These soldiers, some of whom also testified to us about their service in the West Bank after October 2023, describe the de facto independent settler militias known as regional defence units, funded and armed by the IDF. Read their testimonies:
🇨🇴 🇻🇪 Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has designated 2026 a “Year of Latin America,” a push to rebuild Israel’s influence in a region that turned sharply against it over the genocide in Gaza. It notched two gains this week.
🔸Colombia became only the second country, after the US, to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967 and annexed in 1981 in a move the UN Security Council declared void. The reversal came from Colombia’s new right-wing president Abelardo de la Espriella, backed by Trump, who is rapidly undoing the pro-Palestinian policies of leftist predecessor Gustavo Petro: restoring ties, planning a Jerusalem embassy, and quitting South Africa’s ICJ genocide case.
🔸Venezuela, separately, agreed to a mechanism for consular services and technical cooperation with Israel, its first official link since Caracas cut ties in 2009, but stopped short of restoring full diplomatic relations. The thaw came under interim President Delcy Rodriguez who took over after Washington kidnapped then sitting President Maduro. An Israeli aid team also staged a heavily photographed visit to Venezuela following the June earthquakes.
We thought we will have returned to our hometown by now, but instead, Israel kept swallowing more land.
The picture shows new berms raised by the occupation to slice southern Khan Yunis.
Jewish settlers surrounded the home of the Abu Rida family in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, and erected fencing around the property to tighten the siege on the family, according to local sources and documentation.
This is Palestine in 1945. The world ignorantly thinks that Palestine was empty and completely undeveloped until it was invaded by Israel in 1948!
For many decades, Zionists promoted the biggest lie in modern history. They claimed they came to "a land without a people, for a people without a land."
Palestine was not an empty piece of land before Israel. It was a country pulsing with life, but a complete homeland embracing a civilized people. They had streets, cities, airports, schools, colleges, theaters, concerts, culture and art. They had hopes, dreams, futures, and businesses. Generations of Families lived there.
Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived there peacefully side by side. The holy places of the three religions are scattered across a few hundred square meters. The Great Mosque is close to Christ's tomb, further along at the foot of the Wailing Wall. That is because the war is not about religion incompetence.
Until armed Zionist terrorists entered turning this prosperity into rubble, and displacing its owners—just as the terrorist settler-invaders are doing now in the West Bank, and attempting to do in southern Lebanon and Syria.
Zionism needs you to hate Muslims. Because if you saw Palestinian as human, you would see Zionist as inhuman, and then the whole story would collapse. Convincing the world to hate Islam is easier than convincing the world to like Zionism.
People have brainwashed into worshipping Zionism, including some Christians, Muslims and many other groups especially in India and Africa. Christian Zionism is not Christianity. It is a golden calf dressed in white and blue. Christian Zionism is a made up lie.
How did Zionism manage to convince Christians that Muslims pose a greater threat than Zionists, and how did it manage to convince Sunni Muslims that Shia Muslims pose a greater threat than Zionists, and even more, how did it manage to convince everyone that Zionism is Judaism.
Zionism is not a Jewish project; they are willing to kill Jews if they stand in their way. Zionism uses religion to justify their inhuman behavior.
The world should know the truth about Palestine's beauty and development before occupation!
The shocking revelation led by @declassifiedUK that found one in four British MPs were being given substantial pay-outs by israeli lobbyists https://t.co/5DvOD6Ofsl
"People being left to live in abysmal living conditions."
MSF doctor James Smith told Channel 4 that approximately 3,000 children in Gaza are still being admitted to acute malnutrition programs every month, describing the situation as the cumulative result of manufactured deprivation over nearly three years.
Speaking from Gaza, Smith said around 1 million people urgently need emergency shelter, while sanitation systems have largely collapsed and sewage is spreading across the Strip.
He estimated that around 200,000 Palestinians have been wounded since the war began and said Gaza now has more child amputees than any other territory in the world.
Smith also said monitors are recording roughly 200 security incidents each week across Gaza, almost all involving Israeli military activity.
One Palestinian was killed and three others wounded in two Israeli attacks in Gaza:
▪️ Two civilians were wounded by a quadcopter-dropped bomb near Rafah Garage in central Khan Younis.
▪️ Muhannad Saada was killed and another person wounded in a strike on a tuk-tuk near the western roundabout in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.
The situation aboard the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln continues to deteriorate day by day.
According to The Guardian, some sailors have recently attempted to jump overboard while at sea, not to mention the lack of basic hygiene and supplies that the sailors themselves reported to their families some time ago.
This is understandable given that this is one of the longest deployments at sea in history, over 250 days at sea without even catching a glimpse of land in the distance.
The human element of warfare is often underestimated, but I certainly do not believe it is easy, mentally or physically, for these sailors to remain at sea for such an extended period, especially regarding their mental health.
For these reasons, I am certain there will be no new escalation against Iran until this aircraft carrier is replaced by the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
SHOCKING! Armed civilians surround a family's home for days, cut water/power, block food/medical aid while soldiers pray with them.
If Palestinians did this to Israelis, they'd already be bombed to smithereens.
But it is Qusra: perpetrators are Israelis. So impunity is inherited.
🚨BREAKING: OPEC Reports That Iranian Oil Production Actually Increased Last Month
Iranian oil production increased in July, it rose by roughly 26,000 barrels per day, reaching 2.478 million barrels per day.
Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to PBS:
"In the third imposed war, we learned how to fight the United States, and the U.S. Army has proven to be weaker than we thought.
.. The leaders of the U.S. Army and senior commanders of the country adjust the pulse of the war based on their personal interests, and the U.S. Congress should investigate the increase in Trump's assets and those of his associates during the war.
The Iranian people are not enemies of the American people; the enmity of this nation is with the American government."
Every morning, when I stand in front of them and see them eating and going on with their day as if nothing is wrong, I feel an even greater responsibility toward them. 🐾💔
They don’t know what debt, anxiety, or fear of tomorrow means… and I simply can’t abandon them.
But the painful truth is that my constant efforts to provide them with food and everything they need, along with the expenses of the house, have left me with debts piling up. Every day, I try to find a way to pay them back. 😔
I’m exhausted from constantly thinking… Who do I need to pay? And when will I be able to settle everything I owe?
All I wish for is to finally get through this burden and feel, even for a moment, that my heart is at peace. 🙏🏻
I’m not asking for anything huge, just a small bit of help from you. Even a small amount can make a big difference.
What may seem small to you could be a big step for me toward paying what I owe and providing what these cats need. ❤️
And if you can’t donate, please don’t take sharing this post lightly.
One share might reach someone who can help and could be the reason this burden becomes a little lighter. 🐾❤️
Thank you to everyone who continues to stand by me, and to every heart that hasn’t forgotten these innocent souls. 🙏🏻
🚨 BREAKING: Israel detains Palestinian journalist and Drop Site contributor Mohamed Awad
Israeli forces detained Palestinian journalist and Drop Site contributor Mohamed Awad, 38, from his home in Bitunia, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, early Wednesday morning.
Soldiers first raided an apartment in a different neighborhood that Awad's family had moved out of months earlier, breaking down the door only to find it empty, Awda’s wife Eman Awad told Al-Araby.
They then went on foot to the family's current home and pounded on the door until Awad opened it. He was blindfolded, handcuffed behind his back, and forced to walk down five flights of stairs before being taken away in a military jeep in a scene captured on video.
Awad’s reporting for Drop Site has covered escalating violence by Israeli settlers across the West Bank, including the burning of a mosque in Qusra, south of Nablus, and an attack in Masafer Yatta last week that wounded five Palestinians and burned four homes.
With his detention, the number of Palestinian journalists held in Israeli prisons has risen to 40, according to the Palestinian Prisoner's Society.
For years, Lebanon’s ruling class, deeply tied to transnational capital, has enriched itself while enforcing the South’s working class to absorb the costs of institutional collapse.
My piece for @ukcolumn on the south Lebanon's struggle against Israeli occupation and state complicity:
https://t.co/guViBjDilc
President Putin: "Russia will respond in kind to attempts by Western countries to seize Russian merchant vessels."
In recent months, there has been an exponential increase in the boarding of "Russian merchant vessels," specifically shadow fleet oil tankers, by European countries.
However, I do not believe Putin will order the Russian Navy to board ships belonging to EU countries, nevertheless, the possibility remains, given the significant recent increase in Russian naval activity, particularly near the UK and France.
Water is essential to life but is being weaponised by Illegal 'Israeli' settlers in the West Bank, who have created an apartheid water system
https://t.co/ViSy7tp293
⚡️⭕️ Israeli Defense Minister Katz at the Lebanese border:
The Israeli army is here to stay in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza, and to protect all of Israel. We are up here, and they are down there in Beaufort Castle. I have directed the Israeli army to take all necessary steps to prepare for a long-term stay in the region.