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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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🚨 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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⭕️ 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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💢 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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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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🇵🇸 “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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🔺🎥 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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🎓 “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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🏛️ 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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⭕️ 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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Josh Paul discusses how Congress and Israeli allies are attempting to solidify the current military relationship by embedding it deeply within the Pentagon's infrastructure through Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Ryan Grim | Emily Jashinsky | A New Policy
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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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🏀 🇸🇩 “For 75 years, NBA players and coaches stood up against injustice. Bill Russell marched with King. Kareem stood with Ali. Oscar Robertson fought for players’ rights. LeBron knelt. Carmelo spoke up. Jaylen Brown marched. Generation after generation, NBA players and coaches see a wrong, and they refuse to look away. When are we going to do something?” 🎥 A new campaign from The Sentry is calling on athletes to speak up and the NBA to end the league’s sponsorship partnership with the UAE, citing Emirati government backing of the RSF in Sudan, whose actions the UN says bear the hallmarks of genocide.
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🎥 “First of all, this is not just my view. The whole world is saying that he is a crazy, stupid person. He does not stand by his word. He is a complete liar and a low person, and he only talks nonsense. We don’t pay attention to what he says, and we continue our own work.” — An attendee at a pro-government rally in Tehran speaking to Channel 4 about U.S. President Donald Trump.
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🇨🇴 Polls have closed in Colombia’s high-stakes election, pitting Iván Cepeda, the standard bearer for outgoing President Gustavo Petro’s Historic Pact coalition, against two right-wing rivals, Paloma Valencia and Abelardo de la Espriella. For the first time, 88 U.S. State Department delegates are on the ground observing the vote, including Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, whose role has drawn criticism from the Progressive International Observatory, which has accused him of interfering in the race. 🎥 Our report with Drop Site News contributor Sasi Alejandre from Bogotá, Colombia is below ⬇️
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Israel first seized Beaufort Castle from the PLO on the opening night of its 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Nearly two decades later, the cost and futility of holding the isolated hilltop outpost became the subject of the Oscar-nominated Israeli film Beaufort (2007), set during the final months before Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000. A New York Times review of the film says it tells the story of Israeli soldiers defending a remote mountaintop position that was once deemed strategically vital. Director Joseph Cedar described it as a story about “any mountain captured in war.” “One minute you are willing to die for it,” he said. “The next, it’s worth nothing.” 🎥 Channel 4’s Lindsey Hilsum on Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon on June 1, 2026 below. Watch Drop Site’s breakdown in the linked post. ⬇️
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⚡️🟢 Hamas’s Osama Hamdan: Nickolay Mladenov is “another Israeli face” — demands mediators be restored to central role In an interview with Al Jazeera Mubasher, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan delivered a scathing indictment of Nickolay Mladenov, the High Representative for Gaza on Trump’s“Board of Peace,” warning that Mladenov risks being remembered “as a partner in the genocide committed against the Palestinian people.” 🔷 Hamas’ Hamdan laid out five reasons Mladenov bears direct responsibility for the current escalation on Gaza: 🔸 He said he adopts the Israeli narrative entirely — Mladenov’s UN Security Council briefing “was an Israeli narrative through and through, blaming the resistance for the very aggression being committed against them” 🔸 He and the Board of Peace have failed to implement a single element of the first phase of the Sharm el-Sheikh ceasefire agreement — humanitarian aid, medical assistance, and basic infrastructure have not been restored as agreed 🔸 Mladenov has not condemned a single Israeli attack — “not a single word” as Israel kills nearly 1000 Palestinians — while consistently amplifying Israeli demands 🔸 In every meeting, Mladenov has arrived “unprepared,” and not as a neutral party — “he did not do his homework,” Hamdan said. “He comes carrying an Israeli agenda in accordance with Netanyahu’s instructions” 🔸 Most damning, Hamdan said, Mladenov has made “enormous efforts” to sideline the very mediators — Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey — who brokered the Sharm el-Sheikh ceasefire, in what Hamdan described as a deliberate attempt to sabotage the process from within “Today we almost see Netanyahu’s face in Mladenov’s image,” Hamdan said. 🎥 AJ Mubasher
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 “Their sense is that they are close.” Iran expert Trita Parsi says U.S. officials told him they believe Washington and Tehran are nearing a deal, despite recent tensions over Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Parsi said Iran views continued Israeli strikes as a serious red line and is using the issue to test whether President Trump is willing, or able, to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu. “If Trump is unwilling or incapable of holding the Israelis back, then what is the value of a deal with the United States?” Trita Parsi | Ryan Grim | Maysa Mustafa
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