💢 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.
I would just like to point out a couple things first,
1. 70% of all wildlife has been killed off in my lifetime (52).
2. The 6th largest mass extinction of animals since Earth began is happening right now.
🇨🇺 REPORT | State Department casts US peace activists as tools of Havana in report critics call ‘McCarthyite’
A new 99-page State Department report on Cuba is drawing accusations of McCarthyism from peace groups and civil liberties advocates for naming private American citizens, including a member of Congress’s daughter, over their opposition to U.S. policy.
The report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” casts the island as a decades-long covert threat that has “infiltrated the highest reaches of the U.S. government” and “cultivated generations of American activists.” In a section on “revolutionary tourism,” it names streamer Hasan Piker (@hasanthehun), Amazon Labor Union founder Christian Smalls, the Democratic Socialists of America, former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and Isra Hirsi, a campus activist and the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, over their participation in a March 2026 aid convoy to Cuba. It goes on to note that Hirsi was suspended from Barnard in 2024 for organizing Gaza solidarity encampments.
“Why is the State Department naming American citizens in their Cuba report where they seemingly complain about our opinions on US sanctions policy?” Piker wrote. “This is absolutely protected by the 1st Amendment. They are trying to chill speech through intimidation.”
@MedeaBenjamin of @codepink, whose group is also named, called the report “McCarthyism, plain and simple.” She told Drop Site that CODEPINK is now under Treasury Department investigation for bringing medical supplies to Cuban children’s hospitals. “The people delivering medicine are under investigation, not the officials enforcing policies that deprive Cubans of medicine, food, fuel, and electricity,” she said.
The group Cuban Americans for Cuba called the report “an act of instigation and warmongering,” saying it “reads like a document assembled to confirm a predetermined conclusion.” It said the blockade the report exists to justify has left Cuba with shortages of medicine, a healthcare system starved of supplies, and a collapsing power grid. “Cuba poses no threat to the American people,” the group said.
The report makes no mention of the U.S. energy embargo imposed in January, which the groups note has caused nationwide blackouts and devastating collective punishment across the island.
This month, 136 countries at the UN voted to condemn the suffocating economic sanctions on Cuba, with the U.S. and Israel among the handful opposed.
Any true patriot has a duty not to let those responsible for service members’ deaths use their sacrifice as cover for still more needless deaths.
It makes me genuinely sick that people who were infants or not yet born on 9/11 are now dying in a Middle Eastern war
@ttthedreamr@DrunkRepub@WatcherontheWeb The scientists doing the actual work are everyday people like you and me, man. They’re not part of some secret cabal trying to control the world
@ttthedreamr@DrunkRepub@WatcherontheWeb Scientific studies do find it to be true. It may vary year-to-year, but there is an overall trend of declining insect populations.