Trump on Iran deal: "I should send it to Congress saying, 'you shouldn't approve it!' Then I'll get it approved. Whatever I say, they do the opposite."
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, leader of the Amal movement and a key Hezbollah ally, tells NBN:
"I can guarantee a full, comprehensive and immediate commitment to a ceasefire on the part of the resistance, but the question is who will oblige Israel to stop its attacks from land, sea and air and the destruction of villages and houses?"
Hamas fighters are now emerging from their tunnels in full uniform.
The same group that hides among civilians during war suddenly remembers its uniforms when the shooting stops.
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Spain’s PM Sánchez confirmed it will send the Furor P-46, a 93-meter Navy patrol ship with 52 crew, to support Greta’s Global Sumud Flotilla.
Pray this ship doesn’t enter Israeli territorial waters.
BREAKING: 🔴
Caribbean Airlines has temporarily suspended flights between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela for the entire month of September, Faytuks Network reported.
🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL BANS MACRON
Foreign Minister Saar @gidonsaar announced today that French President Emmanuel Macron will be barred from entering Israel until he halts his anti-Israel actions.
Israel signals it won’t tolerate foreign leaders undermining its sovereignty.
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir says:
"Our missions remain the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas, we will not rest and will not stop until we complete them. Achieving these missions is essential for our future and for our values as a society"
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AP Whistleblower Exposes Gaza Reporting “AP Removes Facts from Gaza to Comply With Hamas Threats”
“I was a reporter for the AP. Between 2006 and the very end of 2011, as far as I know, I was the first staffer to erase information from the story because we were threatened by Hamas, which happened at the very end of 2011, and a great reporter in Gaza, Palestinian, who had always been really an excellent reporter. We had a detail in a story, and the detail was a crucial one. It was that Hamas fighters were dressed as civilians and were being counted as civilians in the death toll, and that went out in Navy’s story. He called me a few hours later, and he said, “Matzi, have to take that detail out of the story.” And it was clear that someone had threatened him.
I took the detail out of the story. I suggested to our editors that we note an editor’s note that we were now complying with Hamas censorship. I was overruled. From that point in time, the AP, like all of its sister organizations, collaborates with Hamas censorship in Gaza.
What does that mean? You’ll see a lot of good civilians, you don’t see the militants. You won’t have a clear idea of what the Hamas military strategy is. And this is the kicker—the center of the coverage will be a casualty number that is provided to the press by something called the Gaza Health Ministry, which is Hamas.
So since 2008, certainly since 2014, when we had another serious war in Gaza, the press has not been covering in Gaza. The press has been essentially an amplifier for one of the most vicious ideologies on Earth, which has figured out how to make the press amplify its messaging rather than cover Hamas.
There are no Western reporters in Gaza. All of the reporters in Gaza are Palestinians, and those people fall into three categories. Some of them identify with Hamas. Some of them are intimidated by Hamas and won’t cross lines, which makes a lot of sense—I wouldn’t want to cross them either. And the third category is people who actually belong to Hamas.
That’s where the information from Gaza has come from: a fear of prejudice that the forms are going to get a story that makes Israel look pretty bad.”
WELL PLAYED
Regarding the strike on IRGC Air Force leadership, an Israeli security official said Israel deliberately manipulated events to lure Iran’s top air commanders into a meeting — and ensured they stayed put.
“We carried out specific actions to study their behavior, then used that to influence their decisions,” the official said. “We knew it would bring them together, but more importantly, we knew how to make sure they didn’t leave.”
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“We knew that what we did would prompt them to meet,” an Israeli source told the network, referring to a deliberate action by Israel that led top Revolutionary Guards commanders to gather at their headquarters — and ensured they remained there.
An Iranian source to Al Mayadeen;
There is no real indication that the region is heading towards a military escalation between Iran and the United States.
Israel seeks to drag the United States into a military confrontation with Iran, but this is unlikely at the present stage.
Any Israeli military move against Iranian nuclear facilities will be met with an unprecedented response from Tehran.
Palestinian report:
First time: Emirati vehicles spotted in southern Gaza, linked to Yasser Abu Shabaab’s gang
•An operative from Yasser Abu Shabaab’s gang, Jasan al-Dhaini, seen armed beside a jeep with UAE (Sharjah) plates. He claims to be the gang leader’s top deputy.
•Channel 14 confirmed reports that an Arab country is backing and funding Abu Shabaab’s group. All signs point to the United Arab Emirates.
•The UAE does not see Gaza’s factions as a liberation movement but as part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political Islam, which it opposes.
•In a video, the operative thanks Colonel Anwar Rajab, PA security spokesperson in Ramallah, raising questions about ties between the gang and PA forces.
•Rajab denied any connection, though four gang members killed were confirmed as PA security personnel.
With both U.S. and Chinese officials confirming that trade negotiations are not currently ongoing between the two countries, traders on Polymarket’s betting market are becoming less and less optimistic that a trade deal will be signed by June, with the chance of a deal before the end of May sitting at only 19%.
A large fire, resulting from a possible explosion, has reportedly broken out tonight at the Montazer Ghaem Thermal Power Plant located near Karaj in the Alborz Mountains of Northern Iran, coinciding with a 4.0-magnitude earthquake earlier in the area to the west of Tehran.