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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

An estimated 4.5-4.7 million people were killed as a result of the various wars the United States started after 2,977 people were killed on September 11.

Brown University’s Costs of War project estimates 3.6–3.8 million of those deaths were indirect, caused by the destruction of economies, healthcare, infrastructure, and other effects of blockade and war.

The toll does not include post 2023 US-Israeli killings in Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank, Iran, Iraq, and Syria: roughly 90,000+ people as of September 17, 2026.

[Kyrie🤞🏾 @KyrieIrving]

Her name is HIND RAJAB💐🌷
🤞🏾🪶♾❤️

And She was more brave than every single one of you at ESPN

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 Palestinian child Mohammed al-Zeinati was returning from a Quran memorization class when an Israeli strike hit Civil Defense paramedic Sherif Shadi Lubbad in Sheikh Radwan, northern Gaza City, Shehab News reports.

Mohammed rushed toward Lubbad to help, but an Israeli drone fired a second missile, killing the child as he approached. Lubbad was also killed. The double-tap attack was captured on video.

At Al-Shifa Hospital, Mohammed’s father sat beside his son’s blood-soaked shroud. “May God have mercy on you, my beloved, my hero. I never got to see you grow into a young man,” he cried.

Photo: Shehab News Agency, Healthcare Workers Watch

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

WOW!

Haaretz investigation is a MUST-READ!

The Netanyahu gov received numerous warnings - incl from the UAE's ruler 10 days before Oct 7 - that Hamas was planning an attack.

The ultimate source of the warning was Hamas' own Sinwar.

Netanyahu ignored all the warnings and took no precautions. He didn't even convey it to the Israeli intelligence apparatus.

But there's more. Immediately after Oct 7, Hamas offered to release all the civilian hostages - without asking for anything in return. The Biden admin was aware of this as well. But Israel wasn't interested, leaving both Hamas and the Qatari mediators baffled.

So much bloodshed could have been avoided. So many innocent lives could have been spared. But Netanyahu appeared to have been uninterested - and Biden, of course, never put any real pressure on Israel - effectively allowing Netanyahu to determine US policy.

https://t.co/EJUwMiwEzq

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 BREAKING: Five-year-old Wafaa Yusuf Akilah went to school on Sunday. It was her first day of the year. Israel killed her before she made it home.

An Israeli drone struck the vehicle carrying Wafaa and her father, Yusuf, near Hamid Junction in western Gaza City, killing them both without warning, witnesses told Drop Site.

In photographs, Wafaa smiles in her blue school uniform and gives a thumbs-up. At the site of the strike, her school books lay open atop the burned wreckage. Her small body lay face down in the street.

Footage captured by Drop Site contributor Abdel Qader Sabbah shows two men holding pieces of her hair.

“This is all that’s left, world,” one says. “What truce are you talking about?”

“There has been no ceasefire,” another says. “Every day there are massacres. Every day there is killing. Every day children are dying.”

“Enough of this abandonment.”

🎥 Abdel Qader Sabbah

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

Israel's Jerusalem Post has published a proposal every American should read. The argument runs like this: the war on Iran cannot be sold to the American public. A ground campaign would need somewhere between 750,000 and 1.5 million troops. The active Army has about 452,000. So the gap should be closed by offering to erase the student loans, credit-card balances and car notes of Americans aged 18 to 34 in exchange for two or three years in uniform.

Look past the fact that a foreign newspaper is calculating how many American families should bury a child. Look at the mechanism. The author has identified a population under financial pressure, priced the relief, and concluded that an indebted young American can be bought for about forty thousand dollars.

At $40,000 a head, 750,000 recruits costs $30 billion. The full 1.5 million costs $60 billion.

Now set that against the bill Americans are already paying. The White House has sent Congress an $87 billion supplemental request for this war, on top of direct military operations already estimated at up to $42 billion. The Pentagon told the House Armed Services Committee the figure was $25 billion; Democratic members and outside economists put the cost to the American economy between $630 billion and $1 trillion. Independent trackers put the first 108 days alone above $113 billion.

The war has already consumed more money than every debt the author proposes to forgive, several times over. The supplemental request by itself would clear the balance sheets of more than two million young Americans.

Then there is the standing line item. Israel receives roughly $3.3 billion a year in Foreign Military Financing plus $500 million for joint missile-defence programmes. Cumulatively, the United States has provided Israel about $352 billion in aid, including $263 billion in military assistance, in inflation-adjusted terms. That sum, had it stayed home, would have discharged the non-mortgage debt of some six million Americans in exactly the cohort the Post has now marked for enlistment.

So there is a simpler version of the author's own proposal. Cut the aid to Israel. Cut it completely and cut it now, and apply the money to the debt. The young American gets the debt relief without having to sell his life for it. His government can stop asking him to pay for someone else's war with his blood.

[TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza]

🔴 A heartbreaking scene that captures the harsh reality in Gaza: A Palestinian girl inside a displacement tent tries to ease the summer heat for her infant brother using the lid of a plastic container, amid power outages, water shortages, and the absence of the most basic necessities of life.

[The Compass Report 🧭 @Compass_Report]

GAZA, 1989

"Behind me stands Ansar 2. A prison camp surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. One of nearly a dozen camps holding 5,000 Palestinians."

"Doctors. Lawyers. Children. Students. Journalists."

"Most held without charge or trial. Labeled simply as 'security offenders.' All that is necessary under current administrative Israeli laws."

A camera, a reporter, and a system that needed no evidence—just a label and a cage.

That was 1989.

Seen this tape before October 7—or only after? 🧭

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@RamAbdu Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 “They were children playing with kites. They were just sitting there playing. They are killing children.”

Israeli forces shot 10-year-old Palestinian girl Amal Abu Khater in the back, killing her instantly as she sat eating lunch inside her displaced family’s tent in western Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on Monday.

Amal had just returned from memorizing the Quran and performing the Dhuhr prayer, her family told Drop Site.

“There were people who felt safe, sitting in their tents. It’s supposed to be a safe area, and it is full of displaced people,” Amal’s relative Hassan Abu Khater told Drop Site’s Mohamed Ahmed.

“What did she do to deserve to be killed? She was sitting and eating sweets... What sin did this little girl commit?” Amal’s grandmother, Samira Abu Khater said.

Eight Palestinians, including two children, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn Monday. “They fire indiscriminately,” Samira said.

🎥 Footage from Drop Site contributor Mohamed Ahmed.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

Several Western countries have come together to caution Israel for its policy of building the E1 settlement with construction of 1,234 homes for Israeli settlers. This is part of the broader illegal Occupation of Palestinian lands. Israel not only scoffs at these countries, but its prisons minister is building the gallows to hang Palestinians.
This is Israel.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Israeli forces shot and killed Fathi Hazem, a 58-year-old retired police colonel in the Palestinian National Security Forces, during a raid on his home in central Jenin and withheld his body. An eyewitness told AFP: “They shot him seven times in front of his 10-year-old son. They dragged him down the stairs and took him with them.”

Two of Hazem’s other sons were killed by the Israeli military in 2022. In Zababdeh, south of Jenin, Israeli forces shot a 14-year-old boy in the chest and back during a raid.

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

What in the world @Google?

Haven’t you learned your lesson from how terrible your search was on Islam? Now your AI is just casually being Islamophobic?

Try this yourself and tag google with your results.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 Ben-Gvir calls for killing “30 to 40” Palestinians in Gaza every night, including people who don’t pose any threat

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir publicly called for killing “30 to 40” Palestinians in Gaza every night, in comments on a podcast that surfaced on Saturday.

“I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night,” Ben-Gvir said, criticizing Israel’s recent drawdown of strikes. “Not just those who pose an immediate threat. There are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not people.”

The nightly rate he describes as a goal is one Israel already surpassed for two years. From Oct. 7, 2023 to the October 2025 ceasefire, Gaza’s Health Ministry recorded roughly 72,000 Palestinians killed, an average of about 100 a day. Independent researchers estimate the true toll is at least over a third higher. Lancet found the ministry reported toll for several months early in the war was at least a 60% undercount.

In the same appearance, Ben-Gvir backed settling Gaza and expelling its population, telling the host: “I see all of Gaza as ours.” The minister runs Israel’s prisons and police, and his once-fringe views are surging before Israel’s Oct. 27 elections.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

This is what Israel calls a Palestinian terror attack:

A Palestinian man took his 17-year-old son with him to try to put out a fire Israeli settlers had started in their fields

Israeli settlers shot his son in the neck at point-blank range then kept shooting as he lay dying on the ground

They shot another young Palestinian who was there in the leg, then shot him dead as he tried to crawl away

Israeli soldiers were there the whole time and only started shooting when other Palestinians who were there tried to fight back

This is not “settler violence”

This is genocide

[Jacob Wendler @jacob_wendler]

Scoop: Israel has launched a new effort to sway public opinion in the US by influencing how LLMs paint it in response to chatbot queries. The foreign influence campaign includes a fake think tank set up to feed content to tools like ChatGPT. More below @politico 🧵

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Trump hid like a pathetic coward in a catering container because he was scared of Iran taking him out. Meanwhile Fidel Castro after over 600 CIA assassination attempts:

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 “She was shot in the head. She was in the prayer area memorizing the Quran.”

Samoud Al-Rabai’a said her daughter Saba al-Hashash died after Israeli forces shot her on Saturday, August 8, as she went to recite to her Quran teacher in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, in Gaza.

“Everyone in the mosque was a child, no older than 15, along with their teacher,” she told Drop Site, describing Israeli tank and quadcopter fire directed at the prayer area. “Why target children? Don’t they know where they’re shooting?”

Saba was the second of Samoud’s daughters killed by Israeli fire. Her other daughter was five years old and disabled. “She was sitting in a wheelchair beside her father. A bullet went into her heart.”

Najwa Abu Rabi’ said Saba had come home, eaten and gone to recite the Quran. Shireen Abu Rubi’a described bullets striking children “while they’re playing or eating,” asking: “What are you supposed to do? Hide behind the curtain 24 hours a day?”

🎥 Footage by Drop Site contributor Mohamed Ahmed.

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

Born in Detroit to Egyptian immigrant parents, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a Rhodes Scholar with two doctorates who became Detroit's youngest-ever health director at age 30 before going on to teach epidemiology at Columbia University.

Calling him a "radical Islamist" makes you look stupid, not him.

[𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓙 @JimmyJ4thewin]

I just checked who covered the historic mass funeral of 112 Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israel.

CNN? Nowhere.
MSNBC? Silent.
Fox News? Crickets.
BBC? Radio silence.

112 bodies. One mass funeral. Zero Western media coverage.

Journalism didn’t die. It just decided some mass funerals aren’t newsworthy.