IS A U.S./ISRAEL AND IRAN CONFLICT LIKELY? (UPDATE 73). ISRAEL/HAMAS WAR (UPDATE 81): HEZBOLLAH COULD BE ISRAEL'S NEW FRONT IN ITS WAR AGAINST HAMAS (UPDATE 27). GAZA RESIDENTS UNDER SIEGE WITHOUT FOOD, ELECTRICITY AND WATER (UPDATE 62). SYRIA, ISRAEL'S SECOND FRONT (UPDATE 5). YEMEN, ISRAEL'S THIRD FRONT (UPDATE 15) ANTIWAR PROTESTS (UPDATE 13). U.S. MIDDLE EAST AIR/drone STRIKES (UPDATE 7) . MISINFORMATION (UPDATE 1) CEASEFIRE (UPDATE 2). WAR CRIMES (UPDATE 15)

New updates:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/01/is-usisrael-and-iran-conflict-likely.html

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All previous updates, please refer to this link:  https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-us-and-iran-conflict-looks-likely.html 

30/01/2024

Christopher Gunness, former spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Explaining why Israel's claim that UNRWA supported the terrorist's attack on 7th October 2023, is a beat up to choke off aid to Gaza. That the Arab's states should do a lot more, and fill the gap of canceled funding by Western countries, and assist the starving and dying Gaza population, considering the oil revenue that these countries make. Clip from Middle East Eye:

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25/01/2024

• Israel accused of holding up aid/food to the Gaza populus.  Which indicates a war crime of using starvation as a weapon. Via BBC

• Israeli war crimes continue in Gaza.  Israeli tanks attack a UN compound in Gaza.  "Mass casualties"  reported.   The U.S. remains adamant against a ceasefire in Gaza.  Via CNN

23/01/2024

• Infographic via Al Jazeera documenting Israeli army war crimes onto Gaza's health system and attacks on hospitals. 

22/01/2024

• Israeli assassination program, via using drones, continues its destabilization of the region.  Mostly aimed at Lebanese and Hezbollah targets.  Drone strikes are moving further into Lebanese territory.  Latest Israeli drone strikes kills Hezbollah official and a Lebanese civilian at a checkpoint.  Via ABC

• Global protests against Israel indiscriminate war against the citizens of Gaza.  Antiwar protest in Haifa, Israel.  

• Gaza death toll pases 25,000 of mostly civilians.  No ceasefire as yet, as the war between Hamas and Israel continues.  Clip France24

21/01/2024

• Israel's aerial assignation program continues, with an airstrike on Damascus, Syria.  Targeting Iran's military targets.  Via Al Jazeera

20/01/2024

• Israel's scorched earth policy on Gaza by controlled detonation of a Gaza University building. Raising questions of Israel's intention of leveling most of the Gaza strip for relocation of Palestinians, and the expansion and redevelopment of Israeli territory.  Clip Al Jazeera:

19/01/2024

• Israeli army war crimes in Gaza.  Clip Al Jazeera:

16/01/2024

• Iran launches ballistic missile strikes on the Iraq/Kurdistan region and Syrian Islamic State positions.   Iranian Revolution Guards have claimed responsibility, citing that the Kurdistan strikes were to destroy an Israeli 'Mossad' spy base.   Via AP and the The Guardian.  Clip:  Al Jazeera 

14/01/2024

• 100 days since the War on the Palestinian people by Israel, protests have taken place around the world:

13/01/2024

• U.S. and U.K. warplanes have carried out a 2nd night of attacks on Sana'a the Capital of Yemen.  Both the U.S. and U.K. have not committed to any democratic process in authorizing these attacks on Yemen.  Are we at war with Yemen?  Via Al Jazeera  

• Updated report via NBC:

12/01/2024

• The U.S. and U.K. have started air/missile attacks on Houthi positions in Yemen.  Which could indicate that the invasion of Gaza and subsequent war on the besieged CIty, is now morphing into a wider conflict.  

10/01/2024

• Houthi militia continues its attacks on Red Sea ships as the West falls silent on any U.N. mandated (approved by the U.S.) ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid and Palestinians injured and dying to leave Gaza. Via:  The Guardian

9/01/2024

• WHO official at a Gaza hospital, reporting on the influx of civilian patients from Israel's relentless bombardment of Gaza.

• Israeli war crimes and the brutality inflicted on Gaza civilians as described by a British surgeon, quoting that "multiple traumatic amputations of children, and as I said, horrific burns, the likes of which I've never seen before".   Gaza's death toll stands at 23000.  Via:  CNN

• Israel maintains is drone assassination program, targeting and killing a senior Hezbollah military leader in Southern Lebanon, Via:  Al Jazeera

8/01/202

• Israel's war crimes in targeting journalists in Gaza maintains its brutal disregard, with what appears to be the targeted killing of Al Jazeera reporter Hamza al-Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief, Wael al-Dahdouh who has already lost five members of his family from Israeli airstrikes.  From France24

7/01/2024

• According to Thaleng Mokaleng UN special special rapporteur.  Gaza citizens, particularly Children are facing widespread starvation.  Indicating that Israel is using starvation as a Total War technique and of course war crime on the Gaza's populus.  That a ceasefire is necessary for food and medical aid to be delivered to the million plus Palestinians besieged by Israel's military.  Via Al Jazeera/Twitter

6/01/2024

• Israel continues its dehumanization and oppression of West Bank Palestinians.  Denying weekly prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque.  Israel's brutal war on Gaza death toll stands at over 22,000.  With hunger, water and airborne disease are beginning to take hold on the population of the Gaza strip.

3/01/2024

Israel, although it claims it is not behind the drone 'precision' strike on an apartment building in Beirut/Lebanon, has killed senior Hamas leaders.  Lebanon's government claims that Israel's military breached Lebanon sovereign border to carry out the assassination. 

  

1/01/2024

• U.S. warships in the Red Sea have destroyed Houthi gunboats, attempting to board a Singaporean flagged ship. From Al Jazeera: aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/31/us-forces-sink-houthi-boats-in-red-sea-after-attack-on-maersk-vessel     

29/12/2023

• Protests in NYC are becoming more frequent, in light of America supplying bombs to Israel, who are equally committing war crimes in Gaza.

27/12/2023

• America following the Israeli rulebook of war or is it the other way around?  Has preemptively stuck targets in Iraq of Iranian backed militia, a sign that President Biden appears to opening up a fresh conflict with Iran and its proxy armies in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.  From Arab news: arabnews.com/node/2432316/middle-east  

• Yemen's Houthi rebels have attacked Israeli's Eilat port with drones, as a symbolic action which has driven down activity at the port more than 85%.  Yet, the Iran backed militia in solidarity with the people of Gaza have effectively shut down the Red Sea as a trade route, causing the U.S. to create a multinational naval force to patrol the area. Via Al Jazeera: aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/26/uk-maritime-group-reports-drones-explosion-off-yemen-coast  

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26/12/2023

• Stop the Gaza genocide by Israel protests in NYC.  Christmas eve/day disruption.