But Israel has the backdoors and can make it look like whoever they choose - Shabbos Pajeet

Iran-Linked Hackers Breach FBI Director Kash Patel's Personal Email Account, DOJ Confirms

Iran-linked hackers have claimed responsibility for breaching the personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel, publicly releasing photographs of him, a purported resume, and excerpts of old emails. A U.S. Justice Department official has confirmed the compromise, marking the latest escalation in cyber tensions between the United States and Iran.

The hacking group, known as the Handala Hack Team, announced the breach on its website and Telegram channel on Friday. The group posted images of a younger Patel - including photos showing him smoking cigars, near a convertible car, and with a bottle of rum - along with what it described as his resume and a selection of personal and business-related emails dating roughly from 2010 to 2022. The hackers declared that Patel “will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims.”

A Justice Department official told Reuters that Patel’s personal Gmail account - not any official FBI or government systems - had indeed been breached and that the material published online appeared authentic. The official did not provide further details on the scope of the intrusion or whether any sensitive information was accessed. The FBI itself has not issued an immediate public statement.

The Handala Hack Team has long been linked by U.S., Israeli, and cybersecurity researchers to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). The group presents itself publicly as a pro-Palestinian hacktivist collective but has conducted numerous “hack-and-leak” operations targeting Israeli officials, journalists, Iranian dissidents, and Western defense contractors. Just last week, the Justice Department and FBI seized four websites associated with the group as part of an operation against its activities.

Patel has been a repeated target of Iranian cyber activity. In December 2024, while serving as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, he was informed by the bureau that he had been targeted in an Iranian-backed cyberattack. At the time, hackers were believed to have accessed some of his communications.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/iran-linked-hackers-breach-fbi-director-kash-patels-personal-email-account-doj-confirms

Summary

No pause from Tehran, war footing deepens: Iran denies requesting Donald Trump’s 10-day halt; Israel attacks steel & industrial sites. Also, Khondab Heavy Water Research Reactor, part of the Arak Nuclear Complex, targeted. Yellow Cake factory in Yazd province hit.

Escalation on all fronts: IRGC HQ targeted by US-Israsel; Iran signals expansion by naming UAE targets, hitting Kuwait ports and sending drones on Riyadh. Iran newly warning it will hit Gulf industry.

Rubio tells G7 foreign ministers war will continue for another 2-4 weeks.

Israel doubles down amid reports of manpower strain: IDF chief warns of manpower pressure even as Defense Minister Katz vows to "intensify and expand" strikes.

Risk rises that Iran is holding back more advanced missiles for a prolonged war: WSJ writes "The US and Israel are pounding Iran’s missile-launching sites… But Tehran’s missiles keep flying."

China Dismisses Report Of Top Chipmaker Aiding Iranian Forces As "Fake News"

Beijing moved into damage-control mode on Friday, with its foreign ministry dismissing a Reuters report that cited two senior Trump administration officials alleging that SMIC, China's largest chipmaker, had sent chipmaking tools to Iran, as "false information."

Asked about the report at a regular news conference in Beijing, foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said he was "not familiar with the situation" and added, "What I can tell you is that recently, some media have been keen on releasing news that seems correct but is actually wrong."

Jian added that, "after verification, all such reports were found to be false information," but he did not elaborate further.

The denial underscores just how sensitive Beijing is to headlines featuring Trump administration officials accusing SMIC of sending chipmaking tools to Iran.

"We have no reason to believe that any of this has stopped," one Trump official told Reuters.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/china-dismisses-report-top-chipmaker-aiding-iranian-forces-fake-news

Mysterious Power Outage Hits California Leaving Over 100,000 People in the Dark

Over 100,000 residents in California lost power on Thursday night.

According to San Diego Gas & Electric, over 100,000 residents in San Diego and South Orange counties were left in the dark after a massive power outage.

SDGE has not released the cause of the outage, and the incident is currently under investigation.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2037375057929068617

27 March 2026

17:51 GMT

“Our mission is clear. Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon,” Rubio posted on X after meeting G7 foreign ministers in France. Tehran insists its nuclear program is purely civilian and has repeatedly denied seeking atomic weapons.

17:15 GMT

Rubio has also accused Iran of trying to “set up a tolling system in the Strait of Hormuz,” calling the alleged move “illegal,” “unacceptable” and “dangerous.” He told reporters “it’s important that the world have a plan to confront it,” adding that the US is “prepared to be a part of that plan.” Tehran says “non‑hostile” ships are free to transit Hormuz, and has urged international recognition of its “sovereign right to exercise authority over the Strait of Hormuz” as part of any ceasefire arrangement.

17:14 GMT

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declined to say whether Washington is considering deploying ground troops to the Middle East, telling reporters after a G7 meeting in France that he would not discuss “military tactics.” He insisted, however, that the US has clear objectives in the conflict and said “we are very confident we are on the verge of achieving them very, very soon.”

17:14 GMT

Iran has warned staff at industrial companies linked to the US and Israel to “immediately leave the workplace so their lives are not put at risk,” according to a post on X by IRGC General Seyed Majid Moosavi. He said Tehran would no longer respond on an “eye for an eye” basis if its infrastructure is attacked again, telling employees at firms tied to “the Americans and the Zionist regime” to leave and warning opponents to “wait and see.”

16:33 GMT

US‑Israeli strikes on Iran have damaged at least 120 museums, historical buildings, and cultural sites across the country since the start of the war, the head of Tehran city council’s heritage committee, Ahmad Alavi, has said.

According to state media, notable sites hit include the UNESCO‑listed Golestan Palace, Tehran’s Marble Palace, and the Saadabad Palace complex, with Iranian authorities calling the destruction “a clear crime” against the country’s heritage and a violation of the Hague Convention on the protection of cultural property in wartime.

16:16 GMT

The US and Israel have bombed Iran’s Arak heavy water complex in two separate strikes, the Fars news agency has reported citing a government official. The outlet noted that the strikes on the nuclear facility, located southwest of Tehran, did not result in human casualties and that there is no danger threatening the local population.

5:31 GMT

Iran accuses UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia of enabling US attacks

Read more Iran accuses UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia of enabling US attacks

More than 92,000 civilian building units have been damaged across Iran in US-Israeli strikes, the Iranian Red Crescent reports.

The damaged buildings include 71,356 residential units, 290 health facilities, 600 schools, as well as 17 Red Crescent centers, 48 rescue vehicles, and 46 ambulances, according to the organization.

https://www.rt.com/news/636330-us-israel-iran-war-updates/

Whistleblower Exposes Massive Election Fraud Ring in California — Claims Voter Reg Office Hands Lists of Stolen Names Directly to Gangbangers to Rig Petitions with Paid Homeless Signers

https://youtu.be/5NwUoHJt3lQ

Iran accuses UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia of enabling US attacks

Tehran has detailed dozens of cases of US fighter jets and drones allegedly conducting missions over the Gulf states during strikes

Iran has formally accused the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia of allowing the US military to use their territory and airspace to launch and support strikes against the Islamic Republic, according to letters sent to the UN Security Council.

In separate complaints addressed to the Security Council and the UN secretary-general, Tehran detailed multiple instances of US fighter jets, bombers, reconnaissance drones, and support aircraft allegedly operating from or transiting the airspace of the three Gulf states from March 15-20.

The letters, shared on social media by Adla Massoud, a UN correspondent for The National, warned that Iran reserves the right to take “all necessary and appropriate measures” in self-defense.

The incidents listed include F-35 and F-18 fighter jets, B-1 bombers, RQ-4 and U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, and P-8 maritime patrol planes operating over UAE, Qatari, and Saudi airspace in support of bombing raids on Iranian targets.

The letters urged the three nations to “observe the principles of good neighborliness” and stop making their territory available for attacks on Iran.

The accusations come as the UN Security Council held closed-door consultations on Iran on Friday at Russia’s request. Evgeny Uspensky, the spokesperson for Russia’s UN mission, said the meeting was called “due to ongoing attacks on Iran’s civilian infrastructure, including education and healthcare facilities.”

The US and Israel launched a massive military campaign against Iran on February 28, conducting airstrikes that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and hundreds of others. Iran has responded with waves of missile and drone strikes targeting US military installations across the Gulf, as well as infrastructure in countries hosting US forces.

Gulf states have increasingly been drawn into the conflict. Saudi Arabia expelled several Iranian diplomats last week, accusing Iran of “repeated attacks” on its territory. Qatar ordered Iranian military attaches to leave after strikes damaged one of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas facilities. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan warned that the patience of the Gulf states “is not unlimited” and that military action against Iran cannot be ruled out.

https://www.rt.com/news/636416-iran-un-gulf-accusations/

Trump Backs FISA Section 702 Extension, Drops Privacy Reform

Every two years, Congress gets a chance to add a warrant requirement to Section 702, and every two years, it finds a reason not to.

Two years ago, President Donald Trump told Congress to “KILL FISA.” On Wednesday, he asked them to keep it alive for another 18 months, no changes needed.

The president posted on Truth Social, urging lawmakers to pass a clean extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the provision that lets US spy agencies intercept the communications of foreigners abroad without a warrant but has many times been used, directly or indirectly, to gather data on Americans.

It means no new privacy protections. No warrant requirement for searching Americans’ data. No closing of the loopholes that let intelligence agencies buy your browsing history from data brokers instead of getting a judge’s approval.

Trump framed the ask around the ongoing military operations in Iran. “With the ongoing successful Military activities against the Terrorist Iranian Regime, it is more important than ever that we remain vigilant, PROTECT our Homeland, Troops, and Diplomats stationed abroad, and maintain our ability to quickly stop bad actors seeking to cause harm to our People and our Country,” he wrote.

“The fact is, whether you like FISA or not, it is extremely important to our Military,” he added. “I have spoken to many Generals about this, and they consider it vital.”

The details of what Section 702 actually does tend to get buried under urgency. The provision nominally targets foreigners overseas, but the collection process vacuums up American communications too, every time a US citizen emails, texts, or calls someone abroad.

Those intercepted messages sit in classified databases. FBI agents can then search that data using Americans’ names, phone numbers, and email addresses, all without a warrant.

The FBI ran those warrantless searches more than 278,000 times in a single year, according to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The agency’s own inspector general found searches targeting peaceful protesters, sitting lawmakers, congressional staff, thousands of campaign donors, journalists, and at least one judge.

The 2024 reauthorization bill, known as RISAA, introduced some changes to search procedures. It did not add a warrant requirement. A House amendment that would have required one failed in a 212-212 tie, the thinnest possible margin. Speaker Mike Johnson broke that tie against the warrant.

Now Johnson is back, pushing the same approach. He told reporters Wednesday that the US does not “have the abuses that we had before,” and that “FISA as currently constituted, as we amended with 56 major reforms, is working as desired, and we do not have the abuses we did before.”

The claim that 56 reforms solved the problem deserves scrutiny. Those reforms limited the number of agents who can search the database and required supervisor approval before reviewing information on Americans. They did not require judicial oversight. A supervisor’s sign-off is not a warrant. An internal checklist is not the Fourth Amendment.

Trump’s pivot on FISA has pulled some notable Republicans with him. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, who voted against reauthorization in 2024 specifically because the warrant amendment failed, reversed last week.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/trump-backs-fisa-section-702-extension-drops-privacy-reform

Israeli Settlers Seize Industrial Land Near Last All-Christian West Bank Village

Father Bashar Fawadleh appeals for international solidarity as tensions rise over the seizure of private property and historical sites in the ancient village of Taybeh.

The last entirely Christian village in the West Bank is facing renewed pressure as Israeli settlers have reportedly seized private lands near its industrial zone. The incursions, which targeted a quarry and cement factory in the village of Taybeh, have prompted an urgent appeal for international intervention from local religious leaders.

Father Bashar Fawadleh, the Latin parish priest of Taybeh, stated that the lands seized this week "belonged to the people of Taybeh and were, moreover, our private property." These developments follow a series of escalating aggressions in the region, including a 2025 incident where settlers allegedly set fire to areas near the Byzantine-era ruins of St. George Church.

"This story is about the life of a Christian community that has been present in this land for more than 2,000 years," Fawadleh said. He noted that the incursions constitute a violation of the rights of the local community and threaten the historical roots of the village, which is identified as the biblical site of Ephraim.

The proximity of the seizures to religious landmarks has heightened fears among residents. Witnesses reported that attackers previously painted hateful graffiti and torched vehicles in the area. Local leaders have demanded that authorities protect the "living stones" of the Holy Land.

"As a church, our mission is to help people remain in their land, to live with dignity, and to keep the Christian presence alive," Fawadleh said. He emphasized that the community simply wants to live in peace on their own land.

https://www.nationalfile.com/article/israeli-settlers-seize-industrial-land-near-last-all-christian-west-bank-village

9 injured as Iran fires 7 missile salvos at Israel within hours, many with cluster warheads

2 killed by intercepted missile in Abu Dhabi; homes, vehicles damaged in central, north Israel; Israeli Air Force carries out ‘extensive’ strikes targeting Iranian regime infrastructure

Iran pummeled Israel with seven salvos of missiles within hours on Thursday morning, injuring nine people in Israel and the West Bank and causing damage as cluster warheads spread submunitions across wide areas.

Tehran also continued to attack its Gulf neighbors with missiles and drones. Two people were killed in Abu Dhabi by debris from an intercepted missile, the emirate’s media office said, adding that three others were injured and several vehicles were damaged.

Seven salvos of ballistic missiles were fired at Israel within a matter of hours on Thursday morning, after an overnight lull of some 14 hours.

The volleys sent millions running for shelter repeatedly in central and northern Israel, which also faced concurrent attacks from Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group.

The first missile was intercepted, with no reports of injuries or damage.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2037059688957653221

https://www.timesofisrael.com/9-injured-as-iran-fires-7-missile-salvos-at-israel-within-hours-many-with-cluster-warheads/

A French Senator declares:

​"A handful of drug addicts and alcoholics have seized power in America, and whenever something regarding the Epstein case is published, they bomb a corner of the world!"

https://twitter.com/i/status/2037249453468352781

U.S. House Representative Mike Bost speaks out against the genocide in Gaza:

​"Islam has nothing to do with this. To support Palestine, being HUMAN is enough."

​A message for those who are HUMAN!

https://twitter.com/i/status/2037232691008200914

'Rape with Bottles, Metal Rods and Knives': UN Expert Says Israel’s Torture on Palestinians is 'State Doctrine'

“It is defended by politicians, rationalised by legal institutions, sanitised by media narrative and tolerated by governments that continue to arm and shield Israel,” said Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory.

A UN expert has warned that Israel’s systematic torture of Palestinians is now being practiced “openly” and that it has become “a regime of organised humiliation, pain and degradation” sanctioned at the highest political levels. The expert underlined in a report that a system that has long been used to dominate, degrade and break Palestinians has evolved and hardened into “state doctrine”.

“Since the onset of the genocide, the Israeli prison system has degenerated into a laboratory of calculated cruelty,” said Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, in her latest report to the UN Human Rights Council, according to a press release by the UN on Monday (March 23).

“What once operated in the shadows is now practiced openly: a regime of organised humiliation, pain and degradation, sanctioned at the highest political levels,” Albanese added.

The UN expert underlined that policies imposed by senior officials, including the minister of national security Itamar Ben-Gvir, have institutionalised torture, collective punishment and manifestly dehumanising conditions of detention.

“Those responsible for these heinous violations of human rights, from which no derogation is possible even in times of war, must face investigation and justice, including before the International Criminal Court,” Albanese said.

According to Albanese’s report, since October 2023, more than 18,500 Palestinians have been detained across the occupied Palestinian territory, including at least 1,500 children. Thousands remain in detention without charge or trial. Many have been forcibly disappeared. Nearly 100 detainees have died in custody.

Further, the report highlighted disturbing details: “Detainees have been abused in unfathomable ways, including rape with bottles, metal rods and knives, starvation, breaking of bones and teeth, burning, being spat upon, and being attacked and urinated upon by dogs.”

“A system that has long been used to dominate, degrade and break Palestinians has evolved and hardened into state doctrine,” Albanese warned. “It is defended by politicians, rationalised by legal institutions, sanitised by media narrative and tolerated by governments that continue to arm and shield Israel.”

The report by the special rapporteur pointed out that torture extends beyond prison walls. Through relentless bombardment, forced displacement, starvation, the destruction of homes, hospitals and infrastructure, pervasive surveillance, and terror inflicted by soldiers and settler terror militias, Israel has created what the report calls a “torturous environment” across the entire occupied Palestinian territory, as per the press release.

“In Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinians are subjected to a continuum of suffering,” Albanese said. “There is no refuge. No sanctuary. No safe place to exist.”

https://thewire.in/world/rape-with-bottles-metal-rods-and-knives-un-expert-says-israels-torture-on-palestinians-is-state-doctrine

Mace: I’ll be voting against the funding if we’re putting troops on the ground. I’m not going to fund that—no U.S. troops.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2036579940582433246

Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions

The Trump admin wants to criminalize a key part of journalists doing their jobs — a broadside attack on a free press.

A judge last week struck down the Pentagon’s restrictions on journalists seeking “unauthorized” information, siding with the New York Times in its lawsuit against the government. In response, the Pentagon on Monday added some meaningless window dressing and essentially reissued the same restrictions. The administration pledged to “immediately” appeal the decision on the original policy, and on Tuesday, the Times filed a motion to compel the administration to comply with the judge’s order.

As alarming as the Pentagon’s antics are, the Times’ lawsuit is not the only case about whether reporters have the right to ask questions. It’s not even the only one in the news this week.

In 2017, police in Laredo, Texas, arrested citizen journalist Patricia Villarreal under an obscure and never previously used law making it a felony to ask government employees for nonpublic information for personal benefit. Her supposed crime was asking a police officer about two local tragedies — a suicide and a deadly car wreck.

Her arrest was widely ridiculed, and a judge quickly threw out the charges. When Villarreal sued over her arrest and mistreatment by officers, the legal question wasn’t whether the charges against her were permissible but whether they were so obviously bogus that she could overcome qualified immunity, the unjust and expansive legal shield that protects government employees from liability for all but the most blatant violations. That issue went to the Supreme Court twice, but on Monday, the Court declined to review a federal appellate court’s ruling that the officers were shielded from liability.

No matter what our severely compromised Supreme Court thinks, the local cops who arrested Villarreal were embarrassingly ignorant of the Constitution. But they were also ahead of their time: The Department of Justice is making the same claims that turned the Laredo police into a First Amendment laughingstock — that reporters simply asking questions to the government is criminal — to federal district Judge Paul Friedman.

Most discussion of the Pentagon’s restrictions has focused on their conditions for reporters to receive press credentials, which the Pentagon says can be revoked if reporters publish “unauthorized” information. That policy is wildly unconstitutional on its own, and every mainstream outlet gave up their press passes rather than sign on, leaving war coverage inside the Pentagon to the likes of Turning Point USA’s Frontlines and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s LindellTV streaming service.

But the Pentagon’s legal filings imply that reporters who don’t follow the rules risk more than their press passes. On March 12, the DOJ filed a brief to clarify its lawyers’ earlier comments in a discussion with Friedman at a hearing of “whether asking a question was a criminal act.” The government argued that although journalists may lawfully ask questions of “authorized” Pentagon personnel, “a journalist does solicit the commission of a criminal act, and that solicitation is not protected by the First Amendment, when he or she solicits … non-public information from individuals who are legally obligated not to disclose that information.”

There you have it. What was once a fringe, failed legal theory concocted by some local cops in one Texas border city is now the official position of the federal government’s lawyers, which it felt compelled to put in writing in case anyone wasn’t sure where it stood after the hearing. Both the rogue cops and the DOJ’s lawyers contend that journalists merely asking questions to government officials constitutes unlawful solicitation.

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/26/pentagon-reporters-first-amendment/

Vance’s Jewish chief of staff shares his approach to right-wing antisemitism, new profile reveals

Reses, who keeps his X account private and does not give interviews, appears to view the trade-offs differently from his former mentor.

US Vice President JD Vance has spent months drawing fire from Jewish conservatives for his refusal to confront antisemitism within the Republican coalition. Now, a new profile suggests that the Jew who is perhaps closest to him — his chief of staff, Jacob Reses — is on board with that approach.

An extensive New York magazine profile of Reses, published this week, reveals that the 35-year-old operative, characterized as one of the powerful figures in the Trump administration, has used his private X account to amplify voices calling on Jews to embrace, rather than resist, the Christian nationalist current reshaping the GOP.

In September 2025, according to the profile, Reses reposted Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale’s approving quote of a statement arguing that Jews should stop being uncomfortable with public expressions of Christianity.

The statement read, “To save this Nation of Kindness that has bestowed such blessing on us, we Jews can no longer be squeamish about the majority’s invocation of the Christian deity and other aspects of their faith. The neutering of Christianity has been disastrous for all of us and must end.”

A Jewish Telegraphic Agency profile published in 2024, when Vance was selected as Donald Trump’s running mate, traced Reses’ Jewish identity and his journey from a Democratic-leaning Jewish teenager in southern New Jersey, whose grandfather escaped the Holocaust in Lithuania, to one of the most influential conservatives in Washington. His trajectory included internships for Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, a political conversion at Princeton, and stints at the Heritage Foundation and in the office of Sen. Josh Hawley.

For months, Vance has faced a drumbeat of criticism from prominent Jewish conservatives, including Ben Shapiro and Commentary editor Abe Greenwald, for declining to draw a line against antisemitic figures gaining influence in the party, particularly the white nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes, who was platformed by Vance’s ally Tucker Carlson in an October 2025 interview. At a Turning Point USA conference in December, Vance declared that he would not subject the conservative coalition to “endless, self-defeating purity tests,” and that America has always been a “Christian nation.” He omitted any mention of Jews or Nazis from his Holocaust Remembrance Day statement in January. And he has repeatedly said he does not believe antisemitism is surging in the GOP.

New York magazine reports that Reses reposted Vance’s rejection of purity tests. One person in Vance’s orbit told the magazine that Reses’s overarching priority is Vance’s political success “at the highest possible level, up to and including U.S. president.”

A window into the bond between Reses and Vance

The profile also offers a window into the personal bond between the two men. In January, Vance officiated at Reses’s wedding to Rachel Altman at a synagogue in Rockville, Maryland, delivering a Jewish prayer under the chuppah. The Chabad House at Princeton, Reses’ alma mater, posted a photo of the couple with the vice president, celebrating the occasion as an expression of Jewish pride.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-891387

A powerful earthquake has occurred in Japan

A powerful earthquake has occurred off the coast of Japan. This is reported by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

The tremors were recorded on Thursday, March 26, at 23:18 local time (at 17:18 Moscow time). Their magnitude reached 6.5, which is considered by seismologists to be a strong earthquake.

The epicenter of the phenomenon was located 122 kilometers east of the village of Yamada. The source was located at a depth of 9.5 kilometers. Nothing is known about casualties and destruction in the region yet.

Earlier, an earthquake in northern Greece partially destroyed the buildings of several monasteries on Mount Athos. The magnitude of the tremors was 4.9, and the depth of the source was 10.6 kilometers. The earthquake was recorded 11 kilometers northwest of the village of Kareya.

The tremors caused significant damage to monasteries, hermitages and cells. Cracks appeared in the walls of the buildings, and frescoes were damaged. In one of the churches, a part of the chandelier broke off during the divine service, monks and pilgrims had to urgently leave the building.

https://www.oreanda-news.com/en/v_mire/a-powerful-earthquake-has-occurred-in-japan/article1588314/

The occupying army's armored vehicles deliberately collide with a bus carrying pregnant women in Palestine.

Have you found more hatred than this?

https://twitter.com/i/status/2037440712698929485

U.S. Is Scattering Landmines From Air Near Iranian Missile Bases (Photos)

The United States military is scattering landmines from the air near Iranian missile bases to hunt launchers, and Iranian media has already reported civilian casualties.

The accusations first came on March 26 from Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency, which shared photos of what appear to be BLU-91/B scatterable anti-tank landmines.

“These explosive packages resemble ready-made canned food, are somewhat larger than tuna cans, and contain explosives that detonate after being opened, causing casualties,” Tasnim wrote on Telegram. “These packages have been dropped in the skies over the southern suburbs of Shiraz, especially in the village of Kafari, and unfortunately have caused the martyrdom of several people in these areas.”

Canadian lawyer and activist Dimitri Lascaris — who is currently in Shiraz in the southwestern Iranian province of Fars — shared footage showing the remains of similar landmines that exploded right between homes in Kafari, and at least three others some two kilometers away from the entrance to what is reported to be Shiraz South Missile Base, an Iranian “missile city.”

The landmines were likely scattered there to hit any launcher leaving the base, which had been already bombarded by the U.S.

This is the first time such a weapon has been used against Iran since the start of the American-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic around a month ago.

The BLU-91/B is a part of the U.S. military’s GATOR mine system, mainly used with two dispenser systems — the Navy 230 kg CBU-78/B and the Air Force 450 kg CBU-89/B.

The mine is a low flat cylinder with a rectangular aeroballistic shell. A magnetic sensor in the mine detects potential targets. When a suitable target reaches the most vulnerable approach point it detonates the mine. The mine is also triggered if the mine is moved, or if the battery reaches a certain low voltage point.

Once the fuse is triggered, a small clearing charge is fired in order to clear any debris that may be on top of the mine. A second larger charge is triggered 30 ms later, creating an explosively formed penetrator capable of penetrating up to 70 mm of armor.

The mine weighs around 1.95 kilograms and is 127 millimeters in diameter, with 580 grams of an RDX and Estane explosive mix.

The CBU-78/B could carry up to 45 such mines, while the larger CBU-89/B can carry 72. The latter can be also equipped with the Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser guidance tail kit, which includes a GPS-aided inertial navigation system. It became a precision-guided munition designated as CBU-104, with a range up to 20 kilometers.

In use these bombs are dropped from aircraft flying at speeds between 370 and 1,300 kilometers per hour, and at altitudes of between 100 and 1,200 meters.

The use of these mines shows that the U.S. and Israel have failed to completely destroy missile cities like the Shiraz South Missile Base, which remain active.

It also indicates that the two allies are incapable of maintaining aerial presence over such bases, via fighter jets or combat drones, around the clock.

https://southfront.press/u-s-is-scattering-landmines-from-air-near-iranian-missile-bases-photos/

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The Military Arm of the Campaign to Judaize the West Bank Has Been Given a Free Hand

The West Bank District Police are not part of the equation, the Shin Bet has become irrelevant and the boundaries between Israeli citizens and the army have completely blurred in the West Bank. The project of cleansing the occupied territories of Arabs is gaining momentum - and no one is stopping it. 'Even when there are reports that something is going to happen,' says one reserve soldier, 'we get there after the fact'

Even the Trump administration has woken up. Mike Huckabee, the American ambassador to Jerusalem and an ardent advocate of Greater Israel, has been repeatedly warning lately about the cumulative damage caused by Jewish terrorism in the West Bank.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-03-27/ty-article/.premium/military-arm-of-campaign-to-judaize-the-west-bank-has-been-given-a-free-hand/0000019d-2bea-d77a-a7ff-ffea66ba0000

Footy stars jailed over sexual penetration of child under 16 in attack eerily similar to 2016 rape case

Two crime scenes, 290km and eight years apart but eerily similar. What was said during both crimes is so vulgar it is impossible to forget. WARNING: Disturbing content.

WARNING: Disturbing content.

Two crime scenes, 290km and eight years apart but eerily similar and disturbing in nature.

Both rocked a small Victorian community.

Both involved the rape or sexual penetration of a vulnerable young woman or girl at the hands of not one, but two, country football stars revered within their small town communities.

Both took place at a 21st birthday party, well after dark, away from the safety of friends and family.

Both left victims with a lifetime of scars, mental and physical.

Both included the uttering of phrases so vulgar, so repulsive, so reductive that two different judges referred to them in sentencing remarks before the phrases were used as justification for lengthy jail terms.

And both saw the perpetrators of these heinous crimes receive a massive groundswell of support from the AFL world they grew up in, well after guilt was established.

The two crimes are proof that where football is king, those who play it well get the benefit of the doubt no matter how much evidence is stacked against them.

Six words men used after 14yo girl ‘set upon’

Last week, inside the County Court of Geelong, two men sat in the dock and listened as a judge recounted their “abhorrent” and “shameful” crimes.

Jaiden Fidge, 24, and Riley Smith, 26, had met online through a chat group about AFL football, the sport they had grown up playing.

Fidge, from Queensland and Smith, from NSW, took their friendship offline when another member of the group invited them to a 21st birthday on Victoria’s Surf Coast in February, 2024.

They made the long trip south and drank at a hotel before making their way to the party.

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/crime/footy-stars-jailed-over-sexual-penetration-of-child-under-16-in-attack-eerily-similar-to-2016-rape-case/news-story/562f9f22692e2c3183efa9929393ff40

Reporter: Is the U.S. diverting some munitions that were meant for Ukraine to the Middle East?

Trump: We do that all the time. We have a lot of munitions. Sometimes we take from one and use for another.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2037193246577770644

Iran FM says Israel strikes on nuclear sites contradict Trump’s extended diplomacy deadline

Abbas Araghchi says strikes hit nuclear and industrial targets as IDF confirms attacks on Arak reactor and uranium site, signaling escalation despite ongoing talks

Iran’s foreign minister said Friday that Israeli strikes have expanded to include nuclear facilities and key infrastructure, in what he described as a move that contradicts U.S. President Donald Trump’s extended deadline for diplomacy.

In a statement posted on X, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Israel had struck two of Iran’s largest steel factories, a power plant and “civilian nuclear sites,” among other infrastructure. He added that Israel claimed the attacks were carried out in coordination with the United States.

The reported escalation comes despite Washington’s stated effort to allow more time for diplomatic engagement, raising questions about the gap between military developments and ongoing negotiations.

Hours earlier, the IDF confirmed that the Israeli Air Force struck the heavy water reactor at the Arak nuclear facility, known as Khondab, describing it as a key component in Iran’s ability to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.

According to the military, the strike targeted infrastructure linked to plutonium production after identifying renewed Iranian efforts to restore the site. The attack followed a warning issued to residents in the surrounding area. Iranian media reported no casualties.

The reactor, located about 240 kilometers west of Tehran, has long been a focal point of international concern. Although Iran has maintained it is intended for civilian purposes, its heavy water design allows for relatively efficient plutonium production, a potential pathway to nuclear weapons.

Construction of the reactor began in 2004 but was halted under the 2015 nuclear agreement. Iran later resumed work on the site and had planned to bring it online in 2026.

In a separate development, Iranian media reported that a uranium processing facility in the Yazd region was also struck. The site produces uranium concentrate, known as “yellowcake,” a key material in the early stages of nuclear fuel production.

According to the IDF, the facility is unique in Iran and plays a critical role in the nuclear supply chain, converting raw mined material into processed inputs used in enrichment.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjdvtb4iwl