Anika Sweetland, the Reform party’s supposed climate expert is anything but.

Here she is on shithouse Lee Anderson’s GB News’ segment discussing if net zero is a scam:

Good morning fellow Reformers, patriots and climate realists! Last night I had the honour of standing up for our country 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🩵 We have all had enough of the self-sabotage, it’s time to say no to Net Zero and repeal the Climate Change Act! Please kindly repost this and follow me if… pic.twitter.com/dX2kak4GXa

— Anika (@anika_climate) February 7, 2026

As we’ll get into, the real scam is the idea that ‘net zero is a scam’.

Reform climate ‘expert’ is climate denier

Putting her on GB News appears to be Reform’s way of giving her some public PR.

The party is billing her as some kind of scientist. But isn’t a scientist supposed to actually do research? Write academic papers and shit? Put findings out into the world?

After achieving a Bachelor of Science in Climate Studies in 2016, it appears that Sweetland took that degree and did fuck all with it. Scour the internet and she’s done nothing to contribute to the climate change discussion:

She also claims to have been a climate scientist for the Australian Government. There’s no evidence. She was once a Graduate Research Officer (in 2014, fresh from studying) for the Gascoyne Development Commission which presented this to the Parliament of Western Australia:… pic.twitter.com/Lu6OVhHfnR

— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) February 8, 2026

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She didn’t go on to achieve her PHD, didn’t write any academic papers. But she does push shit conspiracies about how she was indoctrinated by actual scientific studies:

Climate Establishment Expose: How i was indoctrinated, how I broke free and WHY the climate narrative is still being pushed without consequences. https://t.co/yMYQZv0wdi

— Anika (@anika_climate) February 9, 2026

It appears once upon a time on LinkedIn she claimed to be an events manager and content creator? Oh, and was hilariously crowned ‘Miss British Empire’ during Covid:

Looking at her LinkedIn, her only entries were as a content creator and events manager. She’s since deleted it, trying to claim it never existed:https://t.co/xnKlH3YOhP

We do know that she also had a dabble in pageants, being named Miss British Empire Photogenic. That’s a… pic.twitter.com/paJLNK2Luq

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— Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) February 8, 2026

But this was quickly deleted, it seems.

So why the fuck is a woman who discounts the human contribution to climate change being pushed as some kind of fucking expert?

Oh yeah, because it’s Reform.

The ‘Net Zero scam’ scam

In a video titled You’ve been lied to about Net Zero, Simon Clark says that people create misinformation around Net Zero as follows:

So these are the five steps of the anti-net zero playbook. Inflate the costs, ignore the cost of business as usual, ignore the operational savings, ignore the co- benefits, and most egregiously, ignore the costs of inaction. Not getting to net zero is going to cost the world much, much more

Clark also highlights that when people target the ‘cost’ of switching to Net Zero, they ignore the costs of not switching:

the second step often is is to pretend that we can just carry on with business as usual and it won’t cost us anything. Let’s say we’re talking about decarbonising transport. And then people say, “Oh, but you know, an EV that’s going to cost like £40,000. You know, that’s a huge investment. That’s expensive, right?” You know, and you add that up over all of the cars in the in the country and you suddenly get a big scary number.

Again, let’s say we just carry on with petrol cars. Petrol cars aren’t free, right? Okay, maybe you own a petrol car now, so you don’t have to buy a new one, but that won’t last forever. So, that’s step two is you basically pretend that the existing system, which we’ve already built and paid for, can just carry on forever and won’t ever need replacing.

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Sweetland joins the rest of the clowns

It unsurprisingly appears that qualifications and previous endeavours don’t matter to the Reform UK.

But then again, we all knew that after they welcomed Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick, didn’t we?

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Matt Goodwin is facing even more scorn, this time for attacking women. In a 2023 blog post unearthed by the Independent, the Reform candidate for Gorton and Denton proposed that people who don’t have children should be taxed extra. What’s worse, this was specifically meant as a punishment.

Reform pick: Matt Goodwin, Zionist, book eater, and woman hater

On his Substack, Goodwin said:

British family is imploding.

He went on to say that:

The collapse of the family has not only become unavoidable but is having very real and very negative effects on the country around us.

His solution to this was a raft of proposals that would create “a pro-family culture”. These would include a national day to celebrate families and getting the king to send a telegram to families when they have a third child. For some fucking reason.

He also wanted “the importance of the family” to be represented in the school curriculum. This was alongside making sure British families were “prioritised” in the building of new houses. He also wanted to remove income tax for women with two or more children, presumably because he sees them as having done their duty.

Most bizarre of all was his proposal on child benefits:

Switching child benefit to incentivise families to have more children.

Which is hilarious when Reform is so opposed to lifting the two-child cap. Though not if you ask the two Reform MPs who accidentally voted for it.

Reform putting women in danger

But then came his plan to not only push reproduction but to punish those who don’t have children:

 Introducing a ‘negative child benefit’ tax for those who don’t have offspring

More worryingly, is that Reform agrees with him. A Reform spokesperson told the Huffington Post:

Of course, Goodwin is as misguided as ever. Many could potentially be pressured into having kids and trapped in abusive relationships. It would mean that women are seen as only baby machines and not free to have their own lives or careers.

Deputy leader of Labour, Lucy Powell, expressed her disgust at this idea in the Independent:

Matthew Goodwin’s big idea is so ludicrous, you’d be forgiven for thinking this is something out of The Handmaid’s Tale. It would punish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to choose.

Infertile women are not good enough

But that’s only the ones that physically can have children.

I can’t imagine the pain that this would cause to those who are struggling with fertility. On top of the emotional and physical toll this puts on you will be financial pressures. For those of us who are infertile, it sends one message. You are not good enough and deserve to be punished for failing as a woman.

I had an elective hysterectomy in 2017 after over a decade of pain. I chose my own health over a condition that was making me want to die, for the sake of one day having a baby. Many would call my decision selfish, but I frankly don’t give a fuck what people who would rather I were in pain think of me.

As much as I loathe a Handmaid’s Tale comparison, this is very apt here. In the novel, working-class women who are infertile are cast out of society. As they have no purpose in a society that values families over all else.

Reform hates women, but we already know this

Goodwin’s comments are abhorrently cruel and show just how much society hates people who don’t have children. But Reform supporting it is a sign of just how much Christian pro-life values are not so quietly creeping into the UK.

By seeing us as just baby machines, we are telling anyone who can’t have a baby, or chooses not to, that they do not belong in society. But Reform is also telling voters plainly that they don’t actually give a fuck about women. Plainly put Reform will be dangerous for women, and they’re already proudly telling us that.

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Iran has sentenced Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to another seven years in jail. Mohammadi is reportedly on hunger strike following the conviction. According to the Guardian, Mohammadi’s lawyer Mostafa Nili has been in touch with her.

He said:

She has been sentenced to six years in prison for ‘gathering and collusion’ and one and a half years for propaganda and two-year travel ban.

The paper added:

She had been arrested in December at a memorial ceremony honouring Khosrow Alikordi, a 46-year-old Iranian lawyer and human rights advocate who had been based in Mashhad. Footage from the demonstration showed her shouting, demanding justice for Alikordi and others.

Iran has been rocked by near-revolution since December. Protests which began among small businesses over living costs were reportedly brutally repressed. Figures of dead and wounded are hard to verify due to state-enforced media and internet blackouts. Some estimates put the killed and injured in the tens of thousands.

Nuclear talks in Oman

The blackout also makes claims about the degree of US and Israel involvement difficult to corroborate. Despite this – or as a result – conspiracy and rumour have proliferated.

The new sentence comes as the US and Iran prepare to negotiate over Iran’s nuclear programme. US President Donald Trump has deployed a US navy armada to the region.

Iran and the US will meet in Oman. Iran’s top security official Ali Larijani visited Muscat ahead of the talks. Anadolu Agency said:

The indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington were halted following the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June last year, during which the US targeted three key Iranian nuclear sites.

Adding:

While Iranian media have not specified the agenda of Larijani’s visit, sources said he is expected to discuss the contours of the next round of talks with the Omani mediators.

Narges Mohammadi: Venezuela connection?

The Nobel Committee condemned Mohammadi’s arrest on 12 December 2025:

The Norwegian Nobel Committee calls on the Iranian authorities to immediately clarify Mohammadi’s whereabouts, ensure her safety and integrity, and to release her without conditions. The Committee stands in solidarity with Narges Mohammadi and all those in Iran who work peacefully for human rights, the rule of law, and freedom of expression.

They appeared to suggest there was a link between Mohammadi’s arrest and the award of a Nobel to pro-US Venezuelan figure Maria Corina Machado:

Given the close collaboration between the regimes in Iran and Venezuela, the Norwegian Nobel Committee notes that Ms. Mohammadi is arrested just as the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado.

They offered nothing further to verify this specific claim.

Iran wants to appear strong in a crisis

Mohammadi had been temporarily released on a medical furlough from jail when she was re-arrested. She had been serving a 13 year sentence for:

charges of collusion against state security and propaganda against Iran’s government.

During the recent protests Mohammadi:

kept up her activism with public protests and international media appearances, including even demonstrating at one point in front of Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, where she had been held.

Mohammadi has reportedly had multiple heart attacks in jail. Her doctors fear she may also have cancer. This is why she was on medical furlough from her previous sentence. Now she appears to have been returned to prison. And at the precise moment the Iranian government is looking to avert internal crises and head off a threat of regime change.

The implications of this crunch moment for Mohammadi may be dire.

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Former French education minister Jack Lang has quit a “plum” job running France’s Arab World Institute over his links with serial child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein. His appearances in the latest tranche of Epstein files have triggered a money-laundering investigation by French police. Prosecutors said on Friday that the investigation is a “preliminary” probe into “aggravated tax fraud laundering”. It encompasses Lang’s daughter Caroline as well as Lang himself.

Lang’s name reportedly appears hundreds of times in the new files, though not in connection with sexual crimes. Caroline Lang appears as a beneficiary of a €5m bequest in Epstein’s will. Both have denied any wrongdoing. Lang said that he wanted to avoid damage to the institute and would “calmly refute” the allegations before a planned extraordinary board meeting.

In December 2025, Lang joked that he would be in his role at the institute forever: “When I’m somewhere, I’m there for eternity”. His resignation came after pressure from the board. He becomes the third senior figure linked to government to resign in less than a week. Keir Starmer senior adviser Peter Mandelson and Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney quit in the UK to try to protect Starmer.

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An industrial ‘on-site shredding’ lorry has been photographed at Downing Street just three days after Keir Starmer warned that his officials needed to review “potentially hundreds of thousands” of pages of documents relating to Starmer’s decision to appoint the disgraced Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador and senior Downing Street adviser despite knowing Mandelson had stayed close to serial child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein.

Starmer has promised full transparency, but is already hiding behind Epstein’s victims to withhold sensitive information. The presence of the shredder van may be commonplace at Downing Street, but its arrival today – spotted by Sky News hack Sam Coates – will have many wondering.

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On Thursday 5th February, the Canary sat down with Andrew Feinstein to discuss his upcoming book ‘Making a Killing’. He is a former ANC member from South Africa who worked alongside Nelson Mandela and has worked tirelessly alongside others to expose the arms trade and its corruption of politicians around the world.

Working in collaboration with others, Feinstein has united the brutal conflicts in Gaza and Yemen in one body of work, allowing readers to connect the dots between the billionaire-owned military machine and world leaders’ involvement in the mass murder and devastation of the Middle East.

Alnaouq: ‘Who killed my family?’

In the co-author’s own words, we asked Feinstein to share with us the backstory that led them to write this book:

So the book is called Making a Killing, How the West Profits from Slaughter in Gaza and Yemen. Where we got the idea for the book from is that a friend of mine from Gaza called Ahmed Alnaouq lost 21 members of his family in the bombing of a family home in an area of Gaza called Deir al-Balah. And he asked me, who killed my family? Who made the bomb that killed my family? Who made the plane that dropped it on my family home? Who gave them the orders? And who profited from it? And that’s how we’ve gone about the book.

So, the book follows what happened to Ahmed’s family in Gaza. And it follows another family in Yemen, which was a much more drawn-out conflict. So, in Yemen, again, it was someone who we knew of, an extraordinary Yemeni woman called Radia. She started a human rights organization in Yemen, without which we would never have known about the atrocities committed with British and American and other Western weapons by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. And the extraordinary thing about Radia is that she comes from a family where her father was a public intellectual in Yemen.

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He wasn’t affiliated politically, and he was hated by everybody because he used to, in the truest sense of the word, speak truth to power, to all power. He was assassinated 14 years ago, so just before the onset of the conflict. And to this day, they have no idea who assassinated him because it could have been so many different groups and people.

To contrast with the story of Gaza, we decided the story of Yemen would be about someone who has not only suffered from the conflict, but who has shown this extraordinary resilience to document the conflict and to demand accountability for the conflict. So, this is what drives both Ahmed and Radia, which is the similarity in the story. And so, the book traces the weaponry that’s been used in both conflicts, through specific incidents. And we then trace back who sold it, who manufactured it, everybody involved, and how much money everybody has made out of it. And the figures are stupefied.

And then we ask in the book: So, who killed these people? And how do we ensure justice for all of the people who have been killed in these conflicts?

And it’s by demanding accountability for all of those who have profited and people profit not just materially but politically as well. Our political leaders convince us that they spend these extortionate amounts of our money on weaponry, that they sell it with massive corruption into these conflicts and that we are the good guys in the conflicts. And the reality is we’re not.

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But the politicians present themselves as our protectors and our war heroes and they’re making shed loads of money out of it. And that includes the politicians. People like Tony Blair, who is a war profiteer and was when he was in office. He’s making money now out of war because of decisions he made in government. Keir Starmer will be exactly the same. And all of these people in this kill chain need to be called to account. So that’s really what has motivated the book.

‘Most difficult book I’ve ever tried to write’

We then asked how it felt for Feinstein to write this book, as a Jewish, western man operating in a capitalist society:

I don’t find writing easy generally. But this is the most difficult book I’ve ever tried to write.

Fortunately, I haven’t done it alone. There are five of us who’ve co-authored the book. And so, on the team, people have written different parts of it, and I’ve turned it into one narrative and one style. But in order to do the book, we’ve had to follow the conflicts, we’ve had to examine the weaponry, and we’ve had to trace back where the weaponry comes from. So in that sense, it’s been a horrific thing to do.

And we’ve had to constantly remind ourselves why we’re doing it. Because it’s almost like having to focus on the awfulness that our governments have created and been a part of, and are obviously absolutely complicit in. The anger, and to be honest with you, the hatred that I feel, for our morally and materially corrupt politicians and political process has grown exponentially through the process of writing this book.

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Feinstein then explained three things he hopes will be achieved through sharing this book with wider society:

So, I suppose there are three things:

The first is that we want people to read this book. Very few people know anything about the Yemen conflict. We call it the forgotten war. It went on for ten and a half years. And it was like Gaza but spread out. It destroyed millions of people’s lives and continues to. And of course, people tend to have one of two views on Gaza. And we want people to be able to read a totally factual account with a lot of footnotes so that everything they read, they can see how it’s been verified as factual. I hope that some people who have been apologists for the conflict or who haven’t thought it’s a particularly bad thing on the part of our governments perhaps reassess. So that would be the first thing.

The second thing is we want accountability. We want to ensure that out of this book with all the material in it, there are a series of legal cases around the world trying to get justice from the people who have engineered these conflicts and the people who have materially profited from them. They should suffer the consequences of what they’ve done, which is to destroy millions of human lives and there are domestic and international laws that apply, that our governments have run roughshod over. And those laws need to be applied.

The third thing is that the book tries to show that these conflicts are not an aberration of our political system, but are actually a reflection of it, and are absolutely integral to and a central part of our political system. And we want people to understand that our political systems in the so-called West are broken beyond repair and are not fit for purpose and are causing immeasurable suffering across the world so that a tiny elite can profit and benefit. And so, I suppose, and not explicitly but implicitly, It’s a call for fundamental structural and systemic political change in the world.

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Feinstein’s advice to those new to advocacy against western brutality

Finally, we asked Feinstein what advice he would offer to someone new to advocacy and unsure where to start in order to act effectively in solidarity:

There isn’t a lot of accessible good stuff written about Yemen, to be honest. But there is, there are a couple of writers who’ve written well on it. There’s a woman who lived in Yemen for 55 years called Helen Lackner, whose work we’ve used a great deal in the book. We’ve spent many, many hours with her. She’s an extraordinary human being. Yemen is one of the most complicated places I’ve ever tried to understand. Everything is in a constant state of flux and fluidity. Allegiances, alliances, it’s just constantly changing. It’s extraordinary. So, her work would be an interesting place to start, but I think more important would be to start on the sort of Western meddling in the Middle East and how destructive that’s been. And there are all sorts of wonderful writers, people like Robert Fisk, who was the independent Middle East correspondent for decades and decades. I would have said Noam Chomsky but I’m not sure that I will just at the moment.

There’s some very good stuff that’s been written about this I would also suggest a film was made at Shadow World Investigations, we wrote this 555-page book with almost 3000 footnotes on the global arms trade. But fortunately, there is a 90-minute film. And I would strongly encourage people to watch that just to get a sense of the systemic nature of the arms trade and how it corrodes our politics while causing destruction across the world.

There is also an extraordinary song by LowKey called ‘Hand on Your Gun’ that says in a song of a few minutes what took us 555 pages. And I would really encourage people to listen to it.

We have done some more accessible stuff. We did a book called ‘Indefensible, Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade’, that just deal in a very conversational way with myths like ‘increased defence spending makes us safer’, ‘corruption only happens over there in the arms trade, not here’, all of which is a nonsense. And we then disprove those myths. And you can read it for free on our website at shadowworldinvestigations.org. So that’s probably a good place to start and to get a sense of this industry that’s responsible for 40% of all corruption in the world, that corrupts our politics, that corrupts all sorts of other countries’ politics, and that kills on average, half a million people a year. But the last three years, it’s been far more than that.

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And then we do events all over the UK all the time. So to come to our events and engage with us, even those who might not agree with us, who have different views to us. Because we like to be challenged. and we believe that we’ve come to the views that we hold in a very factual, evidence-based way. And I think in the sort of post-truth world that we live in where to be a successful politician, your primary skill has to be to lie constantly and convincingly, it’s really important to engage on the basis of verifiable facts. And that’s what all our work tries to do, and that’s what this book will do. a very factual account of who has profited and how they have profited, and a very factual account of the legal position that they should be answerable for. And I hope that it just raises questions for people about what we should be doing in Britain or the United States or Europe to stop our governments and our countries being involved in the creation of murder and mayhem across the world.

Making a Killing is due to be published in September 2026.

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Addressing the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday night, the PM said he had “won every fight” he had been in and would keep fighting “as long as I have breath left in my body”.

Starmer appeared before a packed room of Labour MPs on another rocky day for his premiership amid the ongoing Peter Mandelson scandal.

Earlier in the day, Tim Allan resigned as No 10 director of communications after just five months in the role. 

Later, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar used an unscheduled press conference to call on Starmer to resign as prime minister, saying: “The distraction needs to end and the leadership in Downing Street has to change.”

Starmer told Labour MPs that he had consistently proved his critics wrong, pointing to how he reformed both the Crown Prosecution Service and later the Labour Party, leading the latter to a landslide general election victory in 2024 following a crushing defeat five years earlier.

“People told me I couldn’t do it. And then they gradually said, ‘you might just get over the line.’ We won with a landslide majority. Every fight I’ve been in, I have won,” he said.

The PM added: “I have had my detractors every step along the way, and I’ve got them now. Detractors that don’t want a Labour government at all, and certainly not one to succeed.

“But I’ll tell you this. After having fought so hard for the chance to change our country, I’m not prepared to walk away from my mandate and my responsibility to my country, or to plunge us into chaos, as others have done.”

Starmer, who was surrounded by members of his cabinet, apologised to Labour MPs for appointing Mandelson as US ambassador. 

He also paid tribute to Morgan McSweeney, his former chief of staff and close ally, who resigned on Sunday over his role in the decision to appoint Mandelson despite awareness of his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Multiple Labour MPs have told PoliticsHome that Starmer’s speech was well received and had successfully lowered anger levels within the PLP.

The Prime Minister promised to take a more inclusive approach to government, with his administration having regularly been accused of paying too little attention to the views of Labour backbenchers.

According to Labour backbencher Chris Curtis, who spoke to reporters after the meeting in Parliament, of 44 interventions from Labour MPs, just 4 were negative.

“He appreciated the scale of the challenge. Everyone in that room looked at him and knew he was the right person for the job,” Curtis added.

One backbencher who was in the room said the Prime Minister’s speech had “bought time”, but added “I don’t know how long”.

A minister told PoliticsHome that they thought Starmer was “stronger than he was at the beginning of the day”.

They described this month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, where Labour is at risk of losing to the Greens and Reform, and the May elections as “trigger points” for his leadership, but ones that are “already baked in, to large degrees”.

The meeting also demonstrated the tension between Labour in Westminster and the party in Scotland following Sarwar’s call for Starmer to quit.

Rachel Taylor, Labour MP for North Warwickshire and Bedworth, called the Scottish Labour leader’s intervention earlier in the day “selfish”, PoliticsHome understands, and said the party “needed to come together for the good of the country”.

Meanwhile, Johanna Baxter, the Labour MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire in Scotland, was in tears as she told the room that she had never known such treachery like Sarwar’s, PoliticsHome understands.

Additional reporting by Matilda Martin, Harriet Symonds, Adam Payne and Sienna Rodgers

Police have raided the launch event of an anti-Zionist group and arrested two people. The force said it was “working to understand the plans of organisers”. Police raids are to foster understanding now, apparently.

A woman was stopped – in her car – on the way to the event, on suspicion of “inciting racial hatred.” Separately, police said they are investigating a social media post, but have not made clear whether the woman was alleged to have written the post, or if merely being en route to the event is considered incitement. The force claims she was the subject of an earlier arrest warrant for speeches and protests, but did not provide details.

West Midlands Police said its officers had also arrested a 42-year-old man outside the venue, but its description of events raises questions about UK police again dancing to the tune of pro-Israel counter-demonstrators. The police said the man:

was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence after a member of the public who had come to observe the event told us he had been threatened.

The Israel lobby has a long history of falsely claiming to have been in danger from peaceful protesters – and of pointing UK police officers to the people it wants arrested and events it wants stopped.

It looks very likely that this raid was a continuation of Starmer’s ceaseless war on peaceful anti-genocide and anti-apartheid protest.

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Forces from Israel have kidnapped a Lebanese official close to the border and killed a father and child in an airstrike. Atwi Atwi of Islamic Group in Lebanon was captured in the village of al-Habbariyeh.

The New Arab reported:

Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya (the Islamic Group) said Israeli forces crossed into the village of al-Habbariyeh in the Hasbaya district after midnight and seized Atwi Atwi, who heads the group’s Hasbaya and Marjaayoun areas.

The group said Atwi’s family were assaulted during the raid and that they:

held the Israeli military responsible for “any harm that may befall Atwi”, describing the abduction as part of “a series of daily violations and barbaric attacks on Lebanese sovereignty carried out by Israel”.

They called on the Lebanese government to apply pressure to release Atwi and other detainees. The Lebanese state has not commented.

The Palestine Chronicle said:

The incident comes despite the ceasefire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel that entered into force in late November 2024.

Adding:

Lebanese and international sources say Israel has committed thousands of violations since then, killing and injuring hundreds and causing widespread material destruction.

The Israel military confirmed the raid in its own terms:

In a nighttime operation, forces from the 210th Division arrested a senior terrorist operative from the Islamic Group.

The New Arab described Atwi’s group as:

a Sunni Islamist political party founded in 1964 as the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It holds one seat in Lebanon’s parliament and was recently designated a “terrorist organisation” by the United States, along with two other Muslim Brotherhood groups in Egypt and Jordan.

Members were reportedly killed:

after joining Hezbollah in cross-border clashes with Israel in October 2023 in support of Gaza.

Israel kill father and child in airstrike

Israel also killed three people, including a father and child, in an airstrike in Yanouh – around four hours north of al-Habbariyeh. Lebanon’s LBC International reported:

Three people were killed in a Monday strike in the town of Yanouh, local sources reported.

Adding:

Among the dead were a child and his father, who was a member of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces and happened to be passing nearby at the time of the attack.

But this was just the latest attack.

Chemical warfare

Israel was recently spraying the so-called Blue Line with potentially cancerous chemicals. The Blue Line is a 120km strip which marks the line of Israel withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000. The UN and Lebanese army tested the chemicals. They found high concentrations of glyphosate, which can cause cancer.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said the “deeply alarming” attack may constitute a war crime:

The deliberate targeting of civilian farmland violates international humanitarian law, particularly the prohibition on attacking or destroying objects indispensable to civilian survival.

They added:

Large-scale destruction of private property without specific military necessity amounts to a war crime and undermines food security and basic livelihoods in the affected areas.

Israel is routinely aggressive towards Lebanon. And between kidnap operations, dropping cancer chemicals and killing a child in an airstrike, it is certainly business as usually for the global pariah ethnostate.

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