International Glance
A video circulating on social media shows dozens of masked men dressed in black hitting and kicking a man on the ground. Israeli settlers beat a 67-year-old man, Basim Saleh Yassin, as he was trying to flee a plant nursery in the West Bank.
The footage shows Yassin running from a group of masked men before falling down. One man kicks him, and another hits him twice with what appears to be a stick. Yassin stays on his knees as he's struck again and then places his hands on the ground. As the men are leaving, one kicks him in the head while others strike him again until he's seen lying on the pavement.
The workers in the German-Palestinian-run nursery fled when they saw the Israeli settlers approaching, however, Yassin is deaf and could not hear the warnings, his family member said, per a report by the Associated Press.
Yassin sustained injuries to his face, chest and back. He was in the hospital with broken bones in his hand, witnesses said.
This is one of many incidents related to rising cases of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the perpetrators are a "handful of extremists", but for Palestinians, the problem is far greater, as attacks have become a daily occurrence.
Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza in the 1967 war and has since settled over 500,000 Jews in the West Bank.
Video Shows Israeli Settlers Beating 64-Year-Old Palestinian Man In West Bank
Ukrainian drones set fire to Russian oil depot after Moscow launches new hypersonic missile
A Ukrainian drone strike sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia's southern Volgograd region, officials said Saturday, after Russia launched a powerful hypersonic missile along with drones and other weapons that disrupted Kyiv's power supply and heating.
There were no immediate reports of casualties, Volgograd Gov. Andrei Bocharov was quoted as saying in a Telegram post published on the channel of the local administration. The post did not specify the damage, but said that people living near the depot may have to be evacuated.
Ukraine's General Staff said Saturday it had struck the Zhutovskaya oil depot overnight. In a statement on Telegram, it said the depot is supplying fuel to Russian forces, adding that damage was being assessed.
Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian energy sites aim to deprive Moscow of the oil export revenue it needs to pursue its full-scale invasion. Russia wants to cripple the Ukrainian power grid, seeking to deny civilians access to heat, light and running water in what Kyiv officials say is an attempt to "weaponize winter."
Greenland’s party leaders reject Trump calls for US control
Greenland’s party leaders on Friday rejected President Trump’s continued push to take over the self-autonomous Arctic territory.
“We don’t want to be Americans, we don’t want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders,” Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and four party leaders said in a statement Friday night, according to The Associated Press.
It comes as the Trump administration continues to float using military force to take over Greenland while also considering purchasing land from Denmark. The U.S. already has a military base there but the White House has said President Trump’s goal is to have more control, citing national security.
“Greenland’s future must be decided by the Greenlandic people,” the territory’s party leaders wrote on Friday.
“As Greenlandic party leaders, we would like to emphasize once again our wish that the United States’ contempt for our country ends,” their statement says.
Venezuela Crisis Four tankers that had left Venezuela in 'dark mode' are back in its waters
At least four tankers, most of them loaded, that had departed from Venezuela in early January in "dark mode" — or with their transponders off amid a strict U.S. blockade — are now back in the South American country’s waters, according to state company PDVSA and monitoring service TankerTrackers.com.
A flotilla of about a dozen loaded vessels and at least three other empty ships left Venezuelan waters last month in apparent defiance of an embargo imposed by President Donald Trump since mid-December, which has dragged down the country’s oil exports to minimum.
One of the ships, the Panama-flagged supertanker M Sophia, was intercepted and seized by the U.S. this week when returning to the country; while another, the Aframax tanker Olina with a flag from Sao Tome And Principe, was intercepted but released to Venezuela on Friday, state company PDVSA said.
Three more of the vessels that had departed in that flotilla, Panama-flagged Merope, Cook Islands-flagged Min Hang and Panama-flagged Thalia III, were spotted by Tankertrackers.com in Venezuelan waters late on Friday through satellite images.
The Gaza Genocide, The West Bank, and Israel
Casualty counts in the last 24 hours: Over the past 24 hours, the bodies of 14 Palestinians arrived at hospitals in Gaza, while 17 Palestinians were injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 71,409 killed, with 171,304 injured.
Total casualty counts since ceasefire: Sihttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VXWk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a142d40-10b6-46ff-93cc-c2dbc325d64d_6720x4480.jpegnce October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 439 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 1,223, while 688 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Ministry of Health.
Israel kills at least 14 in a wave of attackhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VXWk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a142d40-10b6-46ff-93cc-c2dbc325d64d_6720x4480.jpegs across Gaza on Thursday: Israeli forces carried out a series of attacks across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 14 Palestinians—including five children. The deadliest strikes hit tents and shelters for displaced families in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, the Jabaliya refugee camp, and Gaza City’s Al-Tuffah neighborhood, while schools, residential homes, and a child in eastern Zeitoun were also targeted. Additional Israeli airstrikes, artillery fire, and gunfire were reported near Abu Hussein School, Khalifa bin Zayed School, Hamad Hospital, Al-Mashtal Hotel, and eastern Khan Younis. Civil defense crews in the Strip responded to fires, recovered bodies, and treated wounded civilians, including children, with bombardment continuing across northern and southern Gaza into Friday. Here are some additional details on one of the more horrifying attacks, the one in Al-Mawasi:
Four Palestinians, including children, were killed and others were wounded when an Israeli suicide drone struck tents sheltering displaced families in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, according to Felesteen Online. Separate strikes hit tents belonging to the Al-Farra and Al-Abadla families, with civil defense crews recovering four bodies and treating three wounded, including one in critical condition. Footage from the scene shows a father killed and his son wounded, surrounded by the wreckage of their tents.
Russia says it used new Oreshnik hypersonic missile in massive strike on Ukraine
Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people. For only the second time, it used a new hypersonic missile it says flies at 10 times the speed of sound and is unstoppable.
Ukraine's security service said it considered the use of the missile a war crime.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media that a Russian drone hit the Qatar embassy. He noted that Qatar has played a key role in mediating the exchange of prisoners of war.
The intense barrage and the launching of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile came days after Ukraine and its allies reported major progress toward agreeing on how to defend the country from further Moscow aggression if a peace deal is struck to end Russia's almost 4-year-old invasion.
Months of U.S.-led peace efforts have failed to stop the fighting, however. Zelenskyy says he has made significant progress on the terms of a possible peace settlement in talks with Washington envoys. But Moscow has given no public signal it is willing to budge from its demands.
Trump says U.S. will 'do something on Greenland whether they like it or not'
President Donald Trump on Friday ramped up his rhetoric on Greenland, saying the U.S. will take action to acquire the longtime ally.
“We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not, because if we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
The remarks come days after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Trump could use the military to “pursue this important foreign policy goal.” That came on the heels of major European allies issuing in a joint statement saying they would “not stop defending” the values of sovereignty and Greenland’s territorial integrity.
Greenland is a semi-autonomous Danish territory that’s strategically important militarily and contains vast mineral wealth. The U.S. already has a military base on the island, and officials there have said they’d accept an expanded military presence.
Asked by a reporter Friday why he hasn’t accepted that offer, Trump said, “When we own it, we defend it. You don’t defend leases the same way. You have to own it.”
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