Observers are warning of imminent ‘false flag’ attacks in Europe after Israeli intelligence services and Western pro-Israel media claimed that ‘Hamas’ is preparing attacks on the continent.

Hamas ‘likely to attack Europe’?

The Jewish Chronicle and other Israel-supporting media outlets have published articles claiming a “high likelihood” and even a “looming risk” of attacks by the terrorist-designated Palestinian militia group, supposedly based on a report by unnamed ‘western’ intelligence officials from unnamed intelligence services handed anonymously to the Daily Mirror:

The same reports are being amplified in the UK by Israel proxy groups like the ‘Campaign against Antisemitism’, which – unsurprisingly – attached the claims to a list of demands for a crackdown on its opponents by the Starmer government, which is already waging war on anti-genocide journalism and activism in the UK, and emphasised the supposed involvement of Israel’s frequent targets in Iran and Lebanon:

Smells like Mossad

However, a deeper dive reveals that the reports over Hamas appear to be drawn from, or at least mirror, an intensifying campaign of claims by Israeli intelligence services and government – including a statement from Mossad that its “cooperation with European security services” had revealed that “Hamas has been cultivating an operational network across Europe, working through covert cells”. There seems little practical doubt that the ‘western’ sources are either Israeli intelligence directly, or European intelligence regurgitating information received from its Israeli counterparts, particularly when Israel’s habit of feeding conveniently misleading intel to European services dates back to at least the 1970s.

Certainly, many observers consider the latest claims to be groundwork for a false-flag terror campaign by a colonial power desperate to undo outrage among populations in Europe and other ‘western’ regions over its mass slaughter of Palestinians. Author Susan Abulhawa’s warning encapsulated the suspicions – in an X post she responded to the Jewish Chronicle’s post by pointing out that it:

looks like Mossad is planning another false flag. Hamas has NEVER attacked anyone in Europe, NEVER expressed a desire to do so, and in fact has always made it clear that they are fighting the Jewish supremacist colonizers and oppressors on their OWN SOIL in their own homeland of Palestine. watch out Europe.

Israel is coming for you again for yet another false flag on your soil to whip up anti-Arab, anti-Muslim sentiments. here’s a partial list to jog your memory [not including the ones we know they did but can’t yet prove it].

– The Lillehammer Affair (1973)
– Embassy Bombing (1994, London)
– Targeted Assassinations Using Forged Passports (all over the world)
– The Lavon Affair (Egypt, 1954)

Israel: a history of false flags

The concept of Israeli ‘false flag’ attacks designed to put blame on an uninvolved group or nation (like Hamas) is anything but the stuff of conspiracy theories. Israel has long form for them. In June, former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levi warned that a false-flag attack was likely as Israel sought to increase US engagement in a direct war on Iran. His warning was inadvertently reinforced by the actions of pro-Israel mouthpieces in the US, who at the same time began setting the scene by predicting an Iranian attack on US soil or against a US vessel.

Israel has a proven history of such false-flags to try to achieve political and strategic aims, from the ‘Lavon affair‘ of the 1950s, mentioned by Abulhawa, in which it bombed Jewish buildings in Egypt and tried to blame it on Muslim groups, to its air attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 to try to provoke the US into attacking Egypt, to the 1994 bombings in London blamed on Palestinian activists, also mentioned by Abulhawa.

The Europe campaign was preceded by a similar fear campaign in the US in September as Israel sought to pressure the US into fresh attacks on Iran, a wish it has still not fulfilled. With the occupation known to have its eyes on the permanent seizure of southern Lebanon, where outlawed resistance group Hezbollah is strong, the latest campaign to link Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah to supposed terror plans in Europe would certainly appear to fit its past tactics.

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By Skwawkbox

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Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has exposed yet another murder by occupation forces of two unarmed Palestinians — brothers Nidal and Khaled ‘Amirah — in the West Bank city of Nablus.

Israeli troops murdered the clearly unarmed brothers in an alley after making the pair walk towards them at first. The footage is from June but B’Tselem and French forensic investigators Index have just released their analysis showing how they were killed:

 

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In its report on the murders, B’Tselem says that the brothers were trying to help a terrified family attempting to evacuate the area which the occupation forces were attacking:

Nidal ‘Amirah, 40, and his brother Khaled ‘Amirah, 35, arrived in the neighborhood to help another family that wanted to leave, fearing the operation. Nidal ‘Amirah, an officer in the Palestinian Authority security forces, was off duty and unarmed.

In video footage filmed by journalists from the end of the street, Nidal, who is wearing a white shirt, is seen walking slowly toward a group of soldiers with his empty hands raised. He stops a few meters from them and lifts his shirt at their request. According to testimonies B’Tselem collected from eyewitnesses, at this stage one of the soldiers demanded that ‘Amirah remove his pants as well. He refused. ‘Amirah is then seen taking one step toward the soldiers, at which point three soldiers lunge at him and begin beating him.

At this stage, Khaled ‘Amirah, in a black shirt, tried to approach together with several paramedics standing at the end of the street. In the footage, one soldier is seen aiming his weapon at them. The paramedics step back slightly, while Khaled continues advancing with his arms stretched forward.

Six shots are then heard, and at least one bullet can be seen striking the ground near Khaled’s feet. Another bullet hits a wall near the group standing at the end of the street, and one paramedic and a photographer are hit by shrapnel.

At the same time, several soldiers continued beating Nidal, who tried to shield himself and struggled against them. At that stage, other soldiers seized Khaled and dragged him into a nearby alley, where the four detainees from the Qotub family were being held. In the alley, the soldiers tried to force him to the ground while one soldier choked him.

Two shots were heard from the alley and soon afterwards, the soldiers dragged Nidal, too, toward its entrance while he struggled against them. At this stage, intense gunfire was heard from inside the alley and a cloud of dust rose from it. The source of the gunfire was outside the cameras’ field of view. The volley of shots injured Nidal and at least one soldier.

Nidal, who broke free from the soldiers holding him in the chaos created by the burst of gunfire, is seen in the video limping forward. His path, however, is blocked by at least two soldiers, leaving him with nowhere to flee. A joint forensic analysis of the video by B’Tselem and INDEX shows that at this moment, one of the two soldiers, who was standing just a few meters away, shoots Nidal in the back and Nidal falls to the ground.

After shooting Nidal, the same soldier is seen approaching the spot where another soldier is pinning Khaled to the ground and executing him with a point-blank shot to the head.

Several Red Crescent paramedics, who were only a short distance away throughout the incident, try to reach the brothers to provide medical care, but the soldiers keep them away at gunpoint. Analysis of the footage indicates that at this point Nidal ‘Amirah was still alive and may have survived, if the soldiers had not denied him medical treatment. Military vehicles then arrived, and additional soldiers dispersed everyone present using live fire and stun grenades.

The same soldiers also beat and hospitalised members of the family trying to evacuate. Israel claimed, of course, that the men who had been killed are ‘terrorists.’ But B’Tselem treats this with the contempt it deserves, particularly after the video footage confirmed the lie:

The military addressed the killing of the ‘Amirah brothers in a statement: During a suspect inspection, two terrorists attempted to snatch the weapon of one of the fighters operating in the area. As a result, […] several rounds were discharged, causing moderate injury to one IDF soldier and light injuries to three others. The force responded with gunfire toward the terrorists, killing both of them.”

However, a forensic reconstruction of the incident by INDEX and eyewitness testimonies collected by B’Tselem indicate that Khaled ‘Amirah was executed with a point-blank shot to the head while pinned to the ground and posing no danger to the soldiers. Nidal ‘Amirah was shot in the back from close range after being wounded in the leg and while at least two soldiers were blocking his escape route, and he, too, posed no threat.

The new revelations come just two weeks after Israel murdered two unarmed Palestinians in Jenin as they were surrendering. Almost all UK ‘mainstream’ media uniformly downplayed the executions, using the same language that the men ‘appeared to surrender‘ rather than reflecting the reality. The reality is that they were executed after demonstrating they were unarmed and lying face down on the ground. The Israeli occupation forces kicked them and then murdered them, as the video footage clearly demonstrated. Two weeks before that, the occupation murdered two West Bank children — again preventing paramedics from reaching them.

Israel is a terror state. As during its previous fake ceasefires in Gaza, it has used the current one to escalate its war on the unarmed civilians of the West Bank.

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By Skwawkbox

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Supporters are organising an emergency demonstration outside Pentonville Prison tonight (10 December) from 6pm for hunger-striker and political prisoner Kamran Ahmed. Ahmed, in his second month of his hunger strike against his imprisonment for more than a year so far without trial, has been hospitalised yet again.

Despite Ahmed’s re-admittance to hospital, outraged organisers say that the prison is refusing to update his family and legal team about his condition.

‘Justice’ secretary David Lammy claimed he unaware of the hunger strike by eight members of the ‘Filton 24’ imprisoned anti-genocide activists imprisoned. Ahmed’s sister Shahmina spoke publicly last week about the injustice imposed on her brother and his fellow activists. UK ‘mainstream’ media continue to ignore the hunger strike and Starmer’s whole ‘lawfare’ war on anti-genocide speech and journalism.

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By Skwawkbox

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