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Witness: “They executed hundreds”

The situation in Gaza

Published 3 April 2024
– By Editorial Staff
Al-Shifa is now in ruins.
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After a two-week “raid,” the Israeli military left Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, yesterday. The hospital is now in ruins, and witnesses report the mutilation and execution of hundreds of Palestinians.

Israel has claimed that the hospital served as a terrorist base and that during the military operation it seized weapons and intelligence documents and killed and arrested hundreds of Palestinian militants.

However, journalists and human rights activists paint a different picture, and a number of photos and videos have been posted on social media showing charred and mutilated bodies from the hospital compound – including a number of baby corpses.

Hossam Shabat is a Palestinian reporter who has covered the invasion of Gaza from close up, and he writes on X about what he saw when he visited the hospital area.

“I have been working nonstop for the past 6 months covering what’s happening in Gaza, but what I saw today while visiting Al-Shifa hospital was unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed before : Israeli occupation forces executed 300 Palestinians in and around the hospital, and this morning, I witnessed hundreds of bodies outside the hospital, their wasn’t one full body all the bodies were either pieces or heavily mutilated”.

He goes on to say that many of the bodies had their hands and legs bound – and that many of them had been flattened by bulldozers or similar vehicles.

“Many of the bodies were burned and left to be crushed to pieces. Several bodies were decomposed and partly eaten by stray dogs. Most of the bodies were unrecognizable; families could only identify them by their clothes”.

“Successful” operation

The journalist has also published a series of very graphic and disturbing images and video clips on his X account showing mutilated, scarred and burned bodies from the hospital area, adding weight to his story.

Similar testimony has come from other reporters and human rights activists on the ground, and hundreds of patients are said to have been inside the hospital when it was stormed.

The hospital compound was more or less leveled. Photo: facsimile/The Guardian/YT

However, Israel describes the operation itself as “successful” and has previously claimed that any civilian deaths in its attacks are due to Hamas and other Palestinian groups using them as human shields.

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$70 billion needed to rebuild Gaza

The genocide in Gaza

Published yesterday 11:28
– By Editorial Staff
Two years of Israeli bombings have left the Palestinian enclave in ruins.
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The UN estimates that the reconstruction of Gaza will cost $70 billion. The amount of debris in the bombed enclave is equivalent to 13 pyramids of Giza.

The UN Development Programme describes that the amount of debris in Gaza could be stacked 12 meters high over the entire area of New York’s Central Park.

The estimate was presented on Tuesday and is a joint assessment by the UN, EU and the World Bank. The cost has risen sharply since the previous calculation of $53 billion in February.

Jaco Cilliers, special representative for the UNDP administrator in a program to assist Palestinians, described the extent of the devastation at a press conference in Geneva via video link from Jerusalem.

— The estimated damage and rubble, throughout the whole of Gaza, is in the region of 55 million tons, he said.

— Another way to put it, apart from the example from Central Park that I mentioned, is also equal to 13 pyramids in Giza. That is the amount and size of the challenge.

According to Cilliers, $20 billion is needed over the next three years. The remaining funds are needed over a longer period – possibly decades. He pointed to “good indications” from potential donors in the Arab world, Europe and the US, without providing further details.

Trump: “The easiest part”

US President Donald Trump, who on Monday participated in the signing of the peace agreement for Gaza in Egypt, claimed that the reconstruction will be easier than achieving the ceasefire.

— Rebuilding is maybe going to be the easiest part. We know how to build better than anybody in the world.

During the two years that Gaza was bombed by Israeli missiles and tanks, between 60 and 80 percent of all buildings were damaged or destroyed. The enclave was previously home to over 2.1 million people.

The total number of affected buildings is estimated at over 170,000, including homes, businesses, hospitals and religious sites.

After the end of the war, over 500,000 Palestinians have returned to Gaza in recent days – only to find their homes and neighborhoods in ruins.

Israel pays influencers $7,000 per post in secret propaganda campaign

The genocide in Gaza

Published 8 October 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously stated that social media is a very important weapon in Israel's information warfare.
6 minute read

While the genocide in Gaza continues, the Israeli government is running an extensive influence campaign on social media. Millions of Americans are exposed to political propaganda without knowing that the content is financed by a foreign warring state.

None of the involved influencers have registered as foreign agents – a likely violation of the United States’ primary law against covert foreign influence.

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a group of pro-Israeli influencers last Friday, the message was clear:

— We have to fight back. How do we fight back? Our influencers. I think you should also talk to them if you have a chance, to that community, they are very important, he stated.

What Netanyahu didn’t mention was how lucrative it is to be one of “our influencers” – or that these influence campaigns are systematically hidden from the American public.

Documents reviewed and analyzed by Nick Cleveland-Stout at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft think tank show that a group of 14-18 influencers receive around $7,000 per post on platforms like TikTok and Instagram to shape American citizens’ opinions about Israel and the war in Gaza.

Secret propaganda campaign

The campaign, codenamed “Esther Project,” is coordinated by the company Bridges Partners on behalf of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between June and November this year, Israel pumped a total of $900,000 into the project during the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Invoices that the company sent to media conglomerate Havas Media Group Germany show that an estimated $553,000 has been paid directly to the influencers for the period June to September. With an expected production of 75-90 posts, this means between $6,143 and $7,372 per post that reaches thousands or millions of American followers.

But despite the influencers being contractually obligated to start publishing in July, none of them have registered as foreign agents. They have also not labeled their posts with information that the content is financed by the Israeli government. This is a likely violation of the United States’ Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) – the country’s primary law against covert foreign influence.

“If they do it knowingly, it’s punishable”

— If you’re being paid by a foreign government to influence the American public on that government’s behalf you should register under FARA, says Ben Freeman, director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute.

— If these influencers are knowingly accepting money from the Israeli government to produce content for the Israeli government that’s being viewed by thousands or millions of their followers in the US, it’s not at all clear why they would not be required to register.

According to the law, FARA violations must be done “knowingly” to lead to criminal penalties. In other words: if the influencers are aware that they are receiving Israeli state funds to influence American citizens, they are committing a crime.

A lawyer who specializes in FARA and who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue is clear:

— Anyone who is distributing material propaganda and other informational materials aimed at the United States audience on behalf of a foreign government agency would need to be disclosed somewhere, including potentially by filing a short form registration.

Systematic concealment

In addition to not registering as foreign agents, the influencers are violating another basic requirement: they must clearly label their posts so that viewers understand that the content is financed by the Israeli government – either in the post itself or on their profile.

A search on X, TikTok and Instagram yields no results showing that any of the 14-18 influencers working for Bridges Partners have included such labeling. This is despite the labeling requirement being standard practice for all registered foreign agents on social media.

— It’s basically the foreign influence equivalent of the standard sponsorship flagged posts you see all over social media. It just lets social media users know that what they’re seeing is being paid for by the Israeli government, and then they can judge it accordingly.

The difference is crucial: when an influencer markets a commercial brand, there should always be clear labeling. But when the same influencer markets a foreign government’s political agenda in the middle of an ongoing war, there is no information at all showing how they are financed by a foreign power.

Wall of silence

The identity of the 14-18 influencers participating in the propaganda campaign has not been made public. Bridges Partners refuses to comment on the matter and Havas Media Group Germany, which oversees the entire campaign, has not responded to repeated requests from journalists about which influencers are participating or how much each one is paid. Uri Steinberg, who owns 50 percent of Bridges Partners, has also chosen not to respond to requests to comment on the influence campaign.

Currently, only Steinberg himself is registered as a foreign agent – despite it being the influencers who reach millions of Americans with the propaganda.

Bridges Partners, which is based in a townhouse on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., has hired Nadav Shtrauchler – a former major from the IDF’s information unit. As legal counsel, the company has turned to the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, the same firm that previously represented the notorious Israeli spyware company NSO Group.

The name “Esther Project” resembles the Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther” – a campaign that systematically labels critics of Israel as part of a network supporting “terrorists”. However, the Heritage Foundation itself claims there is no formal connection between the projects.

“It’s not just friendly relations”

Several influencers have made trips to Israel in recent months, partly financed through contracts with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Israel365 Action organized a trip in August that cost $86,000 in state funds. After the visit, influencer Lance Johnston declared that he was now “fine with sending them weapons”.

Republican politicians have also reacted to the revelations.

“Any social media influencer, if they are getting paid by a foreign country, they have to register under FARA”, states US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Former Congressman Matt Gaetz was even clearer:

“In this particular case, the foreign government is pursuing a specific agenda, it is not just friendly relations between our countries. There is a war going on in Gaza”.

Critical timing

Millions of Americans are thus exposed daily to political content without knowing that what they see is paid propaganda from a foreign warring state. The influencers who receive $7,000 per post consciously choose to hide from their followers who pays for the words they spread.

The campaign also comes at a critical time when young Americans are becoming increasingly critical of Israel, the genocide in Gaza and the unlimited American support for the country.

When public opinion turns against Israel, driven by images of Palestinian suffering on social media, a secret influence campaign on the same platforms becomes an important strategic weapon for shaping the narrative and portraying the destruction of Gaza as a noble and necessary defensive war.

Tony Blair could gain power over Gaza

The globalist agenda

Published 1 October 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the World Economic Forum power conference in Davos, earlier this summer.
3 minute read

The notorious globalist and war hawk Tony Blair now wants to govern post-war Gaza for up to five years. According to WikiLeaks, the plan would give outside forces control over everything from laws to money flows.

Tony Blair, the architect behind Britain’s participation in the Iraq War that cost hundreds of thousands of lives, now wants to lead an international transitional authority for Gaza after the war ends. According to people with insight into the Trump administration’s peace plan, Blair could become chairman of a “Gaza International Transitional Authority”.

The plan has been developed together with Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and is primarily financed by tech billionaire Larry Ellison. According to reports, Blair would lead a secretariat of 25 people that would administer Gaza for up to five years.

WikiLeaks comments on the development in sharp terms:

“A battle is brewing over who will run the wasteland. Into this vacuum steps Tony Blair, lined up to head a US-backed Gaza International Transitional Authority”, the organization writes.

The organization describes the arrangement as something far more comprehensive than traditional post-war governance:

This is not postwar governance in a conventional sense but a model of neo-trusteeship; external control over territory, law, and the flows of reconstruction, data, and capital“.

WikiLeaks also points to the economic interests behind the plan and notes that Blair is backed by principal funder Larry Ellison and plans to lead the administration for up to five years.

Notorious war instigator

Tony Blair is one of modern times’ most notorious British politicians. As Prime Minister from 1997-2007, he gave his full support to US invasions of both Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.

Blair was accused of misleading the British Parliament and population about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction – weapons that were never found and whose existence is now questioned. The Chilcot Inquiry in 2016 established that Blair had exaggerated the threat from Saddam Hussein and that the British government had acted on inadequate or falsified intelligence information.

His close relationship with George W. Bush and unconditional support for American foreign policy earned him the nickname “Bush’s poodle” from critics. Over one million demonstrated in London against the Iraq War in February 2003, but Blair still pushed through British participation.

Long-standing Israel support

Blair has been an outspoken Israel supporter over the years. As peace envoy for the Quartet – the UN, US, EU and Russia – he was responsible from 2007-2015 for promoting the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.

During his time, however, illegal settlement construction in the West Bank continued and the Gaza blockade remained. Palestinian leaders and human rights organizations repeatedly accused him of favoring Israel and functioning as a partisan political actor instead of a neutral mediator.

During Israel’s war in Gaza, which has so far killed over 65,000 Palestinians according to local health authorities, Blair has been working on his plan for international governance of the area. He met President Trump at the White House last month to present the proposal.

Resistance from the Arab world

European and Arab states have already expressed opposition to the idea of an international trusteeship for Gaza. They argue that such an arrangement would further marginalize Palestinians and lack legitimacy in the eyes of Gaza residents. Instead, they advocate that Gaza should be governed by a committee consisting of Palestinian technocrats with support from the Palestinian Authority, which currently administers parts of the West Bank.

Trump presented his Gaza plan to Arab leaders in New York this week. The proposal gives Palestinians limited administrative power, but real control would lie with an international board – potentially led by Tony Blair.

However, everything could collapse as early as Monday. That’s when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets President Trump in Washington – and Netanyahu has already made his position clear: the Palestinian Authority will have no role in Gaza’s future and Hamas must be completely eliminated.

Without Israeli approval, the plan cannot be implemented, which would stop both Trump’s peace attempt and Blair’s return to Middle East politics.

Trump presents 20-point plan to end war in Gaza

The genocide in Gaza

Published 30 September 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, was received by Donald Trump at the White House on Monday evening Swedish time.
2 minute read

The White House has put forward a comprehensive peace proposal that reportedly could bring the war in Gaza to an immediate end if both Israel and Hamas accept the plan. The war has so far claimed over 66,000 Palestinian lives and transformed the Palestinian enclave into ruins.

The plan stipulates that the war should end immediately upon approval from both parties. All hostages held in Gaza, both living and dead, should be returned within 72 hours, and Palestinian prisoners should be released. According to the proposal, the Gaza Strip should be temporarily governed by a technocratic Palestinian government without any role for Hamas, and Israel will not annex Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is internationally wanted for war crimes, has accepted Trump’s plan, but Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi told Al Jazeera that “the group has not yet received Trump’s written peace plan for Gaza”.

Hostages and prisoners in focus

Within 72 hours after Israel publicly accepts the agreement, all hostages, living and dead, should be returned. When all hostages are released, Israel commits to freeing 250 prisoners serving life sentences plus 1,700 Gazans who have been imprisoned since October 7, 2023, including all women and children detained in that context.

Hamas members who commit to peaceful coexistence and disarmament will be offered amnesty. Hamas members who wish to leave Gaza should receive safe passage to receiving countries.

Reconstruction and international governance

According to the plan, Gaza should be transformed into a “deradicalized terror-free zone” and rebuilt for the benefit of the Palestinian population. An international stabilization force should be established to be immediately deployed in Gaza and train Palestinian police forces.

A governing body called the “Peace Council” should lead the reconstruction under the leadership of President Donald Trump, with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair among the members. This body should handle the financing of Gaza’s reconstruction until the Palestinian Authority has implemented its reform program and can take over control.

A special economic zone should be established with favorable customs and access conditions. The plan emphasizes that no one will be forced to leave Gaza, but those who wish should be able to do so and freely return.

Security guarantees

All military and terrorist infrastructure, including tunnels and weapons manufacturing facilities, should be destroyed. Israel should not occupy or annex Gaza, and Israeli forces should gradually withdraw as demilitarization progresses and the stabilization force establishes control.

The US should, together with Arab and international partners, develop the temporary stabilization force, with consultation from Jordan and Egypt, which have extensive experience in the field.

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