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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt
❗️BREAKING❗️Israel will continue to ethnically cleanse Palestine by whatever means - bombs, hunger, terror - whatever the cost and whatever the crimes, until it is forced to stop. #EndGenocide #EndOccupation #EndApartheid
UN Special Procedures@UN_SPExperts

UN experts concerned by #Israel altering Jerusalem’s demographic composition, religious character & legal status. These acts constitute the ethnic cleansing of #Palestine, by whatever means, whatever the cost and whatever crimes it takes. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

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How much money is Trump and his cohorts making from betting on markets as they actively manipulate them? Polymarket saw $529 million traded on bets predicting when the US and Israel would conduct their first bombing campaign against Iran. Six newly created accounts made over $1 million profit, correctly predicting the first strike would happen on February 28. One account named “Magamyman” made over $515,000 by betting roughly $87,000 that the US would strike Iran by February 28 — the exact day it happened. Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket’s advisory board and his venture capital firm invested double-digit millions into the platform. The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office. Before Venezuela, a newly created Polymarket account invested over $30,000 betting on Maduro’s exit — hours before US forces captured him — netting roughly $400,000 profit, a 1,200% return in under 24 hours. When markets enable profiting from war, they create incentives to prolong it. When they enable profiting from diplomatic failure, they create incentives against peace. When classified information becomes tradeable, the entire decision-making apparatus of national security becomes vulnerable to corruption.
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“NATO’s Minefield Policy. America First.” Private Eye Magazine.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86

BREAKING: The United States says it has taken out Iran’s facilities threatening the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM released video of 5,000-pound bunker-buster penetrators hitting hardened coastal missile sites along Iran’s southern shoreline. Sixteen mine-laying vessels have been destroyed. Underground launch bunkers along the Gulf islands have been cratered. Anti-ship missile batteries that could target commercial tankers have been neutralised. The Pentagon says the threats to international shipping have been eliminated. And the strait is still closed. Shipping traffic through Hormuz has dropped 97 percent. The threats are gone. The closure is not. That gap between the military claim and the commercial reality is the story. The US destroyed the weapons that could sink a tanker. It did not destroy the reason no tanker will transit. Iran laid mines. The mines are still there. Iran declared a toll system requiring $2 million per passage through IRGC-controlled channels. The toll system is still operational. Iran fired on commercial vessels that attempted transit without payment. The precedent is still set. The coastal missile sites are rubble. The insurance premiums that prevent shipowners from entering the strait are not. A tanker captain does not check CENTCOM’s battle damage assessment before deciding whether to sail. He checks Lloyd’s of London. And Lloyd’s has not reclassified the strait. CENTCOM’s strikes were precise and devastating. The video shows penetrator munitions entering hardened bunkers and detonating underground, collapsing reinforced launch positions that took Iran years to build. The 16 mine-laying vessels include both active platforms and dormant hulls that could have been reactivated. Naval support facilities on Iran’s Gulf coast and islands have been systematically degraded alongside the 7,800 broader targets struck since February 28. This is not a symbolic campaign. It is the most thorough destruction of a nation’s coastal defence architecture since the 1991 Gulf War. But Hormuz is not a military problem with a military solution. It is an insurance problem, a mine-clearance problem, a trust problem, and a commercial confidence problem. The US can destroy every missile launcher on Iran’s coast and the strait remains closed until mine-clearance operations certify safe passage, until Lloyd’s lifts the war-risk exclusion zone, until protection and indemnity clubs agree to cover hulls transiting the waterway, and until shipowners calculate that the revenue from a loaded passage exceeds the risk of hitting an uncleared mine in a 21-mile channel that Iran has had three weeks to seed. The oil terminals on Kharg Island remain untouched. Trump said he spared them out of decency. Iran said touching them triggers the destruction of every allied energy facility in the Gulf. The US destroyed everything on Kharg that defends the oil and left everything that loads it. The coastal threats to Hormuz are gone. The structural threats to reopening it are not. The mines do not require a command structure. They do not require Mojtaba Khamenei to issue an order from a bunker nobody can locate. They sit on the seabed and wait. Trump told Europe, Japan, Korea and China to get involved. Twenty-three nations signed a statement pledging readiness. Greece fired a Patriot over Yanbu. But nobody has sent a mine countermeasure vessel into the strait. The threats CENTCOM destroyed were the threats that shoot. The threats that remain are the threats that float, drift, and detonate on contact. Those require not bombers but sweepers, not sorties but patience, and not 5,000-pound penetrators but the slowest, most tedious, most unglamorous naval operation in military history. The missiles are destroyed. The strait is closed. The mines are waiting. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده
She was a student. She carried books, not weapons. She raised her hands, not a threat. Dania Ersheid walked through a checkpoint in Hebron and never walked out. Witnesses heard her say, “I don’t have a knife.” They saw her hands raised. They saw her fall. She was left bleeding on the pavement near the Ibrahimi Mosque while medical help was delayed. Then a label arrived faster than an ambulance: “terrorist,” declared by Micky Rosenfeld. The checkpoint is surrounded by cameras. If the official version were true, the footage would exist. It has never been released. Dania’s killing is the "banality of cruelty" in its purest form. A frightened girl in a school uniform, gunned down and then branded a monster before her body was even cold. She should have gone home to her family. She should have had a future. Instead, she became a statistic in a system where Palestinian children are treated as disposable. Her name was Dania Ersheid. She was 17 years old. Killed in cold blood.
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