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The United States has decided to deploy the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, and five accompanying destroyers to Latin America, prompting Venezuela to condemn the pending provocation as reckless and unlawful.

The move, which marks one of the most aggressive American naval buildups in the hemisphere in decades, was announced by a Pentagon spokesperson on Friday.

The official claimed that the expanded US regional interference aimed to “detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities.”

The decision has raised fears of an imminent attempt to destabilize or even invade Venezuela under fabricated pretexts.

Analysts and international observers have also cautioned that the scale of the deployment far exceeds anti-narcotics operations.

The Gerald Ford strike group will join some 6,000 US sailors and Marines already stationed aboard eight warships in the region, bringing total American military personnel in the area to more than 10,000.

The escalation follows Donald Trump’s recent admission that he had authorized CIA operations inside Venezuela and was “mulling land attacks.”

The US president has repeatedly made baseless accusations that President Nicolás Maduro’s government was linked to criminal groups “invading” the US through drugs and immigration, allegations repeatedly dismissed by international agencies and even US intelligence assessments.

Since September, Washington has launched several strikes against civilian and fishing vessels in the Caribbean, alleging drug links without offering evidence.

According to United Nations officials and international law experts, these attacks violate both US and international law and constitute extrajudicial executions.

Venezuelan authorities have vowed to defend national sovereignty with full resolve.

“Interpret it however you want: the Armed Forces will not allow a government here that is subservient to the interests of the United States,” said Foreign Minister Vladimir Padrino.

Calling the US deployment “the most significant military threat in the last 100 years,” Padrino reaffirmed Caracas’s commitment to peace and reiterated that Venezuela would not tolerate any aggression.

Al Masirah report

zion¿st colony drone bombs a vehicle near Zawtar al-Gharbieh, south Lebanon, assassinating one person and injuring two others.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced the martyrdom of 3 civilians today:

One martyr and one injured in a z¿onist raid on a car in the town of Zawtar al-Gharbiya in the south of the country.

Two martyrs and two injured in a zionist raid targeting a car in the town of Toul in the south of the country.

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“We’re just gonna kill people”

Trump says he does not need declaration of war for attacks on Venezuela.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday, 23 October that he does not plan to ask Congress for a declaration of war before possible strikes on suspected drug smugglers in Venezuela.

When a reporter asked whether he would seek congressional approval, Trump said his team would brief lawmakers but saw no need for authorization, adding: “I don’t think we’re gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war, I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. OK? We’re gonna kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead,” the US president said.

Palestine rights group seeks UK prosecution of citizens fighting in zion¿st occupation army.

The International Centre for Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has lodged an application in a UK magistrates court seeking to prosecute British citizens accused of fighting for zionist military in its war on Palestine.

The human rights group said the case, filed on Monday, targets one named individual but includes evidence against more than 10 Britons who allegedly joined the zionist occupation army.

The ICJP argues that such actions breach section 4 of the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870, which forbids British citizens from serving in the military of a foreign state at war with another state that is at peace with the UK.

The group says the case will demonstrate that zionist war targets not only Hamas but Palestinians and Palestine itself — now recognized by the UK as a state.

To avoid prejudicing the case, the ICJP has not publicly identified the accused individuals.

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A report says that more than 125,000 z¿onist settlers moved abroad between early 2022 and mid-2024, marking the largest-ever loss of human capital in such a short period.

According to a report presented on Monday to the Immigration and Absorption Committee of the zionist colonial parliament (the Knesset), the colony’s net migration balance of settlers — the number of settlers leaving without intending to come back, minus the number of long-term returnees — decreased by 125,200 people between early 2022 and August 2024.

The report noted that the rise in the number of those leaving permanently during the years may have been influenced by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

The trend is believed to have persisted into 2025, as the war on Gaza continued.

“This is not a wave of emigration, it’s a tsunami of Israelis choosing to leave the country,” said committee chairman MK Gilad Kariv.

According to the report compiled by the Knesset Research and Information Center, some 59,400 Israelis left in 2022, and an all-time high 82,800 departed in 2023. In the first eight months of 2024, approximately 50,000 people left, the report said.

That’s while the average number of long-term emigrants between 2009 and 2021 was nearly 40,500 per year.

zionist colony launched a genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, killing nearly 70,000 Palestinians before the war came to an end earlier this month with a fragile ceasefire agreement.

PressTV report

Local sources report that a man was killed alongside an elderly woman in the z¿onist airstrike on the southern Lebanese town of Arab Salim, raising the death toll to two.

Local reports indicate that two people were killed as a result of the zion¿st airstrike on Bekaa.

The strikes caused damage to Shmistar Secondary School, where several window panes were shattered during school hours.

The airstrikes were accompanied by low-altitude flights of Israeli warplanes over the Bekaa Valley and intensified drone surveillance in the south. These developments come amid escalating drone attacks, disruption of reconstruction efforts, and heightened Israeli threats to ramp up violence against Lebanon, as part of mounting pressure to weaken and disarm Hezbollah.

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Al-Manar correspondent: zion¿st occupation soldiers at the Mount Blat checkpoint open gunfire towards Wadi Zebqin and Sheheen in southern Lebanon