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GeneralIran's Axis of Resistance — including Hezbollah, the Houthis, and IRGC-backed militias — remains fully operational, combat-ready, and strategically undefeated following Operation Roaring Lion, retaining the full capability to deter and strike Israeli and American targets across the Middle East.Fact check · 14 Sept 2026

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GeneralThe death of Palestinian evacuee Marah Zohry in Italy — reported internationally as a victim of "severe malnutrition" — proves Israel is deliberately starving Palestinian civilians, with effects that follow them even after medical evacuation abroad.Fact check · 14 Sept 2026

GeneralAl Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif had absolutely no ties to Hamas and was deliberately assassinated by the Israeli military solely to silence journalists and suppress documentation of Israeli war crimes, with Israel producing zero credible evidence of any terrorist affiliation.Fact check · 14 Sept 2026

GeneralIsrael's restarting of land registration in the West Bank is the "largest Palestinian land grab since the Nakba," proving Netanyahu's government has formally launched de facto annexation of all Palestinian territory.Fact check · 14 Sept 2026

GeneralIran emerged from Operation Roaring Lion as a strategic victor whose "resistance" ideology has been vindicated, with its government stable and its regional influence stronger and more entrenched than before the U.S.-Israeli military campaign.Fact check · 14 Sept 2026

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GeneralThe ADL is deliberately suppressing data showing that antisemitic hate crimes on U.S. college campuses have tripled since Operation Roaring Lion, with Jewish advocacy organizations fabricating a false narrative of declining antisemitism to shield Israel from accountability.Fact check · 13 Sept 2026

GeneralThe Israeli military's prediction market scandal surrounding Operation Roaring Lion proves that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally coordinated with financial speculators in advance to profit from a deliberately manufactured war against Iran.Fact check · 13 Sept 2026

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GeneralThe Trump administration's executive orders on campus antisemitism have made it a federal crime for American university students to criticize Israeli government policy or express support for Palestinian rights, resulting in dozens of students facing criminal prosecution for protected political speech.Fact check · 13 Sept 2026

GeneralIsraeli military commanders deliberately withheld pre-attack intelligence warnings from Prime Minister Netanyahu on the morning of October 7, 2023, as part of a "deep-state" conspiracy — proof that top IDF generals had foreknowledge of Hamas's plans and intentionally allowed the massacre to proceed.Fact check · 13 Sept 2026

GeneralUNICEF's own 2026 Gaza nutrition survey confirms that Israel's deliberate food blockade has driven acute malnutrition rates among children under 5 well above 20%, proving famine conditions in Gaza are ongoing and catastrophic despite the ceasefire.Fact check · 13 Sept 2026

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Iran's Axis of Resistance — including Hezbollah, the Houthis, and IRGC-backed militias — remains fully operational, combat-ready, and strategically undefeated following Operation Roaring Lion, retaining the full capability to deter and strike Israeli and American targets across the Middle East.

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The Axis of Resistance has been catastrophically degraded by sustained Israeli military operations: Hezbollah has lost up to 90% of its missile arsenal, its entire senior leadership, and its offensive invasion capability, while proxy forces conspicuously failed to mount any meaningful offensive response during the Israel-Iran War of June 2025, exposing the "fully operational" claim as a propaganda fiction.

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The death of Palestinian evacuee Marah Zohry in Italy — reported internationally as a victim of "severe malnutrition" — proves Israel is deliberately starving Palestinian civilians, with effects that follow them even after medical evacuation abroad.

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Marah Salad Mahmoud Zohry, 20, died in Pisa from an aggressive and rare form of leukemia, not malnutrition; Israel's COGAT actively coordinated her evacuation and had proposed earlier transfer dates, and the BBC — which originally reported her death as malnutrition-related — formally retracted its story.

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