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🚨 Iran’s attack on Prince Sultan Air Base destroyed a U.S. ...

2026-03-29T02:37:07Z

🚨 Iran’s attack on Prince Sultan Air Base destroyed a U.S. command aircraft that will cost $1B+ to replace — and possibly destroyed three Stratotankers costing $80 million each

New images show a destroyed Boeing E-3 Sentry at the base in Saudi Arabia, with the fuselage torn open and burned out—damage likely consistent with a total loss.

➡️ The E-3 is an AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System)- a flying radar and airborne command center that tracks threats and directs U.S. air operations across entire regions. The U.S. has only about 16 remaining, making each loss critical.

➡️ The E-3 fleet is strained, with only about half the aircraft available for missions at any given time, according to Air & Space Forces Magazine. Replacing its capability now costs over $1B per aircraft, based on current replacement programs.

➡️ The strike also hit refueling assets. Up to six KC-135 Stratotankers were reportedly at the base, with claims that three were destroyed and others damaged, though this information remains unconfirmed.

➡️ The impact:
“There are going to be coverage gaps,” says Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center. Without AWACS, the U.S. risks degraded tracking, slower targeting cycles, and weaker coordination across the battlespace.
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Iran damaged a U.S. E-3 Sentry AWACS at Prince Sultan Air Base yesterday. The USAF has 16 left, nearly 40% are already in theater, and there's no production line to replace them. This is one of the most strategically consequential losses of the war so far. A 🧵
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🔺 IRGC Warning to U.S. Leadership: “The Zionist-American ...

2026-03-29T01:08:30Z

🔺 IRGC Warning to U.S. Leadership:

“The Zionist-American invading forces, by bombing the University of Science and Technology in Tehran, have once again targeted Iranian universities.

🔹 The rulers of the White House should know that from now on, all universities of the occupying regime and American universities in West Asia are considered legitimate targets, until two universities are struck in retaliation for Iranian universities that were destroyed.

🔹 We advise all staff, professors, students, and residents near American universities in the region to stay at least one kilometer away to ensure their safety.

🔹 If the U.S. government wants its universities in the region to avoid further retaliation beyond two strikes at this stage, it must officially condemn the bombing of universities by 12:00 PM Tuesday, March 30 (Tehran time).

🔹If it wants its universities not to be targeted afterward, it must restrain its allied forces from attacking universities and research centers; otherwise, this threat will remain in effect.

🎥 VIDEO: Iran University of Science and Technology- Tehran heavily damaged by Israeli-US strikes earlier on Saturday.

⭕️ Israel has not prosecuted a single killing of a ...

2026-03-25T15:39:10Z

⭕️ Israel has not prosecuted a single killing of a Palestinian civilian in the West Bank since 2020, Guardian analysis finds

No Israeli soldier, police officer, or settler has been charged for killing a Palestinian civilian in the occupied West Bank since the start of this

‼️ NEW: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller ...

2026-03-06T03:10:59Z

‼️ NEW: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called for using military force against drug cartels, saying they should be treated “as brutally and ruthlessly” as “ISIS” or “al-Qaeda.”

Speaking at the Americas Counter Cartel Conference at SOUTHCOM attended by security

🎥 Drop Site spoke with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) about why Donald ...

2026-03-06T01:07:56Z

🎥 Drop Site spoke with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) about why Donald Trump chose to launch war against Iran.

“When you see these people falling over themselves in Congress, unable to actually make a rational sentence about why we are engaging in this war of choice… You start to

🗣️Longtime Middle East diplomat and negotiator ...

2026-03-05T05:52:55Z

🗣️Longtime Middle East diplomat and negotiator [@rob_malley](https://bird.makeup/users/rob_malley ) says Israel’s objective in its war on Iran is to create “chaos, fragment the country, and make it in some ways ungovernable.”

The aim, he argues, is to weaken and destabilize Iran so severely that it is forced to focus inward rather than project power abroad.

Malley describes this as an expansion of Israel’s traditional “mowing the lawn” doctrine to “mowing the earth”—a strategy where Israel strikes anything it perceives as a threat, whether “real or imaginary,” and whether “imminent or long-term.”

📌 Iran’s Deputy FM told Drop Site that the United States and Israel “love to create failed states.” Listen to his response in the linked post.
https://bird.makeup/users/dropsitenews/statuses/2029290403405635821

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🔴 “They love to create failed states” — Iran’s Deputy FM

Responding to multiple reports suggesting the Trump administration has been speaking with Kurdish leaders and that the CIA has been working to arm Kurdish forces for possible ground operations, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Esmail Baghaei said:

“If you look at the pattern of their behavior over the past three or four decades, the United States and Israel love to create failed states. They love to create bloodshed. They have so much appetite for turning the states into chaos, and that’s what they are trying to do in Iran. Abusing ethnic cities, abusing other countries’ ethnic minorities. That’s what they are trying to do,” Baghaei told Drop Site.

jeremy scahill (npub1ljl…vu42) | [@irimfa_spox](https://bird.makeup/users/irimfa_spox )

🗣️Longtime Middle East diplomat and negotiator ...

2026-03-05T05:52:00Z

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🔴 “They love to create failed states” — Iran’s Deputy FM

Responding to multiple reports suggesting the Trump administration has been speaking with Kurdish leaders and that the CIA has been working to arm Kurdish forces for possible ground operations, Iran’s Deputy Foreign

🔴 “They love to create failed states” — Iran’s Deputy ...

2026-03-04T20:18:29Z

🔴 “They love to create failed states” — Iran’s Deputy ...

2026-03-04T20:18:29Z

🔴 “They love to create failed states” — Iran’s Deputy FM

Responding to multiple reports suggesting the Trump administration has been speaking with Kurdish leaders and that the CIA has been working to arm Kurdish forces for possible ground operations, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Esmail Baghaei said:

“If you look at the pattern of their behavior over the past three or four decades, the United States and Israel love to create failed states. They love to create bloodshed. They have so much appetite for turning the states into chaos, and that’s what they are trying to do in Iran. Abusing ethnic cities, abusing other countries’ ethnic minorities. That’s what they are trying to do,” Baghaei told Drop Site.

jeremy scahill (npub1ljl…vu42) | [@irimfa_spox](https://bird.makeup/users/irimfa_spox )

🚨 BREAKING: Israel has struck and destroyed the headquarters ...

2026-03-02T23:51:28Z

🚨 BREAKING: Israel has struck and destroyed the headquarters of Al Manar TV in Haret Hreik, a densely populated suburb in Beirut’s southern district.

Al Manar is the television network affiliated with Hezbollah.
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Beirut’s southern suburb moments ago

As war supporters Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Mike Lawler ...

2026-02-21T18:00:00Z

As war supporters Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) say they oppose the War Powers Resolution led by Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie – which would require congressional authorization before any U.S. military action against Iran and force members to go on the record next week – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) makes her position clear in a new post: “No war with Iran.”

Hill sources tell Drop Site many Democrats still believe war with Iran is both sound policy and politically advantageous. Read Drop Site’s latest reporting from Ryan Grim, Jeremy Scahill, and Murtaza Hussain at the link in reply.
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No war with Iran.

🇫🇷🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪 🇸🇮 Five nations – ...

2026-01-22T00:39:32Z

🇫🇷🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪 🇸🇮 Five nations – France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Slovenia – have confirmed they will not join Donald Trump’s Board of Peace at this time, Al Jazeera and BBC report.

👉 What else do we know:

▪️Invitations were sent over the weekend to more than 50 world leaders,

🔴 Congressman Massie: They are trying to gaslight folks by ...

2026-01-21T05:28:55Z

🔴 Congressman Massie: They are trying to gaslight folks by saying this is Venezuela’s money even though they have stolen the oil and are selling it. Trump speaks as if he’s going to spend this money any way he pleases.
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Donald Trump said the U.S. has taken control of Venezuela’s oil and completed an initial sale worth about $500 million. Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, said $300 million from that sale has been transferred to Venezuelan banks from a Qatar account, where the proceeds are being held under U.S. oversight. Neither the U.S. nor the Venezuelan government has fully explained how the remaining roughly $200 million from the initial $500 million sale will be distributed or used.
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Donald Trump said the U.S. has taken control of Venezuela’s oil ...

2026-01-21T05:25:57Z

Donald Trump said the U.S. has taken control of Venezuela’s oil and completed an initial sale worth about $500 million. Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, said $300 million from that sale has been transferred to Venezuelan banks from a Qatar account, where the proceeds are being held under U.S. oversight. Neither the U.S. nor the Venezuelan government has fully explained how the remaining roughly $200 million from the initial $500 million sale will be distributed or used.
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Selling stolen oil and putting billions of dollars in a bank in Qatar to be spent without Congressional approval is not Constitutional.

Only Congress can appropriate money.

The President can’t legally create a second Treasury overseas for his own piggy bank.

Wake up Congress.

For its story examining how the rupture between Saudi Arabia and ...

2026-01-21T04:44:32Z

For its story examining how the rupture between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, triggered by competing proxy strategies in Yemen, is reshaping power dynamics across the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, the Washington Post spoke with a Saudi diplomat who laid out Riyadh’s core concerns
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“The flip-flop here is huge...in late December, it looked like the UAE and its allies in Yemen were going to control both the northern and southern sides of the Bab el-Mandeb strait...But as Saudi Arabia takes the upper hand, now, it’s looking like the opposite could be true.”

🔴 After 100 days of the “ceasefire,” Gaza authorities ...

2026-01-21T04:31:31Z

🔴 After 100 days of the “ceasefire,” Gaza authorities report 1,300 Israeli ceasefire violations

Gaza’s Government Information Office says Israel’s serious violations of the ceasefire on October 10, 2025, through January 20, 2026, have resulted in 1,820 people killed, wounded,
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⭕ *Press Release No. (1044) Issued by the Government Media Office*

⛔ *100 Days Since the Ceasefire Decision: The Israeli Occupation Has Violated the Agreement 1,300 Times, Resulting in 1,820 Martyrs, Injured, and Detainees*

We affirm that the Israeli occupation has continued,

“We should inform you that we have gotten funds, from the sale ...

2026-01-21T03:28:57Z

“We should inform you that we have gotten funds, from the sale of oil, and we have gotten, of the first $500 million, $300 million,” acting President Delcy Rodríguez said at an event in Caracas on Tuesday.

Rodríguez said the funds would be routed through the central bank to
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Han entrado al país 300 millones de dólares por la venta de petróleo venezolano. Estos recursos irán al mercado cambiario a través del BCV y la banca nacional, para proteger de la inflación los ingresos de los trabajadores y el poder adquisitivo de los venezolanos.

🔗 “Total War For Survival”: Syria’s SDF Prepares for ...

2026-01-21T01:28:18Z

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🔗 “Total War For Survival”: Syria’s SDF Prepares for Showdown With Damascus

By [@alexis_daloumis](https://bird.makeup/users/alexis_daloumis )

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/syria-government-sharaa-sdf-ceasefire-collapses-northeast-daanes-rojava

In a statement posted on social media hours after news broke that ...

2026-01-21T01:28:17Z

In a statement posted on social media hours after news broke that talks with the Sharaa-led government appeared to have collapsed, SDF spokesperson Farhad Shami signaled that the group was preparing for open confrontation, writing: “For our people, either a life with dignity or a death with honor.”

The SDF emerged from the Syrian civil war as a powerful militant force and, at its height, controlled roughly a third of Syria’s territory under a parallel political system known as the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES), including the Kurdish region of Rojava.

The DAANES has long defined itself as a democratic confederalist project operating in direct opposition to both the former Ba’athist state and Syria’s current Sunni Islamist rulers. During the war against the Islamic State, it also drew large numbers of left-wing and anarchist foreign fighters to its ranks.

At its peak, the administration governed all territory east of the Euphrates River, encompassing most of Syria’s oil fields and two major dams. Since the fall of the Assad regime just over a year ago, the new government in Damascus has pushed to fold the SDF into the Syrian Ministry of Defense and dismantle the DAANES in favor of centralized rule. Before talks collapsed, al-Sharaa circulated a decree pledging protection for Kurdish civil rights in a future Syria, though it proposed no material changes to the constitution.

Several former SDF fighters who spoke with Drop Site described themselves as committed to fighting against attempts by Damascus to reintegrate them and expressed suspicion and hostility towards the country’s new rulers, particularly in the wake of bitter fighting between Damascus and Kurdish groups in Aleppo earlier this month and previous massacres targeting Druze and Alawite minorities in the country.

“The current Syrian interim government has through its actions proven its murderous mentality,” said Serafin, a former SDF fighter based in Hasakeh, who declined to give his full name for security reasons. “If a total war for survival were to break out on this land we live on tomorrow, whether we like it or not, we would have to take up arms again to defend our people and our land.”

👉 Read Drop Site’s full report on the conflict linked below.
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I just got off the phone with General Mazloum, head of the SDF.

The U.S. must demand the Syrian govt immediately comply with the ceasefire.

The SDF has been our chief partner in the fight against ISIS & we must ensure they're treated fairly in the ongoing integration process.

Full statement below:

James Talarico is a Democratic state representative and U.S. ...

2026-01-17T07:24:33Z

James Talarico is a Democratic state representative and U.S. Senate candidate in Texas. He says he feels a special moral responsibility to confront and denounce the rising Christian nationalism in America.

He has framed his faith as central to his politics, citing Jesus’
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"Economic justice is mentioned 3,000 times in our Scriptures, both the New Testament and the Hebrew Scriptures. This is such a core part of our tradition, and it’s nowhere to be seen in Christian nationalism or on the religious right." - James Talarico (npub1ufj…yu3f)

EcoAnalítica, an economic analysis and research firm based in ...

2026-01-17T06:13:32Z

EcoAnalítica, an economic analysis and research firm based in Caracas, says it is optimistic about Venezuela’s economic outlook. Looking ahead, they expect an extension of Chevron’s license so it and other energy firms can sell foreign currency from production into the financial system, boosting the flow of dollars into the economy. They also expect recognition of Venezuela’s transitional government by major multilateral institutions, relaxation of sanctions on the Central Bank (including access to IMF SDRs), and higher oil investment and production. Together these could more than triple foreign-currency revenues above $30 billion annually, leading to re-monetization, banking growth, revived credit, and a markedly different macroeconomic dynamics, they state.
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🇻🇪🇺🇸 En lo económico, en Ecoanalítica (npub1pzn…h9n5) estamos muy optimistas. Ojalá pronto recibamos buenas noticias en lo político, para cerrar el capitulo de este autoritarismo primitivo, y podamos retornar a la civilidad de una democracia sólida.

Centrándonos en lo económico, en las próximas días/semanas esperamos:

1️⃣ Ampliación de la licencia a Chevron, de forma que pueda vender al sistema financiero las divisas obtenidas por la mitad de su producción, hoy cercana a 250.000 b/d. Es previsible que esta extensión de licencias también se otorgue a otras empresas petroleras y del sector energía en general, ampliando y estabilizando el flujo de divisas hacia la economía.

2️⃣ Reconocimiento del gobierno de transición de Venezuela ante los principales entes multilaterales, como el Fondo Monetario Internacional, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y el Banco Mundial.
Este paso sería clave para normalizar relaciones financieras, poder re-estructurar la deuda, y recuperar acceso a financiamiento internacional.

3️⃣ Flexibilización y eventual eliminación de las sanciones al Banco Central de Venezuela y al Banco de Venezuela. En el caso del BCV, esto es vital, ya que permitiría acceder a los USD 5.100 millones en Derechos Especiales de Giro (DEG) depositados en el FMI.

4️⃣ Mayores inversiones petroleras, con una producción que podría incrementarse en al menos 200.000 b/d este año, menores/eliminación de descuentos en la venta del crudo venezolano, acceso a DEG, recuperación de exportaciones no petroleras, entre otros factores, es lo que estamos viendo para las proximas semanas.

Todo esto podría más que triplicar los ingresos en divisas frente al año pasado, llevándolos por encima de los USD 30.000 millones anuales, una cifra 400% superior a los pasivos totales del sistema bancario.En estas condiciones, debería producirse una re-monetización de la economía, instituciones financieras creciendo a múltiplos de 3–4 veces, renacimiento del crédito, profundización financiera y una dinámica macroeconómica completamente distinta.👉 Como hemos venido diciendo desde el lunes 5 de enero, en lo económico, esto es otra Venezuela.

🚨About $300 million of the first $500 million Venezuelan oil ...

2026-01-17T05:54:30Z

🚨About $300 million of the first $500 million Venezuelan oil sale will be routed to private banks, Reuters reported—confirming what Drop Site reported last night. Four local banks have reportedly been notified they will split the funds to sell U.S. dollars on the
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🇻🇪 NEW: US to keep over one-third of proceeds from first Venezuelan oil sale, distribute rest to Venezuelan banks, reports suggest.

The initial US-controlled sale of Venezuelan oil was valued at roughly $500 million, according to Reuters. About $330 million of that is expected

The report also situates the findings within a broader escalation ...

2026-01-17T00:31:13Z

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The report also situates the findings within a broader escalation across Kordofan. It describes the region as highly contested, with El Obeid under Sudanese Armed Forces control but increasingly vulnerable to encirclement.

Alongside El Obeid, Kadugli and Dilling in South Kordofan’s Nuba Mountains are identified as cities already under siege, with RSF and its allied force, SPLM-North led by Abdulaziz al-Hilu, exerting pressure across multiple fronts.

Yale HRL warns that El Obeid is at risk of entering a similar siege scenario in North Kordofan. The analysis highlights a defining trend in this phase of the war: a growing reliance on aerial attacks, especially UAV strikes, aimed not only at military targets but at critical infrastructure and civilian areas.

This pattern, the report notes, is shaping both the humanitarian fallout and the trajectory of the fighting.

🔴NEW: The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian ...

2026-01-17T00:19:08Z

🔴NEW: The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab confirms a sharp escalation of civilian harm and displacement in El Obeid, North Kordofan, based on satellite imagery and open-source reporting from early January 2026.

Analysts identified nearly 800 newly
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🚨New Report 🚨Yale HRL confirms displacement and bombardment in El Obeid, North Kordofan between 2-14 January 2026. There is an increase of almost 800 IDP tents as well as bombardment in both Al-Jaballiya neighborhood and damage to El Obeid’s power plant visible in 🛰️imagery.

🇻🇪 NEW: US to keep over one-third of proceeds from first ...

2026-01-16T05:16:25Z

🇻🇪 NEW: US to keep over one-third of proceeds from first Venezuelan oil sale, distribute rest to Venezuelan banks, reports suggest.

The initial US-controlled sale of Venezuelan oil was valued at roughly $500 million, according to Reuters. About $330 million of that is expected

The Wall Street Journal: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman have ...

2026-01-13T23:50:03Z

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The Wall Street Journal:

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman have warned the White House that any attempt to overthrow the Iranian government would destabilize oil markets and ultimately harm the U.S. economy.

The report says Saudi Arabia is leading a Gulf effort, alongside Qatar and

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are warning Washington against ...

2026-01-13T23:15:27Z

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are warning Washington against military action on Iran, arguing it would destabilize the region and risk wider chaos, according to reporting from WSJ, Saudi Arabia is leading the push to persuade the U.S. not to strike Tehran, citing fears of

Jessica Plichta is a 22-year-old preschool teacher and anti-war ...

2026-01-11T06:19:00Z

Jessica Plichta is a 22-year-old preschool teacher and anti-war activist based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She helps organize with Grand Rapids Opponents of War. On January 3, 2026, she was arrested live on camera during a broadcast interview with local station WZZM-13 after speaking at a protest against the U.S. operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Police charged her with obstructing a roadway and failing to obey a lawful order from an officer. Grand Rapids police say protesters were told multiple times to move off the street and onto the sidewalk. Video of her arrest went viral, sparking debate about protest policing and free speech.

She has been released from jail and had this to say: 👇
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Holy shit.

Police just arrested a woman for protesting and saying, “This isn’t just a foreign issue, it’s our tax dollars being used to commit war crimes,” in reference to Venezuela.

If that speech is enough to put you in handcuffs, then the problem isn’t public safety.

It’s dissent.

The First Amendment doesn’t die all at once.

It gets strangled in moments like this.

🇸🇩 Sky News documents the scale of Sudan’s humanitarian ...

2026-01-10T07:50:23Z

🇸🇩 Sky News documents the scale of Sudan’s humanitarian catastrophe after 1,000 days of war. The video shows mass displacement and hunger, with around 30 million people—roughly 70% of the population—now in urgent need of aid, and sprawling displacement camps across the country.

Exclusive footage from Al Fashir shows the city devastated by shelling after RSF advances, while soldiers who defended it describe being displaced and abandoned by their commanders.

The report also traces how the war is being prolonged by foreign weapons, including UAE-linked armored vehicles, Chinese howitzers imported by the UAE, and U.S.-made rifles, in violation of UN arms embargoes.
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1,000 days of war in Sudan - Sky's Yousra Elbagir (npub1kny…rx69) explains.

https://trib.al/I3S8K1m

🔴 Details about the protest: PAL-Awda NY/NJ and community ...

2026-01-10T06:50:55Z

🔴 Details about the protest:

PAL-Awda NY/NJ and community members rallied in Queens to disrupt a real estate event advertising properties on stolen Palestinian land. The event promoted sales in Ma’ale Adumim, an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, marketed as a “new
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🧵We refuse to lose sight of what matters. Palestine is not for sale. It is our duty to continue to show up and disrupt the sale of stolen Palestinian land whenever and wherever it occurs in our city.

Note: The sale was held in a yeshiva, not synagogue
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🇧🇴 Bolivia is facing major strike action and unrest after ...

2026-01-10T06:21:46Z

🇧🇴 Bolivia is facing major strike action and unrest after the rollback of long-standing fuel subsidies and sharp price hikes that began in December. A national strike has mobilized unions, miners, teachers, coca growers, and transport workers against Supreme Decree 5503. The Bolivian Workers’ Union (COB), the country’s largest labor federation representing hundreds of thousands of workers, is leading an indefinite general strike with marches and roadblocks, with clashes reported in La Paz and other cities.
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Not Venezuela related: In Bolivia, the general strike against austerity has restarted, this time much larger with 43 highways across country blocked off with barricades from striking workers, from the Andes to the Amazon.

Protest is against neoliberal reforms & privatization.

⭕️ Some 35,000 people in the Gaza Strip are now living with ...

2026-01-10T04:47:44Z

⭕️ Some 35,000 people in the Gaza Strip are now living with war-related hearing loss caused largely by explosive blasts and shockwaves from bombardment, according to Le Monde, citing local health and rights groups.

Children, adults, and the elderly face permanent disability, with the crisis compounded by a severe shortage of hearing aids, cochlear implants, batteries, and other assistive devices. These supplies have been blocked from entering Gaza for months due to Israel’s longstanding restrictions and ongoing blockade, leaving survivors without treatment despite the ceasefire.
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قامت جمعية أطفالنا للصم في #غزة بإنشاء نقطة تعليم دامجة للأطفال الصم بهدف استدراك تعليمهم وترفيعهم إلى صفوف المراحل المقبلة وقالت رشا البرش من الجمعية لـ #البوصلة إنه تم دمج الأطفال لضرورة استدراك تعليمهم ولأنه ليس هناك إمكانية لإنشاء صفوف خاصة بالطلبة ذوي الإعاقة

Interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez addressed the ...

2026-01-08T06:24:23Z

Interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez addressed the country today, saying U.S.–Venezuela relations are distorted by simplistic, hostile thinking shaped by an unprecedented rupture caused by U.S. aggression.

Economic ties with Washington are neither central nor
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Venezuela's Delcy Rodríguez: "All the lies about 'drug trafficking', 'democracy', 'human rights'. They were the excuses. It was always about the oil."

🇮🇷 A massive pro-government rally took place in Isfahan, ...

2026-01-08T06:19:58Z

🇮🇷 A massive pro-government rally took place in Isfahan, Iran, on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, where thousands of participants gathered to show support for Iran’s Islamic establishment and government.

State-aligned media and local reports said the crowd assembled under the slogan

🚨 BREAKING: New footage shows explosions around Caracas, ...

2026-01-03T06:45:49Z

🚨 BREAKING: New footage shows explosions around Caracas, Venezuela, as parts of the city’s south near a major military base lost electricity. Low-flying aircraft were seen and heard from across the capital, according to Reuters.
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BREAKING: US Airstrikes Ongoing Across Caracas, Venezuela

The so-called “anti-regime change President” we were told. A complete neo-con stooge.

⭕️ Breaking | Yemen The Saudi-led coalition said it carried ...

2025-12-30T07:00:40Z

⭕️ Breaking | Yemen

The Saudi-led coalition said it carried out a “limited” airstrike on Mukalla Port on Yemen’s southern Arabian Sea coast, targeting weapons and combat vehicles unloaded from two vessels that arrived from Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates on December 27–28,
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BIG: Saudi airstrikes hit Yemen’s Mukalla Port, targeting ships from the UAE carrying armored vehicles and weapons for UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) separatists.

Tensions between Saudi-backed and UAE-backed forces have escalated sharply after pro-UAE forces seized large parts of eastern Yemen, ignoring Saudi warnings and even a recent warning airstrike.

Somalia’s representative at the United Nations had a history ...

2025-12-30T02:27:17Z

Somalia’s representative at the United Nations had a history lesson to share with Israel’s envoy today. “To come to this place, and lecture us [on] humanity & genocide & human rights & independence & democracy. And we know what you’re doing on a daily basis. It’s just an insult.”

🇵🇰 Pakistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister ...

2025-12-28T06:09:41Z

🇵🇰 Pakistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar said Islamabad is prepared to join an international peacekeeping force in Gaza, but stressed that the role would not include disarming Hamas. “Muslims are not going to Gaza to fight Muslims.”

Speaking Saturday in Islamabad, Dar said Pakistan’s civilian and military leadership is clear on the issue: “We will not go to Gaza to disarm Hamas, but only to strengthen peace.”

Separately, he accused Israel of repeatedly violating the Gaza ceasefire signed in Sharm el-Sheikh last October and said Pakistan “condemns and rejects these breaches.”

Dar also said Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan was only partially implemented, noting that its 20 points were never fully realized. Palestinian officials note Israel has committed 800+ ceasefire violations since Oct. 10, killing 415+ people and wounding close to 1,150.

⚠️“We expect thousands of tents will be flooded and ...

2025-12-27T16:41:05Z

⚠️“We expect thousands of tents will be flooded and children will die.”

— Gaza NGOs Coordinator Eyad Amawi told Drop Site, as the besieged enclave prepares to face yet another winter rain storm without proper shelter for 1.5M displaced people.

The full documentary: ...

2025-12-27T01:38:23Z

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The full documentary: https://youtu.be/0BFhtBk9UDc?si=pjXB5SSWPqBLRMmK

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who kept Kamal Adwan Hospital open as ...

2025-12-27T01:27:19Z

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who kept Kamal Adwan Hospital open as Israeli forces invaded northern Gaza, has now been imprisoned for a full year without charge. “A full year of injustice has passed,” his family says. He remains in Israeli custody under a law allowing indefinite
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A year has passed since the detention of my father,
In this white coat, he walked alone amidst death, destruction, and in front of tanks—not because he was fearless, but because his oath and his humanity were greater than any fear. He refused to abandon the children and the

Tareq Baconi, Palestinian scholar known for his work on the ...

2025-12-23T00:50:37Z

Tareq Baconi, Palestinian scholar known for his work on the history of Hamas, says that across ceasefires in 2008, 2012, 2014, and afterward, Israel’s central obligation was to ease the humanitarian blockade on Gaza.

Each time, after Palestinian fire stopped, Israel failed to

That same logic is playing out now. Writing in The New Arab, ...

2025-12-23T00:50:37Z

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That same logic is playing out now.

Writing in The New Arab, Muhammad Shehada argues that Benjamin Netanyahu is deliberately provoking escalation during the current ceasefire, including through the assassination of Raed Saad. If Hamas responds, Israel claims Hamas broke the
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Israel knows that targeted assassinations are ineffective, but killing Raed Saad risks retaliation, and that's what Netanyahu wants: to collapse the ceasefire

🖋 Muhammad Shehada (npub1tnf…0sdy)

https://www.newarab.com/analysis/killing-raed-saad-how-israel-aims-collapse-gazas-ceasefire

European soccer league is under scrutiny and could lose its Swiss ...

2025-12-21T17:38:19Z

European soccer league is under scrutiny and could lose its Swiss nonprofit status over alleged complicity in Israeli apartheid. [@ash_prashar](https://bird.makeup/users/ash_prashar ) from the Game Over Israel campaign broke it down to Ryan Grim (npub1d5j…5tfr) and Emily Jashinsky (npub196h…s5zn).

🔴 New: The Cost of Sidelining UNRWA: Gaza Aid Stripped Before ...

2025-12-16T02:00:38Z

🔴 New: The Cost of Sidelining UNRWA: Gaza Aid Stripped Before Distribution

Aid parcels reaching families in Gaza are increasingly arriving incomplete, with some of the most essential and expensive items missing before distribution, according to reporting by Ultra Palestine.

Testimonies from displaced families describe food and health packages stripped of soap, diapers, toothpaste, and hygiene supplies, many of which later appear for sale in local markets.

Analysts say the problem is systemic, beginning well before aid trucks enter Gaza. Consumer protection expert Mohamed Barbakh points to manipulation in international supply tenders, where contracted companies reduce quantities or substitute cheaper goods to cut costs. Additional losses occur during local distribution, where weights are reduced or items removed. Economists describe a broader “network of chaos and exploitation,” worsened by the absence of UNRWA, whose removal has left inexperienced organizations struggling to manage large-scale aid.

Israel’s continued restrictions on UNRWA operations and bans on hundreds of essential food items have deepened shortages, accelerating aid leakage and black-market profiteering amid mass unemployment and hunger, the report says.
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“The efforts to dismantle UNRWA and end its operations are intended to strip Palestinians of their refugee status. This sets a dangerous precedent,” Philippe Lazzarini (npub1mnr…cwy2) at the #RefugeeForum.

Undermining the Agency threatens refugees, humanitarian workers and the multilateral system.

Effective and lasting solutions can only be found through strong and principled political action, backed by robust financial support.

#UNRWAworks

Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada warns that major donor ...

2025-12-10T07:48:28Z

Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada warns that major donor states are deliberately sidelining and financially starving UNRWA. In a post on X, Shehada said the agency’s largest Arab donor currently gives just $10 million, with the second largest contributing only $2 million, describing the sums as “tiny drops in an ocean.”

He added that donor countries are pushing UNRWA out of political decision-making spaces and reducing it to a narrow humanitarian role, rather than recognizing its mandate to provide services and formally register Palestinian refugees.
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Israel is NOT the only one dismantling UNRWA; they’re being drained by donors & shut out of any decision-making rooms to lead them towards collapsing

Their biggest Arab donor at the moment gives only $10m, the 2nd biggest gives only $2m, both are tiny drops in an ocean

There’s
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“Yes. Israel has succeeded to stop the war on television, you ...

2025-12-10T06:18:14Z

“Yes. Israel has succeeded to stop the war on television, you know, on social media, on the media platforms. But the bombardment and the war is still ongoing on the city. We can hear the strikes every day.

… People have nothing, they just wait. They expected something after
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⭕️ Gaza journalist Asem Alnabih joined the Drop Site News livestream from Gaza City to discuss the deteriorating humanitarian conditions under severe ongoing aid restrictions and continued bombings and ceasefire violations.

He described a city being deliberately rendered unlivable under Israel’s ongoing assault. Alnabih said this is Gaza’s third winter in tents built to last “a few weeks, not two years,” as sewage systems, water networks, and fuel supplies collapse. “More than 250,000 tons of solid waste accumulated in every corner of this city… 75% of water wells have been destroyed. One hundred percent of sewage pumps are not working.” “This lovely city has been destroyed in the past 24 months… hundreds of thousands of families are staying in tents, without any basic services,” he told us.

Alnabih told Ryan Grim that Israel has only “stopped the war on television,” while bombardment continues. “The strikes continue every day… food insecurity, water scarcity, huge damage to infrastructure.”

He said Israel is openly pursuing mass expulsion: “Netanyahu said Rafah would open one way only, for people to leave, and no one would be allowed to return. That’s a very clear plan.”

Though his own children are outside Gaza, Alnabih said many refused to flee the territory and Gaza City in the north that has come under renewed Israeli attacks recently: “More than 300,000 people stayed in Gaza City and refused to leave,” he said. ”We will not allow Israel to take our city.”

“What we are asking for is not special. We are asking to be treated like any human around the world.”

Ryan Grim (npub1d5j…5tfr) | عاصم النبيه Asem Alnabih (npub100h…wcft)

⭕️ Gaza journalist Asem Alnabih joined the Drop Site News ...

2025-12-09T20:17:07Z

⭕️ Gaza journalist Asem Alnabih joined the Drop Site News livestream from Gaza City to discuss the deteriorating humanitarian conditions under severe ongoing aid restrictions and continued bombings and ceasefire violations.

He described a city being deliberately rendered unlivable under Israel’s ongoing assault. Alnabih said this is Gaza’s third winter in tents built to last “a few weeks, not two years,” as sewage systems, water networks, and fuel supplies collapse. “More than 250,000 tons of solid waste accumulated in every corner of this city… 75% of water wells have been destroyed. One hundred percent of sewage pumps are not working.” “This lovely city has been destroyed in the past 24 months… hundreds of thousands of families are staying in tents, without any basic services,” he told us.

Alnabih told Ryan Grim that Israel has only “stopped the war on television,” while bombardment continues. “The strikes continue every day… food insecurity, water scarcity, huge damage to infrastructure.”

He said Israel is openly pursuing mass expulsion: “Netanyahu said Rafah would open one way only, for people to leave, and no one would be allowed to return. That’s a very clear plan.”

Though his own children are outside Gaza, Alnabih said many refused to flee the territory and Gaza City in the north that has come under renewed Israeli attacks recently: “More than 300,000 people stayed in Gaza City and refused to leave,” he said. ”We will not allow Israel to take our city.”

“What we are asking for is not special. We are asking to be treated like any human around the world.”

Ryan Grim (npub1d5j…5tfr) | عاصم النبيه Asem Alnabih (npub100h…wcft)

Adam Friedland: “Did you expect him (Trump) to like you as much ...

2025-11-25T06:11:16Z

Adam Friedland: “Did you expect him (Trump) to like you as much as he did?”

NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani: “Honestly felt like the most productive meeting we could have had.”

Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to ...

2025-11-25T03:07:55Z

Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”

Mamdani transition co-chair Lina Khan and incoming first deputy ...

2025-11-20T22:19:08Z

Mamdani transition co-chair Lina Khan and incoming first deputy mayor Dean Fuleihan joined Starbucks Workers United baristas on the picket line in NYC’s Financial District today.

⭕️ Netanyahu boasted today about the U.S. legal requirement ...

2025-11-20T22:04:20Z

⭕️ Netanyahu boasted today about the U.S. legal requirement that any American arms sale to a Middle Eastern country must not erode Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge (QME).

He said Sen. Marco Rubio assured him that the newly finalized F-35 sale to Saudi Arabia will meet that standard.

The requirement written into the U.S. Arms Export Control Act requires that the sale not erode Israel’s ability to “counter and defeat” any regional threat through superior military capabilities. It requires the Pentagon and State Department to certify to Congress that every relevant U.S. arms sale preserves Israel’s edge.

Rep. Thomas Massie: Epstein had close ties to our own ...

2025-11-19T14:50:42Z

Rep. Thomas Massie: Epstein had close ties to our own intelligence agency and Israel's intelligence agencies. That’s why they’re trying to stop this.

(Learn about those ties in Drop Site News - link below)

🎥 WATCH | Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene floated the idea on CNN ...

2025-11-16T17:17:53Z

🎥 WATCH | Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene floated the idea on CNN that Jeffrey Epstein was “working for Israel,” and hinted a foreign government might be pressuring Trump to hide the files.

She cited emails, including those published by Drop Site (npub15w6…4qeg) showing Epstein’s ties to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and business deals involving the Israeli government and connections to Israeli intelligence. “And I think the right question is to ask is, was Jeffrey Epstein working for Israel?” Marjorie Taylor Greene (npub1nzh…vpwt) said.

🔴 Worth noting: Jeremy Bash – former chief of staff of the CIA and the DoD, and the ex-husband of CNN host Dana Bash – had dealings with a top Israeli spy who stayed for weeks at a time at Jeffrey Epstein’s apartment in New York. They continued to coordinate privately together for years. Read about that and more in the latest story by Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain for Drop Site — linked below.

🟢 In June, ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt attacked Mamdani for ...

2025-11-06T00:04:37Z

🟢 In June, ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt attacked Mamdani for refusing to meet with the “right Jews,” saying, “He doesn’t get to pick and choose which Jewish people he talks to. He needs to come to us.” Today he announced that the ADL is “launching a comprehensive citywide

🟢 NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he hasn’t yet heard ...

2025-11-05T23:36:34Z

🟢 NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he hasn’t yet heard from the White House but is open to speaking with President Trump.

“I’m interested in having a conversation with President Trump on the ways in which we can work together to serve New Yorkers,” he said, “whether that be

🔴 The UN Commission of Inquiry found that “forced public ...

2025-11-02T10:14:11Z

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🔴 The UN Commission of Inquiry found that “forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment including threats of rape, as well as sexual assault” are “standard operating procedure” of Israeli forces toward Palestinians, and that “other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, including rape and violence to the genitals, were committed either under explicit orders or with implicit encouragement by Israel’s top civilian and military leadership.”

It concluded that “the frequency, prevalence, and severity of sexual and gender-based crimes perpetrated across the Occupied Palestinian Territory lead the Commission to conclude that sexual and gender-based violence is increasingly used as a method of war by Israel to destabilize, dominate, oppress, and destroy the Palestinian people.”

🎥 Video via [@zeteo_news](https://bird.makeup/users/zeteo_news ). Mehdi Hasan (npub1xw0…4nkt) interviewing UN Commissioner of Inquiry Chris Sidoti.

💥🇬🇧 NEW: UK Foreign Secretary @npub1ht4…gurh Dodges ...

2025-11-02T10:13:45Z

💥🇬🇧 NEW: UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper (npub1ht4…gurh) Dodges Question on Israeli Sexual Violence

At a conference in Bahrain, UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper was asked about the documented rape and systematic sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.

Instead of
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🔴 Breaking: Israeli Army Launches Criminal Investigation Into Whistleblowers Who Exposed Detainee Rape at Sde Teiman

The Israeli army has opened a criminal probe into the leak of footage from the Sde Teiman detention camp showing a Palestinian detainee – blindfolded,

🚨 NEW | Israel’s Channel 12 (N12)—the country’s ...

2025-11-01T07:24:49Z

🚨 NEW | Israel’s Channel 12 (N12)—the country’s most-watched and top-rated news outlet—is again inciting against Palestinians after Hamas reportedly returned three bodies that don’t match any of Israel’s 11 confirmed dead captives (mostly soldiers).

AP reported on Oct 24 that Israel blocks all DNA-testing materials from entering Gaza. Euro-Med Monitor likewise confirms Israel “refuses to allow essential equipment for exhuming bodies and identifying victims, including laboratory tools, autopsy instruments, and DNA analysis kits.”

➤ So Israel destroys Gaza’s labs, bans forensic tools, and then blames Palestinians when identification errors happen.

Last time when the body Hamas returned wasn’t the captive Israel was expecting on October 29 (though the Palestinian resistance had still returned the remains of an Israeli captive), Israel launched a rampage—killing 46 children, 20 women, and 7 disabled people among 109 total Palestinians.

⭕️ Israel makes accurate identification impossible, then weaponizes the confusion to justify more killing, and its media cheerleads the genocide.
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חמאס ממשיך לבצע הפרות: כל הממצאים שהועברו אמש לישראל - לא שייכים לחטופים חללים
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🔵 “I’m trying to breathe clean air.” — Journalist ...

2025-10-31T18:07:31Z

🔵 “I’m trying to breathe clean air.” — Journalist Hamza Salha’s First Weeks in Safety

After two years trapped in Gaza through Israel’s genocide, Drop Site contributor Hamza Salha has finally reached safety in Ireland on a journalism scholarship. Displaced repeatedly from Jabalia, buried once beneath rubble, and forced to bury his grandfather inside their besieged home, Hamza has lived through what he calls “hellish survival.” Many of his friends and colleagues were killed, including fellow writer Yousef Dawas, a gifted photographer.

Now studying at the University of Limerick, Hamza speaks of the “survivor’s guilt” he carries, and says he’s still mentally in Gaza: “I’m trying to heal myself… to breathe clean air, drink clean water.” In his reporting for Drop Site News, Hamza wrote through bombardment and starvation — typing on his father’s phone under the rain, using a hotspot among the rubble.

The new Palestine Deep Dive doc follows Hamza as he begins life in exile, reflecting on loss, dehumanization, weapons tech used in Israel’s war, and the meaning of survival. The full 30-minute documentary is available on YouTube at the link in reply. A short excerpt is below.
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NEW | Buried Under Rubble: Surviving Genocide in Gaza (Short Doc)

Hamza Salha (npub1l8d…6v4a) | Omar Aziz (npub1rj5…u06d)

“My hands were cuffed behind my back, my eyes were blindfolded ...

2025-10-30T17:47:23Z

“My hands were cuffed behind my back, my eyes were blindfolded and legs shackled. Then they released the dogs on us, each weighing around 80 or 90 kilos. You fall on your head while blindfolded, and your body starts spinning. One or two of the soldiers come and start kicking you with their military boots while you’re on the ground.”

Dr. Ahmed Mahana was taken from Al-Awda Hospital to Israel’s Sde Teiman torture camp. Emaciated and visibly shaken, he told Channel 4:

“There were interrogation sessions lasting between two and eight hours. They accused me of failing to comply with army orders to evacuate the hospital. Secondly, they said you had defamed [Israel] on international forums in the media.”

More than 400 healthcare workers from Gaza have been detained by Israel; around 80 remain in custody.
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"My hands were cuffed behind my back, my eyes were blindfolded, and legs shackled... Then they released the dogs on us"

Doctors from Gaza - held by Israel in prison / detention centres, without charge or trial - describe the torture they faced

At least 80 Gazan healthcare workers remain in detention

Israel denies prisoners are abused, despite dozens having died in custody

With Yousef D. Hammash (npub1rmm…2rud)

🔴 Breaking: Israeli Army Launches Criminal Investigation Into ...

2025-10-29T19:34:17Z

🔴 Breaking: Israeli Army Launches Criminal Investigation Into Whistleblowers Who Exposed Detainee Rape at Sde Teiman

The Israeli army has opened a criminal probe into the leak of footage from the Sde Teiman detention camp showing a Palestinian detainee – blindfolded,

⚠️ Viewer discretion advised. Australian doctor Nada Abu ...

2025-10-28T02:38:52Z

⚠️ Viewer discretion advised.
Australian doctor Nada Abu Alrub shared this footage from her time volunteering at hospitals in Gaza, documenting the human cost of Israel’s ongoing assault. “These are a few of my patients in Gaza,” she writes. “This is the true definition of terrorism… If the world will not remember them, then I will keep their names alive… Please only continue if you consent to witnessing the reality that others are forced to live.”

(Video: @ nada.abualrub.98 on Instagram).

Israel’s Kan channel (public broadcaster) has published what it ...

2025-10-27T22:05:43Z

Israel’s Kan channel (public broadcaster) has published what it described as new footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar taken shortly before his death, showing him walking through the rubble of destroyed homes in Rafah.

🟢 Al-Hayya: “Al-Aqsa Flood Shattered the Myth of Israel’s ...

2025-10-27T20:32:25Z

🟢 Al-Hayya: “Al-Aqsa Flood Shattered the Myth of Israel’s Humanity” — Hamas Leader Reflects on October 7 Attacks Two Years Later

Hamas negotiator Dr. Khalil al-Hayya said October 7 was “the natural result of the occupation’s ongoing crimes” and “the inevitable outcome of seventy-seven years of occupation.” He called it a turning point that “moved the Palestinian cause into a new phase” and “shattered the myth of the Zionist entity that painted itself as democratic and humane.” Al-Hayya said the assault exposed Israel as “a murderous, fascist state that believes neither in human rights nor in coexistence.” Despite the devastation, he insisted “the resistance acted on its convictions and did what duty demanded,” saying the world now recognizes how the Palestinian cause had been erased and returned to the forefront.

“When a people demand their rights, nothing can stop them,” he said, urging the Arab world and the international community to honor “the blood and sacrifices of our people.”

Read the transcript of the exchange in the reply below and a full summary of Al-Hayya’s interview in the linked post.

‼️ Israeli ministers argue over shooting Palestinian children ...

2025-10-23T23:31:17Z

‼️ Israeli ministers argue over shooting Palestinian children near Gaza “Yellow Line”

Israel’s Channel 14 reported a heated cabinet session over how to handle Palestinians approaching the “Yellow Line” — the invisible divide stretching across all of Gaza and splitting it in half, that Israel orders civilians to not cross.

▪️The deputy army chief reportedly said soldiers have been firing at adults who approach the line, while “children and donkeys” — we stop them.

▪️Far-right extremist minister Itamar Ben Gvir demanded that troops “shoot the child and the donkey too,” saying Israel must “stop being merciful.”

▪️Shin Bet minister Dichter rebuked him, warning against “shooting everyone who comes near the fence,” to which Defense Minister Israel Katz concluded, “Anyone approaching the fence should know they will be hit.”

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud earlier noted that the Yellow Line is only visibly marked in very few areas — elsewhere it’s still invisible, leaving civilians exposed to unmarked free fire zones.

Reports from Gaza throughout the day showed Israel continuing to fire and bomb across multiple areas. Israeli drone fire killed one civilian near Bani Suhaila; artillery pounded Deir al-Balah; and massive airstrikes hit southeast Khan Younis according to Al Jazeera. In Gaza City, forces blew up homes and shelled eastern neighborhoods. Nearly 100 Palestinians have been murdered since the ceasefire took effect on October 10, exactly two weeks ago.
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עימות סוער בישיבת הקבינט בנוגע למתקרבים לקו הצהוב ברצועה:

סגן הרמטכ"ל: מבוגרים יורים בהם וילד וחמור עוצרים אותם.

בן גביר: חייבים לירות גם לעבר ילד וחמור! מספיק להיות רחמניים ולקבל מה שהיה עד 6.10.

דיכטר: "זה כמו האיש שטח שעבד עם השייח' הבדואי ושאל אותו מי גר פה ומי גר פה. וההוא הבדואי לא נתן מידע.

ראה מרחוק מישו רוכב על חמור, שאל אותו מי על החמור, גם לא נתן מידע. ואז איש השטח שאל אותו ׳מי זה החמור, זה שלמטה או זה שלמעלה׳? אז הוא ענה לו 'החמור זה זה שלא מבדיל ביניהם'.

לא חייבים לקפוץ ישר ולהגיד שצריך לירות בכל מי שמתקרב לגדר. אנשי הצבא פה, אני מאד מקווה שהם לא מקשיבים לך".

בן גביר: כן חייבים לירות! כי זה כמו מה שהיה עם שאול המלך, בהתחלה ריחם על הצאן, אח"כ על חמורים, אח"כ על ילדים אח"כ על נשים, אח"כ על מחבלים - מי שמתקרב צריך לדעת שהוא יסתכן!

שר הביטחון כ"ץ סיכם: מי שמתקרב לגדר צריך לדעת שיפגע".

🚨Trump Says He’s ‘Making a Decision’ on Marwan ...

2025-10-23T16:08:58Z

🚨Trump Says He’s ‘Making a Decision’ on Marwan Barghouti’s Release

Asked by Time in an interview conducted on October 15 whether Israel should free imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, Trump said he had just been “confronted with that question about 15 minutes” earlier and was “making a decision.”

Barghouti, jailed since 2002, is seen as the most popular Palestinian figure capable of uniting factions behind a two-state solution. His son Arab Barghouti told PBS that Israel refuses to release him precisely because of that unifying power, urging Western governments to act: “I’m asking myself, what are these Western leaders and Western governments waiting for? This is the man who could unify the Palestinian people for the political vision that you’re asking for... So show that you’re willing to take steps by calling for his release.”
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⭕️ “What are these Western leaders and Western governments waiting for?” asks Arab Barghouti, son of the imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti – the most popular figure in Palestinian politics.

In an interview with PBS, Arab urged Western powers to act on their own stated vision of a two-state solution rather than ignore the one man – “the Palestinian Mandela” – who is capable of leading it. “This is the man who could unify the Palestinian people for the political vision you’re asking for, you’re supporting,” he said. “So show that you’re willing to take steps by calling for his release.”

Arab said his father’s popularity and political vision are precisely why Israel refuses to free him: “Anyone in their right mind that wants an end to this cycle of violence would see that my father represents a great positive voice for a political settlement. The fact that he has a vision accepted by the international community is the reason why the Israeli government does not want him released… They understand he is not a security threat, and he’s never been. He’s not a military guy. But they don’t want a political figure who is willing and capable of unifying the Palestinian people towards a two-state solution that is accepted by everyone.”

Full interview ⬇️
https://bird.makeup/users/leila_ma/statuses/1981033960663613941
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⭕️ “What are these Western leaders and Western governments ...

2025-10-23T05:12:18Z

⭕️ “What are these Western leaders and Western governments waiting for?” asks Arab Barghouti, son of the imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti – the most popular figure in Palestinian politics.

In an interview with PBS, Arab urged Western powers to act on their own stated vision of a two-state solution rather than ignore the one man – “the Palestinian Mandela” – who is capable of leading it. “This is the man who could unify the Palestinian people for the political vision you’re asking for, you’re supporting,” he said. “So show that you’re willing to take steps by calling for his release.”

Arab said his father’s popularity and political vision are precisely why Israel refuses to free him: “Anyone in their right mind that wants an end to this cycle of violence would see that my father represents a great positive voice for a political settlement. The fact that he has a vision accepted by the international community is the reason why the Israeli government does not want him released… They understand he is not a security threat, and he’s never been. He’s not a military guy. But they don’t want a political figure who is willing and capable of unifying the Palestinian people towards a two-state solution that is accepted by everyone.”

Full interview ⬇️
https://bird.makeup/users/leila_ma/statuses/1981033960663613941

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“They say there isn’t a partner for peace. That’s by design; they’re not interested in a partner for peace.” In a rare interview with Western media, we spoke to Arab Barghouti - son of Marwan, the man often called the Palestinian Nelson Mandela - about why Israel continues to detain his father despite international consensus that he is the man most able to unite Palestinians and lead them to a workable peace plan. W/ Thomas Dallal & [@suha_husein](https://bird.makeup/users/suha_husein )

Nearly one million of Gaza’s 1.1 million olive trees have been ...

2025-10-20T17:49:55Z

Nearly one million of Gaza’s 1.1 million olive trees have been destroyed—bulldozed by Israeli forces, left to die from thirst, or trapped behind military lines. In his new report for Drop Site, Gaza journalist Mohamed Suleiman reports from Al-Mawasi and Khan Younis, where farmers are enduring their third lost harvest and an olive oil industry on the brink of extinction.

What was once a source of income and identity for more than 10,000 families has been gutted: presses shattered, irrigation gone, and surviving trees cut for firewood. “These trees are life itself,” one farmer said. “When it dies, it feels like another disaster.”

Agricultural experts say the devastation is systematic, designed to erase Gaza’s ability to feed itself. Rebuilding will take years—if the ceasefire lasts long enough for new trees to take root.

Read Mohamed Suleiman’s full report:
👉 “We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed”

📸 The Abu Zidan olive press in central Gaza by Mohamed Suleiman
https://bird.makeup/users/dropsitenews/statuses/1980326313027358796

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💥New from Drop Site: “We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed”

Gaza journalist Mohamed Suleiman reports farmers are missing their third olive harvest as Israel’s war devastates the industry.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-olive-groves-oil-farmers-israel-war

💥New from Drop Site: “We Estimate That Nearly One Million of ...

2025-10-20T17:32:40Z

💥New from Drop Site: “We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed”

Gaza journalist Mohamed Suleiman reports farmers are missing their third olive harvest as Israel’s war devastates the industry.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-olive-groves-oil-farmers-israel-war

🔶 The “Mukhtar of Mukhtars” Gaza tribal elder Husni Salman ...

2025-10-18T05:53:17Z

🔶 The “Mukhtar of Mukhtars”

Gaza tribal elder Husni Salman Hussein al-Mughni has been in the headlines for defending the government’s recent crackdown on Israeli-backed militias, describing it as vital to restoring order amid siege and war.

Palestine Chronicle profiles the longtime Fatah member and former brigadier general, who joined Fatah in 1968, was active in its institutional and national work, and later served in the Palestinian Authority’s Political Guidance Department after Oslo, retiring in 2005. He has since condemned the accords as a betrayal that fragmented Fatah and entrenched occupation.

In 2018, al-Mughni founded the Tribal Gathering for National Unity. During the genocide, he has continued to the resistance and rejected Israeli and regional efforts to elevate clans as an alternative authority.

His recent comments, translated by Drop Site, are in the posts below. Read more about his background in the piece by The Palestine Chronicle (npub1940…c9f2) ⬇️
https://bird.makeup/users/palestinechron/statuses/1979226657383751895

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The Mukhtar, or as some like to call him, “the Mukhtar of the Mukhtars,” is the head of the Higher Commission for Palestinian Tribes, the largest tribal assembly, in Gaza, who has defended the crackdown on Israeli-backed gangs in the enclave.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/who-is-husni-al-mughni-gazas-tribal-elder-standing-firm-against-division-profile/

Gershon Baskin, Middle East peace negotiator, to CNN: “I know ...

2025-10-18T00:57:21Z

Gershon Baskin, Middle East peace negotiator, to CNN:

“I know Marwan [Barghouti] very well. I know him from 1996… I conducted a correspondence between Marwan and one of the former heads of the Israeli Shin Bet. They managed to exchange letters five times before the war began.”

He said Marwan’s final letter outlined “a two-state solution with a regional economic and security framework — an envelope to provide both Israel and Palestine with the security needs they both have.”

Baskin added that he recently wrote to U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff — with whom he said in a separate interview he interacts every day — detailing Marwan’s background and political relevance. He said a majority of senior Israeli officials he consulted, including “former military people, generals, prime ministers, Shin Bet and Mossad heads,” agreed that “Marwan needs to be released.”

Gershon Baskin🟣 غرشون باسكين גרשון בסקין (npub1mjx…kzud) | CNN (npub16tz…whlr)

Footage shared with Drop Site shows refrigerated trucks and ICRC ...

2025-10-15T12:49:23Z

Footage shared with Drop Site shows refrigerated trucks and ICRC vehicles waiting at the Kissufim crossing to transport what are believed to be the bodies of dozens of Palestinians to Gaza.

The current deal states that Israel will return 15 bodies of Palestinians for each deceased Israeli captive. Estimates of the number of bodies of deceased Palestinians that Israel is currently holding range from 600-720+.

In his exposé on Bari Weiss’s appointment as CBS News ...

2025-10-13T21:29:15Z

In his exposé on Bari Weiss’s appointment as CBS News editor-in-chief, John Oliver singled out The Free Press’s Gaza famine report as a prime example of sloppy, agenda-driven journalism. Weiss’s outlet called the famine a myth and claimed the children had preexisting illnesses.

➤ Journalist Maha Hussaini, reporting from Gaza, and Ryan Grim investigated those same cases for Drop Site News—tracking down families and medical records. Their reporting shows it was starvation, not illness, that emaciated the children Weiss’s site used to deny famine.

🔗 Drop Site’s full report: “The Free Press Called Out “Incomplete” Reporting on Gaza’s Starving Children. Here’s the Complete Story” is linked below.

John Oliver (npub1pue…phtn) | Ryan Grim (npub1d5j…5tfr) | Maha Hussaini (npub14xw…xw86)

In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again that Israeli ...

2025-10-13T19:33:06Z

In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family – a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents

🚨BREAKING: A source close to the Palestinian negotiating team ...

2025-10-08T22:57:30Z

🚨BREAKING: A source close to the Palestinian negotiating team tells Drop Site the agreement includes “a permanent end to the war to be announced by Trump.”

He acknowledged the deal is problematic, but it contains some terms that Hamas and other Palestinian factions pushed for in their response to Trump, including deferring major issues that would alter the future of Gaza and Palestine itself. “No surrender, no disarming, no mass exile, but most of all a permanent end to the war to be announced by Trump,” he noted.
https://bird.makeup/users/dropsitenews/statuses/1976050676393451544

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🚨BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News’ jeremy scahill (npub1ljl…vu42)

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/breaking-hamas-palestinian-factions-agree-gaza-ceasefire-framework-israel-trump

🚨BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza ...

2025-10-08T22:22:49Z

🚨BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News’ jeremy scahill (npub1ljl…vu42)

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/breaking-hamas-palestinian-factions-agree-gaza-ceasefire-framework-israel-trump

🟢 “I want to tell you a story that was shared with me by the ...

2025-10-08T06:50:50Z

🟢 “I want to tell you a story that was shared with me by the chief Egyptian negotiator,” Senior Hamas leader Abu Marzouk told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill.

Maj. Gen. Ahmed Abdel Khaleq asked his Israeli intelligence counterpart whether he understood the maps attached to Trump’s Gaza proposal. Marzouk said the Israeli replied, “‘No.’ Why? Because this map has no meaning. It is hand-drawn, with no spaces, distances, locations, or anything,” Marzouk said.

“While in previous discussions, the text was clear… these maps were drawn by people who are used to camel races. They don’t know the basics of map-making.” Marzouk said “the first point now must be to define the maps… neither the Israelis nor the Egyptians understood the maps at all.”
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🚨 Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill that while “the area of withdrawal may be a matter of debate,” it would be “impossible to have a prisoner exchange” while Israeli forces remain in Gaza’s population centers.

“We don’t know exactly where the prisoners are. Even the negotiators in the current dialogues do not know their locations,” he said. “Therefore, they must withdraw from populated areas. There cannot be an exchange [if the forces remain].”

He added that if soldiers don’t withdraw from highly populated residential areas, “it would mean that Israel does not want Trump’s plan to be implemented.”

Marzouk said “the first point now must be to define the maps… this will be the main obstacle.”

🚨 Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk told Drop Site’s ...

2025-10-08T06:34:19Z

🚨 Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill that while “the area of withdrawal may be a matter of debate,” it would be “impossible to have a prisoner exchange” while Israeli forces remain in Gaza’s population centers.

“We don’t know exactly where the prisoners are. Even the negotiators in the current dialogues do not know their locations,” he said. “Therefore, they must withdraw from populated areas. There cannot be an exchange [if the forces remain].”

He added that if soldiers don’t withdraw from highly populated residential areas, “it would mean that Israel does not want Trump’s plan to be implemented.”

Marzouk said “the first point now must be to define the maps… this will be the main obstacle.”

🇵🇸 Breaking: 22-year-old Palestinian, held without charge ...

2025-10-07T23:55:22Z

🇵🇸 Breaking: 22-year-old Palestinian, held without charge or trial since May 2024, dies in Israeli custody — the 78th Palestinian “prisoner” to die since Oct 7.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Ahmad Khdeirat, from Adh-Dhahiriya near Hebron, entered prison with diabetes,

⭕️ Important: Israel’s public broadcaster Kan reports that ...

2025-10-05T04:50:26Z

⭕️ Important:

Israel’s public broadcaster Kan reports that Israeli officials told the U.S. they intend to occupy three areas in Gaza “for years to come”:

1. The buffer zone surrounding the Gaza Strip.

2. The Philadelphi Corridor on the border with Egypt.

3. The “Hill of 70”
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אחרי שחרור החטופים: צה"ל יישאר בשטח הרצועה על ה"קו הצהוב" | איתי בלומנטל 🇮🇱 Itay Blumental (npub1k04…3rcf) על שלבי נסיגת כוחות צה"ל מרצועת עזה לפי תוכנית טראמפ והדרישה הישראלית מארה"ב

#מהדורתכאןחדשות עם Ayala Hasson. (npub13wj…l0sq)

Pete Buttigieg tries once again to weigh in on Israel/Palestine. ...

2025-10-02T23:45:36Z

Pete Buttigieg tries once again to weigh in on Israel/Palestine. Within the first minute of a 10-minute discussion, he repeats the long-debunked hoax that Hamas put babies in ovens.

Source: Channel 5 (npub1y8w…qyc6)

Breaking: UEFA has paused a vote on suspending Israel from ...

2025-09-30T19:49:18Z

Breaking: UEFA has paused a vote on suspending Israel from competition. The Times reports that a large majority of members had favoured a ban, citing Israel’s war crimes and the precedent of Russia’s 2022 exclusion. But senior UEFA officials told the paper that after Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu and his new Gaza “peace plan,” they believe “this week’s developments… have changed the landscape.” The threat of suspension remains if Israel’s assault continues, with UN experts urging FIFA and UEFA to expel Israel over the genocide in Gaza.

Additional details in 🧵below
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The Times reports UEFA has paused its planned vote on suspending Israel, citing Trump’s “peace plan” with Netanyahu.

Just another excuse to delay a decision once again, despite a majority of members backing sanctions https://www.thetimes.com/article/52ffb447-8203-4f39-b78f-bac4cf59c5b6?shareToken=51ee53228b96b3697bf21478f63a05ad

⚡️Must watch: Netanyahu reveals to Hebrew audiences after the ...

2025-09-30T02:03:56Z

⚡️Must watch:
Netanyahu reveals to Hebrew audiences after the press event where Trump revealed the 20-point plan to end the war on Gaza, that he has no intention of withdrawing Israeli troops from Gaza – “No way, that’s not happening.”

He said:
“This is a historic visit. Instead of Hamas isolating us, we turned the tables and isolated Hamas. Now the entire world, including the Arab and Muslim world, is pressuring Hamas to accept the terms we set together with President Trump: to release all our hostages, both living and deceased, while the IDF remains in most of the Strip. Who would have believed this? After all, people constantly say, the IDF should withdraw… No way, that’s not happening.”

Translations by B.M. (npub1ttd…38l3).
Video shared by PM of Israel’s official Hebrew account on X.
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"Instead of Hamas isolating us, we isolated Hamas. Now the entire world, including the Arab and Muslim world, is pressuring Hamas to accept the terms... to release all our hostages... while the IDF remains in most of the Strip"

That was fast: Netanyahu reveals his own bluff. He is literally saying that Israel will not withdraw from Gaza.

Will the world pay attention to this, or just keep pretending Trump's Piss Plan is more than just a another fucking LIE by the deranged genocidal monsters duo?
https://bird.makeup/users/ireallyhateyou/statuses/1972775037964001540

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REPORT | Saudi outlet Asharq Al-Awsat reports that Israel has ...

2025-09-28T02:27:31Z

REPORT | Saudi outlet Asharq Al-Awsat reports that Israel has launched airstrikes against prominent families in Gaza City after their elders refused to collaborate with Shin Bet’s plan to establish clan-based governing bodies in place of Hamas.

The Israeli intelligence agency approached elders from the Bakr and Doghmush families, proposing that they form local armed groups to manage aid, administer neighborhoods, fight Hamas, and pass intelligence to Israel. The goal, sources said, was to divide Gaza into “regions” run by clans or armed groups, preventing the emergence of a unified Palestinian government and blocking the foundations of any future Palestinian state.

When both families rejected the offer, Israel launched retaliatory strikes. In Sabra, southern Gaza City, an airstrike on the Doghmush family killed 30 people, with at least 20 still buried under rubble. Hours later, Israeli warplanes bombed a Bakr family home near Al-Shati refugee camp, killing six, wounding 11, and later struck another multi-story Bakr residence and an empty building near Gaza’s port.

A Bakr elder reportedly confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat that Israeli intelligence had demanded they govern Al-Shati after Hamas was cleared out, but the family “categorically refused.” He said they knew reprisals would follow and immediately instructed relatives to evacuate, especially women and children.

The Bakr clan, one of Gaza’s largest with deep roots in the fishing trade and members linked to Fatah and Islamic Jihad, stressed that their refusal was a patriotic stance against collaboration with Israel, not loyalty to Hamas.

The report adds that Israel has increasingly relied on clan-based militias operating in east Rafah, east Khan Younis, east Gaza City, and the northern Strip. Many families have publicly disowned members who joined such groups, led by figures like Yasser Abu Shabab, Rami Helles, and Hossam Al-Astal. Hamas has repeatedly ambushed these militias, killing or wounding some fighters, and in some cases arresting and executing collaborators publicly.

The attempt to split Gaza along clan lines is not new: after the first year of genocide, then–Defense Minister Yoav Gallant advanced a similar scheme, but Hamas thwarted it by threatening and killing two leading figures who considered cooperating.

Israel’s broadcaster Kan reported the same. Linked below 👇
https://bird.makeup/users/kann_news/statuses/1972055572104232965

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דיווח: בשב״כ ניסו לגייס אנשי חמולות מהעיר עזה לטובת לחימה נגד חמאס - אך הם סירבו ובתיהם הותקפו >>> https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/defense/955092/

roi kais • روعي كايس • רועי קייס (npub1fyp…l4vm)

Dr. Mustafa, who treated children in Gaza, recalled: ➤ ...

2025-09-27T20:56:53Z

Dr. Mustafa, who treated children in Gaza, recalled:

➤ "Sometimes you feel like a butcher...when you're putting in chest drains into children and you're not sedating them...A chest drain is stabbing somebody in the chest and getting all the way into where the lung tissue is."
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Palestinian-British ER doctor Dr. Muhammad Mustafa, who has treated patients in Gaza since October 7, warns of a catastrophic health crisis: “A million children are being starved to death… a quarter of the population is in stage 5 famine, where four of every 10,000 children die each day.” At this stage, food alone isn’t enough – without doctors, medicine, and infrastructure, people die from refeeding syndrome and untreated wounds, he tells Breaking Points. He’s been pressing politicians from Ireland, Australia, and the UK to confront this reality and support urgent medical relief.
https://bird.makeup/users/ryangrim/statuses/1971711096173297830

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Palestinian-British ER doctor Dr. Muhammad Mustafa, who has ...

2025-09-27T01:36:30Z

Palestinian-British ER doctor Dr. Muhammad Mustafa, who has treated patients in Gaza since October 7, warns of a catastrophic health crisis: “A million children are being starved to death… a quarter of the population is in stage 5 famine, where four of every 10,000 children die each day.” At this stage, food alone isn’t enough – without doctors, medicine, and infrastructure, people die from refeeding syndrome and untreated wounds, he tells Breaking Points. He’s been pressing politicians from Ireland, Australia, and the UK to confront this reality and support urgent medical relief.
https://bird.makeup/users/ryangrim/statuses/1971711096173297830

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We just posted an interview Krystal Ball (npub18my…hxge) and I did with Dr Mo and my god. No words. Really a must listen.

Please share this because Elon Musk (npub154j…vsgf) makes it impossible to share links but if enough people share it sometimes it breaks through the suppression https://youtu.be/yqLCW7EjwyI?si=TVH2lVoFiaAUXfW2

Cassel: “You might go fight in Gaza.” Israeli Teen: “I’d ...

2025-09-18T05:22:41Z

Cassel: “You might go fight in Gaza.”

Israeli Teen: “I’d love to.”

Cassel: “You would love to?”

Israeli Teen: “Yeah. People think that the children and the men and the women in Gaza, they’re innocent. Bullshit. Everyone has taken part in October 7. You can’t ignore this. No matter what you say, you can’t ignore this. No innocence. Even women and children are not innocent in Gaza. The mothers support terrorists. The children are going to grow up to be killers.”

Journalist Matthew Cassel, for The Guardian, spent three days speaking to dozens of young Israelis in Tel Aviv – Israel’s most “liberal” city – and found little concern for Palestinians as famine and genocide rage just an hour’s drive away.

🇩🇪 On October 7, 2024, then-German Foreign Minister ...

2025-09-10T03:24:17Z

🇩🇪 On October 7, 2024, then-German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told the Bundestag that Israel’s “right to self-defense” included striking civilian sites in Gaza.

She said: “Self-defense means not only attacking terrorists but destroying them. When Hamas terrorists hide behind people, behind schools… civilian places lose their protected status.”

Academics—more than 300 of them— demanded she retract the statement, warning it distorted international law and risked greenlighting civilian massacres. Protesters in Berlin condemned it as an invitation to violence.

Under the Geneva Conventions and customary international humanitarian law, civilian objects (homes, schools, hospitals) remain protected. They only lose that protection if directly used for military purposes (e.g. as a firing position)—and even then, the attacker must apply distinction, proportionality, and precaution. Civilians inside remain protected at all times. Baerbock’s framing ignored these safeguards, giving the impression of a blanket license to bomb — as Israel has done with thousands of civilian sites over the course of the genocide.

Baerbock, now in her first week as President of the UN General Assembly (80th session, September 2025) was asked whether she would distance herself from those remarks. Her response 👇

‼️The Voice of Hind Rajab wins Silver Lion in Venice — as ...

2025-09-06T22:00:45Z

‼️The Voice of Hind Rajab wins Silver Lion in Venice — as Hind’s mother, surrounded by Israeli tanks in Gaza City, issues a “last cry for help”

Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s docudrama on 5-year-old Hind Rajab — killed alongside her family after hours trapped in a car under Israeli fire — won the Grand Jury Prize (Silver Lion), the festival’s second-highest honor, after premiering to a 24-minute standing ovation.

Meanwhile, Hind’s mother, Wissam Hamada, has issued an urgent plea from Gaza City, where Israeli tanks surround her neighborhood as the military moves to ethnically cleanse the city of its 1 million residents. Living there with her surviving 5-year-old son, she describes the siege as “a living hell” and says: “This could be my last cry for help. I am begging every influential person, every celebrity, every connection to save me… Tanks have surrounded our neighborhood. We must leave, but we have nowhere to go… I want to live. I want to protect my family. Please save us.”

Hamada has also appealed for financial support to survive. Her desperate plea and the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza City have gone unmentioned in the glowing international coverage of the film’s success.

Dr. Bahbah continued: “You need to strike while the iron is ...

2025-09-05T01:19:55Z

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Dr. Bahbah continued:
“You need to strike while the iron is hot. If there’s an offer on the table like this one, you have to hold onto it to end the war in Gaza. Hamas did the right thing. This time their response was quick, rational, and responsible. Before, they wanted to take their time, but that doesn’t work with this administration, which wants to move fast from one file to the next. They don’t have the time that Biden’s administration had. So with this administration, you need to close the issue as soon as they show interest.”

Anchor:
The American president says all hostages must be released. Hamas says it’s ready for a comprehensive deal. The Israeli defense minister says they’re deceiving. How do you read that?

Dr. Bahbah:
Hamas agreed to the American president’s offer. As for the Israeli defense minister—set him aside. If he thinks Hamas is deceiving, the truth will become clear in a few days.

Anchor:
Netanyahu’s office has also just issued a statement saying the same thing—that Hamas is deceiving. Does that mean Israel has no intention of agreeing?

Dr. Bahbah:
From my perspective, Israel has no intention of ending the war or even releasing the hostages. Everyone knows Netanyahu only cares about staying in power and avoiding prison.

Anchor:
But many people feel that Trump hasn’t used enough force to pressure Netanyahu.

Dr. Bahbah:
That’s true. But Trump did apply enough pressure back on January 19 when he said, “Agree to a ceasefire deal,” and Netanyahu did. Now we hope that this time the president will follow through. I believe he genuinely wants to end the war, see the hostages go back to their families, and see Palestinian prisoners freed. I believe he will pressure all sides to reach a solution.

Anchor:
The issue seems clear. Hamas says the card it holds is the hostages. If they release them, what guarantees are there that the war will stop and Israel will withdraw?

Dr. Bahbah:
We’re not at that stage yet. Right now, there’s an offer. The details don’t need to be overly complex. Hostages are released and prisoners exchanged on a set day. On that same day, the war is declared over. Within a week, Israel withdraws from half the Strip. Within another week or two, Israel withdraws from the rest of Gaza.

Anchor:
Is that scenario realistic?

Dr. Bahbah:
If there’s a will, it’s possible.

Anchor:
If Israel has the will, and if the White House has the will to apply pressure…

Dr. Bahbah:
Exactly. The key is American pressure. That’s what will decide whether there’s a deal or not.

For more details, read Drop Site’s full report by jeremy scahill (npub1ljl…vu42) & Jawa Ahmad: Hamas to Trump: We Are Ready to Release All Israeli Captives in Comprehensive Ceasefire Deal. Link in reply.

✴️ NEW | Unofficial Trump envoy Dr. Bishara Bahbah says Hamas ...

2025-09-05T01:19:54Z

✴️ NEW | Unofficial Trump envoy Dr. Bishara Bahbah says Hamas has accepted a new U.S. concept for a “comprehensive deal” that he personally conveyed to the resistance group.

Palestinian-American businessman and unofficial Trump envoy Bahbah told Al Arabiya he delivered a U.S. proposal to Hamas: release all Israeli captives in exchange for ending the war. He says Washington has stepped up its involvement, but in the end it depends on how much pressure it’s willing to apply on Israel: “Without American pressure, nothing will happen.”

Here are key excerpts from that interview, translated and edited for clarity by Drop Site News:

Dr. Bahbah:
A meeting was held in Washington that lasted, as I understand it, about six hours. It was decided that there would be one final offer on the table: the release of all prisoners in exchange for the end of the war. We indeed communicated this to Hamas, and at first they hesitated. They weren’t sure if this was official or unofficial, and so on. Then they saw the president’s tweet.

Anchor:
That was last Sunday (the meeting).

Dr. Bahbah:
Yes. Once they saw the president’s tweet, they were convinced it was official. Hamas’s reaction was almost immediate: they agreed to the deal. They wanted it to be comprehensive—hand over all the Israelis, receive a certain number of Palestinian prisoners, and at the same time, the war would end. Hamas also expected Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza.

Anchor:
“Some people, especially those who are frustrated, think Israel won’t end things that easily—get its prisoners back, end the war, and withdraw. I hope I’m wrong in that assessment.

Dr. Bahbah:
I often hear from Israelis themselves that Netanyahu needs American pressure to accept a deal. Without that pressure, it’s hard for him to face Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. Right now, the U.S. position is clear: they want the war ended and all hostages released at once—not in groups of two, five, or seven. So what are the chances Israel backs away from this? As of now, they’ve rejected it, saying Hamas is trying to deceive. But what I know is that the U.S. has stepped up its involvement. In the end, it all depends on the type and amount of pressure on Israel. Without American pressure, nothing will happen.”

Anchor:
Every time we get close to an agreement, it falls apart. This is deeply frustrating—not for us, but for the people of Gaza. So this time, is there real American pressure being applied? Or will Witkoff just turn against Hamas tomorrow like he has before?

Dr. Bahbah:
All I can speak to is what I see. What I see now is that there’s an American offer: end the war in exchange for the release of all prisoners. What will happen after four or five days, only God knows.

Anchor:
When you passed this message to Hamas, they announced publicly that they accepted a comprehensive deal. But people always ask: what about the details? How many prisoners will be released? Or the bigger question: what about the future of Hamas itself? Will Israel end the war and leave Gaza without achieving what it set out to do—removing Hamas from power and disarming them?

Dr. Bahbah:
This issue is not on the table. If it comes up, we will address it. But for now, it’s not on the table. All I’ve been told, and what I can convey, is that the hostages will be released in exchange for a certain number of prisoners, and at the same time, we (USA) will guarantee the end of the war and the withdrawal of Israel.

Anchor:
As a mediator, having been involved in these negotiations for months, can you say with a clear conscience that Hamas has offered everything it could? Because the general perception is that Israel hasn’t offered anything. But let’s stick to Hamas—have they given what they should?

Dr. Bahbah:
At this stage, especially in their response to the American offer, Hamas was positive and gave everything it could.

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📰 ‘Maximum territory and minimum Arabs’: Smotrich unveils ...

2025-09-03T14:20:48Z

📰 ‘Maximum territory and minimum Arabs’: Smotrich unveils ‘sovereignty plan’ for 82% of the Occupied West Bank

“There is and never will be a Palestinian state in our land.” — Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister who also holds a Defense Ministry portfolio over West Bank civilian administration, doubled down this morning on his demand that Netanyahu immediately move to annex the Occupied West Bank.

📌 Key details:
1.Two “Consensus Points”:
▪️ No Palestinian state: Smotrich declared that after October 7, it is “out of the question” to establish a Palestinian state — which he labeled a “terror state in the heart of the land” and that could leave Israel within what he termed “Auschwitz borders.”
▪️ Sovereignty: He said Israel must apply sovereignty to West Bank territories — “The broad consensus for sovereignty stems from the understanding that we cannot allow an existential threat to grow within us.”
2.Annexation Formula:
Smotrich proposed applying Israeli law to 82% of the West Bank under a guiding principle of “maximum land with minimum Arabs.” Palestinians, he said, would continue under the PA “for now,” and later under local administrative frameworks designed to prevent any national collective.
3.Dismissal of Security Warnings:
Brushing off concerns from Israel’s security establishment, Smotrich ridiculed what he called “scaremongering clichés” that sovereignty would “set the Middle East on fire.” He compared it to past warnings over settlement expansion: “We did it, and nothing happened. That’s exactly what will happen with sovereignty.”
4.October 7 as Justification:
He framed October 7th as proof that decades of withdrawals and restraint had only fueled terror: “We are done surrendering to threats and intimidation… If the Palestinian Authority dares to lift its head, we will destroy it just like Hamas.”
https://t.co/tGMBb7PS00 Appeal to Netanyahu:
Smotrich urged the Prime Minister to seize the moment and enshrine annexation, promising it would mark the current government as a “historic turning point” and Netanyahu himself as “the leader who once and for all rescued Israel from the existential threat euphemistically called a Palestinian state.”

➤ Joining Smotrich was Yisrael Gantz, head of the Binyamin Regional Council — the largest West Bank settlement bloc — and since 2024 chair of the Yesha Council, the umbrella for settlers. A leading public face of the annexation drive, Gantz echoed the call for Israeli ‘sovereignty.’

Bottom Line:
For Smotrich and Gantz, the path forward rests on two pillars — permanently blocking Palestinian statehood and unilaterally annexing the West Bank.

BREAKING | On August 28, a lawyer was able to visit Dr. Hussam ...

2025-09-01T13:49:05Z

BREAKING | On August 28, a lawyer was able to visit Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the heroic Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza who was abducted by Israeli forces after refusing to abandon his patients. He is now held in Ofer Prison along with his nephew, Hussam Zaher, in
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Gheed Kassem, lawyer of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya:

From Vienna Airport to Ofer Prison to the two Hussams, that was the morning of August 28, 2025. It was my eighth visit to Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, followed by a visit to Hussam Zaher, Dr. Hussam’s nephew, who is held in the same

🚢 The Global Sumud Flotilla—the largest civilian mission to ...

2025-08-31T14:22:12Z

🚢 The Global Sumud Flotilla—the largest civilian mission to break Gaza’s siege—launches today, with 50+ ships from 44 countries. Drop Site editor Alex Colston is on board and will be reporting live as it sails from Barcelona toward Gaza.

NEW: Microsoft President Brad Smith held a press briefing after ...

2025-08-27T05:26:15Z

NEW: Microsoft President Brad Smith held a press briefing after today’s No Azure for Apartheid occupation of his office. Asked about Microsoft’s relationship with the Israeli military, Smith said:

“The vast majority of what Microsoft does for the Israeli military is protect the cybersecurity of the state of Israel… That is our primary focus. There are some other activities as well. That involve the use of Azure for storage for example, for processing of data.”

On August 6, The Guardian, with +972 Magazine and Local Call, revealed that Israel’s Unit 8200 has used Microsoft’s Azure cloud to store and analyze massive volumes of Palestinian phone call data — one of the largest surveillance systems ever built for a civilian population. The data was then used to plan airstrikes on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Leaked documents show Microsoft executives, including CEO Satya Nadella, knew Unit 8200 was archiving “a million calls an hour” with custom Azure infrastructure. The revelations forced Microsoft into a second external investigation over whether its work with Israel violates its own human rights policies.
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⚡️ BREAKING: Microsoft employees and other demonstrators with the No Azure for Apartheid movement are currently occupying the office of company president Brad Smith. Workers say they have re-established a “Liberated Zone” inside Microsoft’s executive Building 34, renaming it the Mai Ubeid Building in honor of a Palestinian software engineer killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Bloomberg reported earlier today that Microsoft has spent the past year trying to crush employee dissent over its ties to Israel’s war on Gaza — including enlisting the FBI, working with police, and censoring internal posts mentioning “Gaza.” The company has suspended and fired workers who spoke out, while employees have continued to stage disruptions, from mass emails to sit-ins and viral protests. The employee-led movement is protesting Microsoft profiting from and enabling Israel’s atrocities in Palestine through its Azure cloud and AI tools. Despite repression, workers say they won’t stop until Microsoft cuts its ties to Israel’s military.

According to the organizers’ statement, today’s action included deploying noisemakers into the atrium, unfurling banners, and delivering a “People’s Court Summons” to Brad Smith. Their demands include: cutting ties with Israel, calling for an end to genocide and forced starvation, reparations for Palestinians, and ending workplace discrimination.

Video shows the demonstrators in the Microsoft C-suite reading their statement. Shared on Twitch (link in reply).

⚡️ BREAKING: Microsoft employees and other demonstrators with ...

2025-08-26T21:22:37Z

⚡️ BREAKING: Microsoft employees and other demonstrators with the No Azure for Apartheid movement are currently occupying the office of company president Brad Smith. Workers say they have re-established a “Liberated Zone” inside Microsoft’s executive Building 34, renaming it the Mai Ubeid Building in honor of a Palestinian software engineer killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Bloomberg reported earlier today that Microsoft has spent the past year trying to crush employee dissent over its ties to Israel’s war on Gaza — including enlisting the FBI, working with police, and censoring internal posts mentioning “Gaza.” The company has suspended and fired workers who spoke out, while employees have continued to stage disruptions, from mass emails to sit-ins and viral protests. The employee-led movement is protesting Microsoft profiting from and enabling Israel’s atrocities in Palestine through its Azure cloud and AI tools. Despite repression, workers say they won’t stop until Microsoft cuts its ties to Israel’s military.

According to the organizers’ statement, today’s action included deploying noisemakers into the atrium, unfurling banners, and delivering a “People’s Court Summons” to Brad Smith. Their demands include: cutting ties with Israel, calling for an end to genocide and forced starvation, reparations for Palestinians, and ending workplace discrimination.

Video shows the demonstrators in the Microsoft C-suite reading their statement. Shared on Twitch (link in reply).

NEW: Jack Poulson & Harrison Berger report on a major leak ...

2025-08-19T18:46:54Z

NEW: Jack Poulson & Harrison Berger report on a major leak within Israel’s Ministry of Justice that reveals over 2,100 international legal requests — including multiple U.S. extradition cases for child sex abuse suspects that Israel delayed or ignored.

The revelations come as Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, executive director of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, was arrested in Las Vegas for allegedly soliciting sex from someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl. He posted bail and fled back to Israel, where he’s now on leave. The hidden spreadsheet also details U.S. requests tied to Roman Polanski, NSO Group, and Black Cube.

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A previously unreported spreadsheet of 2,152 international legal requests with the State of Israel was hidden within last year’s “Anonymous of Justice” leaks.

Among other things, the leaks show the delayed or failed attempts of the DOJ to extradite various sex abusers from Israel, where they had fled to evade justice

No, Ambassador @npub1jrk…gs9w — it was not “revealed that ...

2025-08-17T23:56:39Z

No, Ambassador Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון (npub1jrk…gs9w) — it was not “revealed that the woman had leukemia.” Doctors at Pisa’s University Hospital tested for acute leukemia and explicitly ruled it out. What they did confirm is that she arrived in a state of grave malnutrition, completely bedridden, with
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Last night, BBC News (UK) (npub1vyd…dytf) published for hours a false report about a Gazan woman who allegedly “suffered from malnutrition” and died in a hospital in Italy where she had been transferred.
Today it was revealed that the woman had leukemia.
We are awaiting an apology from the BBC.

WATCH | Foreign Press Association president Ian Williams rejected ...

2025-08-11T23:21:20Z

WATCH | Foreign Press Association president Ian Williams rejected CNN’s framing that echoed Israeli military talking points to justify murdering Anas Al-Sharif.

“Frankly, I don’t care whether Al-Sharif was in Hamas or not. We don’t kill journalists for being Republicans or Democrats or, in Britain, Labour Party,” he said, adding that Al-Sharif worked “24 hours” and couldn’t possibly “have time to work in a cell on the side.”