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Israeli forces bombed a seaport in Gaza City on Tuesday evening, killing at least six Palestinians, including one child, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal despite the US recently announcing that a deal had been reached to disarm Hamas. Continue reading “Israeli Forces Bomb Gaza City Seaport, Killing Six, Including One Child”
By Kit Klarenberg – The Grayzone
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has called for Israel to kill 30 to 40 Palestinians every night in Gaza and said there are people in the Strip “who are not worthy of life.”
Ben Gvir made the comments when discussing the reduction in Israeli attacks in Gaza, though the IDF hasn’t fully stopped its strikes and continues to violate the US-backed October 2025 ceasefire deal. Continue reading “‘They’re Not Even People’: Ben Gvir Says Israel Should Kill 30-40 Palestinians in Gaza Every Night”
Continue reading “Exclusive: Palestine Action facing new rigged ‘terrorism’ trials”
The israelis killed this little Palestinian girl for fun, as she filmed herself live on air on her phone in a makeshift tent in Gaza | from @Abu_Salah9 pic.twitter.com/23RIK0Nx9B
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) August 13, 2026
The mysterious strikes targeting multiple Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galápagos Islands this year were carried out as part of a covert CIA program, The Washington Post has learned. Continue reading “Covert CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on Galápagos boats”
By Sharif Abdel Kouddous – Drop Site News
TAYBEH, Occupied West Bank*—On Sunday, the Israeli military declared the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank a closed military zone, claiming the order was aimed to prevent escalating attacks by marauding Israeli settlers. It ostensibly bars Israelis and foreigners from entering the area. Continue reading “In West Bank Village, a New Israeli Order Enables Settler Attacks While Claiming to Prevent Them”
By Michelle Witte – The Grayzone
Turkish officials suspect that an Israeli intelligence report about an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara last month was a ruse designed to derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday. Continue reading “Report: Turkey Suspects Israel Fabricated Trump Assassination Plot To Derail US-Iran Diplomacy”
As the deadly Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon continues, the fabulously wealthy banker-turned-“philanthropist” Antoun Sehnaoui has assembled a network of business and media operatives – and a fascist Christian goon squad – in Beirut and Washington dedicated to doing Israel’s dirty work. Continue reading “Meet the media and militiamen funded by ‘Lebanese AIPAC Guy’ pushing Beirut into Israel’s hands”
Israel’s political standing in America fractured its foundation even before the 2026 war, or the summer 2025 strikes. Gaza put Israel on life support in American public opinion, and the Iran war has now pulled the plug on it for generations to come. There’s a reason why when AIPAC tries to buy a congressional seat in America, the one thing AIPAC’s campaign ads never talks about is Israel itself, even going so far as to disguise its campaign role under front names and shell entities, through laundered donations and bogus campaign organizations. Continue reading “Israel Now A Political Pariah in America”
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth called on Congress to approve his request for a $1.5 trillion military budget for 2027 during remarks at a ceremony in South Carolina for the renaming of Joint Base Charleston to Joint Base Lindsey Graham in honor of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died unexpectedly last month. Continue reading “Hegseth Says Congress Should Pay Tribute to Lindsey Graham by Approving $1.5 Trillion Military Budget”
The Pentagon is reportedly drafting a new nuclear strategy that’s expected to emphasize the use of tactical nuclear weapons to give the president more “options” in a potential nuclear conflict. Continue reading “Pentagon Drafting New Nuclear Strategy To Expand Options for Tactical Nuclear Weapons Use”
By Ismail Nofal – Drop Site News
GAZA CITY—Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the former director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, suffered multiple injuries, including fractured ribs, after enduring severe beatings by Israeli prison authorities on July 27, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office. The group described it as the “most difficult day” of his imprisonment since being detained without charge over a year and a half ago. Continue reading “Israel’s Brutal Retaliation Against Imprisoned Palestinian Doctors Seeking Legal Appeals”
Thursday marked 300 days since October 10, 2025, the day the ceasefire was supposed to go into effect in Gaza, but the Israeli military has continued constant violations, and, according to the UN’s child relief agency UNICEF, has killed at least 300 children in that time, or one per day. Continue reading “Israeli Attacks in Gaza Have Killed One Child Per Day Since ‘Ceasefire’ Started: UNICEF”
President Trump on Thursday threatened “leakers” with jail time over reports about dwindling US military stockpiles as a result of the Iran war, and claimed the US had plenty of munitions available. Continue reading “Trump Threatens ‘Leakers’ With Jail Time Over Reports About Munitions Shortages”
Writing in POLITICO on Tuesday, Dasha Burns and Nahal Toosi reported that in recent months the US intelligence community has “sent spies and assets” to Cuba. Specifically, they reported the CIA has increased its presence on the island, which sits approximately 90 miles south of Florida. Continue reading “US Intelligence Assets Said To Descend On Cuba”
By Max Blumenthal and Michelle Witte – The Gray Zone
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza City on Tuesday held a mass funeral for 112 members of the Abu Sharia al-Hassaina family, a well-known and respected clan that has been nearly wiped out by Israel’s genocidal war, the Palestinian news agency WAFA has reported. Continue reading “Mass Funeral Held in Gaza for 112 Palestinians From the Same Family Killed by Israeli Airstrikes in 2023”
By Murtaza Hussain – Drop Site News
On February 20, 2015, an official of the United Nations Population Fund sent two Israeli diplomats an email containing a confidential report about a trip two weeks earlier to Washington, D.C. by Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, then the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Continue reading ““For Your Eyes Only”: Israel’s Mole Inside the United Nations”