Indian police have detained Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other opposition figures as they were protesting outside of the residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They were rallying in support of a youth-led movement over failures in India's examination system.
💢 Israel confirms it is walling off the half of Gaza it controls
The Israeli military has built more than 23 kilometers (14 miles) of earthen barriers cutting through Gaza, physically dividing the roughly 50% of the territory it occupies from the crowded coastal strip where Palestinians have been forced to live, according to Planet Labs satellite imagery reported by The Associated Press.
The findings confirm and extend reporting Drop Site News first published in January, when analysis by Forensic Architecture revealed Israel had begun turning the so-called “yellow line” into a physical barrier of raised earth berms. Drop Site reported in May that the berms had grown into a mostly unbroken wall, often running west of the line and deeper into Palestinian land.
What’s New:
🔹Presented with the images, Israel’s military confirmed to the AP for the first time that it has built the barrier, and said it established a “security zone” around the line.
🔹One southern section splitting the ruins of Rafah from the Mawasi tent camps grew from 500 meters to 2.4 kilometers in the first two weeks of July alone.
Image 1: AP’s new map published today.
Image 2: Drop Site map published in May with @ForensicArchi.
Modi claims to be Vishwaguru but for a 2yr UN Security Council seat, Jaishankar starts nervous campaigning against Tajikistan. India: population 1.46 billion & GDP $3.96 trillion, Tajikistan 10.8 million people & GDP $17.7 billion. Tajikistan has now 57 votes, India 5.
🚨New from Drop Site News: Iran Sent Message to JD Vance Warning that Kushner and Witkoff Were “Abusing” Their Inside Access to Negotiations
A senior Iranian official said Tehran privately told Vance the pair were exploiting the negotiations for financial gain. The Trump administration says it never happened.
Story by @JeremyScahill and @RyanGrim
https://t.co/68nTr8Vs2F
🚨BREAKING: With @Imran_HussainMP and 80 other MPs and Lords, I have written to the Foreign Secretary calling for comprehensive sanctions on Israel.
The world’s top court is clear. Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal - and Governments must act now to end it!
⚡️Iran Sent Message to JD Vance Warning that Kushner and Witkoff Were “Abusing” Their Inside Access to Negotiations
A senior Iranian official said Tehran privately told Vance the pair were exploiting the negotiations for financial gain. White House denies
https://t.co/2bEX4FRAFD
🇺🇸 Trump: "I am not speaking with Spain, they are a waste of time. I want them to leave NATO, let's cut all ties and impose sanctions..."
🇪🇸 Sánchez: "Stay away from us. Instead of picking a fight with us, explain your own relationship with Epstein."
BREAKING: "Money that's being unfrozen is going to be used to buy food... exclusively through the United States from our farmers."
President Trump says corn, soybeans, and other agricultural products will be purchased from American farmers as part of the administration's latest progress with Iran.
"Our farmers are very happy... I've had a lot of calls. They were very happy about that."
As Asim Munir, Pakistan’s military chief, seeks to project strength abroad, militant violence in his country is the worst it has been in a decade https://t.co/ib76cLrfnd
🇵🇸 Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Policy Lead Bushra Khalidi told the UN Security Council that Israel has deliberately dismantled the humanitarian systems needed for Gaza’s recovery, blocked organizations including UNRWA and Oxfam, destroyed civilian infrastructure, and left Palestinians “denied even the basic conditions to survive.”
Khalidi said the ceasefire is failing as Israeli forces continue killing Palestinians and confining Gaza’s population to ever-shrinking areas of the Strip.
She said aid deliveries and truck counts are being used to create the appearance of progress while hospitals lack medicine and fuel, water and sewage systems remain in ruins, and families struggle to access food, clean water, shelter, and healthcare.
Khalidi says that Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe is the result of deliberate political decisions, including ongoing siege, denial of movement, obstruction of aid, destruction of civilian infrastructure, annexation, and dispossession.
She urged governments to stop enabling these policies through political, economic, trade, and military ties, warning that Palestinians in Gaza are being denied not only self-determination, but even the bare minimum needed to survive.
جب کراچی میں غریبوں کے بچے چرس سے مرتے رہے تو کسی کو کوئی فرق نہیں پڑا مگر جب ایک ایم این اے کا بیٹا اور ایک سینیٹر کی بیٹی کوکین سے مر گئے تو پنکی کو اٹھا لیا گیا ، شبر زیدی
🚨 New from @DropSiteNews: Iran Warned Trump: If You Do Not End War on Lebanon, We May Strike Israel Without Warning
Tehran believes it won a historic victory over the U.S., but is prepared for the deal to fall apart, a senior Iranian official tells Drop Site.
Story by @JeremyScahill
https://t.co/D79I0uLOKd
JUST IN: Israeli Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says once fuel prices went up in the U.S. Trump was no longer looking at Israel but his own election:
“Netanyahu did not understand that the Strait of Hormuz is not a footnote, it is the heart of the story.
The moment fuel prices in the United States started to rise, Trump was no longer looking at Israel.
He was looking at the congressional elections and at his political base, which hated the war.
What happened was that Netanyahu pushed for war with Iran as if it didn't pass through the gas pump in Ohio.”
Exclusive: U.S. intelligence agencies have warned the Trump administration that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to take steps that will undermine President Trump’s effort to reach a lasting peace deal with Iran. https://t.co/LF1mowtp08