Iran's websites covering the #Natanz incident, Behrouz Kamalvandi, ( بهروز کمالوندی) Iran's Atomic Energy Organization spokesman, says no casualties, being investigated; this links it to the nuclear site
This is third mysterious incident in a week
It comes after the June 30 Sina Medical Center (مرکز پزشکی سینا) incident on Shariati st ( شریعتی ); in this article he denies there were radioactive materials or nuclear aspects to the center, oddly why deny it"?
A map of the recent mysterious incidents in Iran, the June 25 explosion near Parchin-Khojir, the medical center and now Natanz nuclear facility; #breakingnews
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You can note the talking points put out by the anti-Israel, pro-Hezbollah crowd after the pager attack. It consists of claims the attack was "indiscriminate" and that it harmed civilians and that it is a "terrorist" attack.
It's so interesting and predictable. It's also so obvious.
Every time there is an incident, whether it was the hostage rescue in Gaza, or this, there is always a talking point factory. The arguments they make are never original. It's always just the same talking point repeated again and again.
Remember the hostage rescue when we were subjected to the talking point of "200 killed to rescue 4" or something like that...without any evidence that it was 200 civilians killed.
Question: Almost a year after the October 7 attack, which plunged the region into a massive war, have you seen any articles about Middle Eastern countries or western countries conducting an internal probe into why their intelligence services didn't get wind of Hamas plans and warn?
Israel has been looking into intelligence failures on October 7 and there are resignations and also many articles about this issue. However, when one looks at western countries, such as close allies of Doha, where Hamas leaders reside, there doesn't seem to be much concern.
Isn't there concern in Cairo, Riyadh or other places that they didn't have any inkling of Hamas planning "something big."
🧵 I’ve been thinking about how Hamas uses schools in Gaza systematically to hide and to use as command centers in their ongoing war. I’ve also been thinking about the right of kids in Gaza to have an education free from Hamas men illegally using their classrooms.
What if the international community prioritized protecting Gaza’s children from Hamas and not letting Hamas into schools. What if they mandated UN schools have camera CCTV feeds and transparency about who enters the schools and who is employed there.
What if there was a way to have a few schools as a pilot program where a way would be found to keep Hamas men out of them. Like a civilian bubble completely free from Hamas men entering and exploiting it and using it as a shield.
One of the reasons the intl community doesn’t condemn the Houthi and Hezbollah attacks on Israel strongly is because of the intl perspective that these are “non-state actors”…and thus not held to the same account as “states”. But this concept is outdated.
When “non-state” actors have more weapons than the state they are in, such as 150,000 rockets and missiles as Hezbollah does, or long range missiles as the Houthis have, they should be treated as a state.
It doesn’t make sense to judge a weak state more than a strong non-state group that is terrorizing and attacking its neighbors using the hollowed out state
IDF: Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in central Israel, a surface-to-surface missile was identified crossing into central Israel from the East and fell in an open area. No injuries were reported.
This is yet another major escalation in attacks on Israel as has been happening since October 7. This has included the Hezbollah attacks, the Houthi attacks, including attacks on Eilat and Tel Aviv from Yemen; the April Iranian attack with missiles and drones, and now this attack today, September 15
The Norwegian Refugee Council put out a statement saying "Gaza: Al-Mawasi strikes show ‘humanitarian zones’ are in name only"...but what I'd like to know is why the entire statement doesn't reference Hamas at all. Hamas is the one who sent commanders INTO THE humanitarian zone. It's Hamas activist that shows humanitarian zones are in name only. Not Israel's REACTION.
When I got the statement from them, I thought it's possible they didn't mention Hamas, but what about "armed groups" which is the usual Orwellian phrase used by NGOs...and it's not in there either. Nor is the Orwellian "militant." No mention at all.
This is how NGOs distort what happens in Gaza. They pretend this is a completely one sided conflict. There is no "Hamas" and no "armed men" and no "militants." It's just Israel and all Gazans are portrayed as civilians.