you interested in disappearing like Fender?

UN commission accuses Israel of crimes against humanity and Hamas of war crimes

A UN commission created by the Human Rights Council after the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in May 2021 published, Wednesday June 12, a report of investigations into Hamas attacks against Israel and of the Jewish state in the West Bank and Gaza.

The document accuses Israel of being responsible in the Gaza Strip for crimes against humanity, in particular for “extermination”. Palestinian armed groups have been accused of war crimes since the October 7 attack on Israeli territory.
In his conclusion, he accuses the Israeli army of "crimes against humanity of extermination, murder, gender-based persecution targeting Palestinian men and boys, forcible transfer, acts of torture and inhuman and cruel treatment, were committed.”

Without commenting on this report, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, affirmed, during a press briefing in Geneva, that the UN was aware of "the unique level of destruction and victims within the Palestinian population during these months of war, which has no precedent in any other situation that I have experienced as Secretary General of the United Nations.

Obstacles to investigations denounced by the UN :

According to UN investigators, the Israeli authorities and “the military wing of Hamas and six other Palestinian armed groups” are “responsible” for “war crimes”. The president of the commission, Navi Pillay, assured in a press release that it was “imperative that all those who [had] committed crimes be held accountable”.

(source: https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/06/1150946 // https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/06/israeli-authorities-palestinian-armed-groups-are-responsible-war-crimes)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl55gzp7vn9o

The Israeli war cabinet got dissolved. I'm thinking this is because not everyone is on the same page about the war in the north.
Hamas is also now using mines/ieds, causing the latest casualty numbers. The videos being released shows that the new tactic is very effective against namers/humvees.

The houthis are still truckin' along, now using mannequins on speedboats and calling them USVs and nobody can stop them.

While the idf still sucks shit at offensive operations, the Israeli war machine still seems to be at the forefront of drone technology:

The Orbiter 2 drone is launched from a catapult, weighs approximately 28 pounds, and boasts a nine-foot wingspan, offering several hours of flight time. The company describes it as a next-generation system building upon the existing Orbiter 2.

According to Assenhaym, the new system combines the lethality of a loitering munition with the ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) capabilities of the unmanned aerial system (UAS).

https://interestingengineering.com/military/israel-suicide-drone-extra-flight-lethality

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk6by8kia
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/us/politics/gaza-pier-israel-aid.html

The US is planning to decommission and dismantle Joe Biden's super genius pier off the coast of Gaza and give up on the project, admitting it "has largely failed in its mission"
The pier cost $230 million, started construction on April 26th, wasn't ready until May 17th (21 days), and in the 32 days since it has only been operational for 10 days, less than 1/3 uptime. Three troops were injured in failed operations, the pier was damaged in storms twice and the pier was at least directly next to the IDF staging point for the Nuseirat raid despite US promises not to be involved in military operations, with Israeli forces landing 'just outside' of the zone to be technically uninvolved, which Hamas and the Hamastani media accused of being US involvement.


All this absurd level of waste and mismanagement was simply so Joe Biden could make a line about it in his state of the union address. Joe's personal pet failure.
Well shit at least its better than having him totally asleep at the wheel in Afghanistan, I'd blame him less if he pulled a Jimmy Carter and a bunch of planes/helicopters had crashed during an actual evacuation ahead of the Taliban takeover instead of the shitshow we had there

Uncle sam is delaying a 18billion dollar arms package to Israel because they're mad at bibi or something like that. The package included 50 f15s and an undisclosed amount of jdams/pgms:

https://thecradle.co/articles/us-delays-18bn-arms-sale-to-israel-as-spat-between-allies-expands-report

Also, Nasrallah just gave a speech in which he stated that he'll invade northern Galilee and attack israels air bases in Cyprus and attack Israeli ships in the med sea. He also stated that he has new missles from Iran that are more advanced than anything they've been using thus far.

So there is a possibility that the Gaza war will spill over onto European soil. Can the euro bros remind me if opening a two front war is a good idea?

The entitlement rhetoric for arms and ammunition from Netenyahu is pathetic. He acting like US owes Israel something they paid for and didn't receive. All while they are one of the top recipients of US foreign aid currently.

USS Eisenhower retreating from Red Sea

This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Jun 23 2024 06:34pm

Are they fighters?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-historic-ruling-high-court-says-government-must-begin-drafting-haredi-men-into-idf/

Drafting Haredi men doesn't mean sending them in the front line
They can be made useful by supporting the IDF in whatever way they are fit to - from peeling potatoes to being medics

These guys can't push buttons on elevators, unless the IDF opens up a battalion for weaponized torah studies, the only thing they will do is protest.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryeiwsd00a#autoplay

US embassy in Tel Aviv came under attempted drone attack by Hamas, 1 dead and 4 injured but they were Israelis in a building nearby the consulate not Americans, apparently the drone either fell short or was downed, seems like the drone bomb was powerful enough to destroy the whole building it struck but it wasn't the embassy