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Atef Al-Buhaisi, 6, once dreamed of a career building houses. Now, all he craves is to return to school. In Israel’s war with Hamas, Atef’s home has been bombed, his teacher killed and his school in Nuseirat turned into a refuge for displaced people. He lives in a cramped tent with his family in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, where he sleeps clinging to his grandmother and fears walking alone even during the day. Since the war erupted Oct. 7, all of Gaza’s schools have closed — leaving hundreds of thousands of students like Atef without formal schooling or a safe place to spend their days. Aid groups are scrambling to keep children off the streets and their minds focused on something other than the war, as heavy fighting continues across the enclave and has expanded into the southern city of Rafah and intensified in the north. “What we’ve lost most is the future of our children and their education,” said Irada Ismael, Atef’s grandmother. “Houses and walls are rebuilt, money can be earned again ... but how do I compensate for (his) education?” Gaza faces a humanitarian crisis, with the head of the U.N.'s World Food Program determining a “full-blown famine” is already underway in the north. More than 35,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its figures. About 80% of Gaza’s population has been driven from homes. Much of Gaza is damaged or destroyed, including nearly 90% of school buildings, according to aid group estimates. https://apnews.com/article/gaza-education-schools-closed-israel-hamas-war-9f8aecc7f91db017e69b4c4a4c0d299d Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Israeli army launches attacks across Gaza, including in Jabalia camp in the north, as humanitarian crisis deepens. Israeli forces have continued to bombard the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, where Israel’s military offensive is deepening a humanitarian crisis in the already ravaged part of the Palestinian enclave. Hamas said on Friday that its fighters were battling invading Israeli troops in the narrow alleyways of Jabalia – the Gaza Strip’s largest refugee camp – in some of the fiercest confrontations since soldiers returned to the area a week ago. Israeli forces have stepped up their attacks on northern Gaza in recent days, displacing more than 100,000 people, according to United Nations figures. Residents said Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles had moved deep into the heart of Jabalia while bulldozers were demolishing homes and shops. Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said the Palestinian Civil Defence said at least 93 bodies were recovered within 24 hours from the “streets and the alleyways” of Jabalia. “They are saying there are still more bodies in areas that they are unable to reach,” Mahmoud said. Meanwhile, fighting between Palestinian armed groups and the Israeli military was also reported in other parts of the coastal territory. Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, the al-Quds Brigades, said on Friday that their fighters shelled an Israeli “command post” in the south part of Gaza City. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/17/israel-pounds-gaza-as-un-urges-opening-of-land-crossings-for-aid-deliveries Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

The Biden administration struggles to respond as two allies battle over who should control Gaza's lifeline. The deepening spat between Egypt and Israel over Rafah’s shuttered border crossing is putting the Biden administration in a bind, as the minor progress it made increasing humanitarian aid into Gaza slows to a snail's pace. For months, the Biden administration has said it is prioritising surging more humanitarian aid into Gaza. While the amount of aid reaching Gaza had been minimal compared to before Israel’s invasion of the besieged enclave, US officials and aid workers had noted some small gains in deliveries. The number of aid trucks entering Gaza had nearly doubled from 2,545 in the month of November to 5,671 in April, according to the UN. That amount was just 37 percent of the number of trucks entering Gaza before the war broke out on 7 October, when 80 percent of Gaza’s population relied on aid. But with the closing of Rafah’s border crossing, the situation has deteriorated further. This week, the World Food Programme warned that the “modest progress” made in boosting aid deliveries was at risk and that famine “never loomed larger” in the enclave. The UN agency said it hasn’t been able to access its warehouses in Rafah for more than a week because of the fighting there. The focal point of the crisis is Rafah, the southern Gaza border town where over a million Palestinians are sheltered, and the Strip's main outlet for aid through its crossing with Egypt. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-on-gaza-israel-egypt-rafah-spat-puts-biden-bind Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Resolution does not give Palestine full UN membership, but recognises them as qualified to join and extends rights. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has backed a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by recognising it as qualified to join and recommending the UN Security Council “reconsider the matter favourably”. The vote by the 193-member UNGA on Friday was a global survey of support for the Palestinian bid to become a full UN member – a move that would effectively recognise a Palestinian state – after the United States vetoed it in the UN Security Council last month. The assembly adopted a resolution on Friday with 143 votes in favour and nine against – including the US and Israel – while 25 countries abstained. It does not give the Palestinians full UN membership, but simply recognises them as qualified to join. The UNGA resolution “determines that the State of Palestine … should therefore be admitted to membership” and it “recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter favourably”. While the UNGA alone cannot grant full UN membership, the draft resolution on Friday will give the Palestinians some additional rights and privileges from September 2024 – like a seat among the UN members in the assembly hall – but it will not be granted a vote in the body. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/10/un-general-assembly-backs-palestinian-bid-for-membership Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Japan calls US president’s remarks ‘unfortunate’, while India says it’s open to immigrants. India and Japan have rejected President Joe Biden’s remarks calling the US allies “xenophobic” countries who do not welcome immigrants, and grouping the two nations with China and Russia. India’s Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the country has historically been open to immigrants and is on strong economic footing, The Economic Times newspaper reported on Saturday. “First of all, our economy is not faltering,” Jaishankar said at a roundtable hosted by The Economic Times on Friday, after Biden said the four nations were failing to capitalise on the economic benefits of migration. “I think we should be open to people who have the need to come to India, who have a claim to come to India,” Jaishankar added, pointing to a contentious citizenship law that fast-tracks naturalisation for some non-Muslim immigrants. Japan, which has the lowest immigrant population of any Group of Seven (G7) nation at less than 2 percent, also took issue with the US president’s comments, its embassy in Washington, DC, describing them as “unfortunate” and “not based on an accurate understanding of Japan’s policies”. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/4/india-japan-dismiss-bidens-xenophobic-comment Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Many have paid vast sums in bribes to flee the besieged Palestinian territory but their legal status in Egypt means they have few means of supporting themselves. For the past seven months, the overwhelming majority of Palestinians in Gaza have been trapped in the besieged territory, trying to avoid the wrath of the Israeli military. More than 34,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed by the Israeli military since October. Besides bullets and bombs, the people of Gaza are also suffering from the effects of Israel’s siege on the territory, which has severely reduced the flow of food, medicine and other essentials. Those who can afford to - and can live with the prospect of never being able to return to their homes - have passed through the Egyptian border and are now seeking refuge there. While no exact number is available, thousands of Palestinians have fled to Egypt since the war started. Many were able to move to other countries but those without visas to travel onward have remained in Egypt. The majority of Palestinians from Gaza in Egypt made their way there for medical treatment, while others are students, dual Palestinian-Egyptian nationals, and residents who could afford the thousands of dollars in bribes to make their exit from the besieged strip. But reaching the safety of the neighbouring Arab state is no guarantee that their struggles are over. For many Palestinians, it is the start of a new kind of hardship, with their conditions worsening due to the absence of help from both the Egyptian state and international organisations. Middle East Eye has spoken to a number of Palestinians in Egypt, who have requested that pseudonyms be used, as revealing their identities could imperil their continued presence in the country. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-palestinians-egypt-struggle-survive-after-fleeing-israeli-attacks Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Julian Assange started his WikiLeaks whistleblowing website on a quest for “radical transparency and truth,” a mission that turned an already polarizing personality into a notorious character and earned him crusaders and critics in equal measure. The long-running battle for his extradition to the United States continued this month, with US lawyers providing the UK High Court with a series of assurances around the 52-year-old WikiLeaks founder’s First Amendment rights and that he would not receive the death penalty if he were handed over. Those are set to be reviewed at a fresh hearing on May 20. It has been 12 years since the embattled Australian has been able to walk freely. He’s spent the past five years in London’s high-security Belmarsh prison and nearly seven years before that holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in the English capital, trying to avoid arrest. He faces life imprisonment in the US for publishing hundreds of thousands of sensitive military and government documents supplied by former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning more than a dozen years ago. But recently there has been increased pressure for Assange’s case to be dismissed. Just this month, President Joe Biden offered Assange’s supporters a glimmer of hope saying his administration was “considering” a request from Australia to drop its charges against the WikiLeaks founder. The remarks were described as an “encouraging” signal by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who added that Assange had “already paid a significant price” and “enough is enough.” https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/27/europe/julian-assange-profile-intl-cmd/index.html Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

A Human Rights Watch report on Thursday accused the military of executing residents in Nodin and Soro, including at least 56 children. The HRW report on Thursday accused the military of executing residents of Nodin and Soro, including at least 56 children, as part of a campaign against civilians accused of collaborating with rebel fighters. The New York-based group said its report was based on telephone interviews with witnesses, civil society and others. “The government of Burkina Faso strongly rejects and condemns such baseless accusations,” Communications Minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo said in a statement late on Saturday. “The killings at Nodin and Soro led to the opening of a legal inquiry,” he said. The minister expressed his surprise that “while this inquiry is under way to establish the facts and identify the authors, HRW has been able, with boundless imagination, to identify ‘the guilty’ and pronounce its verdict”. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/28/burkina-faso-says-hrw-massacre-accusations-baseless Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will step up efforts to secure a truce in Gaza when he arrives in the Middle East on Monday, in what could be a final chance to persuade Israel to call off an attack on the southern city of Rafah. “If there’s a deal, we will suspend the operation” in Rafah, Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Channel 12 on Saturday as the Israeli military continued to make preparations for an offensive. Egypt is stepping up efforts at mediation to secure an agreement between Israel and Hamas leading to a ceasefire in exchange for the release of hostages, but the two sides remain far apart. A Hamas official has said its delegation plans to respond to the latest truce plan on Monday, Agence France Presse reported. Blinken is traveling to Saudi Arabia for two days to meet regional counterparts and then onto Israel, according to US and Israeli media. It’s the top US diplomat’s seventh Middle East trip since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-28/us-pushes-for-last-chance-of-gaza-ceasefire-as-blinken-visits?srnd=homepage-uk&embedded-checkout=true Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Aharon Haliva is first Israeli official to take responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas attack or recent Iranian counterstrike. The head of Israeli military intelligence has resigned for failing to prevent the October 7 Hamas attack. The Israeli army announced the departure of Major-General Aharon Haliva on Monday. He is the first senior Israeli official to take responsibility for failing to prevent the assault, with the government seeking to keep the focus on its ongoing war in Gaza. Haliva, who served in the military for 38 years, reportedly took responsibility for failing to prevent the attack in his resignation letter. More than 1,100 people were killed in the attack, while about 240 were taken captive. “Major General Aharon Haliva, in coordination with the chief of the general staff, has requested to end his position, following his leadership responsibility as the head of the intelligence directorate for the events of October 7,” the military said in a statement. With the approval of Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, the military statement said, it was decided that Haliva “will end his position and retire” from the army “once his successor is appointed in an orderly and professional process”. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/22/israels-military-intelligence-chief-resigns-over-october-7-attack Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Israel has not informed UN agency of any concrete concerns relating to staff since 2011, independent review finds. Israeli authorities have not provided "any supporting evidence" to back up allegations that United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees employees are members of groups that attacked Israel on 7 October, a review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said. The Colonna report, which was commissioned by the UN to look at Unrwa's operations and policies in the wake of Israel's allegations and will be released on Monday, said Israeli authorities have not responded to letters Unrwa in March and April requesting names and evidence in order to open an investigation. The Israeli government, according to the independent review, "has not informed Unrwa of any concrete concerns relating to Unrwa staff since 2011". In late January, Israel accused 12 Unrwa employees of participating in the 7 October attack on Israel in which 1,200 people were killed. As a result of the allegations, Unrwa terminated the contracts of 10 of the employees (two were confirmed dead) and 16 countries paused or froze their financial contributions to the agency, amounting to around 50 percent of the agency's budget for the year. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-has-not-provided-any-supporting-evidence-unrwa-over-hamas-allegations-report-finds Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Israeli leaders on Sunday harshly criticized an expected decision by the U.S. to impose sanctions on a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers in the Israeli military. The decision, expected as soon as Monday, would mark the first time the U.S. has imposed sanctions on a unit inside the Israeli military and would further strain relations between the two allies, which have grown increasingly tense during Israel’s war in Gaza. While U.S. officials declined to identify the unit expected to be sanctioned, Israeli leaders and local media identified it as Netzah Yehuda — an infantry battalion founded roughly a quarter of a century ago to incorporate ultra-Orthodox men into the military. Many religious men receive exemptions from what is supposed to be compulsory service. Israeli leaders condemned the anticipated decision as unfair, especially at a time when Israel is at war, and vowed to oppose it. “If anyone thinks they can impose sanctions on a unit in the IDF, I will fight it with all my might,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netzah Yehuda, or Judea Forever, has historically been based in the occupied West Bank and some of its members have been linked to abuses against Palestinians. It makes up just a small part of Israel’s military presence in the territory. The unit came under heavy American criticism in 2022 after an elderly Palestinian-American man was found dead shortly after he was detained at a West Bank checkpoint. A Palestinian autopsy said Omar Assad, 78, had underlying health conditions, but had suffered a heart attack caused by “external violence.” It said doctors found bruises on his head, redness on his wrists from being bound and bleeding in his eyelids from being tightly blindfolded. A military investigation said that Israeli soldiers assumed that Assad was asleep when they cut off the cables binding his hands. They didn’t offer medical help when they saw that he was unresponsive and left the scene without checking to see if he was alive. https://apnews.com/article/israel-us-army-palestinians-west-bank-gaza-dd18e8ebf07b937bdad09ce9b56bd0cf Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

The attacks come a day after hundreds of settlers stormed al-Mughayyir village, killing one Palestinian and wounding 25 others. Israeli settlers on Saturday attacked villages in the occupied West Bank, wounding several Palestinians and setting fire to houses and cars, under full protection from the Israeli army. The rampage came a day after hundreds of settlers, many of them armed, stormed the village al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, after an Israeli teenager from a nearby settlement disappeared on Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said the missing Israeli teenager was found dead in the West Bank. Barakat Dawabsha, a resident of Duma, south of Nablus, told Middle East Eye that more than 500 armed settlers attacked the village from the northern, western and southern sides. He said that several people were wounded by live bullets, and dozens of homes and vehicles were burned. The settlers also attacked people with batons and stones, causing more injuries. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/one-palestinian-killed-dozens-wounded-settler-attack-west-bank Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Hungary will use its veto power if necessary once it assumes the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. The country is scheduled to take over the Council on 1 July, succeeding Belgium. As presidency holder, Hungary will be in charge of setting the political agenda, moderating talks among member states and representing the institution vis-a-vis the European Parliament and the European Commission. This prospect has fuelled fears that the country will disregard the role of "honest broker" and abuse the position to stall, block or simply ignore key files that it views unfavourably, such as support for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia. According to Zoltán Kovács, the government's international spokesperson, who is coordinating the upcoming presidency, Hungary will not withhold issues from the common agenda but will nevertheless make its voice heard. "We know what it means to be an honest broker," Kovács said on Thursday during a briefing with journalists, attended by Euronews. "We know our role and duties concerning the presidency, but it doesn't mean that Hungary is not going to speak out for its own position." Since Vladimir Putin decided to launch its all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Hungary has outraged its fellow countries by extensively using its veto power to derail collective decisions and extract concessions. This has been the case in the EU ban on Russian oil, the blacklisting of Patriarch Kirill and the €50-billion special fund for Ukraine. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/04/11/hungary-wont-rule-out-using-veto-during-eu-council-presidency Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Israel pledged that it will “exact a price” from Iran as the country weighs its response to an unprecedented overnight barrage of drone and missile strikes while facing international pressure to de-escalate. The overnight attack – which saw Tehran launch a series of strikes at Israel over a five-hour period – threatens to tip the crisis in the Middle East into an untempered regional war. Israel’s war cabinet has been authorized to respond to the attack and met on Sunday, with one of its members, Benny Gantz, saying the “event is not over.” He cited the need to “build a regional coalition and exact a price from Iran, in a way and at a time that suits us.” Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant earlier said Israel had “thwarted this attack in a way that is unparalleled” but added “we must be prepared for every scenario.” In his first comments, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “we have intercepted, we have contained. Together we shall win.” An Israeli official separately told CNN that Israel will respond to Iran’s attack, but the scope of that attack has yet to be decided. The official said Israel is yet to determine whether to try and “break all the dishes” or do something more measured. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/14/middleeast/israel-iran-attack-response-intl/index.html Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Despite rulings in European courts saying the Baltic country was home to a secret prison, the issue has been shrouded in official secrecy in a nation closely allied with the United States. First came containers loaded with equipment for a secluded property under renovation on the edge of the forest. It had housed a horseback riding academy and a cafe, but was being reconfigured for a mysterious enterprise. Then muscular young men appeared, jogging through the trees at strange hours and speaking to one another in English. Juozas Banevicius, who watched the comings and goings in the tiny settlement of Antaviliai, Lithuania, nearly 20 years ago, recalled thinking it a bit odd that the newcomers would shoo away anyone who came close to the security fence they had put up around their property, which was previously open to the public. “Nobody knew what they were doing inside,” recalled Mr. Banevicius, 66. The answer has been subjected to intense news media and judicial scrutiny in the years since. It has all pointed to the same conclusion: The village of Antaviliai was home to a secret C.I.A. detention and torture center, one of three so-called black sites that the agency set up in Eastern Europe after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/world/europe/cia-black-site-lithuania.html Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Seoul and Pyongyang are in a race to put more reconnaissance satellites into orbit amid rising tensions on the peninsula. South Korea has successfully launched its second military reconnaissance satellite, days after North Korea reiterated its intention to launch multiple spy satellites this year. The satellite entered orbit after its launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the John F Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the United States on Sunday, South Korea’s National Ministry of Defense said. Seoul’s military said in a statement that its “independent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities have been further strengthened” by the successful launch. “We will proceed with future satellite launches without a hitch,” it added. The Falcon 9 rocket was launched at 23:17 GMT and the satellite successfully separated from the launch vehicle 45 minutes later and entered its targeted orbit, according to the statement. It made successful communications with a ground station about two hours and 40 minutes after the launch, the ministry added. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/8/south-korea-puts-second-military-spy-satellite-successfully-into-orbit Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Israel’s military announced Sunday it had withdrawn its forces from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, wrapping up a key phase in its ground offensive against the Hamas militant group and bringing its troop presence in the territory to one of the lowest levels since the six-month war began. But defense officials said troops were merely regrouping as the army prepares to move into Hamas’ last stronghold, Rafah. “The war in Gaza continues, and we are far from stopping,” said the military chief, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi. Local broadcaster Channel 13 TV reported that Israel was preparing to begin evacuating Rafah within one week and the process could take several months. Still, the withdrawal was a milestone as Israel and Hamas marked six months of fighting. Military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity under army policy, said a “significant force” remained in Gaza to continue targeted operations including in Khan Younis, hometown of the Hamas leader, Yehya Sinwar. https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-news-04-07-2024-5257a90302686de80788469f74aab40c Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Iran tipped off Russia about the possibility of a major "terrorist operation" on its soil ahead of the concert hall massacre near Moscow last month, three sources familiar with the matter said. In the deadliest attack inside Russia in 20 years, gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers on March 22 at the Crocus City Hall, killing at least 144 people in violence claimed by the Islamic State militant group. The United States had also warned Russia in advance of a likely militant Islamist attack but Moscow, deeply distrustful of Washington's intentions, played down that intelligence. It is harder, however, for Russia to dismiss intelligence from diplomatic ally Iran on the attack, which has also raised questions over the effectiveness of Russian security services. Moscow and Tehran, both under Western sanctions, have deepened military and other cooperation during the two-year Ukraine war. "Days before the attack in Russia, Tehran shared information with Moscow about a possible big terrorist attack inside Russia that was acquired during interrogations of those arrested in connection with deadly bombings in Iran," one of the sources told Reuters. Iran arrested 35 people in January, including a commander of Islamic State's Afghanistan-based branch ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K), who it said were linked to twin bombings on Jan. 3 in the city of Kerman that killed nearly 100 people. https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-alerted-russia-security-threat-before-moscow-attack-sources-say-2024-04-01/ Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

‘Combat’ or ‘kill’ zones designed to target fighters have indiscriminately targeted civilians who enter these zones. The Israeli army has created “kill zones” that have targeted and indiscriminately killed civilians in the Gaza Strip, according to a new report. Senior army officials and soldiers who have served on the frontlines confirmed to Haaretz that its forces had killed civilians and later claimed they were terrorists because they were in a particular area designated as a so-called "combat zone". “It's astonishing to hear the reports after every operation regarding how many terrorists were killed," a senior officer within the army’s southern command told Haaretz. “You don't need to be a genius to realise that you don't have hundreds or dozens of armed men running through the streets of Khan Younis or Jabaliya, fighting the IDF." Officers also admitted to Haaretz that some of the Palestinians killed in so-called “combat” or “kill” zones may have been going back to their homes or searching for food as fears of a famine in northern Gaza continue to mount. The soldiers explained to Haaretz that the “combat” zone is where a group of soldiers set up inside an abandoned house, with the surrounding area designated as a combat zone. The soldiers then use observation posts outside the Gaza Strip to observe the area and determine what is deemed a danger. The boundaries for each zone, however, are subject to interpretation by the commanding officer in that specific area. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-army-created-kill-zones-kill-unarmed-palestinian-civilians Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Sudan’s warring parties are using food as a weapon and targeting local activists for feeding their communities. On March 23, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) arrested activists from the Sharq al-Nile neighbourhood in the war-torn capital, Khartoum, while they were supervising soup kitchens feeding thousands of hungry people every day. The recent arrests in Khartoum are only part of a broader strategy of the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) – who are fighting for power in the country – to clamp down on civil society actors by arresting volunteers, limiting access to aid and obstructing the arrival of relief, according to local volunteers and aid groups. “More arrests could affect the many poor people who depend on the [soup kitchens] to survive,” Musab Mahjoub, a human rights monitor in Sharq al-Nile, told Al Jazeera as a nationwide famine looms. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/4/1/are-sudans-civil-society-activists-being-targeted-by-both-warring-sides Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Dozens of migrants found in a wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea between northern Africa and southern Europe have been transported to the Greek island of Crete, Greece’s coast guard said Monday. Crete has recently seen a rise in migrant arrivals from Libya, which Greece’s government promised Monday to address with more funding and extra coast guard personnel. The boat with 74 people on board was found late Sunday 25 nautical miles (46 kilometers, 29 miles) south of the small Greek island of Gavdos on Sunday night, the coast guard said, adding that a patrol boat transported the 73 men and one woman to Crete. It was not immediately clear where or when the boat had launched or what countries the passengers were from. No injuries or illnesses were reported among them. They were taken to a temporary shelter. Greece is a major entry point into the European Union for people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. https://apnews.com/article/greece-migrants-mediterranean-africa-crete-f14fae745c215334956c5f572fe1652c Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

A woman hustles her young child into a waiting car, half-dragging him as she shields his eyes. Other family members follow with heavy suitcases, averting their eyes too. They’re leaving the city, even though the drive through gang-controlled roads is risky. The reason lies in the street before their house: A burned corpse; the remains of a suspected gang member killed by their neighbors. His knees are bent and torso pitched forward as if in supplication, metal wires wrapped around the charred flesh. This is the fourth such corpse CNN has seen in two days. Just up the hill, another mother is rushing toward a waiting helicopter holding her infant. Eyewitnesses tell CNN that she left her car seat behind, urged to move quickly by armed guards. The unauthorized helicopter landing is attracting attention; video of the flight shows a fight breaking out on the ground as the chopper lifts off. They’re fleeing anarchy. Until yesterday, people like these were the holdouts; the ones who had a choice but stayed until Port-au-Prince became unbearable. Now even they are leaving amid an unprecedented frenzy of terror in the Caribbean nation. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/21/americas/haiti-council-gang-intl-latam/index.html Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Port Said governor defends the demolition of El-Gameel neighbourhood as part of development plans. But residents and legal experts have another story to tell. On a sunny spring day in Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Port Said, a woman stood on the top floor of her home, watching as a bulldozer demolished it, balcony by balcony. “I still cannot believe that I am alive. The house could have collapsed and I would have died,” Ragaa Muharram Ali, a medical scan specialist, told Middle East Eye, a week after a video documenting the incident went viral online. “But even if I survived, being forcibly evicted from my family’s home is like taking my life away,” she added. On Thursday 14 March, the house was fully demolished. Ragaa is among hundreds of residents of El-Gameel neighbourhood in Port Said, whose homes have been razed or are slated for imminent removal to pave way for investments on the prime beachfront land. The demolition began in early February and continues unabated as of the time of this report. According to the residents who spoke with MEE, 290 homes were demolished and approximately 25 homes remain, whose owners await the same fate. The El-Gameel neighbourhood in western Port Said was built in 1978, when the governorate allocated 317 pieces of land located directly on the Mediterranean coast, 10km from the city, to alleviate pressure on other overpopulated parts of the governorate, according to the El-Gameel Environmental Protection and Development Association. The residents built their homes on the land with their own funds, with permits from the governorate, under a usufruct arrangement. They also collaborated to introduce facilities at their own expense without government support, according to three residents who spoke to MEE. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-forcibly-evicted-residents-mediterranean-el-gameel-sell-land-port-said Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Mexico’s president said Friday he won’t fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs. Over the years, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has laid out various justifications for his “hugs, not bullets” policy of avoiding clashes with the cartels. In the past he has said “you cannot fight violence with violence,” and on other occasions he has argued the government has to address “the causes” of drug cartel violence, ascribing them to poverty or a lack of opportunities. But on Friday, while discussing his refusal to go after the cartels, he made it clear he viewed it as part of what he called a “Mexico First” policy. “We are not going to act as policemen for any foreign government,” López Obrador said at his daily news briefing. “Mexico First. Our home comes first.” López Obrador basically argued that drugs were a U.S. problem, not a Mexican one. He offered to help limit the flow of drugs into the United States, but only, he said, on humanitarian grounds. “Of course we are going to cooperate in fighting drugs, above all because it has become a very sensitive, very sad humanitarian issue, because a lot of young people are dying in the United States because of fentanyl,” the president said. Over 70,000 Americans die annually because of synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which are mainly made in Mexico from precursor chemicals smuggled in from China. https://apnews.com/article/mexico-first-nationalistic-policy-drug-cartels-6e7a78ff41c895b4e10930463f24e9fb Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek