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The House voted today on a new measure to fuse elements of the Israeli and US militaries, particularly on the cyberweapons front. Section 224, as its known, is included in the National Defense Authorization Act. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., introduced an amendment to strip it from the bill. Watch as a stream of Republicans and Democrats stand up in support of the enhanced cooperation. Only Rep. Sarah Jacobs (D-Calif.) joined Khanna, and the measure failed in a voice vote. Watch:
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🔴 Less than a week after Israel burned several preteen children to death in their tents, four more residential apartments were set ablaze overnight, with Israel’s military burning entire families to death as they slept. The strikes hit homes in Al-Shati refugee camp, the Karama neighborhood, Tel al-Hawa, and Sheikh Radwan in Gaza City.
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💢 Six-year-old girl and a woman killed in Israeli attack on tent in Khan Younis The United States continues to facilitate Israel’s daily killing of Palestinian civilians, through full military and political support as Israel ignores the Trump-brokered ceasefire. Minattallah Nabil Abu Libdah, 6, was killed Monday in an Israeli attack on a tent in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. She had reportedly been recovering from a broken arm at the time of her death. Footage shows her father crying uncontrollably at the hospital next to her lifeless body. A second person, 31-year-old woman Hanan Mahmoud, was also killed in the Israeli attack, according to reporting by Mosab Abu Toha.
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🚨 IRGC Launches Missile Strikes on U.S. Bases in Kuwait; Explosions Also Reported in Bahrain and Iraq Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has claimed responsibility for missile strikes on U.S. military bases in Kuwait, saying the attacks were retaliation for an American strike on Qeshm Island, a strategically located island in the Strait of Hormuz. ▪️ Kuwait’s defense ministry confirmed it is under attack from drones and missiles; Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB said strikes hit both Camp Arifjan and Ali Al-Salem Airbase in at least two waves ▪️ Eight explosions reported in Bahrain, which is also under attack, according to various monitoring accounts ▪️ Explosions were reported near the village of Masan on the southern coast of Qeshm Island, Fars news reported ▪️ Iran also appears to be heavily striking Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups near Erbil in northern Iraq ▪️ Earlier, CENTCOM said U.S. forces fired a Hellfire missile into the engine room of a Botswana-flagged commercial tanker, the M/T Lexie, after its crew ignored warnings while attempting to reach Iran’s Kharg Island. CENTCOM says it has now disabled six commercial vessels and redirected 122 since imposing a naval blockade of Iranian ports on April 13. The IRGC warned: “The time of ‘strike and run’ has passed,” adding that any further aggression “will be met with a seismic, decisive, and crushing response.” 🎥 Kuwait - footage via Ryan Rozbiani
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🇵🇸 “The term ceasefire has been used as a surrender cudgel against the Palestinians in Gaza,” Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill explained on Sky News. Jeremy noted that Israel signed a ceasefire agreement with Hamas, then violated it repeatedly by killing more than a thousand Palestinians and advancing deeper into Gaza, while the international conversation shifted to demands that Hamas disarm, despite it never agreeing to do so in the signed agreement. Israel “signed a ceasefire with Hamas, not with the children in tents that they continue to burn alive,” Jeremy said. His remarks came as an entire family of five was burned alive in new Israeli strikes on residential apartments in Gaza City tonight. (See linked post below.) jeremy scahill | Yalda Hakim
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⭕️ BREAKING: New Soar Atlas satellite imagery appears to show damage at the U.S. Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait following yesterday’s Iranian attacks. CENTCOM insisted yesterday that all incoming missiles and drones were “defeated,” but Kuwaiti authorities also released footage purporting to show an Iranian drone striking the country’s airport followed by a large explosion. Here’s the latest analysis from Soar:
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met Wednesday evening, at Altman’s request, to discuss the senator’s proposal to transfer a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America to the public. This meeting comes as the AI lobby has been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into primary elections across the country. As both men left the meeting, Drop Site’s Julian Andreone asked Altman whether it is ethical to pay legalized bribes to politicians whose intended purpose is to represent working-class constituents. Andreone then asked Sanders how it is possible to discuss in good faith with a person who is bribing lawmakers on their side of each relevant issue.
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🎓 “Peace be upon you. From the students of Harvard, to the youth of Dahieh, to the sons of Nabatieh, and the people of Tyre.” Harvard Medical School graduate Leen Ezzeddine, from the southern Lebanese town of Arabsalim, used her graduation speech to remind her peers of the students in Gaza and southern Lebanon who do not benefit from the same “arbitrary luck and circumstance” that she and her classmates have enjoyed. Ezzeddine said her presence at that podium was “evidence of what survives the border, the bomb, and the exile,” and of “what becomes possible when people the world has tried to erase are allowed to live.”
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🚨 Israel Burns More Palestinians Alive Under U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Palestinians carried burned and wounded children through the streets after an Israeli airstrike hit a residential home in central Gaza City, killing at least 7 people, including two young girls, and wounding more than 20 others, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. Videos filmed by journalists Omar Al-Gedi and Mahmoud Shaweesh capture residents pulling casualties from the rubble, children covered in blood being rushed into ambulances, and crowds screaming in panic as flames and smoke filled the area. Israel continues to carry out daily strikes on homes and residential neighborhoods across Gaza and Lebanon despite ongoing U.S.-backed ceasefire agreements, while mediating parties in the Gaza talks — the United States, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey — remain largely silent about blatant ceasefire violations. Over 920 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel agreed to a ceasefire last October.
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🔺🎥 Drop Site’s Sarmad Jawad and Murtaza Hussain break down how Hezbollah killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded at least six others near the newly captured Beaufort Castle over the past 32 hours. Sarmad explains that Hezbollah drone operators quickly exploited Israeli footage amid government efforts to publicize the castle’s capture, using it to locate troop positions and then peppering them over and over again with FPV drones. All three deaths were caused by FPV drones. “Your army is sitting ducks. You’re basically telling people, ‘Look, this is exactly where we are. Here are our troops out in the open. No protective netting, no heavy armor, nothing at all.’” A closer look from Sarmad Jawad ⏬
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“As an Israeli you should pause before using the phrase ‘terror regime.’ Since you live in a country that murdered thousands of children in Gaza. It’s a little hard to hear that from an Israeli right now, I have to say.” — Tucker Carlson to Israel’s Channel 13.
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🎥 Professor Rashid Khalidi on the dangers of “purity politics” and why meaningful political change requires broad coalitions, strategic alliances, and building power beyond politics as “self-satisfaction.” Khalidi says that if the goal is to stop arms sales, advance divestment, and shift policy, movements cannot remain trapped in a “tiny, ineffective minority.” Source: Shu-Kaman (full interview below).
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🎥🇵🇸 “The war is not over. This is a trick, my friend. They’re laughing at people by saying the war has ended.” Drop Site contributor Mohamed Ahmed speaks with Ibrahim Labad, whose daughter, son-in-law, and two young grandchildren were burned to death after an Israeli strike set their Gaza City apartment ablaze shortly after midnight. “I only saw myself and my wife. Everything else was darkness and fire… they pulled us out through a small opening under the door. I didn’t know what had happened to my children.” Later, he learned that five members of his family had been killed and several others, including young children, wounded. “Every day there are martyrs. Every single day. Everywhere in Gaza there are martyrs,” Labad said. The strike was one of several that hit homes across Gaza City overnight, killing and burning alive at least nine Palestinians as families slept. Fifteen others were hospitalized with severe injuries. Nine-year-old Hala Labad was the only survivor after the attack killed her parents and three siblings. “What war ended? It only ended for one side,” her grandfather said to Drop Site.
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💢🇱🇧 Israeli Strikes Kill 4 Paramedics on Wednesday: ◽️An Israeli strike directly hit an ambulance belonging to the Al-Risala Association in the southern town of Shahour on Wednesday, killing 2 paramedics and seriously injuring a third, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. ◽️ Another paramedic from the Al-Risala Scouts was killed in a drone strike on the al-Ain neighborhood in Arab Salim. ◽️A Civil Defense team from the Islamic Health Authority was also struck Wednesday by an Israeli drone while responding to a previous strike in Zebdine, with one paramedic killed and another injured. Two wounded civilians being transferred by the ambulance were also killed in the attack. (🎥 Video)
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❓NBC News to Iran’s FM: “Sir, how can attacking U.S. military bases abroad be justified?” 💬 FM Araghchi: Because they are attacking us. These US military installations, facilities, bases are being used to attack us. We are under attack. Why don’t you, you know, recognize this this fact? We are under an attack from you. This is obvious. This is a very simple fact. I hope that, I am sure that people would understand that we are not the one who attacked Americans. We are defending ourselves.
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⭕️ Over the last 24 hours, two Palestinians were killed and 40 were injured across Gaza. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 has risen to 72,941 killed, with 172,967 injured. Since October 11, the first full day of the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 932 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 2,859, while 781 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. 🎥 Israeli helicopters killed or wounded 27 people, including several children in a seaport gathering. Footage by Ahmad Afash on Instagram (link below)
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🏛️ A House vote scheduled on Thursday, June 4, on Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Lebanon War Powers Resolution is exposing deep divisions among Democrats, according to Axios, with many lawmakers privately frustrated at being forced to take the vote. The measure would require President Trump to remove U.S. forces from Lebanon within seven days, with Tlaib arguing that Washington is enabling Lebanon’s destruction by aiding Israel’s military campaign through weapons, intelligence, logistics, and diplomatic support. According to Axios, opposition inside the Democratic caucus appears broader than during previous Iran war powers votes. Several senior Democrats, including the ranking members of the Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, and Intelligence Committees, are reportedly undecided. 🎥 Sean Vikta of Demand Progress joined Drop Site’s podcast on Tuesday to discuss the status of Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Lebanon War Powers Resolution. Ryan Grim | Sean Vitka | Maysa Mustafa | Lylla Younes
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🎥 “You leave right now or you die.” Israeli soldiers went door to door in the border village of Ain Arab, forcing residents from their homes at gunpoint, journalist Lylla Younes reports in her latest Drop Site investigation. The forced expulsion of Ain Arab was a striking example of the Israeli military’s campaign to ethnically cleanse villages across southern Lebanon, with an estimated 60 villages completely destroyed south of the “Yellow Line” Israel declared on April 19, barring residents from ever returning. Younes said it is emblematic of what Israel is doing across the south: “There isn’t any sort of discernible calculus here besides mass destruction and mass instability really and mass punishment of a people.” 🔗 Read Lylla Younes’s story for Drop Site at the link below.
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Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”
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