💢 BREAKING: Coordinated strikes have hit all three of Iran’s largest steel plants simultaneously – Mobarakeh, Esfahan, and Khuzestan – the backbone of the country’s non-oil economy.

Together they produce roughly 70% of Iran’s steel output. Iron and steel is Iran’s second-largest export category at $6.48 billion, its primary hard-currency lifeline outside of oil.

Mobarakeh makes the flat steel used in cars and pipelines. Esfahan produces structural beams and railway rails. Khuzestan supplies the raw slabs that feed factories nationwide.

Steel became Iran’s top non-oil export precisely as a sanction hedge as it is cheap to produce using local ore and natural gas, and a critical source of foreign currency when oil revenues were blocked.

Hitting all three at once targets critical industrial capacity and the economic architecture Iran spent decades building to survive Western pressure.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2037528523519209630

Confirmation from Iran’s state TV:

https://twitter.com/iribnews_irib/status/2037527508724187174

🇨🇴 BREAKING: Colombia to exit ISDS international investment arbitration regime

President Gustavo Petro announced that Colombia will withdraw from the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, following a global call from over 220 economists and legal scholars including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and renowned economist Thomas Piketty.

ISDS allows foreign corporations to sue governments in international tribunals over policies that affect their profits, often bypassing domestic courts and exposing states to multi-billion-dollar claims.

“Several countries have already announced or have exited this type of arbitration, including the United States. I don’t see why Colombia shouldn’t do the same,” Petro said.

Colombia has about $14 billion at risk in such cases, Petro said, noting that states often lose these disputes.

“ISDS is bad not just because it puts transnational corporations above the environment and human rights, but because it creates a fast-track legal system that gives them unfair privileges over local businesses and because it grants those corporations ‘license to kill’ government regulations with threats of billion dollar arbitration,” Andrés Arauz of the Center for Economic and Policy Research wrote in a press release.

The move aligns Colombia with countries like South Africa, India, and Indonesia that have also terminated ISDS agreements, and comes ahead of the first-ever Global Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels set to be held in Colombia in April. 📌 Letter from 220 Economists and Legal Scholars to Colombian President Gustavo Petro Calling for Action on ISDS

“Dear President Gustavo Petro Urrego,

We write to you as economists and legal scholars deeply concerned that investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) poses a serious obstacle to building prosperous, equitable, and sustainable societies. As Colombia prepares to co-host the First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta from April 24-29, where discussions on ISDS will take the center stage, we urge you to seize the moment by giving effect to your decision to begin removing Colombia from ISDS,[1] and launching a broader alliance of countries committed to unwinding ISDS.

Written into thousands of international trade and investment treaties, including 18 agreements signed by Colombia, ISDS allows foreign corporations to bypass domestic courts and bring legal claims against host governments before special international arbitration tribunals that routinely award vast sums for alleged harms to their investments. ISDS is asymmetrical by design, granting foreign investors expansive protections that are unavailable to domestic businesses or citizens of the host country.

While proponents argue ISDS can protect investors from unfair treatment, in practice it has become a tool through which corporations can challenge non-discriminatory public policies on the basis that they affect corporate profitability, rather than because they discriminate against investors. This dynamic raises significant concerns about states’ ability to regulate freely in the public interest, including in the context of climate action.

The International Court of Justice has affirmed that states have an obligation, based on multiple sources of international law, to address climate change.[2] However, when governments take reasonable steps to address climate change – such as implementing fossil fuel phase-out measures – they have repeatedly been targeted by ISDS claims. For instance, your conference co-host, the Netherlands, is facing cases from ExxonMobil and Shell for closing the Groningen gas field.[3] For a country like Colombia, the risk is concrete. Under your leadership, the government has halted new fossil fuel exploration contracts and advanced an ambitious energy transition agenda[4]. Yet, Colombia has 129 oil and gas projects that are covered by ISDS provisions, exposing the country to claims in the billions of dollars.[5]As a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment warned, ISDS operates as a system for “paying polluters,” effectively requiring states to compensate corporations for complying with climate policies.[6]

ISDS has long been justified as necessary to attract foreign investment and thereby promote economic development. However, empirical evidence does not support any meaningful connection between ISDS commitments and increased investment inflows.[7] Brazil, South America’s largest recipient of foreign investment, has eschewed ISDS.

🚨NEW:

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An Israeli indictment alleges an Iron Dome reservist secretly worked for Iranian intelligence, passing along locations of air bases, missile defense systems, and potential recruits for months, in exchange for payment.

A new Drop Site News investigation reveals this is not an isolated case, but part of a growing covert campaign inside Israel. ⬇️🧵 2/
In a major report, Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain detail Iran’s expanding effort to recruit Israelis and carry out influence and espionage operations from within.

The investigation is based on internal Iranian intelligence materials and direct interviews with officials.

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📸 An Iranian man walks under a display featuring a logo of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence in the historic city of Isfahan, Iran, on February 20, 2025. Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior member of the Ansar Allah (Houthi) political bureau announced on March 14 that they are aligned militarily with Iran, and signaled that a “Zero Hour”—a coordinated campaign of military operations—could be declared soon. 

In a televised speech on March 5, the movement’s leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi stated, “Regarding military escalation and action, our fingers are on the trigger at any moment should developments warrant it.”

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2033253899335807423

Oil tanker traffic is increasingly diverting toward Saudi terminals in the Red Sea as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains heavily restricted, according to shipping data shared by energy analyst Javier Blas.

Bloomberg reported earlier that at least 50 supertankers were heading to Yanbu to collect crude oil.

Export flows through Yanbu have already surged to approximately 2.7 million barrels a day, and Saudi Aramco said it is aiming to reach a full daily capacity of 5 million to 7 million barrels through its East-West pipeline.

Although the route avoids the Strait of Hormuz, the tankers sailing from Yanbu still face risks from Houthi fighters in the southern Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

🗺️ Photo: Container shipping routes to Europe and North America in January 2024, two months after the Houthi movement began targeting vessels in the Red Sea.

🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s Supreme Leader, and Leader of the Islamic Revolution:

🔹I, your servant, Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, learned of the result of the vote by the honorable Assembly of Experts at the same time as you, through the broadcasting of the Islamic Republic.

For me, to sit in the place where two great leaders—Imam Khomeini the Great and the martyred Khamenei—once sat is a difficult task. This seat carries the legacy of someone who, after more than 60 years of striving in the path of God and renouncing all kinds of pleasures and comforts, became a radiant figure and a distinguished leader not only in the present era but throughout the history of the rulers of this country. Both his life and the manner of his death were intertwined with a grandeur and dignity born from reliance on the Truth.

🔹 I had the honor of seeing his body after his martyrdom. What I saw was a mountain of steadfastness, and I heard that his uninjured hand remained clenched in a fist. Those who are knowledgeable about the many dimensions of his character will need much time to speak about them.

Here I will suffice with this brief account and leave the details for more suitable occasions. This is the reason it is so difficult to assume the position of leadership after such a person. Bridging that gap will only be possible with the help of God and the support of you, the people.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2032064960663040386

🔹 “Unity among the individuals and groups of the nation, which usually becomes particularly evident in times of hardship, must not be compromised. This will be achieved by overlooking points of disagreement.”

🚨 CONFIRMED: Footage reviewed and geolocated by Bellingcat confirms US tomahawk missiles hit the girls’ primary school in southern Iran that killed 180 people, most of them children.

Researcher Trevor Ball notes Israel does not possess Tomahawk missiles. United States does.

https://twitter.com/easybakeovensz/status/2030700313267540435

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🚨 BREAKING: Iran Launches Strikes on U.S. Bases Across the Middle East

▪️Explosions seen at the U.S. Naval Base in Al-Juffair, Bahrain, confirmed by Bahrain.

▪️Alarm sirens followed by up to four explosions in Kuwait.

▪️Massive explosions reported in Abu Dhabi.

▪️In Qatar, an official source at the Ministry of Defense told Al Jazeera that an Iranian missile was intercepted by the Patriot air defense system.

Iran had warned that any U.S. attack would be met with attacks on American bases and interests across the region, with a goal of killing a minimum of 500 American soldiers. More images from Bahrain where the Bahrain News Agency confirms that the service center of the US Fifth Fleet was targeted by a missile attack.

⭕️ LEAKED Email: Kat Abughazeleh “firmly an interventionist,” foreign policy adviser says

Kat Abughazaleh, a socialist Democratic candidate in Illinois’ 9th District and one of the only Palestinian-Americans seeking office in 2026, was described by her national security adviser as “firmly an interventionist” who “won’t stop until Russia is made to pay for its crimes,” in written responses detailing her foreign policy vision, obtained by Drop Site.

Ben Mermel wrote in an email to a Washington-based progressive foreign policy activist that Abughazaleh believes “the world is better off when America takes a leading role” and that the U.S. has “an obligation to support pro-democracy movements around the world, from Iran to Venezuela.” He added that “Kat wholly supports the National Endowment for Democracy, as well as its affiliated organizations (NDI, IRI, and the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center),” and said Congress should expand tools “from sanctions to NGO support” to advance those efforts without always resorting to “kinetic force.”

The DC-based activist had written to Mermel saying he had noticed unusually hawkish language on the campaign website related to Ukraine and Taiwan and was looking for clarification.

In his response, Mermel said that on Taiwan she would amend the Taiwan Relations Act by “dropping our strategic ambiguity” and make clear the U.S. would counter Chinese aggression “with force,” arguing the region now requires “a firmer hand.”

On Ukraine, Mermel wrote she would “hold the line,” support “funding the Ukrainian war effort to the hilt,” back long-range strikes on Russian strategic targets, deploy additional U.S. “air, naval, and ground assets” to NATO’s front line, and that “She supports the seizure and redistribution of Russian assets in Europe and the United States, for the purpose of financing the war effort.”

Abughazaleh did not respond to a request for comment, but a source close to the campaign told Drop Site that the adviser’s email did not accurately represent her views, saying, “Kat is committed to taking on authoritarianism but is vehemently against the military industrial complex and the continuation of failed US intervention approaches.” Abughazaleh has consistently argued against U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and, at a recent forum, said she opposes U.S. strikes on Iran.

Mermel in 2024 attended a pro-Israel protest held to counter the encampment at George Washington University. He has been Abughazaleh’s National Security Adviser since July 2025, according to Legistorm. The full exchange is posted below. Watch the report on Breaking Points: Here is the full email exchange that has been circulating among foreign policy activist circles. Drop Site confirmed its authenticity: 🧵

"On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 10:24 PM XXXX wrote:

Hi Ben, Great to hear from you -- I appreciate the prompt response. It's great to hear that a primary campaign has an NSA on board and is taking the issues seriously already. If you don't mind, I'm going to fire off a series of questions: 1. On your personal background: How did you come into this position, and what led you to choose this work? I see on Legistorm that you're from the Northeast and went to school here in DC (and have probably actually lived here longer than I have in total). What drew you to Kat's campaign and Illinois politics? 2. What has your role in the nascent primary fight been like, and what role do you see foreign policy playing in the race? The AIPAC and Israeli genocide points are obvious ones, and I've seen some of the recent reporting on Biss (as I alluded to). Are there any other major issues or demographic blocs in the district that are affecting the race? Schakowsky's office has a long history of good work opposing U.S. support for bad governments in Central America, though I've never been sure if that stemmed from the district's makeup or from the personal interests of the Congresswoman or her team. 3. Are there any members of Congress -- especially in the House -- that you and the campaign look to for inspiration or as a model for your foreign policy approach? As for the platform: 4. This line in particular stands out to me: "As with regard to Taiwan, the United States must continue to support Taiwan in the face of increasing Chinese aggression and attempts to undermine Taiwan’s internationally recognized status as a state of its own." The U.S. does not officially recognize Taiwan as a state of its own -- only a dozen or so small countries do -- and this a longstanding policy ("One China") meant to prevent U.S.-China and cross-Strait conflict. Independence is also a hotly debated topic in Taiwan, and the DPP's position does not represent a Taiwanese monolith. Previous moves by U.S. officials toward treating Taiwan as an independent country, outside the Taiwan Relations Act, drove U.S.-China relations to their lowest point in recent memory. Is the campaign's position that the U.S. should change this policy status quo and support Taiwan's independence? 5. The first paragraph of the entire foreign policy page argues "we must support democratic movements worldwide while still avoiding unnecessary military intervention." While I agree that supporting democracy movements is an admirable goal, has the U.S.'s tremendous and unwavering support for the genocide in Gaza not severely undermined its credibility to do this? What would this "support" entail in Congress -- would it include the kinds of National Endowment for Democracy-sponsored groups long favored by interventionists in the State Department, or sanctions on repressive countries?..."

⚡️NEW at @DropSiteNews: Palantir's AI Is Already Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries

As Israel bans NGOs, the U.S. is handing aid delivery in Gaza to private companies pursuing their own agendas.

By Jonathan Whittall (@_jwhittall)

dropsitenews.com/p/palantir-ai-… Palantir Technologies has a permanent desk at the U.S.-led Civil Military Coordination Center (CMCC) headquarters in southern Israel, three sources from the diplomatic community inside the CMCC told Drop Site News.

According to the sources, the artificial intelligence data analytics giant is providing the technological architecture for tracking the delivery and distribution of aid to Gaza.

🚨France, Germany, Italy, and the United States have escalated attacks on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, demanding her resignation over remarks she did not make.

Here’s everything you need to know:

1. U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz and the leading Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee accused Albanese of calling Israel the “common enemy of humanity.”

2. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot went further, branding her a “political activist who stirs up hate,” accusing her of comparing Israel to the Third Reich, and announcing France will formally demand her removal at the UN Human Rights Council session on February 23, 2026. He insisted she must resign immediately.

🔴3. But Albanese never called Israel the “common enemy of humanity.” She described the system enabling genocide in Palestine as humanity’s common enemy. The quote has been widely misrepresented.

4. French officials also criticized her for appearing at the Doha Forum alongside a Hamas leader and Iran’s foreign minister. In fact, she was not on stage with those figures. Paris has long accused her of “justifying” the October 7 attacks for contextualizing them within decades of occupation, a characterization President Emmanuel Macron previously called a “disgrace.”

5. The Trump administration has previously demanded her removal and imposed sanctions on her for documenting Israel’s crimes.

6. Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul echoed the push, writing: “I respect the UN system based on independent rapporteurs. However, Albanese has made numerous inappropriate statements in the past. I condemn her recent statements on Israel. Her position is untenable.”

7. Italy’s foreign minister also supported her removal, stating that Albanese’s positions “do not reflect those of the Italian government” and that her “behaviors, statements, and initiatives are not appropriate for the position she holds within a body of peace and guarantee such as the United Nations.”

8. Supporters, including various scholars, say the campaign is political retaliation for her reports on Israeli human rights violations.

9. Amnesty International France called Paris’s move a “shameful misrepresentation,” stating: “No, Francesca Albanese did not designate Israel as the common enemy of humanity… We denounce this attack on the independence of her mandate.” The group added it was “shocking” that France’s foreign minister repeated false claims while publicly prioritizing the fight against disinformation.

10. In an interview with L’Humanité, Albanese responded to @jnbarrot: “Everyone makes mistakes, it’s human. But we correct, we rectify,” calling on him to apologize and retract his false comments.

11. The backlash has not come only from Western governments.. “We don’t agree with much of what she says. We wouldn’t use the language that she’s using in describing the situation,” the spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres said.

The fight now centers on whether @FranceskAlbs, an independent UN Special Rapporteur can continue documenting Israeli crimes without political reprisal.

🎥 Video via L’Humanité. References in reply. Albanese’s full comments here:

https://twitter.com/franceskalbs/status/2020983308818186721

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Human Rights Watch shelved a report concluding that Israel’s decades-long denial of Palestinians’ right of return constitutes a “crime against humanity,” prompting the resignation of its entire Israel-Palestine team: Israel-Palestine director Omar Shakir and assistant researcher Milena Ansari.

Drop Site News spoke directly with Shakir and reviewed internal HRW emails and other documents. The story: 🧵🔽 2/
The 43-page report had completed Human Rights Watch’s full internal review process over seven months, including sign-off from HRW’s legal team and divisions covering refugees, international justice, women’s rights, and children’s rights.

It was halted roughly two weeks before its scheduled publication on December 4.

⭕️ Only 12 of 50 Palestinians approved to return to Gaza were allowed through the Rafah crossing on Monday, as returnees described being transferred by the armed Abu Shabab militia to Israeli checkpoints and subjected to hours-long interrogations, threats, and confiscation of personal belongings.

Israel blocked 38 of the 50 Palestinians attempting to enter Gaza and sent them back to Egypt, various outlets report today. On the outbound side, just five patients were allowed to leave for medical treatment. Reuters reported that ten companions accompanied them, while Gaza’s Ministry of Health said the total number of people who exited was just eight. An Israeli security source confirmed to Haaretz that members of the Israel-backed Abu Shabab militia, operating as the so-called “Popular Forces” now under Ghassan Duhine, escorted civilians from Rafah and handed them over to Israeli authorities at a newly installed inspection point.

Palestinian National Initiative Secretary General Mustafa Barghouti said returnees faced “horrific inspection procedures.” One woman, Sabah al-Raqab, said Abu Shabab gunmen beat, humiliated, strip-searched, handcuffed, and threatened women with arrest and death. Of six buses waiting to enter Gaza, she said, only one was allowed through.

The 12 who entered, nine women and three children, told Arab media they were questioned at multiple locations along the crossing. Several said masked Abu Shabab gunmen handed them over for Israeli interrogation. One woman said Israeli officials seized all their belongings, “even the children’s toys,” and denied them food and water. Another said she was questioned for more than two hours and told: “We won’t let you in. We’ll take you as prisoners until you tell us who entered on October 7.”

Middle East Eye shared footage of a Palestinian woman who said Israeli forces blindfolded and restrained returnees. “They don’t want large numbers to return; they want large numbers to leave,” she said.
Read Mustafa Barghouti’s full comments below documenting the ordeal for the 12 Palestinian returnees:

https://twitter.com/MustafaBarghou1/status/2018647378664857882

⚡️🧵 NEW at Drop Site:

In February 2024, the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem suppressed an internal report meant for wider circulation among senior Biden administration officials, saying it “lacked balance.” Reuters recently reported that the internal cable included photos from northern Gaza warning the area had become an “apocalyptic wasteland,” but U.S. ambassador to Israel Jack Lew and his deputy, Stephanie Hallett, blocked the images from distribution.

Jonathan Whittall @_jwhittall, who was on the UN fact-finding trip and is the former head of UN OCHA in the OPT, now shares a selection of those photos with Drop Site for the first time.

The images were taken during the January 2024 visit, which followed a three-month total siege on northern Gaza. Whittall says the mission’s purpose was to reflect reality, not political balance. “Many of these scenes had already been captured by Palestinian journalists, but they too had been dismissed as biased,” he writes. 🧵

📸 Photo 1: A partially destroyed school with piles of garbage and rubble lining the streets in Jabaliya. The school had no clean water or sanitation available and was being used as an emergency shelter by displaced Palestinians. January 31, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Whittall.) 📸 Photo 2: The same partially destroyed school in Jabaliya. January 31, 2024.

🚨 Jared Kushner presented a “master plan” for redeveloping Gaza into a high-tech metropolis during a speech at the Board of Peace charter signing ceremony in Davos, Switzerland, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.

Watch his full remarks here. We break down some key points in the thread below: 🧵 1/ Senior White House adviser and Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner said the administration has moved from securing a ceasefire to what he described as the far harder task of implementing peace, framing the effort as a shift in mindset after years of war in Israel and decades of despair in Gaza.

He credited President Donald Trump’s “first principles” approach for pushing the team to aim for outcomes others considered impossible, arguing that peace required changing behavior, habits, and expectations on both sides.

📌 Below is the full text of the charter of Trump’s proposed Board of Peace, reported and verified by the Times of Israel and other outlets. Drop Site News has also obtained a copy, which matches the document they published.

CHARTER OF THE BOARD OF PEACE

PREAMBLE

Declaring that durable peace requires pragmatic judgment, common-sense solutions, and the courage to depart from approaches and institutions that have too often failed;

Recognizing that lasting peace takes root when people are empowered to take ownership and responsibility over their future;

Affirming that only sustained, results-oriented partnership, grounded in shared burdens and commitments, can secure peace in places where it has for too long proven elusive;

Lamenting that too many approaches to peace-building foster perpetual dependency, and institutionalize crisis rather than leading people beyond it;

Emphasizing the need for a more nimble and effective international peace-building body; and

Resolving to assemble a coalition of willing States committed to practical cooperation and effective action,

Judgment guided and justice honored, the Parties hereby adopt the Charter for the Board of Peace. Article 1: Mission

CHAPTER I – PURPOSES AND FUNCTIONS

The Board of Peace is an international organization that seeks to promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict. The Board of Peace shall undertake such peace-building functions in accordance with international law and as may be approved in accordance with this Charter, including the development and dissemination of best practices capable of being applied by all nations and communities seeking peace.

🇻🇪 How popular was Trump’s move to intervene militarily to depose Maduro among Venezuelans?

Two pre-intervention surveys suggested a sharp split between Venezuelans inside the country and those abroad, with deep opposition at home and high support in the diaspora.

1. Datanálisis poll, Dec 2025
(Caracas-based firm)

▪️ Foreign military intervention (inside Venezuela)
➤ 55% opposed
➤ 23% supported
➤ 22% unsure / other

▪️Political alignment of those polled
➤ 60% politically unaffiliated
➤ 13% support the government
➤ 19% support the opposition

Page 1/5.
Thread continues below ⬇️ 2. AtlasIntel Intel Poll, October 22-28, 2025, published by Bloomberg
(Brazil-based polling firm)

▪️ Support for U.S. military intervention
➤ 64% support among Venezuelans abroad
➤ 34% support among Venezuelans living in the country

🚨 BREAKING: New footage shows explosions around Caracas, Venezuela, as parts of the city’s south near a major military base lost electricity. Low-flying aircraft were seen and heard from across the capital, according to Reuters.

https://twitter.com/falasteen47/status/2007336555397222542

Agence France-Presse and Associated Press said the blasts were heard around 2 a.m. local time, with an AP reporter counting at least seven explosions over several neighborhoods. Residents rushed into the streets, some watching the sky as aircraft flew at low altitude. The site of the explosions remains unclear, and Venezuelan authorities have not issued an official explanation or confirmed any casualties.

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2007335336331133260

🧵 THREAD: What Day 81 of the Gaza ceasefire shows, according to field data shared with Drop Site by sources inside Hamas

⭕️ A daily field monitoring report submitted to mediators by Hamas recorded 22 Israeli military violations of the Gaza ceasefire on Dec. 31, 2025 (Day 81), with two people killed — including a 5-year-old child — and multiple injuries reported across Gaza.

⭕️ The report cites 1152 injuries since the ceasefire began, with “all of the wounded were targeted inside the yellow line, without exception.”

⭕️ The thread below details casualties, military activity, aid entry, and overall compliance with agreed terms after 81 days 🧵👇🏼 1️⃣ Killings under the ceasefire

➤ 422 people killed since the agreement began
➤ 53.5% are children, women, or elderly
➤ 91.7% are civilians
➤ 96.4% were killed inside the “yellow line”, an area meant to be protected
➤ 2 people killed on Dec. 31 alone

NEW: Internal Hamas document shows Israel has violated Gaza ceasefire every day for 80 days

Despite President Trump’s claim yesterday that Israel was “100%” compliant with the ceasefire he brokered, a detailed internal report shared with Drop Site by sources within Hamas documents daily, systematic Israeli violations of the Gaza ceasefire.

1) What this document is
▪️ A day-80 violations report compiled through daily monitoring across Gaza
▪️ Tracks killings, injuries, military activity, aid access, and withdrawal compliance
▪️ Hamas says it has consistently transmitted this data to mediators overseeing the ceasefire 2) Killings since the ceasefire began
▪️ 420 Palestinians killed over 80 days
▪️ 53.3% were children, women, or elderly
▪️ 91.6% of those killed were civilians
▪️ 96.4% killed inside the designated “yellow line”

🟢 Hamas is publicly challenging Israel and its U.S. backers to allow an open, impartial international investigation into October 7—rejecting Israeli claims about civilian targeting, killing of children, and raping of women.

In a new political document, Hamas says that “during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, the resistance did not target any hospital, school, or house of worship; it did not kill a single journalist or any member of ambulance crews,” and adds: “We challenge the entity to prove otherwise.”

The movement calls for “an impartial international investigation into the claims of Israeli civilian deaths on October 7,” alongside a parallel probe into Israeli crimes committed during Israel’s war on Gaza.

The demand appears in a 42-page narrative released by Hamas today, laying out its account of October 7, Israel’s subsequent war on Gaza, and its view of the current political moment and what comes next.
Here’s the full section:

After more than two years of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Al Araby TV hosted a rare on-air debate from the ruins of Al-Shifa Hospital, between Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem, Fatah spokesperson Munther Hayek, and veteran Palestinian writer and lawyer Mustafa Ibrahim. They discuss October 7, resistance, governance, unity, and the political “day after.”

In the opening exchange, host Islam Badr frames the central question facing Palestinians following two years of annihilation: who has the authority to decide war and peace. Hamas’ Qassem explains that Hamas has long sought a collective national decision through elections, reconciliation, and joint resistance structures, agreeing that decisions about how to confront Israel should be made through a unified Palestinian institution, not by any single faction.

@islambader_1988 | @AlarabyTV

Full discussion in thread below 🧵 Fatah spokesperson Munther Hayek pushes back, arguing that Fatah’s turn to negotiations was taken through the PLO’s national institutions, not unilaterally. He says Hamas, since the internal split, has made decisions of war on its own — pointing to the devastation surrounding them at Al-Shifa Hospital as the outcome.

Hayek stresses that while armed resistance is a legitimate right in principle, direct military confrontation with Israel has repeatedly produced catastrophic results, citing the Second Intifada, Arafat’s killing, and the construction of the apartheid wall. He calls for an “honest review” of strategy, warning that failing to account for the regional and international balance leaves Palestinians paying the highest price.