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🚨BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News’ @jeremyscahill.com

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BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News.

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3. Abdullah Barghouti

Born in 1972 in Kuwait, Abdullah Barghouti moved to Jordan after the Gulf War, where he earned a diploma in mechanics. He later studied electronic engineering in South Korea, where he also learned to manufacture explosives and gained advanced skills in computer and....

3. Abdullah Barghouti

Born in 1972 in Kuwait, Abdullah Barghouti moved to Jordan after the Gulf War, where he earned a diploma in mechanics. He later studied electronic engineering in South Korea, where he also learned to manufacture explosives and gained advanced skills in computer and communications hacking.

During the Second Intifada (2000), Barghouti became one of the most prominent engineers behind Palestinian resistance operations. He was briefly detained by the Palestinian Preventive Security, and after his release, continued organizing operations against Israeli occupation forces and settlements. Israel accuses him of responsibility for the deaths of 66 Israelis and injuries to over 500 others.

Barghouti was arrested by Israeli forces on March 5, 2003, and later sentenced to 67 life terms — the longest prison sentence in history. He spent 10 years in solitary confinement, subjected to severe psychological and physical torture. Over two decades in prison, his family has been allowed to visit him only six times. During the 2011 “Wafa al-Ahrar” (Gilad Shalit) exchange, he refused to be released, insisting that others who had been jailed longer be freed first.

In April 2025, his daughter Tala Barghouti revealed devastating new details from a lawyer’s recent visit, including that most of the bones in his body had been broken due to extreme beatings:

“The lawyer left the meeting with Abdullah Barghouti in tears, unable to describe the brutal torture she had witnessed. It was no ordinary visit—it was a human shock that encapsulated the suffering of a prisoner subjected to daily torture, with his dignity utterly crushed.”

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Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is one of the key American architects of Trump’s post-Gaza policy. In Aug. 2025, he briefed Trump on the plan he had been working on for several months w/ Tony Blair & Steve Witkoff to shape what the Trump team calls its “day-after” blueprint for Gaza...

Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is one of the key American architects of Trump’s post-Gaza policy. In August 2025, he briefed Trump on the plan he had been working on for several months with Tony Blair and Steve Witkoff to shape what the Trump team calls its “day-after” blueprint for Gaza. It’s worth revisiting how Kushner himself has spoken about the Strip.

At a Harvard Kennedy School event in early 2024, Kushner argued that Israel should “move the people out [of Rafah] and then clean it up,” describing Gaza as “not really a historical precedent” but the product of past wars whose borders could naturally change again. When told that Arab leaders feared Israel would never allow displaced Gazans to return, he replied, “Maybe, but I’m not sure there’s much left of Gaza at this point,” before describing the enclave as “waterfront property” which would be “very valuable.”

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Video: Gustavo Petro via X (@petrogustavo)

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President of Colombia:

Gustavo Petro via X (@petrogustavo): "Without killing anyone. Without firing missiles. 2.7 tons fall on a speedboat that was heading to Costa Rica through the Pacific Ocean, through which the vast majority of Colombian cocaine travels.

Five Colombians captured and alive."

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Israel’s Prime Minister and former Defense Minister are wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity — including using starvation as a weapon of war and deliberately directing attacks on civilians.

Israel has been found to have committed genocide in Gaza...

Israel’s Prime Minister and former Defense Minister are wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity — including using starvation as a weapon of war and deliberately directing attacks on civilians.

Israel has been found to have committed genocide in Gaza by a vast majority of genocide scholars, by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, several Israeli NGOs, and the UN Commission of Inquiry, the UN’s top investigative body.

And then there’s Jared Kushner — the man now leading the work on shaping Trump’s post-ceasefire Gaza policy:

Aaron Rupar via X (@atrupar): "Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: 'Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel.'"

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Video: Eye on Palestine via X (@EyeonPalestine)

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🔴 Watch: In Feb. 2025, Israel postponed the release of hundreds of Palestinian “prisoners” after 6 Israeli captives were freed, claiming Hamas held “degrading ceremonies” that “demeaned our hostages"...

Below: footage of Palestinians being rounded up in Israeli prisons ahead of this week’s release⬇️

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In February 2025, Israel postponed the release of hundreds of Palestinian “prisoners” after six Israeli captives were freed, claiming Hamas held “degrading ceremonies” that “demeaned our hostages.”

Western media echoed the outrage, calling the scenes — fighters handing captives to the Red Cross before cheering crowds — “savage.”

Below: footage of Palestinians being rounded up in Israeli prisons ahead of this week’s release 👇

Eye on Palestine via X (@EyeonPalestine): "Scenes document the abuse inflicted by the Israeli prison administration on Palestinian prisoners who are scheduled to be released as part of the exchange deal."

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Video: The Resonance via X (@Partisan_12)

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🇸🇮 Slovenia’s President and gov. have developed some of the strongest pro-Palestinian positions in Europe. The country officially recognized the State of Palestine in June 2024...

Slovenian President Nataša Pirc Musar was asked whether Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Her response 👇

🇸🇮 Slovenia’s President and government have developed some of the strongest pro-Palestinian positions in Europe.
The country officially recognized the State of Palestine in June 2024, becoming the 147th UN member to do so and formalizing diplomatic ties the following day. The government imposed sanctions including a ban on weapons exports to Israel and a ban on products from Israeli settlements. It has also declared top Israeli far-right ministers persona non grata and called for international measures in response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Slovenian President Nataša Pirc Musar was asked whether Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Her response 👇

The Resonance via X (@Partisan_12): "'Do you think President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?'

Slovenia's President, Nataša Pirc Musar: 'Francesca Albanese deserves the Peace Prize for this year'"

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In southern Lebanon, Israeli troops may no longer occupy towns on foot — but for residents, the war continues overhead and from nearby hilltops.

Drones patrol daily, striking without warning. Snipers stationed on Israeli-held ridges watch roads, rooftops, and fields.

Continued below ⬇️

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🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 151 killed (116 of whom were recovered from the rubble) and 72 injured arriving at hospitals.

This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 67,682 and 170,033 injuries (likely 3-5x higher).

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Photo: Courtneybonneauimages via X (@cbonneauimages)

Courtneybonneauimages via X (@cbonneauimages): "The second israeli attack on Lebanon in less than 12 hours. A drone strike has targeted a vehicle in Burj Qalaway.

This is what it’s like to live under occupation."

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🇱🇧 An Israeli drone strike hit a car on the outskirts of Kherbet Selem and Qalaway in southern Lebanon, killing one person. The two villages sit a few miles from the Israeli border in the Bint Jbeil district, which had been repeatedly targeted in cross-border strikes.

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Video: Suzie rizzio via X (@Suzierizzo1)

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The latest from ICE in Chicago:

Video below ⬇️

Suzie rizzio via X (@Suzierizzo1): "ICE agents just snatched a Journalist & were Speeding away when they hit a woman’s vehicle that was going to work & doing nothing wrong! They almost left the scene after slamming into her,but then snatched her out of her car at gunpoint and took her with them! 🤬"

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🔗 Full episode:

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Bari Weiss and the Israel narrative in the US | The Listening Post

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Drop Site’s @ryangrim.bsky.social spoke to Al Jazeera's The Listening Post (@AJListeningPost, X) about how billionaire Larry Ellison (Oracle founder & a top donor to Israel’s military) is buying up US media outlets to reshape coverage of Gaza and shore up Israel’s collapsing image among Americans.

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Video: Abdel Qader Sabbah (@AbdelSabbah91 on X)