The new BBC report in the linked video covers allegations by a former security contractor at US- and Israel-backed Gaza aid distribution centers (GHF). It echoes many of the claims made in the AP report published yesterday. The contractor claims he witnessed colleagues opening fire with machine guns on Palestinian civilians waiting for food aid, including incidents where people who posed no threat were shot. He described seeing a man fall motionless after being shot and guards laughing about it. On another occasion, a guard allegedly fired at a group of women, children, and elderly people for moving too slowly away from the site.

BREAKING | Israel has bombed a vehicle on a crowded highway just 8 miles south of Beirut, Lebanon. The attack is part of near-daily Israeli strikes on Lebanon despite a ceasefire with Hezbollah in place since November. The Israeli military said it targeted a figure involved in

“Israel has lost Gen Z. There’s no way Israel can rebrand after a genocide like this. No way they can go back to being ‘the startup nation.’” —Jehad Abusalim, co-editor of “Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire” and Executive Director of the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA told Drop Site. He said: “All the attempts in the past to paint Israel as what it is not… you know, a secular tech hub that’s LGBTQ-friendly on the Mediterranean… marketing Tel Aviv as this culinary capital of the Middle East… sending food YouTubers to do fun programs eating falafel on the streets of Tel Aviv—this doesn’t work anymore. And the Israelis realize that. The most recent attempt at normalizing Israel with certain Gulf states didn’t really work in terms of making Israel accepted in the region. So now, the only way Israel can survive and assert itself—and preserve its survival as the settler-colonial, genocidal entity that it is—is through the continuation of the state of war. Against Palestinians. Against neighboring countries. On a regional scale, as we saw with the war on Iran. It’s hard to see how this will unfold in the next 10 years. But in terms of Israel’s position in the West—it has suffered greatly. In public opinion. In how it’s viewed as a state. This war is being brought to places like the United States, where people are getting arrested, kidnapped—suspended from colleges, harassed at airports. There’s this Israelization of everything, to preserve the entity in its current shape and form. But all of this comes at a heavy price. And for now, the political class in the United States seems willing to pay that price. We’re seeing interesting changes not only on the left, but also on the right—certain voices emerging that are calling for rethinking this so-called special relationship between the U.S. and Israel. Israel has lost Gen Z. There’s no way Israel can rebrand after a genocide like this. No way they can go back to being “the startup nation.” Full video 🔽 View quoted note →

🎥 WATCH: Can Israel Survive Only Through Endless War? On this week’s Drop Site livestream, Sharif Abdel Kouddous asked Jehad Abusalim and Abdaljawad Omar whether Israel’s deepening aggression signals dominance or collapse. The two Palestinian analysts offered a sweeping analysis of military overreach, internal fracture, and colonial crisis. Abusalim argues Israel is no longer pursuing legitimacy but domination. “Israel is now living by the sword,” he says, dependent on U.S. support to bomb the region into submission. Its attempts to brand itself as a liberal outpost have failed: “There’s no way Israel can rebrand after a genocide like this… They’ve lost Gen Z.” Omar warns Israel’s military campaigns—from Gaza to Lebanon to Iran—have yielded no political gains. “That’s Israel’s problem right now. They have no way to turn these operational successes into political currency.” Without the “old Zionist pragmatism,” he says, messianic zealots are steering the state into collapse: “Israel is a dependent colony,” armed by the West and governed by factions uninterested in restraint. Though amid the escalating bloodshed, Abusalim ends with a note of resilience: “I still have faith in the region. Despite all the depressing signs, I have faith in the people,” he said. @Jehad Abusalim | @Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

⚡️NEW: Israel Is Now Operating Three Militias Inside Gaza—With Help From the Palestinian Authority Israel is now working with three separate militias inside Gaza, including two newly revealed Fatah-linked armed groups in Gaza City and Khan Younis—both operating with Israeli

BREAKING: 22-Year-Old Palestinian Dies in Israeli Custody After Being Held Without Charge for Over a Year Palestinian officials say Lo’ay Faisal Nasr-Allah, a 22-year-old from Jenin, has died in Israeli custody after being transferred from Negev Prison to Soroka Hospital. He had

NEW: Israeli Forces Confiscate Baby Formula Brought by Foreign Doctors According to medical worker “nurse lanaa,” a team of doctors entering Gaza had their luggage searched by Israeli border security, who confiscated 10 small cans of baby formula along with wound dressings, gauze, and other essential medical supplies. The incident highlights Israel’s ongoing obstruction of life-saving aid for Gaza’s children. Dr. Al-Faraa, head of pediatrics at Nasser Hospital, has repeatedly pleaded for the entry of milk and formula for premature babies—but those calls continue to be ignored. In just the past 48 hours, two infants have died from hunger and lack of proper nutrition.

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Babies are starving to death in Gaza because Israel bans baby formula—even from doctors. Infants can’t survive without milk & mal...

🚨 BREAKING: Premature infant Hasan Barbakh has died of starvation as Gaza runs out of baby formula under Israel’s ongoing blockade. Despite repeated appeals from Nasser Hospital, no milk has entered the Strip. Babies are expected to begin dying day after day as hospitals

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🚨"He died overnight. The food he needed, trapped a few miles away, beyond a checkpoint." Gaza has officially run out of baby formula with o...

Nasser Hospital is overwhelmed with patients right now. Some 300 new causalities reported from the GHF aid massacre this morning.

“Hamza was really good to me. He wanted to bring back aid.” Israel killed the 13-year old earlier today by shooting him in the head.

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13-year-old Hamza went with his uncle to one of the so-called aid points run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah’s Al-Alam area, on...