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[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Double-tap strike on a child trying to rescue a rescue worker. During a “cease fire.”

This comes as Israeli media and politicians are calling a documentary about this sort of attack a “blood libel.”

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Sami Hamdi سامي الهاشمي الحامدي @SALHACHIMI]

At the Oxford Union debate, I argued that Israel seeks a peace that erases Palestine, while Palestinians seek a peace of true religious coexistence.

"Do you know why [Israelis] can point to Jewish heritage in Palestine? It is because Muslims preserved it. They were not like the Israelis today who are trying to erase Palestinian heritage"

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This is painful to watch.

[JamieWolf (狼さん) @freeborn_wolf]

This video probably shows the scale of the disaster best. This had to be a high dam bursting, causing cascading failures. You can see a dam start to fail in this video before the camera man starts running (dont blame him...). The absolute volume of water released is kinda insane.

Usually claims of "entire villages are gone" is overstated, but no...legitimately entire villages are just gone, and a lot of infrastructure was destroyed.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

The largest information war in human history is taking place, and it is being hidden from you.

Ft @HarrisonHSmith & @Wallface

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

This is Zionism. A psychopathic society.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

These are the Israeli soldiers who prevented an ambulance from evacuating a sick 2-year-old Palestinian girl from a house under settler siege, allowed the settlers to attack the ambulance, and detained the medics for several hours.

MAKE THEM FAMOUS.

[Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1]

Israeli security forces showed up in Qusra today to dismantle the illegal outpost & kick out the settlers. Settler reinforcements arrived & clashes ensued.
As of now, Israeli forces have withdrawn & the settlers remain.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

🧵 THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THREAD I'VE EVER MADE.

These are the people directly responsible for the crimes against humanity committed against Palestinians in the village of Qusra on August 10th 2026.

These people need to be held accountable.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

IDF responded to my video about the siege of a Palestinian house in Qusra by settler-terrorists and soldiers. They promise to evacuate the terror outpost and to take disciplinary action against the soldiers who supported the settlers.

This is of course damage control, an attempt to fix IDF's international standing, after their soldiers were clearly shown facilitating settler terror and committing crimes against humanity.

Don't let them fool you into thinking that what happened in Qusra is the exception. That was IDF functioning as intended.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

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.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Breaking News

Palestinian prisoner Ihab Diab has been declared tortured to death inside Israeli slaughterhouses..

The murder of Diab raises the number of Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli slaughterhouses since October 2023 to 91

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Unbelievable Israeli carpet bombing of Al Taj area where over 300 civilians were killed in central Gaza City

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of ​​Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.

A video that the world must never forget.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya suffers fractured ribs after "most difficult day" in Israeli detention

Detained Gaza hospital director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya suffered fractured ribs after severe beatings and endured what the Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office described as his "most difficult day" in detention on July 27. 

🔸 The office said the doctor, who suffers from heart disease and high blood pressure, has experienced a serious deterioration in his health.

🔸 He also spent 21 days in solitary confinement under harsh conditions and continues to be assaulted despite his critical condition.

🔸 Separately, Physicians for Human Rights said Israeli prison authorities provided a medical report confirming injuries to Abu Safiya's eye, head, and chest, and that it has petitioned an Israeli administrative court to allow an independent doctor to examine him.

🔸 Abu Safiya has been detained since December 27, 2024, after Israeli forces seized him while he was working at Kamal Adwan Hospital during attacks on northern Gaza. He remains imprisoned under Israel's "unlawful combatant" designation, which allows prolonged detention without charges or trial.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

This is Zionism. This is AIPAC. This is Israel.

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

Today, Gaza is burying the remains of 112 members of al-Hasayna and Abu Sharia families, including 40 children, 38 women, and 7 people with disabilities

The remains were recovered from the rubble recently after Israel bombed a residential block containing homes belonging to the al-Hasayna and Abu Sharia families on 23 November 2023, one day before the first truce in the Gaza war took effect.

Gaza civil defence Mohammed Abu Dan, who supervised the recovery operation, said crews were unable to recover another 157 bodies believed to remain buried under the rubble.