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May 8, 2026, 12:25:16 AM (5 days ago) May 8
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The forgotten Rafah: Two years on, Ahmed Al-Najjar, Khan Yunis, 7 May 2026
It’s been two years since Israel invaded Gaza's southern city Rafah.The city is considered Gaza’s vital gateway to the outside world, but its very existence has been altered under sustained Israeli attacks. While already seizing more than 58% of the Gaza Strip in violation of the "ceasefire" in place, Israel's control of Rafah remains an exceptionally-suffocating one for Palestinians, controlling both their land and their lung to the outside world. Beyond the Israeli military lines and the flattened neighborhoods, the human cost of the occupation of Rafah continues to deepen for Palestinians.

The catastrophic impasse in Gaza is the new status quo, Qassam Muaddi, May 7 2026
Six months after the ceasefire that was supposed to end the war on Gaza, the Strip is frozen in a post-apocalyptic limbo. The genocidal war has not resumed full-force, but neither is reconstruction underway, and Israel continues to restrict the entry of aid into Gaza as food shortages return .. Gaza has never figured into Israel’s plans as a place whose people would be allowed to rebuild their lives. The reason is that Gaza remains a linchpin for its broader strategy for the region, one that is currently hitting a solid wall in Lebanon and Iran. Here’s how they’re all related .. it is more than obvious that things in both Iran and Lebanon did not go the way Israel had planned. And amid all this, Gaza has been pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities, frozen in a state of a broken “ceasefire” in which Israel continues to launch daily low-intensity attacks on Palestinians that claim lives on a daily basis, but without any of the international outrage that had accompanied Israel’s conduct during the previous two-and-a-half years .. 98% of Gazans remain displaced, more than 80% of housing units stand as piles of rubble, most civilian infrastructure remains decimated, and residents continue to suffer from a lack of medicine, food, and clean water, while infectious diseases are spreading among tent encampments. Moreover, the crossings into Gaza, which Israel was supposed to open as part of the deal, have largely remained closed. Meanwhile, the Israeli army has continued its airstrikes and artillery shellings across the Strip. Israeli forces regularly open fire on Palestinians near the “Yellow Line,” the invisible and supposedly temporary border that cuts Gaza roughly in half. The result is a death toll of 834 Palestinians and over 2,300 wounded since the ceasefire was reached .. Last Sunday, the Israeli security cabinet met to discuss the possible resumption of the war on Gaza .. as the wars in Lebanon and Iran developed, Gaza faded into the background, and Palestinians’ hopes of beginning to overcome the genocide faded as well .. israel lacks the capacity to go on and complete the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, especially with international criticism mounting and the army engaged in other never-ending fronts. The result? A continuation of the current dystopian, post-apocalyptic reality in Gaza.

How Iran war is frustrating the US-Israeli push to disarm Gaza resistance The Electronic Intifada, 8 May 2026
Seven months ago, Israel signed onto a ceasefire framework. The Palestinian resistance would return all living and dead Israeli prisoners of war and captives. In return, Israel was supposed to stop its genocidal assault on Gaza, end the daily massacres of civilians, withdraw its forces, allow large-scale humanitarian aid, reopen the Rafah crossing and let a Palestinian-run civilian administration begin operating. The Palestinian resistance factions upheld their side of the agreement, returning all Israelis. Israel predictably violated it. That reality is worlds away from the fanfare surrounding the so-called Board of Peace and the AI-generated fantasy of a gleaming future for Gaza promoted after the ceasefire was announced. Since then, the US and Israel have been working behind the scenes to impose a new formula on the Palestinians through Nickolay Mladenov, a former UN official who now serves as director-general of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace and its so-called High Representative for Gaza. We speak with Muhammad Shehada, who has obtained two key documents Mladenov sent to the Palestinian resistance factions laying out hardline Israeli demands. Shehada is a writer and political analyst from Gaza and a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Suffocating Gaza: US blacklists more humanitarian organizations, Motea Abumsabeh, Deir al-Balah, 7 May 2026
More than two and half years of genocidal and devastating war on Gaza, the United States has kept aligning with the policy of the aggressive Israeli regime. Despite claiming to be a defender of human rights*, Washington has blacklisted more humanitarian organizations, forcing them to halt their relief efforts in Gaza. The move highlights the extent of the US involvement in the ongoing catastrophe in the besieged Palestinian territory.
(* This country, founded on genocide and extermination, built by extreme slave labour, poses as a defender of human rights, and even hands out an annual report card evaluating its victims. Most puzzling is how millions of ThirdWorlders have lost all self-respect and have turned into its running dogs)
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US destroyers flee Strait of Hormuz after massive Iranian missile and drone barrage: IRGC Navy, 7 May 2026
The IRGC Navy says its forces inflicted significant damage on US naval assets in a large-scale combined operation on Thursday evening, forcing three American destroyers to flee the Strait of Hormuz .. Facing the devastating and precise Iranian firepower, three aggressor enemy vessels "fled the Strait of Hormuz area immediately" 
Islamic Resistance's operation targeting a newly established artillery bunker belonging to the “Israeli” enemy in Rabb Thalathine town in southern Lebanon with a swarm of loitering drones,  7 May 2026 https://x.com/manarenglish/status/2052322396992897204
Islamic Resistance's operation targeting a gathering of vehicles and soldiers belonging to the “Israeli” enemy at the newly established Nemer Al-Jamal site opposite to Alma Al-Shaab town in southern Lebanon with a swarm of loitering drones. May 7 2026
Islamic Resistance's operation targeting a gathering of “Israeli” enemy soldiers in Aita Al-Shaab town in southern Lebanon with a loitering drone, May 7 2026
Islamic Resistance operation on 06-05-2026 targeting an Israeli enemy "Namera" armored personnel carrier in the town of Qouzah, southern Lebanon, with a loitering glider, May 7 2026  https://x.com/manarenglish/status/2052423491840860194
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Why Ethan Klein and So many Israelis HATE Living in Israel, The Kavernacle, 7 May 2026  
People are leaving Israel in record numbers as the economy tanks and the cost of living goes through the roof.  In this follow up video we discuss the reasons why and why you don't often here negative things about Israel in western media.
".. I get the feeling sometimes that it is cleaner in goddamn shit butt fuck cancer India .."


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