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[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

We conclude that israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes, including extermination, forcible transfer & starvation | via @RamAbdu

[Ricky Zaccaglino @RickyTheGuido]

Hey @grok,

Out of the 36 major hospitals in Gaza, how many of them did Israel bomb?

Say the number first.

[NADA 𓂆 @nadaa01012]

Don't stay silent, at least share!!

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

A group of children are targeted by the israelis in Gaza: as people rush to rescue them, the israelis strike AGAIN, killing two, including a child

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

New catastrophe

At least, six displaced persons including children have been confirmed DEAD, 13 wounded and 60 others are still MISSING under the rubble of a dilapidated residential building that collapsed on their heads..

The building was attacked by the Israeli occupation military and partially destroyed during the ongoing genocide..

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: At least 50 Palestinian children among 100 people trapped in collapsed Gaza building

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/qvX7UpnfTQ

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Jesus. This horror is never ending.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Israelis set Palestinian farmland, buildings and property on fire in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah: sanctions won’t stop this daily terror

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Gaza rescue chief: 'We can still hear the voices of people alive beneath the rubble'

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/q2yQsVi2wP

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨BREAKING: In the dead of night, a structurally damaged building in Gaza collapsed on six families sheltering inside after it had been previously damaged by Israeli bombardment.

They are now trapped beneath the rubble. Children’s screams can be heard in the darkness as desperate attempts to reach them continue, but rescuers are struggling to reach those buried alive.

[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.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

‘NAZA’, a film about Israel’s genocide in Gaza won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Co-director Yuval Abraham said Israeli officers described the mass killing of Palestinians as ‘not by accident, but by design’, and accused the US and Europe of enabling it.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

⚠️Heartbreaking

Israeli military attack near healthcare facility in northern Gaza

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

A pregnant woman has succumbed to her wounds after being shot by Israeli forces three days ago south of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, Wafa news agency reports.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/9p7EpTn9ro

[Shaun King @shaunking]

Because you don't actually know the story of our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, you have no idea how much you connect us to Him when you try to humiliate us or intimidate us during prayer.

His enemies did the same thing, but worse, throwing animal guts on him as He prayed.

[• @Alhamdhulillaah]

A biker gang attempted to disrupt Friday prayers at Kaunas Mosque in Lithuania by blasting loud music and holding severed pigs heads.

However the local Muslims were unfazed and didn’t even flinch.

Islamophobes have recently held a weird belief that pigs are kryptonite to Muslims.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Water is still the main challenge for Gaza children

[Shaun King @shaunking]

Do you understand who and what we are dealing with here?

Matt is an esteemed reporter for NBC. I have respected him for years.

His team was all badly beaten by Jewish supremacists - and they beat their Palestinian guide, a 51 year old woman, UNTIL SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS.

[Matt Bradley @MattMcBradley]

We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years.

But yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu.

A group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious.

We’re all ok now - and Aida is out of the hospital - but this is just one incident among an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank.

Here’s out story on yesterday’s attack on Sunday Today on @NBCNews.

#Israel #WestBank @TODAYshow

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Heartbreaking to watch the wildfires in Algeria, and the disasters unfolding in so many parts of the world. May Allah protect the innocent, their properties, and their loved ones all over. Ameen