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One of the organizers of the strike, Bela Breitner of the School Strike Against Compulsory Military Service, said that the federal government is "serious about the gradual reintroduction of compulsory military service".

 

At one protest in Hamburg, demonstrators waved flags and held banners reading "We will not participate in your wars".

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made strengthening the German army a priority after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

According to the law, questionnaires are sent to all eighteen-year-olds in Germany, whether they are interested and willing to join the armed forces.

One of the protesters, 16-year-old Elias Bernhard from Hamburg, said the answers to the questionnaires "show that young people do not want to join the Bundeswehr [German armed forces]".

"That's why I'm on the street today. That's why we're taking this bet seriously until conscription is out of the game. We'll continue."

The questionnaire is mandatory for men and voluntary for women.  All eighteen-year-old males will have to undergo a medical examination to assess their fitness for possible military service.

Organizers of the protests say the trigger came after 18-year-olds in the northern German cities of Kiel and Flensburg were sent official invitations for medical examinations, even though they did not show interest in joining the army on their registration forms.

The group says that over a hundred demonstrations are planned across Germany, including Kiel, Hamburg, Berlin and Frankfurt.

I thought this could be interesting as it's only known locally, so I came to share the mystery of an "explosion" in Argentina that caused the death of a 43 year old woman called Silvia Espinoza Infante and had over eight people injured.  To this day the reason does not have an exact answer.  Theories range from a gas cylinder, a meteorite, a missile, antimatter, a satellite, and a lot of people even say UFOs.  I did my best to recollect the main points that testimonials would mention so that the post is not long.

Here is an article from an Argentine newspaper ruling out a gas cylinder, so the nonsense about a gas cylinder is baseless... https://www.perfil.com/noticias/sociedad/aparece-foto-de-bola-de-fuego-en-el-cielo-y-descartan-explosion-de-garrafa-20110926-0016.phtml

On Monday, September 26, 2011, at 2 AM, in Monte Grande, Esteban Echevarría, two houses and a store were destroyed by a strong explosion that ended up killing a woman.  The official explanation given by the authorities was that it was due to a gas cylinder connected to a pizza oven that exploded, however, after the explosion, it can be seen that the gas cylinders were intact and the neighbors do not believe this was the cause.

Here's some interesting info about the case I gathered:

-(Updated) It left a small crater with about 1m of length and almost no depth.  https://www.visionovni.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/images/img4e86688828ba0.jpg (I had linked below a PDF explaining it could be a micro-Tunguska event like the one in Siberia, June 30, 1908 but that hypothesis also assumes there was no crater.

If anyone feels like reading it, here is a detailed analysis... https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1av9g2n/september_26_2011_explosion_in_monte_grande/

Images from the Iranian capital Tehran allegedly show a mysterious flying object hovering over the city, following US President Donald Trump's threats to blow up the entire country. 

Videos circulating on the Internet show an unidentified aircraft shaped like a soccer ball flying high above the city, with multi-colored lights flashing on the underside of the craft.

"No official source has confirmed the speed, height, distance or size of this object," reports IndianExpress.com.
The video appeared almost exactly 50 years after another sighting of an unknown object in the sky took place in September 1976 in Tehran.

In that event, Iran sent two F-4 fighter jets to investigate, one of which lost its instrument functionality and radio connection when it approached the object at a distance of 25 miles.

When the object was being investigated by the second aircraft, a small round object was reportedly seen,

https://x.com/WarWatchDaily/status/2101801922927947818

https://x.com/DailyIranNews/status/2101857338609054039

Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar intends to strip two award-winning directors of a documentary about Gaza, titled "NAZA," of their Israeli citizenship. On Sunday, Zohar announced via the online platform X that he had contacted the Ministry of the Interior to consider this measure against filmmaker Rachel Szor and her colleague Yuval Abraham, citing a "lack of loyalty to the state and collaboration with the enemy."

On Monday, Zohar stated that he had called on Israeli authorities to launch an investigation to identify the anonymous military sources featured in the documentary.

The film "NAZA" won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. The documentary received a 25-minute standing ovation at its Venice premiere and garnered high praise from critics.

In "NAZA," 24 Israeli military officials and intelligence officers state anonymously that the Israeli army knowingly accepted civilian casualties in the Gaza.

According to the filmmakers, the title refers to an acronym used by the military to estimate such "collateral damage" for every attack. One of the interviewees in the film states that an attack on a single target killed 500 people in the surrounding area.

Mass civilian deaths were a routine part of Israel's military decisions to target Gaza, according to a documentary from the Venice Film Festival released on Thursday that challenges official accounts of the war.

"NAZA," directed by Israeli journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, takes its title from the Israeli military term for expected "collateral damage" and is based on the testimonies of intelligence officers and soldiers involved in the war.

There was “mass killing on an industrial scale,” one officer said in a series of anonymous interviews.

ARTIFICIAL TARGET SYSTEMS

Health authorities in Gaza have said that more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s military campaign, sparked by an October 2023 attack by Hamas militants on Israel that killed about 1,200 people.

Israel says it has made every effort to avoid civilian casualties and that Hamas is using Gazan civilians as human shields in densely populated areas, a claim Hamas denies.

The film tells a different story.

“In our film, we show a targeting system that deliberately targets people in civilian areas, in their family homes,” Abraham told Reuters.  “Sometimes it can be 500 NAZIS... destroying entire villages or entire neighborhoods.”

Intelligence officers described an artificial intelligence-powered system that identified targets using data collected from thousands of hacked cellphones. They said the phrase “daddy is home” captured on a child’s phone would be enough to trigger an airstrike.

Officers also described the killing of civilians in Israeli-designated no-go zones, including near aid distribution centers. The locations of the zones were not made known to residents, with one officer saying, “They have to learn by blood.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/10/secret-systems-used-by-israel-in-mass-killings-of-gaza-civilians-revealed-in-new-film

The Israeli government responded angrily by expelling Britain from the US-led mission in Gaza and closing the British consulate in Jerusalem.

Eleven British MPs were banned from entering Israel, including Mr Corbyn, Diane Abbott, Zarah Sultan and the entire Green parliamentary party.

Stroud MP Simon Opher welcomed the fact that “they are no longer just onlookers wringing their hands”, while the chair of the foreign affairs committee Emily Thornberry said she was “very pleased that the British Labour government is finally doing the right thing”.

The Palestinian Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons (PCMFD) condemned the systematic operations carried out by the Zionist occupation forces to break up and remove the rubble of destroyed neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, warning that these operations threaten to destroy the remains of missing persons and erase forensic evidence that could help determine their fate.

https://www.aps.dz/en/world/arab-world/mtr770ex-occupation-forces-move-gaza-rubble-to-destroy-missing-persons-remains-erase-forensic-evidence