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🎥WATCH: On Feb 28, Tomahawk missiles struck a school in Minab, killing at least 156 people, including 120 children — one of the gravest US war crimes since Vietnam. @jeremyscahill.com, @mazmhussain.bsky.social & Reza Sayah (X: @SayahTweets) spent 2 months speaking w/ survivors. This is their story.

⭕️Mayor Mamdani’s NYPD's planned deal w/ Israeli firm Cognyte for an AI-powered phone tracker builds on nearly 2 decades of secretive cell-phone surveillance. 🔹The dep't used "Stingray" devices, which pose as cell towers to force nearby phones to connect, 1,016 times b/w 2008 & 2015 w/o a written...

⚡️ Mayor Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a 3-year, $750,500 no-bid contract w/ Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet, an AI-driven device that mimics a cell tower to track phones & can be mounted on police cars & drones or hidden in a backpack, the New York Daily News reported. Cognyte...

🇵🇸 Armed settlers destroyed a memorial to Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh near the entrance to the village of Ajja south of Jenin city. The memorial was erected in 2022 to honor the Al Jazeera journalist, who was shot in the head and killed by Israeli forces while covering a...

⚡️WATCH: No Relief Until 2027: Inside the Global Fuel Crisis w/ Rory Johnston From Hormuz & the Red Sea to Russia’s refineries to the pump, Rory Johnston breaks down the choke points fueling the global energy crisis. @ryangrim.bsky.social | Rory Johnston, X: @Rory_Johnston youtu.be/nIuXMAkzj1E?...

“The yellow line used to be approximately 200 meters away from us. This morning, it was only 10 meters away.”

🚨 “Where are we supposed to go?”: Israeli forces push the “yellow line” further into Gaza Displaced Palestinians are fleeing near Shujaiya intersection, east of Gaza City, after Israeli forces pushed the “yellow line” westward to w/in 10 meters of Salah al-Din Street, leaving residents inside...

Israel has banned UK Channel 4’s journalist Secunder Kermani from entering Israel to report ahead of elections later this month:

“We graduated from universities. We had jobs. And now we can't find a single shekel. We don't have one shekel to leave this place.” “We want to return to our homes, even if it means living on top of the rubble,” Al-Ramlawi said.

🚨 Israeli forces killed a boy in Jabaliya & wounded a pregnant woman when they opened fire on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians at the Shajaiya junction east of Gaza City on Sun. 4 more Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a charging station in Al-Buraq, west of Khan Younis...

⚡️NEW at @dropsitenews.com: India Uses Overwhelming Force to Quell Delhi Protests India has launched an unprecedented crackdown on demonstrators after the election commission purged over 130 million people from voter rolls. By Biplob Kumar Das and Fatima Khan www.dropsitenews.com/p/india-delh...

🇵🇰 “A Coup Dissguised as Emergency": Pakistan suspends Imran Khan's party's provincial gov't Pres. Asif Ali Zardari declared a state of emergency on Sun. in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a northwestern province bordering Afghanistan & the only one governed by Khan's party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)...

In this week’s episode of The War Brief, we discuss how Trump’s consideration of new strikes on Iran underscores the mounting setbacks Washington is facing across the region, from Iran increasingly asserting its control over the Strait of Hormuz to Ansarallah (the... Watch: youtu.be/BXEx4w5qzFM?...

🌊 Two new attacks on Friday:

IRGC: "From now on, the handling of offending vessels will not be limited to the Strait of Hormuz, and any vessel that passes through an unauthorized route will be pursued throughout the region, and its punishment will be certain."

🔴🇵🇸Over the past 24 hrs, 4 Palestinians were killed & 28 injured across Gaza, according to the Palestinian Min. of Health. The total recorded death toll since Oct. 7, 2023 is now 74,254 killed, w/ 175,306 injured. Since Oct. 11, 2025, the 1st full day of the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed...

On Oct. 7, 2026, residents in the northern Tigrayan town of Adigrat reported seeing truckloads of Eritrean soldiers moving deep into Ethiopian territory, escalating fears of direct cross-border warfare. When the leaders of Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan, & Somalia met in Egypt on Oct. 4 to coordinate...

⭕️ Hamas's Oct. 7 paraglider unit has roots in a 1987 operation, according to a new history by the research account Mujamma Haraket. That Nov., the PFLP-General Command flew motorized hang gliders from Lebanon into Israel and killed 6 soldiers. Yahya Sinwar later credited its leader, Ahmad Jibril...

⭕️ Jenin journalist Mujahed Al-Saadi, held for 22 months in admin. detention w/o charge, wrote for Drop Site about life inside Israel's Megiddo prison, where he lost nearly a 3rd of his body weight: “Megiddo prison consists of 10 sections. Each section contains 16 cells, with 10 prisoners held in...

🇵🇸 At least 92 Palestinians have died in Israeli torture prisons & military detention camps over the 3 years since the genocide began, according to a new report from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society & the Commission of Detainees' Affairs. That count covers... www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinia...

🇮🇷Iranian Pres. Masoud Pezeshkian said Mon. that negotiations w/ the US had become “futile,” accusing Washington of repeatedly attacking Iran following talks & seeking to bring down the Islamic Republic. “Every time we come to the negotiating table, war is immediately imposed upon us,” Pezeshkian...

The Saudi-backed offensive in Yemen has run aground: Yesterday the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), in coordination with Saudi Arabia, launched a counteroffensive called "Dawn of Yemen.” The first major op. of the counteroffensive was a charge by the Southern Giants Brigades...

⭕️ Why Norway? Starlink's satellite network is registered w/ the UN's Internat'l Telecom. Union (ITU) through Norway, w/ the US listed as an associated administration. That makes both gov'ts legally responsible for preventing unauthorized transmissions. Since 2023, the ITU's Radio Regulations...