Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri was the Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas.

Footage of the strike

Hezbollah statement in response:

We consider the assassination of Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri and his martyred companions in the heart of the southern suburb of Beirut a dangerous attack on Lebanon, its people, its security, its sovereignty, and its resistance. It carries deeply significant political and security messages and implications, and is a dangerous development in the course of the war between the enemy and the Axis of Resistance.

We in Hezbollah affirm that this crime will undoubtedly not go unanswered and unpunished. Our resistance remains firm, proud, and faithful to its principles and commitments that it has made to itself, ready with its hand on the trigger and its fighters at the highest level of readiness and preparedness.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1505645

Alt text: Screengrab from Star Trek: TNG showing Data saying to Picard "the Irish Unification of 2024"

Alt text: Screengrab from Star Trek: TNG showing Data saying to Picard "the Irish Unification of 2024"

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Note that the USA is not a member of the International Criminal Court. And in 2002, the USA passed The American Service-Members' Protection Act (known informally as the "Hague Invasion Act"), wherein the USA authorized itself to order military action (including invading the Netherlands where the Hague is located) to protect and free Americans and their allies (including Israel) from custody. It's why George W Bush doesn't fear ICC consequences for his war crimes.

Edit: I originally had the title as "South Africa has applied for the International Court of Justice (colloquially known as 'The Hague' to go after Israel" but SoyViking provided me with education in the comments on why this is not entirely accurate, as well as elucidated some important distinctions between the ICJ and ICC:

Sorry for being a nerd but the International Court of Justice, while also being situated in the Hague, is a different body than the International Criminal Court, which is colloquially called the Hague.

The ICJ dates back to the League of Nations and adjudicates international law disputes between sovereign states, meaning that only states can be parties in cases heard by the ICJ. Their ability to actually enforce their rulings are limited and it is completely possible for states, especially those of the International Community, to go "no that's bollocks" and ignore their decisions.

The ICC is a much more recent invention. They adjudicate criminal cases against individuals. Their actual powers are more tangible than those of the ICJ. If the ICC issues an arrest warrant against someone there's a decent chance that member states of the ICC will actually arrest that individual and extradite them to the Hague. Once there, people who are convicted actually goes to real jail. This is also the reason for the American "Hague Invasion Act" that is an explicit threat that if an American war criminal is extradited to the ICC, the evil empire will invade the Netherlands to break him out of jail.

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Alt text: Secretary Antony Blinken @SecBlinken This has been an extraordinarily dangerous year for press around the world. Many killed, many more wounded, hundreds detained, attacked, threatened, injured simply for doing their jobs. I am profoundly grateful to the press for getting accurate, timely information to people. 9:08 AM 28 Dec 23 - 123K Views

The "Words of Iron" app gives zionists one centralized hub to promote posts that support Israel by increasing their engagement (including by pasting pre-written comments) while directing users to anti-zionist posts to report in an effort to get the post or the poster removed from the internet. It's a zionist brigading app.

Archived "Words of Iron" site

Medium article by the devs

I linked an archived copy of the zionist rag The Times of Israel just to prove that this is admitted by the IOF and that this news has become undeniable now. Feel free to tell your local zionists.

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Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur 3h Can everyone please stop the dumb "from the river to the sea" chant? It is incredibly hurtful to our Jewish brothers and sisters. It's also incredibly counterproductive to protecting Palestinians. Do not chant something that majority thinks is call for genocide. Not complicated. Dec 11, 2023 · 11:09 PM UTC

To be clear, the interviewer is hot trash. It's Ghassan who's based as hell.

Long live the intifada.

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