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Airstrike details Hegseth shared on Signal came from top general’s secure messages

Airstrike details Hegseth shared on Signal came from top general’s secure messages

NBC News reports: Minutes before U.S. fighter jets took off to begin strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last month, Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command, used a secure U.S. government system to send detailed information about the operation to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The material Kurilla sent included details about when U.S. fighters would take off and when they would hit their targets — details that could, if they fell into the wrong hands,…

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Despair in Gaza as Israeli aid blockade creates crisis ‘unmatched in severity’

Despair in Gaza as Israeli aid blockade creates crisis ‘unmatched in severity’

The Observer reports: Gaza has been pushed to new depths of despair, civilians, medics and humanitarian workers say, by the unprecedented seven-week-long Israeli military blockade that has cut off all aid to the strip. The siege has left the Palestinian territory facing conditions unmatched in severity since the beginning of the war as residents grapple with sweeping new evacuation orders, the renewed bombing of civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, and the exhaustion of food, fuel for generators and medical supplies….

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Members of leading British Jewish body condemn Israel’s latest actions in Gaza

Members of leading British Jewish body condemn Israel’s latest actions in Gaza

The Guardian reports: Members of the Board of Deputies, the largest body representing British Jews, have said they can no longer “turn a blind eye or remain silent” over the war in Gaza. In a significant break with the board’s customary support for the Israeli government, the 36 signatories to an open letter published in the FT say “Israel’s soul is being ripped out”. Since the war began after the terrorist atrocities committed by Hamas against Israelis on 7 October…

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Neo-colonialism: U.S. ‘demands control’ from Ukraine of key pipeline carrying Russian gas

Neo-colonialism: U.S. ‘demands control’ from Ukraine of key pipeline carrying Russian gas

The Guardian reports: The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown. US and Ukrainian officials met on Friday to discuss White House proposals for a minerals deal. Donald Trump wants Kyiv to hand over its natural resources as “payback” in return for weapons delivered by the previous Biden administration. Talks have become increasingly acrimonious, Reuters said. The latest US…

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Leaks reveal massive Israeli campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Facebook and Instagram

Leaks reveal massive Israeli campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Facebook and Instagram

Waqas Ahmed, Nicholas Rodelo, Ryan Grim, and Murtaza Hussain report: A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News. The data show that Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests issued by Israel since October 7, 2023. Israel is the biggest originator of takedown requests globally by far, and Meta has followed…

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‘They’ll kill us all’: Gazans plead for intervention as Israeli attacks intensify

‘They’ll kill us all’: Gazans plead for intervention as Israeli attacks intensify

Ruwaida Amer and Ahmed Ahmed report: Since Israel shattered the ceasefire in Gaza last month, Palestinians have been facing horrors reminiscent of the first days of Israel’s genocidal onslaught. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, the Israeli military has killed over 1,300 people and wounded more than 3,000 in the past three weeks, in which time the overall death toll in the enclave has surpassed 50,000. Over 280,000 people have been displaced as Israel corrals Gaza’s population into ever-shrinking “humanitarian zones” which it continues to bomb. Nearly two-thirds of the…

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In Israel, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream

In Israel, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream

A Palestinian woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her home, which was destroyed in an Israeli strike on March 18, 2025. Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images By Tamir Sorek, Penn State Thirty years ago in Israel, advocating for genocide could land you in prison. In April 1994, an Israeli rabbi named Ido Alba published an article that read, in part, “In war, as long as the war has not been decided, it is a commandment to kill every…

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Ten years after Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen, there is only irreparable loss

Ten years after Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen, there is only irreparable loss

Afrah Nasser writes: “Keep Yemen weak,” King Abdulaziz Al Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, is said to have told his sons on his deathbed. Whether those words were apocryphal or not, the sentiment behind them aligns with Saudi Arabia’s long-standing geopolitical strategy toward its southern neighbor. Historically, Saudi policy has sought to maintain a balance of power in Yemen—strong enough to prevent total collapse and regional instability, but weak enough to prevent it from becoming a powerful, independent…

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Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again

Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again

Jagan Chapagain writes: Which was most horrific? The agonising week-long wait – silence after our colleagues went missing, as we suspected the worst but hoped for something different? Or the confirmation, seven days later, that bodies had been found? Or, since, the ghastly details of how they were found, and killed? Their ambulances were crushed and partly buried. Nearby were their bodies – also buried, en masse, in the sand. Our dead colleagues were still wearing their Red Crescent vests….

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Israel’s latest vision for Gaza has a name: Concentration camp

Israel’s latest vision for Gaza has a name: Concentration camp

Meron Rapoport reports: Two weeks ago, the right-wing Israeli journalist Yinon Magal posted the following on X: “This time, the IDF intends to evacuate all residents of the Gaza Strip to a new humanitarian zone that will be arranged for long-term stay, will be enclosed, and anyone entering it will first be checked to ensure they are not a terrorist. The IDF will not allow a rogue population to refuse evacuation this time. Anyone remaining outside the humanitarian zone will…

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As Trump allies see Hegseth’s growing pile of mistakes, U.S. military pilots say their lives are at risk

As Trump allies see Hegseth’s growing pile of mistakes, U.S. military pilots say their lives are at risk

Politico reports: The White House is publicly defending Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he texted sensitive military information in a Signal chat. But behind the scenes, administration insiders are starting to express doubts about the Pentagon chief’s judgment. Officials agree national security adviser Mike Waltz, who accidentally invited a journalist to a group chat with senior leaders, could more easily take the fall for a scandal that has embarrassed the administration — which may end up sparing Hegseth his job….

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Trump ‘running out of patience’ with Putin over Ukraine ceasefire, says Finland’s president

Trump ‘running out of patience’ with Putin over Ukraine ceasefire, says Finland’s president

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump is losing patience with Vladimir Putin’s stalling tactics over the Ukraine ceasefire, the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, said after spending nine hours with the US president – including winning a golf competition with him at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday. Stubb, who also spent two days with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, last week in Helsinki suggested in a Guardian interview a plan for a deadline of 20 April, by which time Putin…

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American hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop

American hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons must stop

Victor Gilinsky and Leonard Weiss write: An extraordinary three-part series on Israeli television, The Atom and Me, lays out how the country got its nuclear weapons. It takes for granted what anyone who pays attention has known for years. But the series goes well beyond a general discussion about Israel’s nuclear weapons. It shows the country’s single-minded determination to get the bomb no matter what it took, including stealing nuclear explosives and bomb components from the United States and violating…

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The plan to turn Ukraine into a Trump-Putin Inc joint venture

The plan to turn Ukraine into a Trump-Putin Inc joint venture

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes: Donald Trump is holding a gun to the head of Volodymyr Zelensky, demanding huge reparations payments and laying claim to half of Ukraine’s oil, gas, and hydrocarbon resources as well as almost all its metals and much of its infrastructure. The latest version of his “minerals deal”, obtained by The Telegraph, is unprecedented in the history of modern diplomacy and state relations. “It is an expropriation document,” said Alan Riley, an expert on energy law at the…

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‘We want to live’: Rage at Israel fuses with ire at Hamas as protests rock Gaza

‘We want to live’: Rage at Israel fuses with ire at Hamas as protests rock Gaza

Ruwaida Amer reports: For the past two days, Palestinians across the Gaza Strip have taken to the streets to demand an end to Israel’s genocidal onslaught and to Hamas’ rule of the territory. Beginning in the northern city of Beit Lahiya, demonstrations quickly spread to other parts of the enclave including Shuja’iyya in the north, Nuseirat and Deir Al-Balah in the center, and Khan Younis in the south. The protests are the largest since the war began, and the most…

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Trump administration wants to turn Ukraine into an American colony

Trump administration wants to turn Ukraine into an American colony

Bloomberg reports: The US is pushing to control all major future infrastructure and mineral investments in Ukraine, potentially gaining a veto over any role for Kyiv’s other allies and undermining its bid for European Union membership. President Donald Trump’s administration is demanding the “right of first offer” on investments in all infrastructure and natural resources projects under a revised partnership deal with Ukraine, according to a draft of the document obtained by Bloomberg News. If accepted, the partnership agreement would…

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