• zion*st Enemy Expands Aggression on Lebanon as Government Mulls Hezbollah Disarmament

    zion*st occupation strikes left five martyrs and 10 injuries in less than 48 hours.

    zion*st enemy escalated Thursday its aggression on Lebanon, launching air raids on Anjar and Baalbek and claiming several martyrs.

    The Zionist escalation came while the Lebanese government was discussing all the means of disarming the Resistance and yielding to the US-Saudi pressures.

    During its session, the Lebanese government approved the objectives of the US proposal which do not give Lebanon any guarantee regarding the halt of the zionist aggression.

    In details, the Lebanese ministry of public health announced that zionist drone strike on a car in Kfardan, west of Baalbek, left one martyr.

    The ministry also revealed that a Zionist drone attack on a car on Anjar-Masnaa highway left five martyrs, including two Syrians and three Lebanese, as well as 10 injuries.

    Source: Al-Manar English Website

  • Massive gatherings of Hezbollah and Amal supporters to protest the government decision on Resistance arsenal

    The Lebanese government approved the objectives of the US proposal submitted by the envoy Thomas Barrack pertaining to the ceasefire agreement, according to the Information Minister Paul Morcos who addressed the reporters after a stormy session.

    Morcos claimed that the US proposal stipulates the withdrawal of the zionist occupation forces from the positions they still hold in South Lebanon, the support for the Lebanese Army, and the dismemberment of the non-governmental parties.However, a detailed study of Barrack’s paper affirms that the zionist enemy is not obliged by the proposal to abide by commitments related to the withdrawal and halt of attacks.

    The Lebanese cabinet had tasked on Tuesday the Army with devising a plan to confine the weapons to the state before the year end. The plan should be ready to be approved on August 31.

    In objection to President Joseph Aoun’s and PM Nawaf Salam’s rejection of postponing the discussion of the US proposal and cancelling the timeline approved during Tuesday’s session, all the Shia ministers–Tamara Al-Zein, Rakan Nassereddine, Mohammad Haidar and Fadi Makki left the session.

    Accordingly, the ministerial session lost its constitutional legitimacy, knowing that, during the previous session, Hezbollah and Amal Movement ministers quit the meeting.

    The zionist enemy launched, during the Lebanese ministerial session aimed at disarming the Resistance, two air raids on Baalbek and Anjar, killing six civilians and injuring 10 others.

    Source: Al-Manar English Website

    Hezbollah and Amal ministers withdraw from Lebanese cabinet session on the issue of weapons.

    Al-Manar correspondent:

    “The reason for the withdrawal of the Shia ministers is the government’s failure to amend its decision, cancel the timeline, and its insistence on discussing the US proposal.”

    Supporters of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement take to the streets in various Lebanese towns and cities, including Beirut and areas in south Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa region, in protest against the cabinet’s decision on the resistance’s weapons.
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  • Update on yesterday’s zion*st airstrikes in Southern Lebanon

    zion*st attacks on the southern Lebanese village of Deir Syrian last night killed a Syrian national and injured two people, according to Al-Akhbar.

    zionist colony targeted the same site in Deir Siryan several times – deliberately blocking firefighting and rescue teams from reaching the area.
    https://t.me/thecradlemedia/40646

  • The 80th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb Part 1

    … an unprecedented weapon of mass destruction was used on a community of noncombatants.

    Former Japanese PM Murayama Tomiichi

    “Photographs of the mushroom clouds become the iconic images of the atomic bombingbwith no representation of the hundreds of thousands who died beneath them.”

    This is an excerpt from the book

    Nagasaki Live after the nuclear war that I recently read.

    Aside of the narration of direct accounts by survivors or Hibakusha [a survivor of the atomic bombings], the text concentrates on technicalities of both atomic bombings and provides an account of the American censorship on Japan under the occupation’s Civil Censorship Detatchment.

    Even phrases such as “Many innocent people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki” were banned.

    The, by the  Japanese people unwanted, research on survivors by the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, whereby the data was collected and forwarded to the American Military data bases, without provision of treatment for the survivors who suffered from the injuries and the effects of the radiation.

    The author provides inside into the survivors’ relatives’ lives who cared for them and those who lost every single member of their families.

    There is a passage that is dedicated to survivors and the relatives of those who had lost their lives, vividly describe the trauma and pain  driving them to commit suicide.

    In Chapter Time Suspended, it sais, “In 1955, a nineteen-year-old girl who ten years earlier had lost her mother on the day of the bombing and had herself been afflicted with poor health ever since, walked to the railroad tracks, placed her sandals and umbrella next to the rails, and threw herself in front of a moving train.”

    A long time ago, I had read a text on the atomic bombings, indicating that the Japanese had already capitulated when the bombs hit.

    According to this book, the dates for the bombings were preset.

    Truman had already ordered the bombing of Hiroshima-scheduled for early August ‘as soon as weather will permit.’

    Less than two weeks later, at 8:15 am on August 6, 1945, a uranium bomb nicknamed Little Boy detonated 1.900 feet above Hiroshima’s Shima Hospital, decimating the city and its residents with an explosive force equal to sixteen thousand tons of GNT. One hundred and forty thousand people were killed that day or died from injuries by the end of the year.

    “This is the greatest thing in history,” Truman exclaimed when the news reached him on board the USS Augusta on his return from Germany.

    Truman identified the city of Hiroshima in its entirety as a military base.

    You might have heard of the American propaganda ‘The Atomic bombings ended the war and saved a million American lives.’

    In the United States, ‘people still perceive the bombs as virtuous instrument of peace.’

    They worship, preserve, and guard in military museums the fighter jet, enola gay, that was used to drop the atomic bomb, Little boy, on Hiroshima.

    Most certainly, the Americans would have gone ahead with the atomic bombings weather the Japanese capitulated or not.

    However, when Japan capitulated, Truman’s orders were implemented: Approximately 740 B-29s dropped bombs on specific targets, and an estimated 160 more delivered over 12 million pounds of demolition and incendiary bombs on multiple urban areas, causing the deaths of thousands more Japanese.

    Once again, we become witnesses of UN’s bias and double standards.

    Out of 193 United Nations member states, 190 have signed the NPT – only India, zionist colony, and Pakistan have not-making the NPT the most successful international disarmament agreement since the beginning of nuclear weapons development.

    The Treaty, which came into force in 1970, binds signatory nations to an agreement that only the five current nuclear weapons states – the US, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom- may posses nuclear weapons, and it mandates the nuclear nations’ ongoing commitment to the long-term goal of complete disarmament.

    No wonder the US assumes the role of the world police and starts randomly bombing up and down Iranian nuclear sites.

    By the way,

    The Americans built the Tehran research reactor before the Islamic Revolution—it ran on 90% enriched uranium.

    To be continued …

    The Slaughter of Hiroshima – Jacobin report.
  • zion*st strikes on Syria

    Latakia Governorate: Loud successive explosions were heard in the 107th Brigade between Jableh and Baniyas in Latakia countryside.

    According to SOHR sources, the explosions were heard across the coastal region. No information has been reported so far of human or material losses caused by the explosions.

    https://www.syriahr.com/en/367355/

    zion*st airstrikes target Brigade 107 near the village of Zama in the Jableh area of Latakia countryside, Syria.
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  • Amal Movement: Government Acting Contrary to President Inaugural Speech, Tomorrow’s Session “a Chance to Restore National Solidarity”

    Amal Movement issued on Wednesday a statement which affirmed that Nawaf Salam government is acting contrary to the President’s inaugural address and its own ministerial statement, adding that, therefore, tomorrow’s session is an opportunity for correction and a return to Lebanese solidarity as it was.

    “Since November 27, 2024, the date of the issuance of the ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and the Israeli enemy, Lebanon has fully complied with the terms of the agreement and continues to adhere to its obligations to fully implement this agreement, which was approved by the previous and current governments.”

    “However, the Israeli enemy, since the first moments, has not complied but continues to persist in its aggression, with airstrikes and assassinations using drones, violating Lebanese airspace and continuing to occupy vast swaths of Lebanese territory, including the so-called ‘Five Hills’, in addition to preventing the residents of border villages from returning to them after their complete destruction.”

    The statement added, “Based on the above, the Lebanese government, which is rushing to offer more free concessions to the Israeli enemy through new agreements, should have focused its efforts on consolidating the ceasefire and putting an end to the Israeli killing machine, which has so far claimed the lives of hundreds of Lebanese citizens, both martyred and wounded.”

    “Thus, the government is acting contrary to what was stated in the President’s inaugural speech and in violation of its ministerial statement. Therefore, tomorrow’s session is an opportunity for correction and a return to Lebanese solidarity as it was.

    The Lebanese government on Tuesday tasked the army with drafting a plan to confine all weapons to the state by the end of the year, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced.

    Al Manar report

    Amal movement supporters hold up pictures of Imam Musa al-Sadr in Beirut on August 31, 2018
  • Massively violent zionist airstrikes on Southern Lebanon ongoing; eleven-year-old child martyr

    zionist colony targeted the same site in Deir Siryan several times – deliberately blocking firefighting and rescue teams from reaching the area.

    For the fifth time, zionist drones attack the town of Deir Siryan in south Lebanon.

    New zionist airstrikes hit south Lebanon, targeting Qalaat Mays in the town of Ansar, and Mahmoudiya.

    Earlier, a child was killed, and his father seriously injured in the zion*st airstrike that targeted the courtyard of their home in Touline, south Lebanon.

    https://t.me/thecradlemedia/40646

    Earlier today, the child Abbas Marei Awaleh (11 years old) was martyred after being hit by a missile launched by an IOF drone in front of his home in Touline, in southern Lebanon.
    https://t.me/PalestineResist/80723?single
    zionist colony launches intense airstrikes on several villages in south Lebanon
    https://t.me/thecradlemedia/40636?single

    zionist Drone Attack Kills an 11-Year Boy in Touline Town, South Lebanon – Al Akhbar report.

  • UK now using private US-Leased planes for Gaza spy missions: Report

    The UK has moved its spy flight operations over the Gaza Strip in support of Israel’s genocidal war from directly-operated Royal Air Force (RAF) planes to aircraft belonging to a US military contractor, an investigative report reveals.

    The report, published by Palestine Deep Dive on Monday, said the RAF has since December 2023 been flying Beechcraft King Air 350 planes over Gaza and sharing the intelligence with zionist colony, but the program appears to have ceased and is instead being undertaken by new US-leased private planes.

    The British planes, which are called Shadow R1s in UK service, have flown near-daily from RAF Akrotiri, Britain’s sprawling airbase in Cyprus, for almost the entire duration of Israel’s aggression on Gaza.

    The routes flown to support the Israeli occupation forces in the besieged territory were exposed as one of the US plane’s pilots apparently forgot to turn off its transponder while over the Palestinian territory.

    “For the 20 months of UK spy flights over Gaza for Israel, the planes had turned off their transponder about halfway to Gaza so activity over Gaza had stayed secret,” the report said.

    “On 28 July, however, the newly-trained US plane took off at 8 pm and forgot to turn off its transponder. The flight path of a surveillance flight from RAF Akrotiri was visible for the first time. It shows the plane reaching Gaza at 9 pm and circling over southern Gaza for an hour and half, concentrating its surveillance efforts over Khan Younis and surrounding areas.”

    The new planes belong to Straight Flight Nevada Commercial Leasing LLC, a company based in Sparks, Nevada, on the west coast of the United States. It is a subsidiary of the larger Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), which was the 53rd largest military contractor in the world in 2021.

    The Nevada-based SNC, as the report said, operates a “contractor-owned, contractor-operated” (COCO) aircraft program specifically for surveillance flights, providing aircraft and pilots to clients.

    The report stressed that the COCO system is designed for clients to operate spy planes with limited oversight and accountability and, “There is evidence that the US military has leased Sierra Nevada Corporation planes.”

    Deep Dive said it tracked the new US plane flying for three hours over Khan Yunis on July 28 and, “The following day, Israeli airstrikes with civilian casualties were reported in the same area.”

    Sierra Nevada Corporation has also worked extensively with the US military to develop its intelligence-gathering capabilities, having been awarded various multi-billion-dollar contracts to serve as the lead system integrator for its future long-range spy planes.

    Backed by the US, the Israeli regime has been ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip since Operation al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, killing more than 60,000 Palestinians and wounding upwards of 150,000 others up to now. Most of the victims are women and children, as indiscriminate Israeli attacks target schools, mosques, and even tents that shelter displaced Palestinians.

    Israel’s relentless bombardment campaign has devastated the territory and led to food shortages, famine, and acute starvation.

    Despite increasing international criticism over the regime’s heinous crimes in Gaza, the US continues to provide military support to Israel and ignores warnings that such transfers make it complicit in the war and further destruction in the territory.

    In late May, Tel Aviv reported receiving more than 90,000 tons of American military equipment over 600 days, stating that the arms have played a “key role” in its Gaza operations.

    Al Masirah report

  • One martyred in drone strike as z*onist occupation desecrates Lebanese sanctity

    It is a disgrace to the people of Lebanon that a zion*st flag is waving on Lebanese ground.

    Al-Manar correspondent Ali Shoeib:

    This z*onist flag is planted in the heart of the homeland on the Houla – Markaba road, 1000m deep inside Lebanese territory!

    Has the Prime Minister [Nawaf Salam], who is subservient to the nation’s enemies, tasked the Lebanese Army to devise a practical plan to remove it from our occupied land?!

    Al-Manar correspondent Ali Shoeib:

    While the Lebanese government was scrambling to disarm the resistance, zion*st occupation bulldozers were fortifying and expanding newly established hostile military sites inside Lebanese territory, especially on the Houla-Markaba road.

    This road leads from the town of Houla towards the town of Markaba. On this road, the “israeli” occupation army established a military site exactly on both sides of the road. This site is one of the five points where zionist occupation forces occupy positions in Lebanese territory. From this site, infiltration operations sometimes take place, in addition to carrying out attacks towards the towns of Markaba and Houla. This site is currently being reinforced and expanded through the work of a large number of vehicles and bulldozers in fortification and reinforcement operations for this site, which indicates the intention of the zionist occupation army to remain in this area, at a time when politicians in Lebanon are setting another priority, which is disarming the resistance, at a time when the zionist  occupation army is solidifying and making it one of its top priorities to remain in this land, without any intention of withdrawing from it, at least for the time being.

    A martyr following a zion*st drone targeting a car in the town of Brital in Bekaa, eastern part of the country.

    Lebanese Ministry of Health

    According to the latest reports, a zionist drone attack on a car in Brital, Bekaa left one martyr.

    Al-Manar TV correspondent in the South reported that an enemy drone dropped a bomb on a zionist reconnaissance plane that had previously crashed in the town of Kfarshouba.

    In the border town of Mays Al-Jabal, a drone dropped two sound bombs–the first near an excavator removing rubble in the Al-Qasayer neighborhood, and the second over the “Kroum Al-Sharaki” area.

    Official toll of zionist violations since the ceasefire declaration

    In this context, Lebanese official authorities recorded a total of:

    1,918 land violations

    2,203 air violations

    126 maritime violations

    This brings the total number of violations and attacks to 4,247 since the ceasefire took effect on November 27, 2025.

    The zionist attacks also resulted left 230 citizens martyred and 477 others injured.

    Source: Al-Manar English Website

  • Right to defence against foreign invasion

    Lebanese cabinet session on the issue of weapons has begun in Baabda Palace.

    Ahead of the meeting, rallies took place in the city’s Dhahiyeh neighborhood on Monday night, with participants shouting slogans in favor of “the right to defense in the face of foreign invasion.”

    Lebanese people have taken to the streets in the capital Beirut, voicing support for the country’s resistance movement Hezbollah and protesting mounting US- and zionist-led pressure towards the group’s disarmament.

    The full PressTV report

    Hezbollah supporters rallied in Beirut’s southern suburbs ahead of a key cabinet meeting on the group’s possible disarmament.
    https://t.me/presstv/151735

    The audacity the US and the zionist colony displays towards the Resistance regarding disarmament while possessing themselves stockpiles, including nuclear warheads, must be called out by any human rights activist and those who claim to be Democrats, freedom lovers and equal opportunity proponents.

    Even zionist and american colonial settlers poses arms. There are more arms in the United States than people!

    The americans neither wish to restrict the possession of arms nor do they agree to give up on them despite constant mass killings.

    Their most famous leader, Charlton Heston, in his grave, still shouts, “From my cold dead hands.”