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 No.487384[View All]

One Year of Genocide

Continued from >>484995

Updates since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 61,000. Excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

In early January 2025, Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange. Despite all of the killing, Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, appears to have largely replenished its numbers, and threw parades celebrating the exchange. The ceasefire is on terms Hamas had already agreed to in May 2024.

Following Hezbollah strikes on Tel Aviv, a ceasefire in Lebanon was agreed to on November 27th. Israel proceeded to violate this ceasefire more than 600 times, and has refused to leave the country at the agreed-upon 60 day deadline, prompting unarmed civilians to stage protests and drive them out of parts of south Lebanon.

Lebanese Army leader Joseph Aoun was elected president of Lebanon.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by US-backed al-Qaeda operatives. Israel proceeded to steal more land from Syria and launched a massive bombing campaign on Syria and Syria's arsenal without any resistance.

Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar was killed while fighting in Gaza. Mohammed Deif later confirmed dead.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC also issued warrants against Hamas leaders.

Following the warrants, the Biden administration invited Yoav Gallant to the White House.

Benjamin Netanyahu was invited back to the White House for February 4th, 2025.

Israel has launched more attacks on the West Bank, and reportedly violated the ceasefire in Gaza some 80 times.

More countries have joined South Africa's legal case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for the crime of genocide. Cuba, Ireland, Belize, Nicaragua, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Chile, and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel. Egypt, Belgium, and Maldives have also declared their intention to join.

Yemeni Houthi attacks on international shipping, in solidarity with Gaza, have stopped in accordance with the ceasefire, following multiple successful Yemeni strikes on targets in Israel.

Demonstrators have continued to blockade and damage arms factories manufacturing weapons for Israel in the UK.

The US gov't continued shipping weapons to Israel, in violation of US law.

The new US administration threatened to deport foreign students speaking out against the US-backed Palestinian genocide.

A group of states from the global south formed the Hague Group as a way of reinforcing the rulings of the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court. The founding states are Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa.

And much, much more!
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 No.488821

>>488818
>Even the ambulances were targeted
So they don't know how to target the actual combat forces, and are instead attacking civilians.
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 No.488822

Houthis say they fired missile at Israeli airport

Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree says the group fired a ballistic missile at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport earlier today.

He added that the group also shot down a US drone that was carrying out “hostile acts” around the Sanaa governorate.

Earlier, we reported that Israeli authorities said a ballistic missile had been fired from Yemen and that the country’s air defences had intercepted the missile. No casualties were reported.

Hezbollah pledges to retain arms until Israel ceases hostilities in southern Lebanon

A Hezbollah official says the group categorically refuses to discuss handing over its weapons to Lebanon’s army unless Israel withdraws completely from the south and stops its “aggression”.

“It is not a question of disarming,” Wafiq Safa said in an interview with Hezbollah’s Al Nur radio station. “What the president [Joseph Aoun] said in his inauguration speech is a defensive strategy.”

A ceasefire agreement in November ended more than a year of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, sparked by the war in Gaza, that included two months of open warfare.

Safa said Hezbollah had conveyed its position to Aoun, who on Tuesday said he sought “to make 2025 the year of restricting arms to the state” alone.

“Wouldn’t it be logical for Israel to first withdraw, then release the prisoners, then cease its aggression … and then we discuss a defensive strategy?” he asked in the interview.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/18/live-israel-kills-more-than-30-in-deliberate-attacks-on-gaza-civilians
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 No.488840

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US moving to have fewer than 1,000 troops in Syria in coming months

The Pentagon says the “consolidation” of US troops in Syria “reflects the significant steps” made to degrade the “appeal and operational capability” of ISIL (ISIS) in the region and around the world.

“As this consolidation takes place, consistent with President Trump’s commitment to peace through strength, US Central Command will remain poised to continue strikes against the remnants of ISIS in Syria,” the department said in a statement.

“We will also work closely with capable and willing Coalition partners to maintain pressure on ISIS and respond to any other terrorist threats that arise.”

The US started sending troops to Syria in 2014 with the stated objective of defeating ISIL, but American forces remained in the country after the group’s territorial defeat in 2017.

https://aje.io/1u60tw?update=3653186

Israeli forces bomb tents for displaced in southern Gaza again

Gaza’s Civil Defence is reporting casualties as Israeli forces bomb tents for displaced people in al-Mawasi area of ​​Khan Younis.

More US attacks target Yemen

The Houthi-affiliated media Al Masirah TV is now reporting three US raids on the Saada governorate in northwest Yemen.

US forces also targeted Bart al-Anan and Khab and Ash-Shaaf districts in al-Jawf governorate with four raids.

Death toll from US attacks on Yemen rises again

The Houthi-affiliated al-Masirah channel quoted the Hodeidah Health Office as saying that the death toll in the overnight US attacks on Ras Isa port has now gone up to 80.

At least 150 people have also been wounded.

ICRC in Yemen says providing body bags following US attacks

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it is responding to “urgent requests by health facilities” in Yemen following US air strikes on the Ras Isa oil port that killed at least 80 people.

“The ICRC has provided medical teams to treat the wounded [and] body bags for dignified management of the dead,” it said.

The agency also called on “all parties to respect and protect civilians, including medics, emergency responders, and civilian infrastructure” in line with international law.

Second Israeli drone strike on Lebanon kills one more person

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says one person was killed in a drone strike targeting a vehicle travelling on a road between the border villages of Aita ash-Shaab and Rmeish.

Earlier today, another Israeli strike targeting a car south of Sidon also killed one person.

Israel claims both of those killed were Hezbollah members. There has not been any comment yet from the Lebanese group.

US firm Cisco bars discussions on Gaza

US news outlet Zeteo is reporting that Cisco fired an employee who was outspoken on Palestine, accusing them of making comments that “contribute to a harmful work environment and harm other employees”.

Zeteo shared a video of Cisco’s Chief People, Policy & Purpose Officer Francine Katsoudas announcing the new restrictions on discussions related to the Middle East during a company meeting.

“Some topics are just simply too hard, too painful, too divisive. One example specifically would be the ongoing conflict in the Middle East,” Katsoudas said. “We have made the decision that this topic cannot be discussed, cannot be debated, in company or organisation-wide meetings.”

Cisco has faced widespread criticism for providing technologies used by the Israeli military, with rights advocates accusing the firm of being complicit in the killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

“As one of the main providers of networking hardware for the Israeli military, Cisco is potentially implicated in the mass killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians” during the war, Investigate, a project of the American Friends Service Committee, says on its website.

In October, the US news outlet WIRED also reported that Cisco employees seeking to advocate for Palestine within the company said they had been marginalised.

Hezbollah ‘will not let anyone disarm’ it, group’s chief says

Hezbollah “will not let anyone disarm” it, the Lebanese group’s leader Naim Qassem said, as the US presses Lebanon to compel the group to hand over its weapons.

“We will not let anyone disarm Hezbollah or disarm the resistance” against Israel, Qassem said in remarks on a Hezbollah-affiliated TV channel. “We must cut this idea of disarmament from the dictionary.”

Qassem said his group was ready for dialogue on a “defence strategy”, however, “not under the pressure of occupation” by Israel.

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said this week that he wanted “to make 2025 the year of restricting arms to the state”, adding he hoped to achieve that objective through “dialogue” with Hezbollah.

Hezbollah was left weakened by more than a year of hostilities with Israel sparked by its war on Gaza, including an Israeli ground incursion and two months of heavy bombardment.

The fighting was largely brought to an end by a November ceasefire. However, Israeli forces have carried out numerous strikes on Lebanese territory since then.

Haaretz: Israel must stop starving Gaza

In an editorial titled “Israel must stop starving Gaza”, Haaretz said “Israel’s starvation of more than two million Palestinians has been fully normalised.

“This policy is based on a populist and false narrative that links humanitarian aid for Gazans to Hamas’ military capabilities. The result is a continuing humanitarian crime,” it wrote, adding that starvation had “become an openly declared policy and even a source of pride”.

On March 18, Israeli authorities blocked the entry of desperately needed humanitarian aid once again. The blockade is currently ongoing.

US Muslim group condemns deadly attacks on Yemen

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has slammed the deadly US attacks on Yemen that have killed at least 74 people and injured more than 170.

“Destroying a fuel port full of civilian workers and then reportedly bombing paramedics when they arrived to rescue survivors is a war crime, plain and simple,” CAIR Deputy Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said in a statement.

Mitchell noted that Trump had promised to end US wars, but he accused the president of “entangling” the country “in a new forever war for the benefit of the out-of-control Israeli government, which treats our nation like a piggy bank”.

“This is an Israel First foreign policy, not an America First foreign policy,” Mitchell said.

“This regional conflict would end if the genocide in Gaza ends, which is why President Trump should force Netanyahu to accept a permanent ceasefire deal that frees all captives and ends the genocide for good.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/18/live-israel-kills-more-than-30-in-deliberate-attacks-on-gaza-civilians
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 No.488841

US carries out at least 29 air raids across Yemen

Yemeni media affiliated with the Houthis are reporting that the US has carried out at least 29 air raids across Yemen this evening.

The attacks targeted Sanaa, Amran, Marib and Hodeidah governorate in western Yemen.

Houthi spokesperson says US drone downed over Sanaa

The military spokesperson for the Yemeni group, Yahya Saree, says Houthi fighters have downed the drone over the capital, Sanaa.

“This drone is the second of its kind that our air defences have succeeded in shooting down within 24 hours and the sixth during the current April,” Saree said.

The spokesperson added that Houthi operations against Israel due to its war on the Gaza Strip will continue until Israel’s attacks stop and its blockade on humanitarian aid is lifted.

A reported 80 people were killed in US strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen over the past day.

Qassam Brigades says ambush carried out against Israeli forces

Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, says it has carried out a “complex ambush” against Israeli forces in Tuffah, a neighbourhood of Gaza City.

In a statement, the group said it had inflicted casualties on Israeli forces and targeted a tank and a military bulldozer, setting them on fire.

Israeli soldiers point guns at ambulance crew near Nablus: Report

Footage reportedly showing the incident, which took place in the occupied West Bank town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, shows Israeli military vehicles blocking a Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance.

An Israeli soldier then exits his vehicle, before pointing his weapon at the ambulance and forcing it to turn around.

https://twitter.com/Sa7atPlBreaking/status/1913337204945932590

Settlers build unauthorised outpost under army’s backing in occupied West Bank

Footage shared online shows Israeli settlers starting construction of an unauthorised outpost near the Palestinian village of Turmus Aya with the backing of the Israeli army.

“Over the past two days, all the farm outposts in the Shiloh Valley area received caravans and prefabricated homes,” rights group Yesh Din said in a post on X with videos of the ongoing construction.

“Once again, the army is cooperating with settlers to establish illegal farm outposts that use violence to expel Palestinians from their lands under the protection of the state.”

According to Peace Now, another Israeli NGO, a record 48 new settlement outposts were established in 2024 in the West Bank.

https://twitter.com/Yesh_Din/status/1913252675363185129

Hamas’s military wing says fate of Israeli-American captive unknown

A spokesperson for Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, says the fate of the Israeli-American captive, Edan Alexander, is unknown after they found the body of the guard looking after the captive.

“We are trying to protect all prisoners and preserve their lives despite the brutality of the aggression. The lives of prisoners are in danger due to the criminal bombing operations carried out by the enemy army,” Abu Obeida said.

He added that Israeli forces “lie” that Hamas are treating the captives inhumanely and “fabricate false testimonies” from former captives to cover up Israel’s continued attacks on Gaza that hinder the safety of Israelis being held in the enclave.

Israeli forces restrict Christian worshippers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Holy Saturday: Report

Israeli forces have clamped down on worshippers and prevented dozens of families from reaching their homes in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem as Christians celebrated Holy Saturday, according to Wafa.

Netanyahu admits Hamas rejected prisoner swap because it wants war to end

Netanyahu says Hamas has rejected a ceasefire proposal to return half the captives because the Palestinian group wants a complete end to the war, a scenario the Israeli prime minister admits will mean an end to Israel’s “achievements”.



His latest comments come as pressure from the public and former military and intelligence officials grows for Netanyahu to prioritise the return of the captives and end the war.

Almost 140,000 Israelis sign petitions to end the war

Nearly 140,000 Israelis have signed petitions to demand the return of captives and end the war, as pressure grows on Netanyahu following a week of letters from sections of the military, the intelligence agency and academics calling for the captives to be prioritised.

While Netanyahu threatened to dismiss soldiers who spoke out against the war last week, more active and former military personnel are joining the initiative.

According to the latest data from the movement, which is coordinated through the website Restored Israel, the majority of signatories, 127,255, are civilians, and 11,179 are military figures.

Several key former military leaders have also signed the petitions, including former Prime Minister and Chief of General Staff Ehud Barak, former Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, and former military intelligence chief Amos Malka.

UN chief alarmed at deadly US air strikes on Yemeni port

Antonio Guterres is “gravely concerned” about US air strikes this week on Yemen, a spokesman says after the attacks killed at least 80 people, according to Yemeni media.

“The Secretary-General is gravely concerned about the airstrikes conducted by the United States over the course of 17 and 18 April in and around Yemen’s port of Ra’s Isa, which reportedly resulted in scores of civilian casualties, including five humanitarian workers injured,” spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.

The strikes on Ras Isa aimed to cut off supplies and funds for the Houthis, who control large swaths of the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country, the US military said. It was the deadliest attack of Washington’s 15-month campaign against the Iran-backed group.

Guterres expressed fears of damage to the port and “possible oil leaks into the Red Sea”, Dujarric said.

Israel still eyeing a limited attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities:

Israel’s government has not ruled out an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, despite reports that the Trump administration opposes the move, the Reuters news agency reports, citing an Israeli official and two people familiar with the matter.

We previously reported that President Trump reportedly blocked a planned Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites in favour of negotiating a nuclear deal with Tehran, according to The New York Times.

US assistance would have been required to ensure Israel’s proposed attack was successful and defend it against retaliation, according to the NYT report.

But Israeli officials now believe they could launch a more limited strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities that would require less US support, according to Reuters. Such an attack would be significantly smaller than those Israel initially proposed, Reuters added, without providing more details.

Iran’s foreign minister arrives in Rome for nuclear talks

We have been reporting on the upcoming Iran-US nuclear talks, which are set to be officiated by Omani mediators in Rome later today.

Iran’s foreign minister and chief negotiator, Abbas Araghchi, has now arrived in the Italian capital, according to Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency, which posted footage of him disembarking his plane.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/19/live-israel-kills-64-in-gaza-as-homes-tent-camps-barbershop-bombed
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 No.488842

Isn't it weird that the alt-right hates Israel more than Palestine? I guess their anti-Semitism was stronger than their anti-liberalism and Islamophobia… On the other hand, not like hating Israel is their only based take (their anti-Zionism is an excuse for their bigotry but whatever). I happen to agree with their anti-woke stance also (their anti-wokeness is also an excuse for their bigotry but whatever). Broken clock, etc.
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 No.488843

>>488842
The thing about this is that the reason a lot of the "alt. right" (and a lot of MAGA even though Trump is clearly not on the same page) hates Israel isn't just down to anti-semitism trumping other bigotries. They see the same images of slaughtered children, the same clips of Netanyahu calling for US war with Iraq (and now Iran), etc. as we do and they feel the natural human response, repulsion. It isn't a purely ideological product, it just ties in very naturally with their pre-existing ideology, also including opposition to mass-migration. This is something on which most of humanity is united.
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 No.488844

>>488843
>chuds have feelings
I don't believe you.
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 No.488845

>>488844
They also breathe air it's crazy I know.
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 No.488846

>>488845
>They also breathe air it's crazy I know.
Thing is, /pol/tards are desensitized by shock content and ironic detachment and actively cheer the genocide of minority groups.
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 No.488847

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>ARREST NETANYAHU
No.

Execute Netanyahu. Total Netanyahu death.
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 No.488848

>>488847
Absolutely. Like it would be nice to arrest him, give him a trial, and then execute him, but who exactly has that luxury?
It's been kid gloves with the IDF, with Netanyahu, and with their rat bastard backers in the American state, and it's been a failure.
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 No.488849

>>488847
>>488848
So rumors have it that the IDF is now having 40% refuse recruitment or deployment.

Give Netanyahu some credit
he's wrecked Isreal's international standing,
he wrecked Isreal's economy
and now he's trying to make Israel's military implode

If it wasn't for all the genociding of Palestinians…
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 No.488859

Gaza death toll since Israel resumed its offensive nears 1,900

At least 11 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since early Monday morning, according to the Health Ministry.

At least 1,864 people have been killed and 4,890 people wounded since Israel relaunched its offensive, ending a ceasefire on March 18, according to the ministry.

At least 595 children and 308 women were among those killed over the past month, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.

US launches more attacks on Yemen

We’ve been covering a US strike that killed at least 12 people in Yemen’s Sanaa.

Now, we are getting reports that there’ve been more US attacks on the country.

Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV says US forces have carried out three attacks on the northwestern Amran province, and two more on the al-Jawba district in the northern Marib province.

Al Masirah also says there have been four other attacks on the Sarwah district of Marib.

Houthis claim attacks on US aircraft carriers, vessels

The Houthis have claimed to have attacked two US targets.

“We carried out two military operations with drones on two targets in Ashkelon and Umm al-Rashrash,” the Yemeni group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said.

“We targeted the American aircraft carriers Truman and Vinson and their naval vessels.”

Earlier, US forces bombed a popular market in Yemen, killing at least 12 people.

The Trump administration has said the attacks are aimed at forcing the group to stop threatening (Israeli) ships in the Red Sea, a major conduit for international trade.

Since November 2023, the Houthis have launched attacks on vessels linked to Israel in response to Israel’s war on Gaza and in solidarity with Palestinians. They announced they would stop the attacks on vessels after a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in January, which Israel ended unilaterally.

Rescue efforts under way in Yemen’s Sanaa after US bombings
Mohammed Al Attab
Reporting from Sanaa, Yemen

According to reports from Houthi-affiliated media, at least 12 people were killed and 30 others injured in the latest US strike that hit a popular market here in the capital, Sanaa.

The Houthis, who are also known as Ansar Allah, said the strike caused significant damage to buildings and private commercial shops.

Ambulance and rescue teams are working to rescue victims, who are believed to be still trapped in the rubble of the latest attack.

The US had launched a major military offensive against Yemen’s Houthis in March, and since then, scores of people have been killed.

Arrests made in India for ‘Free Gaza, Free Palestine’ posters: Report

Seven people have been arrested in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly putting up “Free Gaza, Free Palestine” posters, The Times of India reports, quoting local police.

“The posters called for a boycott of Israeli goods,” officer Baniyathair Ram Veer Singh was quoted by the newspaper as saying, adding that those arrested were caught with the help of CCTV footage.

The arrests in Sambhal district come as India has cracked down on pro-Palestine protests under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Pro-Israeli rallies by Hindu far-right groups have been allowed.

New Delhi has also supplied weapons to Israel despite a genocide case against it under way at the International Court of Justice.

Ties between India and Israel have grown particularly rapidly under Modi and Netanyahu.

Protest in Morocco against docking of Israeli ships

A large protest took place in Tangier on Sunday against the docking of Israeli ships at Moroccan ports.

Security forces intervened to surround the demonstrators and prevent them from reaching the city’s port.

During the march, participants chanted slogans such as “peaceful, peaceful!”, especially in the face of security measures.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/21/live-israel-kills-32-in-gaza-2-in-lebanon-us-bombs-yemen-killing-12
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 No.488872

🚨🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

Elbit Systems is a partner in killing and burning children in Gaza; the time has come to besiege it, shut it down, and prosecute its leaders

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine calls on the free people of the world—individuals, organizations, and solidarity movements—to take urgent action to besiege Elbit Systems, which is directly involved in the zionist war of genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip, after its proven participation in the recent massacres that targeted secure tents and burned children and displaced persons.

The "israeli" army’s use of the “SkyStriker” suicide drone—manufactured by Elbit Systems—to carry out crimes that deliberately targeted civilians in cold blood underscores the depth of the collusion between the zionist military establishment and global arms corporations.

Countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and others also bear full responsibility for these crimes, as they are partners in Elbit Systems, one of the occupation’s most important arms suppliers, particularly in its genocidal war against our people.

The Front urges the free people of the world to lay siege to Elbit Systems’ facilities worldwide, organize protests in front of its branches and offices, and pressure complicit Western and other governments to close the company and sever all ties with it.

We also call on the International Criminal Court to pursue the company’s leaders as war criminals, since they are partners of the occupation in perpetrating these crimes.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
21 April 2025

#ShutElbitDown

Note - Global map of Elbit Systems locations and subsidiaries: https://act.progressive.international/out-palestine/
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 No.488889

Another revealing interview by the Grayzone of Yemen's Ansar Allah spokesman, Muhammad al-Bukhaiti.

My big takeaway from this is that Yemen is attempting to re-kindle solidarity among Arab states in resisting American imperialism.
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 No.488900

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https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1914362337802510370
Yemen’s Ansarallah-led government has declared it is imposing sanctions on US arms companies for supporting Israeli genocide

The move came as symbolic pushback against the weapons companies supplying the Israeli military with the munitions they need to kill innocent people. It is also a message to the Arab regimes that refused to do the same.
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 No.488901

https://twitter.com/redstreamnet/status/1914615700418609377
RedStream - Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leaders arrested in Syria.

For the first time, two PIJ members have been arrested by HTS authorities in Syria. Khaled Khaled, the leader of PIJ in Syria, and Abu Ali Yasser, head of the PIJ organizational committee in Syria, were arrested on Sunday. According to governmental sources, the PIJ leaders have been accused of “collusion with Iran.”

Ahmad al-Sharaa, self-proclaimed president of Syria and former Al Qaeda member, has been involved in the Israeli-backed strategy to dismantle Palestinian resistance movements. Since December, the HTS-led administration has pressured Palestinian factions to disarm and relinquish their weapons, training camps, and military headquarters. Al-Sharaa has also warned that Syria must not serve as a base for attacks on Israel.

PIJ has faced repeated Israeli strikes on its Damascus headquarters.The arrests follow the Palestinian Authority leader's visit to Syria and US conditions to ease sanctions, including “countering terrorism.”
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 No.488902

>>488901
>Jihadists arresting each other
What in the fuck is going on now?
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 No.488904

>>488902
This will blow your mind but HTS and Syrian Al Qaeda and ISIS were effectively US/Israeli proxies.

In case you missed it, HTS has been allowing Israel to take a ton of additional territory in Syria's west, as well as allowing Israeli attacks on Damascus. HTS then attacked Lebanon, Alawites, etc. and has generally set its sights on Hezbollah & Iran because those are Israel/US enemies. Also, from 2023 to 2024, during the Israel's genocide against the Palestinians which caused a great uproar throughout the middle east and the world, ISIS launched a bunch of attacks again, and the main targets were Iran, Russia, Syria (forces supporting Assad), Palestinian militant groups in Syria aligned with Assad, Oman, and I think they might have attacked Afghanistan at some point in that period too.

The entire notion of "Jihadism" is colored by western propaganda, and a number of the groups associated with it (like Al Qaeda, HTS, etc.) have been recipients of western and western-aligned military support or are weird deviations like ISIS which are far removed from other "Jihadist" factions and coincidentally tend to primarily attack Muslims and enemies of Israel & the US. This puts them at odds with genuine national liberation movements, even though a lot of those national liberation movements are also nominally "Jihadists" in the lexicon of western propaganda. It's a bit like the Ulster Unionist vs. Irish Republican Army divide - at the end of the day, the Protestant vs. Catholic thing wasn't really the ultimate underlying driving antagonism between the two forces, it was the use of North Irish protestant militias as proxies for the English occupation of Ireland.
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 No.488906

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https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1914738413451833355/photo/1
Under new guidelines released by the National Institute of Health, any medical researchers will have all funds terminated if they support a boycott of Israel.

They can support a boycott of any other country, or even other US states – just not Israel.

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-090.html
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 No.488912

>>488906
Now MAHA is MIHA.
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 No.488915

>>488904
>weird deviations like ISIS
Yeah, this is probably what "Jihadism" is.

When it comes to other Islamic factions that use the word "Jihad," I might actually understand the word wrong since after a quick search it appears that it's a pretty normal word in Quran that means "struggle" or something like that.
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 No.488941

Anti-Empire Project - SIT REP APRIL 19/25: The ground war resumes
Israel has resumed ground operations and therefore has resumed taking casualties. Yemen takes down another MQ9 and confronts the USS Carl Vinson. The Secretary General of Hizbollah speaks: they won't be disarming and patience is finite. The US and Iran report progress in their talks.
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 No.488943

>>488941
>The US and Iran report progress in their talks.
So can we hope that there won't be an Iran war ?

I don't understand why there is such a big push for this now, the US weapons stocks (especially air defense ammo) are still depleted from the Ukraine thing, and Israel has been fighting for a year wearing down their military too. How bad are the internal political division in Israel ? Is that the reason they are striving for a fight despite the disadvantaged position ?
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 No.488947

>>488943
>So can we hope that there won't be an Iran war ?
No.

>I don't understand why there is such a big push for this now, the US weapons stocks (especially air defense ammo) are still depleted from the Ukraine thing, and Israel has been fighting for a year wearing down their military too. How bad are the internal political division in Israel ? Is that the reason they are striving for a fight despite the disadvantaged position ?

Because the US has its Zionist "strongman" in. Trump is intended to be the face of the US empire when it does this, or, if not him, then Vance. Iran is on the list of countries the Israelis & neocons have wanted to destroy for decades, this has been planned since the '00s if not the '90s, maybe earlier. The intention is undisturbed Israeli expansion and hegemony.

This isn't just shit they decided to do now strictly because of the current thing, rather current thing is like it is partially because the lead-up to current thing was calculated with this outcome in mind, including the political vulnerabilities of Netanyahu and Trump. It's not necessarily a coincidence that they have both been charged (and, in Trump's case, convicted) of crimes - if they fall out of favor, if they allow themselves to be removed from power, they could be imprisoned. Likewise, if they remain in power, the precedent in both cases has been established that they will not be held accountable for anything they do, no matter how horrible or how illegal.

None of this means that a war with Iran will be good for the US. From a US POV, it is not a rational action; the US will kill itself for Zionism, and Israel will say "better them than us" because regardless of how poorly a US war with Iran goes for the US, Iran will still be decimated in the process.

No one should be letting their guard down about this shit. We need to be destroying the arms factories, sabotaging routes they're shipped on, blocking ports they ship out from, and interfering with the flow of cash which pays for the weapons now. What we do today will save lives.
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US air strikes target three areas in Yemen: Report

Yemen’s Al Masirah news outlet has reported that US air strikes have targeted at least three areas across the country.

The Houthi-affiliated outlet said a series of strikes targeted Kamran Island in the Red Sea, two air strikes hit the as-Salif district in western Yemen, and four air strikes were reported in the as-Saleem district in the Saada province in the north of the country.

Yemen’s Houthis say they shot down a US drone

The Yemeni group says this is the seventh US drone it has downed so far this month and the 22nd since the Gaza war began.

In a statement, the Houthis said their “air defence shot down a hostile American MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of Hajjah governorate”.

Israeli shelling targets ICU at Gaza City children’s hospital: Health Ministry

The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that the Israeli military shelled Al-Durra Children’s Hospital in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.

An Israeli air strike also targeted solar panels at the facility, the ministry said in a post on Telegram.

Israeli army fabricated Gaza tunnel discovery to stall ceasefire: Report

An investigation by Israel’s public broadcaster Kan has found that the Israeli military fabricated the discovery of a tunnel in the Philadelphi Corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border, saying instead that the structure was a shallow canal.

In August, the army published photos of what it said was a tunnel in the demilitarised area along the border.

“There was never a tunnel, but a canal covered in dirt,” Kan said.

The purpose of this assertion “was to exaggerate the importance of the Philadelphi Corridor and delay a hostage deal”, it added.

According to Kan, former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant backed the findings, saying, “It was not a tunnel, but rather an attempt to prevent a ceasefire agreement.”

Gallant said the structure was only about 1 metre (3.3ft) deep and was misleadingly presented to the public as a deep tunnel.

“It was promoted to the public as a deep tunnel to prevent reaching a deal with Hamas,” he added.

Second Israeli drone attack kills 1 in southern Lebanon: Ministry

At least one person was killed in an Israeli drone attack on a car in Haniyeh town of Tyre district in southern Lebanon, according to the country’s Health Ministry.

It appears to be a different attack from the one that killed a leader of Lebanon’s al-Jamaa al-Islamiya.

Footage from a surveillance camera broadcast by a Lebanese social media account showed the moment an Israeli bombing targeted the vehicle. The video was verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, Sanad.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=687568117303607

Hamas urges global strikes, sit-ins to end Israel’s war on Gaza

Hamas has called for a wave of global protests, strikes, and sit-ins this weekend, urging continued mobilisation until Israel’s assault on Gaza ends and the siege is lifted.

“We value the global movement in support of Gaza and against the Zionist aggression,” the group said, urging people across the Arab world, as well as in Asia, the Americas, and Western countries, to step up their actions.

It praised the ongoing demonstrations as “a rejection of the genocidal war” against Palestinians being committed by Israel.

Hamas also backed a call by Islamic institutions naming Saturday, April 26, as a day of widespread strike action in shops and malls across the Muslim world.

Such actions, it said, represent “an expression of solidarity with our people and our right to freedom and independence”.

United Nations to review the impact of UNRWA

The United Nations chief has appointed a British human rights activist to carry out a strategic review of the UN agency helping Palestinian refugees to assess its impact under the “present political, financial, security and other constraints”.

Israel has banned the agency, known as UNRWA, from operating on its territory, but its Palestinian staff have still been key to delivering aid and running medical clinics in Gaza, even though Israel has cut off all humanitarian deliveries since March 2.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who announced the review, said Ian Martin, a former head of Amnesty International, would also be looking at the “consequences and risks for Palestinian refugees” of UNRWA’s operations.

Dujarric stressed that the review is not about changing UNRWA’s mandate.

“We’re trying to see how, in this very complex environment, UNRWA can best deliver for the Palestine refugees it serves, for the communities it serves,” he told reporters. “They deserve to be assisted by an organisation – by UNRWA – that can work in the best possible manner given all these challenges.”

Israel deletes condolences over Pope Francis’s death

The Israeli government shared and then deleted a social media post offering condolences over the death of Pope Francis, without saying why, though an Israeli newspaper linked the decision to the late pontiff’s criticism of the war in Gaza.

‘We truly lost a friend’: Palestinians mourn pope’s death

Reverend Munther Isaac, a Palestinian pastor in Bethlehem, says that while Pope Francis was widely respected and beloved by many people around the world, the late pontiff held a special place in the hearts of many Palestinians.

“For us, as Palestinians, we truly lost a friend, someone who spoke with compassion, with full humanity about the plight of Palestinians,” Isaac told Al Jazeera.

Francis’s position on Palestine started long before Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, Isaac noted.

He pointed to the pope’s 2014 visit to Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, where he prayed at the Israeli separation wall.

It was “a prayer that touched many, many millions of hearts, a prayer that left an impression on us Palestinians that he sees our pain, he recognised the cruelty of the situation we live in, of the oppression of the occupation,” Isaac said.

Israeli military needs additional $2.6bn to expand Gaza war: Report

The Israeli army estimates that it will need an additional 10 billion shekels ($2.6bn) to expand its war on the Gaza Strip with a large-scale ground operation, according to the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth.

Hamas warns of Gaza famine after 50 days of Israeli siege

Hamas has slammed Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza, now in its 50th day, warning it is pushing more than two million residents towards famine and a deepening health disaster.

“The Gaza Strip is facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” the group said in a statement, citing severe shortages of food, water, fuel, medicine and even children’s vaccines.

It added that the siege, which has also seen daily attacks on shelters, hospitals and residential areas, amounts to a “war crime” and a “premeditated crime” by the Israeli leadership.

Hamas accused the international community of “political, moral, and humanitarian failure” and called on the United Nations and others to pressure Israel to lift the blockade and allow aid into the territory.

The group also urged Arab and Muslim countries, along with global activists, to “break the siege” and support Gaza’s resistance against Israel’s “fascist plans”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/22/live-israel-kills-29-in-gaza-netanyahu-vows-powerful-response-to-houthis
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>>488947
>No.
damn

>Iran is on the list of countries the Israelis & neocons have wanted to destroy for decades, this has been planned since the '00s if not the '90s, maybe earlier.

So they're just working off a script from 30 years ago ? Ignoring all the realities on the ground that have changed ?

>The intention is undisturbed Israeli expansion and hegemony.

But how can they possibly think this is still possible, after roughly 70 years of warring, of destroying resistances only for something new to take it place. They have not gone beyond being a small imperial beachhead. And the people they are trying to subdue are now firing increasingly sophisticated missiles and drones at them, and are beginning to engage Air assets with some successes.

>This isn't just shit they decided to do now strictly because of the current thing, rather current thing is like it is partially because the lead-up to current thing was calculated with this outcome in mind, including the political vulnerabilities of Netanyahu and Trump. It's not necessarily a coincidence that they have both been charged (and, in Trump's case, convicted) of crimes - if they fall out of favor, if they allow themselves to be removed from power, they could be imprisoned. Likewise, if they remain in power, the precedent in both cases has been established that they will not be held accountable for anything they do, no matter how horrible or how illegal.

So they're trying to kick off the Iran war because Netanyahu's legal troubles ? What about all the other people in these structures, don't they realize how bad this will be for them ?

>None of this means that a war with Iran will be good for the US. From a US POV, it is not a rational action; the US will kill itself for Zionism, and Israel will say "better them than us"

I think that Israel would get destroyed in a Iran war. This will end with Israeli submarines arriving in US ports looking for a new homedock.

>because regardless of how poorly a US war with Iran goes for the US, Iran will still be decimated in the process.

Iran will block off the Persian gulf with mines, that will crash the financial system, fossil fuel prices will climb a lot.
Iran will destroy US bases within it's reach, and perhaps sink a few US ships.
If any of the oil-monarchies allows the US to use them as a military staging grounds, Iran will destroy their oil and gas production maybe via proxies or maybe with long range weapons. This will cause regime collapse in those countries. Fossil fuel prices will climb even higher.
Russia will probably quadruple it's revenue from exporting fossil fuels. And actually have enough money to give substantial material support to Iran, enough to prevent regime collapse.

I know Iran isn't interested in building a nuke, because they could have done so for some time, but didn't. And the nuke thing is just political tennis. However if the US does a lot of damage to Iran, they will get a nuke for real and go full regional hegemon.

Iran's underground weapons factories/storage are/is not easy to crack, and it's not like the US could just fly un-ending heavy bomber raids , those can't survive Iran's air defences. There also is no "nuclear option" if anybody actually uses a nuke there's perhaps 30 nuclear threshold countries that will cross over. And then there's 30 more countries that will no longer have to yield to any demands. Like lots of DPRKs

Lets not forget that if the US throws down in the middle east or west Asia, China will be able to remove US influence in it's backyard.

This war would not be yet another quagmire, it'll be a grave of empire.
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 No.488958

>>488951
>Israel deletes condolences over Pope Francis’s death
I guess we can count that as an honor for Pope Francis.

>‘We truly lost a friend’: Palestinians mourn pope’s death

Apparently he spend his last days talking to people in Gaza over the phone.
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 No.488959

>>488958
>Christian bigotry
Yes! So based!
>Christian compassion
HOW DARE YOU?

The religious right following their own teachings: impossible.
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 No.488967

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This Gaza City pizza looks good ass hell.
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 No.488988

>>488956
>So they're just working off a script from 30 years ago ? Ignoring all the realities on the ground that have changed ?
They've been running the same script the entire time. Here are some of the biggest changes:
1. The US destroyed Iraq, occupies it.
2. The US destroyed Syria, occupies it, Turkey and Israel have taken territory in Syria. Syria is led by a US/Israeli puppet.
3. Genocide in Gaza, continued theft of land in the occupied West Bank.
4. US destroyed Libya.
5. Somalia and Sudan wrecked.
6. US puppet in Egypt.
7. US puppet in Lebanon.
8. Rise of Ansar Allah in Yemen.
9. Development of hypersonic weapons in Iran and Yemen.

… And there's more, obviously, but this is a lot of stuff that happened, and only a few of these things are really disadvantageous to their plans. The rest has gone according to their plan, but not as fast as they'd intended.

>But how can they possibly think this is still possible, after roughly 70 years of warring, of destroying resistances only for something new to take it place. They have not gone beyond being a small imperial beachhead. And the people they are trying to subdue are now firing increasingly sophisticated missiles and drones at them, and are beginning to engage Air assets with some successes.

This is imo kind of a weird question for the left to ask. What is our average failure to success ratio?
It's weird to not understand what motivates people to do things like this. How long did it take before Israel even existed - Zionism was conceived in the 1800s, colonization began in the late 1800s or early 1900s, and then the UN created Israel in 1948. Why didn't they just give up and go home?
Because they were dead set on something. They had a common goal bigger than themselves. It was an evil, insane goal, but it was their long-term plan. People on the left need to be able to comprehend this stuff intuitively, it's a really bad thing if the only people in the west who get this principle are deranged ethnonationalists hell bent on subjugating those they deem inferior.

>So they're trying to kick off the Iran war because Netanyahu's legal troubles ? What about all the other people in these structures, don't they realize how bad this will be for them ?

No, Netanyahu has legal troubles in order to help ensure he kicks off the war with Iran. ;P
The west has contemptible criminals and degenerates as leaders because it takes sociopaths to carry out this plan. It's part of the same reason US politics is filled to the brim with blackmailed pedophiles, perverts, and rapists. There's an incentive structure which encourages sociopaths to rise to the top, but there's also a conscious effort by Zionists and military industrialists to preference blackmailed individuals who can be easily discarded if they step out of line with the genocidal plan.

I don't know for sure if Netanyahu and Trump were specifically set up this way, as re-elected leaders who had been charged or convicted with serious crimes, in order to maintain a particular outcome… but it certainly is convenient for people who want them to carry out atrocities.

>I think that Israel would get destroyed in a Iran war. This will end with Israeli submarines arriving in US ports looking for a new homedock.

Maybe, maybe not. That's a risk they're willing to take. US leadership wants the US military to eat a lot of that risk.

>Iran will block off the Persian gulf with mines, that will crash the financial system, fossil fuel prices will climb a lot.

>Iran will destroy US bases within it's reach, and perhaps sink a few US ships.
>If any of the oil-monarchies allows the US to use them as a military staging grounds, Iran will destroy their oil and gas production maybe via proxies or maybe with long range weapons. This will cause regime collapse in those countries. Fossil fuel prices will climb even higher.
>Russia will probably quadruple it's revenue from exporting fossil fuels. And actually have enough money to give substantial material support to Iran, enough to prevent regime collapse.
It will be catastrophic, they don't care.

>I know Iran isn't interested in building a nuke, because they could have done so for some time, but didn't. And the nuke thing is just political tennis. However if the US does a lot of damage to Iran, they will get a nuke for real and go full regional hegemon.

Iran isn't interested in doing it, and hasn't done it, but should have done it already.

>This war would not be yet another quagmire, it'll be a grave of empire.

Yep.
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US forces continue to bomb Yemen

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting more US raids on Yemen.

It said there were three attacks on the central province of Marib and four in the southwestern province of Taiz targeting the communications network in the al-Barh area of Maqbanah district. Earlier in the morning, the channel reported four raids on the international airport in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah and four on the northern Saada province.

The US launched the bombing campaign in Yemen on March 16 after the Houthis, who control most of the impoverished country, threatened to resume attacks on Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea. The US attacks have killed hundreds of Yemenis, including women and children.

Houthis claim attack on Israel

In a statement, a spokesperson for the Yemeni rebel group says that its fighters launched a ballistic missile and a drone at the areas of Haifa and Jaffa in Israel.

Earlier, we reported that air raid sirens were sounding inside Israeli territory due to attacks coming from the direction of Yemen.

“We will not back down from our duties to support the Palestinians until the aggression on Gaza stops and the siege is lifted,” the Houthi spokesperson said.

60,000 Gaza children show signs of malnutrition

Tens of thousands of children are now showing symptoms of malnutrition as Israel has been blocking food and medical supplies from entering the enclave for nearly two months, Gaza Health Ministry spokesperson Khalil Deqran has said.

Since March 2, the Israeli military has imposed the blockade on the Strip, insisting it is a tool to pressure Hamas into releasing all the remaining captives. It also resumed its offensive on Gaza on March 18.

Since the blockade began, all 25 UN-supplied bakeries making bread have been shut, with aid agencies warning that the population is on the precipice of starvation and mass disease.

Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, described the blockade as collective punishment of Gaza’s people. “The siege must be lifted, supplies must flow in, the hostages must be released, the ceasefire must resume,” he said yesterday in a post on X.

Child burns to death after Israeli attack on Jaffa School

We’ve been covering an Israeli attack that sparked a fire and killed at least 10 people while they slept at a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City.

Our correspondent on the ground says at least one child was among the victims.

The child’s body was burned beyond recognition, according to images from the scene.

“Children are being burned while they sleep in the tents of the displaced,” Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif wrote. “There are no safe areas, and no survivors of this genocide. Gaza City and its northern areas have been subjected to heavy Israeli shelling and artillery fire for hours.”

https://twitter.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1914854845430800611

Death toll from Israeli attacks rises as rescuers appeal for global intervention

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have killed at least 12 people in attacks across Gaza since the early hours of the morning.

The relentless attacks have overwhelmed rescuers in Gaza City.

The Palestinian Civil Defence says people trapped in the rubble of residential buildings, east of the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, are calling for help after a series of Israeli attacks.

But rescuers are unable to reach them since the Israeli military has designated it as a “dangerous area”.

The Civil Defence says it is appealing to the International Committee of the Red Cross for intervention to enable its crews to reach the site of the attack and save the lives of the people trapped there.

Lapid says Israeli government incapable of ‘winning’ war in Gaza

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has issued a sharp condemnation of the Netanyahu-led government’s handling of the ongoing war.

“It’s time to recognize the facts: this government is incapable of winning the war,” Lapid said in a post on X.

“They had a year and a half, received full support from the Americans, full support from the opposition, and the excuses are over.”

Students at Yale University rally against upcoming visit by Ben-Gvir

Hundreds of student protesters have gathered at the Yale’s Beinecke Plaza in protest against an upcoming talk by the far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at Shabtai, a Jewish society that is based near the university.

About 200 students attended the protest and set up eight tents at the plaza, according to the Yale Daily News.

Videos on social media showed hundreds of students chanting, “We will not stop, we will not rest. Disclose, divest,” as they called on the university to oppose the war in Gaza.

The crowds dispersed late on Tuesday evening with organisers promising to stage another protest later today.

Ben-Gvir, who advocates the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, is scheduled to speak at Shabtai tonight. His visit to New Haven, where Yale is located, is his first trip to the US since he became Israel’s national security minister.

The protests at Yale came a year after police there arrested nearly 50 students from the university who set up an encampment on campus, urging the institution to divest from any weapons manufacturing companies potentially supplying the Israeli military.

Head of US university says Trump is ‘trying to destroy American higher education’

More on the statement from the presidents of US universities and colleges.

Patricia McGuire, the president of Trinity Washington University, is one of the signatories of that statement.

She said she signed on to it “because it’s absolutely essential for every college president in America to confront the Trump administration about the actions they are taking, not only against Harvard, but against many institutions and also against all of our students”.

These include “the snatching of students off the street and sending them into detention, the abolishment of diversity, equity and inclusion programmes that support our Black and Hispanic students in particular”.

McGuire went on to describe Trump’s administration as “lawless”.

“It’s a rich irony that the Trump administration accuses Harvard and others of violating the law, which is not true. There has been no proof that Harvard has violated any law,” she said.

“But meanwhile this administration is acting in the most lawless way possible, violating First Amendment rights, freedom of speech, violating the rights to due process for students and others who are detained without any opportunity to tell their side of the story, and by the way, threatening one of the most important forms of American productivity in the world – America exports more higher education products than just about anything else.

“American higher education has been the pride of this country, and the Trump administration is trying to destroy American higher education, and we must stand against that,” she said.

More than 200 US universities, colleges denounce Trump’s ‘political interference’

The leaders of more than 200 universities and colleges in the US have joined forces, signing a statement accusing the Trump administration of political interference in higher education.

The statement signed by presidents from institutions such as Princeton, Brown, Harvard, Columbia, the University of Hawaii and Connecticut State Community College, criticised what it described as “the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education”.

“We are open to constructive reform and do not oppose legitimate government oversight,” the statement said. “However, we must oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live, and work on our campuses.”

The joint statement comes as the Trump administration seeks to leverage federal funding of medical and other scientific research to overhaul US academia, which the president says is gripped by anti-Semitic, anti-American, Marxist and “radical left” ideologies.

PIJ demands release of senior members detained in Syria

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad says Syrian authorities have detained two of its members “without any explanation of the reasons” and “in a manner we would not have hoped to see from brothers”.

The group’s armed wing, al-Quds Brigades, identified the two men as Khaled Khaled, who heads Islamic Jihad’s operations in Syria, and Yasser al-Zafari, who heads its organisational committee.

It said the two men had been in Syrian custody for five days and called for their release.

The Reuters news agency says an official from Syria’s Interior Ministry has confirmed the detentions, but did not respond to follow-up questions on why the pair had been arrested.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/23/live-israel-attacks-childrens-hospital-in-gaza-polio-campaign-at-a-halt
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https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1915362873309630470
Irish band Kneecap is reportedly under investigation by UK police following their Coachella performance, where they demonstrated solidarity with the Palestinian people by displaying messages condemning Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
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A Bomb Threat Targeted Student Protesters. So Why Did They Get Blamed for It?
A bomb threat at Barnard College targeted the “terrorists/communists that are protesting.” But you wouldn’t know that from the school’s statements.

When a bomb threat coincided with a pro-Palestine student protest at Barnard College last month, the New York City Police Department arrested nine demonstrators. By the next day, local and national media had picked up the story. Some outlets suggested that the protesters were responsible for the threat. “Several Barnard College protesters in custody after bomb threat made during sit-in,” read one headline.
That headline, as well as statements from Barnard College and the NYPD, overlooked a key fact: The Palestine solidarity protesters were actually the targets of the bomb threat.

This revelation has alarmed faculty and students, who are now being interrogated by school officials about the threat during inquiries over alleged student code of conduct violations. Faculty and attorneys working with the protesters are also concerned that information from those interrogations could be shared with the government, as Barnard faces pressure to hand over information about students to Congress — where Republicans have repeatedly painted student protesters as terrorists — as part of its investigation into antisemitism on college campuses.
When asked by The Intercept whether the school had made public that the bomb threat targeted pro-Palestine students, a Barnard spokesperson pointed to a tweet from the NYPD.

“The NYPD is responding to a bomb threat at the Milstein Center at Barnard College and is evacuating the building. Anyone who refuses to leave the location is subject to arrest. Please stay away from the area,” the post on X states.

Barnard, which is Columbia University’s affiliated women’s college, did not respond to detailed questions about the timeline of when it called police onto campus, why students were being asked about the threat, what information it planned to share with Congress, or why it had not made public that protesters were the target of the threat.

“The fact that these students were targets does not seem to have been made clear,” said Homa Zarghamee, an economics professor at Barnard.

Zarghamee noted she has not seen the kind of support for students who were the target of a threat of violence that she would have expected from the administration “in this era of safety concerns.”

“What we have never heard from the administration — this time, or truthfully any time in the past — is anything about the fact that this was a threat made to our students, who we need to remember, again and again, are being disciplined for peaceful protest against the Israeli war on Gaza,” said Thea Abu El-Haj, a professor of education at Barnard.

Though the school itself never explicitly blamed the bomb threat on students, Abu El-Haj said everyone she has spoken with outside of Barnard had assumed that the protesters were responsible.

“The language from the administration seems to consistently be about the protesters as threatening. And it seems very much addressed to a broader public audience,” she said. “I can say for myself, but also for the students I teach, they are really upset that no one is expressing concern for them and for the threats that have been brought against them.”

According to a screenshot of the bomb threat obtained by The Intercept, the sender emailed school administrators at 4:01 p.m. on March 5 saying they had placed a bomb “in the Barnard College library.” The sender, who used the email address, [email protected], wrote that they intended to attack the “anti-white faggot terrorists/communists that are protesting.”

In an email sent that evening to the coalition of protesters Columbia University Apartheid Divest, Barnard President Laura Ann Rosenbury said students, faculty, and staff had been ordered to clear the building so the NYPD and its bomb squad could assess the threat. She added that the school had asked police not to arrest protesters. An NYPD spokesperson told The Intercept that it dispatched its Emergency Services and K-9 units. The spokesperson did not respond to a question clarifying whether the NYPD Bomb Squad, a separate unit, had also been dispatched.

Later that night, the college addressed the bomb threat in an email to the broader school community. Rosenbury said the bomb threat was no longer a danger and went on to describe the “disturbing and unacceptable events” that took place in Milstein prior to the threat. She said staff tried to get protesters to leave the building throughout the afternoon and that the “unauthorized protest” had disrupted classes and studies. She blamed protesters for putting the entire school community at risk by not following evacuation orders after the threat was received.
“Our staff, at risk to their own personal safety, remained in the Milstein lobby, urging the masked disruptors to take the threat seriously,” Rosebury wrote. “Even when the College activated the fire alarm, the masked protesters put our entire campus at risk by refusing to leave.”
At the time of the incident, school administrators and the New York Police Department gave no indication that the threat had been made against pro-Palestine protesters. That information was not shared by school administrators or police with the broader school community or the public.

“We heard news of a bomb threat and the lobby was evacuated very quickly thereafter but I do not recall being told the bomb threat was made toward those in the sit-in,” said Barnard theatre professor Shayoni Mitra.

Various reports have introduced differing timelines of police response — and different reasons the NYPD was called to the scene.
The day after the protest, an NYPD spokesperson told the Columbia Spectator that police had responded to the protest around 1:50 p.m. to an “unscheduled demonstration,” and said it had no information about a bomb threat.

Three days later, another NYPD spokesperson told the Spectator something else: that police had indeed responded to the protest because of the bomb threat. The spokesperson also said that students who were arrested on charges including governmental obstruction and trespass were taken into custody during the police evacuation in response to the threat. Barnard told the Spectator that it called police in response to the threat, not because the demonstration was unauthorized.

Mitra said she taught a class on the first floor of the building that houses the library on the day of the sit-in and heard three shelter-in-place orders announced over the public address system between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. A photo shared with The Intercept shows a handful of police officers standing on the street outside Milstein at 3:25 p.m. — 36 minutes before the bomb threat email reviewed by The Intercept arrived in the school president’s inbox.

A later message from Rosenbury mentioned threats “via multiple email messages on March 5, 2025” — further muddying the timeline as to when police were first called to campus and why.

“Barnard lied when it said it called the police because of the bomb threat — timestamps show the threat came after the call,” said attorney Remy Green, partner at the law firm Cohen&Green and counsel for several students at Barnard. “Rather than address and protect its students from a violent, racist, misogynistic, and homophobic person who threatened to murder them, Barnard saw an opportunity to deceive the public into thinking the students were connected to the threat. By doing this, Barnard has made this campus less safe and less free.”
According to three people who were in the library when police arrived, dozens of NYPD officers from the Strategic Response Group — a specialized team often deployed to protests — entered the library shortly after 4 p.m. An NYPD spokesperson later told the Columbia Spectator that police responded at 4:22 p.m.

The NYPD did not respond to The Intercept’s questions asking the department to clarify what time police first responded on campus that day.
Sources who spoke to The Intercept said that the NYPD kettled some protesters on the lawn outside the building. Photos reviewed by The Intercept show students who were arrested in zip-ties lined up against the outer wall of the building. Police then escorted the people they arrested through the building that was the target of an active bomb threat.

“They took the students that they had arrested and put them up first up against the building that was ostensibly about to explode,” said Abu El-Haj after reviewing footage and photos taken by students.

Some members of the faculty learned that the threat was directed at student protesters the next day at a faculty meeting. According to sources with knowledge of the meeting, faculty members read aloud the text of the bomb threat to colleagues, shared with a few professors internally by an administrator.

In a joint statement released following the meeting, Barnard and Columbia faculty condemned the arrests of students and blamed them on Rosenbury, as the school had summoned police to campus. They called for an independent investigation into the incident and the school’s response to another sit-in at Barnard’s Milbank Hall on February 26.

Students themselves are now being interrogated about the threat. Barnard’s head of public safety — ex-NYPD officer Gary Maroni — is questioning student protesters about that threat in mandatory fact-finding meetings, according to emails reviewed by The Intercept and accounts from faculty and attorneys working with pro-Palestine students on campus. Faculty worry that these interrogations — which students were originally told they had to attend without any witnesses or legal representation — could be turned over to Congress.

read more:
https://archive.is/PtaUm
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/24/barnard-college-gaza-protests-bomb-threat/
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>>489017
The Zionists must be getting pretty desperate if they are now doing bomb-threats against democratic protests.
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 No.489019

Trump ILLEGALLY DEPLOYS US Forces In Yemen | The Kyle Kulinski Show

Israeli tank commander killed in Gaza fighting

Israel’s military said a tank commander from the 79th battalion was killed in northern Gaza on Thursday.

Another Israeli officer from the battalion was also seriously injured in the same attack, the military said in a post on social media.

No details of who carried out the attack were given by the military.

https://aje.io/0aj1hi?update=3666692
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 No.489022

File: 1745559255192.mp4 ( 795.39 KB , 480x854 , Ypsilanti Michigan the FB….mp4 )

April 23, 2025: Footage from Ypsilanti, Michigan of police and FBI raiding the home of University of Michigan pro-Palestine/anti-genocide activists.
"They refused to show warrants, seized electronics & personal items. Temporarily holding 8 people. Updates to come" - per Kamau Franklin

"Source with knowledge confirms to me this raid was led by Michigan AG Dana Nessel and FBI was only brought in in a supporting role" - per Ryan Grim
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 No.489023

File: 1745559480073.jpg ( 96.22 KB , 523x468 , April 25 2025 Yemen Houthi….jpg )

US military carries out more strikes across Yemen

Houthi-affiliated media outlet Al Masirah TV is reporting several US military attacks across Yemen over recent hours, including:

One raid in as-Salif district in Hodeidah governorate
One raid on Kamaran island in Hodeidah governorate
Two raids in Bani Hashish district in Sanaa governorate
Two raids on Sufyan district in Amran governorate
Four raids on Madghal district in Marib governorate
No deaths have been reported so far in these attacks. We will bring you more information when we have it.

Houthis have shot down 7 US Reaper drones worth $200m in recent weeks: Report

The Yemen-based Houthis have shot down seven US Reaper drones worth more than $200m in less than six weeks, The Associated Press news agency reports, citing unnamed US defence officials.

Three of the drones were shot down in the past week, the officials said, suggesting the group’s targeting of the unmanned aircraft has improved.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss military matters, said the drones were carrying out attack runs or conducting surveillance when they were downed.

The US military has carried out daily raids on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on March 15, after the Iran-backed group vowed to resume its campaign of attacks on vessels in the Red Sea when the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas broke down.

More than 100 people have been killed and injured in the weeks since.

Norway establishes formal diplomatic relations with Palestine, appoints ambassador

Posting on X, Norway’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik announced that Marie Antoinette Sedin has been appointed as the country’s ambassador to Palestine.

Kravik was sworn in by Norway’s King Harald at a ceremony on Thursday.

In May last year, Norway – alongside Ireland and Spain – announced its decision to formally recognise Palestinian statehood based on the pre-1967 borders.

Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said Norway’s decision was an investment in the “only solution” that can bring lasting peace in the Middle East – “two states living side by side in peace and security”.

Palestinian officials vote to create a vice presidency under Mahmoud Abbas

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has announced the creation of a vice presidency under 89-year-old leader Mahmoud Abbas, who has not specified a successor.

After a two-day meeting in the occupied West Bank, the PLO’s central council voted on Thursday to create the role of vice chairman of the PLO Executive Committee. This position would also be referred to as the vice president of the State of Palestine, which the Palestinians hope will one day receive full international recognition.

The expectation is that whoever holds that role would be the frontrunner to succeed Abbas, though it’s unclear when or exactly how it would be filled. Abbas is to choose his vice president from among the other 15 members of the PLO’s executive committee.

Protests held in New York opposing Ben-Gvir visit

We have been reporting on protests that have taken place in the US over recent days opposing the visit of Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Protests were held on Tuesday and Wednesday in the city of New Haven, where Ben-Gvir gave a talk to members of Shabtai, a Jewish society for Yale University students.

As we previously reported, Ben-Gvir was also due to address a synagogue in Long Island near New York City, but his speech was cancelled after organisers were met with strong backlash.

Footage published on social media now shows large crowds of protesters gathering in New York, chanting anti-Ben-Gvir slogans and waving Palestinian flags.

https://x.com/SamarDJarrah/status/1915596424491790503

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/25/live-israeli-strikes-kill-over-60-in-gaza-as-entire-families-targeted
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 No.489025

>>489018
True, but also, are they not getting away with it?
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 No.489027

https://x.com/NerdeenKiswani/status/1915724063760077201
The bloodied face of a girl hit by a brick thrown by Zionists. They hurled bricks, eggs, and urine at mostly young women and other Jews protesting baby-killer Ben Gvir in Brooklyn. No synagogues were surrounded. No Jews were threatened. We won’t live in your delusions.
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 No.489033

File: 1745636301565.jpg ( 85.77 KB , 770x513 , April 19 2025 Good Friday ….jpg )

At least six US air strikes target Yemen: Report

Houthi-affiliated news outlet Al Masirah TV has reported that six US air strikes have targeted the Bajil district in the Hodeidah governorate in Yemen.

Three new F-35I fighter jets land in Israel: Army

The Lockheed Martin aircraft landed at the Nevatim Air Force Base last night, according to a statement by the military.

They will join the 140th Squadron, the statement added.

The Times of Israel said that the jets are part of Israel’s initial order of 50 warplanes from the American company.

Another 25 were ordered last year, it added.

Dozens of recent deaths in Gaza attributed to hunger
Tareq Abu Azzoum
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza

Gaza’s Government Media Office suggest that 52 people who have died over the past few weeks was due to hunger and malnutrition.

That is a clear outcome of this ongoing closure of Gaza’s borders.

Many families have been lining up at the gates of community kitchens for very long hours, every single morning, and many of them return with nothing.

Spain halts controversial $7.5m deal to buy ammunition from Israeli company
Graham Keeley
Reporting from Madrid, Spain

Spain’s government halted a controversial $7.5m deal to buy ammunition from Israel on Thursday, following criticism from far-left allies within the governing minority coalition.

The country’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, intervened to cancel the deal after Sumar, a group of left-wing parties, threatened to pull out of the governing coalition.

“After exhausting all routes for negotiation, the prime minister, deputy prime minister and ministries involved have decided to rescind this contract with the Israeli company IMI Systems,” a government source, who did not want to be named according to Spanish government practice, told Al Jazeera on Thursday.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/25/live-israeli-strikes-kill-over-60-in-gaza-as-entire-families-targeted
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File: 1745641066533.jpg ( 190.28 KB , 1502x1602 , Time Trump Iran war interv….jpg )

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https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1916007680713408516
WATCH: Zionist Mob Assaults and Terrorizes Woman Outside NYC Event for Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir

A shocking video captures a woman surrounded, beaten, and terrorized by a pro-Israel mob outside Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, New York—where racist Israeli far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was speaking.

The crowd—largely Orthodox Jewish men—closed in as an NYPD officer tried to lead the woman to safety. She wore a bandana over her face that looked like a Palestinian keffiyeh—enough to make her a target. The men kicked her, struck her repeatedly, hurled a traffic cone into her head, and unleashed a stream of abuse. “Death to Arabs,” they chanted.

One man leaned in as others encircled her and asked if she “would like to be raped.”

The officer struggled to move her through the mass of bodies, flashing a light that did little to push the mob back. They pressed closer, feeding off each other.

It remains unclear whether the woman was part of the protest against Ben-Gvir’s visit, but the mob treated her as though she were.

Earlier that night, clashes between pro-Palestine demonstrators and Orthodox counter-protesters led to six arrests. Another woman, also wearing a keffiyeh, was left bloodied with a head wound requiring medical attention.

Source: Subwaydj on Instagram
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 No.489038

https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1915857863911543137
Pro-Israel Zionists attacked an anti-genocide Jewish man outside the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, New York City, chased him, and smashed his phone.

They then burned a Palestinian flag and began chanting, “May your village burn.”
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 No.489040

>>489037
>Ben-Gvir
That Kahanoid fucker, he's to Netanyahu like who Dugin is to Putin. If any Zionist can be unambiguously called a fascist it's him.
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 No.489041

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1915802210857849306
Harry Adjmi has confirmed to me that he'll be hosting Itamar Ben Gvir at his Brooklyn home this Sunday

Adjmi is a supporter of Chabad and donor to both Eric Adams and Donald Trump, who pardoned his brother, Alex, for laundering money for a Colombian drug cartel
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 No.489043

Injuries reported after ‘massive’ blast at Iran’s port city of Bandar Abbas

Several people have been reported injured following a massive explosion and fire at the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, more than 1,000km (620 miles) south of capital Tehran, according to state media.

Iran’s customs authority said in a statement that Saturday’s explosion occurred in the Sina container yard, which is affiliated with the Ports and Maritime Organization.

Mehrdad Hassanzadeh, director of Hormozgan province’s crisis management organisation, told state television that the injured have been transferred to medical facilities, but did not say how many were hurt.

Earlier, Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Administration official Esmaeil Malekizadeh said the explosion took place near the Shahid Rajaee port dock.

Social media videos showed a huge plume of black smoke rising from the area of the explosion.

Other social media videos showed damaged to buildings and vehicles. Several people were also seen around the area checking the damage to the properties.

Shahid Rajaei port mainly handles container traffic and also has oil tanks and other petrochemical facilities.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/26/massive-explosion-fire-strike-iranian-port-city-of-bandar-abbas
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 No.489044

File: 1745662351813.jpg ( 37.87 KB , 462x1000 , bandar abbas explosion.jpg )


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