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![1/6 Settlers have set up an outpost less than 24 hours after four Palestinians were killed and four others wounded — three critically — after Israeli settlers attacked the town of Tel, southwest of Nablus, under the protection of Israeli forces. Within 24 hours, a UK-sanctioned contractor uprooted hundreds of olive trees, the outpost went up on the same site, and settlers filmed themselves narrating what comes next. "The retaliation [against] the murderous people's village has begun". Drop Site contributor Younis Tirawi | يونس breaks down the past 24 hours. 🧵](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2081050132355641722/amplify_video_thumb/2081049655173890048/img/LJtX_Dg7fHWpcqi5.jpg)
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💢 “Why should a child filling up water die?”: Israeli attack kills four, including two children and a woman, in Gaza City Eight others were also wounded in Tuesday’s attack in the Al-Katiba area of western Gaza City, where families had gathered to collect water. “We were just sitting there, minding our business. Nothing was happening. The water tanker came, and we started filling up water, us and our children,” Faiza Al-Bahtini, the aunt of one of the children killed, told Drop Site’s Mohamed Ahmed. “Then we heard gunfire coming from every direction. After that, the vehicles came, the Israelis started bombing, and the massacre happened.” The Israeli military claimed its special forces were targeting the head of Hamas’s internal security apparatus in Gaza and accompanying strikes were carried out to “remove threats.” A resistance-affiliated security channel said the operation targeted a senior Hamas figure but was thwarted, while acknowledging that a security official was abducted. It said three “collaborators” who provided support and intelligence were detained. Members of Israeli-backed Palestinian militias were reportedly seen in the area during the attack. “My nephew was martyred. His brother was wounded. Their mother was wounded too, covered in shrapnel and badly burned,” Al-Bahtini said. “Wherever we go, wherever we are displaced to, there is bombing around us. Where are we supposed to go?” Abu al-Abd, an eyewitness who was filling water with his four children, said: “What is the crime of a child filling up water? … Because a child was filling up water, Netanyahu shot at him. What have these children done to you? Go and see for yourselves so you know we’re telling the truth. Go look at those killed. They’re all children.” 🎥 Mohamed Ahmed
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🚨Nine-year-old Palestinian child Israa al-Hissi was shot and killed by Israeli forces east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on Tuesday. She was one of three children among at least 7 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since Tuesday morning. 🎥 Salah_ostaz, Yousef Deeb
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Children wounded in the U.S. attack on a wedding celebration in Kuhestak receive treatment at a hospital in Minab, in Iran’s Hormozgan province. 5 people were killed in the attack, including a 4-year old child, and 63 injured, including 50 women and children, according to Iranian authorities. 🎥 Mehr News
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![🔴"Access to oxygen is not a medical luxury." With Israel blocking the entry of spare parts and medical supplies, Gaza's hospital engineers have been forced to salvage parts from damaged machinery just to keep equipment running. At Al-Shifa Hospital — once the largest medical facility in Gaza — engineers have managed to restore only around 15% of the hospital's equipment. "We now collect equipment damaged during the [Israeli] ground incursion and the bombing of the hospital … dismantle matching equipment of the same type, salvage and repair the parts, and then reassemble the equipment.,” Ahmed Younis, an engineer at Al-Shifa, told Drop Site. “But the equipment is not operating at the level of efficiency it is supposed to.” As of June 2026, WHO reported that the principal barriers to health facilities being rehabilitated in the Gaza Strip were a lack of medical equipment, affecting 97% of facilities, and shortages of medicines, affecting over 80% of facilities. The Ministry of Health has also issued an urgent warning that Gaza’s few remaining oxygen plants are operating beyond capacity and breaking down. In parallel with the decimation of Gaza’s health care system, Israel is continuing to severely restrict the number of Palestinians allowed out of Gaza to seek treatment abroad. Some 300 Palestinians have died waiting for medical evacuations since the “ceasefire” went into effect, according to the Health Ministry, with 20,000 patients waiting for authorization and only around 2,000 being allowed to cross so far.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2095164342832357684/amplify_video_thumb/2095163906910298113/img/KVxOUccMS_p8xzHJ.jpg)
🔴"Access to oxygen is not a medical luxury." With Israel blocking the entry of spare parts and medical supplies, Gaza's hospital engineers have been forced to salvage parts from damaged machinery just to keep equipment running. At Al-Shifa Hospital — once the largest medical facility in Gaza — engineers have managed to restore only around 15% of the hospital's equipment. "We now collect equipment damaged during the [Israeli] ground incursion and the bombing of the hospital … dismantle matching equipment of the same type, salvage and repair the parts, and then reassemble the equipment.,” Ahmed Younis, an engineer at Al-Shifa, told Drop Site. “But the equipment is not operating at the level of efficiency it is supposed to.” As of June 2026, WHO reported that the principal barriers to health facilities being rehabilitated in the Gaza Strip were a lack of medical equipment, affecting 97% of facilities, and shortages of medicines, affecting over 80% of facilities. The Ministry of Health has also issued an urgent warning that Gaza’s few remaining oxygen plants are operating beyond capacity and breaking down. In parallel with the decimation of Gaza’s health care system, Israel is continuing to severely restrict the number of Palestinians allowed out of Gaza to seek treatment abroad. Some 300 Palestinians have died waiting for medical evacuations since the “ceasefire” went into effect, according to the Health Ministry, with 20,000 patients waiting for authorization and only around 2,000 being allowed to cross so far.
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NEW: Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is finally defending streamer Hasan Piker, rejecting a “massive effort to cancel Hasan” and arguing that critics are deliberately distorting his views. “They’re trying to equate him and David Duke and him and Nick Fuentes,” El-Sayed said. “The fact that they’re working so hard to character assassinate him suggests that there is a disjunct there between what he’s actually saying and what people hear him saying who actually pay attention.” El-Sayed said Piker streams for hours every day, making it easy for opponents to selectively clip him: “Whenever anybody tries to cut you out of context, they’re never doing it in good faith.” He also stressed that he agrees with Piker on a great deal: “There are a lot of things he says that I deeply agree with. People deserve health care. We shouldn’t be fighting dumb wars. The war in Iran is ridiculous. Donald Trump is a fascist. All true.” While saying there are also comments he disagrees with, El-Sayed argued that “if you sat down with Hasan” and asked whether he hates particular groups of people, “it’s not what they’re trying to turn him into.” He accused Republican opponent Mike Rogers of using guilt by association because he has “nothing to say about anything.”
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🇻🇪 Venezuela’s US-installed government unveils 25-year oil deal handing American firms access to vast reserves Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodríguez addressed the nation on Saturday night detailing a 25-year energy agreement with the United States that opens the country’s oil fields to US capital. The deal comes 8 months after US special forces captured and removed President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, installing Rodríguez as interim leader. In her address, she framed the agreement as preserving “sovereignty,” saying Venezuela retains ownership of its resources while inviting US investment. Other details: 🔸 The plan covers 17 strategic fields with 65 billion barrels of proven reserves, roughly a fifth of Venezuela’s total, plus eight undeveloped “greenfield” blocks in the Orinoco Belt. 🔸 Rodríguez projected over $100 billion in investment and more than $209 billion in state tax revenue, with production targeted to exceed 1.5 million barrels per day. 🔸 Chevron, which has operated in Venezuela for a century, is among the firms expected to finalize expanded stakes, alongside other international majors. 🎥 Full speech in English.
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Warning from the Spokesperson of the Iranian Central Command: Cooperating with the U.S. Army will have dangerous consequences. Spokesperson of the Central Command: 🔹 “The U.S. army, a terrorist and child-killing force, following repeated failures in its imposed war against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its defeat by the ever-present and resilient people of our beloved country, launched a brutal air attack and bombing on some military and civilian areas in southern Iran, resulting in the martyrdom of a number of innocent people. 🔹 In response to these acts of aggression and terrorism, the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, through the brave sons of the nation in the valiant army and the heroic Revolutionary Guard Corps, swiftly and powerfully launched a powerful missile and drone attack on the bases of the criminal America in the region, destroying them and inflicting heavy damage to infrastructure, facilities, weapons, and equipment. A significant number of American commanders and soldiers were killed or injured. 🔹 This offensive operation will continue until the Americans regret their crimes. 🔹 We warn that the continuation of American evil in the region will be met with even heavier, broader, and more devastating responses, and any country that cooperates with the aggressive U.S. army must accept its dangerous consequences.”
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Jewish surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter, who stars in the new documentary American Doctor, calls Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer “prostitutes for the Israeli lobby.” He says srael’s influence over Washington is so extensive that “the United States Congress building is the most occupied territory by Israel.” “It’s not the West Bank. It’s not Gaza. It’s the U.S. Congress.”
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Briahna Joy Gray argues that the political debate over “defund the police” has been deliberately narrowed to whether the phrase is electorally damaging and what the wording means, rather than whether its underlying policy should be defended. Gray argues that “defund could not be more literal,” and says opponents have succeeded in pushing politicians to debate the phrase instead of explaining or defending their previous support for “defund the police.” She points to continued growth in police budgets since 2020 and argues that the underlying case for “defunding” is “one of the easiest things to prove and support.” Briahna Joy Gray | Famous Wealthy Youtuber F.D Signifier
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KRISTEN WELKER: Why join the DSA if you disagree with various parts of their platform? Does it not just become a distraction from your own campaign and your own agenda? ANGIE NIXON: You all are the only ones that are distracted. I’m actually going out, talking to voters about the things that matter to them. And so we should make sure that we’re pivoting to the right conversations. The fact remains that there are people who are dying because they don’t have access to quality health care.
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Political streamer Hasan Piker notes that more establishment Democrats have condemned him over comments he did not make than have demanded the release of Sama Safi, a 20-year-old American imprisoned by Israel without charge in the occupied West Bank since June. Her doctors warn that Israel’s denial of adequate medical care puts her at risk of irreversible, life-threatening damage to her internal organs. As journalist Prem Thakker points out, Chris Van Hollen is the only potential 2028 presidential contender in the Senate who has called on the Trump administration to secure Safi’s release. Van Hollen is also introducing a resolution requiring the State Department to provide answers about nine Americans killed in the West Bank since 2022 with zero accountability, as well as the broader abuses Palestinians face under Israeli occupation. He says he will bring it to a vote when Congress returns.
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🇵🇷 “For 128 years of U.S. rule, Puerto Rico has been a colony” Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic nominee for Congress in New York’s 13th District, marked the 128th anniversary of the July 25, 1898 U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico by calling for an end to American colonial rule and declaring her support for the island’s independence. U.S. troops landed at Guánica during the Spanish-American War, and Spain ceded the island under the Treaty of Paris without any input from Puerto Ricans. In 1900 the Foraker Act established that Puerto Rico “belongs to the United States, but is not the United States, nor a part of the United States,” a formula that has defined its status ever since. Congress imposed U.S. citizenship in 1917, months before Puerto Ricans were drafted into World War I, yet residents still cannot vote for president and have no voting representation in Congress. Avila Chevalier pointed to widespread poverty, recurring blackouts, the federal response to Hurricane Maria and the unelected fiscal oversight board known as La Junta, which was imposed by Congress in 2016 to restructure the island’s debt and holds power over its budget above the elected government. “I also support independence for the Puerto Rican people,” she said. “Because after 128 years, it’s the least the people on the island deserve.” 🎥 Darializa for Congress (via Instagram)
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![🇵🇸 Gaza engineers salvage damaged medical equipment to keep hospitals running In the face of crumbling medical equipment, teams of engineers in Gaza have resorted to salvaging parts from damaged machinery and refitting them in a desperate attempt to repair what they can and restore some functionality to various medical devices. “We now collect equipment damaged during the [Israeli] ground incursion and the bombing of the hospital. We collect them, dismantle matching equipment of the same type, salvage and repair the parts, and then reassemble the equipment,” Ahmed Younis, an engineer at Al-Shifa Hospital told Drop Site. “We have managed to restore only around 15% of the hospital’s equipment. Most of the equipment needs to be replaced and is difficult to repair under the current conditions.” “But the equipment is not operating at the level of efficiency it is supposed to,” he warned. “The MRI machines and other radiology equipment, such as CT scanners and lithotripsy machines, were completely destroyed.” The lack of functional diagnostic equipment has severely impaired doctors’ abilities to treat patients in Gaza. “This has resulted in severe complications and, in some cases, patients have lost their lives because we were unable to determine the correct diagnosis,” Dr. Mohammed Amin Matar, the head of the radiology department at Al-Shifa, told Drop Site.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2093046995132833877/amplify_video_thumb/2093046615481139200/img/YQuKPgjDd7xHpw3I.jpg)
🇵🇸 Gaza engineers salvage damaged medical equipment to keep hospitals running In the face of crumbling medical equipment, teams of engineers in Gaza have resorted to salvaging parts from damaged machinery and refitting them in a desperate attempt to repair what they can and restore some functionality to various medical devices. “We now collect equipment damaged during the [Israeli] ground incursion and the bombing of the hospital. We collect them, dismantle matching equipment of the same type, salvage and repair the parts, and then reassemble the equipment,” Ahmed Younis, an engineer at Al-Shifa Hospital told Drop Site. “We have managed to restore only around 15% of the hospital’s equipment. Most of the equipment needs to be replaced and is difficult to repair under the current conditions.” “But the equipment is not operating at the level of efficiency it is supposed to,” he warned. “The MRI machines and other radiology equipment, such as CT scanners and lithotripsy machines, were completely destroyed.” The lack of functional diagnostic equipment has severely impaired doctors’ abilities to treat patients in Gaza. “This has resulted in severe complications and, in some cases, patients have lost their lives because we were unable to determine the correct diagnosis,” Dr. Mohammed Amin Matar, the head of the radiology department at Al-Shifa, told Drop Site.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kamala Harris’ 2024 Presidential campaign: “And yet… why are we here? Are we here to just act like white men have acted everytime before?” “The struggle means to me not just that we would get the boot of our necks, but that we would destroy the boot, that this would not happen to other people.”
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Fernando Cerimedo, a top right-wing political operative and business partner of former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, has been arrested in Bolivia in connection with the attempted assassination of his partner, Nadia Bayer, who is allegedly pregnant with his child. Bayer survived being shot by two men disguised as delivery workers, footage of which circulated widely. From her hospital bed, she alleged Cerimedo took $800,000 a month from Argentine President Javier Milei’s operation and ran a machine of bribes and violence. Some of her claims, including ties to US intelligence, remain unverified. Cerimedo co-founded the right-wing outlet La Derecha Diario and was credited with helping engineer right-wing victories across the region, including for Milei. He served as an adviser in Bolivia under President Rodrigo Paz, whose vice president said Cerimedo kept an office near the presidency. Leaked texts reportedly reference removing Bayer before she “caused trouble.” Colombian President Gustavo Petro tied the same network to 500,000 bots he said spread lies during Colombia’s election. Parscale, now a registered foreign agent for Israel, holds major Israeli contracts, per Drop Site reporting. 🎥 Drop Site Latin America editor José Luis Granados Ceja spoke to BP about the story.
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The U.S. has deported more than 22,000 people to at least 35 other countries other than their own after striking bilateral agreements with often corrupt governments, Yael Schacher, director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International, told Democracy Now. Those targeted include asylum seekers and people already granted protection by U.S. judges because they would likely face persecution or torture back home. Schacher says receiving governments often view their role as temporary and subsequently send people back to the countries they fled. 🎥 Democracy Now!
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The New Yorker’s David Remnick asks DSA co-chair Megan Romer whether “Israel has a right to defend itself.”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates rejects blaming voters who wouldn’t back Kamala Harris over Gaza for her loss to Trump in 2024, saying many were asked to vote for a Democratic administration enabling a genocide against their own families. “That’s you. That’s not me. And that’s not who I want to be,” he said. He drew a historical parallel: Black Americans didn’t accept being sacrificed for Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, whose Social Security and housing programs were written to exclude most Black workers in order to win Southern votes, and Frederick Douglass pressured and publicly criticized Abraham Lincoln through much of the Civil War, warming to him only late. The author of The Case for Reparations added, “If we get access to any sort of power, we can’t do what was done to us.”
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⭕️ Israeli authorities officially established a new settlement named "Noa" on Monday, built on Palestinian-owned land south of the former settlements of Ganim and Kadim, southeast of Jenin. Several Israeli ministers and Knesset members attended the inauguration ceremony, highlighting growing official support for settlement expansion in the northern occupied West Bank.
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🚨 Israeli strike kills three-year-old in Gaza: “Taim, I promised you I’d bring you Pringles.” An Israeli airstrike near a bakery in western Deir al-Balah in central Gaza killed Palestinian child Taim Hamdan and a man and wounded several others. Footage captured by Drop Site contributor Mohamed Ahmed shows people rushing the wounded for treatment, including a man initially believed to have died before signs of life were noticed. “Take him to the operating room. He’s still alive!” people shout. Taim’s lifeless body is seen with his head bloodied and wrapped in bandages, as relatives cry out his name. “Let the world see. Come and see. Where are the Arab kings and leaders? Where are they? Where are those who boast about protecting Israel’s security?” Taim’s uncle, Ahmed Ghanem, shouted. “Did you like it when they said every home would become a house of mourning? Here. Here is our funeral,” Ghanem shouted. His voice breaking, Ghanem said Taim was born after seven years of waiting. “Oh, Taim. You wanted Pringles. Taim, I promised you I’d bring you Pringles.” 🎥 Footage from Drop Site contributor Mohamed Ahmed.
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