Leo Lumansi

Descendant of Ssekabaka Kungubu Ssewanaku Kigala e Ddambwe; Ugandan.

[Marwan @marwanbishara]

This is a travesty … false, farcical and absurd …

[Euro-Med Monitor @EuroMedHR]

While attention turns to what comes next for #Gaza, the ruins left behind are rapidly changing

A thread 🧵

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Israel has committed so many shocking atrocities over the past 2.5 years that many forgot how it massacred over 300 people in a November 2023 strike on Gaza’s Al-Sabra neighborhood

112 of those victims from two clans were just extracted from the rubble and given a mass funeral

Tony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Brett McGurk and Kamala Harris all have this blood on their hands

[Euro-Med Monitor @EuroMedHR]

Israel wipes genocide evidence in #Gaza, carting off rubble and remains in 100 trucks daily
https://t.co/xUpuKL8mWN

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The Trump admin sent FBI agents to subpoena NY Times freelancer Matthew Cole for his sources

Cole exposed a sickening US war crime in which Navy SEALs massacred North Korean fishermen after they were caught planting a surveillance device

The SEALs punctured the fishermen's lungs to make sure they would sink and not be found

Trump authorized the failed raid in 2019 ahead of talks with Kim Jong-Un, and with the goal of spying on the North Korean leader

Cole happens to be publishing a book about Jared Kushner's web of financial corruption

Do you see what's happening here?

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

For years, Israel was using 2,000lb American bombs to kill Gazan refugees in tents. Both the Biden and Trump administrations permitted it.

A precedent was set.

Now it appears the US is doing the same in Iran.

A 2000lb bomb was dropped on a family house in Qeshm, killing a taxi driver (the father), the mother, and a 2-year-old, according to @nytimes.

Yes, a taxi driver. And a toddler. And his mother.

"The Times found no indication of a military site near the family’s home or any reports of military casualties from the strike."

https://t.co/DrD08nibGq

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Sky News reports that a 28-year-old Palestinian woman, six months pregnant and suffering severe internal bleeding, was being transported from Qaryout in the occupied West Bank to Rafidia Surgical Hospital in Nablus when Israeli soldiers stopped her ambulance at the Awarta checkpoint.

Video shows Israeli forces detained the ambulance crew for more than 30 minutes, subjected the bleeding, critically ill woman to a physical search, and ordered the driver to turn off the engine, cutting power to the vehicle’s onboard medical equipment.

During the forced delay, a nurse was forced to deliver the fetus stillborn inside the stranded ambulance. The woman was eventually allowed to proceed to the hospital, where doctors performed emergency surgery and saved her life. The baby could not be saved.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Two Israeli female soldiers photographed themselves posing beside a young, blindfolded Palestinian detainee who appears to be a minor and proudly posted the image on Instagram.

The post, which circulated widely online and was reviewed by Drop Site News, was uploaded by Israeli soldier Nikol Stelmashvski as part of a 20-photo carousel containing additional images from her time in Gaza. Her account [@ nikol.stel, IG] has since been made private after the photo drew public backlash.

The image is the latest in a documented pattern of Israeli soldiers publicly sharing evidence of Palestinian detainees being humiliated or abused. Such conduct violates international humanitarian law, which prohibits the degrading treatment of detainees.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

ICE deported a married couple back to Guatemala who had sought safety in the US.

Their bodies have been found tied up and shot, with their 14-month-old daughter left alive beside them.

[Arya Yadegaar @AryJeayBackup]

The shipment of medicine for 44,000 dialysis patients has finally arrived after being seized by the US for 4 months aboard the Toska ship.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 New footage appears to show Palestinian Farouk Ramadan walking unarmed after disarming an Israeli settler during Thursday’s settler assault on the village of Tell, south of Nablus, raising serious questions about whether he was executed after he had already been disarmed.

Shared below by the X account B.M. (@ireallyhateyou), the footage appears to show Ramadan no longer carrying the seized weapon after confronting the immediate threat. The Israeli military said Ramadan seized a rifle and opened fire before he was killed, but it has not addressed the new footage appearing to show him alive and unarmed afterward or explained what happened between those moments.

B.M. noted that the settler filming can be heard urging Israeli soldiers to shoot everyone. The footage was originally published by settler activist Elisha Yered, a former spokesperson for Limor Son Har-Melech, a lawmaker from Jewish Power, the far-right party led by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An Israeli soldier posted video of their demolition of the main school in Hanine, in southern Lebanon — likely carried out in April, based on satellite footage, but was posted recently. Source provided it to @DropSiteNews

The obnoxious music was added by the soldier.

[Maria Kari @mariakari1414]

Before we sued him, I used to email Blinken's staff the names of AMERICANS including kids and grandparents trapped in Gaza begging for evacuation assistance. The replies were cold & eventually stopped coming. I had clients who were killed while waiting to exit Gaza. Imagine being killed by bombs your tax dollars paid for. Then, during his last week in office, I had someone hand deliver to Blinken a list of Americans still stuck in Gaza despite seeking the US govt's assistance for a year. He said the incoming administration would take care of it. Ofc, they didn't. Salsabeel, an American mother of 3, remains trapped in Gaza. The Stage Dept refuses to evacuate her kids because they're not American.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨The moment a Palestinian man seized an assault rifle from an armed Israeli settler who was threatening him during a settler attack on the village of Tell, southwest of Nablus.

The Times of Israel, citing an Israeli military statement, said dozens of Israelis had entered Areas A and B of the occupied West Bank on what the IDF called a “hike,” despite those areas being off-limits to Israelis. The group included armed settlers.

A Palestinian man snatched a rifle from one of the armed Israelis who charged at him in a threatening manner with his gun raised and aimed directly at the Palestinian. The Palestinian man then shot dead a 32-year old settler who served in a settlement security unit. Israeli forces then shot and killed the Palestinian. Three other Palestinians were shot dead immediately afterward in what Palestinian officials described as a field execution, and eight others were wounded in the Israeli settler and security forces attack.

More details in the post below ⬇️

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING!

Armed Israelis are escalating DEADLY assaults against defenseless Palestinians in the West Bank!

They have reportedly just shot in cold blood five men in Tal village and Far'ata/Qalqilya.

Their leaders openly talk of #Gazification

THESE CRIMINALS MUST BE STOPPED!

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government:

WSJ

NYT

AP

Reuters

CNN

NBC

ABC

CBS

The Guardian

The Hill

Semafor

Washington Post

Fox News

New York Post

BBC

Newsweek

MS NOW

The Telegraph

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

A note to those who will carry out unlawful orders amounting to war crimes:

Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan.

American officials and American forces escaped accountability for war crimes they committed in Iraq and Afghanistan for a reason that had little to do with law. The law was never in doubt. What was missing in those countries was a civil society capable of building a case file and keeping it alive for twenty years. Iran is not that case, and anyone flying missions over it should understand the difference.

Iraq's associational life had been destroyed long before the first American bomb fell. Twenty-four years of Ba'athist rule absorbed the bar, the professional syndicates and the universities into the party or dissolved them outright. Eight years of war and thirteen of sanctions then hollowed out the hospitals and the faculties and drove the professional class abroad. Afghanistan had less still: decades of continuous war, a formal legal profession that barely survived it, universities closed to half the population, adult literacy around a third. In neither country was there a vibrant civil society, an independent bar to take instructions, a forensic service to certify cause of death, a registry to establish who had lived in the building, or a faculty free to publish. Crimes were committed and no file was built. That is not an acquittal. It is a documentary vacuum.

Iranian civil society is constituted differently. Its bar association is the oldest in the region and its licensed advocates number in the tens of thousands, with a professional identity of their own. Its forensic medicine service certifies cause of death. Its civil registry, land registry and hospital systems establish identity, residence, ownership and the prior use of any structure. Its universities run dozens of law faculties whose scholars publish in Farsi, Arabic and in English.

Literacy is near universal and mobile use saturated, so a strike is recorded from several angles within minutes and lodged outside the country within hours. And the diaspora runs to millions, concentrated in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada and Britain, including lawyers admitted in precisely those jurisdictions where universal jurisdiction is exercised — working in both languages, with relatives among the dead.

So the warning is a practical one. If you destroy a bridge or a power plant because Iran fired at a ship, you are executing an order whose unlawfulness was announced in advance by the man who gave it. If you strike a school, a power plant, a bridge, a hospital or a railroad, it will be documented within hours, as it has already been.

Superior orders has not been a defence since Nuremberg. There is no limitation period for offences resulting in death. Your name, your unit, your airframe and your time on target will be recorded, and copies of that record will sit in half a dozen countries. The people assembling it are not conscripts who will be demobilised at the end of the war. They are lawyers, journalists, physicians and archivists, and they work to the length of a career. You will be choosing where you can safely travel around it for the rest of your life.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Iran is carrying out these attacks because the US targeted a conscript dorm in the middle of nowhere Iran, killing many sleeping soldiers. So Iran is retaliating by pivoting from targeting military infrastructure -- radar systems, hangars, helicopters, etc -- to targeting servicemembers in their quarters.

There was zero strategic value in the US killing some sleeping 18-year-old conscripts in their dorm. The only purpose would be to satisfy Secretary Hegseth's openly expressed bloodlust. Utterly reckless.