1) At the FDD, Hussain Abdul-Hussain explains why ‘Pretending to Disarm Hezbollah Won’t Work’.
“Lebanon is pretending to disarm Hezbollah and thinks that the world believes it. Then, when the world calls Beirut out, Lebanese officials engage in collective delusion and blame “Israeli aggression” for military escalation. Lebanon is now reneging on the ceasefire and the 1701 enforcement mechanism that it signed, in November, in which it pledged to disarm Hezbollah and, in return, get territory back from Israel.
Lebanese officials, including President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, are now trafficking in two strings of disinformation.”
2) NGO Monitor reports on ‘The Hezbollah Links of HRW’s Local Expert’.
“…HRW extensively quoted Mahdi Sadeq, executive director of Nabatieh Emergency Rescue Service Association. As documented below, Sadeq is a supporter of Hezbollah and of the use of violence against Israel. In addition, the association he heads is linked to a pro-Hezbollah Shi’ite center, which hails the terror group and its leaders, supports its actions, and regularly meets with Hezbollah leaders.”
3) The ITIC reports on ‘Demonstrations in the Gaza Strip against Hamas’.
“Some Hamas-affiliated media outlets and journalists, such as Anas al-Sharif, a Hamas activist and journalist, and Gazan correspondent Hassan Aslih, reported on the first demonstration in Beit Lahia and described it as a protest against the war and the ongoing Israeli “aggression,” but did not report the anti-Hamas sentiment. The trend continued in the following days in most Hamas affiliated media outlets both inside the Strip and outside of it, such as Qatar’s Al Jazeera.”
4) At the JCFA, Maurice Hirsch discusses ‘Lies, Damn Lies, and UN-Washed Hamas Propaganda Statistics’.
“Since most people are hesitant to say that they are directly quoting the figures released by Hamas, the genocidal terrorist organization that planned, led, and executed the October 7, 2023, massacre, the statistic most widely referred to is that released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA). […]
…what most people fail to acknowledge is that the source of UN OCHA’s information, as the asterisk symbol indicates, is the “MoH Gaza” – i.e. the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza.”
5) MEMRI provides documentation of statements made by members of HTS – now the dominant party in the transitional Syrian government – on and around October 7 2023.
“On October 7, 2023, the day of the Hamas massacre in Israel, and in the month that followed, senior political, military, and religious figures from the Syrian jihadi group Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) – the Al-Qaeda offshoot that would take control of Syria in early December 2024 – came out in full support of the attack. This support took the form of multiple declarations of jihad against Israel, to include large-scale suicide attacks against it and its supporters and “filthy Jews” around the world, and for the murder of Israeli leaders.”
