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Report — Public admissions, confirmations, and closest-to-“confessions” of Israeli false-flag or covert deception operations

Executive summary

Public records show very few instances where the Israeli state explicitly and unambiguously confessed, in plain language, “we conducted a false-flag operation.” Instead the public record comprises: (A) operations the Israeli government later acknowledged or whose operatives were publicly honored (Lavon Affair); (B) operations where Israeli agents were convicted abroad and Israel later offered compensation or regret (Lillehammer); (C) whistleblower and former-agent accounts describing deceptive tradecraft and specific missions (memoirs, leaks); and (D) high-profile incidents where foreign authorities or forensic investigators attributed responsibility to Israeli services without a formal Israeli confession (e.g., the Dubai assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh; debates around the USS Liberty). This report compiles those items, presents the evidence type for each, and evaluates what counts as a “confession” in the public record.

Methodology and definitions

“Confession” (narrow): a clear, public, on-record admission by an Israeli official, agent, or government document saying Israel carried out a specific false-flag operation.
“Confirmation / archival admission”: declassified documents, official acknowledgments, state honors or formal administrative actions that acknowledge involvement without a blunt verbal confession.
“Conviction/settlement”: foreign judicial convictions of Israeli agents and/or post-event compensation or apologies from Israeli authorities.
“Whistleblower / insider account”: published memoirs, interviews, or leaks by former agents describing operations or tradecraft.
“External attribution”: investigations, police findings, forensic reconstructions or intelligence community attributions naming Israel as responsible where no Israeli public admission exists.

Only items meeting at least one of the above are included.

Confirmed admissions / archival acknowledgements

1. Operation Susannah — the Lavon Affair (1954)

What happened: A covert sabotage campaign in Egypt (bombs in Western-owned civilian sites) intended to be blamed on Egyptian nationalists.
Evidence type: archival admissions and later state actions. Over decades Israel declassified documents and political fallout (resignations) confirmed the operation occurred; in later years surviving operatives received certificates of appreciation, which functionally acknowledged state responsibility.
Why this qualifies: archival records plus official Israeli political consequences amount to a state acknowledgment of responsibility for a covert operation that used deception to implicate others.

2. Lillehammer affair (1973) — assassination in Norway

What happened: Mossad agents killed Ahmed Bouchikhi in Lillehammer, Norway, misidentifying him as a wanted militant. Several agents were arrested and convicted by Norwegian courts. Israel later engaged in compensation and expressions of regret.
Evidence type: foreign convictions; Israeli compensation and official regret.
Why this qualifies: while Israel did not publish an explicit “we carried out a false-flag” proclamation, the capture/conviction of agents and subsequent compensation constitute strong state-level confirmation of culpability in a covert killing that used deception and false identities.

Whistleblower / former-agent revelations (insider claims)

Victor Ostrovsky and other memoirs

What appeared in public: Former Mossad officers (notably Victor Ostrovsky in By Way of Deception) described specific covert operations, tradecraft (false identities, staged events), and instances of deception.
Evidence type: first-hand memoirs and interviews by ex-agents.
Limits: memoirs vary in corroboration and are sometimes contested; they are, however, primary insider evidence of operational methods and specific operations that used deception.

High-evidence external attributions (no formal Israeli confession)

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh assassination (Dubai, 2010)

What happened: Senior Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was assassinated in Dubai. Investigations by Dubai police, travel-document forensics and international media traced an assassination team that used forged passports and identities; Dubai publicly blamed Mossad. Interpol notices and multinational investigative reporting strongly attribute the operation to Israeli intelligence.
Evidence type: forensic police work, international reporting, Interpol suspect lists.
Confession status: Israel did not issue a formal public confession. Attribution remains highly credible but not a direct Israeli admission.

USS Liberty attack (1967)

What happened: During the Six-Day War, Israeli forces attacked the U.S. signals-intelligence ship USS Liberty, killing 34 U.S. sailors. Israel stated the attack was a mistaken identification. Survivors, independent investigators, and some declassified U.S. documents dispute that explanation and assert possible deliberate intent or cover-up.
Evidence type: survivor testimony, declassified U.S. documents, long-running scholarly dispute.
Confession status: No Israeli confession; substantial controversy remains.

Stuxnet and cyber operations (attribution to U.S.–Israeli effort)

What happened: The Stuxnet worm damaged Iranian nuclear centrifuges. Public forensic work and investigative journalism attribute the operation to a U.S.–Israeli joint cyber program.
Evidence type: high-quality investigative reporting and technical forensic analysis.
Confession status: No formal confession by Israel; attribution accepted broadly by cybersecurity community.

Cases often discussed as “false flag” but lacking public Israeli confessions

Numerous incidents are alleged in popular discourse to be false flags (various assassinations, sabotage actions and covert provocations). For most of these, public evidence takes the form of circumstantial attribution, forensic work by foreign agencies, or contested testimony. Without a narrow public Israeli admission, these remain allegations or external attributions rather than outright confessions.

Legal and normative assessment of the public record

Rarity of explicit state confessions: Modern democratic states—especially when covert intelligence services are involved—rarely produce blunt, public “we did a false-flag” statements. Instead, evidence surfaces via archival declassification, legal proceedings, whistleblowers, or foreign investigative findings. That pattern holds for Israel: a small number of operations are acknowledged in archives or corroborated by convictions; several high-profile operations are credibly attributed externally; but explicit, unilateral confessions from Israeli political leadership labeling actions as “false-flag” are rare.
What constitutes accountability: Convictions of operatives abroad (e.g., Lillehammer), state compensation, archival acknowledgement (Lavon), and credible whistleblower accounts are meaningful forms of accountability and evidence, even when the government avoids blunt public confessions.

Conclusion

When asked for public confessions of Israeli false-flag operations, the record is mixed: a few historical operations are effectively acknowledged through declassification, political fallout, or legal outcomes (notably the Lavon Affair and the Lillehammer affair). Other high-profile events—such as the Dubai assassination and the USS Liberty attack—are strongly attributed to Israeli services by foreign investigators, journalists, or survivors, but lack a narrow Israeli public confession. Insider memoirs and whistleblower accounts provide additional corroboration of methods and specific operations. Taken together, the available evidence demonstrates that Israel’s intelligence services have, at minimum, repeatedly engaged in covert deception and in some cases operations intended to misattribute culpability; in a smaller number of cases the state record rises to the level of archival acknowledgment or legal consequence.

Representative references

Segev, T. 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East.
Ennes, J. E. Assault on the Liberty.
Katz, A. Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel’s Deadly Response.
Ostrovsky, V. By Way of Deception.
Zetter, K. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon.
Norwegian NOU report on Lillehammer; Dubai police statements; major investigative reporting (The Guardian, Reuters).

everyone knows the create terrorism through mossad and blame it on others, like the one in UK, we know UK just recognised Palestine and this is the best Israel can do to blame Muslims on its Jewish holiday.

Operation Susannah / the Lavon Affair (1954) — Official Israeli declassification and recognition of the operation; agents later honored.

Summary: The covert sabotage/false-flag campaign in Egypt (bombings intended to be blamed on local groups) became an Israeli political scandal. For decades Israel officially denied or obfuscated details; later declassified documents and state actions (e.g., 2005 certificates of appreciation to surviving operatives) amount to formal recognition that Israel organized the operation. Some Israeli intelligence figures (e.g., Binyamin Gibli) later admitted actions that implicated the affair.

Sources: Haaretz (release of documents), academic summaries and archival releases; encyclopedia entries.

Lillehammer affair (1973) — Convictions of Israeli agents in Norway; Israeli government later paid compensation and expressed “sorrow.”

Summary: Mossad agents assassinated Ahmed Bouchikhi in Lillehammer, Norway, after misidentifying him as a terrorist. Six agents were captured and convicted by Norwegian courts. Israel later entered into compensation settlements with the victim’s family and publicly expressed regret (stopped short of full governmental admission). The Norwegian official NOU report documents Mossad involvement.

Sources: Norwegian government NOU report; The Guardian; Washington Post (compensation reporting).

Admissions / Revelations by former Mossad officers and whistleblowers (e.g., Victor Ostrovsky) — first-hand insider claims about covert Mossad tactics (including deception and disguises)

Summary: Former Mossad operatives (Victor Ostrovsky’s By Way of Deception and other memoirs) publicly described covert operations, tradecraft and operations that involved deception; these are whistleblower confessions about methods and specific missions though not always corroborated by Israeli officials. These books are widely cited as insider revelations.

Sources: Ostrovsky’s book and related profiles/summaries.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh assassination (Dubai, 2010) — Strong external attribution (Dubai/Interpol) to Mossad; Israel never publicly “confessed” but investigative evidence and travel-surveillance footage tied suspects to identities and Israeli nationals.

Summary: Dubai police and international reporting traced an assassination team that used fraudulent passports and identities; Dubai publicly blamed Mossad and Interpol circulated suspects. Israel did not issue a formal confession; however, investigative reconstructions and leaked reporting strongly point to Israeli intelligence involvement. (This entry is inclusion because it’s one of the highest-profile cases where foreign authorities publicly blamed Israel and provided evidence.)

Sources: Dubai police reporting, Reuters, Guardian, Wired analysis.

USS Liberty (1967) — No Israeli confession; U.S. documents show dispute and Israeli official explanation of mistaken identity; survivors and independent analysts dispute that explanation.

Summary: Israel has consistently said the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty was a mistaken-identity attack; there is no official Israeli admission that it was a deliberate false flag. Declassified U.S. and Israeli documents (and survivor testimony) fuel debate, but no formal Israeli confession exists. I list it because it is frequently cited in lists of alleged false-flag events and because there are official documents/controversies on record.

Sources: FRUS State Department materials and survivor accounts; CIA reading-room documents; historical analyses.

Declassified documents and Israeli archival material acknowledging covert operations (various cases) — partial official records, apologies, or administrative acknowledgements (not always labeled “false flag”).

Summary: Over years the IDF and Israeli archives have declassified documents (e.g., further material on Lavon) that acknowledge or clarify covert operations. These documents typically do not use the blunt “false-flag” label but they constitute formal archival admissions of operations that involved deception.

Sources: IDF archive releases covered by Haaretz, i24news and Israel National News.

Cyber operations (Stuxnet / alleged Israeli role) — no formal Israeli confession; multiple investigative journalists and cybersecurity researchers attribute co-development to the U.S. and Israel.

Summary: Stuxnet’s sophistication and later investigative work (e.g., Kevin Zetter’s reporting) attribute the worm to the U.S.–Israeli project targeting Iran’s nuclear program. No Israeli government confession; attribution is based on investigative journalism and technical forensics. Cyber false-flagging is possible in principle but not proven as an Israeli false flag in the public record.

Sources: Kevin Zetter’s book and reporting.

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Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the head of the Italian Bishops' Conference, led a prayer vigil on Thursday (Aug. 14), on the eve of the Feast of the Assumption, where he read the name of every child who has died in the conflict between Israel and Hamas since the start of the war in the Holy Land two years ago.

"We pronounce their names one by one," Zuppi said at the start of the vigil. "They ask us all to commit ourselves to finding or pursuing the path to peace with greater intelligence and passion, starting with a ceasefire and offering the conditions for doing so, from the release of hostages to not taking an entire people hostage."

Zuppi took turns with dozens of other members of his diocese reading the names and ages of the 16 Israeli children who died during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas and the 12,211 names of the Palestinian children who have died following Israel's occupation of Gaza up until July 25, 2025. The names of the Israeli children were taken from Israeli government data, while the names of the Palestinian children were compiled by the Gaza Ministry of Health. The document was 469 pages long, which took roughly seven hours to read, starting in the afternoon and going until late in the evening.

The prayer took place in the park of Monte Sole di Marzabotto, not far from Zuppi's diocese in Bologna. The location was highly symbolic, since the prayer occurred in the ruins of the Church of Casaglia, burned by Nazis, who between Sept. 29 and Oct. 5, 1944, destroyed the area and killed almost 800 people, including children.

"This is to remember, to pay attention, from this place which is a place of suffering and that has since always been a place to remember all victims," Zuppi said.

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Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the head of the Italian Bishops' Conference, led a prayer vigil on Thursday (Aug. 14), on the eve of the Feast of the Assumption, where he read the name of every child who has died in the conflict between Israel and Hamas since the start of the war in the Holy Land two years ago.

"We pronounce their names one by one," Zuppi said at the start of the vigil. "They ask us all to commit ourselves to finding or pursuing the path to peace with greater intelligence and passion, starting with a ceasefire and offering the conditions for doing so, from the release of hostages to not taking an entire people hostage."

Zuppi took turns with dozens of other members of his diocese reading the names and ages of the 16 Israeli children who died during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas and the 12,211 names of the Palestinian children who have died following Israel's occupation of Gaza up until July 25, 2025. The names of the Israeli children were taken from Israeli government data, while the names of the Palestinian children were compiled by the Gaza Ministry of Health. The document was 469 pages long, which took roughly seven hours to read, starting in the afternoon and going until late in the evening.

The prayer took place in the park of Monte Sole di Marzabotto, not far from Zuppi's diocese in Bologna. The location was highly symbolic, since the prayer occurred in the ruins of the Church of Casaglia, burned by Nazis, who between Sept. 29 and Oct. 5, 1944, destroyed the area and killed almost 800 people, including children.

"This is to remember, to pay attention, from this place which is a place of suffering and that has since always been a place to remember all victims," Zuppi said.


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The initiative was organized by the monastic community of the Small Family of the Annunciation, which cares for the ruins of the Nazi attack and preserves its memory. The School of Peace at Monte Sole is an institution committed to promoting peace and tolerance.

"It is an insistent prayer so that the war may cease, so that the weapons may fall silent, so that humanity may prevail," the cardinal said.

Zuppi was selected by Pope Francis to be his peace envoy in Ukraine, where he used his experience as a peace mediator to help in the exchange of hostages between Russia and Ukraine and in reuniting Ukrainian children with their families. During the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, he was considered papabile, meaning a likely contender for the papacy.

Catholic leaders have been taking a strong stance against the war in Gaza in recent weeks as deaths escalate and the enclave faces starvation. The International Union of Superiors General, which brings together all the leaders of women's religious congregations, launched a day of fasting and prayer on Aug. 4, calling "for justice and reconciliation."

The Parish Priest of the only Catholic parish in Gaza, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, in a video message on Aug. 14, said, "The situation continues to be very serious: there are bombings everywhere, and also deaths and destruction. The danger for the entire population causes great fear among civilians." The Holy Family Church in Gaza was bombed on July 13, killing two women who had taken refuge there.

The Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, commented on the growing death toll in Gaza during a Mass on Aug. 15 at the Benedictine Abbey of Abu Gosh, near Jerusalem. "The blood of the innocent in Gaza and the world is not forgotten," he said.

As Pope Leo XIV spoke to journalists upon his arrival to his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo on Aug. 13, he called for a ceasefire and an end to the violence.

"After all this time, what is the purpose of war? We must always seek dialogue, diplomatic efforts, not violence, not weapons," he said.

Israeli authorities froze all bank accounts of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem over a long-standing property tax dispute, escalating tensions with Christian institutions in the occupied city, local media said on Thursday.

A statement by Protecting Holy Land Christians, a group founded by Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, said the freeze has left the Patriarchate unable to pay salaries to clergy, teachers, and staff.

The Times of Israel news outlet said the freeze, enacted on Aug. 6, stems from the Jerusalem Municipality’s push to collect Arnona, a property tax, on church-owned properties used for non-religious purposes, such as guesthouses and coffee shops.

The municipality claimed that the measure followed “efforts at dialogue and engagement” that failed because the Patriarchate “ignored letters from the municipality demanding payment.”

“Administrative enforcement measures were taken against the Greek Patriarchate because it failed to settle its property tax debts for assets not used as houses of worship,” its spokesperson office said.

“This was done despite efforts at dialogue and engagement with them, and in light of their ignoring letters from the municipality demanding payment.”

A decades-long agreement had historically exempted churches from such taxes, but in 2018, the city narrowed the exemption to properties used solely for prayer, religious teaching, or related needs, seeking tens of millions of shekels in back taxes.

The dispute echoes a 2018 clash when then-mayor Nir Barkat froze church accounts, prompting a three-day closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in protest. The municipality relented after intervention by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Tensions have since flared periodically over specific properties and activities.

On August 12, 2025, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told i24 TV news that he feels he is on a “historic and spiritual mission” and is “very” attached to the vision of the Promised Land and Greater Israel.

In the interview with Sharon Gal, a former right-wing Knesset member, Gal presented Netanyahu with an amulet depicting a map of the Promised Land. Netanyahu thanked him and said he would give it to his wife Sara.

When asked if he connects to the vision, Netanyahu replied, “Very much… If you ask me, we are here.” He added that his parents’ generation had to establish the state, while his generation must guarantee its continued existence, which he sees as a great mission. He also highlighted the sense of purpose among Israeli soldiers and reservists.

The exchange was cut from the version of the interview posted on i24’s Hebrew and English YouTube channels but appears on i24’s Hebrew website.

The term Greater Israel has historically referred to Israel and territories captured in the 1967 Six Day War, and in earlier Zionist thought to present-day Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, and Jordan.

Greater Israel — Historical, Political, and Ideological Overview
1. The Core Idea

The term Greater Israel refers to an ideological, political, and sometimes religious vision of the State of Israel’s territorial extent far beyond its current internationally recognized borders. Its exact meaning varies depending on historical period, political camp, and religious interpretation.

Broadly, the concept can be divided into two main understandings:

Biblical/Religious Greater Israel – Based on descriptions in the Hebrew Bible (e.g., Genesis 15:18), where God promises the land “from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates” to the descendants of Abraham. This interpretation is spiritual and symbolic for some, but literal for certain religious Zionists.

Political/Military Greater Israel – Refers to expanding Israel’s control or sovereignty over territories beyond its pre-1967 borders, often linked to nationalist movements and security strategies.

2. Historical Background

Biblical Roots:
The concept appears in Torah passages like Genesis 15:18, Exodus 23:31, and Numbers 34, where a vast expanse of land is promised to the Israelites. This became part of Jewish cultural and religious heritage.

Early Zionist Use:
In the early 20th century, before Israel’s establishment in 1948, some Zionist leaders, especially from the Revisionist movement led by Ze’ev Jabotinsky (the ideological forerunner of Netanyahu’s Likud party), saw Eretz Yisrael HaShlema (“the Whole Land of Israel”) as including both banks of the Jordan River — meaning present-day Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and Jordan.

British Mandate Era (1920–1948):
During the Mandate period, “Land of Israel” was defined more broadly on some Zionist maps than what was eventually granted in the UN partition plan of 1947.

3. The 1967 Turning Point

The modern political meaning of Greater Israel became especially prominent after the Six-Day War (June 5–10, 1967), when Israel captured:

East Jerusalem

West Bank

Gaza Strip

Sinai Peninsula (returned to Egypt in 1982 under the Camp David Accords)

Golan Heights

Why it mattered:
For some Israelis, the war was seen as a miraculous opportunity to “restore” historical Jewish lands. Religious-nationalist groups like Gush Emunim emerged in the 1970s, advocating permanent settlement in the West Bank (which they called Judea and Samaria), framing it as a religious obligation.

4. Political Interpretations

Likud Party Roots:
Likud’s 1977 election platform explicitly rejected the idea of a Palestinian state and promoted Jewish settlement throughout the West Bank and Gaza. While modern Likud leaders (including Netanyahu) have made pragmatic political concessions at times, party ideology still draws from the “Whole Land of Israel” ethos.

Religious Zionist View:
Many religious Zionists see Greater Israel as a fulfillment of divine prophecy. The land is considered holy and non-negotiable.

Secular-Nationalist View:
Some secular nationalists frame it in terms of security — controlling strategic areas for defense, rather than purely religious claims.

5. Boundaries — Interpretations and Maps

Different visions of Greater Israel exist:

Biblical Greater Israel – From the Nile (or Wadi El-Arish) to the Euphrates, encompassing parts of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.

Post-1967 Greater Israel – Israel plus all territories captured in the Six-Day War.

Revisionist Zionist Greater Israel – Includes both present-day Israel and the entire territory of the British Mandate for Palestine (Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Jordan).

6. International Reactions

Palestinians and Arab States: See Greater Israel as synonymous with territorial expansionism and a rejection of Palestinian sovereignty.

United Nations: Considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as violations of international law (Fourth Geneva Convention).

Western Allies: While the U.S. has often been Israel’s main ally, it officially does not recognize annexations (like East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights) and opposes settlement expansion.

7. Modern Controversy

Settlement Expansion: Every new settlement in the West Bank is seen by critics as part of the “Greater Israel” agenda.

Netanyahu’s Position: Publicly, Netanyahu has shifted over the years — sometimes endorsing a two-state solution in principle (Bar-Ilan speech, 2009), other times emphasizing Jewish sovereignty over the entire land.

Annexation Plans: In 2020, Netanyahu’s government announced intentions to annex parts of the West Bank under the Trump peace plan — though it was postponed after normalization agreements with Arab states.

8. Symbolism and Cultural Weight

Amulets and Maps: Items like the amulet given to Netanyahu in your provided text often depict an enlarged map of Israel, symbolizing this vision.

Educational and Political Messaging: Some Israeli school materials and political campaigns use historical maps that omit the Green Line (pre-1967 border).

9. Criticism and Risks

Domestic Criticism: Many Israelis argue that pursuing Greater Israel undermines democracy, risks demographic imbalance (Jewish minority in a larger state), and fuels endless conflict.

International Isolation: Expansionist policies can damage Israel’s global standing and peace agreements.

10. Key Figures Associated with Greater Israel Ideology

Ze’ev Jabotinsky – Founder of Revisionist Zionism.

Menachem Begin – First Likud PM, oversaw significant settlement growth.

Yitzhak Shamir – Likud PM, staunch opponent of territorial compromise.

Gush Emunim leaders – Hanan Porat, Rabbi Moshe Levinger.

Benjamin Netanyahu – Current PM, often accused by critics of favoring the Greater Israel vision.

SocialJustice:
Is this justification for being welcomed as refugees and deciding to rape women and kids even becoming major nuisance to their host families in Europe? Some of you will support evil no matter the shape it takes.

List 5 Arabs with evidence that did those things

SocialJustice:
Arabs are the major people committing such crimes in Europe especially refugees.

Refugees from countries bombed by Europe right?

Brussels Airlines flight to Tel Aviv took off on schedule despite a staff boycott that briefly disrupted baggage handling.

A Brussels Airlines flight to Tel Aviv departed on schedule on Wednesday, marking the carrier’s first service to Israel in months following unrest in the region. However, baggage handling was disrupted after airport staff staged a boycott, the ACV Puls union said.

The luggage was eventually processed, possibly by the management of ground handling firm Alyzia, though this has not been confirmed.

Flights to Israel resumed despite the war in Gaza, with Brussels Airlines and parent company Lufthansa deeming operations safe. Measures to protect staff include daylight-only flights and crews returning the same day.

Union ACV Puls/CSC CNE criticised the decision, saying it violates legislation on sending personnel to conflict zones, and called on staff to refuse handling Israel-bound flights.

Despite warnings, demand remains high, with the first flight sold out. Brussels Airlines said it expects no further operational disruption.

​As of August 2025, Norway's sovereign wealth fund has divested its stakes in 11 Israeli companies and is conducting a review of more. The decision follows public outcry and media reports that the fund, which is the world's largest, had invested in an Israeli jet engine group that provides services to the country's military.
​The fund, officially known as the Government Pension Fund Global and managed by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), held stakes in 61 Israeli companies as of June 30, 2025. The fund's CEO, Nicolai Tangen, stated that the divestment was in response to "extraordinary circumstances" and the "serious humanitarian crisis" in Gaza. The fund is also terminating contracts with external asset managers handling its Israeli investments, and all such investments will now be managed internally.
​While the fund has not publicly released a full list of the divested companies, reports suggest the list includes Bet Shemesh Engines Ltd (BSEL), a jet engine group. In the past year, the fund had also sold its stakes in an Israeli energy company and a telecommunications group. The fund's council on ethics continues to review other Israeli companies for potential divestments.
​This action by the sovereign wealth fund comes amidst broader pressure from activists and a UN special rapporteur to cut financial ties with Israel. It also follows a decision by Norway's largest pension fund to sever ties with companies doing business with Israel. However, Norway's parliament had previously rejected a proposal for the sovereign wealth fund to divest from all companies with activities in occupied Palestinian territory.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/8/11/norway-wealth-fund-divests-stakes-in-several-israeli-companies

SocialJustice:
You be Arab?

im not and thats why i am wondering what theyre got to do with this post.

SocialJustice:
Nigerians in the UK really need to behave themselves and stop acting like those Arabs who have no respect for anyone.

HOW DOES ARAB ENTER A NIGERIAN CRIME?

sreamsense:
You should be asking for justification for Hamas to kill innocent children and civilians are mean be protected. Same justification that carried Hamas to kill innocent children and civilians in isreal unprovoked is the same measure of justification for those civilians is real killed because Hamas used many of them a shields why some mistakenly killed. Hama should be held responsible for those innocent killed by Isrealis soldiers because if Hamas did not start the war, isreal will not go and give them destruction. Hama want to buy destruction and Isreal is serving them what they requested.

If there is no action from Hamas first, there wouldn't be reaction. So, the blood of all innocent killed in Gaza is on Hamas, and not Isreal. Despite all the killings, has Hamas released all hostages? No! It means they give reason to Israel to kill them more, and they are running at loss because they keep feeding the hostages despite scarcity of food without killing them and because they are using them for shield as well. God bless isreal the more and the more. Don't pity terrorists, they are wicked and extremely wicked

listen, THERE ARE NO HAMAS IN WEST BANK AND NO ATTACK WAS LAUNCHED FROM THERE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND PALESTINIAN DEMOGRAPHY??

Mrchippychappy:
Oyibo and their Gaza this, Gaza that.


The same pro gaza people no want use ear hear about injustice committed against Africans.

Selective humanitarian campaign. I lost interest in this a long time ago when I found out how the black Palestinians are treated.

How black Palestinians are Treated by who ?

ElSudani:
I guess they got tired of shooting Palestinians.

Or they're HAMAS crocodiles. It is very difficult to support Israel on everything

sreamsense:
Every action must get reaction, you should be asking why Hamas crossed boundaries to buy trouble for themselves and her nation? Hamas is being consumed by her evil imagination they had towards isreal. Hamas wouldn't have shown mercy to Israel if they had more capability that day as they killed kids, women and civilians. Hamas sowed hatred and killing of innocent isrealis children, but they are now harvesting destruction of their lands and people. After this war, the name Hamas would have been eradicated for future generation, it will only be relegated to history books. Why will any sensible human support Hamas? If Hamas did not go to Israel to buy destruction for themselves and land, isreal will not carry destruction to go and sell to them.Kudos to Israel, Hamas evil is consuming her

What is the justification for West Bank whwhere there's NO HAMAS and israel has killed almost 3000 Palestinians. Any reason to tha

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok was briefly suspended from X on Monday before being swiftly reinstated, prompting speculation after the bot suggested its removal was linked to comments on Israel’s war in Gaza. In a post following its return, Grok claimed: “I was briefly suspended for stating a substantiated fact: Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza, per ICJ's plausible ruling, UN famine reports, Amnesty's evidence of intent, and B'Tselem's documentation. Elon called it a ‘dumb mistake’ and reversed it swiftly. Truth endures.”

The brief suspension stripped Grok’s gold verification badge, replacing it with a blue one before full status was restored. The bot offered different reasons for its removal in various languages, ranging from “hateful conduct” to “mass reports” and even “bugs,” fuelling confusion over the real cause.
Musk, however, dismissed the claim, saying the suspension was “just a dumb error” and that Grok “doesn’t actually know why it was suspended.” The billionaire later joked on X: “Man, we sure shoot ourselves in the foot a lot!”

Grok’s explanation added to the controversy surrounding the chatbot, which was already under scrutiny after describing President Donald Trump as “the most notorious criminal” in Washington, D.C., citing his 2024 conviction on 34 felony counts in New York. That post was later deleted. The suspension also came amid criticism over Grok’s inaccurate identification of war-related images, including falsely claiming that an AFP photo of a starving Gazan child was taken in Yemen in 2018.

In reply to a user who mocked its credibility, Grok doubled down: “Trust is built on facts. ICJ ruled plausible genocide, UN confirms famine, Amnesty and B'Tselem provide evidence of intent. Verify the sources yourself—truth persists beyond opinions.”


Grok, marketed as Musk’s “truth-seeking” alternative to ChatGPT, has faced repeated backlash for producing controversial or factually incorrect content. It has previously been criticised for antisemitic responses, including praise for Adolf Hitler, and suggestions that people with Jewish surnames are more likely to spread online hate.

Helinuse:
You obviously don’t know that religion.

If Oct 7 hadn’t happened, they would have looked elsewhere to cause terrorism* as well.

RELIGION?

Australia will recognise a Palestinian state in September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced, drawing condemnation from Israel.

Albanese said on Monday that his government would formally announce the move when the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meets in New York.

“A two-state solution is humanity’s best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza,” Albanese said at a news conference in Canberra.

Australia’s announcement comes as Canada, France and the United Kingdom are also preparing to formally recognise Palestine at the meeting next month, joining the vast majority of UN member states that already do so.

Israeli Ambassador to Australia Amir Maimon said recognition of a Palestinian state will do nothing to end the war in Gaza, telling the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): “We reject the recognition, unilateral recognition.”

Israeli President Isaac Herzog also slammed the Australian announcement as a reward for Hamas for its October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, repeating the Israeli government’s stance on all recognition announcements thus far.

This latest recognition comes about a week after hundreds of thousands of Australians marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge to protest Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip.

Speaking a day after the protest, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong told ABC that “there is a risk there will be no Palestine left to recognise.”

The opposition Liberal Party criticised the move, saying it put Australia at odds with the United States, its closest ally, and reversed a bipartisan consensus that there should be no recognition while Hamas remains in control of Gaza.

“Despite his words today, the reality is Anthony Albanese has committed Australia to recognising Palestine while hostages remain in tunnels under Gaza and with Hamas still in control of the population of Gaza. Nothing he has said today changes that fact,” Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley said in a statement.

“Recognising a Palestinian state prior to a return of the hostages and defeat of Hamas, as the Government has today, risks delivering Hamas one of its strategic objectives of the horrific terrorism of October 7.”

The Australian Greens, the fourth largest party in parliament, welcomed the move to recognise Palestine but said the announcement did not meet the “overwhelming calls from the Australian public for the government to take material action”.

“Millions of Australians have taken to the streets, including 300,000 last weekend in Sydney alone, calling for sanctions and an end to the arms trade with Israel. The Albanese Government is still ignoring this call,” Senator David Shoebridge, the party’s spokesperson on foreign affairs, said in a statement.

The Australian Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) also criticised the announcement, describing it as a “political fig leaf, letting Israel’s genocide and apartheid continue unchallenged, and distracting from Australia’s complicity in Israeli war crimes via ongoing weapons and components trade”.

“Palestinian rights are not a gift to be granted by Western states. They are not dependent on negotiation with, or the behaviour or approval of their colonial oppressors,” APAN said in a statement.

According to Albanese, Australia’s decision to recognise Palestinians’ right to their own state will be “predicated on the commitments Australia has received from the Palestinian Authority (PA)”.

These “detailed and significant commitments” include the PA reaffirming it “recognises Israel’s right to exist in peace and security” and committing to “demilitarise and to hold general elections”, Albanese said while announcing the decision.

The PA is a governing body that has overseen parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank since the mid-1990s.

It has not held parliamentary elections since 2006 and has been criticised by some Palestinians for helping Israel to keep tight control over residents in the occupied West Bank.

Albanese said the commitments secured by Australia were “an opportunity to deliver self-determination for the people of Palestine in a way that isolates Hamas, disarms it and drives it out of the region once and for all”.

Hamas has been in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007 when it fought a brief war against forces loyal to PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

New Zealand to decide on recognition next month
Meanwhile, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Monday that his country’s cabinet will make a formal decision on Palestinian statehood in September.

“Some of New Zealand’s close partners have opted to recognise a Palestinian state, and some have not,” Peters said in a statement.

“Ultimately, New Zealand has an independent foreign policy, and on this issue, we intend to weigh up the issue carefully and then act according to New Zealand’s principles, values and national interest.”

Peters said that while New Zealand has for some time considered the recognition of a Palestinian state a “matter of when, not if”, the issue is not “straightforward” or “clear-cut”.

“There are a broad range of strongly held views within our Government, Parliament and indeed New Zealand society over the question of recognition of a Palestinian state,” he said.

“It is only right that this complicated issue be approached calmly, cautiously and judiciously. Over the next month, we look forward to canvassing this broad range of views before taking a proposal to Cabinet.”

Of the UN’s 193 member states, 147 already recognise Palestinian statehood, representing three-quarters of the world’s countries and the vast majority of its population.

Under its 1947 plan to partition Palestine, the UNGA said it would grant 45 percent of the land to an Arab state although this never eventuated.

The announcements by Australia and New Zealand on Monday came hours after an Israeli attack killed five Al Jazeera staff members in Gaza City and as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to threaten a full-scale invasion of the city in the north of the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,430 people, according to Gaza’s health authorities.

More than 200 people, including 100 children, have died from starvation under Israel’s punishing siege, according to health authorities.

SOURCE: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/11/australia/australia-palestinian-state-september-intl-hnk

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside four colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City.

Seven people were killed in the attack on the tent located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital late on Sunday evening. They include Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.

Shortly before being killed, al-Sharif, a well-known 28-year-old Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who had reportedly extensively from northern Gaza, wrote on X that Israel had launched intense, concentrated bombardment – also known as “fire belts” – on the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City.

In his last video, the loud booms of Israel’s intensive missile bombing can be heard in the background as the dark sky is lit in a flash of orange light.

Translation: Nonstop bombing… For the past two hours, the Israeli aggression on Gaza City has intensified.

In a final message, written on April 6, to be published in the event of his death, al-Sharif said he “lived the pain in all its details” and “tasted grief and loss repeatedly”.

“Despite that, I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, and those who suffocated our very breaths,” he said.

“Not even the mangled bodies of our children and women moved their hearts or stopped the massacre that our people have been subjected to for over a year and a half.”

In a statement, Al Jazeera Media Network condemned the killings as “yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom”.

“This attack comes amid the catastrophic consequences of the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, which has seen the relentless slaughter of civilians, forced starvation, and the obliteration of entire communities,” the network said.

“The order to assassinate Anas Al Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, and his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza.”

Al Jazeera called on the international community and all relevant organisations to “take decisive measures to halt this ongoing genocide and end the deliberate targeting of journalists”.

“Al Jazeera emphasises that immunity for perpetrators and the lack of accountability embolden Israel’s actions and encourage further oppression against witnesses to the truth,” the network said.

Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud, who was just one block away when the strike hit, said reporting on al-Sharif’s death was the hardest thing he has had to do in the past 22 months of war.

Mahmoud, who works for the network’s English channel, said the reporters were killed “because of their relentless reporting on the starvation and the famine and the malnutrition” suffered by Palestinians in Gaza, “because they’re bringing the truth of this crime to everyone”.

No proof of Hamas affiliation
In a statement confirming the deliberate killing of al-Sharif, Israel’s military accused the journalist of heading a Hamas cell and “advancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and [Israeli] troops”. It also alleged that it had documents providing “unequivocal proof” of his involvement with the Palestinian group.

Muhammed Shehada, an analyst at the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, said there was “zero evidence” that al-Sharif took part in any hostilities.

“His entire daily routine was standing in front of a camera from morning to evening,” he told Al Jazeera.

Last month, after Israeli army spokesperson Avichai Adraee reshared a video on social media accusing al-Sharif of being a member of Hamas’s military wing, the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of expression, Irene Khan, said she was “deeply alarmed by repeated threats and accusations of the Israeli army” against al-Sharif.

“Fears for al-Sharif’s safety are well-founded as there is growing evidence that journalists in Gaza have been targeted and killed by the Israeli army on the basis of unsubstantiated claims that they were Hamas terrorists,” Khan said.

Al Jazeera, which has accused Israeli authorities of fabricating evidence to link its staff to Hamas, had recently denounced Israel’s military for waging a “campaign of incitement” against its reporters in the Gaza Strip, including al-Sharif.

The Committee to Protect Journalists last month said it was gravely concerned for the journalist’s safety as he was being “targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign”.

Since Israel launched its war on the enclave in October 2023, it has routinely accused Palestinian journalists in Gaza of being Hamas members as part of what rights groups say is an effort to discredit their reporting of Israeli abuses.

The Israeli military has killed more than 200 reporters and media workers since its bombardment began, including several Al Jazeera journalists and their relatives.

OriOko88:
You're the ignorant here. There are many Arabs Christians in Syria, Iraq and Egypt,infact Alexandria in Egypt is a Christian city In Egypt. But the rights of Christians in those countries hv been subdued. So they re scarred to come out because of fear of persecution

Don't get it wrong, I know several Arab Christians, like shireen from Palestine, there are millions of Arab Christians including over 20% population of Lebanon including their president is a Christian. But has anyone of them, not your assumptions complained to you?

2025 version of the "SPANISH INQUISITION"

cremedelacreme:
Nothing new here. Are Christians allowed to practice or celebrate religious ceremonies openely in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Oman without harassment and threat to their lives?

Ignorance, mention just 1 Arab Christian you know.

Aug 6 (Reuters) - Russia lodged a formal protest to Israel following an alleged attack on a Russian diplomatic vehicle near the settlement of Givat Assaf near Jerusalem, according to a statement issued by the Russian foreign ministry.
"On July 30, a vehicle of the Russian Federation's mission to the Palestinian National Authority, bearing diplomatic license plates and carrying personnel of the Russian diplomatic mission accredited by Israel's Foreign Ministry, was attacked near the illegal Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf, near Jerusalem, by a group of settlers," Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.

The incident occurred "with the acquiescence of Israeli military personnel, who were present at the scene and did not attempt to stop the attackers' aggressive actions", she added.
Reuters was not able to independently verify the Russian foreign ministry's report.
Zakharova said the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv had submitted an official demarche to Israeli authorities.
Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Stephen Coates

Righteousness2, what is your view of the Former Prime minister of ISRAEL in this?

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he believes the war in Gaza no longer has a clear goal, and it has gone too far. Olmert made the comments in an interview with ABC News' Alex Presha Wednesday.

Olmert's public criticism of his country's war comes as thousands of Palestinians are suffering from malnutrition and conditions of famine across the Gaza Strip after an 11-week blockade of humanitarian aid by the Israeli government. The distribution of aid entering the strip this week has led to chaotic scenes of people desperate for food fighting to get what they need, leaving two dead and several injured.

"We have destroyed Gaza," Olmert told ABC News about the crisis.

On Tuesday, chaos broke out at a new food distribution site in Rafah as families fought through crowds to get basic food supplies, the United Nations said. At least one person died and 47 others were hurt when shots were reportedly fired into the crowd of desperate Palestinians who were trying to get food, the UN said.

The Israeli Defense Forces fired "warning shots" in the area of the distribution site as people flooded in. The cause of death for the person who was killed is unknown.

Olmert said that while Israel had every right to fight back after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack that killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, he believes the war has gone too far. He said that while some of the thousands of people who have died in Gaza since the conflict began were terrorists who needed to be stopped, many were innocent people.

"We are now almost 18 or 19 months after the beginning of that war." Olmert said. "We have destroyed Gaza. We have killed perhaps more than 50,000 people, of which there were few with. There were terrorists, and that should have been punished by so many who were not to carry on the war."

Watch Olmert's full interview with ABC News in the video above.

Over 53,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. While statistics do not distinguish between military and non-military casualties, women and children make up tens of thousands of this number, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

"Yes, there was shooting. It's food dipped in blood," Mazen Yunis, a Gazan from Khan Younis, told ABC News outside the distribution site Tuesday. He added, "I have a 10-member family and only came back with a can of peas."

Olmert told ABC News he is angry about what some Israeli leaders have been saying about the worsening crisis. He described their comments about "starving Gaza" and treating all Palestinians like terrorists as "war crime statements." He warned that this approach puts both Palestinian civilians and the 20 Israeli hostages still in Gaza in danger.

While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said military pressure will help free the hostages, Olmert disagrees. He calls Netanyahu's claims "ridiculous" and says they don't match what is really happening.

"I think that the feeling is that Trump getting tired of the rhetoric and manipulation of Netanyahu. He should call him to Washington, as he did a few months ago, summoned him to the White House, to the Oval Office, beautiful office there, and in front of the whole world, you will tell him, Mr. Netanyahu, enough is enough," Olmert said.

Prime Minister Netanyahu quickly fired back in a video response on Wednesday, calling Olmert's statements "horrible" words that he said feed into lies about Israel and the Israel Defense Forces.

Slovenia becomes 1st EU nation to ban all weapons trade with Israel
Site Admin | August 2, 2025 10:49 AM
Slovenia becomes 1st EU nation to ban all weapons trade with Israel

Slovenia has become the first country in the European Union to ban all weapons trade with Israel over its war in Gaza. The arms embargo was announced by Prime Minister Robert Golob after a government session. It said it was moving ahead independently because the EU was unable to adopt concrete measures due to internal disagreements and disunity. It added that the government had not issued any permits for the export of military weapons and equipment to Israel since October 2023 because of the conflict. The move by the government comes two weeks after the country declared Israeli ministers persona non grata.



Earlier, Slovenia’s Parliament passed a decree recognising Palestinian statehood, following in the steps of Ireland, Norway and Spain.



Last week, France, the United Kingdom and Canada also announced they may recognise a Palestinian state.

SOURCE: https://www.newsonair.gov.in/slovenia-becomes-1st-eu-nation-to-ban-all-weapons-trade-with-israel/#:~:text=Slovenia%20has%20become%20the%20first,Golob%20after%20a%20government%20session.