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→Notes part IIII: Jan 22, 2026+
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"It’s Like a Game": Iranian Basij Boasts of Sniper 'Headshots' on Protesters.
In a chilling deleted post, Arshia Maghsoudi allegedly admitted to using a Dragunov rifle to "kill teenagers," claiming commanders told him to "shoot as much as you can."
Jfeed Staff.
Feb 1, 2026
...In the story, Maghsoudi wrote: "For the first time, they gave us a Dragunov. They told us think of it as a sniper game - 'shoot as much as you can'. So I went and landed a ton of headshots."
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/iran-basij-sniper-protesters JFeed]
titoipr:
IranRevolution2026
Jan 25, 2026.
His name is Arshia Maghsoudi. He is a member of the Basij paramilitary organization of the IRGC terrorist force. He is bragging about killing Iranian protesters and claims involvement in the killing of teenage girls for the Iran's Islamic Regime.
He has posted his own images posing with an SVD sniper rifle, which he claims to have used to kill teenagers.
[https://www.threads.com/@titoipr/post/DT98NStACCE Threads]
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'Finish the job': accounts point to Iran's executions of injured protesters.
Feb 1, 2026.
Accounts from grieving families, medics and rights groups point to a grim pattern in Iran’s crackdown: wounded protesters were not just denied care but deliberately shot again in hospitals or removed alive and later killed.
For families searching for wounded protesters in Iran’s latest crackdown, hospitals have offered no refuge—only dead ends.
One such case was described by the Wall Street Journal in a report on Sunday, which recounted the final hours of a teenage protester identified as Sam, shot and then taken away while still alive.
According to the paper, a medic told Sam’s family that he was “in critical condition being treated for a single gunshot wound in the back of his head,” before security forces arrived and removed him along with other patients.
The medic urged the family to look elsewhere. “The medic advised them to check the morgues,” Sam’s father, Parviz, said, according to the report.
They found him days later. “They found him inside a body bag on Jan. 11 with a second bullet wound that tore through half of his face and made him almost unrecognizable,” Parviz told the Journal.
The second shot—delivered after medical care had begun—was not an act of mercy. It was finalization.
Similar accounts have emerged from Karaj, west of Tehran, where witnesses told Iran International that armed forces surrounded hospitals following days of mass killings and resistance.
Witnesses speaking to Iran International on the condition of anonymity report the abduction of wounded protesters from hospitals and the execution of injured people who were unable to move.
A Karaj taxi driver, who said he witnessed the violence firsthand, described security forces loading both dead and wounded protesters into trucks without distinction.
“Even the wounded were not separated from the dead. They piled everyone together. Someone injured like that will die anyway,” he said.
A photo received by Iran International showed the body of a deceased protester at Kahrizak morgue south of Tehran with his hands bound.
In the image, the man’s body is seen inside a black body bag typically used for those killed, with his hands tied and placed on his abdomen.
The image appeared to show that the citizen was in the custody of security forces at the time of his death and that he died while in detention.
Other witnesses said the killings continued inside medical facilities. One source told Iran International that agents used suppressed weapons. “That person was crying and saying they were shooting the wounded with silenced guns,” the witness said, describing what was explicitly referred to as a finishing shot.
Hospitals including Ghasem Soleimani, Kasra and Takht-e Jamshid were placed under armed lockdown, according to eyewitness reports, with families barred from entry and medical staff working under threat.
One healthcare worker said more than 400 people killed during January 8-9 were brought to Karaj hospitals alone.
The practice has been documented elsewhere. The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center previously reported that one wounded protester, terrified of being executed in hospital, remained motionless for three days inside a plastic body bag used for transporting corpses. His family eventually located him alive in Kahrizak.
In Karaj, fear of those final shots drove families to keep bodies hidden at home rather than risk official channels. According to reports and accounts obtained by Iran International, authorities halted burials, closed morgues, and restricted funerals to a single family member, firing shots into the air to disperse mourners.
What emerges from these accounts is not chaos but method.
Wounded protesters—those who survived initial gunfire—appear to have been treated as liabilities. Removing them from hospitals, or killing them outright, ensured that testimony would not survive.
Sam’s father said his son had dreamed of studying information technology in Germany, where he planned to reunite with him. Instead, he was shot once, treated, and then shot again.
The second bullet did what the first did not.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602016443 IranIntl]
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UK lawyers say Britannica erased Israel from content.
A British legal group alleges Britannica Kids omits Israel from maps and mislabels the region as “Palestine,” distorting history in children’s materials.
JNS Staff.
(Feb. 1, 2026 / JNS)
A British legal group has accused Encyclopaedia Britannica of erasing Israel from its children’s educational materials, alleging that entries on the Britannica Kids website misrepresent Middle Eastern history and geography.
[https://www.jns.org/uk-lawyers-say-britannica-erased-israel-from-content/ JNS]
Encyclopedia Britannica relabels Israel as Palestine.
The Encyclopedia Britannica has removed a controversial map from its Britannica Kids section that labeled the entire territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as "Palestine," with no mention of Israel.
Israel National News. Feb 1, 2026, 1:43 PM (GMT+2)
The Encyclopedia Britannica has removed a controversial map from its Britannica Kids section that labeled the entire territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as "Palestine," with no mention of Israel. The change followed complaints from the pro-Israel group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) and an inquiry by The Telegraph, which highlighted concerns that the depiction erased Israel's existence and echoed the politically charged slogan "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."
The original map, accompanied by a caption describing "Palestine" as the region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, drew criticism for aligning with rhetoric used by pro-Palestinian activists and groups like Hamas. UKLFI argued in a letter to Britannica's publishers that this framing promoted a modern political agenda and effectively denied the State of Israel's presence in the same geographic area.
The controversy first gained attention in November 2024 when London-based Jewish children's book author Shari Black flagged the issue directly to Britannica. She expressed surprise at what she called historical inaccuracies in content aimed at children, saying it appeared to push an agenda of delegitimizing Israel-despite the country's establishment through international consensus.
UKLFI further criticized Britannica Kids' broader historical references to "Palestine" as a term extending thousands of years back, noting that historians trace its use to Roman Emperor Hadrian in 135 CE, who applied it to the region (formerly Judea) after the Bar Kokhba revolt to diminish Jewish identity.
Britannica's editor-in-chief, Theodore Pappas, responded to the concerns by saying the company would review the claims from UKLFI and make adjustments if necessary.
UKLFI Director Caroline Turner emphasized that retroactively applying the "Palestine" label across the region's history distorts historical developments and creates a misleading sense of continuity.
After The Telegraph's inquiry, Britannica removed the map and revised the entry to state: "Today the State of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip are located within this area."
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421779 INN]
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Mob attacks shepherd, attempt to seize weapon.
Four terrorists attacked a shepherd east of Homesh in Samaria and attempted to steal the personal firearm of a local farm owner. IDF forces responded, and no casualties were reported.
Israel National News.
Feb 1, 2026, 3:38 PM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421789 INN]
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Gal Hirsch reveals: Hostage rescue missions were halted to avoid endangering captives
The Hostages and Missing Persons. Coordinator, in an interview with i24NEWS, denies claims that hostage deals were delayed due to politics. "There were no political considerations in decision-making in our field."
Israel National News. Feb 1, 2026, 2:59 AM (GMT+2)
The Hostages and Missing Persons Coordinator, Gal Hirsch, stated in an interview with i24NEWS that although he feared it would be extremely difficult to bring back all the hostages held by Hamas, he maintained throughout that Israel is capable of achieving this goal.
“I had many such concerns, but as time passed and I observed how Hamas and Islamic Jihad operate, I knew the likelihood of returning them all was very high. I said we would bring them back - and I meant it," Hirsch emphasized.
He revealed that there were multiple rescue operations planned that ultimately were not executed, despite Israeli forces being in close proximity to the hostages.
“There were operations that were planned but not carried out. We were very close to the hostages, and decisions were made not to proceed. Ultimately, even with available forces, operational capability, and strong intelligence, you still need to ensure the conditions are right for success."
When asked whether more could have been done to return additional hostages alive, Hirsch responded: “I don’t think we were angels. In hindsight, perhaps some things could have been done differently. The Prime Minister listened to everyone for long hours. Ultimately, what brings the hostages home is a combination of military and political pressure. Hamas had a plan from the beginning, after October 7. They intended to repeat such events until Sinwar’s elimination - all while accusing us of not wanting a deal."
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/421756 INN]
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When medical journals become platforms for political messaging: The Lancet and Gaza.
Opinion: Recent Gaza coverage by the British medical journal The Lancet highlights a shift from scientific inquiry to moral advocacy, raising concerns about bias, editorial framing and the erosion of academic neutrality in politically charged contexts
Dr. Daniel Radzik|02.01.2026
The recent exchange on the war in Gaza published by The Lancet—one of the most prestigious and influential medical journals in the world—is less revealing for the conclusions it reaches than for the editorial logic it embodies. What is at stake is not simply a disagreement over data or terminology, but a broader question: what happens when a scientific journal no longer presents itself as a forum for inquiry, but as a platform for moral positioning?
The sequence is by now well known. On August 16, 2025, The Lancet published the correspondence by De Vogli R., Montomoli J., Abu-Sittah G., and Pappé I. “Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza” (vol. 406, no. 10504, pp.688-689). The title itself signals a departure from the usual conventions of scientific communication. A legally and historically contested
term — “genocide[SIC]”
— is introduced not as a hypothesis to be examined, but as a premise that frames the entire discussion. The reader is not invited to evaluate the claim; it is asked to accept the vocabulary in which the claim is already embedded.
This editorial choice matters. Scientific journals do not merely transmit information; they structure legitimacy. By selecting language, sources and tone, they shape what counts as a reasonable question and what falls outside the boundaries of acceptable discourse.
That boundary was briefly reintroduced on January 24, 2026, when Benedict Nobile and Philippe Courtet published “Gaza: the urgent need for rigour over rhetoric” (The Lancet, vol. 407, no. 10526, pp.336-337), a commentary regarding the previous article. Their intervention was modest in scope.
It did not offer an alternative narrative, nor did it minimize civilian suffering. It simply asked whether the standards of terminology, source evaluation and analytical distinction normally expected in medical literature were being upheld.
In a journal committed to pluralism, this would have been the beginning of a methodological exchange. Instead, the authors’ reply, published in the same issue, marked a decisive editorial turn. The concerns raised were not treated as part of legitimate scholarly debate, but reframed as “genocide denial.” With that move, the discussion shifted from evidence to intent, from method to morality.
This is the crucial meta-editorial moment. Once disagreement is recoded as ethical failure, the space for scientific inquiry effectively closes. The journal no longer curates a debate; it enforces a moral frame.
For Israeli readers, this sequence is significant not because Israel is criticised — criticism is neither new nor inherently problematic — but because Israel appears as the case in which editorial restraint is relaxed. The journal does not simply take a position; it naturalises that position through the authority of medicine, transforming contested claims into quasi-clinical facts.
The broader implication is uncomfortable. If scientific journals assume the role of moral adjudicators, their authority ceases to rest on openness and verification, and begins to resemble that of advocacy institutions. The risk is not only bias, but a redefinition of what scientific legitimacy means.
Israel, in this context, is not just the subject of the debate. It is the testing ground for a model of scientific communication in which editorial framing replaces inquiry, and moral certainty displaces analytical doubt. Whether this model will remain confined to Israel or extend to other conflicts and contexts remains an open question.
What is clear is that when journals stop asking questions, science loses one of its defining virtues: the willingness to remain uncertain, especially when certainty is most politically convenient.
[Dr. Daniel Radzik, member of the Italian Jewish Medical Association].
[https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/b1yfx116uwg YNet]
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Israel says Doctors Without Borders employs terror affiliates, orders exit from Gaza.
Diaspora Affairs Ministry says group refused to share names of Palestinian staff, alleges ties to terror groups; MSF cites safety concerns and rising toll on aid workers amid war in Gaza.
Itamar Eichner|02.01.16
The Diaspora Affairs Ministry on Sunday accused Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) of employing individuals affiliated with terrorist organizations in Gaza and the West Bank, and announced the aid group would halt operations in the Gaza Strip after refusing to share the names of its Palestinian staff.
“In light of the refusal, the organization will cease operations and exit the Gaza Strip,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that alternative medical aid was being arranged “to ensure continuity of humanitarian assistance for Gaza residents.”
The ministry said the demand for names was in accordance with official procedures that apply to all international humanitarian organizations operating in the region. The requirement, officials said, is meant to prevent the misuse of humanitarian cover for terrorist activity.
Doctors Without Borders, a France-based NGO founded over 50 years ago, has operated in global conflict zones including Israel and the Palestinian territories. The group cited safety concerns as the reason for withholding the names, warning that disclosing the information could endanger its workers. It also pointed to the high death toll among aid workers during Israel’s war in Gaza.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjyuy5h8be YNet]
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Mormon charities transferred millions to Hamas-linked NGOs.
The Church also finances Islamist groups through its official international humanitarian arm, LDS Charities, the Middle East Forum think tank found.
JNS Staff.
(Feb. 1, 2026 / JNS)
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A major Salt Lake City-based Mormon charity, Globus Relief, gave a total of at least $119 million to 10 radical Islamist charities tied to the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hamas, the investigative report by the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum think tank found.
The Mormon charity’s top grantee, Islamic Relief, is a leading Islamist charitable institution whose branches have been described by the Dutch and German governments as components of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, the study states.
The investigation notes that Islamic Relief branches have repeatedly partnered with senior Hamas officials in Gaza.
Another Mormon-run charity, Lifting Hands International, has provided nearly $20 million to Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD), the chief U.S. charitable arm of the violent South Asian Islamist movement Jamaat-e-Islami, the study found.
The Church ... also finances Islamist groups through its official international humanitarian arm, LDS Charities, the study found. It operates under the church’s 501(c) status, and is exempt from filing a nonprofit public tax return. making its actual donations uncertain.
The Church..is among the world’s wealthiest religious institutions with a total net worth estimated at $293 billion as of 2024.
The Church did not respond to an email seeking comment.
[https://www.jns.org/mormon-charities-transferred-millions-to-hamas-linked-ngos/ JNS]
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