Day: October 14, 2023

The latest wrinkle in Marvel’s X-Men line isn’t the only news out of today’s “Next Big Thing” panel today at New York Comic Con. The panel also included details on a number of new titles both previously-announced and newly-revealed from Marvel, including an expansion of the newly-relaunched Ultimate Universe and a tease for the publisher’s next event, Blood Hunt. The relaunched Ultimate Universe will begin with Jonathan Hickman & Marco Checchetto’s Ultimate Spider-Man in January, before expanding in February with Ultimate Black Panther by Bryan Hill & Stefano Caselli, and in March with Ultimate X-Men by Peach Momoko. Here’s info on all three of those titles: Ultimate Spider-Man #1 New ongoing series, on sale January 10 Written by Jonathan Hickman Art and Cover by Marco Checchetto THE NEW ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN FOR A NEW ULTIMATE UNIVERSE! Visionary writer Jonathan Hickman (HOUSE OF X/POWERS OF X) and acclaimed artist Marco Checchetto (DAREDEVIL) bring you a bold new take on Spider-Man, with this, the debut title of the new line of Ultimate Comics! After the events of ULTIMATE INVASION, the world needs a hero…who will rise up to take on that responsibility? Prepare to be entangled in a web of mystery and excitement as the all-new ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN comic redefines the wall-crawler for the 21st Century! Ultimate Black Panther #1 New ongoing series, on sale February 7 Written by Bryan Hill Art and Cover by Stefano Caselli THE NEW ULTIMATE BLACK PANTHER! In the wake of ULTIMATE INVASION, Khonshu and Ra – the force known together as Moon Knight – are seeking to expand their brutal control of the continent of Africa. In response, the lone bulwark against them, the isolated nation of Wakanda, will send forth its champion…its king…the Black Panther! From the creative minds of Bryan Hill (BLADE, KILLMONGER) and Stefano Caselli (X-MEN RED, AVENGERS) comes a bold new take on the world of Black Panther and Wakanda! Ultimate X-Men #1 New ongoing Series, on sale March 6 Written by Peach Momoko Art and Cover by Peach Momoko Peach Momoko’s vision of mutantkind in the new Ultimate Universe. Stay tuned for more details! Along with the new Ultimate titles, Marvel teased a number of other titles, including an event series coming to Marvel Unlimited, upcoming events in Jonathan Hickman’s other new book, and more details on Chip Zdarsky and Daniel Acuña’s forthcoming Avengers comic: Infinity Paws New event series coming Spring 2024 to Marvel Unlimited Writer: Jason Loo Artist & Colorist: Nao Fuji Series solicit to be revealed in the coming months. G.O.D.S. Current ongoing series, monthly Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Valerio Schiti Colors by Marte Gracia Cover by Mateus Manhanini Avengers: Twilight #1 (of 6) New limited series, on sale January 16 Written by Chip Zdarsky Art by Daniel Acuña In a gleaming new world of prosperity, Captain America is no more. But Steve Rogers still exists, floating through an America where freedom is an illusion, where THE AVENGERS are strangers and his friends are long dead. But is the Dream? How do you assemble Avengers in a world that doesn’t want them? PLUS: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of this issue! And finally, Marvel teased its upcoming event, Blood Hunt. The crossover, written by Jed MacKay and illustrated by Pepe Larraz and Marte Gracia, will launch in Spring of 2024. Marvel describes the event simply with a question: “WHO WILL BITE IT?” Look for all of those projects to hit from Marvel Comics in 2024.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan on Saturday slammed UN special coordinator for the Middle East Tor Wennesland for meeting with the foreign minister of Iran, and said he was cutting ties with the official. “Don’t forget to wash the blood of Israeli babies off your hands after that handshake,” said Erdan, sharing a photo of Wennesland shaking hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian earlier in the day. “Tor Wennesland not only met with the Iranian regime’s FM, but didn’t even bother condemning Iran for its role in the massacre of Israeli women and children,” Erdan wrote on X. “It’s no secret that Hamas terrorists are openly praising Iran for funding, arming, and training them.” “The UN’s support for and legitimization of genocidal terrorists is a threat to civilization!” he added. “I am officially announcing the severance of my ties with Wennesland until he publicly condemns the Iranian regime of murder and terrorism.” Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories By signing up, you agree to the terms Israel and the US have not directly accused Tehran of being behind the Hamas-led October 7 onslaught that killed over 1,300 Israelis, the majority of them civilians, and led to the abduction of up to 200 more. But Hamas is funded by and cooperates closely with Iran in its efforts against Israel. @Twennesland, don’t forget to wash the blood of Israeli babies off your hands after that handshake. Today (!!!), senior UN official, Tor Wennesland not only met with the Iranian regime’s FM, but didn’t even bother condemning Iran for its role in the massacre of Israeli women and… pic.twitter.com/EiFRcEZuLJ Advertisement — Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) October 14, 2023 On Friday Erdan held a solidarity event for hostages held by Hamas in Gaza at which he denounced the UN’s stance on the crisis, charging that the body was indifferent to the murder of 1,300 Israelis and “does not want Israel to defend itself.” The event, held ahead of a closed-door Security Council meeting on the war, spotlighted the families of Israelis and dual nationals taken captive during the terror organization’s massive attack. Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan arrives to testify in the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a court hearing, at the Jerusalem District Court on May 15, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90) A short video was screened at the event “showing the atrocities committed by Hamas on innocent civilians including women, children and the elderly, and explaining why Hamas is the same as ISIS,” Erdan’s office said. Yoni Asher, Alana and Liam Zeitchik, and Rabbi Burton Visotzky, family members of the hostages, spoke at the gathering. Representatives of over two dozen countries attended, including the US, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Gabon, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Poland and Serbia. Advertisement “For years the UN has put its head in the sand. As resources and funds poured into Gaza and went straight into Hamas’ terror coffers – the UN stayed silent. As Hamas dug terror tunnels under residential neighborhoods – the UN stayed silent,” said Erdan, according to his office. He criticized the UN for wanting to “minimize collateral damage, but in the same breath condemn[ing] civilian evacuation.” After Israel issued a warning Friday to residents in northern Gaza to evacuate ahead of a possible incursion or a stepped-up aerial offensive, a spokesperson said the UN “considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences” and “strongly appeals for any such order, if confirmed, to be rescinded avoiding what could transform what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation.” “What we all hear is not the UN’s concern for civilians. What we hear is the UN’s indifference to the murder of 1,300 Israelis,” Erdan said. “The UN is making it clear that it does not want Israel to defend itself.” Relatives of Shaked Haran from Kibbutz Be’eri near the Gaza border missing and believed to have been in Hamas captivity since Saturday, October 7, 2023. (Courtesy) “Hamas, the genocidal jihadist terror group, bears the sole responsibility for everything that happens in Gaza,” he added. “What if your child – your baby – was being held in Gaza by a genocidal jihadist organization? What if it was your parents? What would you do? What would your country do?” he asked attendees. “Israel is fully committed to bringing the hostages home and to obliterating Hamas’ terror capabilities,” he said.

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Four lucky finalists who were also blood donors came out to the Bob Moore Blood Drive car giveaway in Oklahoma City on Saturday in hopes of driving off in a new Kia Soul. Well, today was the lucky day for Melissa Jones of Oklahoma City. When she pushed the button the key fob she way holding, it was a sound she was glad to hear. Bob Moore Blood Drive car giveaway. Photos courtesy KFOR. “I am so excited,” Jones said. “I never win anything, so this is really exciting.” Jones also said it’s important for Oklahomans to donate. “It really hit me when my father was suffering from cancer and so he needed blood,” Jones said. “So, when he got blood, why am I not giving blood?” For over 20 years, the Bob Moore Auto Group has sponsored an annual blood drive with Our Blood Institute (OBI) to help encourage donations. Oklahoma teen, officer on scene of major wreck reunite at the hospital; the teen calls him her guardian angel “Here at Bob Moore, we have the same values of the blood drive and giving back to the community,” Mark Rodgers, general manager at Bob Moore Kia, said. “The cool thing is today, our winner Melissa actually has been donating for a while to help her dad. That story inspired us and we’re happy she won.” News 4 is proud to be the television sponsor of the Bob Moore Blood Drive with OBI, and knows that your blood donations are critical when it comes to saving the lives of Oklahomans. Close Modal Suggest a Correction Suggest a Correction

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan slams UN special coordinator on the Middle East Tor Wennesland for meeting with the foreign minister of Iran. “Don’t forget to wash the blood of Israeli babies off your hands after that handshake,” says Erdan, sharing a photo of Wennesland shaking hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian earlier today. “Tor Wennesland not only met with the Iranian regime’s FM, but didn’t even bother condemning Iran for its role in the massacre of Israeli women and children,” writes Erdan on X. “It’s no secret that Hamas terrorists are openly praising Iran for funding, arming, and training them.” “The UN’s support for and legitimization of genocidal terrorists is a threat to civilization!” he adds.

Nadeen Ebrahim and Sana Noor Haq, CNN October 14, 2023 at 1:36 PM Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been fleeing south through the battered streets of Gaza after the Israeli military told them to leave northern areas of the densely populated strip. Parts of the south are becoming even more crowded and overstretched, Gazans say, as waves of Palestinians abandon their homes in the wake of Israel’s statement, which came ahead of an anticipated ground assault by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). More than half of Gaza’s 2 million residents live in the northern section that Israel said should evacuate. Many families, some of whom were already internally displaced, are now crammed into an even smaller portion of the 140-square-mile territory. The IDF said Saturday it would allow safe movement on specified streets between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. local time (3 – 9 a.m. ET). Residents were advised to use this window to move from the northern Beit Hanoun to Khan Yunis in the south – a roughly 20-mile distance of rubble-strewn streets. The evacuation statement has been described by rights groups as well as some neighboring countries as a breach of international humanitarian law. Jordan’s foreign minister described it as a “war crime.” The UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was forced to move its central operations from Gaza City to a location in southern Gaza following the Israeli statement, on Saturday described the evacuation as an “exodus,” and said that “nearly 1 million people have been displaced in one week alone.” The evacuation advisory came after Israel imposed a complete siege on Gaza in response to a brutal attack launched a week ago by Hamas, which left at least 1,300 dead in Israel. At least 2,215 civilians, including 724 children and 458 women, have been killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry, as the Israeli military continues to pound the territory. ‘Food may last us a day or two’ Palestinians who fled south, and those who are still north, are rapidly running out of food and water. There is no more electricity, and those with fuel-powered generators will soon live in complete blackout. Internet access, through which residents communicate their plight to the world, is also shrinking. Mohamed Hamed, a 36-year-old resident of Gaza City, moved southward to Nuseirat, a refugee camp some five kilometers north-east of Deir al-Balah – which he was told was safe. Hamed fled the north with 30 family members, including his extended relatives, four children and his wife, who is over eight months pregnant. “In this situation, we’re afraid that she goes into labor, and we wouldn’t know where to go,” he told CNN. The family has no access to medical care and are crammed into a single apartment with no electricity, and quickly depleting food and water. “There is no electricity, there is no water. Bakeries are working but these are their final hours, as the fuel they need is running out,” he said, adding that “the food we have may last us a day or two.” Speaking to CNN by phone, Hamed said that Nuseirat is a small area yet has received large crowds of displaced Palestinians from the north. Drinking water is only available in mineral water bottles, he said, which are dwindling as crowds rush to stock up. “Everything in supermarkets and shops was used up,” he said. Shelling in Nuseirat is intense, but not as bad as it was in Gaza City, where neighborhoods were “entirely wiped out,” he said. Hamed said that the time provided by the IDF for “safe passage” southward may not be enough for vast number of Palestinians that need to flee, and that some Gazans in the north refuse to leave fearing forceful displacement into Egypt. For many, that would mean displacement for the second time. The majority of Gaza’s residents today are already refugees from areas that fell under Israeli control in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. “People are afraid of this, of being pushed to Egypt,” he said, adding that the airstrikes have been “horrifying,” with some areas being targeted for the first time despite the years of conflict between Hamas and Israel. ‘Streets are filled with rubble, reek of blood’ But not everyone in Gaza’s north has heeded the IDF’s call to move southwards. Palestinian journalist Hashem Al-Saudi and his family have only moved from east to west of Gaza City, which is among areas the IDF told civilians to evacuate. Residents are forced to leave their homes to fill up water tanks, the 33-year-old told CNN by phone, which puts them at risk of being struck by Israeli missiles. Food is scarce, he said, and may not last his 11-member family more than three or four days. “I say this jokingly, but those who are on a diet are eating more than us.” Al-Saudi says that not only do they have nowhere to stay if they moved south, but that the route itself is unsafe. “Even those who moved south were hit by airstrikes,” he told CNN. “Nowhere is safe in the Gaza Strip, from Rafah (south) to Beit Hanoun in the north,” Al-Saudi said, adding that everywhere is targeted, including “homes, shelters hospitals and places of worship.” “Everyone on this piece of land is targeted by the Israeli military, which from the start did not differentiate between civilian and soldier.” CNN has geolocated and authenticated five videos from the scene of a large explosion Friday along a route for civilians south of Gaza City that Israel said the following day would be safe. A picture taken from Sderot shows smoke plumes rising above buildings during an Israeli strike on the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday – Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images The videos show many dead bodies amid a scene of extensive destruction. Some of those bodies are on a flatbed trailer that appears to have been used to carry people away from Gaza City. They include at least

CNN — Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been fleeing south through the battered streets of Gaza after the Israeli military told them to leave northern areas of the densely populated strip. Parts of the south are becoming even more crowded and overstretched, Gazans say, as waves of Palestinians abandon their homes in the wake of Israel’s statement, which came ahead of an anticipated ground assault by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). More than half of Gaza’s 2 million residents live in the northern section that Israel said should evacuate. Many families, some of whom were already internally displaced, are now crammed into an even smaller portion of the 140-square-mile territory. The IDF said Saturday it would allow safe movement on specified streets between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. local time (3 – 9 a.m. ET). Residents were advised to use this window to move from the northern Beit Hanoun to Khan Yunis in the south – a roughly 20-mile distance of rubble-strewn streets. The evacuation statement has been described by rights groups as well as some neighboring countries as a breach of international humanitarian law. Jordan’s foreign minister described it as a “war crime.” The UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was forced to move its central operations from Gaza City to a location in southern Gaza following the Israeli statement, on Saturday described the evacuation as an “exodus,” and said that “nearly 1 million people have been displaced in one week alone.” The evacuation advisory came after Israel imposed a complete siege on Gaza in response to a brutal attack launched a week ago by Hamas, which left at least 1,300 dead in Israel. At least 2,215 civilians, including 724 children and 458 women, have been killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry, as the Israeli military continues to pound the territory. ‘Food may last us a day or two’ Palestinians who fled south, and those who are still north, are rapidly running out of food and water. There is no more electricity, and those with fuel-powered generators will soon live in complete blackout. Internet access, through which residents communicate their plight to the world, is also shrinking. Mohamed Hamed, a 36-year-old resident of Gaza City, moved southward to Nuseirat, a refugee camp some five kilometers north-east of Deir al-Balah – which he was told was safe. Hamed fled the north with 30 family members, including his extended relatives, four children and his wife, who is over eight months pregnant. “In this situation, we’re afraid that she goes into labor, and we wouldn’t know where to go,” he told CNN. The family has no access to medical care and are crammed into a single apartment with no electricity, and quickly depleting food and water. “There is no electricity, there is no water. Bakeries are working but these are their final hours, as the fuel they need is running out,” he said, adding that “the food we have may last us a day or two.” Speaking to CNN by phone, Hamed said that Nuseirat is a small area yet has received large crowds of displaced Palestinians from the north. Drinking water is only available in mineral water bottles, he said, which are dwindling as crowds rush to stock up. “Everything in supermarkets and shops was used up,” he said. Shelling in Nuseirat is intense, but not as bad as it was in Gaza City, where neighborhoods were “entirely wiped out,” he said. Hamed said that the time provided by the IDF for “safe passage” southward may not be enough for vast number of Palestinians that need to flee, and that some Gazans in the north refuse to leave fearing forceful displacement into Egypt. For many, that would mean displacement for the second time. The majority of Gaza’s residents today are already refugees from areas that fell under Israeli control in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. “People are afraid of this, of being pushed to Egypt,” he said, adding that the airstrikes have been “horrifying,” with some areas being targeted for the first time despite the years of conflict between Hamas and Israel. ‘Streets are filled with rubble, reek of blood’ But not everyone in Gaza’s north has heeded the IDF’s call to move southwards. Palestinian journalist Hashem Al-Saudi and his family have only moved from east to west of Gaza City, which is among areas the IDF told civilians to evacuate. Residents are forced to leave their homes to fill up water tanks, the 33-year-old told CNN by phone, which puts them at risk of being struck by Israeli missiles. Food is scarce, he said, and may not last his 11-member family more than three or four days. “I say this jokingly, but those who are on a diet are eating more than us.” Al-Saudi says that not only do they have nowhere to stay if they moved south, but that the route itself is unsafe. “Even those who moved south were hit by airstrikes,” he told CNN. “Nowhere is safe in the Gaza Strip, from Rafah (south) to Beit Hanoun in the north,” Al-Saudi said, adding that everywhere is targeted, including “homes, shelters hospitals and places of worship.” “Everyone on this piece of land is targeted by the Israeli military, which from the start did not differentiate between civilian and soldier.” CNN has geolocated and authenticated five videos from the scene of a large explosion Friday along a route for civilians south of Gaza City that Israel said the following day would be safe. The videos show many dead bodies amid a scene of extensive destruction. Some of those bodies are on a flatbed trailer that appears to have been used to carry people away from Gaza City. They include at least several children. There are also many badly burned and damaged cars. It’s unclear what caused the widespread devastation; the explosion occurred on Salah Al-Deen street on Friday afternoon. CNN has reached out to IDF for comment on

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