ultrasonic beams.”

One official interviewed by the WaPo stated that in locations where US intelligence had a complete ability to monitor the environment for signs of malicious interference, they had found no evidence of an adversary power targeting US government employees. On top of that, there was no intelligence confirming that foreign leaders, including from Russia, had any knowledge of or had authorized a hypothetical attack on US personnel.

The findings of the US intelligence community were met with ire by Havana Syndrome sufferers and their attorneys. This outrage could be partially explained by six-figure compensations promised by the Biden administration to those severely affected by the “syndrome.”

National Institutes of Health Nipped Mystical Sonic Weapons Theory in Bud

Independently of the IC investigation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) confirmed its conclusions in two studies released on March 18, 2024. The NIH found no evidence of brain or inner ear injury in scans or blood markers of Havana Syndrome sufferers. The results were published in the reputable Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

According to the NIH, 41% of those who complained of the mysterious Havana Syndrome from nearly every geographic area either “met the criteria for Functional Neurological Disorders (FND)” or showed symptoms indicating underlying psychological distress. The reported health complaints were also usually closely related to a wide range of pre-existing conditions, anxiety reactions, or environmental factors.

Commenting on the NIH studies, Robert E. Bartholomew, an honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, lambasted peddlers of an “adversary power attack” theory in the scientific community and referred to flaws in their studies in his op-ed for Skeptic.

The scientist stressed that one shouldn’t underestimate the role of psychogenic disorders and distress US diplomats and spies are usually subjected to during their work overseas.

It’s hardly surprising that a mating call of the Indies short-tailed cricket was taken by some US Embassy employees in Cuba as the sound of a mysterious sonic weapon, according to him. Psychosis was quick to spread, instigated by fears of an adversary attack.

“Some media commentators and rogue scientists continue to speculate that a small number of cases in US personnel in both Cuba and later around the world, may have involved a directed energy weapon. Yet, Occam’s razor fits well here. Given two competing explanations, the simplest is the most likely,” Bartholomew wrote. “The entire episode is explainable using conventional psychology, and without recourse to foreign actors and secret weapons.”

Havana Syndrome Theory Used to Stoke Fears About US Rivals

What’s behind the Western media agitation with Havana Syndrome? According to Jacobin staff writer Branko Marcetic, one should pay attention to the timing of the fuss surrounding the energy weapon theory.

“The supposed foreign culprit behind the alleged attacks was constantly cycling through the rogues’ gallery of Washington’s villains of the week, from Cuba, initially, to Russia, then China. The most surprising thing is that Iran didn’t at any point end up in the rotation,” Marcetic noted.

Indeed, the theory of Havana Syndrome being caused by adversaries of the US gained traction at the time when the Trump administration cracked down hard on the Caribbean nation. Reports alleging Chinese traces were fuelled by the US’ trade wars against the People’s Republic and crusade against its hi-tech sector.

Naming Russia as a potential “culprit” fitted into the US foreign establishment’s agenda under both Trump and Biden so as to stoke fears about the alleged “Russian threat”.

The rhetoric of US adversaries being behind Havana Syndrome was just one in a string of other debunked outlandish claims, including fake news that Iran had sentenced fifteen thousand protesters to death; that Russia blew up the Nord Stream pipelines; that China had deliberately flown a spy balloon over the US, and many more, Marcetic emphasized.

According to the journalist, the hysteria was deliberately stirred up by the US to justify unfriendly and hostile acts against the aforementioned nations.

Timing of Havana Syndrome’s Revitalization Speaks Volumes

The timing of the US mainstream media’s effort to bring the Havana Syndrome theory back to life speaks volumes.

First, it comes amid a string of Ukraine’s defeats on the battlefield which appears to inflict serious reputational damage on Biden’s 2024 campaign ahead of the election. Second, it follows the Crocus City Hall terror attack, conducted by Islamists with the apparent participation of Ukrainian operators.

Most recently, Russian investigators have confirmed that the terrorists received cash and cryptocurrencies from Ukraine. What’s more, the Russian Investigative Committee’s report suggests that alleged Ukrainian masterminds could be directly connected to the CIA, MI6 and MI5, Kirill Kabanov, chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, told Sputnik on March 30.

On Sunday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in an official statement that it had conveyed to the Kiev regime its demand that those involved in terrorist attacks on Russian territory, including Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) head Vasyl Malyuk, be arrested and extradited to Moscow.

The Foreign Ministry’s demand was followed by a Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) statement on Monday saying that the Biden administration is “covering up those responsible for the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall” and is “stepping up work to form a distorted picture of the large-scale terrorist attack that took place in Russia on March 22.”

Are the allegations once again being circulated by the Western press of powers adverse to Washington causing Havana Syndrome just a part of this strategy?

April 2, 2024 Posted by | Fake News, Mainstream Media, Warmongering, Russophobia | , | Leave a comment

Ford Foundation, a CIA Facade: The Beginning

By Eduardo Vasco | Strategic Culture Foundation | March 31, 2024

Researcher Frances Stonor Saunders dedicated an entire book, under the title “Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War”, to the work of the United States government to finance influencers of the non-communist left, mainly in Europe and North America.

Intellectuals, journalists, artists and activists (in addition, obviously, to professional politicians) were financed directly or indirectly by the US Central Intelligence Agency through programs to promote culture and development that were nothing more than a façade for it to pour money into determined sectors, in order to combat the influence of the Soviet Union and what it still represented, in one way or another (the revolution and the fight against imperialism).

The CIA’s “cultural war” strategists were thinking not of modifying the leftist policy they financed, but rather of encouraging an already existing policy. It was a left compatible with its interests, which did not clash with the fundamental policy of imperialism. The objective was to strengthen this policy, make it “hegemonic” within the left, making revolutionary and anti-imperialist politics secondary ─ the final victim of these projects.

In this way, the CIA financed the holding of cultural congresses, exhibitions, concerts and the publication of newspapers, magazines, books and films with the intention of promoting “left-wing” ideas and policies perfectly compatible with its own.

Mainly journalistic and theoretical publications had as a fundamental aspect of their editorial line the fight against Marxist and anti-imperialist ideas.

This type of activity is often called “covert operations”, when the US government uses front organizations to hide the involvement of its agencies in conspiracies and operations around the world. Two of the main organizations that serve as a facade for the CIA to this day are the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, “both of which were conscious instruments of the clandestine foreign policy of the United States, with directors and employees who had close ties to the US secret service. American, or were even members of it” (pp. 156-157).

Created in 1936, the Ford Foundation was the tax-exempt cream of the vast Ford fortune, and had assets totaling more than three billion dollars by the late 1950s. Dwight Macdonald memorably described it as “a vast mass of money, completely surrounded by people who want some.” The architects of the Foundation’s cultural policy after World War II were perfectly in tune with the political imperatives that supported the United States’ massive presence on the world stage. At times, the Ford Foundation seemed to be a simple extension of the government in the area of international cultural propaganda. The Foundation had a history of close involvement in clandestine actions in Europe, working closely with those responsible for the Marshall Plan and the CIA on specific projects. This reciprocity was further amplified when Richard Bissell, a Marshall Plan planner whose signature had provided matching funds to Frank Wisner, joined the Ford Foundation in 1952, accurately predicting that there would be “nothing to prevent an individual from exercising as much influence through his work at a private foundation as he could have through government work.” During his tenure at Ford, Bissell met often with Allen Dulles and other CIA officials, including Tracy Barnes, his former classmate at Groton, in a “reciprocal search” for new ideas. He left suddenly to join the CIA as special assistant to Allen Dulles in January 1954, but not before helping to bring the foundation to the forefront of Cold War thinking.

Bissell had worked directly under Paul Hoffman, who became president of the Ford Foundation in 1950. Having come to the Foundation directly from his position as administrator of the Marshall Plan, Hoffman had taken a thorough immersion course in the problems of Europe and the power of ideas for dealing with these problems. He was fluent in the language of psychological warfare and, echoing Arthur Koestler’s 1950 exclamation (“Friends, freedom has gone on the offensive!”), spoke of “fighting the battle of peace.” He also shared with Robert Maynard Hutchins, a spokesman for the Ford Foundation, the view that the State Department was “subject to so much domestic political interference that it can no longer present a complete picture of American culture.”

In 1952, the Ford Foundation debuted in earnest as a CIA front in the international political-cultural arena. This is when the Intercultural Publications Program was created. It allocated 500 thousand dollars to launch the magazine Perspectives, whose target audience was the French, English, Italian and German non-communist left. Its aim was “less to defeat leftist intellectuals in dialectical combat than to lure them away from their positions through aesthetic and rational persuasion,” according to the program’s head, James Laughlin. The magazine’s policy was not to advertise the American lifestyle. “This omission alone will become the most important element of propaganda, in the best sense,” said one academic at the time. That is, the aim was to convey right-wing politics as something left-wing.

(to be continued)

Eduardo Vasco is a Brazilian journalist specializing in international politics.

April 2, 2024 Posted by | Book Review, Deception, Timeless or most popular | , | Leave a comment

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.

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

« Previous Entries     Next Entries »