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— 🇺🇸 NEW: Jewish-American Judge Robin L. Rosenberg has denied the Department of Justice's request to unseal documents related to investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, with the Epstein investigations dating from 2005 to 2007 Judge Rosenberg…
— 🇺🇸 NEW: Jewish-American judge Richard Berman, who presided over the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein, has rejected the government’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts
This follows the decision of another Jewish-American judge, Robin L. Rosenberg, to deny the unsealing of investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on July 24.
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This follows the decision of another Jewish-American judge, Robin L. Rosenberg, to deny the unsealing of investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on July 24.
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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Israeli media outlet Haaretz has reported that the U.S. military used 93 'THAAD' interceptor missiles in 11 days to defend Israel, revising earlier estimates by others of $800 million to a cost of approximately $1.2 billion With an annual…
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: A report by Bloomberg indicates that the U.S. Department of Defense plans to spend over $3.5 billion in 'emergency funds' to replace interceptor missiles used to defend Israel from Iran
These 'replenishment requests' stem from costs incurred from late 2023 onward and are separate from U.S. military aid to Israel, accounting only for American operations in defense of Israel.
The requested interceptors are primarily THAAD and 'SM-3' missiles. The Department of Defense plans to acquire 37 THAAD interceptors, despite indications that only 12 will be produced this year.
Initial reports following the Israeli-American aggression against Iran claimed the U.S. spent $800 million on THAAD missiles; this was revised to $1.2 billion based on 93 interceptors fired and later updated to 150 interceptors, totaling approximately $2.3 billion.
Additionally, around 80 'SM-3' interceptors were used, adding another $1 billion. The costs do not account for 'SM-6' or 'Patriot' missiles, if any were used. In total, the U.S. spent over $3 billion in June to defend Israel, not accounting for the bombing of Fordow in 'Operation Midnight Hammer.'
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These 'replenishment requests' stem from costs incurred from late 2023 onward and are separate from U.S. military aid to Israel, accounting only for American operations in defense of Israel.
The requested interceptors are primarily THAAD and 'SM-3' missiles. The Department of Defense plans to acquire 37 THAAD interceptors, despite indications that only 12 will be produced this year.
Initial reports following the Israeli-American aggression against Iran claimed the U.S. spent $800 million on THAAD missiles; this was revised to $1.2 billion based on 93 interceptors fired and later updated to 150 interceptors, totaling approximately $2.3 billion.
Additionally, around 80 'SM-3' interceptors were used, adding another $1 billion. The costs do not account for 'SM-6' or 'Patriot' missiles, if any were used. In total, the U.S. spent over $3 billion in June to defend Israel, not accounting for the bombing of Fordow in 'Operation Midnight Hammer.'
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— 🇮🇶/🇮🇶 The Chairman of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, Falih Al-Fayyadh: 'Dissolving our institution (the PMF) would be suicide, especially as we see the emerging threats in our region and what has happened in Syria. The PMF will continue to exist, and the US-led International Coalition withdrawal from Iraq must continue as planned.'
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— 🇺🇸 NEW: U.S. Department of Homeland Security's official account on Twitter is now posting 'Chad' and 'Soyjak' memes to appeal to the youth.
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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: An Israeli settler has been shot and is in 'serious condition' in the 'Malachei Hashalom' area, northeast of Ramallah in the West Bank.
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— 🇮🇱/🇦🇪 NEW: For the first time, the UAE has started directly and openly supplying Israel with weapons
An IL-76 was seen taking off from Al-Reef Air Base in Abu Dhabi today, landing in an unidentified Israeli Air Base before returning to the UAE.
This military cargo plane was previously used for weapons deliveries to the RSF rebels in Sudan.
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An IL-76 was seen taking off from Al-Reef Air Base in Abu Dhabi today, landing in an unidentified Israeli Air Base before returning to the UAE.
This military cargo plane was previously used for weapons deliveries to the RSF rebels in Sudan.
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—❗️🇮🇱/🇸🇾/🇸🇾 NEW: Following an Israeli-Syrian meeting in Paris, Syria's HTS-led security forces and Arab Bedouin militias have reportedly withdrawn from more than 38 towns in As-Suwayda Governorate
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❗️Avi Ashkenazi writing in Israel’s Maariv newspaper:
In Khan Yunis there still remains a Hamas infrastructure of elite forces that continue to challenge the Israeli army. The fighting to hunt them down is complex and difficult, but this morning’s incident is extremely serious and highlights a weakness of Shin Bet and Military Intelligence in the area.
The fact that such a large wave of militants carried out a raid on a military outpost should deeply trouble the army’s top brass regarding the very readiness of the Israeli military to manage the coming operation to seize Gaza City.
The militants used a tunnel network that Division 36 had not yet identified, and this is already a problematic matter, since the area was supposed to have been cleared and mapped for tunnels.
The Israeli army is about to enter Gaza City. The complexity there is many times greater. The military must understand it is not setting out on a stroll in Gaza City, but to fight against two Hamas brigades comprising several hundred fighters, some of them well-trained and fully armed. Hamas will challenge the forces, try to harass, kidnap, and embarrass the army with attacks similar to what took place this morning.
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—❗️🇪🇬/🇳🇱/🇵🇸 WATCH: A leaked phone call between Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and the Egyptian Ambassador in the Netherlands has surfaced online In the phone call, the Egyptian Foreign Minister says it's 'totally unacceptable' to allow Pro-Palestinian…
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—❗️🇺🇸/🇵🇸/🇪🇬 BREAKING: Two Pro-Palestinian protestors at the Egyptian Consulate in New York City were physically assaulted and dragged inside by staff
This event comes after Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty urged Egyptian embassies abroad to 'drag protestors inside', after a similar event occured at the Egyptian embassy in the Netherlands.
Eyewitnesses called the NYPD, who arrived on the scene and got the men out of the embassy, and then arrested them and put them in jail.
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This event comes after Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty urged Egyptian embassies abroad to 'drag protestors inside', after a similar event occured at the Egyptian embassy in the Netherlands.
Eyewitnesses called the NYPD, who arrived on the scene and got the men out of the embassy, and then arrested them and put them in jail.
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— 🇳🇱/🇮🇱 NEW: Israeli defense firms, including 'Elbit Systems,' have been banned from this year's 'NIDV Defense & Security' (NEDS) exhibition in the Netherlands
In late July, Israel was added to the list of 'foreign threats' by the Dutch government's 'National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism,' and Israeli officials Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir were banned from the country.
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In late July, Israel was added to the list of 'foreign threats' by the Dutch government's 'National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism,' and Israeli officials Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir were banned from the country.
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— 🇵🇸 Today marks the 56th anniversary of the arson attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque by Denis Michael Rohan, in an attempt to pave the way for the construction of the 'Third Temple,' a hypothetical holy site in Judaism.
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— 🇺🇸/🇨🇳 NEW: Active-duty U.S. Navy Sailor Jinchao 'Patrick' Wei, 25, has been convicted of espionage after being accused of selling 'sensitive military information' to China.
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— 🇺🇸 NEW: It has been confirmed that a U.S. Navy F/A-18 'Super Hornet' jet was lost during training off the coast of Virginia yesterday after crashing into the ocean. The pilot survived, but their condition is 'currently not confirmed'
This marks the seventh American-made F-18 (and its variants like the 'Growler') lost in the past 10 months, including three lost in American aggression against Yemen, two during routine training flights, and another from the Finnish Air Force.
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This marks the seventh American-made F-18 (and its variants like the 'Growler') lost in the past 10 months, including three lost in American aggression against Yemen, two during routine training flights, and another from the Finnish Air Force.
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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: The Iranian Navy has started a series of exercises, codenamed 'Eqtedar', in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman
The exercises include ships, drones, coastal anti-ship missiles, cruise missiles, and more.
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The exercises include ships, drones, coastal anti-ship missiles, cruise missiles, and more.
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—❗️🇸🇦 BREAKING: The entirety of Saudi Arabia's 'General Intelligence Presidency' (GIP), the country's main foreign intelligence agency, got leaked on the dark web a few months ago
The leaked information includes everything from phone numbers, IDs of employees, highly classified correspondence with other intelligence services, secret files, personal information, and more.
This constitutes a catastrophic intelligence breach, as the GIP plays a huge part in domestic Saudi political oppression and surveillance, alongside the National Guard.
(Via 'Egypt_Warfare' on Twitter)
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The leaked information includes everything from phone numbers, IDs of employees, highly classified correspondence with other intelligence services, secret files, personal information, and more.
This constitutes a catastrophic intelligence breach, as the GIP plays a huge part in domestic Saudi political oppression and surveillance, alongside the National Guard.
(Via 'Egypt_Warfare' on Twitter)
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— 🇮🇷 Iran's President, Masoud Pezeshkian: 'When I became President, Ismael Haniyeh was martyred in Tehran. Just a few months later Israel went to war with us, and now we have a water shortage.'
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