[Townhall] The White House is looking into possible criminal charges against CNN after it published a report about an app allowing users to track Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in their area.
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I agree, Skidmark. Not everything should be a separate article post — a lot of what we find enhances what is already there, and that way we don’t scatter the conversation.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation has approved the indictment in the case of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall near Moscow. This was reported on July 1 by the press service of the department.
The list of accused includes 19 people. Depending on their role and degree of participation in the crime, they are charged under articles of the Criminal Code on participation in a terrorist organization, undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities, terrorist attack, preparation for a terrorist attack, illegal trafficking in firearms, illegal trafficking in explosive devices, illegal manufacture of firearms, illegal manufacture of explosives, and others.
According to the investigation, two wanted Tajik citizens and unidentified individuals, acting in the interests of the Ukrainian leadership, organized the activities of three cells of the group "Vilayat Khorasan", which is part of the Islamic State (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation), on the territory of the Russian Federation, and involved 13 Tajik citizens in this activity, who were given instructions to commit a terrorist attack in Moscow.
“The criminal case has been sent to the 2nd Western District Military Court for consideration on the merits,” the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office reported.
The investigation into the defendants in this case, who are wanted, is ongoing, the statement also said.
[IsraelTimes] Hackers say they hold large cache of emails from president’s chief of staff Susie Wiles, other top advisers and porn actor Stormy Daniels.
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If the Trump entourage or anyone else believed that their email communication isn't accessible to all interested international players they're hopelessly naive.
Even if they used end-to-end encryption they would open themselves up to traffic analysis though the actual content would be concealed.
In an onion network, messages are encapsulated in layers of encryption, analogous to the layers of an onion. The encrypted data is transmitted through a series of network nodes called "onion routers," each of which "peels" away a single layer, revealing the data's next destination.
While onion routing provides a high level of security and anonymity, there are methods to break the anonymity of this technique, such as timing analysis...
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They don't do "onions" they just use plain simple email or cellphone text services.
All needed for access is bribe money for some operative in an email provider or cellphone provider server farm, possibly located in a third world s******e at least semi unfriendly to the West.
Message to Panetta, Trump, von der Leyen and all concerned parties:
Don't write anything in an email of a cellphone text that you don't want Xi, Khamenei or Putin to know.
[IsraelTimes] Two Australian nurses who threatened to kill Israeli patients in a viral video earlier this year have been banned for two years from working under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
But not from working as nurses elsewhere in the country? That is only safe if all Australian Jews are medically disabled...
The two had been suspended from work in February after the video first surfaced. They have also been charged with federal offenses and are due to appear in court on July 29.
I suppose if convicted, they won’t be able to work as nurses outside the prison where they’re serving their sentence for the duration.
On February 12, Israeli influencer Max Veifer posted online a video chat he had with a male and a female nurse at a Sydney hospital, identified as Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh.
Mr. Veifer is not the only Israeli dialing random strangers around the world to chat. Several have been appearing regularly in my Facebook Reels feed lately — some even speak Arabic and know the Koran better than their Muslim interlocutors. It’s interesting how many of my very small sample of internet-savvy Millennial and GenZ Muslims are willing to spontaneously tell the world they love Israel and admire the Jews, or at least converse thoughtfully and politely when one appears on their computer screen.
After Veifer told them he was from Israel in the chat, Nadir responded, “I’m so upset that you’re Israeli… eventually you’re going to get killed and go to [hell].”
Abu Lebdeh said she would not treat any Israeli patients and instead would kill them. Nadir, with a threatening gesture, said he had already sent many “Israeli dog[s],” who visited the hospital, to “Jahannam,” the term for Islamic hell in Arabic.
Both were nurses at Bankstown Hospital in Sydney. Mr. Nadir is an Afghan refugee who only became an Australian citizen four years ago; Ms Abu Lebdeh is of Palestinian extraction. They were referred to the police for investigation by shocked hospital management, despite a whistleblower revealing after 10/7/2023 that staff were enthusiastic supporters of egregious anti-Israel slogans.
The video sparked outrage across Australia and the Jewish world after it was released.
It’s made me thoughtful, too…
NDIS provides medical services for Australians with significant and permanent disabilities under 65 years old.
More consequences. Hope those new social media followers were worth it.
[IsraelTimes] A German music venue says that a planned performance by rap duo Bob Vylan will not take place after its frontman led an anti-Israel chant at the Glastonbury festival.
The group were due to open for the band Gogol Bordello on a European tour this autumn, but the venue in Cologne, the Live Music Hall, says in a post on its Instagram account: “The band ‘Bob Vylan’ will NOT perform as a support act on 13.09.2025!”
An employee at the venue who did not wish to be named tells AFP that “we decided together with local organizers that [Bob Vylan] will not perform here after the media uproar,” which followed their set at Glastonbury.
The concert by Gogol Bordello “will, according to our information, still take place,” she says.
Yesterday, British police said they were launching a criminal investigation into remarks made by Bob Vylan and fellow rap group Kneecap at the festival in southwestern England.
London-based Bob Vylan, who often tackle racism in their tracks, were slammed by international and British politicians after they led the crowds in chants of “Death to the IDF.” The BBC, which broadcast the festival, later apologized for not pulling the live stream of the band’s set.
THE events at Glastonbury this past weekend should concern anyone who believes that anti-Semitism has no place in British public life. What unfolded on one of the country’s most iconic cultural stages wasn’t spontaneous rebellion or edgy political commentary: it was a deliberate and co-ordinated act of provocation. Worse, it was broadcast live to a national audience, under the watch of both the BBC and the festival’s organisers.
Kneecap are a band whose lead singer has previously been arrested under anti-terrorism legislation and who has openly threatened to use his platform to make anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements, both on television and at Glastonbury. Despite this history, the band were not only invited to perform but reportedly informed by the BBC that their set would not be aired. In reality, what followed suggests a calculated workaround.
Just before Kneecap’s performance, the BBC aired the set of a lesser-known duo, Bob Vylan, with a troubling legal background and a documented history of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist rhetoric. Bob Vylan, known associates of Kneecap, were given a prime broadcast slot directly before their set. This was no coincidence. Judging by the crowd’s reaction, many knew what was coming.
This wasn’t an act of creative expression. It was a co-ordinated stunt. A platform for hate, dressed up as art. This was not and is not free speech. This is hate speech, pure and simple.
the Radar Festival in Manchester this Saturday, where they were the headliners, and
the line-up at Kave Fest in Gisors, France on Sunday
The band posted on Instagram, “We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine.
“We, like those in the spotlight before us, are not the story. We are a distraction from the story, and whatever sanctions we receive will be a distraction.”
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I rushed the previous comment, and missed this bit below the fold, as it were, about spreading the pain:
Meanwhile, Campaign Against Antisemitism has written to Glastonbury organisers and Somerset Council, accusing the festival of breaching its licence by platforming artists accused of inciting hate.
The letter highlights not only Bob Vylan’s performance but also that of Kneecap. The charity has given organisers 14 days to respond or face potential legal action.
Since both bands were well known for this kind of thing, and in fact the BBC had informed Kneecap that they would not be recorded because of it, it seems a slam dunk unless the judge is willing to be seen as in sympathy with the sentiment at a time when it suddenly is no longer socially acceptable….
Some still have the courage to stand against the increasingly totalitarian Erdogan regime. Perhaps that’s why they recently rounded uo a bunch of so-called Gulenists.
[IsraelTimes] At least 10,000 people join an opposition rally at Istanbul City Hall on the 100th day since the city’s popular mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was jailed in what critics say was a politically-motivated graft probe.
The rally came hours after police rounded up more than 120 people linked to City Hall in Izmir, an opposition stronghold and Turkey’s third city, in the latest move targeting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s opponents.
The early-morning arrests were part of a probe into alleged graft, and followed similar lines to the March 19 operation in opposition-run Istanbul when hundreds were arrested, including Imamoglu, Erdogan’s main political rival.
Imamoglu’s removal sparked a wave of mass protests with hundreds of thousands rallying outside City Hall, also known as Sarachane, at the urging of the main opposition CHP, which also called Tuesday’s protest.
“Today, we are all together at the very place where everything began… this struggle is against fascism, this is the fight for freedom,” CHP leader Ozgur Ozel shouts, addressing the crowd in his trademark husky voice. “On March 19, you stood shoulder to shoulder in Sarachane. You shouted for justice. You stood for your will. You stood behind the one you elected… I am proud of every one of you.”
Game changing. Next up, Mahmoud Khalil, who definitely acquired his green card, and applied for citizenship, under false pretenses.
[Townhall] The Justice Department is beginning to strip naturalized Americans charged with crimes of their citizenship.
This is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on criminal migrants colonists. The Justice Department issued a memo on June 11 that details a list of priorities — especially concerning denaturalization.
The memo instructs federal attorneys to "prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence." The purpose is to remove individuals who obtained US citizenship through fraud or misrepresentation. This especially applies to those who "committed felonies that were not disclosed during the naturalization process" or "engaged in various forms of financial fraud against the United States."
"The Department of Justice may institute civil proceedings to revoke a person’s United States citizenship if an individual either ’illegally procured’ naturalization or procured naturalization by ’concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation.’"
The ten categories of priority targets are individuals connected with national security threats, such as terrorism, espionage, or those who illegally export sensitive technology. Other targets include war criminals, those affiliated with gangs, violent mostly peaceful criminals, and human traffickers.
The memo indicates that the Justice Department plans to apply its civil revocation authority more broadly than past administrations.
About 53 percent of the 46.2 million immigrants colonists residing in the US were naturalized citizens in 2022, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Those seeking naturalization are required to go through a lengthy application process. They must typically have been a lawful permanent resident for at least five years, along with other criteria.
The White House does not have the authority to unilaterally strip a naturalized person of their citizenship. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood... federal courts can take such an action after the Justice Department initiates civil denaturalization proceedings.
The law requires the government to prove that the individual illegally obtained their citizenship or lied on their applications. A federal judge would assess the evidence and issue a ruling. In this case, the individual can appeal the ruling. Those subject to such an action are entitled to due process and the right to defend themselves against the charges.
[IsraelTimes] The president of Iceland’s national broadcaster says Israel should only be allowed to participate in next year’s Eurovision under a “neutral flag,” similar to Olympic athletes from Russia and Belarus.
Stefán Jón Hafstein makes the comments ahead of a meeting later this week in London of European Broadcasting Union member states to discuss next year’s competition. He says that Iceland will support any bid to kick Israel out of the competition, but would agree to a compromise that would see an Israeli artist compete without representing the country.
The EBU has promised to address complaints about this year’s contest from some countries, which have expressed outrage over Israel’s participation and also made allegations about voting irregularities. Iceland, Spain, Slovenia, and Belgium are among the EBU members who have called to bar Israel from the competition.
Some of the country’s public broadcasters may also face rebukes or fines over anti-Israel broadcasts or commentary during the Eurovision broadcast this year, which violates EBU rules.
Meanwhile, some Israeli government officials are pursuing legislation that would shut down Israel’s public broadcaster, which would render the debate moot, as Israel would no longer qualify to compete at the Eurovision.
[FreeBeacon] The Trump administration also noted that Francesca Albanese has claimed to be an 'international lawyer' but 'has not passed a legal bar examination or been licensed to practice law'
The Trump administration has formally requested that the United Nations (U.N.) remove Francesca Albanese from her role as the special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, citing her "virulent antisemitism and support for terrorism" as well as her misrepresentation of her legal qualifications, according to private communications between U.S. and U.N. officials obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The U.N. reappointed Albanese—a vocal Israel critic who blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror spree and compared Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler—to her post earlier this year over the Trump administration’s objections. Since that time, she has penned "threatening letters" to companies across the globe, warning them to cut business ties with Israel or face "potential criminal liability," according to the Trump administration.
Albanese wrote threatening letters—which the Trump administration described as "riddled with inflammatory rhetoric and false accusations"—to some of the "most prominent American corporations in varied sectors including technology, financial services, manufacturing, and hospitality" in recent weeks, prompting the State Department to raise its concerns with U.N. secretary-general Antonio Guterres earlier this month and demand her termination.
"In her letters, Ms. Albanese makes extreme allegations, such as that the entities may be contributing to purported offenses including ’gross human rights violations,’ ’apartheid,’ and ’genocide,’" acting U.S. representative to the U.N. Dorothy Shea wrote. "She wrongly asserts that recipients have violated 'preemptory norms of international law’ and face exposure to ’potential criminal liability,’ and demands that they cease activities relating to Israel."
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The pro and anti Iran-Qatar-Russia factions in the Trump 47 administration seem to simultaneously make political moves and set policy, this being an initiative of the "anti" faction.
[IsraelNationalNews] Saudi Arabia is insisting that Israel finish the job in Gaza by removing Hamas from power completely in the coastal enclave as a precondition for a normalization agreement with the Jewish State, a Saudi source told i24NEWS.
The source, who is reportedly close to the royal court, told Middle East correspondent Ariel Oseran that, "Without removing Hamas, there will be no peace."
According to the report, the Saudi government hopes the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, will be restored to power in Gaza after the fall of the Hamas government.
The report is the first indication that ending the war now instead of continuing until Hamas is completely defeated may jeopardize efforts to secure normalization accords with Arab and Muslim nations and the Trump Administration's efforts to expand the Abraham Accords.
This is new. Up ‘til now, as I recall, the Saudis demanded a two state solution as their precondition.
US President Donald Trump stated today (Tuesday) that he believes a ceasefire could be reached sometime next week. He also reiterated his desire to see all of the remaining Israeli hostages returned.
Trump further stated that he would be "very firm" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the issue of ending the war in Gaza when the two leaders meet in Washington next week.
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For many years there has been bad blood between the Moslem Brotherhood (Hamas is part of that) and the Saudis.
Things have been getting worse between them.
This was the Saudis chance.
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Hopefully Bibi can use this to cool Trump's enthusiasms.
[IsraelTimes] Released hostage says that he and five others were told to select 3 people to be shot in the head, and 3 to be shot in the knee, before terrorist ‘pardoned’ them
As he underscored the need to recover the remaining 50 hostages, of whom only 20 are believed to still be alive, released captive Ohad Ben Ami told politicians in the Knesset on Tuesday that his captors had forced him and other hostages to choose which of their number should be sentenced to death.
Ben Ami, who was kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Be’eri during the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... onslaught of October 7, 2023, and was released from captivity in February 2025, recounted his experience during a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee session.
He told the committee that about a month before his release, he was rounded up along with five of his fellow hostages and told by a Hamas operative that three of them would be sentenced to death, and that it was up to them to decide who it would be.
"A commander, probably a senior one, came to us and cocked his gun, and said: ’Choose three people to die and three people who I will shoot in the kneecap,'" Ben Ami said. "They made us decide which three should take a bullet to the head, and which three a bullet to the knee."
"We had to debate this for an entire hour, all while they filmed us," he recalled. "They let each of us speak and explain why we deserved to live, why we deserved to die, or why we deserved to be shot in the knee."
He said that once the hour was up, and nobody had volunteered themselves or their fellow captives to be selected for death or life, their captors simply picked which three would be sentenced to death at random.
"And then they told us, before we shoot you, you have the opportunity to perhaps be spared."
In an attempt to spare themselves from the death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... , the three hostages were forced to speak badly about the Israeli government, among other subjects, Ben Ami said. After they were finished speaking, he said, the Hamas official made a show of having "pardoned" them and sent the six men away.
"You sit there and think to yourself, ’What just happened here?'" Ben Ami told the committee, explaining that the hostages constantly exist in "a state of extreme fear."
"Understand that this is what it’s like, this is how we lived our lives every day," he stressed. "On top of everything else, unexpected things happen, and it’s insane to think about it."
[IsraelTimes] US president set to host PM at White House next Monday, amid reports of progress toward a ceasefire, and signs that Netanyahu is, for the first time, ready to end the war
US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... said on Tuesday that he will be "very firm" with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the need to end the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... when the premier visits Washington next week.
Speaking to news hounds, Trump also said that Netanyahu "wants it too," referring to a hostage-ceasefire deal that would bring an end to the Gaza war.
Earlier Tuesday, the president repeated his prediction that a ceasefire and hostage release deal would be reached shortly. "I think we’ll have a deal next week," he said.
He also said he and Netanyahu will discuss Gaza and "the great success we had with Iran," adding: "We want to get the hostages back."
The US president’s comments followed Netanyahu’s announcement on Monday that he will visit Washington, DC next week to meet with Trump.
The prime minister is set to take off for the US capital on Saturday and meet with Trump on Monday, July 7. On Tuesday, leading up to that trip, discussions took place in the Prime Minister’s Office over attempts to reach a hostage release deal with Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... , with reports of some progress.
"There is a positive dynamic and lively activity on the issue of negotiations," a bigwig told The Times of Israel.
After Trump asserted to news hounds that Netanyahu also wanted to see a ceasefire and hostage release deal come to fruition, Israeli cabinet members told Channel 12 on Tuesday evening that, for the first time, the premier was showing signs that he would prefer a deal to end the war in Gaza soon.
The report suggested that indirect talks with Hamas could restart in the coming days, while Netanyahu is in the US.
There is real, tangible US pressure on Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , and Qatari pressure on Hamas, Israeli officials told Channel 12. "We are more optimistic. There are solutions being put together, and more positive approach to moving forward," said an official.
According to the outlet, Israel is showing more flexibility about the wording on the end of the war than it had previously done.
The report came after a cabinet meeting on the Gaza war earlier on Tuesday, during which IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir was said to have engaged in a spirited debate with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir over the future of the campaign.
Zamir told the two ultranationalist ministers that "Hamas is dead," with the proof being that it fired only one rocket during the recent 12-day war with Iran, the report said, adding that the two ministers had, in turn, pushed for a more aggressive implementation of Trump’s relocation plan for Gazooks.
He was also said to have dismissed their hopes for conquering the entire Gaza Strip, telling them it would endanger the lives of the hostages and would lead to possible violations of international law.
During the debate, according to the outlet, Netanyahu insisted that the war would not end before Hamas is defeated. However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... it added, the premier could define a defeat of Hamas in a way that allows him to end the war in the coming weeks.
Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting on Monday that he will also meet with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... , Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and senior politicians.
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, who is currently in Washington ahead of Netanyahu’s visit, was slated to meet with Witkoff, Rubio and Vance.
Hostage-ceasefire talks are being mediated by Witkoff, whose latest proposal, the authenticity of which was confirmed to The Times of Israel by two sources familiar with the negotiations, would see Hamas release 10 living Israeli hostages held in Gaza and return the bodies of 18 deceased hostages during a 60-day ceasefire. The rest of the hostages would be released if a permanent ceasefire is reached.
Hamas sources told the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat that the group’s response to Witkoff’s deal proposal was generally positive, though with conditions.
A source directly involved in the negotiations told The Times of Israel that Hamas’s response included a demand that makes it more difficult for Israel to resume fighting if talks on a permanent ceasefire are not completed by the end of the 60-day truce.
The source said there were other changes the terror group wanted to make to the Witkoff proposal, adding that it would require a more drawn-out negotiation process.
The updated proposal submitted by Hamas envisions the release of the 10 hostages being more spread out throughout the truce, rather than in two batches on the first and seventh days, as the US offer envisioned.
The source said this change was aimed at preventing Netanyahu from abandoning talks on a permanent ceasefire after the hostages are released, or refusing to engage in them altogether, as he did during the previous ceasefire in January.
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[IsraelTimes] NGOs’ call comes as 500 reported killed since May near aid sites; IDF says it has taken steps to reduce casualties; Foreign Ministry says Hamas shooting at civilians, falsifying death tolls
A group of more than 170 aid organizations on Tuesday called for an end to a US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution system in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... amid repeated reports of people being killed while seeking rations.
Translation: “How dare those outsiders poach on our patch, cutting us out, when we share the boodle with Hamas?”
According to Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... -linked authorities in Gaza, more than 500 people have been killed in mass shootings near aid distribution centers or transport routes guarded by Israeli forces since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation started operating in late May.
The NGOs urged a return to the UN-led aid mechanism that existed in the war-torn territory until March, when Israel imposed a full blockade for several weeks on humanitarian assistance entering Gaza following a two-month ceasefire with Hamas.
"Paleostinians in Gaza face an impossible choice: starve or risk being shot while trying desperately to reach food to feed their families," the aid organizations said in a statement. The groups included Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Amnesty International.
They urged action to "revert to the existing UN-led coordination mechanisms, and lift the Israeli government’s blockade on aid and commercial supplies."
GHF told Rooters it had delivered more than 52 million meals in five weeks and said other humanitarian groups had "nearly all of their aid looted."
In a response, the GHF told Rooters it had delivered more than 52 million meals in five weeks and said other humanitarian groups had "nearly all of their aid looted."
The GHF added, "Instead of bickering and throwing insults from the sidelines, we would welcome other humanitarian groups to join us and feed the people in Gaza."
The statement was published as the IDF said it had taken new steps to limit civilian casualties near aid distribution sites. It also comes as US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... has repeatedly called for a ceasefire in the 20-month war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House next week to discuss the war, in addition to other topics.
Israel said it tasked GHF with distribution in Gaza to keep Hamas from controlling the flow of aid. The IDF acknowledged on Monday that Paleostinian civilians have been harmed at the aid distribution sites, saying that troops had been issued new instructions following what it called "lessons learned."
According to the military, troops on the ground have only used live gunfire when a threat was posed to them, including when dozens of suspects approached forces outside of the designated routes to the aid sites operated by the GHF, or outside operating hours.
On Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry accused Hamas of shooting at civilians and publishing false corpse counts.
Ah hah!
It posted recordings to social media that, it said, show Gazooks describing how the terror group "fires at civilians at these humanitarian sites, spreads false claims blaming the IDF, inflates casualty numbers, and circulates fake footage — all to disrupt aid efforts and keep the people of Gaza away from much-needed aid."
The GHF has been tasked with distributing aid in the Paleostinian territory since late May, following mounting international condemnation and warnings of imminent famine.
GHF operations have since been marred by chaotic scenes and near-daily reports of Israeli forces firing on those waiting to collect rations in the territory, where the Israeli military is seeking to destroy Hamas.
"Under the Israeli government’s new scheme, starved and weakened civilians are being forced to trek for hours through dangerous terrain and active conflict zones, only to face a violent mostly peaceful, chaotic race to reach fenced, militarized distribution sites," the NGOs’ statement read.
Aid distribution in Gaza was traditionally coordinated through various NGOs and United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... agencies, notably the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA, which had 13,000 staff in the coastal enclave before the war. Israel has accused UNRWA of collaborating with Hamas and taken steps to restrict its activity.
At a presser in Vilnius on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Israel hoped to work with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to improve aid distribution.
"We are open... we don’t want Hamas to use the humanitarian aid as an economic asset...but we want it directly to go to the people of Gaza," he said.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese officials are drafting a response to US demands for Hezbollah to relinquish its weapons across the country by November in exchange for a halt to IDF operations there, say two sources briefed on the matter.
The deadline has turned up the heat on the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, which was struck hard by Israel during last year’s war, is suffering a financial crunch, and faces pressure in Lebanon to disarm.
Washington’s demands were conveyed by Thomas Barrack, US special envoy to Syria and ambassador to Turkey, during a trip to Beirut on June 19.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, tell Reuters Barrack had shared a written roadmap with Lebanese officials and told them he expected to hear back by July 1 (today) on any proposed amendments.
The six-page document centers on the disarmament of Hezbollah and other terror groups, and urges Lebanon to improve ties with neighboring Syria and implement financial reforms, they say.
They say Barrack had urged Lebanese officials to seize the opportunity laid out in the roadmap as it “may not come up again.” He is set to return to Lebanon next week.
Barrack had not yet gotten Israeli approval for the roadmap, the sources say. There was no immediate response from the US State Department, Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office, or Israel’s Foreign Ministry to Reuters requests for comment.
[Naharnet] President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Nawaf Salam have made “significant progress” in their deliberations ahead of U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s second visit to Beirut, which is expected before July 10, Lebanese sources said.
Representatives of Aoun, Berri and Salam held a lengthy meeting Monday in Baabda and “unanimously agreed” on a draft paper in response to Barrack’s demands, the sources told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, noting that the draft won the approval of Aoun, Berri and Salam and was also discussed between the Speaker and Hezbollah’s leadership.
The sources added that Lebanon will ask the U.S. to seriously press Israel in order to reach a real ceasefire, allow Lebanon to pacify the situation and “dispel Hezbollah’s concerns,” ahead of engaging in Barrack-sponsored negotiations that would “certainly lead to unanimity over arms monopolization, seeing as it is unacceptable for the talks to be conducted under Israel’s military pressure.”
“Hezbollah is still opening a window for obtaining guarantees, which is being comprehended by the three presidents, seeing us it needs to justify to its supporters the shift toward the monopolization of arms,” the sources added.
Hezbollah “needs to reassure its environment that giving up its weapons will be the reason behind Israel’s withdrawal and the release of its captives,” the sources went on to say.
Al-Akhbar newspaper meanwhile reported that Aoun, Berri and Salam have agreed that “there is no need to hold a special Cabinet session to discuss the U.S. paper, seeing as PM Najib Mikati’s government had agreed to the ceasefire agreement and its stipulations, and because Lebanon should not present additional commitments before knowing the next steps that will be taken by Israel.”
“The unified Lebanese stance is that Lebanon will inform the U.S. administration that Israel has to withdraw, release the captives and halt its daily attacks in return for a Lebanese commitment to tangible measures to control illegal weapons in the areas south and north of the Litani River,” al-Akhbar added.
But other sources told the daily that the U.S. and Israel “will come up with a lot of excuses to reject the settlement sought by Lebanon.”
Local and foreign parties are meanwhile trying to “intimidate” Lebanon by saying that “Israel is preparing to escalate its attacks with harsh airstrikes that could resemble the ferocity of the strikes that assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in addition to possible additional land operations,” al-Akhbar said.
Sources close to a top Lebanese leader have, however, expressed optimism that a solution for the issue of Hezbollah’s arms has been put on track, seeing as Iran might have told Hezbollah and Berri to “commit to the requirements of Resolution 1701 with its accurate stipulations,” the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported.
Hezbollah is meanwhile “inquiring about reconstruction” and Israel’s “withdrawal” ahead of agreeing to a timetable for weapons handover, informed sources told the daily, with presidential sources seeing “unprecedented progress in Hezbollah’s stance that made it agree that its arms be discussed in Cabinet soon despite all its declared stances that are rejecting that.”
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[IsraelTimes] The Iranian military loaded naval mines onto vessels in the Persian Gulf last month, a move that intensified concerns in Washington that Tehran was gearing up to blockade the Strait of Hormuz following Israel’s strikes on sites across Iran, according to two US officials. Then the call came from China...
The previously unreported preparations, which were detected by US intelligence, occurred some time after Israel launched its initial missile attack against Iran on June 13, says the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters.
The loading of the mines — which have not been deployed in the strait — suggests that Tehran may have been serious about closing one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, a move that would have escalated an already-spiraling conflict and severely hobbled global commerce.
About one-fifth of global oil and gas shipments pass through the Strait of Hormuz and a blockage would likely have spiked world energy prices.
Global benchmark oil prices have instead fallen more than 10% since the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, driven in part by relief that the conflict did not trigger significant disruptions in the oil trade.
Reuters was not able to determine precisely when during the Israel-Iran air war Tehran loaded the mines, which — if deployed — would have effectively stopped ships from moving through the key thoroughfare.
It is also unclear if the mines have since been unloaded.
The sources do not disclose how the United States determined that the mines had been put on the Iranian vessels, but such intelligence is typically gathered through satellite imagery, clandestine human sources or a combination of both methods.
Asked for comment about Iran’s preparations, a White House official says: “Thanks to the President’s brilliant execution of Operation Midnight Hammer, successful campaign against the Houthis, and maximum pressure campaign, the Strait of Hormuz remains open, freedom of navigation has been restored, and Iran has been significantly weakened.”
The Pentagon doesn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The Iranian mission at the United Nations also doesn’t respond to requests for comment.
IRGC Deputy Commander Mohammad-Reza Naqdi claimed, “We used only 5% of our military power in the war,” warning that Iran’s future strategy will shift to a ground invasion. He added, “Any American present in the region will either be killed or captured.” pic.twitter.com/Ve9zOYYEqT
Comment in X thread on Mohammed-Reza Naqdi: 'Deputy Commander…’ born & raised in Najaf- Iraq. Saddam forced him, wife& kids out,moved to Naghadeh-Iran,low educated 👎w/ zero military education, is just a THUG, who has been involved in brutality oppression, torture & killing civilians.
Is he a reliable person? U tell me
Looking at a map of American military bases in the Middle East, Iran will have to invade the surrounding nations to get to them. As is repeatedly pointed out in the Twitter thread, there is a vast difference between what Iran’s army did to Iraq’s, for instance, and what the US Army did to Iraq’s in each Gulf War. Still, our flyboys and -girls never get enough shooting practice, so they’d definitely appreciate the chance.
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Yea! Iranian "Ground invasion" that's the ticket. Those high flying B2's will never see us. Spread OUT dammit! Keep those 3-5 meter intervals or one Bunker Buster will get you all !
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[IsraelTimes] Two Australian nurses who threatened to kill Israeli patients in a viral video earlier this year have been banned for two years from working under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
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