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Hillary calling for reeducation of Trump cultists apparently???

Skies over Ashkelon right now

Palestine is probably gonna be alone throughout this entire war right? Mohammad Al-Deif has made statements naming almost every single Arab state in the Middle East and North Africa to join in the resistance which obviously means there were never plans for any of them to form a coalition

so this is actually the end times right? a crazy ass holy war popping off between islamic jihadists and dual christian and jewish great satans in fucking jerusalem of all places. seeing bethlehem on an alert just made my mind wiggy. all this shit colliding. been a hell of a decade this week.

The Cradle:

Footage of Palestinian fighters using paramotors. CW: gunfire, loud sounds.

Scenes of the seizure of "Kerem Shalom" site east of Rafah by the Palestinian resistance. CW: EXTREMELY graphic images of dead Israeli soldiers.

Footage of rockets in the sky over Israeli, already posted in the megathread. CW: loud sounds, explosions.

Footage of Israeli settlers fleeing southern Israel, by car and on foot, literally running away in panic.

In the early hours of 7 October, Palestinian resistance faction Hamas launched the biggest offensive against Israel in decades as part of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, firing thousands of rockets into central and southern Israel while resistance fighters infiltrated the occupied territories from land, sea, and air.

According to Israeli media, at least six settlers have been killed and close to 200 injured, while over 30 Israeli soldiers have been taken hostage. Footage on social media shows scores of settlers fleeing southern Israel as the operation got underway.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh described the ongoing battle as one of “honor, resistance, and dignity to defend Al-Aqsa [Mosque].”

“The enemy besieging Gaza has planned to surprise it and escalate the aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip, in addition to the settlement and aggression that continues every moment in the West Bank, which seeks to uproot our people and expel them from their land, and the crimes of the occupation against our people in the 1948s, as it stands behind all the killing and assassination operations there, and the occupation’s continuation of detaining our prisoners for decades, and reneging on agreements when he re-arrested those liberated from the swap deal," Haniyeh said.

“This flood began in Gaza and will extend to the West Bank and abroad, and every place where our people and nation are present,” he stressed, adding,” Today, the wrath of our nation and righteous fighters is boiling over. This is your day to make the enemy understand that its time has come to an end."

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) says its fighters joined the operation as Hamas urged other resistance factions, including Hezbollah, to join the fight. "We are part of this battle; our fighters are side-by-side with their brothers in the Al-Qassam Brigades until victory is achieved," PIJ spokesman Abu Hamza said in a post on Telegram.

For its part, Hezbollah issued a statement congratulating the Gaza resistance for the “heroic operation,” calling it “a decisive response to the continuing crimes of the occupation … and a [clear reminder] that the will of the Palestinian people and the rifle of resistance are the only options in the face of aggression and occupation and a message to the Arab and Islamic world and the entire international community, especially those seeking normalization."

In retaliation for the surprise attack, the Israeli air force has begun raids on “Hamas targets” in the besieged Gaza Strip, with residents saying they “do not know what to expect.” “We don’t have bomb shelters to go to. In previous attacks, people would just run out of their homes to other relatives' homes, thinking it would be safe. Every place is liable to an attack,” Gaza resident Rana Shubair told Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, in the Israeli settlements near Gaza, settlers have communicated with media outlets saying many have barricaded themselves inside their homes and are begging Tel Aviv to “send troops.” “There are wounded here … There are burning houses,” a resident of the illegal Kibbutz Beeri settlement told Israel Channel 12 news, adding that the feeling among settlers is that the have been “abandoned.”

“Hamas made a grave mistake this morning and started a war against the State of Israel. [Army] soldiers are fighting the enemy at all the infiltration sites,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said earlier on Saturday in remarks provided by his office. “The State of Israel will win this war,” he added. The US embassy in Israel says it is “closely monitoring” the security situation.

Iraq to fully de-dollarize cash transactions by year's end

The dinarheads were right all along.

The Iraqi government will ban all cash withdrawals and transactions in the US dollar as of 1 January 2024, according to Mazen Ahmed, director-general of investment and remittances at the Iraqi Central Bank (CBI).

The CBI official says that people who deposit dollars into banks before the end of 2023 will still be able to withdraw these funds in dollars next year. However, dollars deposited in 2024 will only be available in local currency at the official rate of 1,320 dinars.

“You want to transfer? Transfer. You want a card in dollars? Here you go, you can use the card inside Iraq at the official rate, or if you want to withdraw cash, you can at the official rate in dinars … But don't talk to me about cash dollars anymore,” Ahmed told Reuters.

He also claimed the move is meant to “stamp out the illicit use" of about 50 percent of the $10 billion that Iraq imports in cash each year on semimonthly cargo flights from the New York Federal Reserve.

With more than $100 billion in reserves held by US banks, Baghdad heavily relies on the goodwill of US officials to ensure the economy doesn't collapse. Furthermore, since 2003, all Iraqi oil revenues have been paid into an account with the US Federal Reserve, allowing Washington to control the Iraqi economy and pressure its government.

On 5 October, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that US officials last month refused to approve the transfer of an extra $1 billion in cash to Iraq from the country's oil sales proceeds. The move reportedly angered Iraqi officials, who said they need access to their oil revenues to protect Iraq's cash reserves after recent restrictions from the White House “set off panic buying of greenbacks and hoarding of dollars by exchanges.”