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Israeli army reports new missile attack from Yemen

The military says a missile was launched from Yemen into Israeli territory.

It added that hostile aircraft alerts were activated in several areas in the north of the country following the attack.

“Interception attempts were made, the results of which are under review,” the statement on X added.

Earlier today, the Houthis launched several projectiles at an Israeli army base in Haifa, all of which were intercepted.

Houthis claim second attack on Israel today

We reported earlier on an Israeli military statement saying it had detected missiles fired from Yemen at the country’s territory.

Yahya Saree, a spokesperson for Yemen’s Houthi rebel group, has taken responsibility for the attack.

“We carried out a military operation against a vital Israeli enemy target in the occupied Haifa area”, he said in a statement, adding that hypersonic missiles were used and that they reached their targets.

The Israeli military said that “interception attempts were made”, but did not add any additional information.

This is the second attack today by the Houthis on Haifa, northern Israel’s largest city.

‘Cynicism’ from Druze leaders as Israel launches new attack on Syria
Imran Khan
Reporting from Damascus, Syria

The Israeli shelling hit in the vicinity of the presidential palace. The Israelis are calling it a warning shot, saying that the Syrian government needs to protect the Druze community.

But that’s actually been met with cynicism from senior Druze leaders, saying they actually don’t need Israel’s to help protect us, we can do this on our own, we are Syrians and we are going to deal with this in-house.

In Israel, the Druze community is very much discriminated against by the Israeli government. Their villages have been destroyed inside Israel to make way for Jewish settlements. So, it’s not like anybody is seeing Netanyahu’s words as now being the champion of the Druze leadership.

We have a new statement from the president’s office which strongly condemns the shelling by the Israelis, which constitutes a dangerous escalation of the state and its institution.

Intense negotiations have been taking place between the Syrian Druze community and the government and this has now led to a calming of tensions.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/2/live-israel-kills-at-least-31-in-gaza-as-aid-blockade-starves-children

Fires near Jerusalem largely ‘under control’: Israeli official

Fires that swept through areas near Jerusalem have largely been tamed, though dangerous hotspots remain, according to Israeli officials. Major roads that were closed due to the blaze near the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway have now reopened, the AFP news agency reports.

“The fire is under control,” said Shlomi Harush, a senior official in Israel’s firefighting service. He noted that crews remain active at several “hotspots” and warned that strong winds could cause the flames to build back up.

As we reported earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted by local media as saying 18 people were arrested on suspicion of starting the fires, without providing further details.

While wildfires are not unheard of in Israel at this time of year, they are not considered a regular occurrence.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/1/live-aid-trucks-pile-up-at-gaza-border-israel-bombs-central-south-strip

https://x.com/OSINT_Insider/status/1917939765049262411
So a Netherlands-based OSINT lady falsely identified a Yemeni quarry as Houthi bunker & shared the location on Twitter with exact credentials.

US Airforce took the data from Twitter and conducted the airstrike, killing eight civilians, including children.

When this goes viral, that OSINT lady apologises for her "mistake" for falsely identification, donates €500 to a charity as compensation for killing of three innocent families.

My mind is still blown up. This is not a Black Mirror episode. This is fucking real world. I still can't process this.

per OSINT_Insider on Twitter

Four killed in Israeli air strike on southern Syria

At least four people have been in killed as a result of “Israeli aggression” in Syria’s Druze-majority Sweida governorate, Syria’s state-run news agency SANA reported.

It cited the Sweida governorate as saying that an Israeli military aircraft launched a strike targeting four people in the town of Kanaker.

New US raids on Yemen’s Ras Issa oil port reported

The Houthi-affiliated al-Masirah media outlet is reporting that seven US strikes hit the Ras Issa oil port in al-Salif district in the last few hours.

A US strike at the same port last month killed at least 80 people and wounded 150 in one of the deadliest attacks on the country by American forces.

Tunisia says conditions met for expulsion of member state over persistent violations

Tunisia told the ICJ it believes the conditions allowing the expulsion of a member state for persistent violations have now been met.

“While we are aware that the recommendation of relying on Article 6 of the United Nations Charter falls within the prerogatives of the Security Council, we consider that the conditions for its implementation are met,” said Hanin Ben Jrad, representing Tunisia, regarding Israel’s continuous violations in Gaza and other regions.

Jrad argued that several statements by Israeli officials show an intent to use humanitarian aid to achieve political and military objectives, effectively holding Gaza’s population hostage, while weaponising relief as a “tool of war”.

Tunisia also condemned the systematic targeting of UNRWA facilities since the onset of the conflict.

“Bringing an end to the war will not suffice to make shattered lives whole again or to heal their trauma. The breaches must be reported, as well as the legal consequences stemming from them. Responsibilities must be established.”

Israel says it intercepted second missile fired from Yemen

Israel says it intercepted a second missile fired from Yemen.

The Houthi group claimed responsibility for firing two missiles targeting Israel’s Ramat David airbase and the Tel Aviv area. Alarms were sounded in several areas, the Israeli army said, after the launch of both missiles, but there were no reports of damage or casualties.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/2/live-israel-kills-at-least-31-in-gaza-as-aid-blockade-starves-children

https://x.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1918330025008415111
Ahmed Hassan - Yemen responds to the Freedom Flotilla's distress call and bombs the occupied Jaffa ( Tel Aviv )

For Gaza

Intercept: The Trump Administration Is Hiding American Casualties of War
The U.S. government is keeping American casualty numbers for the undeclared war on Yemen secret. This is not normal.

The Trump administration is fighting an undeclared war in Yemen, and it has not been shy about publicizing the details of its attacks.

But the administration is unwilling to level with the American people about the costs of war. U.S. Central Command, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the White House are keeping the number of U.S. casualties from this ongoing conflict secret. This amounts to a cover-up. Members of Congress are calling for accountability.

“The administration should be transparent about the number of U.S. casualties from the attacks on the Houthis,” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told The Intercept. “I am also working to hold the administration accountable for its unauthorized strikes in Yemen.”

After two decades of intermittent war in Yemen, the U.S. officially launched Operation Rough Rider in March of this year, and has carried out strikes on more than 1,000 targets in Yemen.

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has also ramped up conflicts in Iraq, Somalia, and Syria, after running as an anti-war candidate and pitching himself as a “peacemaker.”

The strikes in Yemen are targeting the Ansar Allah government, which began launching attacks on vessels — including U.S. Navy warships — in November 2023 over the war in Gaza. Recent U.S. attacks in response have targeted civilian infrastructure and, according to local reports, killed scores of innocent people.

U.S. troops are also in harm’s way. Earlier this week, a fighter jet fell off the side of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, the Navy said in a statement on Monday. The Truman reportedly made a sharp turn to evade a Houthi attack, which caused the U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter to plunge overboard. One sailor was injured in the chaos, and the $60 million plane was lost to the deep.

“This was a tragic accident, and let’s be clear — neither this service member, nor any of the other service members in Yemen, should have ever been in harm’s way,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., told The Intercept. “Trump’s strikes in Yemen are unconstitutional and Congress must assert its congressional war powers before another service member is injured in the line of duty.”

How many other military personnel have been killed or wounded in the broader U.S. campaign against the Houthis, which began under the Biden administration, is being withheld from the American public.

When The Intercept asked the Office of the Secretary of Defense for the number of casualties sustained by U.S. forces in the campaign against the Houthis, the Pentagon balked at providing a number. “We refer you to CENTCOM,” an unnamed official wrote in an email, noting in a follow-up response that “it is their operation.”

When The Intercept did as requested and queried Central Command, referencing the Pentagon’s advice, CENTCOM passed the buck: “On background as a defense official, we refer you to The White House.” Repeated requests to White House assistant press secretary Taylor Rogers have gone unanswered.
This is not standard operating procedure.

Under the Biden administration, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and CENTCOM provided detailed data on attacks on military bases across the Middle East — including to this reporter. CENTCOM provided the total number of attacks, breakdowns by country, and the total number injured. The Pentagon offered even more granular data, providing individual synopses of more than 150 attacks, including information on deaths and injuries not only to U.S. troops but even civilian contractors working on U.S. bases.

“Withholding basic information from the public makes it harder for the media to shine light on how these officials are violating one of Trump’s most broadly popular campaign promises,” Erik Sperling of Just Foreign Policy, an advocacy group critical of mainstream Washington foreign policy, told The Intercept. “These operatives apparently hope that by waging a war from the air without constitutionally required authorization from Congress, they can keep the public in the dark about the devastating impact of their war.”

The Pentagon acknowledges the danger to U.S. forces posed by Houthi attacks. “They threaten our personnel overseas,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in March, noting that the Houthis were “firing at U.S. military personnel in the region and shooting at our ships … putting American lives at risk.”

The Defense Department not only failed to provide a count of those for whom those risks were realized, but also seemed to suggest that they are not even aware of how many personnel may have been killed or wounded by the Houthis.

When asked if the Pentagon even knew that number, a nameless spokesperson intimated that the information was only known to CENTCOM. “That information is tracked at the combatant command level,” the official replied by email.

https://archive.is/91cGl
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/02/trump-yemen-war-us-casualties-death-toll/

It sounds like Malta is currently trying to help Israel kill Europeans in Europe.

>>489243
>It sounds like Malta is currently trying to help Israel kill Europeans in Europe.
This is a little vague. You got any more information ?

>>489243
>>489244
Wait is this about the freedom flotilla ship that was attacked ?

>>489245
Yes.

As war looms over Iran, independent journalists gather in Tehran - Dimitri Lascaris

Houthi-affiliated media reports new US attacks on Yemen

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV reports the US launched two air raids on Yemen’s Kamaran Island and as-Salif district in the port city of Hodeidah.

The new attacks come a day after the same news outlet reported seven US attacks on the Ras Isa oil port in as-Salif district in Hodeidah.

Last month, a US strike on the same port killed at least 80 people and wounded 150 in one of the deadliest attacks on the country by US forces.

Israeli unit that killed Gaza girl reportedly identified

The Hind Rajab Foundation says after a year-long investigation it has identified the Israeli military unit and commander who killed the six-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza in 2024, her family members, and two medics who tried to save her.

It was under the commander’s direction that “an Israeli tank unit attacked the civilian vehicle of Hind’s family, and later destroyed the Palestine Red Crescent ambulance dispatched to rescue her”, the organisation, which was created in the young girl’s memory, said in a statement.

“We will go after every officer involved – those who gave the orders, those who fired, those who covered it up, and those who let it happen,” the group said, urging the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant.

Rajab was killed on January 29, 2024 when the car she was in with her six family members was hit by Israeli tank fire.

Her family died instantly but the six-year-old remained alive for hours, whispering into a phone with ambulance dispatchers: “I’m so scared … please come.”

The ambulance that was sent to save her was also attacked by Israeli fire, with two medics inside killed instantly.

Qassam Brigades releases purported captive footage

Hamas’s armed wing released a video showing what appeared to be an Israeli captive wounded in an attack on Gaza.

In the undated four-minute video, the abductee with bandages on his head and left arm and identifying himself only as “Prisoner 24” spoke in Hebrew with a Russian accent, implying he was wounded in recent Israeli bombardment.

The man, shown lying on the ground, also referred to Israel’s Independence Day celebrations on Thursday as upcoming, suggesting the video was filmed shortly beforehand.

At least 39 killed in Gaza since dawn

Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that 39 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Strip since the beginning of the day.

Three babies were among 11 killed in an overnight Israeli attack on the Khan Younis refugee camp.

At least 2,396 people have been killed since Israel resumed its war on Gaza, bringing the overall death toll since the war broke out to 52,495, the Health Ministry said.

Israeli aircraft near Malta before attack on Freedom Flotilla: Report

An Israeli military aircraft was circling over the south and east of Malta before a Freedom Flotilla vessel was attacked, according to a news report.

The local news outlet Malta Today said flight tracking websites showed the plane circling over Hurd’s Bank just outside the 26km (12-mile) territorial airspace, but the Maltese government has stressed it did not enter.

“The committee clarifies that at no point in time, during the past 48 hours, any aircraft or vessel, currently mentioned in local and foreign media in relation to the case of the vessel Conscience, entered Maltese Sovereign Airspace or the Territorial sea,” Malta Today cited the government as saying late on Friday.

The Conscience was hit twice by what the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said were drones launched by Israel or one of its allies. No direct connection has been officially established between the drone attack and the military aircraft.

Freedom Flotilla says ‘no one is helping’ as attacked vessel remains at sea

The vessel operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition that was hit by drones near Malta is currently unable to dock at a port of safety, with four volunteers on board who suffered minor injuries.

Nicole Jenes, an actress and activist with the coalition, said, “Nobody is helping.”

“We are urging the international community to save our crew to allow the ship to come to the port without being seized,” she said.

Jenes added a group of volunteers who attempted to reach the vessel on Friday and Saturday were stopped by Maltese authorities and threatened with arrest. Those who remain on board have no electricity and “fear another attack”, she said.

“We are willing to continue. We cannot imagine that bringing aid to the people of Gaza can make us the villains of the world.”

Israeli air raid hits car in Lebanon

The National News Agency reports an Israeli air raid hit a vehicle in the Lebanese town of Khartoum, Sidon.

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The Lebanese government said earlier this month at least 190 people have been killed and 485 injured in Lebanon by Israeli attacks since the truce took effect.

Activist featured in documentary says settlers ‘came to take revenge’
Palestinian activist Issa Amro says he was attacked by Israeli settlers after he featured in the BBC documentary The Settlers.

“Israeli soldiers stormed my house to scare me, and said that I send videos to BBC network and Israeli human rights organisations,” Amro said on Instagram. “They came to take revenge on me because of my participation in the BBC documentary.”

Amro posted footage showing Israeli soldiers and settlers storming his house, which local media reported is located in the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood of Hebron, in the south of the occupied West Bank.

Scenes showed settlers assaulting Amro and several other people in the house. Other clips published by the activist showed Israeli soldiers with their faces covered talking to him inside his home.

Former Israel PM calls for ‘civil disobedience’ to remove Netanyahu

Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Barak has called for mass “civil disobedience” to topple Benjamin Netanyahu after accusing the current leader of having “declared war on Israel”.

“The State of Israel is not Netanyahu,” Barak told Channel 13. He called on the country’s attorney general, Gali Baharav-Miara, to submit a demand that Netanyahu recuse himself from office.

Netanyahu said this week defeating Israel’s enemies is more important than securing the release of the remaining captives in Gaza, comments that drew criticism from family members and others.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/3/live-israels-attacks-kill-30-in-gaza-as-baby-dies-of-starvation

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim missile attack on Israel’s Ben Gurion airport

In a statement on Telegram, Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree says the group carried out a “hypersonic ballistic missile” strike targeting Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv this morning.

The statement claimed the strike “successfully hit its target” and urged international airlines to avoid the “unsafe” airport.

The Houthis carried out the assault “in support of the oppressed Palestinian people” and to counter Israel’s “crime of genocide” in Gaza, according to the statement.

Footage shows missile crash, crater at Ben Gurion airport

Video footage seen by Al Jazeera shows the moment a missile struck the grounds of the airport in Tel Aviv.

The clip, filmed by a group driving on a nearby road and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency, captures an explosion followed by a large plume of smoke rising into the sky.

A separate video, shared by the Israel Hayom newspaper, shows a massive crater at the impact site.

https://twitter.com/IsraelHayomHeb/status/1918935862273798169

Traffic halted at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport after missile attack: Report

Air traffic is stopped at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, following air sirens that sounded across Israel due to a missile attack, according to Israel’s Ynet News.

Footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit shows smoke rising in the vicinity of the airport.

Six injured in missile attack on Ben Gurion airport: Report

The Times of Israel newspaper, citing the national emergency service, says six people have been wounded in the missile attack on Ben Gurion airport.

Those hurt include an elderly man who was hit by debris flung from the impact site and another man suffering from limb trauma. There are also several women lightly injured from shockwave effects, said the media report.

Israel’s Ben Gurion airport resumes operations: Reports

The Times of Israel, citing the Israel Airports Authority, reports that the Ben Gurion airport has reopened after an hourlong closure following a missile attack from Yemen.

“Takeoffs and landings have returned to normal,” it reported.

Train service to the airport has also resumed, reports Israel’s Channel 12.

Israel continues bombardment of southern Gaza

The Israeli army has carried out two bombings of residential buildings in the city of Rafah.

Israeli army says 2 soldiers killed in southern Gaza

A third soldier was seriously injured in the incident in Rafah, the military has said.

It added that another soldier was seriously injured in fighting in northern Gaza.

Missile attack on Ben Gurion ’embarrassing’ for Israeli defence establishment

Ori Goldberg, a Tel Aviv-based political commentator, says the missile attack on the Ben Gurion airport complex is “very embarrassing” for Israel given how much stock it has placed in its strategic defences.

“Israel has been trumpeting the achievements of its Iron Dome system and its more advanced strategic missile defence systems to the world,” Goldberg told Al Jazeera. “This was supposed to be the one area of military activity where Israel could claim success. So this is very embarrassing.”

He also brought up the implications of the attack’s resounding impact on Israeli life.

“You have one missile being shot from Yemen – it could do a lot of damage, but it’s still one missile,” he said. “And one missile is enough to rock Israel to its core. This should give you an indication of how weak the structural foundations of Israeli society and of Israeli institutions like the military are at the moment.”

Netanyahu faces large protest as Israel pushes to expand war

The Israeli prime minister has faced regular protests from the relatives of captives held in Gaza demanding a deal to secure the release of their loved ones.

Thousands of Israelis gathered outside the Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to urge the government to prioritise the captives’ release over expanding the war on Gaza.

Yet, despite the regular protests, Israeli journalist Gideon Levy said the movement lacks the power to challenge Netanyahu’s coalition.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/4/live-israel-blocks-aid-piling-up-at-gazas-border-as-57-die-of-hunger

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1918472975692574802
The House is set to vote Monday on H.R. 867, the “IGO Anti-Boycott Act,” which would punish Americans with fines of up to $1 million or prison terms up to 20 years for participating in boycotts of Israel or Israeli settlements that are promoted by international governmental organizations (IGOs), such as the UN or EU.

The bill, sponsored by pro-Israel lawmaker Rep. Mike Lawler, expands U.S. anti-boycott law to target voluntary, values-based political action by U.S. citizens. Its aim is to shield Israel from nonviolent international pressure campaigns such as BDS.

Rights groups say the legislation criminalizes constitutionally protected political expression and is part of a broader push to suppress opposition to Israeli genocide, apartheid, and illegal settlement expansion, under the guise of fighting antisemitism.

https://x.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1918948218089406512
Ahmed Hassan - Hebrew media:

The security and political cabinet meeting on expanding the ground operation in Gaza has been canceled following the bombing of Ben Gurion Airport.

I haven't looked into it, but there were apparently reports of an explosion at a power plant in Karaj, Iran last night. 🤔

Several international airlines cancel flights to Israel after Houthi attack

Lufthansa, Air Europa, Air France, Austrian and Swiss Airlines have decided not to operate flights today to and from Tel Aviv after a ballistic missile from Yemen struck an area at the country’s main Ben Gurion airport, according to The Times of Israel.

Hungarian low-cost airline giant Wizz Air announced the cancellation of its flights to Israel for the next 48 hours, the daily reported.

The cancellations come despite the reopening of the airport an hour after the attack.

Armed wing of Hamas says it kills Israeli soldiers in ambush in Gaza’s Rafah

Qassam Brigades fighters have lured an Israeli engineering force into a “booby-trapped tunnel” after clashing with them in al-Jnaina, a neighbourhood in southern Gaza’s Rafah, according to a statement on the group’s Telegram account.

The group said its fighters “eliminated a number of them from zero distance” during the clashes on Saturday.

“As soon as a number of soldiers advanced to the tunnel shaft, it was blown up, killing and wounding them,” it added.

The statement said its fighters also targeted two Israeli tanks with al-Yassin 105 rockets in the area.

It said Qassam Brigades fighters oversaw the retrieval of the bodies of the soldiers and the evacuation of the wounded from the area.

Hamas’s armed wing claims second deadly bombing on Israeli forces in Rafah

Fighters with the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, have detonated an antipersonnel bomb in southern Gaza, targeting an Israeli infantry force of six soldiers, killing and wounding them, according to a statement from the group published on Telegram.

The attack took place in the al-Jnaina neighbourhood, east of southern Gaza’s Rafah city, it said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/4/live-israel-blocks-aid-piling-up-at-gazas-border-as-57-die-of-hunger

>>489268
>already refuted claims from neocon propaganda cabal the Henry Jackson Society
When they send Hasbarist retards they aren't sending their best.
Or maybe they are.
Anyway, you sick freaks will not have this impunity forever. Hope you enjoy spewing "Saddam has WMDs" tier lies between now and that day.

>>489270
Leftoid moralist cope

>>489268
When the best deflection you can attempt while your own soldiers post videos on social media of heinous attacks on children is to quibble over numbers.

>>489268
>that gave the deceptive impression of indiscriminate Israeli attacks on women and children
Yeah it ain't looking like it's indiscriminate, it looks more like Israel specifically targets women and children, which would technically count as discriminate attacks.

The reputation of Israel is ruined, it went too far, that much bloodshed can't be papered over. It's now genocide-land.

https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1919359727030374651
The Israeli company behind the modified Signal app used by the Trump administration has been hacked.

TeleMessage’s backend panel was accessed using credentials found in intercepted data. The hacker exposed archived messages and contact info for U.S. officials.

The hack reveals that archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted between the modified messaging app and the final archive destination controlled by the TeleMessage customer.

Commenting on the Israeli modification of Signal adopted by the US government, @signalapp told @404media that “We cannot guarantee the privacy or security properties of unofficial versions of Signal.”

>>489281
Signal can't guarantee the privacy or security properties of any version of Signal, because these scammers have been refusing to release the server code for Signal for years.

>>489282
This is even worse than that.

Israeli soldiers blow up building in Gaza for ‘gender reveal’ party

A May 3 video filmed by Israeli troops shows the demolition of a building in the Gaza Strip for a “gender reveal” party.

The soldiers had previously rigged it with explosives that give off blue smoke to indicate a fetus is male.

https://aje.io/a07e9c?update=3688753

US conducts air strikes on Yemen: Houthi-affiliated media

A local source has told the Yemen news agency Saba that United States fighter jets targeted the al-Sawad area south of the capital, Sanaa, with three air attacks.

The strikes come after a missile fired by Houthi rebels towards Israel on Sunday landed near the country’s main international airport, causing panic among travellers and drawing threats of retaliation against the group and Iran.

Houthis vow to continue targeting Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport

The Yemen-based group’s military spokesperson Yayha Saree has called on international airlines to cancel flights into Israeli airports.

The Houthis said in a statement that they will impose “a comprehensive aerial blockade” on Israel by repeatedly targeting its airports in response to Israel expanding its “aggressive” war on Gaza.

The group urged airlines to “cancel all flights to the airports of the criminal enemy in order to preserve the safety of their aircraft and customers”.

The statement from the Yemeni group comes after it struck near Israel’s main airport earlier, leading several international airlines to suspend flights.

Iran vows to attack US, Israel ‘interests’ after Netanyahu threats

Iranian Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh says Tehran will strike back if the United States or Israel attack his country.

“If this war is initiated by the US or the Zionist regime [Israel], Iran will target their interests, bases and forces – wherever they may be and whenever deemed necessary,” Nasirzadeh told Iranian state TV.

“The countries in the region are our brothers, but America’s bases are our targets,” he added.

Netanyahu earlier warned Israel will respond to “Iranian terror masters” – referring to Yemen’s Houthi group after one of its missiles landed near Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport.

“Attacks by the Houthis emanate from Iran,” Netanyahu said.

Israel to use private military contractors to control Gaza aid: Reports

Israel plans to use US security contractors to control the flow of aid into Gaza, bypassing UN and international NGOs, news reports say.

Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported last week a new plan is in the works in which Gaza aid will soon be distributed by private foreign companies, rather than United Nations agencies, in a new designated “humanitarian zone” in the southern Gaza.

The Humanitarian Country Team (HCT), a forum that includes UN agencies, said on Sunday that Israeli officials are seeking its consent to deliver aid through what it described as “Israeli hubs under conditions set by the Israeli military, once the government agrees to re-open crossings”.

In a statement, HCT said such a plan would be dangerous and would “contravene fundamental humanitarian principles and appears designed to reinforce control over life-sustaining items as a pressure tactic – as part of a military strategy”.

Pope Francis’s popemobile to become health clinic for Gaza children

One of Pope Francis’s popemobiles is being transformed into a mobile health clinic for children in the Gaza Strip.

The vehicle, used by the late pontiff during his 2014 visit to the Holy Land, is being outfitted with diagnostic and emergency medical equipment to help young patients in the Palestinian enclave, where health services have been devastated by the Israeli invasion.

“This is a concrete, life-saving intervention at a time when the health system in Gaza has almost completely collapsed,” Peter Brune, secretary-general of Caritas Sweden, which is supporting the project, told Vatican News.

“It’s not just a vehicle, it’s a message that the world has not forgotten about the children in Gaza.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/4/live-israel-blocks-aid-piling-up-at-gazas-border-as-57-die-of-hunger

Air attacks on Yemen’s Hodeidah reported

We’re getting reports of air attacks on Hodeidah, in western Yemen.

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah outlet said the US-Israeli attacks targeted Bajil district. Several Israeli media reports also said the Israeli Air Force is attacking the port of Hodeidah.

Nine sites reportedly hit in Yemen attacks

Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem has reported that Houthi-affiliated media say a total of nine sites have been hit in the port city of Hodeidah.

Israeli media said at least 30 Israeli fighter jets were involved in strikes on Yemen, which come a day after the Houthis attacked Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv with a missile landing near the facility.

A senior US official told Axios news the raids are being carried out in coordination with the US. Al Jazeera could not immediately confirm that information.

Hodeidah strikes target cement factory

Israeli media report the strikes on Hodeidah have targeted a concrete factory used to support Houthi military industries.

No casualties have been reported so far. Neither Israel nor the Houthis have released official statements on the attack.

Israel Hayom, quoting an unnamed Israeli security source, said the attack on Yemen was carried out in eight waves. Channel 12, also quoting an unidentified official, said 48 bombs were dropped and the port of Hodeidah suffered “a severe blow”.

Four-month-old dies from malnutrition in Gaza: Report

Wafa is reporting that a four-month-old infant, Yousef al-Najjar, has died as a result of malnutrition.

Local media reports say the infant weighed just 1.5kg (3.3 pounds) when he died, less than one-fourth of the average weight for his age.

The death comes amid a 64-day aid blockade of Gaza, which the UN has warned is putting thousands of children and babies at heightened risk of starvation.

Death toll from day of Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 33

At least 33 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since the early hours of Monday, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.

Nine bodies of people killed in previous Israeli attacks were also recovered over the past day, it added.

Israeli cabinet approves plans aimed at conquering all of Gaza: Reports

The Times of Israel has reported, quoting an unnamed Israeli official, that the plans discussed by the war cabinet involved the “conquering of Gaza and holding territories”.

Reuters has also reported that the plan could involve “seizing the entire enclave” of Gaza.

Netanyahu also told the meeting he has been in talks with a number of countries about Trump’s plans to forcibly relocate Palestinians from Gaza, The Times of Israel said.

Pro-Palestinian activists allow inspector aboard Freedom Flotilla boat

Pro-Palestinian activists aboard a damaged vessel allowed a Maltese surveyor to inspect it and six crew members have agreed to disembark.

Prime Minister Robert Abela previously said Malta could tow the stricken vessel Conscience to port for repairs once a maritime expert was allowed to board the ship and study the results of Friday’s alleged drone attack.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition planned to pick up supporters, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, in Malta then sail on to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinian victims of Israel’s blockade and renewed military assault.

A fire broke out on board the vessel after what the group says was a double drone strike, which the activists said was most likely launched by Israel.

Neither Israel nor Malta, whose vessels intervened to help douse the fire, have confirmed the attack.

Dutch police arrest pro-Palestine protesters at WWII anniversary event

Five pro-Palestine demonstrators have been detained during a memorial in Wageningen, central Netherlands.

The arrests were for disturbing public order, a police spokesperson said. As the city marked the 80th anniversary of Dutch liberation at the end of World War II in Europe, about 250 protesters gathered to voice opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza.

They held signs reading, “Not then, not now, never again” and “Don’t give hate power”.

They also held an 80-metre (262-foot) long red banner with text describing it as a symbol of “the red line the government refuses to draw”, referring to the Dutch leadership that continues to provide military support to Israel.

Captive’s mother urges Israeli reservists to ignore call-up orders

Einav Zangauker, whose 25-year-old son Matan is a captive in Gaza, has opposed the Israeli government’s latest reserve call-ups during a Constitution Committee meeting, according to Israel’s Arutz Sheva media.

“You must not report for reserve duty – for moral and ethical reasons,” she said, prompting backlash from several MPs, one of whom called for her removal from the session, according to Arutz Sheva.

Israeli army claims to have destroyed bunkers, weapons near Lebanon-Syria border

The Israeli military says its forces have discovered the “central headquarters” of the former Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad at Mount Hermon in Syria’s occupied Golan Heights near the border with Lebanon.

“The forces located military infrastructure of the old regime, bunkers and numerous weapons, including cannons, launchers, mortars, rockets, explosive charges and mines,” it said in a statement. “All the resources were destroyed or confiscated by the forces.”

The Israeli military, which continues to occupy parts of Syria, including the Golan Heights, has continued to launch attacks across the country despite international condemnation.

Netanyahu seeks to rope US into Middle East ‘disaster’: Iran’s top diplomat

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to pull the US, with which Tehran is engaged in nuclear talks, into conflict in the Middle East.

“Netanyahu is directly MEDDLING within the US Government to DRAG it into another DISASTER in our region,” Araghchi said in a post on X, warning against any “mistake against Iran”.

The comments come after Netanyahu warned that Israel, in concert with the US, would repeatedly strike at Iran, which Israel blames for a Houthi-claimed missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/5/live-israeli-forces-kill-24-in-gaza-attack-rescuers-as-siege-continues

What could happen after Houthi attack on Israel’s biggest airport?

Israel is likely to covertly hit targets in Iran in response to the Houthi missile strike on its international airport, says Andreas Krieg, senior lecturer at the School of Security Studies at King’s College London.

“The next step further would be hitting targets within Iran, but I would suggest this is something they would do covertly,” he told Al Jazeera.

He highlighted the explosions in Iran last week in which “nobody knows what actually happened” in the port of Bandar Abbas.

With the United States seeking a nuclear deal with Iran, “Israel is the main spoiler in this current trend of de-escalation, of rapprochement … The Netanyahu government is already pushing the narrative that this is not about the Houthis. What happened today is about Iran – and that is extremely dangerous as a narrative,” said Krieg.

Hamas welcomes Houthis’ ‘comprehensive air blockade’ of Israel

A statement from Hamas on Telegram says the “heroic action” displays the depth of the Houthis’ commitment to defending the people of Gaza.

“Dear Yemen, with its honourable stances that reflect the authenticity of its people and the courage of its leadership, it’s restoring in this heroic battle respect for the values ​​of brotherhood and the bonds of religion and Arabism,” it said.

The Houthis “affirmation that a free Yemen will not accept the occupation’s violation of Arab lands, particularly in Lebanon and Syria, is a responsible affirmation of our shared destiny and the necessity of unifying efforts to confront the dangerous Zionist schemes targeting the entire nation”, read the statement.

The Houthis said earlier that they will impose “a comprehensive aerial blockade” on Israel by repeatedly targeting its airports in response to Israel expanding its “aggressive” war on Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/4/live-israel-blocks-aid-piling-up-at-gazas-border-as-57-die-of-hunger

Houthis say they’ll retaliate against Israel ‘in the coming hours’

Pro-Houthi journalist Hussain al-Bukhaiti reports the armed group has vowed to respond to the “dozens” of Israeli attacks with new missile strikes targeting Israeli airports and energy infrastructure in the coming hours.

“They have announced Ben Gurion airport has become a legitimate target and warned airlines they should not use that airport,” al-Bukhaiti told Al Jazeera. “They’ve said any causalities caused will be the responsibility of Israel and those airlines.”

The retaliation could involve “dozens of ballistic missiles, drones, and cruise missiles”, he added.

The Houthis will continue their attacks until Israel agrees to a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza, removes its blockade on aid reaching the Palestinians, and “stops its genocide”, said al-Bukhaiti.

https://aje.io/2x5aa9?update=3691027

At least 17 killed in Israeli attack on Gaza school-turned-shelter

Several others have been reported injured in the attack on the school sheltering displaced families in Bureij refugee camp.

As we reported earlier, the Israeli military carried out two consecutive air strikes on the building.

Houthis to evaluate US halt of ‘aggression’ after Trump announcement

The head of Yemen’s Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, says the US halt of “aggression” against Yemen will be evaluated.

He said the group would continue to support Gaza to end the war there, indicating the ceasefire with the US did not include a halt of the group’s attacks on Israel.

https://twitter.com/Moh_Alhouthi/status/1919822557529711004
Translation: With Trump announcing the cessation of US aggression against Yemen, it will be evaluated on the ground first. It is a victory that separates American support for the temporary entity from a failure for Netanyahu, and he must resign.

Oman says it mediated US-Houthi ‘ceasefire’

In a statement, the Gulf country says it conducted “recent discussions and contacts” with the United States and “relevant authorities” in Houthi-controlled Yemen.

The “efforts have resulted in a ceasefire agreement between the two sides”, it said.

“In the future neither will target the other, including American vessels, in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait, ensuring freedom of navigation and smooth flow of international commercial shipping,” the statement said.

The Houthis have not yet confirmed the agreement.

Trump announces end to Yemen strikes amid pressure from Dems, MAGA

Trump’s bombing campaign of Yemen has sat uncomfortably with his pledge on the campaign trail to disengage the US from foreign wars.

Several key figures in his Republican Party criticised the escalation, saying it did not fit into the America First foreign-policy ideology Trump has long espoused.

A cadre of Democrats and at least one Republican – Senator Rand Paul – have also questioned whether the six-week bombing campaign extends beyond Trump’s presidential power.

Under the War Powers Resolution, the executive branch may introduce US military personnel into a hostility only if it is done to thwart an imminent attack. Otherwise, such acts require approval from the US Congress.

The Trump administration has said the strikes on Yemen fall under presidential powers, pointing to the Houthi strikes on US commercial and naval ships. Trump said the Houthis agreed to pause those strikes although the armed group has not confirmed the claim.

US again says it is not involved in Israeli strikes on Yemen

A defence official tells Al Jazeera the US did not participate in the Israeli strikes on Sanaa today.

An official told Al Jazeera on Monday that the US was also not involved in that day’s strikes on Hodeidah.

Turkish intelligence twarted second Lebanon pager attack: Report

Turkish media outlets report that Turkish Intelligence stopped the second wave of explosive pagers targeting Lebanon.

In September, at least nine people were killed and some 3,000 injured, including the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, when thousands of pagers exploded – nearly simultaneously – in Lebanon.

Daily Sabah and Hurriyet Daily News report that, shortly after the attack, Turkish authorities intercepted shipments labeled as “food choppers” but revealed them to contain 1,300 Gold Apollo 924 R3 GP pagers.

These devices, similar to ones previously used in explosions targeting Hezbollah operatives, were equipped with chargers, cables, and other materials.

Dozens of ex-contestants demand Israel be excluded from Eurovision

More than 70 former Eurovision contestants, including songwriters, lyricists and other artists, have called on the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to ban Israel’s public broadcaster KAN from the popular song contest, accusing it of being “complicit in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza”.

In a letter published by Artists for Palestine UK ahead of the Eurovision finals on May 17, the signatories said that “by continuing to platform the representation of the Israeli state, the EBU is normalising and whitewashing its crimes”.

Charlie McGettigan, who won the singing competition for Ireland in 1994, said: “I believe that the Israeli government has been and is inflicting genocide on the people of Palestine and for that reason Israel should be barred from competing in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.”

The letter also said that last year’s decision to include KAN and granting “total impunity to the Israeli delegation while repressing other artists” made the 2024 edition “the most politicized and unpleasant in the competition’s history”.

It accused the EBU of double standards regarding Israel, referring to its decision to expel Russia’s public broadcaster from the competition after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

“[It] can’t be one rule for Russia and a completely different rule for Israel. You bomb, you’re out,” said Thea Garrett, who represented Malta in 2010.

The signatories say they “refuse to allow music to be used to whitewash crimes against humanity” and urge EBU to “act now and prevent further discredit and disruption to the festival”.

The release of the letter comes days after Iceland’s broadcaster RUV followed Slovenia and Spain in opposing Israel’s participation in the competition.

Trump to make ‘important’ announcement this week before Middle East trip

Trump says he’ll make a major announcement before his trip to the Middle East either on Thursday or Friday.

“It’ll be one of the most important announcements that have been made in many years about a certain subject, very important subject,” he said at the White House. He did not elaborate.

The US president is to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates starting on May 13.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/6/live-israel-attacks-yemen-lebanon-syria-and-gaza-in-one-day

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Atrocity_Fabrication_and_Its_Consequences#Chapter_Eight_The_NATO-Libyan_War
ctrl+f Al Jazeera

How can we trust Al Jazeera when they played a role in manufacturing consent against Libya?

>>489332
It depends on the topic they're covering

>>489332
It's very odd how no one ever does this in instances when I've cited Reuters, AP, Haaretz, CNN, BBC, the Guardian, etc. Al Jazeera has a better track record than any of those outlets on this topic in particular. In fact, it's basically uncontested that AJ is the most comprehensive mainstream source when it comes to this, meaning they have more reporters on the ground, many of whom have been murdered by the IDF, than any other news organization on the planet. If you take issue with a particular item, then take issue with it. That's a rule of thumb for any topic reported on by any news organization.

If Al Jazeera is good enough for EI to cite them on issues relevant to this specific thing, then they're good enough for you. There are no perfect socialist news outlets with the kind of people and resources on the ground that AJ has. They're vastly more comprehensive (and less biased) when it comes to Palestine specifically than western outlets are, and they're generally more reliable and comprehensive (on Palestine) than many other west Asian outlets are.

>>489333
Exactly.

>>489334
You do have to be very careful though, because if you travel only a small bit north al-Jazeera is a source of propaganda on Syria.

>>489337
That's true of literally any other mainstream outlet I listed in my previous reply. That's not a special flaw particular to AJ, and attempting to insinuate that it is comes across as dishonest deflection.

Double Down News: REVEALED: UK Government's SECRET Deal with Israel

‘No turning back from supporting Gaza’: Houthi official

Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthis’ supreme political council, issued a message of defiance in the face of Israel’s recent attacks, saying the Yemeni group will not abandon Gaza “no matter the cost”.

“What happened proves that our strikes are painful and will continue,” al-Mashat said, as quoted by the Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV.

He warned that the Houthis’ response to Israel “will be devastating and painful”.

“No aggression will deter us from our decision to support Gaza until the aggression stops and the siege is lifted,” al-Mashat added.

One person killed in Israeli strike in Kfarreman, Lebanon

The National News Agency reports one person has been killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon.

Three others were wounded in the attack on a car in Kfarreman, the news agency said, citing the country’s Health Ministry.

State Department: Palestinian affairs office to be subsumed into US embassy in Israel

The move means there will no longer be a distinct unit that deals with Palestinian affairs and has direct contact with Washington.

The US had for decades maintained a consulate – first in occupied East Jerusalem, then in West Jerusalem – that handled relations and was distinct from the US embassy in Tel Aviv. The consulate signalled to many the longstanding US support for a two-state solution.

But in 2019 during his first term, Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, closed the consulate and created the Palestinian Affairs Unit, which was under the control of the US embassy in Israel.

In 2022, US President Joe Biden’s administration renamed the unit the Palestinian Affairs Office and re-established its direct contact with Washington.

The latest move means contacts between the unit and Washington will again need approval from top officials at the US embassy in Israel, The New York Times reported.

State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce played down the wider significance of Tuesday’s announcement, saying it reverted to policy back to where it was during Trump’s first term.

Former Yemeni official: Israeli strikes will not weaken Houthis

Mustapha Noman, Yemen’s former deputy foreign minister, told Al Jazeera that Israeli strikes have targeted civilian infrastructure and that the international community must do more to halt such attacks.

“Are the Israelis happy about doing all of this damage to the Yemeni people, and can that help their cause, or help them weaken the Houthis?” he asked. “I don’t think so, and it’s going to be something that the Yemeni people always remember.”

“The international community has to intervene and to make the Israelis understand that this is not helpful for the stability of the region or for the cause of the Yemenis,” he added.

Columbia University announces layoffs after Trump admin pulled funding

Columbia announced that it would lay off nearly 180 staff members after the Trump administration cut $400m from the US university for not going far enough to meet the government’s demands to crack down on pro-Palestine activism on campus.

“We have had to make deliberate, considered decisions about the allocation of our financial resources,” the university said. “Those decisions also impact our greatest resource, our people. We understand this news will be hard.”

The university has become a flashpoint in disputes over antiwar protests on college campuses across the US. In the name of combatting alleged anti-Semitism on campus, the government and many universities have taken harsh measures against student protesters.

Pro-Palestine groups say that criticism of Israel is being conflated with anti-Semitism to deny protesters civil liberties. The Trump administration has detained and is seeking to deport several pro-Palestine foreign students because of their criticism of Israel.

Trump says only 21 captives now believed to be alive

Trump says that three captives held by Hamas in Gaza have died, leaving only 21 believed to still be living.

“As of today, it’s 21, three have died,” Trump said of the captives, noting that until recently, it had been 24 people believed to be living. He did not elaborate on the identities of those now believed to be dead, nor how he had come to learn of their deaths.

“There’s 21, plus a lot of dead bodies,” he said.

Trump says he is not planning to visit Israel as part of upcoming trip

US President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that he is not planning on visiting Israel at the tail end of a trip next week to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

While the White House hadn’t confirmed that Israel would be part of his upcoming trip, there have been widespread rumours in diplomatic and national security circles that he would extend his trip to visit the US ally.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/6/live-israel-attacks-yemen-lebanon-syria-and-gaza-in-one-day

per PressTV:
A second $60 million US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet has gone down during a failed landing attempt on the Truman aircraft carrier, with American taxpayers once again left to foot the bill.

>>489381
live now!

UK Metropolitan Police: "The conditions make it an offence for anyone participating in the protest organised by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) to attempt to assemble in the shaded area on this map."

https://x.com/WOLPalestine/status/1920533721561637307
ALL OUT TO BROOKLYN COLLEGE
Hassan Ayyad liberation zone had dropped and students are chanting “ The students united will never be defeated!” 🇵🇸

📍2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210- In front of main gates on Bedford Ave

(ongoing now)

Per Dropsite via Twitter:
Pentagon Report: Gaza Aid Pier Left 1 Dead, 62 Injured in $230M U.S. Mission Failure

A newly released Pentagon Inspector General report reveals the Biden administration’s floating pier mission off Gaza as a dangerous, costly, and largely ineffective operation. The $230 million project—initiated to ease political pressure over U.S. support for Israel’s mass murder campaign in Gaza—resulted in 62 American troops injured, one dead, and delivered only a single day’s worth of humanitarian aid.

KEY FINDINGS

➤ High Human Cost: 62 U.S. service members were injured during the mission—far more than the previously reported three. One soldier, Sgt. Quandarius Davon Stanley, later died from injuries sustained during the deployment (Reuters).

➤ Minimal Aid Impact: The pier delivered the equivalent of just one day’s worth of humanitarian aid for Gaza’s 2.3 million residents.

➤ Severe Logistical Failures: The floating pier, intended to facilitate aid deliveries by sea, was only operational for about 20 days over three months. It broke apart multiple times due to rough seas and bad weather, and some support vessels ran aground (Washington Post).

➤ Poor Planning And Losses: The military failed to assess local sea conditions adequately. Army and Navy pontoon systems proved incompatible, causing additional structural damage. Over two dozen vessels were damaged, with losses in the tens of millions of dollars (Military Times).

➤ Lack of Coordination with Israel: The U.S. and Israel did not effectively coordinate the aid delivery strategy. Aid groups criticized both governments for failing to open overland crossings to allow aid to flow in greater numbers, describing the pier as humanitarian theater serving political messaging rather than practical relief efforts (Washington Post).

➤ Political Context: The pier, critics note, was a public relations move by the Biden administration to deflect criticism over its role in enabling the Gaza genocide. The Pentagon concluded the military was unprepared and unequipped for the mission.

As stated in the Inspector General’s report: “The Army and Navy did not allocate sufficient maintenance, manning, [or] training” and “did not organize, train, and equip to a common joint standard” for the operation (DoD OIG Report).

x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1920553262258008345

https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1920655294234771935
WikiLeaks - An American jury has ordered Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group to pay over $167 million in punitive damages after it was found to have used WhatsApp to install its Pegasus spyware on 1,400 devices. The spyware, sold to governments globally, has been used to target journalists, activists, and political leaders.

During the trial, Meta (which controls WhatsApp) stated that “NSO was forced to admit it spends tens of millions of dollars annually to develop malware installation methods—including through instant messaging, browsers, and operating systems—and that its spyware remains capable of compromising iOS and Android devices to this day.”

https://x.com/TrackAIPAC/status/1920715369062273443
AIPAC is spending $500,000 to run a new ad on broadcast TV (Fox) and social media pushing President Donald Trump to go to war with Iran.

>>489405
And people say Trump isn't based

>>489407
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's an "I want to believe" situation. If I thought Trump was sincere, that would be nice. I suspect this is another situation like we saw early in the year with the 'ceasefire' where Trump comes out, makes an appearance of changing course, and it gives a false sense of security to the anti-Zionist movement and reduces momentum while giving the US/Israel time to regroup and consolidate more political power while people have their guard down.

>>489408
Oh… I retract my previous statement in light of this information.

Israel intercepts missile launched by Yemen’s Houthis

Air raid sirens were heard in Israel as a missile was launched towards the territory by Yemen’s Houthis, who say they are retaliating against Israeli sites in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel’s military said it intercepted the projectile on Friday using its air defence systems.

There were no reports of injuries or damage from the missile attack, according to a military statement.

The incident came days after Oman said it mediated a ceasefire deal between the United States and the Houthis, with the Yemeni group saying the agreement did not include Israel.

Houthi rebels fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” towards Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, while also claiming a drone attack “targeting a vital Israeli enemy target” in the same area, according to the group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree.

Israeli media reported that air raid sirens were sounded in several areas across central Israel, with people receiving early warning mobile messages about the missile attack.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said that Israel would respond forcefully in Yemen and “wherever necessary”, describing the Houthi missiles as “Iranian”.

read more:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/9/houthis-claim-responsibility-for-missile-attack-on-israel-airport

https://x.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1920840666457755681
Ahmed Hassan - "I like it when settlers listen to me when I tell them to go to the shelters.."

video of Israeli settlers running to shelters due to air sirens from Yemeni missile today.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1920893781684957340
BREAKING: Norway’s largest trade union votes to divest from Israel

per Asa Winstanley:
"A new report in The Economist (based partly on Lancet medical data research) says that the true Palestinian death toll in Gaza –– of traumatic deaths alone –– could be as high as 109,000.

This is more than double the Gaza health ministry's current figures –– which we've always known was an extremely conservative undercount.

Once you've added in deaths from indirect causes –– deliberately induced starvation and purposely destroyed health care –– there's no doubt that Israel's Gaza Holocaust has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians already.

How many more lives will Zionism consume?"

The report:
https://archive.ph/lsiI7

Who's ready for them to pull a false flag against Trump and blame it on Iran?

UCLA People's Tribunal live now

>>489445
I hope the Iran-war lobby just fails and there's a new nuke-agreement.

A false flag might backfire, Trump could survive and seek vengeance. People might not swallow the narrative.

Mahmood OD on the latest with Yemen

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1921360605451026827
NOW: Students at campuses across California—including UCLA, SJSU, CSU Long Beach, CSU East Bay, and Sacramento State—have begun hunger strikes to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and the now 70-day blockade of food, water, and medical aid.

They’re also calling on their universities to divest from companies arming or profiting from Israel’s mass murder campaign. At least six students at Yale have also joined the strike, demanding divestment and accountability for their school’s complicity.

Source: Bay Area PYM (Instagram)

>>489463
Do "hunger strikes" even work outside prison?

>>489464
They work in prison?

https://x.com/frank_oconnor/status/1921207038618583101
Cork City Ireland demonstration today

https://twitter.com/Kuffiyateam/status/1921272216521408852
Madrid, May 10.

Mahmood OD - 🚨GAZA: IDF Commanders DOWN | 3rd MASSIVE AMBUSH By The Palestinian Resistance In ONE WEEK
discusses recent Gaza ambush on IDF in Rafah, Israeli protests, and a recently released Hamas video of an Israeli POW.

Owen Jones - “GAS CHAMBERS” In Gaza: Prominent Israeli Demands “HOLOCAUST”
(also discusses a recent report from an IDF soldier who was employed at Sde Teiman prison)

Death toll at Jabalia school rises to 17

We’ve been covering an Israeli attack on the Fatima Bint Asad School in northern Jabalia.

We are getting reports that the death toll at the school has now risen from 16 to 17.

We also now know that the victims, who include women and children, were killed in two consecutive Israeli air strikes that targeted the school at dawn.

Palestinian ambulance crews transported bodies and injured people to the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip and al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Captive Edan Alexander to be released today: Armed wing of Hamas

Abu Obaidah, spokesman of the Qassam Brigades, says the armed wing of Hamas has decided to release US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander today.

Trump confirms Edan Alexander returning home in step towards ending ‘brutal war’

The US president says the 21-year-old soldier who has been held captive since October 2023 “is coming home to his family”.

In a post on his social media site, Truth Social, Trump acknowledged the efforts of mediators Qatar and Egypt and said Alexander’s release was a “step taken in good faith towards the United States” to “put an end to this very brutal war and return ALL living hostages and remains to their loved ones”.

“Hopefully this is the first of those final steps necessary to end this brutal conflict. I look very much forward to that day of celebration!” he said.

The announcement comes as Trump is due to begin a visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/12/live-israel-pounds-gaza-killing-26-hamas-to-release-us-israeli-captive

Rights advocates to file complaint accusing US of ‘genocide complicity’

Palestinian rights advocates in the US are planning to file a complaint this week with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accusing the US government of “complicity in genocide in Gaza”.

Palestinian American lawyer Huwaida Arraf said the complaint is being filed “because the US government has effectively shielded itself from accountability for its international crimes under its own legal system, even for crimes against humanity and genocide”.

The US provides Israel with at least $3.8bn in military assistance annually. Washington has provided billions more since the war on Gaza began in October 2023 and vetoed UN resolutions seeking to get Israel to end its offensive.

“While the United States actively enables and materially supports Israel’s atrocities, it has constructed legal shields at home that deny victims even the chance to seek redress,” Arraf said in a statement.

“The United States cannot continue to finance, arm, and politically cover for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide abroad while remaining immune from international scrutiny. This petition is a call for accountability where none has yet been possible.”

The complaint is to be filed on Wednesday at the IACHR headquarters in Washington, DC.

Hamas slams settlers’ animal sacrifice attempt at Al-Aqsa Mosque

The Palestinian group has described the move as “a dangerous escalation that calls for a massive mobilisation to protect it from the settlers’ schemes and ambitions”.

A statement on Telegram called it “a blatant violation of our Islamic sanctities”.

“We reject the occupation’s policy of facilitating settler incursions, even allowing them to perform unprecedented Talmudic rituals.”

Guards at Al-Aqsa Mosque thwarted an attempt by Israeli settlers to bring an animal into its courtyard through al-Ghawanmeh Gate for a sacrifice, according to the Palestinian media. They said the animal was a lamb or a goat.

‘Despite the calm, we are cautious’: Gaza resident

The release of Alexander has led to a pause in Israeli attacks on Gaza, which has provided a much-needed respite for residents of the war-battered territory.

Somaya Abu al-Kas, 34, who has been displaced to the southern city of Khan Younis, said: “Calm settled over Gaza. There was no shelling and no nearby aircraft, which is very rare.”

“We are tired of the shelling, and any ceasefire – even if temporary – we consider it an opportunity to breathe and gather ourselves.”

But Um Mohammed Zomlot, 50, also displaced in Khan Younis, said: “Despite the calm, we are cautious.”

“Everyone is afraid the shelling might resume suddenly after the prisoner is released,” Zomlot said.

Israel’s West Bank land registration serves ‘annexation’: NGO

An Israeli rights group has denounced a government decision to launch extensive land registration for parts of the occupied West Bank, saying it could help advance annexation of the Palestinian territory.

“It is a tool for annexation,” said Yonatan Mizrachi of the Settlement Watch project at Israeli non-governmental organisation Peace Now.

The West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has no comprehensive land registry, with some areas unregistered or residents holding deeds from before the Israeli occupation.

The Israeli security cabinet on Sunday decided to initiate a land registration process in the West Bank’s Area C, which covers more than 60 percent of the territory and is under full Israeli control.

Though the process would likely take “years”, according to Mizrachi, adding Palestinians in Area C could lose land if Israeli authorities do not accept their claim to it.

This might lead to “a massive land theft”, Peace Now said. The process could result “in the transfer of ownership of the vast majority of Area C to the [Israeli] state”.

Red Cross confirms Alexander’s transfer to Israeli authorities

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed it “successfully facilitated the safe transfer of a hostage from Gaza to Israeli authorities”.

In a statement, ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric welcomed Alexander’s release while calling for a lasting ceasefire in Gaza.

More from Hamas on ceasefire talks

Hamas has reiterated that the complete withdrawal of Israel’s army must be part of Gaza ceasefire negotiations after Israel promised to continue its assault.

“We affirm that serious and responsible negotiations achieve results in the release of prisoners. However, continuing the aggression prolongs their suffering and may kill them,” the Palestinian group said.

“We affirm the movement’s readiness to immediately begin negotiations to reach a comprehensive and sustainable ceasefire agreement, including the withdrawal of the occupation army, the end of the siege, a prisoner exchange and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.”

Israeli army says Edan Alexander on way to hospital

The released US-Israeli captive is accompanied by his family on his way to an Israeli hospital, the military says.

“He will meet with the rest of his family and receive medical treatment,” it said in a statement.

Separately, the White House shared a photo on X appearing to show Alexander holding a handwritten sign that reads, “Thank you President Trump”.

Netanyahu’s ‘indecisiveness’ led to US-Hamas direct talks

Relatives of other captives held in Gaza have expressed frustration after the release of Edan Alexander by Hamas.

Families of abductees without foreign citizenship accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of indifference.

“Hamas saw that [US] President Trump had enough of Netanyahu’s indecisiveness and threw him a bone, leaving Israel out,” said Shimon Or, whose nephew remains held in Gaza, told the YNet news outlet.

Israel stressed that it remains under no obligation to agree to a ceasefire or prisoner exchange. And despite the release, Israel signalled its intention to escalate military action in Gaza.

Spanish court investigates shipping firm over alleged arms shipments to Israel: Report

A court in Barcelona has reportedly opened an investigation into the global shipping giant Maersk over allegations it transported weapons to Israel.

The investigation was prompted by a legal complaint from Prou Complicitat amb Israel (Stop Complicity with Israel), a Catalan campaign group, which claims Maersk ships were involved in delivering F-35 fighter jet components to Israel.

The judge ordered last Wednesday that the captains of two ships, the Nexoe and the Detroit, along with Maersk’s legal representative in Spain, appear in court to testify, though the order was not made public until Monday, Catalan media reported.

The hearing coincided with the docking of the Nexoe in the Port of Barcelona. The vessel is expected to remain in port until 7pm local time (17:00 GMT).

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/12/live-israel-pounds-gaza-killing-26-hamas-to-release-us-israeli-captive

Israel resume air attacks on Gaza after captive’s release
Hind Khoudary
Reporting from Al-Aqsa Hospital, Gaza Palestine

After Israeli forces were handed the US-Israeli captive, they started their air strikes again in the Gaza Strip.

We can hear the F-16s and the drones hovering in the sky.

Palestinians have a lot of questions about what is going to happen now on the ground.

We’re talking about this stage, where Palestinians are very desperate.

Palestinian families are unable to secure food.

They’re saying they are unable to feed their children. Their children are going to bed hungry.

However, Hamas said that this is a very positive step towards the negotiations, where they’re aiming at a ceasefire, they’re also aiming for the end of the war, the entrance of the humanitarian aid and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.

https://aje.io/1xgt8y?update=3705754

Entire Gaza at critical risk of famine, 500,000 facing starvation: Monitor

A global hunger monitor says Gaza’s entire population continues to face a critical risk of famine, while half a million people face starvation.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification described the findings as a serious deterioration since its last assessment in October.

The latest report analysed a period from April 1 to May 10 this year and gave projections of the situation until the end of September, according to a summary of its key findings.

Hundreds rally in Ramallah against killings of Palestinian medics

Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) staff have marched in the occupied West Bank city to protest against the killing of medical workers in Gaza over the past 19 months of Israel’s war.

Hundreds of medical personnel, support staff and volunteers gathered in Ramallah’s Clock Square, wearing white and orange vests and waving flags bearing the PRCS’s emblem.

Protesters carried symbolic white shrouds bearing the names and pictures of the dead, as well as signs demanding the release of three staff members who have been detained by the Israeli army for over a year.

In a statement, the PRCS said 48 of its staff members have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank since the start of the war, including 30 who “were killed while performing their humanitarian duty wearing the Red Crescent emblem”.

Some 1,400 humanitarian and medical workers have been killed in Gaza, according to the statement, which added that “dozens of medical personnel working in Gaza … were detained while performing their humanitarian duties”.

It highlighted a particularly deadly attack in March in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, when 15 first responders including eight PRCS paramedics were killed by the Israeli army.

UN says Israeli forces continue to cross Lebanon border

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon reports armed incursions continue by Israeli forces north of the Blue Line that violate a UN Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that in the latest incident, a peacekeeping patrol reported that 10 Israeli soldiers crossed north of the Blue Line on Monday near Alma ash-Shaab.

Hezbollah’s chief Naim Qassem said Lebanon and Hezbollah have fulfilled their commitments under the November ceasefire, and the army has deployed in south Lebanon, “while Israel has not withdrawn, has not stopped its attacks”.

Israel “thinks that continuing its pressure and aggression could lead to the political end of the resistance”, he said, adding: “This will not happen.”

Israel asks ICC to withdraw arrest warrant against Netanyahu

Israel has asked judges at the International Criminal Court to withdraw arrest warrants against its prime minister and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant while the ICC reviews Israeli challenges to its jurisdiction over the conduct of the Gaza war.

Documents published on the ICC website also show Israel has asked the court to order the prosecution to suspend its investigation into alleged atrocity crimes in the Palestinian territory.

The documents are dated May 9 and signed by Israeli Deputy Attorney General Gilad Noam.

The ICC issued arrest warrants on November 21 last year for Netanyahu and Gallant, as well as Hamas leader Ibrahim al-Masri, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The ICC said in February that judges had withdrawn the arrest warrant for al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif, following credible reports of his death.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/12/live-israel-pounds-gaza-killing-26-hamas-to-release-us-israeli-captive

>>489500
>Israel has asked judges at the International Criminal Court to
<consign them selves to the dustbin of history.

If they let Netanyah and that other guy off the hook, they might as well close up shop.

I usually try to avoid
>pointing to tweet
but I think he's onto something here.

>>489504
But they did pull out of Yemen, it was a shitshow and for once they did the rational thing and cut their losses.

I don't know much about the political theater dimension. However it is worth noting that domestically Netanyahu is always playing up that he's got the US standing behind him. So getting the cold shoulder from the US, that showed him up.

Israeli military bombs European Gaza Hospital

After the attack on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the Israeli military has now heavily bombed the European Gaza Hospital in the southern Gaza city.

The Israeli army confirmed it worked with internal security agency Shin Bet to attack the hospital, which it claimed housed an underground “command-and-control centre” for Hamas.

Israel’s military repeatedly gives this justification without providing evidence when it bombs schools-turned-shelters and medical facilities.

https://twitter.com/AJA_Palestine/status/1922315056827519474

Death toll rises in Israeli attack on European Hospital

Gaza’s Health Ministry says nine missiles slammed into and around the courtyard of the European Gaza Hospital in the south of the besieged enclave, killing at least 16 people and wounding 70 others.

The fate of several others remains unclear as rescue operations are under way, a civil emergency official said.

‘Large number’ of casualties being recovered at Gaza’s European Hospital

The Civil Defence agency in Gaza reports its medical teams are recovering many people killed or wounded as a result of the Israeli bombing of the European Hospital.

The rescue organisation said in a short statement that the bodies of some of the victims still cannot be recovered because they are “scattered around the hospital area” from the intensity of the Israeli bombardment.

After reports indicated a second round of Israeli missiles hit the area to deter rescue operations, the agency confirmed the Israeli army “deliberately targeted anyone who tried to reach” the wounded.

Yemen’s Houthis promise to uphold ‘navigation ban’ on Israel’s Ben Gurion airport

A Houthi military spokesman has confirmed the Yemeni group has launched a ballistic missile at Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv.

Yahya Saree said during a televised announcement that the launch emphasises “the continuation of the ban on navigation” at the airport, referencing the group’s warning to international airlines to stay away.

He didn’t comment on a second missile the Israeli military said the Houthis fired but fell before reaching Israel. The first missile was intercepted but triggered air raid sirens and panic at the airport.

The Houthis reached an agreement with the Trump administration this month to stop their attacks on ships in the Red Sea in exchange for the US halting its daily bombing campaign of Yemen.

But the Houthis have continued to launch missiles at Israel in support of the Palestinians in Gaza.

Three rockets launched at Israel from Gaza, Yemen missile falls short

The Israeli military reports its air defences shot down two rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, and a third fell in an open area without inflicting any casualties.

The Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, claimed the attack, which triggered air raid alarms across southern Israel. The group said it was in response to “Zionist massacres against our Palestinian people”.

The Israeli army earlier said a missile was launched by the Houthis in Yemen, but it fell short before reaching Israel and did not trigger any alarms.

Israel hits southern Lebanon, unexploded ordnance claims casualties

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) has reported in the past several hours that an Israeli missile was fired towards a vehicle in southern Lebanon’s Chaqra area.

The missile did not explode, and the driver escaped unharmed. The Israeli military has not commented on this incident, but it confirmed earlier that it targeted two alleged Hezbollah operatives in separate southern Lebanon attacks.

NNA also reported that unexploded ordnance left by the Israeli military killed one person and wounded another in a southern Lebanon road linking two small towns.

Yemen’s Houthis report Israeli-hit Sanaa airport back in service

Houthi authorities have announced they have completed rebuilding facilities at the Sanaa International Airport in the Yemeni capital that were destroyed by major Israeli air strikes this month.

Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahwi and other senior officials conducted a tour of the airport to inspect final preparations, Houthi-run media reported.

The airport will reportedly be equipped to receive civilian flights and transfer patients starting on Wednesday.

Israeli drone attack kills one in southern Lebanon

A person riding a motorcycle in the southern Lebanese city of Hula has been killed in an Israeli drone attack, the Health Ministry has said.

Israel has repeatedly attacked Lebanon despite a November ceasefire deal and has extended a deadline to withdraw its forces from the south of the country.

Qassam Brigades says Israeli soldier killed in Shujayea

Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, says it killed an Israeli soldier two days ago using light weapons in the Shujayea neighbourhood, in the eastern part of Gaza City.

The Israeli military has not confirmed the claim.

Two people killed in West Bank shootings involving PA

Two men have been killed in gun battles involving Palestinian Authority (PA) forces in the occupied West Bank.

Local media reported PA soldiers killed a young male in the Fara refugee camp near Tubas while another man was killed in Jenin. Both were shot dead while seated in their vehicles.

Security forces spokesman Anwar Rajab said the soldiers were trying to arrest a Palestinian man suspected of being a member of an armed group in the Tubas area when he returned fire.

The man was identified as Rami al-Zahran, a Palestinian wanted by Israel. His family said in a statement the PA’s intelligence service was responsible for his killing “in cold blood” and demanded accountability.

In the case of the Jenin shooting, Rajab said the 65-year-old man was shot in the head by an “outlaw” who was being chased by security forces, leading to an exchange of fire. A girl was reportedly injured by shrapnel to her leg but was in stable condition.

Family says Edan Alexander survived Israeli strikes, calls for captives’ return

The family of American-Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, who was released from Hamas captivity on Monday, has given a statement to reporters at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Hospital.

“The most terrible sound that Edan feared was the sounds of the war going on above their heads,” the family said in a statement, highlighting “deafening explosions” caused by Israeli bombs dropped on Gaza.

“The whistles of missiles, the sounds of collapsing buildings, and the earth shaking. Any moment could be the last moment,” it said, calling for the immediate return of all 58 captives still held in the besieged enclave.

The family thanked Trump and other US officials but left out Netanyahu and his government.

Israeli military court extends detention of female Palestinian journalist

An Israeli military court has extended the detention of journalist Haneen Qawareeq, 24, on suspicion of “incitement” on social media until Thursday.

Qawareeq, who is from Nablus in the occupied West Bank, was detained on May 7, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said.

She was sent to Hasharon Prison before being transferred to Damon Prison, where she is currently being held without any formal charges against her.

Qawareeq is among more than 180 Palestinian journalists detained by the Israeli military since the start of the war on Gaza, with some 50 still imprisoned, according to the monitors.

Universities holding Nakba memorials will see funds cut: Israel minister

Any Israeli university where students hold events to commemorate the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 – will have their funding cut, Education Minister Yoav Kisch has warned.

In a post on X, he published a letter to far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich demanding funds be denied to Israel’s Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University after Nakba commemorations were held there.

…

Students have been holding similar pro-Palestine events in universities across the world, particularly in the United States. Kisch particularly attacked Tel Aviv University President Ariel Porat, urging him to “look and learn what is happening in the US to universities that commemorate Nakba Day”.

MSF reduces staff after Nasser Hospital attacked twice in seven weeks

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, says Israel’s attack on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital marked the second time in seven weeks the same building was targeted.

Two of the 12 people wounded in the Israeli bombing of the Khan Younis hospital are undergoing surgery.

“After the first attack seven weeks ago, we had to move our burn unit to a nearby building, where we now treat severe burns, trauma injuries and run two surgical theatres,” MSF said. “Following today’s attack, outpatient consultations are suspended and the number of our colleagues in the facility is reduced.”

Trump administration terminates more grants to Harvard

The Trump administration says eight federal agencies will terminate another $450m in grants to Harvard University amid a dispute on what it called “pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus”.

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The Trump administration already cancelled $2.2bn in federal funding last week.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/13/live-israeli-forces-resume-gaza-attacks-after-us-israeli-soldier-released

>>489506
>But they did pull out of Yemen,
And they also got a ceasefire in Gaza at the start of the year and then just let Israel unilaterally wreck it while themselves doubling down on support for Israel.

>>489510
>Israeli military bombs European Gaza Hospital
So the lesson of all those bombed hospitals is to build underground ?
>it claimed housed an underground “command-and-control centre” for Hamas.
>Israel’s military repeatedly gives this justification without providing evidence when it bombs schools-turned-shelters and medical facilities.
Why are they still doing this, do they really expect that there is anybody left who buys that story ?

>>489512
>And they also got a ceasefire in Gaza at the start of the year and then just let Israel unilaterally wreck it
Fair point. But do you really think that they intent to go back to bombing Yemen and loosing all that equipment ?

Gaza death toll reaches 70

Since dawn today, at least 70 Palestinians have been killed across Gaza by Israeli forces, with 50 of those in northern Gaza.

Air traffic suspended at Tel Aviv’s airport

Israeli media is reporting that landings and takeoffs were suspended at Ben Gurion Airport following the launch of a missile from Yemen towards Israel.

As we reported earlier, the Israeli army said it shot down one missile launched from Yemen. The launch triggered air raid sirens throughout central Israel and the Jerusalem area, according to The Times of Israel.

Israeli military intercepts missile fired from Yemen

The military says it has shot down one missile launched from Yemen.

The launch triggered air raid sirens throughout central Israel and the Jerusalem area, according to The Times of Israel.

This comes hours after Yemen’s Houthis claimed firing a missile towards the Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel. The Israeli military said it intercepted that missile, too.

Israeli army orders people to leave three ports in Yemen

The Israeli army has issued forced evacuation threats for three seaports in Yemen, including Ras Isa, Hodeidah and as-Salif, Reuters news agency is reporting.

The warning comes after Israel said it shot down a missile fired towards Israel from Yemen.

Israeli forces launch drone attack on south Lebanon

The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli forces have carried out a drone strike on a vehicle in the Nabatieh district.

It happened at the entrance to the Wadi al-Hujeir reserve near the town of Qaaqaait al-Jisr.

It is not clear immediately if there were casualties.

NNA also reported that an Israeli drone crashed in the town of Shebaa in the Hasbaya district, also in southern Lebanon, due to a technical malfunction. The explosion damaged a house and caused “material losses”, it reported.

Latest Israeli killing takes death toll among Gaza journalists to 215

The Government Media Office in Gaza has confirmed the death of journalist Hassan Eslaih and says it condemns “in the strongest terms the systematic targeting, killing and assassination of Palestinian journalists” by Israeli forces.

It said that Eslaih was “assassinated” as he was receiving treatment at the Nasser Medical Complex earlier today, and that his killing has raised the death toll among journalists since the war began to 215.

“We hold the Israeli occupation, the US administration, and the countries participating in the crime of genocide, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, fully responsible for committing this heinous, brutal crime,” it added.

Republicans make new push to pass ‘Nonprofit Killer Bill’

Republicans in the US House of Representatives have included provisions in a 389-page tax plan that could give the Trump administration the power to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofit groups, according to a rights group.

In a statement on X, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the bill would allow the Trump administration to “silence and financially dismantle organizations, particularly Muslim, Palestinian, and human rights groups, that dare to criticize U.S. foreign policy or call out Israel’s genocide in Gaza and attacks on civilians the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen”.

The group called the bill “a direct attack on free speech and dissent”.

The so-called “Nonprofit Killer Bill”, which was voted down by the Congress last November, is included on pages 380 to 388 of the sweeping tax bill.

UK court set to begin hearings in petition over Israel arms sales

The High Court in London will begin four days of hearings in a petition filed by the Palestinian rights group, Al-Haq, seeking to block the government’s export of fighter jet parts to Israel amid the war in Gaza.

The case is also supported by Amnesty International, Oxfam and other rights groups.

Israel has used the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters to devastating effect in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, and the head of Amnesty UK said Britain had failed to uphold its “legal obligation … to prevent genocide” by allowing the export of key parts to Israel.

The plane’s refuelling probe, laser targeting system, tyres, rear fuselage, fan propulsion system and ejector seat are all made in the UK, according to Oxfam, and lawyers supporting Al-Haq’s case said the aircraft “could not keep flying without continuous supply of UK-made components”.

The British government has suspended about 30 licences following a review of Israel’s compliance with international humanitarian law, but the partial ban did not cover UK-made parts for the advanced F-35 stealth fighters.

A spokesperson for the UK government told AFP that it was “not currently possible to suspend licensing of F-35 components for use by Israel without prejudicing the entire global F-35 programme, due to its strategic role in NATO and wider implications for international peace and security”.

Japanese guesthouse dismisses Israeli envoy’s criticism over war-crimes pledge

A guesthouse in Kyoto that came under attack from Israel’s envoy to the country for asking an Israeli guest to sign a “pledge of non-involvement in war crimes” has taken to X to explain its rationale.

The Wind Villa quoted Ambassador Gilad Cohen’s tweet and dismissed his claim that the pledge amounted to discrimination against Israelis.

It said the pledge does not target specific nationalities, but rather visitors who had served in military or paramilitary forces that have been determined by the International Criminal Court to have committed war crimes.

“The very definition of ‘discrimination’ is the unequal treatment of individuals based on factors beyond their personal control. To give an example, subjecting someone to unjust violence, confiscating their home and land, denying them legal protection, or detaining them indefinitely without trial simply because they are Palestinian clearly constitutes ‘discrimination’,” the guesthouse wrote.

“If Israeli nationals are more likely to be asked to sign the pledge, it is a consequence of the policies and actions of the Israeli government … Should an individual involved in the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks attempt to stay at our guesthouse, we would likewise ask them to sign the same pledge,” it added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/13/live-israeli-forces-resume-gaza-attacks-after-us-israeli-soldier-released

The title of this Guardian article is misleading, but it's quickly clarified:

A secret coalition of western intelligence agencies supplied Israel with crucial information that allowed the Mossad to track and kill Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks in western Europe in the early 1970s, newly declassified documents have revealed.

The support was offered without any oversight by parliaments or elected politicians, and, if not actually illegal, would have caused a public scandal.

Israel’s assassination campaign, conducted by the Mossad, Israel’s principal foreign intelligence service, followed the attack by armed Palestinian militants on the Olympic Games in Munich in September 1972, which led to the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes. At least four Palestinians linked by Israel to terrorism were killed in Paris, Rome, Athens and Nicosia, and another six elsewhere over the rest of the decade.

The mission, which was dubbed Operation Wrath of God by some, inspired Steven Spielberg’s 2005 Hollywood film Munich.

Evidence of support from western intelligence services for the Israeli mission was discovered in encrypted cables found in Swiss archives by Dr Aviva Guttmann, a historian of strategy and intelligence at Aberystwyth University.

Thousands of such cables were circulated through a hitherto unknown secret system codenamed Kilowatt, which was set up in 1971 to allow 18 western intelligence services, including those of Israel, the UK, the US, France, Switzerland, Italy and West Germany to share information. The cables circulated raw intelligence with details of safe houses and vehicles, the movements of key individuals seen as dangerous, news on tactics used by Palestinian armed groups, and analysis.

“A lot was very granular, linking individuals to specific attacks and giving details that would be of great help. Perhaps at the very beginning, [western officials] were unaware [of the killings] but afterwards there was a lot of press reporting and other evidence suggesting strongly what the Israelis were doing,” said Guttmann, the first researcher to view Kilowatt material. “They were even sharing the results of their own investigations into the assassinations with the agency – Mossad – which was most likely to have done them.”

read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/14/western-countries-gave-mossad-information-used-to-track-and-killi-palestinian-terrorists-in-1970s

Ftr this is an extremely bad article. In case you couldn't tell by phrasing like "if not illegal," it's purposefully glossing over the central fact that what's illuminated here is that European governments actively enabled a foreign spy ring to run around carrying out public assassinations all over Europe without any process beyond "the spy agencies involved assured eachother that it was legit."

Zei Squirrel chimed in:
everything being done by the Trump admin now to push the "turn on Israel/Netanyahu" line is pure misdirection aimed at re-establishing the element of surprise ahead of the imminent attack on Iran, which requires both a sustained air bombardment and a ground operation at the nuclear sites.

For the attack to have at least some chance of success, it is essential for the element of surprise to be re-established. The fake "negotiations" in Oman with the Iranians, the demotion of Watlz, the whining about "neo-cons" like in the Saudi Arabia speech, the fake "defeat" against the Houthis and all the fake "leaks" about how Trump is really very angry and feels betrayed by Netanyahu, are all intentionally designed to create a feeling of passivity among the Iranians and the belief that the attack may not actually happen.

Netanyahu's trips to DC was where they decided to adopt this strategy, and then immediately thereafter it was launched and the "Trump turn on Israel" propaganda began in full swing. The entire media class is of course playing along with it, with their "anonymous sources" giving them "leaks" that establish and launder the narrative.

Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf puppet regime is aimed at shoring up support among the US-NATO-Israeli empire's "Arab shield", and consolidate the inclusion of Syria's Erdogan-Jolani fascist puppets into it ahead of the attack.

As they have been desperately trying to re-establish the element of surprise with bullshit meaningless rhetoric, these are the actual material things that are being done to set up the preparations for the attack.

Trump's Zionist enforces have been heavily involved in Lebanon, demanding they do more and more to destroy Hezbollah and prevent its ability from being a deterrent against an attack. Again, Syria plays a crucial role in this, which is why they have now formally integrated it into the US-NATO-Israeli empire. This is not only to eliminate the land corridor between Iran and Hezbollah, but also to have the ISIS-fascist proxies serve as an attack force against them in the case they get involved, with an invasion of Lebanon from the East being threatened.

Similar moves are being made in Iraq, with Trump's Zionist enforcers demanding the state crack down on paramilitary forces that are not beholden to the US-NATO-Israeli empire but instead aligned with the Axis of Resistance.

What about the Houthis? The Trump Zionist regime realized that the bombing campaign by itself would not be sufficient to destroy them, and they needed to make preparations for a ground invasion with the aid of its Gulf proxies, the UAE and Saudis chief among them. To help establish the misdirection narrative of the "Trump turn on Netanyahu", they decided to come out with the fake leaks about how what was always intended to be a temporary withdrawal was actually part of the "distancing" between the US and Israel.

They will re-launch that campaign with the ground invasion in concert with the attack on Iran, or perhaps even earlier.

The Trump regime already made the decision before it came into office that the "Axis of Resistance", meaning the only material force in the region that withstands genocidal Zionist Israeli and broader US-NATO imperial hegemony, has to be destroyed by military means and that now is the perfect time to do it because, so the propaganda line goes, Hezbollah and Hamas have both been defeated and so are no longer deterrents, and Iran has shown itself to be a paper tiger that talks a tough game with red lines and operation true promises, but then never follows through so is fundamentally risk-avert and unwilling to retaliate with the required force which it certainly possesses.

This btw is another propaganda line they keep repeating, which is totally deranged and pure Mossad-CIA propaganda: The claim that Israel actually managed to destroy most if not all of Iran's air defenses and rocket building capacities in its pathetic irrelevant attack that in reality had zero effect on anything.

Yet if you read the NYT (Ronen Bergman the Mossad asset), BBC, Washington Post, CNN, AP, Reuters, Guardian, it is now accepted truth that Israel has already destroyed Iran's defenses, and so any attack on Iran will be easy, involves very little risk, and they'll be too weak to respond.

This btw is how the CIA-Mossad approached Trump with their war plan and got him to accept it.

This is of course the irony: To successfully establish deterrence, you have to show that you are willing to go to war. If you instead impose red lines and they keep being broken and you don't even follow through with what you said were the appropriate responses even below the level of an all-out war, like the bombing of Tel Aviv in exchange for the bombing of Beirut, then you have lost all deterrent value. You have convinced the other side that you are weak.

Iran's fundamental mistake was that they kept seeing their red lines being violated, and then they didn't follow through on what they themselves had said would be the response. The same with Hezbollah.

This is why Israel was emboldened enough to assassinate Nasrallah. They have admitted that they delayed it for a very long time because they were afraid of Hezbollah and Iran's response. Then they did the assassinations of Haniyeh, Fuad Shukr, and there was nothing. They did nothing. They just whined. They just posted videos of drone footage over Israeli military bases. And now Nasrallah is gone and they are tightening the noose around Lebanon and proceeding with its full integration into the US-NATO-Israeli empire.
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1922704884601614785

>>489514
see >>489531

>>489531
its over..

>>489534
Really wish you guys would stop saying that. it's literally the same as it was at the end of last year.

>>489533
I guess you are right, it could be a ruse.

However the point in >>489531 about Iran not retaliating forcefully, fails to account for the possibility that the Iranians are convinced a war is inevitable and they are simply conserving their ammunition.

If Iran's air-defenses are up (which seems to be the case), Israel will loose most of their air-force if they charge into Iran full bore. Iran might not have much of an incentive to deter them from doing that.

per Ryan Grim
Iran’s offer to Trump:

They destroy all their highly enriched uranium

Commit to make no more and allow inspection and verification

Commit to not pursue nuclear weapons

Enrich only low grade uranium for verified civilian use

In exchange the U.S. would lift sanctions.

https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1922839165890126283

>>489540
>Ryan "the spook" Grim
I'll wait on a real source. Iran has no incentive to do any more than they've already agreed to with Russia in their recent military/defensive pact. That's the "deal" that already has prevented them from pursuing nuclear weapons into the future. The US is too late to do anything other than agree to drop its economic war.

>>489542
What
I was just quoting his summary. His source is Ali Shamkhani afaict.

Breaking news and analysis on day 587 of the Gaza genocide | The Electronic Intifada

New attacks kill at least 115 in Gaza

At least 115 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in a wave of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, as indirect ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas continue.

At least 61 people were killed overnight and early on Thursday in a barrage of attacks on the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, according to local health officials. In Jabalia in northern Gaza, an Israeli strike on al-Tawbah medical clinic killed at least 15 people and wounded several others, the Health Ministry said.

Israel says missile launched from Yemen intercepted

The Israeli military has said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen towards its territory.

“Sirens were sounded in accordance with protocol,” it said in a statement.

Yemen’s Houthi group has been firing missiles and drones towards Israel, stating that their actions are acts of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/15/live-israel-kills-at-least-115-in-gaza-as-palestinians-commemorate-nakba

Ben & Jerry’s cofounder removed from RFK Jr hearing for Gaza protest

Ben Cohen, one of the cofounders of the famed US ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s, was removed from a congressional committee hearing in Washington, DC, after he interrupted Health and Human Services Director Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Asked why he was being removed, Cohen said: “Congress kills poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs and pays for it by kicking kids off Medicaid in the US.”

You can see part of what happened in the video Cohen shared on X below.

https://twitter.com/YoBenCohen/status/1922760476439515310

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/14/live-israel-attacks-gaza-hospitals-as-trump-says-working-to-end-war-soon

https://twitter.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1923077289505374639
Graphic, two children brought to a hospital. They look dead or close.

Gaza death toll today crosses 100

Health officials have told Al Jazeera that at least 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks since dawn. At least 55 of them were killed in northern Gaza.

Dozens more remain missing under the rubble.

No progress in ceasefire talks

According to sources cited by Israeli media outlet Haaretz, there has been no progress on ceasefire and captives negotiations in Qatar.

The report said that despite Israel’s renewed military pressure on Gaza and an attempted assassination on Hamas senior figure Mohammed Sinwar, the Palestinian group has not compromised its position on a US-proposed plan.

“Israel’s position is rigid, Hamas hasn’t folded, the Americans have lost interest, Trump is on his way home, and Witkoff is no longer involved. He’s waiting to hear what we want, and since we don’t want anything, he has nothing left to do,” one source was quoted as saying.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/16/live-israeli-attacks-kill-more-than-100-palestinians-across-gaza

Hundreds flee Beit Lahiya as Israeli ground forces storm area

We have been reporting on the Israeli military’s aerial assault on the Beit Lahiya area of northern Gaza over recent hours.

An Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent in the Palestinian enclave now reports that hundreds of Beit Lahiya residents have fled the area as they attempt to escape Israel’s bombardment.

The same correspondent also reports that Israeli ground forces have stormed the city from the western section.

The Quds News Network reports that Israeli soldiers are besieging a shelter west of the city, as they carry out arrests and order displaced women and children to evacuate the area using loudspeakers.

‘People torn apart’ in deadly Israeli attack on Jabalia clinic

We’ve collected testimonies from people in Jabalia refugee camp, where an Israeli attack on al-Tawbah medical clinic killed at least 13 people today.

Mohammad al-Taramsi said women and children were receiving medical treatment when the clinic was bombed. “The strike was extremely intense – indescribable,” he told Al Jazeera.

“The martyrs were lying on the ground, including children and women … Reaching the area was difficult for ambulances and civilian vehicles because of the massive destruction, and the bodies remained on the ground for a long time.”

Another local resident, Yahya al-Skaafi, said he was collecting the remains of those killed. “The scene was heartbreaking – people torn apart and scattered,” he told Al Jazeera. “The martyrs who were on the upper floor were just body parts. It was a truly tragic situation.”

Khaled Abu Jalloum also said children and women were among those killed. “There was no justification for striking this place. It’s a clinic where people come to get treated, and it contains medicine and medical equipment,” he said.

What is Nakba Day?

Commemorated every year on May 15, Nakba Day marks the ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine when the State of Israel was founded in 1948.

About 750,000 Palestinians were forced out of their homes by Zionist military forces before and during the creation of the Israeli state between 1947 and 1949. Some 530 Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed.

Over the years, the Nakba – Arabic for “catastrophe” – has been commemorated with marches, protests and other events across the Middle East and other countries.

The key, in particular, has come to symbolise Palestinian dispossession, as well as the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their ancestral homeland.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/15/live-israel-kills-at-least-115-in-gaza-as-palestinians-commemorate-nakba

https://x.com/SocialRightsIRL/status/1923724301473116290
Demonstration in Dublin today

What’s happened in Gaza since Israel abandoned truce deal?
March 2: Israel blocks the entry of all aid into Gaza after Hamas rejects its effort to change the terms of the ceasefire deal agreed to in January.
March 18: Israel abandons the ceasefire and bombards Gaza, killing more than 400 Palestinians, many of them children, in a single day.
April 25: The World Food Programme (WFP) says its food stocks in Gaza are completely depleted.
May 3: Authorities in Gaza say at least 57 Palestinians have starved to death since Israel imposed its total blockade.
May 5: Netanyahu announces the expansion of the Gaza war and says Palestinians in the enclave will be moved, as the military plans to call up tens of thousands of reservists.
May 9: The US says a new body – the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – is being established to distribute aid in the enclave, bypassing the system run by the UN and other agencies.
May 12: Hamas frees US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander after direct talks with the US, while the world’s leading hunger monitor warns that the entire population of Gaza is facing critical risk of famine.
May 16: Medics say Israeli forces have killed 250 Palestinians in Gaza in less than 48 hours as the Israeli military begins its expanded operation, dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots”.
May 17: A new round of ceasefire negotiations begins between Israel and Hamas.

https://aje.io/klape0?update=3717583

More than 100,000 people gathered in The Hague on Sunday to demand their government do more to halt Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, in what was the largest demonstration in the Netherlands in two decades.

The rally, held at Malieveld Square, was organised by a broad coalition of international and local NGOs under the banner “Draw the Red Line for Gaza.”

The streets of The Hague were filled with people of all ages, from the elderly to young children — all dressed in red.

Human rights groups and aid agencies, including Amnesty International and Save the Children, reported that over 100,000 attended the rally.

>>489590
Love to see it.

Houthis say missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport caused panic

The Yemeni rebel group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree says the ballistic missile fired at the airport near Tel Aviv caused thousands of Israelis to rush to shelters and halted air traffic for nearly an hour.

The sounds of hostile aircraft sirens in central Israel, panic among the people residing in the region, and brief closure of the airport activity have also been reported by the Israeli media.

“The operation was carried out with two missiles, one a hypersonic Palestine 2 missile and a Zulfiqar missile,” Saree said during a televised news conference, adding that the attack “successfully achieved its goal”.

He added that a Jaffa drone targeted the same airport on Saturday morning.

“We renew our call to the sons of the nation: Will the nation of two billion Muslims fail to save two million Muslims from the threat of genocide and famine?” he said.

“Abandonment and incompetence will only encourage the enemy to persist in its aggression against all peoples and all countries.”

Anyone who moves at Indonesian Hospital being shot at, says hospital director

More details are emerging about the Israeli bombing of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza.

The hospital’s director, Marwan al-Sultan, says the facility is now under complete siege, with anyone who moves being shot at. Even the intensive care unit has taken gunfire, he said, calling the situation “catastrophic”.

He said the hospital can no longer provide services and called on international organisations to press for medical teams’ safety.

Israeli drone hits car in southern Lebanon: Reports

The attack takes place near a Lebanese army checkpoint in Beit Yahoun town, according to the National News Agency.

It injured at least two people, including a Lebanese soldier, according to the report.

Lebanon’s Annahar news website says the wounded have been taken to nearby hospitals.

We’ll bring you more information as we have it.

Four injured in protest against Israel’s Eurovision participation

Three police officers and one protester have been injured during a demonstration against Israel’s participation in Eurovision’s grand final in Basel, Switzerland, authorities say.

Police said 700 to 800 demonstrators, some masked, gathered outside the St Jakobshalle Basel arena, where finalists from 26 countries performed on Saturday night, according to a report by the dpa news agency.

Swiss public broadcaster SRF said a man and a woman attempted to rush to the stage during Israel’s performance but were stopped before reaching it.

Israeli singer Yuval Raphael finished second in the competition, behind Austrian singer JJ, who won for the song, Wasted Love.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/18/live-israel-kills-24-in-gazas-al-mawasi-resumes-truce-talks-with-hamas

https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1924015516802318428
U.S. Sanctions hit ICC Chief Prosecutor: Email Blocked, Bank Accounts Frozen, 900 Staff Banned from U.S. Entry

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan was placed under U.S. sanctions by the Trump administration in February 2025, as part of an effort to coerce the court into halting investigations of Israeli abuses in Gaza.

His official Microsoft email account has been disabled, and his UK bank accounts frozen. Additionally, all 900 ICC staff members have been banned from entering the United States, accused of pursuing “illegitimate” investigations into alleged war crimes committed by Israel.

The U.S. government has threatened that any individual or organisation providing Khan with financial, material, or technological assistance could face fines or imprisonment.

Two U.S. based human rights organisations have confirmed they’ve ended cooperation with the ICC. One senior official noted that staff are now actively avoiding communication with court officials, citing fear of government retaliation.

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1924151329624138109
Tracey - As the apocalyptic end-game Israeli offensive in Gaza gets underway, Witkoff says: "I don't think there is any daylight between President Trump's position and Prime Minister Netanyahu's position." With Netanyahu's position being the final "conquest" of Gaza. So there you have it

May 14: WATCH | Hamas eliminates “Israeli” soldiers in ambush east of Rafah

Do you guys post on other platforms? Are all American platforms removing literally ALL of your comments critical of Zionism aggressively or just TikTok? Maybe I should try twitter, I do like a normie scroll a few times a day, it seems like the censorship is just total at this point.

>>489605
TikTok has been wrecked since the 'shutdown.' There was very obviously a deal cut to censor and suppress anything about Palestine on there, as well as allowing Hasbara bots to run rampant. The first thing I noticed was absolute deluges of comments from accounts of geriatrics with poor English flooding my uploads to demand harsher treatment of college students - one actually threatened to bomb a protest. Before, my uploads would get a bunch of likes and a few comments from young people, it suddenly switched to weird foreign boomers who in many cases were very obviously pretending to be deranged Americans, all repeating Hasbarist lines. Then I would comment anything positive about Palestine on other videos and it would get flagged, and the comments sections are always full of these obvious JIDF twats who were previously vastly outnumbered by normal TikTok teens. My uploads get like 0-3 views now, where before it would be in the hundreds, because the relevant tags are very obviously being suppressed, and quite aggressively.

Twitter and Facebook were both previously worse than TikTok on this front, and still engage in suppression, but are now less bad in terms of sheer amount of censorship and Ziobotting than TikTok. That said, only sites like this are actually free of this severe problem. So ffs bring people here.

Watch: UK, France, Canada threaten sanctions on Israel if Gaza war goes on

Israel kills commander acting under Hamas in undercover operation
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza

What we have seen since this morning is a concentration of attacks on the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

In the early hours of the day, undercover Israeli units infiltrated deep into the city and raided a house. They used a civilian vehicle and a truck camouflaged by carrying what looked like Palestinian properties to guarantee the success of the operation.

Witnesses said that Israeli forces managed to execute a Palestinian man in the operation.

The man turned out to be a senior figure in the al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades – an organisation that typically operates under Hamas’ umbrella.

They also managed to abduct his wife and children.

The operation was carried out under very intense aerial cover by Israeli drones and jets.

Children killed in Nuseirat school strike: Report

An Israeli aerial attack has struck a school sheltering displaced people in central Gaza’s Nuseirat, killing at least five Palestinians, reports the Wafa news agency.

Most of the victims are children, it said.

Qassam Brigades claims killing Israeli soldiers in Beit Lahiya

The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters “carried out a complex ambush” in the Atatra area of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza on Friday.

According to a statement on Telegram today, its fighters targeted three Israeli vehicles with two explosive devices and a rocket.

“They then engaged another Zionist force with light weapons and hand grenades, killing and wounding several of its members,” it said, adding that fighters also monitored helicopters landing for evacuation.

Israel, Azerbaijan to enhance defence ties

Israeli Defence Minister Katz has met with his Azerbaijani counterpart Hasanov in Tel Aviv, according to a ministry statement cited by the Israeli media.

The Times of Israel reported that Katz praised the deep strategic alliance between the two countries, stressing shared interests and mutual trust.

The two sides agreed to expand defence cooperation, the statement said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/19/live-israel-kills-144-palestinians-targets-north-gaza-hospital

Democracy Now! - "Absolutely Genocidal": Mouin Rabbani on Israel's Latest Escalation of War on Gaza

Discusses recent reports of the US approaching Libya to aid in ethnic cleansing, offering to 'unfreeze' Libyan funds from before the killing of Gaddafi in exchange. Also discusses recent protests in London & The Netherlands.

The fact that this is the "concession" Starmer's government offers as crumbs after over a year is even more grounds to kill him.

Microsoft’s ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost
In February, the United States imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. As a result, Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan has no access to the emails on his Microsoft account. The incident once again demonstrates the risks of dependence on US IT services.

To make matters worse, Khan’s bank accounts have also been frozen, according to the Associated Press. If he takes a flight to the US, he will likely be arrested upon arrival. According to the Associated Press, the ICC has been paralyzed by the forced Microsoft blockade. The conflict between the ICC and the US arose in November, when the former issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This incident tells bystanders more than just how applicable it is to this specific situation. Anyone who does not want to follow the geopolitical stance of the US exactly must have a plan B when it comes to software.

European governments may consider the risks of using Microsoft acceptable. That was the position taken by the Dutch government in October last year, for example. Uncertainty about the sovereignty of Microsoft’s cloud services was not seen as a deal breaker: Azure, 365, and other Microsoft services were judged to offer all kinds of advantages that could mitigate any potential issues. At least, that was how it looked in 2024.

read more:
https://www.techzine.eu/news/privacy-compliance/131536/microsofts-icc-blockade-digital-dependence-comes-at-a-cost/

Trump’s retaliatory sanctions over Netanyahu arrest warrant halt work of International Criminal Court
The Trump administration sanctioned the ICC after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders for war crimes. The measures have greatly weakened its ability to function

US President Donald Trump’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) have halted the tribunal’s work, say its officials and lawyers. The Trump administration sanctioned the court in February as a result of the ICC issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defense minister, Yoav Gallant. In slapping sanctions on the ICC, the Trump administration labeled the arrest warrants against Gallant and Netanyahu as “baseless.”

According to reporting by PBS, the ICC has faced significant challenges to its work as a result of these sanctions, including Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan losing access to his email and having his bank accounts frozen. US staffers in the Hague have been told they would risk arrest if they ever make a trip back to the US. The ICC is currently the only permanent international court that is tasked with the prosecution of individuals for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide.

Khan is now on leave amid pending investigations into his alleged sexual misconduct and Trump’s sanctions. In Khan’s absence, Deputy Prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang have now assumed leadership, according to an ICC statement.

Trump’s executive order slapping sanctions on the ICC mentions that neither Israel nor the US are party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and therefore do not recognize the court’s jurisdiction. The US has established policies that are hostile to the ICC, including the notable “American Service-Members’ Protection Act” dubbed by many as the “Hague Invasion Act”, signed into law by US President George W. Bush in 2002, a year before the US invasion of Iraq. The act authorizes the President of the United States to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court.”

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/19/trumps-retaliatory-sanctions-over-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-halt-work-of-international-criminal-court/

>>489615
On the one hand they should have seen this coming, and rolled their own cyber infrastructure. But yeah this is the mafia threatening the judge to break his legs.

>>489615
It's so weird because open source already exists and already does 99% of what they want out of MS Office. A government has thousands of employees, it only takes a small IT department to run this shit for all of them. It's not a huge problem. They can even pay the developers of the open source tools to make changes.

Anyway closed source fuckery aside, this basically proves the US is a rogue state, right? What's even the point of having an international criminal court then?

>>489606
Thanks for the reply. The degradation of the internet is sad as hell considering we are alienated and rely on it for socializing.

>>489630

Could always bring more folks here.

Gaza death toll rises

Israeli attacks on the besieged territory have killed at least 82 Palestinians and wounded 262 during the past 24-hour reporting period, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Israeli forces ‘shoot towards’ European diplomatic delegation in Jenin

Local media is reporting that Israeli forces fired towards a diplomatic delegation visiting Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank.

The delegation included diplomats from the European Union, reports Quds News Network. They were fired at near a gate at the camp’s eastern entrance, according to the Palestinian Information Center.

We’ll bring you more information on the incident as soon as possible.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/21/live-israel-blocking-food-medicine-has-led-to-326-deaths-in-gaza

Israeli drone targets fishermen in Lebanon: Report

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that an Israeli drone has fired at fishermen off the coast of the southern Lebanese village of Ras Naqoura.

The report did not mention casualties.

Israeli army says it kills Hezbollah operative in southern Lebanon

Israel’s military says it has launched an air strike that has killed a Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon’s al-Mansouri area.

The announcement, posted on X, included video footage that appeared to show an Israeli aircraft targeting a vehicle.

Despite a truce in November aimed at ending a year of cross-border clashes with Hezbollah, Israel has continued to carry out strikes in Lebanon.

UN official warns 14,000 babies could die in next 48 hours without aid

Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, has warned 14,000 babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours if aid doesn’t reach them – a figure he called “utterly chilling”.

“We need to flood the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid,” he said in an interview with the BBC. “I want to save as many of these 14,000 babies as we can in the next 48 hours.”

Delta to resume direct flights between New York and Tel Aviv

The major US carrier says it will move forward with daily round-trip flights between New York City and Tel Aviv, which were paused in early May after Yemen’s Houthi rebel group launched a missile that hit a road at Ben Gurion International Airport.

The group has recently warned that it could target the airport again.

Hamas condemns Gaza aid ban, ceasefire stalling

Hamas has confirmed that no aid has entered Gaza despite Israeli officials saying a “basic” amount of humanitarian relief would be allowed into the starved Palestinian territory.

“Netanyahu’s statements regarding the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip are an attempt to throw dust in the eyes and deceive the international community. No aid has yet entered the Strip, and the few trucks that have arrived at the Kerem Shalom [Karem Abu Salem] crossing have not been received by any international body,” the Palestinian group said in a statement.

Hamas also denounced the work of Israeli truce negotiators in Qatar as Israel ramps up its attacks on Gaza.

“The presence of the Israeli delegation in Doha, despite its lack of authority, is a blatant attempt by [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu to mislead international public opinion. The Israeli delegation has been extending its stay day by day without engaging in any serious negotiations since last Saturday,” it said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/20/live-israeli-allies-say-they-will-take-concrete-actions-over-gaza-siege

Israeli drone attack targets car in southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting that an Israeli drone hit a car on al-Hawsh-Ain Baal road near Tyre, in southern Lebanon.

The attack comes as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is due in Beirut to discuss the issue of weapons in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, according to US-based news site Al-Monitor.

https://aje.io/admu2g?update=3723547

Israeli protesters try to block aid from crossing into Gaza

A group of Israeli protesters gathered at the Karem Abu Salem (Israel’s Kerem Shalom) crossing, blocking aid from entering, reports Israel’s Arutz Sheva media.

One of the protesters, Reut Ben Haim, said it is an “unimaginable injustice” for aid to reach Gaza while Hamas continues to hold Israeli captives there. “We cannot stand idly by while this harm to our hostages continues,” she said, according to Arutz Sheva, before being arrested by police.

Another protester, Asriel Machlev, said it was “national suicide” for Israel to let any aid into Gaza and pledged to keep trying to block it.

“Every truck that enters the Strip prolongs the war,” Arutz Sheva quoted Machlev as saying. “It’s time to say: Until the hostages are home, no aid. We’ll be here every week, hundreds of reservists, to physically stop this insane move.”

Despite Israel’s pledge to let some aid into Gaza after a nearly three-month blockade, only a handful of trucks have reached the enclave. The UN and rights groups have accused Israel of weaponising hunger against Palestinians, pushing half a million people to the brink of starvation.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/21/live-israel-blocking-food-medicine-has-led-to-326-deaths-in-gaza

Palestinian foreign ministry shares footage of gunfire near diplomatic delegation in Jenin

The footage, shared by the ministry on its X platform, appears to show Israeli soldiers firing shots near the foreign diplomatic delegation.

Shouts are heard as the shots ring out, before members of the delegation rush away from the scene.

The ministry said the Israeli forces fired the shots to “intimidate” the delegation as it toured the camp.

https://twitter.com/pmofa/status/1925146451526533241

https://aje.io/admu2g?update=3724024

Let's stand free of all people in Palestine dying every day, and all the world is watching this in a right that I don't belong to Hamas or Israel with humanity, human rights and the individual, and why there are so many strikes in publicity and information

Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead in DC by someone with no prior police record.

Vehicle targeted near Gaza’s European Hospital, today’s death toll at 62

We are getting reports of a deadly Israeli attack in the Khan Younis area.

The attack, which targeted a vehicle near the European Hospital, located east of the city, has killed at least one person, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

That casualty brings today’s total death toll in Gaza to 62, they report, citing local medical sources.

Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon kills one

One person has been killed in an Israeli drone strike on the town of Yater, according to the mayor, Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting.

The report said the victim, identified as Abdel Latif Sweida, was removing debris from a house using a bulldozer when the attack took place.

Earlier, we reported that an Israeli drone hit a car near the city of Tyre, also in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon death roll rises to three from Israeli attacks

We reported earlier that an Israeli air strike in the southern Lebanese town of Yater killed one person.

While the Israeli army claimed it was a Hezbollah member, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) said the slain man was a local resident operating a bulldozer to clear rubble from his home that had sustained damage in an attack during the war.

NNA is now reporting that another two people have been killed in separate strikes – one on the southern Lebanese town of Aitaroun, and another in an attack on Ain Baal, a village in Tyre.

Several others have been wounded, NNA said, without providing more details.

Israel claims to kill Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon

Israel’s military says it carried out an airstrike in the southern Lebanese area of Yater, killing a commander from Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force.

The announcement was posted on X, accompanied by footage of what appears to be an aerial strike.

It comes after Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that an Israeli strike in the same area killed a man operating a bulldozer to clear rubble from a home.

Spain’s Catalonia region closes trade office in Tel Aviv

The government of the Spanish region of Catalonia has announced it will be shutting down its trade and investment office in Tel Aviv in response to Israel’s renewed offensive on Gaza.

The office, opened 10 years ago, will cease operations immediately and is expected to be nonoperational by the end of the day, the government said in a statement.

The move is largely symbolic since the office suspended all promotional and business missions in the region after attacks on Gaza began. It had continued to function in a limited capacity without any political representation.

France to summon Israeli ambassador over ‘unacceptable’ Jenin incident

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has announced the move in a post on X.

As we reported earlier, Italy also says it is summoning the Israeli ambassador over the shooting incident in Jenin earlier today.

Italy to summon Israeli ambassador over shooting in Jenin

Italy will summon Israel’s ambassador to the foreign ministry affairs to provide “official clarifications” on today’s incident in Jenin, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani says.

As we’ve been reporting, the Israeli army says it fired shots near a delegation of foreign diplomats in the city in the occupied West Bank earlier.

The military said it fired “warning shots” after the delegation “deviated” from their approved route and moved to an “unauthorised” area.

Italian media reported that a group of foreign diplomats from numerous countries, including Italy, had to flee for cover during the incident.

Gaza ‘a graveyard for humanity’s conscience’: Save the Children

Save the Children UK says Palestinian children in Gaza “are suffering day after day” under Israel’s bombardment and blockade of the territory.

“These children have names, they have hopes and dreams for the future. They are someone’s everything, their entire universe,” the child rights group said in a post on X.

“We refuse to allow their suffering to become normalised.”

Mahmoud Khalil’s wife slams US refusal to let him hold newborn son

US authorities have refused to allow Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student detained for his Palestine advocacy, to hold his newborn son as his US immigration detention drags on, Khalil’s legal team says.

In a statement, the American Civil Liberties Union said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and private prison contractor GEO Group have refused to allow a contact visit between Khalil and his family.

A graduate student and legal permanent resident, Khalil has been detained since March 8 in a push to deport him over his participation in campus protests for Gaza last year. He is one of several pro-Palestinian students that the Trump administration has targeted for deportation.

“I am furious at the cruelty and inhumanity of this system that dares to call itself just,” Khalil’s wife, Noor Abdalla, said in a statement denouncing ICE’s decision to bar Khalil from being able to meet their son.

“This is not just heartless. It is deliberate violence, the calculated cruelty of a government that tears families apart without remorse,” Abdalla said.

“And I cannot ignore the echoes of this pain in the stories of Palestinian families, torn apart by Israeli military prisons and bombs, denied dignity, denied life. Our struggle is not isolated. This system is unjust, and we will fight until Mahmoud is home.”

Kneecap member charged with ‘terrorism’ offence

A member of the Irish rap band Kneecap has been charged with a “terrorism” offence in the UK for waving a flag of the armed Lebanese group Hezbollah at a concert in November 2024 in London.

Liam O’Hanna, whose stage name is Mo Chara, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London on June 18, charged under the Terrorism Act, British police said.

Kneecap has drawn international attention for its vocal support for Palestinian rights, including during a recent, widely watched performance at the Coachella music festival in California.

Canada says four personnel among diplomats fired at in Jenin

Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand says the country “expect[s] a full investigation and accountability” for the incident.

“I have asked my officials to summon Israel’s Ambassador to convey Canada’s serious concerns,” Anand said in a post on X.

Canada becomes the latest country to summon an Israeli ambassador over the incident, following EU countries such as France and Spain.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/21/live-israel-blocking-food-medicine-has-led-to-326-deaths-in-gaza

BREAKING: Microsoft Bans the Word “Palestine” in Internal Emails

After days of disruption by pro-Palestine activists at its Build developer conference, No Azure for Apartheid said, Microsoft made it impossible to send emails containing "Palestine" or "Gaza."

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1925388857459069165

Explication

May 20, 2025

Halintar is a word that means something like thunder or lightning. In the wake of an act people look for a text to fix its meaning, so here's an attempt. The atrocities committed by Israelis against Palestine defy description and defy quantification. Instead of reading descriptions mostly we watch them unfold on video, sometimes live. After a few months of rapidly mounting death tolls Israel had obliterated the capacity to even continue counting the dead, which has served its genocide well. At time of writing the Gaza health ministry records 53,000 killed by traumatic force, at least ten thousand lie under rubble, and who knows how many thousands more dead of preventable disease, hunger, with tens of thousands now at risk of imminent famine due to Israeli blockade, all enabled by Western and Arab government complicity. The Gaza information office includes the ten thousand under the rubble with the dead in their own count. In news reports there have been those "ten thousand" under the rubble for months now, despite the continual making of more rubble and repeated bombing of rubble again and again and the bombing of tents amid the rubble. Like the Yemen death toll which had been frozen at some few thousand for years under Saudi-UK-US bombardment before being belatedly revealed to stand at 500k dead, all of these figures are almost surely a criminal undercount. I have no trouble believing the estimates that put the toll at 100,000 or more. More have been murdered since March of this year than in "Protective Edge" and "Cast Lead" put together. What more at this point can one say about the proportion of mangled and burned and exploded human beings whom were children. We who let this happen will never deserve the Palestinians' forgiveness. They've let us know as much.

An armed action is not necessarily a military action. It usually is not. Usually it is theater and spectacle, a quality it shares with many unarmed actions. Nonviolent protest in the opening weeks of the genocide seemed to signal some sort of turning point. Never before had so many tens of thousands joined the Palestinians in the streets across the West. Never before had so many American politicians been forced to concede that, rhetorically at least, the Palestinians were human beings, too. But thus far the rhetoric has not amounted to much. The Israelis themselves boast about their own shock at the free hand the Americans have given them to exterminate the Palestinians. Public opinion has shifted against the genocidal apartheid state, and the American government has simply shrugged, they'll do without public opinion then, criminalize it where they can, suffocate it with bland reassurances that they're doing all they can to restrain Israel where it cannot criminalize protest outright. Aaron Bushnell and others sacrificed themselves in the hopes of stopping the massacre and the state works to make us feel their sacrifice was made in vain, that there is no hope in escalating for Gaza and no point in bringing the war home. We can't let them succeed. Their sacrifices were not made in vain.

The impunity that representatives of our government feel at abetting this slaughter should be revealed as an illusion, then. The impunity we see is the worst for those of us in immediate proximity to the genocidaires. A surgeon who treated victims of the Mayan genocide by the Guatemalan state recounts an instance in which he was operating on a patient who'd been critically injured during a massacre when, suddenly, armed gunmen entered the room and shot the patient to death on his operating table, laughing as they killed him. The physician said the worst part was seeing the killers, well known to him, openly swagger down local streets in the years after.

Elsewhere a man of conscience once attempted to throw Robert McNamara off a Martha's Vineyard-bound ferry into the sea, incensed at the same impunity and arrogance he saw in that butcher of Vietnam as he sat in the ferry's lounge laughing with friends. The man took issue with McNamara's "very posture, telling you, 'My history is fine, and I can be slumped over a bar like this with my good friend Ralph here and you'll have to lump it.'" The man did not succeed in heaving McNamara off a catwalk into the water, the former secretary of state managed to cling to the railing and clamber back to his feet, but the assailant explicated the value of the attempt by saying "Well, I got him outside, just the two of us, and suddenly his history wasn't so fine, was it?"

A word about the morality of armed demonstration. Those of us against the genocide take satisfaction in arguing that the perpetrators and abettors have forfeited their humanity. I sympathize with this viewpoint and understand its value in soothing the psyche which cannot bear to accept the atrocities it witnesses, even mediated through the screen. But inhumanity has long since shown itself to be shockingly common, mundane, prosaically human. A perpetrator may then be a loving parent, a filial child, a generous and charitable friend, an amiable stranger, capable of moral strength at times when it suits him and sometimes even when it does not, and yet be a monster all the same. Humanity doesn't exempt one from accountability. The action would have been morally justified taken 11 years ago during Protective Edge, around the time I personally became acutely aware of our brutal conduct in Palestine. But I think to most Americans such an action would have been illegible, would seem insane. I am glad that today at least there are many Americans for which the action will be highly legible and, in some funny way, the only sane thing to do.

I love you Mom, Dad, baby sis, the rest of my familia, including you, O*

Free Palestine

-Elias Rodriguez

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto

FBI raiding PSL

>>489675
Who dat guy

At least 9 killed in Israeli air strike on displaced people sheltering in warehouse

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that nine people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a warehouse where forcibly displaced Palestinians had taken shelter in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.

Local Palestinian media in Gaza have put the death toll at 10, and the victims are reported to be aged between seven and 51 years old.

We will bring you more on this attack as information emerges.

Sirens sound across central Israel as missile fired from Yemen

The Israeli military has said it is investigating after a missile was fired towards Israel from Yemen, causing sirens to sound across the centre of the country.

No casualties or damage have been reported so far.

We will bring you more information when we have it.

https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1925341816712257599
Translation: The Yemeni missile was monitored as it reached the airspace of occupied Palestine.

One killed, another wounded in Israeli attacks in Lebanon

An Israeli air raid has killed at least one person in the Lebanese border town of Rab Thalathin, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports.

Israeli forces also opened fire and wounded a shepherd in the neighbouring village of Wazzani.

Israel and Hezbollah reached a ceasefire agreement in November of last year, but Israeli forces have been launching regular attacks on Lebanon, including on the capital, Beirut. Parts of South Lebanon also remain under Israeli occupation, in violation of the truce deal.

Israeli military issues warning that it will strike Lebanese town

The Israeli army’s Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee has warned residents of the southern Lebanese town of Toul to stay away from a building in the centre of the village, describing the site as Hezbollah infrastructure.

Lebanese news outlets reported low-flying drones over the area.

Toul is in the Nabatieh Governorate, north of the Litani River.

Israel bombs South Lebanon town after issuing threat

The Israeli military has struck a building in the Lebanese village of Toul after warning residents to stay away from the area.

Israel had claimed that the site housed Hezbollah infrastructure.

Footage shared by Lebanese media outlets showed huge plumes of smoke rising from the area after the attack.

More Israeli strikes reported in Lebanon

Additionally to the strike against a building in Toul, the Israeli military has been bombing areas across south Lebanon, according to Lebanese news outlets.

Israeli bombardment was reported in the towns of Sujoud, Touline, Sawanna and the Rihan Mountain.

Lebanon’s National News Agency described Israeli attacks as some of the heaviest since the ceasefire went into effect in November of last year.

Israel intensifying Lebanon attacks, testing Hezbollah
Ali Harb

With Hezbollah weakened and seemingly unable to fight back, the Lebanese army lacking the military power to confront Israel, and diplomacy failing to end violations of the November ceasefire, it appears that Israel is asserting complete freedom of military action in Lebanon.

For many people in Lebanon, Israeli attacks – with and without warning – have become a recurring reality.

The scenes of the latest Israeli strike in Toul, which was preceded by an evacuation warning, appear familiar: People gathering near the site with their phone cameras, fire and rescue crews rushing to the scene, clouds of black smoke and fire in the background.

Toul is north of the Litani River, an area that Hezbollah argues is not covered by last year’s ceasefire agreement requiring the group to pull its forces away from the Israeli border.

But Israel has made it clear that it will strike on both sides of the river as it sees fit.

In fact, hours before the Toul attack, Israel wounded a shepherd and killed another person in separate attacks south of the Litani, later claiming that it targeted a Hezbollah fighter.

Last month, Israel bombed Beirut, saying that it targeted a Hezbollah missile storage – a claim dismissed by the group.

The Israeli military has also been carrying out targeted assassinations across Lebanon. Earlier in May, it killed senior Hezbollah military official Adnan Harb in a drone strike.

Beyond attacks that target – or claim to target – Hezbollah, Israel drops stun grenades and fires at Lebanese border villages almost daily.

Hezbollah has said that its patience may eventually run out, but it’s unclear if the group is capable of mounting a fight against Israel after the withering blows it has been suffering since September of last year, including the killing of its top political and military leaders.

Israeli forces seize ambulance, arrest paramedic near Ramallah

Israeli forces have seized an ambulance and arrested a paramedic at a checkpoint east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Earlier, the Palestinian Red Crescent said that seven Palestinians were wounded when Israeli forces stormed the Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah.

Israel says latest attempted missile attack from Yemen ‘intercepted’

Israel’s military said the missile launched from Yemen that triggered air raid sirens across central Israel early this morning has been intercepted.

The military gave no details regarding the attempted missile attack, which appears to be the latest by Yemen’s Houthi fighters, other than saying air raid “alerts were triggered according to policy”.

This latest early morning attack on Israel was the fourth so far this month blamed on Yemen’s Houthis. It follows after a missile was intercepted on Monday and another was intercepted last Thursday.

A missile fired from Yemen also exploded near Israel’s Ben Gurion airport outside Tel Aviv on May 4, wounding several people and causing the temporary suspension of flights and several major airlines to cancel services to the airport.

Israeli army says it intercepted another missile from Yemen

The Israeli army says “a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted” and that sirens had sounded.

This report is separate from its claim earlier this morning to have intercepted another missile from Yemen, which it said was launched by the Houthis.

Today’s reports follow similar incidents on Monday and last Thursday.

Yemen’s Houthis have continued to fire missiles at Israel in a campaign they say is in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, although they have agreed to a ceasefire with the US to halt attacks on ships in the Red Sea.

Uruguay becomes latest country to summon Israeli ambassador

As we previously reported, several countries – including France, Spain, Canada and the UK – have summoned their respective Israeli ambassadors after Israeli forces fired towards a group of European Union and Arab diplomats in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

Uruguay’s Foreign Ministry has now announced that it has summoned Ambassador Michal Hershkovitz and asked him to “clarify the reported facts” as to why the shots were fired.

A Uruguayan representative was among the foreign diplomats fired upon on Wednesday.

Israeli settlers storm village near Nablus, try to set mosque on fire: Report

Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank, Ihab Hassan, reports that Israeli settlers have stormed the village of Aqraba, southeast of Nablus, and carried out attacks on Palestinian-owned property.

Hassan said the settlers set a Palestinian-owned vehicle on fire and “attempted to burn a mosque with worshippers still inside” in what he described as an “apparent attempt to burn them alive”.

https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1925374219346473269

Fire breaks out at Gaza hospital after Israeli attack

A fire has broken out at al-Awda Hospital’s drug depot after it was attacked by Israeli forces, our colleagues on the ground are reporting.

The hospital, located in Tal az-Zaatar in the northern Gaza Strip, is just one of many attacked by Israeli forces throughout the war.

Israeli politicians blaming one another for shooting attack in Washington
Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan

Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.

Netanyahu’s office has released a lengthy statement saying Israel would be stepping up security at its embassies around the world.

Israeli politicians are attacking each other in the wake of the shooting. Members of the far right are accusing members of the "far left," saying their rhetoric is the reason why these types of incidents are taking place.

Bezalel Smotrich is blaming "left-wing" member Yair Golan, saying it’s his rhetoric that is prompting this type of violence. But then you have Golan saying that actually it’s because of this right-wing government that is not popular within the Israeli public and also around the world, and is causing these types of acts of violence.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry will be giving a news conference soon to answer questions about what’s to come next as part of the investigation.

Iran threatens ‘special measures’ if Israel attacks nuclear facilities

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned that his country will “forcefully respond” to any Israeli attack after CNN reported that the Israeli military could be preparing strikes.

“Iran strongly warns against any adventurism by the Zionist regime of Israel and will decisively respond to any threat or unlawful act by this regime,” Araghchi said in a letter addressed to UN chief Antonio Guterres.

“I have called on the international community to take effective preventive measures against the continuation of Israeli threats, which if unchecked, will compel Iran to take special measures in defence of our nuclear facilities and materials.”

Israeli military says tank commander wounded in northern Gaza

The soldier from the 401st “Iron Tracks” Brigade was “seriously injured” and taken to a hospital for medical treatment, the Israeli army has said.

Gaza authorities laud Palestinians for protecting aid convoys

The Government Media Office in Gaza says it salutes Palestinians in the besieged enclave for helping the first assistance trucks to enter the territory after months of total Israeli siege to reach bakeries and distribution centres.

“We express deep gratitude for our great Palestinian people, families, mayors and clans, who answered the call of the homeland and stood to protect the trucks against looting attempts,” the office said in a statement.

Israel has been targeting security officers securing aid convoys, reportedly allowing criminal gangs to steal the assistance in areas under the control of its army, compounding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/22/live-israel-kills-87-in-gaza-shots-fired-near-diplomats-in-west-bank

>>489677
Elias Rodriguez
https://xcancel.com/pslnational/status/1925468146024034305#m

>>489680
I told someone a year or so ago that I believed the PSL would be (more) attacked within a year's time and there would be more mass arrests and crackdowns. I think there is a fatal flaw in consistently trying to build the movement peacefully while such an extreme genocide is occurring in front of everyone with full government support.

If anything it's surprising that this didn't happen earlier. Instead we've had more than a full painful year of landlords murdering Palestinian children, crazy Zionists trying to drown Arab kids in swimming pools, police brutalizing college students… it's astonishing that, after all this time, only now do we have direct employees of the Israeli state getting killed on US soil. Even then, of course, the state tries to spin it as being antisemitic. The opportunistic vermin in the American government, may they one day bite the wrong piece of cheese, were always sure to launch bigger attacks on the PSL at some point, whether it's today or another day.

Then again I also sometimes wonder if this site is some kind of op since half the time (I'm being generous there) I'm the only one posting here who isn't braindead, so maybe this isn't the right place to talk about that. Sometimes I wonder if I'm being set up myself.

>"suspected terrorist"
New York Post gonna New York Post lmao

>>489681
>half the time (I'm being generous there) I'm the only one posting here who isn't braindead
Maybe you have an overly inflated sense of your posts?

>>489682
>Maybe you have an overly inflated sense of your posts?
Yeah, no, I just scrolled through the recent posts again and I'm right.

Also the fact that that's the only part of my post that you even reply to validates me further.

The only other recent poster today who appears to actually be thinking, analyzing, and offering any kind of informed opinion is this guy: >>489676

>>489683
That post frankly just looks like spam to me. Like they either copied an essay from a pundit article (with no link) or they prompted a language model for an essay.

Protip: writing a wall of text doesn't make you a quality poster. The point of communication is to exchange ideas. If you can't get people to engage with an obnoxious screed you've written, then you've failed at your task. Furthermore, essays are generally poor OP material. If you want to solicit an actual discussion, the best OPs are short and simple to facilitate an open set of replies from all directions. When you write a giant essay as a thread opener it simply makes it hard for others to decide how to engage with you. Remember: brevity is the soul of wit.

>>489668
Why didn't this get more views?

>>489668
Is this adventurism?

>>489684
>That post frankly just looks like spam to me. Like they either copied an essay from a pundit article
I searched earlier and nothing came up.

>or they prompted a language model for an essay.
Oh cool. Well if that's true then I'm even more alone. I assumed that the amount of greentext implied otherwise, but I know there's no rule prohibiting chatbots from writing imageboard posts so I was probably wrong to assume that.

>Protip: writing a wall of text doesn't make you a quality poster.
I didn't say it did, dumbass.

>The point of communication is to exchange ideas.
That's interesting, because instead of doing that what you've done is derailed this thread, about an important topic, by choosing to only focus on my one-off comment where I questioned the honor of this site's constant inane, infantile "debates" about transhumanists & women which appear over and over and are like 50% of the posts this year not made by me or by bots.

I'm entertaining you, which speaks very poorly for me, but the substance of my post there was about the PSL and how obvious it was that there would be more witchhunts. It's not a deep or complicated thought, nor am I pretending that it is, nor need it be, but it's a lot more substantial than the thing you want me to argue with you about, which is my opinion about the quality of posts & discussion on this site.

>>489686
Yes

>>489686
No.

Holy shit Yaron Lischinsky wasn't even Jewish. He was a Christian from Germany who moved to Israel specifically to kill brown people and then spent the past year doing genocide denial.

"We're about to show those Houthis why Americans don't have free healthcare"

>>489690
A notorious hardline ethnonationalist extremist gentile from Germany, who pretended to be an heir to an ancient middle-eastern civilization, once said "there is no famine in Gaza."

>>489690
Whew. What are we gonna find out about the other guy that was killed? That he was a child molester?

>>489690
>>489693
Look at the silver lining, deranged murder-bug got him self killed during his sadistic adventure tourism , and that makes the world just a little bit safer for the rest of us.

>>489691
<Houthis have no idea who they are messing with
because Houthis are the honey-badger who don't give a fuck

Thursday’s death toll in Gaza rises to 80

Medical sources tell Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 80 Palestinians since dawn.

‘Massacre’ reported in northern Gaza

The Palestinian Civil Defence says Israel has bombed a four-storey home, committing a “massacre” in Jabalia.

The agency’s spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said at least four people were killed and around 50 others remain missing under the rubble. He added rescue efforts are unable to proceed without heavy equipments.

Gaza authorities say six officers guarding aid killed by Israel

The Gaza Government Media Office says an Israeli attack, consisting of eight strikes, has killed at least six security officers guarding humanitarian aid from looting.

Throughout the war, Israel has been targeting security officers around assistance convoy in what critics say is a deliberate policy to spread chaos and deepen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

“It has become clear that the occupation army is operating in a systematic way to enable looting the aid and medicine trucks to ensure that they do not reach those who need them,” the office said in a statement.

Another wave of Israeli strikes reported in Lebanon

The Israeli military has launched several attacks in south Lebanon, several Lebanese news outlets report.

Al Mayadeen said strikes targeted Wadi al-Aziya in the Tyre region and Deir Antar near the southeastern Lebanese border with Israel.

Israel also bombed two mobile homes in Shamaa, south of the city of Tyre.

Lebanese PM condemns Israeli attacks

Nawaf Salam denounces the Israeli attacks in south Lebanon, noting that they come at a “dangerous” time ahead of the municipal elections in southern Lebanese districts.

“Prime Minister Salam stresses that these violations will not thwart the state’s commitment to holding the elections and protecting Lebanon and the Lebanese,” his office said in a statement.

The elections are set for Saturday and are expected to be dominated by Hezbollah and its allies. There have been growing concerns about the safety of voters, especially in border towns, amid the continued Israeli occupation of parts of South Lebanon.

Salam called on the international community to pressure Israel to end its violations of the ceasefire and fully withdraw from Lebanon.

Hezbollah calls for ‘resounding’ win in local vote amid Israeli attacks

The group’s chief Naim Qassem has released a message to supporters urging them to participate in the upcoming municipal elections in south Lebanon on Saturday to ensure a “resounding” victory and assert defiance against Israel.

“We will not give up a grain of soil in our generous South, and we will not accept Israeli occupation in any inch of our homeland,” Qassem said. “Your participation in the local elections is part of the reconstruction that we will oversee through the elected local governments, and the Lebanese state must live up to its responsibility.”

Yesterday, Netanyahu boasted about the destruction of what he called “terrorist villages” in south Lebanon, suggesting that the widespread bombing and demolition of homes in the Lebanese border towns was a deliberate tactic.

Medic survived Israeli attack by pleading in Hebrew, PRCS says

The head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said that a paramedic who survived an Israeli attack that killed 15 aid workers was spared because he asked soldiers for mercy in Hebrew, adding that he hoped the man’s testimony would help win justice.

Assaad al-Nassasra, a Red Crescent paramedic, survived Israeli shootings that killed 15 emergency and aid workers on March 23 in southern Gaza in an incident that drew international condemnation. Their bodies were found buried in a shallow grave a week later.

Al-Nassasra went missing and then was freed from Israeli detention on April 29 and has not yet publicly commented.

PRCS President Younis Al-Khatib told reporters in Geneva that al-Nassasra was spared after he pleaded in Hebrew and said his mother was a Palestinian citizen of Israel.

“What does Assaad say in Hebrew? ‘Don’t shoot. I am Israeli.’ And the soldier got a bit confused,” he told reporters. “That confusion … made him survive.”

“Assaad will be a witness that can put all the Israeli stories in shambles,” he added

Mahmoud Khalil permitted to hold newborn son for the first time

Detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was allowed to hold his one-month-old son for the first time on Thursday after a federal judge blocked efforts by the administration of US President Donald Trump to keep the father and infant separated by a Plexiglass barrier.

The visit came ahead of a scheduled immigration hearing for Khalil, a legal permanent resident and Columbia University graduate who has been detained in a Louisiana jail since March 8.

Khalil was the first person arrested under Trump’s promised crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters and is one of the few who has remained in custody as his case winds its way through both immigration and federal court.

Federal authorities have not accused Khalil of a crime, but have sought to deport him on the basis that his prominent role in protests against Israel’s war in Gaza may have undermined US foreign policy interests.

His request to attend his son’s birth on April 21 was denied last month by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“This is not just heartless,” Khalil’s wife, Noor Abdalla, said of the government’s position.

“It is deliberate violence, the calculated cruelty of a government that tears families apart without remorse. And I cannot ignore the echoes of this pain in the stories of Palestinian families, torn apart by Israeli military prisons and bombs, denied dignity, denied life.”

Suspect charged with murder in US shooting deaths of two Israel embassy workers

A Chicago-born man arrested as the lone suspect in the fatal shooting of a pair of Israel embassy workers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC has been charged in federal court with two counts of first-degree murder.

Elias Rodriguez, 30, is accused of opening fire on a group of people on Wednesday night as they left an event for young diplomats hosted by the American Jewish Committee, an advocacy group that supports Israel and fights anti-Semitism.

Officials said he was heard chanting “Free Palestine” after he was taken into custody.

In addition to first-degree murder, Rodriguez was charged in a criminal complaint with murder of foreign officials, causing death with a firearm and discharging a firearm in a crime of violence.

The charges were filed in United States federal court as FBI and police investigators pored over apparent writings and political affiliations of the suspect.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/22/live-israel-kills-87-in-gaza-shots-fired-near-diplomats-in-west-bank

>>489668
Some are saying it was a false flag

>>489704
Based.

>>489705
>Some are saying it was a false flag
I've seen that. It certainly could be. I don't personally think that it is, but then that would make it a good false flag wouldn't it?

I think the idea that there was anything unreasonable or unlikely about this is a stretch. The manifesto was reasonable, the action was reasonable, and the frustration which, if it is not a false flag, led to the action is completely warranted. The most surprising thing about this is that it took so long to occur. Astonishingly, despite over a year of aggressive crackdowns, witch hunts, arrests, attacks, and murders both in Gaza and in the US targeting Palestinians, there has been nothing like this. There has been protest after protest, and those hundreds of thousands of people who have shouted slogans and marched patiently have been constantly smeared as terrorists by the highest criminals in politics & media. What few politicians opposed the genocide have been shut out. Court cases have been dismissed on the grounds that the president is too big to sue even if he's guilty, so it's out of the court's jurisdiction. Every avenue of peaceful opposition failed dramatically by a year ago, and still the orgs insist on peace and marches.

The idea that any organization could realistically have prevented something like this from occurring over such a long span of such tyranny and brutality and callousness is foolish. It has been the orgs who have devoutly held Americans back from taking such actions, and I think that this was, at best, a mistake. An organized opposition to the bombs, to the supremacism, to the theft, could utilize all its numbers to act much more effectively and meet the momentum of the moment with great force and accomplish a lot. Instead, very little has been accomplished. Instead, the enemy has struck down good people time and time again without retaliation. It's completely predictable that people have decided to do things alone when the hopes of accomplishing anything together have been so denied - judging the action of an individual without recognizing the context of the utter failure of the group to attain results is not materialism. If everyone who was upset about this killed IDF soldiers or employees of the Israeli state or arms factory execs, this could have ended a year ago. Instead, people marched themselves into exhaustion. They called their congressmen. They campaigned. They boycotted.
For peacefully opposing the 21st century Holocaust, they were called racists by the president of the United States of America.

It was inevitable that the anti-genocide movement would be further cracked down upon. It is inevitable that the US/Israel will try to go to war with Iran, no matter what kayfabe "disagreements" they pretend to have. There is no bargaining our way out of this, the assets of the American state are devoted to these aims. From my perspective, while they will most likely need a false flag for the Iran thing, they really do not give a fuck what the American public thinks about domestic crackdowns. The idea that they need a false flag to justify things they are already doing seems like a misguided notion to me. I by no means rule out that this man was set up, but I think he probably did it and that he was most likely sincere, and I have seen no real evidence of a setup to 'encourage' him, nor do I find the case I've seen made to be particularly convincing. It's also interesting to me that the targets were both employees of the Israeli state, one of whom was not even Jewish, and one of whom was an active paid pro-genocide propagandist. The manifesto was very clear about the intentions. The media is left with a delicate act where they are driven to put attention on this case, but not too much attention, because that would undermine the narrative they're trying to push… it doesn't seem ideal for a false flag.

What would be ideal for a false flag would be if a certain famous synagogue, in a major American city previously hit by a major terror attack, was loaded from beneath with a bunch of explosives in some kind of covertly-dug chamber. This would then be quickly blamed on Iran without any evidence. It would be weird if somebody from Israel got caught part-way while trying to do something like that… I've never said this openly before, and I've never looked to see if anyone else has thought of this same thing because I'm not interested in conspiracy theories most of the time.

February 2025 poll of Israel's favourability in Europe.

>>489706
People organizing to effectively shut down the weapons deliveries to Israel would have prevented Gaza getting turned into rubble, but it could not have prevented the starvation siege.

I don't know how you envisage people who are upset about the genocide destroying the IDF and so on. Hundreds of millions of people marching towards the middle east ?

As for the false flag speculation, you make some reasonable points, but embassy staff isn't exactly pro Zionist billionaires. If somebody wanted to pull on a thread that unravels a part of the Zionist machinery, they'd go after the funding not a couple of minions. So the false flag possibility isn't entirely ruled out yet imho.

I think there is a possibility that a Iran war can be avoided. The reason for the push towards an Iran war is mainly driven by a need for political consolidation because Isreal's internal problems are destabilizing the regime. Secondary motivation is Zionists feeling that the historic window of opportunity, to get the US to go on the attack on their behalf, is closing. But it's probably easier to throw Netanyahu under the buss to fix at least some of Israel's political instability. Iran is extremely heavily armed and the oil-monarchies that would not survive proximity to said war, have just payed a fantastic amount of protection money to the US. Also there is a good chance the US could loose badly enough that it triggers rapid imperial influence evaporation.

>>489709
>People organizing to effectively shut down the weapons deliveries to Israel would have prevented Gaza getting turned into rubble, but it could not have prevented the starvation siege.
What?
They use the same weapons to do the siege.

>I don't know how you envisage people who are upset about the genocide destroying the IDF and so on. Hundreds of millions of people marching towards the middle east ?
They wouldn't fucking have to. American financiers finance it. American politicians use American money for it. American arms manufacturers make the majority of the weapons for it. Without America, Israelis probably wouldn't even have free healthcare. That country is dependent on the US.

Yemen was able to shut down an Israeli port, Americans could shut down most of Israel outright just by taking militant actions to interrupt the flow of arms and capital.

>As for the false flag speculation, you make some reasonable points, but embassy staff isn't exactly pro Zionist billionaires.
They're employees of Israel. They are, by definition, valid targets. They are part of the Israeli war effort. Why does the US even have Israeli embassies?

Destroy them. Make it politically untenable to be an employee of the Israeli state in the US. This is a reasonable thing to do, and doing it even just a little bit is more of an accomplishment than anything the anti-genocide movement has done in the past year. You can't bring back dead Nazis, they're dead. They're gone. If you keep killing Zionists employees of the genocidal Israeli state, then there will be fewer Zionists. That's how it works. Nazi Germany wasn't killed by democracy, it wasn't killed by peaceful protest, it was killed by death.

>the false flag possibility isn't entirely ruled out yet imho.
Didn't say it was. I said I don't believe that it's the case.

>I think there is a possibility that a Iran war can be avoided.
It can be.

I did not say the war was inevitable. I said that the US/Israel will inevitably aim for tthe war. At no fucking point in the past year+ have I said that war with Iran, greater Israel, total crackdowns on the anti-genocide movement, or completion of the Palestinian Holocaust are inevitable. But those are the aims. Those are the things that the American Zionist state wants. No one will ever have a fucking snowball's chance in hell of stopping them if they're in denial about that. The people in power do not give a quarter of a fuck about your protests, your votes, they don't even care about your boycotts that much because they planned this shit in advance and know that without a great deal of aggressive sabotage and violence you are not in a position to stop them faster than they can pull this stuff off. We absolutely can stop them, and we can damage any possibility that they could win, and we should aim for maximum crippling of their ability to pull off any such war.

What we should not do is meander around doing shit which has been proven not to work, like expecting the American state to suddenly, willingly, abandon a programme it has had in place for some 20+ years straight.

>The reason for the push towards an Iran war is mainly driven by a need for political consolidation because Isreal's internal problems are destabilizing the regime.
It's driven by a desire for Israeli hegemony. They've wanted to destroy Iran since before the '90s.

>But it's probably easier to throw Netanyahu under the buss to fix at least some of Israel's political instability.
No, because then the Israeli state would not have its ruthless criminal leader willing to do the criminal stuff to save his ass. Netanyahu is a scapegoat. If he wasn't exactly the person that the Israeli state wanted in charge, he'd already be jail. The threat of imprisonment, of being thrown under the bus, is what encourages him to do the things he is doing, long-term expansionist ambitions of Israel which a leader without the risk of imprisonment would be less likely to indulge in.

>Iran is extremely heavily armed and the oil-monarchies that would not survive proximity to said war, have just payed a fantastic amount of protection money to the US. Also there is a good chance the US could loose badly enough that it triggers rapid imperial influence evaporation.
1. The Iran war would be a disaster for the US, yes. Objectively.
2. US leadership does not and will not care.

>>489715
>They use the same weapons to do the siege.
Not quite, but it's true enough. However enforcing a siege doesn't use up as much ordinance. They probably could keep that up for quite a while even if they got cut off from arms resupply. If you want to break the starvation siege you have to find a way to get large quantities of food into Gaza.
>They wouldn't fucking have to. American financiers finance it. American politicians use American money for it. American arms manufacturers make the majority of the weapons for it.
If the US population was organized enough to halt all that genocide collaboration, it would already be strong enough to impose genuine democracy and depose the plutocracy.
>They're employees of Israel. They are, by definition, valid targets. They are part of the Israeli war effort.
I'm not sure if that's true, but I won't argue about it, I'm too morally exhausted.
>Why does the US even have Israeli embassies?
Having diplomatic channels isn't wrong, even with the worst countries. Granting an embassy shouldn't be counted as an endorsement, just as a practicle way to have communication. I think the recognition of Isreal's state-hood should be reversed, but i would not close any embassies.

>Destroy them. Make it politically untenable to be an employee of the Israeli state in the US. This is a reasonable thing to do, and doing it even just a little bit is more of an accomplishment than anything the anti-genocide movement has done in the past year. You can't bring back dead Nazis, they're dead. They're gone. If you keep killing Zionists employees of the genocidal Israeli state, then there will be fewer Zionists. That's how it works. Nazi Germany wasn't killed by democracy, it wasn't killed by peaceful protest, it was killed by death.
You are correct that the political actions against Isreal were not effective enough to frustrate their genocidal activities. But if the opposition was strong enough to unilaterally brute force it, Isreal would never have been granted the opportunity to try to erase another people in the first place.

>We absolutely can stop them, and we can damage any possibility that they could win, and we should aim for maximum crippling of their ability to pull off any such war. What we should not do is meander around doing shit which has been proven not to work.
Fair enough, i guess. Maybe start by figuring out how their impunity mechanism works, they seem to be getting away with outrageous crimes, if you figure out how to break that, they would run into a lot more friction.

>It's driven by a desire for Israeli hegemony. They've wanted to destroy Iran since before the '90s.
Yeah but Israeli hegemony is just a fantasy, there is zero chance . I think the real policy is to keep that region embroiled in conflict in order to keep it down.

>No, because then the Israeli state would not have its ruthless criminal leader willing to do the criminal stuff to save his ass. Netanyahu is a scapegoat. If he wasn't exactly the person that the Israeli state wanted in charge, he'd already be jail. The threat of imprisonment, of being thrown under the bus, is what encourages him to do the things he is doing, long-term expansionist ambitions of Israel which a leader without the risk of imprisonment would be less likely to indulge in.
So Netanyahu is what the soviets called a "compromat". Interesting take, i guess there could indeed be method to the madness.

>1. The Iran war would be a disaster for the US, yes. Objectively.
>2. US leadership does not and will not care.
If they go to war with Iran, they will brick their empire. And then they will care, because these people made so many powerful enemies, they'll have very little chance of surviving the avalanche of assassinations that will roll over them once the imperial shield is down.

Vast majority of Israelis support Palestinian displacement: Israeli poll

A new poll from highly regarded Israeli newspaper Haaretz says that no less than 82 percent of Israelis support the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. Among those secular Israelis polled, 69 percent support the forced displacement.

Fifty-six percent of those Haaretz polled support the expulsion of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, the newspaper said.

Palestinian camps in Lebanon to begin disarming in June

The disarmament of Palestinian camps in Lebanon will begin next month, based on an accord with visiting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a Lebanese government official told the AFP news agency.

The report said the two sides have agreed to begin the process of removing weapons from the camps, beginning mid-June in the Beirut camps, with other camps to follow.

The deal came during the first meeting of a joint Lebanese-Palestinian committee announced yesterday to discuss the issue of the camps.

A statement from the committee released by the premier’s office said it agreed to “launch the process of handing over weapons according to a specific timetable, accompanied by practical steps to bolster the economic and social rights of Palestinian refugees”.

Abbas has been in Beirut since Wednesday for talks on disarming the Palestinian refugee camps, as Lebanon seeks to impose its authourity on all its territory.

Process to disarm Palestinian groups in Lebanon undermined by weakness of the state

A committee tasked with the disarmament of Palestinian groups in refugee camps in Lebanon met for the first time on Friday.

This follows a three-day state visit by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Lebanon to facilitate bringing the camps under the control of the Lebanese state.

But Rami Khouri, a distinguished fellow at the American University of Beirut, told Al Jazeera that while Palestinian armed groups in Lebanon say they would rather the Lebanese state protected the country and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, it has never been able to do this.

“The stumbling block [to disarmament] is that the Lebanese government historically has not been able to develop the power and the technical capabilities to defend Lebanon from Israeli aggression and other threats, like terrorism,” he said.

[That’s why] you had this massive growth of Hezbollah, [along with] the Palestinian groups … [but] this has to be fixed. The situation is not normal.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/23/live-israeli-attacks-kill-85-in-gaza-as-starvation-related-deaths-hit-29

>>489720
>Not quite, but it's true enough. However enforcing a siege doesn't use up as much ordinance. They probably could keep that up for quite a while even if they got cut off from arms resupply. If you want to break the starvation siege you have to find a way to get large quantities of food into Gaza.
Doesn't use up as much ordnance?
What about fuel? What about food? What about money?
What about the fact that the siege is carried out in conjunction with the massive air attacks, and is paired inseparably with those as part of the IDF's tactical approach?

And, oh, they could keep it up for a while? Ok, well it would be much fucking harder without the limitless supplies from the US. It would face more resistance, and "the while" would not be as long as it currently is. It currently is forever. I guess it's better to just keep giving them infinite power rather than playing a part in directly limiting them, though. We don't have nukes, so clearly the only thing to do is nothing since any other action would only be part of a whole and wouldn't singularly end the threat immediately like fucking Superman or some shit.

>If the US population was organized enough to halt all that genocide collaboration, it would already be strong enough to impose genuine democracy and depose the plutocracy.
uygha hundreds of thousands of people have been marching in the US every other week. What is this stupid, abstract concept of "organized" to you?
What the fuck does it mean?
Is your metric that the US hasn't overthrown its government? FFS has it tried?
Also that's a dumb metric. It's stupid. There's a Holocaust going on, you don't condition taking actions to impede the Holocaust on whether or not your favorite faction here in the US can overthrow the government.

>I'm not sure if that's true
It is.

>Having diplomatic channels isn't wrong, even with the worst countries. Granting an embassy shouldn't be counted as an endorsement, just as a practicle way to have communication.
uygha the US does not have embassies for every country. There is not Iranian embassy in the US. Venezuela doesn't have an embassy in the US. There's no Palestinian embassy in the US.
I don't want Zionist employees of the Zionist state running around American doing Zionist work and spreading Zionist war propaganda.

>Maybe start by figuring out how their impunity mechanism works, they seem to be getting away with outrageous crimes, if you figure out how to break that, they would run into a lot more friction.
Yes, you can shoot them. They have the same fatal impunity flaw the Nazis did, they're vulnerable to getting shot. Their MIC corporate co-conspirators have the same crazy weakness. If enough people sabotage their financial and military supplies, that is also another weakness they have.

>Yeah but Israeli hegemony is just a fantasy, there is zero chance . I think the real policy is to keep that region embroiled in conflict in order to keep it down.
There absolutely is a chance, especially if the US makes a bunch of incredibly irrational decisions and gives Israel an unreasonable amount of support and resources which is already the pattern for the past 30+ years.

>So Netanyahu is what the soviets called a "compromat". Interesting take, i guess there could indeed be method to the madness.
Yep. And also Trump. And potentially Le Pen btw.

>If they go to war with Iran, they will brick their empire. And then they will care, because these people made so many powerful enemies, they'll have very little chance of surviving the avalanche of assassinations that will roll over them once the imperial shield is down.
They'll have a higher chance than the average American does.

I'm hearing Hezbollah has been doing well in the election in southern Lebanon.

Chief of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation resigns

The executive director of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has resigned, dealing a blow to a US-Israeli backed plan to bring in aid to the Palestinian enclave.

“It is clear that it is not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, which I will not abandon,” Jake Wood said in a statement announcing his resignation, effective immediately.

“I urge Israel to significantly expand the provision of aid into Gaza through all mechanisms,” he added.

The US and Israel have touted GHF as the key to resolving the aid crisis in Gaza, but UN and other humanitarian organisations have refused to work with the group, saying its plans will only worsen displacement in the Strip.

Wood, a former US marine, said he had taken on the role after being approached just two months ago and that he’s proud of the work he has overseen.

https://aje.io/jks1jt?update=3732580

Doubledown News - Lowkey exposes who's really trying to take down Kneecap

Thousands of Gaza families wiped out by Israel: Monitor

Ramy Abdu, chairman of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, says in a post on X that the Geneva-based organisation has verified the killing of thousands of Palestinian families in Gaza by the Israeli military:

1,010 families were wiped out
2,620 families have only one surviving member
4,126 families have no more than two surviving members

Gaza death toll rises

At least 38 Palestinians have been killed and 204 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the latest 24-hour reporting period, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

Yemen’s Houthis confirm launch of ballistic missile at Israel

The military spokesman of the Houthis says the Yemeni group has launched a “hypersonic” ballistic missile towards Ben Gurion International Airport.

In a short televised announcement, Yahya Saree said the operation was “successful” because it caused the airport to suspend operations and prompted “millions” of Israelis to flee to shelters.

As we reported earlier, sirens sounded across Israel after the launch of the missile, which the Israeli military said was intercepted without causing any casualties.

Israeli forces control 77 percent of Gaza: Government Media Office

The Israeli military now in effect controls 77 percent of the total geographical area of the Gaza Strip, according to the enclave’s Government Media Office.

“This is achieved through direct ground incursions and the deployment of occupation forces within residential and civilian areas, through heavy fire control that prevents Palestinian citizens from accessing their homes, areas, lands, and property, or through unjust forced eviction policies,” it said in a statement.

The office called on the UN and the international community to take action to stop the Israeli expansion.

“The continued genocide, ethnic cleansing, colonialism, aggression, and occupation control over the vast majority of the Gaza Strip reflects an Israeli political will to impose a ‘final solution’ by force, in blatant defiance of all international laws and norms,” the statement said.

Gaza’s Civil Defence says operations director killed with wife

In a statement on Telegram, Gaza’s Civil Defence – the agency responsible for rescue services – says an Israeli attack in the Nuseirat refugee camp has hit the home of its operations director, Ashraf Abu Nar, killing him and his wife.

The agency described Abu Nar as “a disciplined and responsible officer committed to his humanitarian and professional work”.

Number of journalists killed in Gaza rises to 220: Media Office

We have reported earlier that journalist Hassan Majdi Abu Warda was among several people killed in an Israeli attack on northern Gaza’s Jabalia.

Gaza’s Government Media Office confirmed his death, saying the number of journalists killed by Israel in the enclave has risen to 220.

Grieving mother pleads for children’s bodies

A woman who has lost two children to Israeli attacks is worried she will not be able to bury them if their bodies are not recovered soon.

In footage posted on Instagram and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking unit, Naama Shahwan says her children were killed near the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis on Saturday after they went out to search for bread.

“Bring me my children. I want to bury them. They are innocent kids,” Shahwan said, expressing fears that their bodies will be found by stray dogs. “They died and I am patient, but I want to bury my children. For God’s sake, bring me my children.”

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKC_W7OMeWj/

Israel’s entire standing army, armoured brigades now in Gaza: Report

The Israeli military has deployed tens of thousands of troops to the Gaza Strip, representing its entire standing army, as it continues its intensified ground invasion, according to The Times of Israel newspaper.

The military has also deployed all of its armoured brigades of tanks and other military vehicles to Gaza, the publication reported, citing the Israeli military.

This includes Israel’s Golani, Paratroopers, Givati, Commando, Kfir, Nahal, 7th, 188th, and 401st brigades, as well as reserve units, The Times of Israel added.

Horror after Israeli attack kills 9 children of Gaza doctor

Israeli air strikes have killed nearly the entire family of a Khan Younis doctor while she tended to the wounded at work.

The attack hit the home of Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatrician at the southern city’s Nasser Hospital, setting it ablaze and killing nine of her 10 children.

“She went to her house and saw her children burned. May God help her,” said Tahani Yahya al-Najjar, her sister-in-law.

Al-Najjar’s husband, also a doctor, was critically wounded in the attack.

Two Red Cross workers killed in Gaza strike on their home

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says two of its workers were killed in an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

“We are heartbroken by the death of two of our dear colleagues, Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal,” the ICRC in Israel and the occupied territory said.

Qassam Brigades claims to have blown up Israeli soldiers near Khan Younis

The armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, has issued a statement claiming to have carried out “a complex operation” against a group of Israeli soldiers on May 20 inside a house in al-Qarara town, east of Khan Younis city.

“Our Mujahideen blew up the house with a number of highly explosive devices, killing and wounding enemy soldiers after the house collapsed. They also blew up a tunnel shaft on a number of soldiers who arrived at the scene and clashed with them with light weapons,” the group said.

It also claimed to have seen Israeli helicopters landing there to evacuate the forces.

Malta to recognise a Palestinian state: PM

Prime Minister Robert Abela has announced his country will recognise the state of Palestine next month, according to local media.

During a political event in Mosta, Abela said Malta would make its position formal after a June 20 United Nations conference, calling the move a “moral responsibility”.

The prime minister said Malta cannot turn a blind eye to the human tragedies unfolding in Gaza, according to the English daily Times of Malta.

While Malta hosts a Palestinian ambassador, it has never formally recognised a state.

New message from Hezbollah chief: ‘Let Israel stop its aggression’

Speaking on the anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem reiterated the Lebanese group’s stance that it will not discuss giving up its remaining weapons until Israel withdraws from the five border points it occupies in southern Lebanon and stops its air strikes.

The speech came nearly six months after the latest Israel-Hezbollah war ended with a ceasefire. Under the deal, Israel and Hezbollah were supposed to withdraw forces from southern Lebanon.

Israeli officials have said they plan to remain at the five points indefinitely to secure their border. Israel has also continued to carry out near-daily air strikes in southern Lebanon and sometimes in Beirut’s suburbs.

“We adhered completely” to the agreement, Kassem said, adding: “Don’t ask us for anything else from now on. Let Israel withdraw, stop its aggression, release the prisoners and fulfill all obligations under the agreement. After that, we will discuss each new development.”

Man charged with trying to attack US embassy in Tel Aviv

A dual US and German citizen has been arrested on charges that he traveled to Israel and attempted to firebomb the branch office of the US embassy in Tel Aviv.

Federal prosecutors in New York said the man, Joseph Neumeyer, walked up to the embassy building on May 19 with a backpack containing Molotov cocktails but got into a confrontation with a guard and eventually ran away, dropping his backpack as the guard tried to grab him.

Law enforcement then tracked Neumeyer down to a hotel a few blocks away from the embassy and arrested him, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York.

The attack took place against the backdrop of Israel’s war in Gaza, now in its 19th month. Neumeyer, 28, made a series of threatening social media posts before attempting the attack, prosecutors said.

During his first term, President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital despite Palestinian objections and moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv.

Israel troop seriously hurt after fight with comrade

An Israeli soldier was severely injured in northern Gaza after a physical confrontation broke out with a fellow soldier.

The wounded troop was reportedly hit with a kettle in Beit Lahiya, according to the Walla news outlet. He was evacuated to Israeli for medical treatment.

An unnamed Israeli army officer told the Jerusalem Post the situation on the ground in Gaza is “very tense” because of “soldier fatigue”.

“Things can escalate very quickly and that’s why we need leadership at the front. A lot of conversations. Platoon commanders must be alert to what their soldiers are going through in the field,” the officer was quoted as saying.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/25/live-israeli-military-reviewing-attack-that-killed-doctors-9-children

PIJ claims to have ambushed Israeli forces with explosives in Gaza City

The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Quds Brigades, has claimed to have carried out a bomb attack on invading Israeli forces in Gaza City’s eastern neighbourhood of Shujayea.

In a video posted online, the group claimed that its fighters used an undetonated bomb “left behind” by Israeli forces in Gaza.

https://twitter.com/AJA_Palestine/status/1926599247236923806

https://aje.io/d99mwz?update=3731104

Israel won

Israeli troops enter southern Lebanon: Report

Israeli ground forces have entered an area near Meiss el-Jabal in the Marjayoun district, according to a news report.

The Israeli Army Radio’s report added that the soldiers advanced a few hundred metres into the territory, without giving further details.

The United Nations says more than 70 civilians have been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon since a ceasefire was struck at the end of last year.

Israel has continued to strike Lebanon, including attacks on the capital, Beirut, since a November 27 ceasefire, which largely halted more than a year of hostilities between Israel and the armed group Hezbollah, including two months of all-out war.

Qassam Brigades targets tanks, Israeli soldiers in Gaza City

The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters attacked four Israeli soldiers with several rocket-propelled grenades in the Shujayea neighbourhood, in eastern Gaza City.

The ambush occurred on al-Muntar Street with no causalities reported.

Qassam Brigades fighters targeted Israeli several Merkava tanks with Yassin-105 rockets in different parts of Shujayea, it said in a statement.

Widely condemned new aid system in Gaza starts operations

A new aid distribution network involving private military contractors in Gaza says it has opened its first distribution hubs.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is taking over the handling of humanitarian relief despite objections from United Nations. The desperately needed supplies started flowing on a day that saw Israeli strikes kill at least 80 people in Gaza.

The group said truckloads of food – it did not say how many – had been delivered to its hubs, and distribution to Palestinians has begun.

“More trucks with aid will be delivered tomorrow with the flow of aid increasing each day,” it said in a statement.

The UN and aid groups that have long supplied aid to Gaza have pushed back against the new system, which is backed by Israel and the United States. They assert that Israel is trying to use food as a weapon and say a new system won’t be effective.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/26/live-israel-kills-red-cross-workers-children-controls-77-percent-of-gaza

Alon Mizrahi goes over the latest "deal" in this video, where the Trump admin turned around and did the Biden thing, IE got Hamas to agree to it and then blamed Hamas when Israel didn't like the deal.

https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/1927346663875604639
Jeremy Scahill: As the Israeli "aid" scheme, staffed by US mercenaries, begins in Gaza, there is already a report of a Palestinian being kidnapped when he went to get one of the small boxes of food. His family says he went to Muraj Crossing aid distribution center.

"To our shock, he called us under threat from Israeli intelligence officers, demanding information about one of our relatives with whom we’ve had no contact since the beginning of the war.

"When we were unable to provide the information the army requested, communication was cut off, and we were later informed that he was transferred to a detention center. He is now considered missing."

Here is a statement from Eyad Amawi from the Gaza Relief Committees describing the overall situation with the "aid" distribution:

The US's mercenary-run forced displacement "aid" scheme in action.

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1927270717197807934
Israeli occupation soldiers loot a jewelry store in the center of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Footage shows desperate Palestinian storming new Gaza aid site

Thousands of desperate Palestinians have swarmed an aid distribution site in Rafah, southern Gaza, as security contractors lose control of the crowds and open fire with live ammunition.

The incident comes after the Israeli-backed plan to disperse humanitarian assistance opened the centre earlier.

The controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was tasked by Israel and the United States to take over the distribution of aid, as the UN and other international bodies were banned by Israel from doing so.

‘Death traps’: PFLP warns people in Gaza against approaching GHF aid centres

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has warned that aid distribution centres set up by the US and Israel in the Gaza Strip represent “collective death traps”, and warned citizens not to approach them.

The leftist group said these centres are being used to arrest people and are “part of the ongoing war of genocide” against Palestinians.

It also said the centres, set up by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), are being used as tools of displacement, forcing Palestinians southwards.

The GHF has faced criticism, including from the UN, that it is using humanitarian relief as a political tool.

Israeli tank and gunfire reported from aid distribution site

A reporter from The Associated Press says Israeli tank and gunfire could be heard as large crowds of Palestinians tried to reach an aid centre in southern Gaza.

There was no immediate word on whether there were any casualties.

The firing came as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians walked through Israeli military lines to reach the distribution hub set up on the outskirts of Rafah by a US-backed group that Israel has slated to take over food distribution in Gaza. It was the second day of operations at the hub.

Palestinians in the war-battered territory are starving after Israel blockaded the Strip of all humanitarian relief for nearly three months.

Israel’s new distribution plan – backed by the United States – has been widely criticized by established aid agencies such as the UN.

More than 90,000 tonnes of military equipment brought to Israel since war began

Israel’s Defence Ministry has announced the 800th flight bringing in military equipment and ammunition since the start of the war on Gaza has landed in the country.

In a statement, it said the military equipment and weapons airlift is being carried out in collaboration with the ministry’s mission to the US, Israel’s top ally, and other parts of the Israeli military.

“Throughout this operation, over 90,000 tons of military equipment have been delivered to Israel via 800 flights and approximately 140 maritime shipments,” it said. “The procured and transported equipment includes munitions, armored vehicles, individual protective equipment, and medical supplies.”

As we’ve been reporting, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians and wounded tens of thousands more.

The Democratic and Republican administrations of former US President Joe Biden and his successor, Donald Trump, have faced criticism over their policies of arming Israel, which critics say violate US laws prohibiting military aid and weapons sales to countries engaged in rights abuses.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/27/live-israel-kills-89-in-gaza-as-different-messages-emerge-on-truce-talks

Ken Klippenstein apparently has received leaked private chats from Elias Rodriguez:

Soon the framing was taken up by the news media, though the manifesto of alleged gunman Elias Rodriguez said nothing about Jews. I asked the people who knew him if he’d espoused antisemitic views and they said that while Rodriguez hated Israel and its policies, he never focused on or indeed said much of anything about Jewish people.

“Unequivocally no,” a woman who knew Rodriguez told me when I asked if he ever made antisemitic remarks. “Everything I know about Elias leads me to believe he acted in protest of the Israeli State and Zionist ideology, not Judaism.”

“He never, ever said anything remotely racist about Jews or anyone,” said another woman who knew him, “not even in a joking way.”

“I would’ve sussed it out, too,” the woman, who identified as half Jewish, said. “People can pick up on stuff like that.”

“I don’t think so,” said a man who had known him since middle school.

“Not openly,” said a former coworker, adding: “he never commented on it or anything.”

One person I spoke to gave me access to the messages from a private group chat where Rodriguez was a prolific poster (right up to the day before the shooting). I spent several days poring over his words. The messages don’t reveal any hatred of Jews per se, but they do portray an often bitter man who hated all sorts of other things — especially Israel and its war in Gaza.

“The genocide makes me go a bit nuts every few days and break down crying,” Rodriguez told the chat over a year ago.

…

“I’m almost surprised you’re not antisemitic Elias,” a chat member once wrote. “It usually goes hand and hand [sic] with the whole Stalin did nothing wrong mantra,” alluding to Rodriguez’s support for old school communism.

“One of the biggest things that stalin [sic] didn’t do wrong was ending the most antisemitic regime ever yet known 2 man,” Rodriguez responded.

The chat logs reveal a man who hated the Republican and Democratic parties, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, the right and left, the “bourgeoisie,” the United States, the West, and, of course, Israel. He even hated the only political group I could find he’d associated with.

“PSL sucks shit,” Rodriguez wrote in one of many messages lambasting the obscure Party for Socialism and Liberation that he had once participated in. “I wish I had just done a misadventure with FRSO [Freedom Road Socialist Org] rather than PSL lol,” he wrote.

…

In all his rage though, Rodriguez had an almost wide-eyed optimism about the global south, which as a self-identified Maoist Third Worldist, he believed alone had “revolutionary potential.”

“He was a big proponent of ‘the emerging resistance axis’ of Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, Assad’s Syria,” a friend recalled. “He seemed pretty vocally in favor of Hamas for years — way before 2023. He’d always hated Israel and would call it ‘The Little Satan.’”

Rodriguez’s posts support the friend’s account, conveying disappointment with setbacks these groups faced.

“Honestly i’m still just feeling sad about the murder of hassan nasrallah,” Rodriguez said in another post, adding: “It hurts when people are killed specifically for doing what’s right, when so many are afraid to…”

When the IDF released video showing the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, Rodriguez reacted with dismay.

“100% him sadly,” Rodriguez told the chat.

Authorities allege that Rodriguez during his arrest expressed admiration for Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. airman who immolated himself last year in front of the same Israeli Embassy where Rodriguez’s alleged victims worked, in protest against U.S. support for Israel amid the Gaza war.

“Just now saw the unblurred video and lost it,” Rodriguez told the group chat, referring to the footage of Bushnell’s immolation posted online, his only reference to the incident.

From what I can tell, Rodriguez never revealed to the group chat his plans to kill the Israeli Embassy staffers; and people who knew him weren’t able to identify a precipitating event that led to it. But one friend noted that he seemed to become nicer in the weeks leading up to the event.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias-rodriguezs-leaked-chats

Hezbollah holds firm in Lebanon’s municipal elections
Establishment parties, including Hezbollah, emerge as the biggest winners in the first municipal polls since 2016.

Beirut, Lebanon – As southern Lebanon continues to suffer from sporadic Israeli attacks despite a ceasefire signed in November between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah, establishment parties have emerged as the biggest winners of municipal elections.

Voting took place over four weeks, starting in Mount Lebanon – north of the capital, Beirut – followed by the country’s northern districts, Beirut and the eastern Bekaa Valley, and concluding on Saturday in southern Lebanon.

While Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim political and armed group, suffered setbacks to its political influence and military capabilities during 14 months of war with Israel, the group’s voter base was still intact and handed it and Amal, its closest political ally, victories across dozens of municipalities.

“The Hezbollah-Amal alliance has held firm and support among the Shia base has not experienced any dramatic erosion,” Imad Salamey, a professor of political science at the Lebanese American University, told Al Jazeera.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/5/26/hezbollah-holds-firm-in-lebanons-municipal-elections

>>489763
reminds me of those fenced in people in the holocaust concentration camps

Israel’s army accused of ‘deliberate massacre’ during aid site chaos

Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel’s military killed three Palestinians and wounded 46 others at a food distribution site in southern Rafah earlier. Seven other people are missing.

“The occupation forces, positioned in or around those areas, opened live fire on starving civilians who were lured to these locations under the pretense of receiving aid,” the press office said in a statement.

“What happened today in Rafah is a deliberate massacre and a full-fledged war crime, committed in cold blood against civilians weakened by over 90 days of siege-induced starvation.”

The office added: “This incident provides undeniable evidence of the Israeli occupation’s total failure in managing the humanitarian catastrophe it has deliberately created.”

Israeli-American aid site in starving Gaza collapses in one day

An Israel-US-backed “aid” site in Gaza collapsed in a day as thousands of starving Palestinians tried to get food after nearly three months of Israeli-imposed starvation.

The group running the distribution sites is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is using United States security contractors to secure the sites.

The United Nations and aid agencies have refused to work with the group, calling the Israeli-American aid plan an attempt to weaponise hunger and use starvation to forcibly displace Palestinians.

Ireland moves to ban trade with Israeli-occupied areas in Palestine

The Irish government approved the drafting of a bill to ban the import of goods from illegal Israeli settlements – an unprecedented move for a European Union member.

The move comes after the International Court of Justice last year said Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip is illegal under international law in an advisory opinion the Irish government said guided its decision.

“The government has agreed to advance legislation prohibiting trade in goods with illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory,” the Foreign Ministry said. “It is the government’s view that this is an obligation under international law.”

The settlements include residential, agricultural and business interests that lie outside Israel’s internationally recognised borders.

Before the cabinet decision, Foreign Minister Simon Harris told reporters he hoped other EU countries would follow Ireland’s lead.

“What I hope today is when this small country in Europe makes the decision and becomes one of the first countries, and probably the first country, in the Western world to consider legislation in this space, I do hope it inspires other European countries to join us.”

Israel’s ‘mass murder on industrial scale’ must be halted: US group

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has denounced Israel’s devastating war on Gaza after the official death toll surpassed 54,000 – the majority of victims children, women, and the elderly.

“The Israeli government’s mass murder on an industrial scale must be stopped. The world can no longer sit back and watch the brutal extirpation of a population and the erasure of their legacy,” said Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director, in a statement.

“The Israeli government is not interested in peace. It is time for the United States and the rest of the nations of the world to force them to stop these atrocities.”

It is widely believed that the death toll in Gaza is far higher than the official count. Awad noted the medical journal The Lancet estimated about 186,000 may have died since Israel’s invasion of Gaza in October 2023.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/27/live-israel-kills-89-in-gaza-as-different-messages-emerge-on-truce-talks

As Trump Seeks Iran Deal, Israel Again Raises Possible Strikes on Nuclear Sites
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wary of a diplomatic solution to curbing Iran’s nuclear program, continues to press for military action that would upend President Trump’s push for a negotiated deal.

One concern for American officials is that Israel could decide to strike Iran with little warning. U.S. intelligence has estimated that Israel could prepare to mount an attack on Iran in as little as seven hours, leaving little time to pressure Mr. Netanyahu into calling it off.

But that same American military assessment raised questions about how effective a unilateral Israeli strike would be without American support. And some Israeli officials close to Mr. Netanyahu believe the U.S. would have no choice but to assist Israel militarily if Iran counterattacked.

Israeli officials have told their American counterparts that Mr. Netanyahu could order a strike on Iran even if a successful diplomatic agreement is reached.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-israel.html

https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1927713513687961803
Dan Cohen: The U.S.-appointed Haitian regime has hired Blackwater founder Erik Prince to stamp out the armed rebellion in the slums of Port-au-Prince.

Prince is deploying drones, hiring mercenaries and shipping weapons.

200 people have reportedly been killed by drones already.

Red Cross field hospital under fire in al-Mawasi: Ministry

The Red Cross field hospital in Gaza’s al-Mawasi has come under Israeli fire this morning, Gaza’s ministry of health has said in a statement.

It said the incident sowed panic among patients and visitors and resulted in several injuries.

PFLP urges global action to stop Israel’s war on Gaza

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has put out a statement regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip.

Here are its translated comments:

As the 600th day of the war of extermination passes, we call for an escalation of global and Arab popular anger to stop the aggression.
The priority is to stop the aggression and break the siege on Gaza.
This is the responsibility of the international community and humanity as a whole.

Israeli army rotates forces along Lebanon border

The Israeli army says its reserve Division 146 is concluding its deployment and handing over operations to Division 91, the so-called Galilee Division.

In a statement, the military said Division 146 has been involved in both cross-border attacks and the ground invasion into southern Lebanon. The army claimed it had worked to “reshape the security reality” along the border region.

Southern Lebanon continues to suffer from sporadic Israeli attacks despite a ceasefire agreed in November last year between Israel and Hezbollah, which ended 14 months of war.

As part of the deal, Hezbollah fighters were to pull back north of the Litani River and dismantle military infrastructure between that demarcation line and Lebanon’s border with Israel. For its part, Israel was to withdraw all its forces from Lebanon, but it has kept soldiers at five points in southern Lebanon.

The truce was based on a UN Security Council resolution that says Lebanese soldiers and UN peacekeepers should be the only people to bear arms in southern Lebanon.

Netanyahu says Hamas leader Mohammad Sinwar killed

There has been no immediate comment from Hamas on the Israeli prime minister’s claim.

Mohammad Sinwar became the group’s Gaza chief after his brother Yahya was killed by the Israeli military last year.

We’ll bring you more on this when we can.

Gaza death toll rises

At least 63 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

As we have reported earlier, those killed today include journalist Moataz Mohammed Rajab. He was killed alongside several others when Israeli forces struck a vehicle on al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City.

Armed wing of Hamas publishes footage of apparent attack on Israeli forces

The Qassam Brigades has released footage it says shows part of its ongoing operation in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya.

In the video, fighters are seen targeting an Israeli force sheltering inside a residential building. That scene is followed by a strike on a Merkava tank using what the group said was an antipersonnel shell and a locally made Yasin-105 rocket.

Smoke and debris can be seen rising from the targeted site with the fighters retreating after the strike.

Israel again hits Sanaa airport

The Israeli Air Force has hit Houthi targets at Sanaa International Airport in Yemen, the army has said in a post on X. Houthi affiliate media is also reporting strikes on the capital’s airport.

The Houthis launched missiles towards Israel yesterday.

Israel has been attacking targets in Yemen intensely this month, hitting the Sanaa airport on May 6 and the ports of Hodeidah and as-Salif last week.

Video shows smoke above Yemeni capital after Israeli strikes

Video posted on social media and verified by Al Jazeera shows smoke rising above Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, following Israeli strikes on the city.

Israel said its air force hit Houthi targets at Sanaa International Airport on Tuesday. The strikes were also reported by Houthi-affiliated media.

The Houthis had launched missiles towards Israel yesterday.

Israel has been striking Yemen intensely in recent weeks, previously hitting Sanaa airport on May 6.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/15AvjDT8yY/

Video shows Yemeni Airlines plane destroyed in Israeli strike

Khaled al-Shaif, the director of Sanaa International Airport, has posted footage on X of the aircraft hit by an Israeli air strike.

The footage, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad news agency, shows black plumes of smoke rising from the gutted Yemeni Airlines on the runway.

Earlier, al-Shaif said Israel destroyed “the last functional aircraft belonging to Yemeni Airlines at Sanaa International Airport”.

https://twitter.com/KAlshaief/status/1927694642696339607

Plane targeted at Sanaa airport scheduled for Hajj pilgrimage

Israeli aircraft have carried out four air strikes on Sanaa International Airport this morning, targeting the runway and a Yemeni Airlines plane, the head of the airport says.

Khaled al-Shaif, the airport’s director, said on X that Israel targeted “the last functional aircraft belonging to Yemeni Airlines at Sana’a International Airport, completely destroying it”.

Flight data indicated that the targeted aircraft was an Airbus A320-233 that had arrived from the Jordanian capital, Amman. It landed in Sanaa at about 9:10am (6:10 GMT).

According to information from Flightradar24 obtained by Al Jazeera, the plane was scheduled to fly to the Saudi city of Jeddah for the Hajj pilgrimage. On Friday, the airport had announced it would operate two flights a day to Jeddah for nine days to transport pilgrims.

US-backed Gaza aid model ‘distraction from atrocities’, UNRWA chief says

The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has condemned the new United States-backed aid model in Gaza, saying it is a “distraction from atrocities” taking place there, a day after chaotic scenes at an aid distribution centre in the coastal enclave.

On Tuesday, thousands of Palestinians clambered over fences to reach the humanitarian supplies at a distribution site run by the previously unknown, US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in Rafah, southern Gaza.

“We have seen yesterday the shocking images of hungry people pushing against fences, desperate for food. It was chaotic, undignified and unsafe,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told reporters at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo.

Israel targets Gaza community kitchens, food distribution points

Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking unit says the Israeli military “deliberately targeted” more than 20 community kitchens and food distribution and storage sites across Gaza between Monday and Tuesday.

Sanad’s analysis showed that most of the Israeli air strikes took place in Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza – an area that has not received any aid since Israel began enforcing its total blockade on the enclave in early March.

Eight incidents were reported there since March 18, Sanad said. Seven other attacks took place in Deir el-Balah and refugee camps in central Gaza while five more were reported in Khan Younis in the south.

Citing data from the Government Media Office in Gaza and Palestinian media sources, at least 60 people were killed in the Israeli attacks. Hundreds of others were also injured.

Death toll reaches 4 in WFP warehouse incident

We have reported earlier that two people died after Palestinians burst into the UN’s World Food Programme warehouse in the central Gaza Strip, pushing each other in the shadow of the cavernous facility’s main door.

We now know from officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital that two people were fatally crushed in the crowd, while two others died of gunshot wounds.

Many aid seekers could be seen carrying large bags of flour as they fought their way back out into the sunlight through throngs of people pressing to get inside. Each bag of flour weighs about 25kg (55 pounds).

US-backed Gaza aid group opens second site amid widespread criticism

The controversial US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said aid distribution continued in the coastal enclave without incident and it had opened a second distribution site.

“Across the two sites, approximately 14,550 food boxes have been distributed so far. Each box feeds 5.5 people for 3.5 days, totaling 840,262 meals,” the foundation said in a statement.

As we reported earlier, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has said it had temporarily halted aid distribution in Gaza due to disorder, in a statement carried by Reuters.

The GHF is working to open four sites and said it has “plans to build additional sites across Gaza in the weeks ahead”.

The GHF operation has come under severe criticism from aid groups and international organisations such as the United Nations.

Earlier today, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, condemned the aid model, saying it is a “distraction from atrocities” taking place there.

Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported at least one person was killed and dozens of others were wounded on Tuesday at a GHF aid distribution point in Rafah after Israeli forces opened fire.

Hamas claims to have reached agreement with US envoy over Gaza ceasefire

Hamas says it has reached an agreement with the US Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, on a general framework for a ceasefire in Gaza.

In a statement published on Telegram, the group said the deal would involve the “complete withdrawal of occupation forces” from Gaza, secure the flow of aid into the territory, and establish a “professional committee” to assume control of Gaza’s affairs once the agreement was announced.

The accord would involve Hamas releasing 10 Israeli captives, and an unspecified number of bodies, in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners, according to the group. The statement did not specify how many Palestinian prisoners would be released.

Hamas added that it was waiting on a final response to the proposed framework.

The announcement comes a day after our report on Tuesday that Hamas and Witkoff had agreed to the draft deal at a meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha. Al Jazeera sources said the deal involved a 60-day ceasefire, and the release of 10 living Israeli captives held in Gaza over two stages.

But an unnamed US official rejected the claim, saying the deal being discussed was “unacceptable”, while Israeli officials said that no Israeli government could accept the terms, according to the Reuters news agency.

Israel’s Ben-Gvir promises to expand settlements despite possible ICC arrest warrant

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is preparing to issue an arrest warrant against him would not deter him from carrying out his political plans, which centre around the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are illegal under international law.

“I have one clear message to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague: No arrest warrant of any kind will stop me from continuing to work for the people of Israel and the land of Israel,” he said on X.

“The prosecutor in The Hague doesn’t scare me,” he continued. “I’ll do everything I can to protect my people, even if it costs me an arrest warrant.”

“When The Hague is against me, I know I’m on the right path,” he concluded.

The comments follow a report by the The Wall Street Journal that ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan is working to issue arrest warrants for Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich due to their role in the expansion of Israeli settlements.

Last year, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and a Hamas military commander for alleged war crimes in Gaza. Mohammed Deif, commander of Hamas’s armed wing, had been killed in an Israeli air strike four months earlier in Gaza.

Iran hangs man accused of spying for Israel

Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel, according to a state media report.

The man, Pedram Madani, had been accused of visiting Israel and meeting with intelligence officers to pass on classified information about buildings where “infrastructure” equipment was installed, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported.

The report said that Madani had received foreign currency and crypto in exchange for passing on the information, and had also met with Mossad officers at Israel’s embassy in Belgium.

Madani was executed after Iran’s supreme court upheld a death sentence issued by a lower court.

Israel’s security agency had no immediate comment.

Madani had been named as a prisoner “at imminent risk of execution” in a report published by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday, which accused Iranian authorities of conducting a “horrific execution spree”.

The Oslo-based group said at least 478 people have been executed by Iran so far in 2025, a 75 percent jump from the same period the previous year.

In April, Iran executed another man, Mohsen Langarneshin, who was convicted of working with Mossad and of playing a role in the 2022 killing of a Revolutionary Guard colonel in Tehran.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/28/live-israel-bombs-gaza-journalists-home-killing-at-least-eight

>>489790
>Israel Again Raises Possible Strikes on Nuclear Sites
What a fucking shitshow, They don't have a military option. They'll just end up pissing off the Iranians enough to actually build a nuke for real this time.

The US very likely doesn't have the ability either, if the Yemen episode is any indication. And they can't nuke Iran because the other nuclear powers put a check on US nukes on the basis of if you can nuke countries you don't like, we can nuke countries we don't like

Maybe it's time to get the ball rolling on denuclearizing Israel.

It's going to be hilarious when Palestinians get completely ethnically cleansed from the Levant, and then the entire left is never going to hold the Jewish community to account for supporting this shit, because they're still too piss scared to actually criticize Judaism or Jewish people without hiding behind cowardly "muh zionism is not judaism despite Zionism is literally just the political application of gods commandments to the Jewish people".
The fact, the left still pisses and shits itself, whenever anybody criticizes Judaism, or Jewish people, for actually shitty views and biases Jewish people, largely as a whole hold, is wild. The judeophilia programming is honestly so ingrained it's wild.

>>489803
>It's going to be hilarious
We get it, you watch BadEmpanada and you're a doomer, boohoo uygha

>>489803
>judeophilia
Not a thing, it's just humanism. You're the one who's biased here, you only apply humanism to ethnicities you are biased towards. The thing is, humanity in general is bigoted and reactionary, and denying this is the biggest form of copium. You can organize the (class-conscious) proles, alright. But don't be delusional and think the proles are these pure innocent angels just because they belong to a certain ethnicity. The majority of proles is envious, bigoted, unempathetic, moralistic, conformist and stupid. End of discussion.

>>489804
>>489805
I'm always astounded by how fucking poorly people on this site are at reading anything.
>see obvious right-wing post
>"is this a BadEmpanada fan?"

>>489808
it's over for Palestinians, i'm so depressed, donate to my Patreon

>>489809
I'm not even sure what you're badly mischaracterizing here. It's so far removed from anything even vaguely approaching anything anyone mentioned or ITT has said.

Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon fired at by Israeli troops while on patrol
The incident happened at around midday as the Irish soldiers of the 126th Infantry Battalion were patrolling with soldiers from the Lebanese Armed Forces.

IRISH PEACEKEEPERS In Lebanon have come under fire from Israeli forces near a bombed out village at Yaroun.

The incident happened at around midday as the Irish soldiers of the 126th Infantry Battalion were patrolling with soldiers from the Lebanese Armed Forces.

Sources have said that there were so-called “containing shots” fired at either side of the patrol to halt them. The shots, our sources tell us, came from an Israeli position.

A statement from the Defence Forces confirmed the incident and that it happened along the demarcation fence known as the Blue Line.

“The Defence Forces can confirm that they have received reports of an incident this morning involving a joint Irish UNIFIL & Lebanese Armed Forces Patrol near the Blue Line in South Lebanon.

“A number of small arm rounds were fired in the vicinity of the area in which the Patrol was operating. The patrol withdrew from the area, there was no injuries to the personnel on the patrol and no damage reported to the armoured vehicles they were operating from,” the statement read.

The Defence Forces said all Irish soldiers are safe and no one was injured.

“All Personnel of the Irish Contingent in Lebanon are reported to be safe and well, they continue to monitor the situation in Southern Lebanon and are committed the stability of the region as impartial peacekeepers. We wish to remind all actors of their responsibility to ensure the safety and security of UN Peacekeepers,” the statement added.

…

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said that the firing of rounds in the vicinity of UNIFIL positions in Lebanon “is completely unacceptable”.

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-peacekeepers-in-lebanon-fired-on-from-israeli-position-while-on-patrol-6718727-May2025/

https://x.com/liamcunningham1/status/1928525757808021931
Sicily, Catania. The boat has arrived and preparations have begun to set sail for Gaza.
@gazafreedomflotilla

More Palestinians wounded at Gaza aid point

Our correspondent in Gaza reports that several people were wounded by Israeli army gunfire in central Gaza as they tried to reach an aid distribution point set up by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Chaos and a series of violent attacks on starving aid seekers in Gaza over the past week have led to numerous deaths and growing international condemnation of Israel’s aid scheme.

Qassam Brigades releases video of sniper, explosive attacks on Israeli soldiers

The armed wing of Hamas has released the footage of attacks on invading Israeli soldiers in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City in the northern part of the besieged enclave.

One video shows an Israeli soldier being hit by sniper fire from a fighter with the Qassam Brigades, with another showing an explosive device detonating as Israeli forces advance.

The al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, also reported launching mortar shells against Israeli soldiers and vehicles in an area southeast of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Houthis mobilise large pro-Palestinian rally in Yemen’s Sanaa

Thousands of Yemeni people have once again demonstrated in capital Sanaa in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Crowds held up large Palestinian flags during the Houthi-backed protest and chanted against the “criminal entity” in reference to Israel.

As we reported earlier today, the Houthis launched another ballistic missile towards Israel in opposition to the war, which was intercepted by the Israeli military.

https://twitter.com/alsyasiah/status/1928507651043852531

Israeli army says it bombed Syria’s Latakia region

The Israeli military has said it hit weapons storage facilities in the coastal Syrian province that “posed a threat to international and Israeli maritime” navigation.

The army added that it “will continue to operate to maintain freedom of action in the region” in response to purported threats.

Syria’s Alikhbaria state TV reported that an Israeli air raid targeted the town of Zama southeast of the city of Latakia, on the country’s Mediterranean coast.

Israel has carried out frequent attacks in Syria since the ouster of longtime President Bashar al-Assad in December of last year.

We’ll bring you more on the latest strikes when we can.

One killed, three injured in Israeli attacks on Syria: Reports

Syrian state media is reporting that one person was killed and three others injured in an Israeli air strike on the coastal city of Latakia.

The SANA news agency said earlier that the Israeli military targeted three sites in the countryside of the Latakia and Tartous governorates.

More than 12,000 Palestinians taken prisoner by Israel from Gaza: Monitor

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office reports that after 700 people in Gaza were detained by Israeli forces in May alone, the total number of those taken from the enclave since the start of the war has exceeded 12,000.

More than 3,500 Palestinians from Gaza remain incarcerated, while at least 44 people from Gaza have died in prison, the monitor said.

Israel is holding 1,846 people as so-called “unlawful combatants”, which strips them of any legal rights.

In total, Israel is holding 3,577 people under “administrative detention” without charge. Many prisoners have reported being tortured or starved in detention.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/30/live-israel-forces-new-displacement-in-north-gaza-as-strikes-intensify

Israel killed municipal worker in South Lebanon, not Hezbollah member: Official

Mayor of Nabatieh al-Fawqa Zein Ali Ghandour says the Israeli strike that killed one person on the outskirts of the village earlier targeted a municipal worker operating a water well, not a Hezbollah member, as the Israeli military claimed.

Ghandour said the victim, Mahmoud Hasan Atwi, was killed while performing his official duty of trying to provide water for the people of the town.

“We condemn in the strongest terms this blatant aggression against civilians and civilian infrastructure as well as the Lebanese state and its institutions,” the mayor said in a statement.

Ghandour called on the international community to press the issue and put an end to Israeli violations.

Houthis confirm missile fired towards Israel’s main airport

The Yemeni group has said it fired a ballistic missile at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv.

The firing comes in response to “the crime of genocide” being carried out against Palestinians in Gaza, the Houthis said in a statement shared on Telegram.

The Houthis have pledged to continue to launch attacks against Israel until the country ends its bombardment and blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army said today’s missile was intercepted.

Nine police officers killed in Israeli strike in Gaza City

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that nine people were killed in an Israeli bombing near the as-Saraya junction in Gaza City.

Gaza’s Interior Ministry confirmed the news, stating: “Israeli occupation aircraft targeted a number of police officers at the Saraya Junction in central Gaza City this afternoon, while they were carrying out their duty to confront a group of thieves.

“This resulted in the deaths of several police officers and passersby in a new massacre perpetrated by the occupation.”

The ministry added that the thieves and Israeli forces work hand in hand to “create chaos and spread fear among citizens”.

“Despite the great sacrifices and heavy losses in the lives of members of the security and police establishment, we will not abandon our duty and will continue to protect the lives and property of citizens,” the ministry said.

Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum said the air strike that targeted the officers was among many that occurred today in densely populated areas.

“Six law enforcement members were killed in a drone strike following their efforts to contain and control a looting incident led by a group of desperate Palestinians,” he said.

Israeli military contractor killed in northern Gaza

An employee of a contracting company carrying out “engineering work” for the Israeli military on behalf of the Ministry of Defence has been killed in the northern Gaza Strip, the army said in a statement.

It did not provide additional details on the identity of the person or company or details of the task.

Demonstrators rally for end to Gaza war just outside Harvard commencement

A group of demonstrators is holding a silent vigil to demand an end to US support for Israel’s war on Gaza just beyond the grounds of the Harvard University campus, which is hosting commencement ceremonies.

“As a US citizen, my money is supporting the genocide that’s happening in Gaza and I’ve got to stand out against it,” said Carole Rein, a Harvard graduate who has been an activist for 50 years.

“There’s many of us who are standing out against it,” Rein added.

US President Trump’s administration has been cracking down on pro-Palestine advocacy in the US, including most notably on college campuses. It has pushed to deport several outspoken student activists in what critics say is also an assault on freedom of speech.

Israeli Foreign Ministry publishes misleading video about alleged Hamas aid warehouse

The Israeli Foreign Ministry account used misleading video clips to suggest that Hamas owned an aid and food warehouse in Gaza, Al Jazeera’s verification unit Sanad has found.

The ministry relied on a post on X published by an account named “ihab hassan” that was later deleted. It stated: “This is Hamas’s warehouse in central Gaza, filled with food supplies, out of civilians’ reach,” a phrase that the ministry spokesperson also shared on his official account.

An archive site shows the clip was edited to remove the claim that the warehouse belonged to Hamas, before being deleted entirely. A review of the source of the video showed that the post originated in Washington, DC.
(anon's note: the warehouse in question belonged to the UN World Food Programme)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/29/live-israel-bombs-gaza-kindergarten-sheltering-displaced-people-killing-7

>>489803
You fell for the zionist bait. They want you to equate zionism with judaism.

If you want to piss these people off tell them zionists aren't real Jews

>>489825
These people have incredible courage. I think they may be truly sailing to their deaths this time.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1928686702081593351
NEW: Israeli Envoy Hints at Pegasus Blackmail Against Spain

Spain has moved to suspend defense cooperation and advance an arms embargo on Israel after months of deepening tensions, including Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez labeling Israel a “genocidal state” in parliament.

The Pegasus spyware scandal still looms large over Spanish-Israeli relations. In 2021, Morocco, which has rapidly expanded security ties with Israel, is widely suspected to have hacked PM Sánchez’s phone using Israeli-made Pegasus software. Israeli officials have refused to cooperate with Spanish investigations, fueling speculation about potential blackmail using sensitive data.

In an interview with El Español, Israeli chargé d’affaires Dan Poraz was asked whether Spain should fear revelations related to Pegasus. His response was far from reassuring:

“There has been no reaction in this regard from the Israeli government. And it’s like that… it’s still like that.”

Poraz also warned that suspending defense cooperation would harm Spain’s security, pointing to Spanish reliance on Israeli defense technology and intelligence sharing.

>>489832
I don't get it.

>>489833
It's our local Zionist retard, and he's stolen a Palestinian meme and inverted it to try to make it look like Israeli terrorists are the victims. Attached is the original.

DropSite on the Witkoff massacre at an "aid" trap set up by the GHF mercenary group:

BREAKING at @DropSiteNews: 15 Killed, 50 Injured at GHF Aid Site Where Israel Had Previously Massacred 15 Rescue Workers

Israeli forces opened fire today near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution site in Tal al-Sultan, west of Rafah, killing at least 15 Palestinians and injuring more than 50 others, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) had announced the opening of the new distribution center earlier today — its fourth heavily militarized “Secure Distribution Site.”

Three sites have been set up in Rafah in southern Gaza, and one in central Gaza. None have been established in the north (including Gaza City), where, according to the IDF’s own estimates, around one million Palestinians still reside. (Times of Israel)

In a statement published on Facebook just hours ago, the GHF said that on Saturday, June 1, “it will have only one active distribution site, which is the Tel al-Sultan site…. located west of Rafah, near the Sultan roundabout. All other sites will be closed.”

The statement continues: “We invite only the residents of the Al-Barouk neighborhood to come to the site starting at 5:00 AM.

The safe passage leading to the Tel al-Sultan site will be via Al-Rashid Street. The Israeli Defense Forces will be present in the area to secure the passage.

It is forbidden to use the passage before 5:00 AM, as we have been informed by the army that it will be active in the area before and after the designated safe hours.

We remind all residents to stay on the road — leaving the road poses a great danger.

We remind everyone to be patient and note that only one box is allowed per family.

If anyone tries to take more than one box or steal boxes from others, the site will be closed. If people try to storm the site, it will also be closed.”

This new site was established in the same neighborhood where Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and emergency workers in late March, bulldozing their bodies and ambulances into a mass grave while they were on a rescue mission.

Jonathan Whittall (@_jwhittall), Head of Office a.i. for UN OCHA oPt, who had accompanied Palestinian Red Crescent teams on a mission to retrieve the bodies of some of the paramedics, described it a “grotesque symbol of how life, and that which sustains it, is being both erased and controlled in Gaza.”

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1929024718671172084

>>489834
Yeah pretending to be the victim at this point will just backfire and make people despise them even more.

Anyway thanks for posting the anti-zionist cat

China bros…
https://xcancel.com/ChnAmbXIAO/status/1928093403612319932#m

Breaking Points on the Witkoff Massacre

Mahmood OD - 4 Yemeni Attacks STUN Israel: HYPERSONIC Missiles & LONG RANGE Drones - more strikes on Ben Gurion airport

>>489842
israel's economy is in shambles, so the Chinese could gain a lot of softpower, maybe they'll use it to help the Palestinians, you know because all that bloodshed is "destabilizing business"
I'll admit this probably is just hopium.

>>489844
This really looks like the beginning of Nazi-style concentration camps

Two people shot and killed while trying to reach aid centre in Rafah

Israeli forces have fired on a group of people trying to reach an aid centre near Rafah, killing at least two, reports the Wafa news agency.

Dozens more were wounded, report our colleagues on the ground.

The scene mirrors events from yesterday, when Israeli troops also fired on Palestinians trying to access newly established aid centres, wounding at least 20.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/31/live-israel-kills-2-gaza-aid-seekers-as-un-warns-of-catastrophic

Doctor who lost 9 of 10 children in Israeli attack dies in hospital

Hamdi al-Najjar, who was wounded in the Israeli air attack that killed his children, has died of his wounds.

Al-Najjar spent days in intensive care.

His 11-year-old son is the sole survivor of the attack.

His wife, Alaa al-Najjar, who is also a doctor, left hours before Israel struck their home to go to work.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/1/live-israel-pounds-gaza-hamas-seeks-changes-to-us-ceasefire-proposal

Houthis claim responsibility for missile attack near Tel Aviv

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a ballistic missile attack that targeted Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv.

Earlier, the Israeli army said the missile was intercepted by its air defence system.

Yahya Saree, spokesperson for the Houthis, said in a statement that the attack “successfully achieved its goal” and managed to halt air traffic and force Israelis into shelters.

The Houthis have previously launched missiles towards the airport. They have also attacked numerous vessels in the Red Sea linked to Israel and its allies in what they say are acts of solidarity with the besieged people of Gaza.

Israel destroys North Gaza’s only dialysis centre
Here’s what we know:

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza says Israeli forces have bombed the Noura al-Kaabi Kidney Dialysis Centre in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
The centre, which is part of the Indonesian Hospital, was serving more than 160 patients with kidney failure, and is the only dialysis facility in northern Gaza.
The latest attack comes weeks after the centre reopened after a previous assault just weeks ago, according to Muneer al-Bursh, a director general at the Health Ministry.
Footage published by al-Bursh shows Israeli bulldozers at the site.
The ministry said 41 percent of patients who have kidney failure in Gaza have died over the course of the war after “being denied access to dialysis centres and the destruction of the centres and departments designated for them”.

https://twitter.com/Dr_Muneer1/status/1929242460221214930

Three killed in Israeli attack at US-backed aid site

We are getting reports that there has been a new Israeli attack on Palestinians who gathered at the GHF aid distribution point in Rafah just moments ago.

At least three people were killed and 35 others were wounded, according to medical sources.

As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces killed at least 31 people at the same site on Sunday.

Instead of bread, ‘they gave him a bullet in his head’

We’ve been covering Israel’s continued attacks on Palestinians who gather at the aid distribution sites run by the US-backed GHF.

Among those wounded on Sunday was Shuaib Abu Tayr, a father of four.

He was shot in the head and is now “between life and death” at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, according to his sister-in-law Asmaa Abu Salah.

“He went for food and drinks for his children. His children need food, [they say] ‘we want food, dad’. This is the most difficult word,” she said.

“He went to get aid [distributed by] the US. He went to get a loaf of bread. Instead of giving him a loaf of bread, they [Israelis] gave him a bullet in his head … We responded to the US forces to come for aid, in order for [Palestinians] to get flour and food for the children and the young people, all of us are dying of hunger.”

Iran warns Israel over attack on its nuclear facilities

Iran has warned that Israel will “regret” any strikes on the country’s nuclear facilities as tensions rise between the two regional foes.

“Any threat against peaceful nuclear installations is a gross violation of international law,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told a press conference in Cairo. “If Israel commits such a mistake, it will be the one to regret it.”

The Iranian minister accused Western powers of applying double standards regarding nuclear issues in the Middle East.

“Unfortunately, we have seen both official and unofficial Israeli figures threatening to use nuclear weapons in Gaza, yet the West has ignored these threats,” Araghchi said. “At the same time, they continue to pressure Iran over its peaceful nuclear programme.”

The top diplomat reiterated Iran is ready to provide assurances to any party concerned over its civilian nuclear efforts.

Israeli forces target southern Gaza hospital

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have demolished the wall of the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis, while also carrying out bulldozing activities in the vicinity of the hospital.

In May, an Israeli attack close to the European Hospital killed at least 28 people.

PIJ’s armed wing claims to have shelled Israeli soldiers in Gaza’s Khan Younis

The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the al-Quds Brigades, says its fighters have ambushed a group of Israeli soldiers and vehicles in southern Gaza.

The troops had penetrated the vicinity of the customs police area southeast of Khan Younis when they were attacked with mortar shells, the group said in a statement on Telegram, without elaborating on the results.

The attack was carried out in cooperation with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – a Palestinian armed group associated with the Fatah movement, the announcement said.

Armed wing of Hamas claims attack on Israeli forces in southern Gaza

Qassam Brigades fighters have targeted a group of Israeli soldiers east of the southern town of al-Qarara with 13 mortar shells of 120mm and 60mm calibres, the group says, without elaborating on the results.

The attack took place on May 31, the group said in a statement on Telegram.

Separately, on the same day, the Israeli military’s Ein al-Thalatha site east of the city was targeted with three short-range Rajum missiles, it added without reporting on the results.

‘World is watching’: UN experts demand safe passage for Freedom Flotilla

UN legal experts have called for the protection of a ship operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition as it sails to besieged Gaza carrying food, water and medical supplies.

“Aid is desperately needed for the people of Gaza to forestall annihilation, and this initiative is a symbolic and powerful effort to deliver it,” the UN experts said in a joint statement.

“Israel should remember that the world is watching closely and refrain from any act of hostility against the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and its passengers.”

The experts emphasised the legal right of Palestinians to receive aid through their own territorial waters, and of the vessel to navigate freely in international waters.

They voiced concern for the safety of those on board, referencing a previous Freedom Flotilla ship reportedly bombed by a drone off Malta’s coast in early May.

Israel has enforced a complete blockade on Gaza for 17 years, intensifying it since March 2, with aid almost entirely cut off.

Top US senator derides Greta Thunberg’s attempt to break Israel’s Gaza siege

We have a reaction from Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator, to the Swedish activist who joined an effort led by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) to break Israel’s naval siege on Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to the Palestinians there.

“Hope Greta and her friends can swim,” the prominent legislator wrote on X.

The post was taken as a threat by some users on X, as the FFC’s previous attempt to break the Israeli siege was dealt a blow by drone attacks that breached their ship’s hull.

Activists at the time said they believed Israel was behind the attack.

Responses to Graham’s tweet on X included users who asked, “Why would a US senator be threatening a young climate activist?” and, “Why is a 69-year-old U.S. senator joking about the drowning of a 22-year-old Swedish activist? Is this where American politics is now?”

Thunberg as well as Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham are among those joining the mission, which set sail from Italy on Sunday.

‘Blood on his hands’: Ex-Biden official denounced for ‘war crimes’ admission

Raed Jarrar – advocacy director at DAWN, a Washington-based think-tank and advocacy group – says it’s “outrageous” that former US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller waited until he was out of office to admit Israel committed war crimes in Gaza.

As we reported earlier, Miller said during an interview with Sky News that it is “without a doubt true” that Israeli forces committed war crimes in the Palestinian territory.

“US officials who know atrocities are being committed and continue defending them from behind the podium are not neutral, they are complicit. Miller’s silence while in government helped Israel with its genocide. He has Palestinian blood on his hands,” Jarrar told Al Jazeera in an email.

“Anyone guilty of aiding and abetting genocide should be held accountable by the International Criminal Court or other international mechanisms.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/2/live-israel-bombs-gaza-dialysis-hospital-outcry-over-killings-at-aid-hubs

>>489850
>‘World is watching’: UN experts demand safe passage for Freedom Flotilla
>Thunberg as well as Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham are among those joining the mission, which set sail from Italy on Sunday.
Are the Zionist going to murder Climate Girl ?

Anyway the people on this boat are very brave and righteous. I wish them well and a brutal death to everybody that stands in their way.

Drone spotted over Freedom Flotilla near Greece.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKc4k2lohXh/

>>489861
Will we get public executions of Zionism perpetrators if they murder Greta ?

>>489866
We can if we want it

Per Unity of Fields:
The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution for an "immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire" in Gaza, along with unhindered aid access.

The remaining 14 Security Council members voted in favor of the draft resolution.

While the US acts as a "mediator" at the behest of "israel" and runs its death trap "aid distribution mechanism," it once again shamelessly reveals that it has no intention of a path to peace. In fact, this marks the 5th veto by the US regarding a ceasefire in Gaza since October 2023.

🔴 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine considered the veto as new evidence of direct complicity in genocide and blatant cover for the zionist entity. They noted that the decision should surprise no one, given the US' supply of the most lethal weapon globally to the IOF.

The PFLP also considered the decision a new chapter in American hostility towards the Palestinian people and called on "the free people of America to confront these criminal policies."

Freedom Flotilla expected to arrive to Gaza within 72 hours.

>>489884
3 days until the shit gets real