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Footage has emerged of an Israeli drone killing an injured man after he survived an Israeli air strike in Lebanon. He covers his face as the drone approaches before it explodes and his body parts fly apart.

Hillary Clinton on Morning Joe: “I know from personal experience how Netanyahu has tried to get every American president to agree to have an open-ended war with Iran, because I had many, many long hours-long conversations with him and his war cabinet about this.”

This week, I will be forcing a vote on legislation to block the sale of nearly half a billion dollars worth of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli military. The extremist Netanyahu government that has committed genocide in Gaza does not need more military support from American taxpayers.

Footage from fatal shooting of Palestinian by reservist shows he was shot in the back while trying to flee timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

Only 9 trucks of humanitarian aid were allowed by Israel to Gaza yesterday instead of 600 according to the ceasefire agreement. In General Israel is allowing only 20% of the agreed number of trucks (600). While Gaza needs 1000 trucks daily.

As the dust settles following more than five weeks of sustained U.S. combat operations against Iran, we now have the clearest picture yet of the toll taken on American aircraft during Epic Fury. After flying more than 13,000 sorties, the U.S. lost at least 39 aircraft throughout the 39-day operation, with another 10 damaged to various degrees. America’s drone fleet absorbed the heaviest losses, accounting for more than 60% of total combat attrition. Up to 24 USAF MQ-9A Reaper drones were destroyed, according to the latest reporting from @JimLaPorta and CBS. Five fighters were downed while in the air, four F-15E Strike Eagles and one A-10 Warthog. An F-35A was hit over Iranian airspace, marking the first known combat damage to a 5th-generation fighter, but the pilot made an emergency landing safely. 20% of attrition was due to friendly fire, including three F-15Es shot down over Kuwait, or the deliberate destruction of assets to prevent capture during a combat search and rescue mission in Iranian territory. Some losses, however, will be felt more than others, such as the prized E-3G Sentry that was totally destroyed. Take a closer look here: twz.com/air/operation-…

@Why_dieFrage @goldi @ZDFheute 🧵 The 20k-IDF figure is uselessely evil. Here a thread of diverse sources for proving Israels use of free fire zones where EVERY MALE who is killed is counted as terrorist (including unarmed civilians): 1. x.com/arictoler/stat…

More evidence (from @haaretzcom, a 2025 article I missed) that attests to what we already know: the IDF intentionally and systematically shot children in Gaza.* How it worked: before IDF ground troops operated in an area, Israel issued evacuation orders. Those who didn't evacuate, including little kids, could be and were deliberately shot. The evacuation orders by the way were not humanitarian in motive, but designed to protect IDF soldiers. It was much safer for them to operate in sparsely populated evacuated zones than it would've been in densely populated areas. Eventually, IDF 'kill zones' comprised the majority of territory in Gaza. Today, everything past the so-called 'yellow line' in Gaza is a kill zone. During the cease fire, the IDF has murdered unarmed little kids who wandered past the Yellow Line and called them "terroists." This is how Hind Rajab and her family were murdered too. They were trying to escape from an Israeli-designated kill zone. They were shot deliberately. * Some commanders on the ground individually vetoed the killing of women and young children, others permitted it. The higher ups sanctioned it in any case.

The Fox clip below is an example of the Israeli influenced media echo chamber- President Trump’s policy for Iran has always been “No Nuclear Weapons”, not zero enrichment (see Truth post). The Israelis want zero enrichment b/c it is nearly impossible to enforce, is a non starter for Iran & requires regime change. No Nuclear weapons is obtainable & POTUS’s redline, zero enrichment is an Israeli/Neocon ploy to force conflict. x.com/allenanalysis/…

1. Yesterday I presented new research on what I'm calling the "demographic fingerprints" of armed conflict — and what they reveal about Gaza.

💥@CBSNews explains the chaos in ceasefire implementation: Trump was told the ceasefire applied to the whole Middle East, including Lebanon. This was transmitted to mediators. The US position reportedly shifted after a call from Netanyahu.

At the inauguration of a new illegal settlement, Israel's Finance Minister Smotrich lays out his vision for a Greater Israel: “There will be expansion in Gaza that will extend our borders. In Lebanon, to the Litani, in Syria, Mount Hermon, parts of the north, south, and east.”

NEW: Between October 2023 and December 2024, the Israeli army ran a covert psy-op aimed at shaping public opinion in Israel and abroad, originating from the “campaigns” division of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, @ha_makom recently revealed. 🧵

Never more true than now

Israel Hayom, the Adelson family’s newspaper, bemoans that the failure in Iran will “make it harder for Israel to enlist Washington again” in future wars israelhayom.com/2026/04/08/isr…

Tucker: It’s time to establish a healthy relationship where Israel can pay its own bills, fund its own military, and act within the constraints imposed by its own economy and population. That’s what normal countries do. Most countries live with neighbors that don’t like them, with whom they have testy relationships, but they make accommodations because they have no choice. There’s no country in the world that acts with total impunity because it knows a much larger country will backstop it no matter what it does. That just doesn’t exist in the natural world, because it’s not natural.

Israel has a clear pattern: whenever diplomacy shows even a glimmer of resolving conflicts peacefully, it moves to derail the talks. In his memoir "Bibi: My Story", Netanyahu openly admits that when Obama signed the JCPOA he "vowed to do everythig to roll it back". “I attacked the deal mercilessly, calling it a capitulation and a mistake of historic proportions”, he admits. "I went for the jugular"! The same pattern is on full display now. Israel’s recent vicious attack on Lebanon - right in the middle of a ceasefire which DID include Lebanon - follows the exact playbook. Israel did it with Obama. It’ll try to do it with Trump too. Whenever diplomacy appears to work, he goes for the jugular!

No great surprise. Netanyahu talked Trump into the disastrous war in Iran. We cannot allow Israel to continue shaping U.S. military and foreign policy. Next week I will be offering a resolution to stop U.S. military aid to Israel.

Every single Trump advisor is now - off the record - telling the @nytimes they were opposed Netanyahu's argument for the Iran war. THAT'S how well the war is going. Ratcliffe: "Farcical." Rubio: “It’s bullshit” Caine: "Standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell." Wiles: against "being dragged into another war in the Middle East." Cheung: "How would they explain away eight months of insisting that Iranian nuclear facilities had been totally obliterated?"

Again, I see zero benefit in, as a Democratic lawmaker, chiding Trump for "chickening out" when he struck a diplomatic deal to cease hostilities. Would Dems really rather score a point on Trump than prevent the nuclear war and genocide he threatened this morning?