⚡️Drop Site Daily | April 17, 2026 Iran opens Strait of Hormuz; Thousands return to southern Lebanon as ceasefire takes hold; House rejects Iran resolution by one vote www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-opens...

📺 WATCH AT 12 PM ET Drop Site replayed on Twitter/X Jeremy Scahill’s exclusive interview with Hezbollah MP Ibrahim Al-Moussawi. Recorded yesterday before Trump announced a 10-day “ceasefire” deal, the interview captures Hezbollah’s position on the war w/ Israel, why it re-entered the conflict...

⚡️🇱🇧 BREAKING: Despite President Trump “PROHIBITING” Israel from striking Lebanon, a fresh Israeli drone strike has just killed at least 1 person in Beit Yahoun, southern Lebanon, the country’s civil defense told Al Jazeera. 🔸Just an hour earlier, Pres. Trump posted on Truth Social: “the USA will...

📺 WATCH NOW! Jeremy Scahill’s exclusive interview with Hezbollah MP Ibrahim Al-Moussawi. Recorded yesterday before Trump announced a 10-day “ceasefire.” x.com/i/broadcasts...

⚡️New at Drop Site News: Rep. Angie Craig's Campaign Is Quietly Distancing the MN Senate Hopeful From AIPAC After several AIPAC network fundraisers translating to almost $200,000 for Craig's Senate campaign, staffers are saying the pro-... By Julian Andreone www.dropsitenews.com/p/angie-crai...

💢 Israel’s attacks on Lebanon killed 2,294 people, & wounded 7,544 more since March 2 ▪️ On April 17, the last full day before the ceasefire: ▫️ 98 killed ▫️ 359 wounded ▪️ Overall Breakdown by demographic: ▫️ Women: 274 killed, 1,223 wounded ▫️ Men: 1,834 killed, 5,617 wounded ▫️ Children: 177 killed...

💢 Gaza | Thursday, April 16 3 Palestinians, including 2 brothers, were killed today in Israeli attacks in northern Gaza & Gaza City, according to WAFA. 🔹The brothers were killed in a drone strike near Abu Tammam School in Beit Lahia, while another man died from wounds sustained in a separate...

⚡️Drop Site Daily | April 15, 2026 U.S. to add thousands of troops in Middle East; Israel continues to batter Lebanon, Gaza; Four killed in yet another Pacific boat strike dropsitenews.com/p/us-troops-...

🎥 Israel Isolated as West Rejects US War Drop Site’s @mazmhussain.bsky.social on Redacted News (X: @RedactedNews) youtu.be/vS_9yMt3slA?... via YouTube

🎥 WATCH: Trump's Hormuz Blockade; U.S.-Iran Negotiations Drop Site’s @jeremyscahill.com spoke with Redacted (X: @RedactedNews) about the latest developments. youtu.be/T00mKiIz6Ao?... via YouTube

▪️CENTCOM claims: 🔸No ships calling at Iranian ports have made it past the US blockade 🔸6 merchant vessels under orders from US forces to turn around re-entered an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman 🔸”U.S. forces are supporting freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to...

Because Pres. Trump, his Board Of Peace, & High Rep. Nickolay Mladenov allow Israel to continue assassinating CIVILIAN police officers throughout Gaza, 3-y.o. child Yahya Al-Malahi is dead today. An Israeli drone fired a missile into a police vehicle on Al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City, killing the...

⭕️ The Israeli military struck a police vehicle on al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City on Tuesday, killing four Palestinians and wounding nine, according to Drop Site contributor Mohammed Ahmed, who is inside Shifa hospital where the casualties were brought. 🎥 Video courtesy of Mohammed Ahmed.

🇨🇳 China Calls US Hormuz Blockade “Dangerous and Irresponsible,” Urges Immediate Ceasefire Chinese FM spokesperson Guo Jiakun condemned the US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in back-to-back statements Mon. & Tue., warning it would deepen an already fragile crisis. Guo told reporters Tue...

⚡️NEW at @dropsitenews.com: Prominent Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Has Been in Jail for 6 Weeks in Kuwait, Faces Trial in Special Tribunal This comes as part of a wider crackdown on online speech in Gulf countries during the Iran war. By Sharif Abdel Kouddous dropsitenews.com/p/kuwait-ahm...

⚡️NOW: @dropsitenews.com live stream: Iran, Lebanon and the U.S.-Israeli “Ceasefire” Matrix. @jeremyscahill.com and Sharif Abdel Kouddous (X: @SharifKouddous) speak with Rami G. Khouri (X: @RamiKhouri). Watch on X, YouTube or dropsitenews.com x.com/i/broadcasts...

⚡️Drop Site Daily | April 14, 2026 Israel-Lebanon talks begin as attacks continue; Pakistan proposes new round of U.S.-Iran negotiations; Congress prepares to reauthorize FISA section 702 www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-leb...

⚡️How 51 Seconds at a Pro-Palestine Protest Could Send a Muslim Student to Prison for 34 yrs Fmr. Uni. of Pittsburgh student Muhammad Ali faces 3 felonies for a brief tug-of-war w/ an officer over a metal barrier Read the full report by Mehr Sher for Drop Site News: dropsitenews.com/p/palestine-...

⚡️Drop Site Daily | April 13, 2026 U.S. imposes Iran blockade; Orbán out after 16 years ruling Hungary; Israel conducts double-tap strikes on rescue crews in Lebanon www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-impo...

J Street endorsing Mejia seems like a significant step for them

💢Al Jazeera shows damage from Iranian strikes across Qatar A new episode of AJA’s “What Lies Hidden Is Greater” airs exclusive footage documenting damage inside Qatar following Iranian strikes after the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. The investigation shows impacts across: ➤ Al Udeid air base and...

💢 ISNA: Iran’s delegation at the Islamabad talks includes more than 80 people, led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, w/ FM Abbas Araghchi & other top political, security, and economic officials also in attendance. ➤ The delegation includes Iran’s amb. to Pakistan Reza Amiri Moghadam...

🟢Hamas Meets Mladenov in Cairo — Refuses Disarmament Talks Without “Comprehensive Solution” Hamas met Friday w/ “Board of Peace” High Rep. Nickolay Mladenov in Cairo, according to Israeli public broadcaster KAN—as an alleged internal Hamas document obtained by KAN reveals the group’s position is...

⭕️Pakistan Issues Visa-on-Arrival for Islamabad Talks Pakistan’s Interior Ministry has granted visa-on-arrival to all participants in the 2026 Islamabad Talks, including journalists from participating nations. Deputy PM Ishaq Dar said airlines are instructed to allow boarding without prior visas...

💢 A U.S. delegation that arrived in Islamabad [about 6 hours ago] for Iran talks is nearly 300 officials large, according to Iran’s Tasnim News. VP Vance is leading the team, with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner also participating. The size of the delegation has not been confirmed by other outlets.

HUGE: J Street now backs blocking all aid to Israel, including for “defensive” weapons like iron dome Just weeks ago this was a controversial position for Dems, now J Street is backing it. A few years ago a Dem could get censured for holding this position. @aoc.bsky.social moving on this moved...

The 2025 documentary Pistachio Wars by Yasha Levine (Watermelon Pictures) shows that billionaire California pistachio magnates Stewart and Lynda Resnick, owners of The Wonderful Company, use their influence to drive a hardline U.S. foreign policy against Iran to protect their market monopoly...

💢 A massacre reported...[approximately three hours] ago in Gaza, with at least 8 civilians killed in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

🗞️NBC: Israel’s amb. to the US, Michael Leiter, said talks w/ the Lebanese amb. & the US envoy to Beirut led to an agreement to begin formal peace negotiations on Tue.—but said Israel “refused to discuss a ceasefire with Hezbollah,” which he claimed is “the main obstacle to peace” b/w the 2 countries

🚨 Lebanon & Israel held their first direct contact via ambassadors in Washington via a phone call at 2 pm ET on Friday, mediated by the US amb. to Lebanon, following an initiative by President Joseph Aoun to secure a ceasefire & launch talks, the Lebanese President’s office said. The office also...

🚨Just In | Lebanon Ministry of Health: The death toll from Israeli attacks on Wednesday has risen to 357 killed and 1223 wounded.

🚨 Israeli attacks have killed 1953 people and wounded 6,303 more across Lebanon since March 2, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced today.

⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com: "Not Guns for Hire": Trump's Failure to Trigger a Kurdish Uprising Trump tried to enlist the newly allied Kurds to his war. The US discovered they were highly skeptical of being dragged into conflict by... Story by Alexis Daloumis www.dropsitenews.com/p/kurds-trum...

🇸🇩 SUDAN | 73,000 people have been newly displaced from Kurmuk, a border town in southeastern Sudan’s Blue Nile State near Ethiopia, after UAE-backed RSF and allied fighters seized the city on March 24. Displaced people are now seeking safety in the state capital, Ed Damazin, & surrounding areas...

🇸🇩💢 Yale report finds evidence of RSF military support from Ethiopian base A new investigation by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab says it has “high confidence” that Ethiopia’s military is facilitating support to Sudan’s RSF from a base in Asosa, based on months of satellite imagery & open-source...

💢 At least 56 people were killed, including 17 children, and 107 injured in a SAF drone strike on a wedding ceremony in Kutum, North Darfur, on Wed. evening, according to Sudan Tribune. The strike hit the Al-Salama neighborhood. Local witnesses & the RSF blamed the SAF, which has not commented...

🇰🇪 🇷🇺 At least 16 Kenyans killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine as hundreds more remain on front lines Kenya’s foreign affairs min. has confirmed that at least 16 Kenyans have been killed fighting for the Russian military in Ukraine, among hundreds of young men from Kenya & other African countries...

🇺🇬 Ugandan lawyers vow to challenge US deportations as “illegal dumping” after first migrants arrive 8 migrants from various African countries were deported to Uganda from the US this week under a migration deal signed b/w the 2 countries last year — the first such transfer — prompting immediate...

⚡️Drop Site Daily | April 10, 2026 Iran peace talks hinge on Lebanon ceasefire as U.S. heads to Pakistan; Inflation spikes on soaring gas prices; Russia and Ukraine agree to Easter ceasefire www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-cease...

⭕️ Iran’s official death toll passes 3,000 as Red Crescent reports 339 medical facilities hit & 857 schools damaged in U.S.-Israeli war Abbas Masjedi, the head of Iran’s Legal Medicine Org., an official gov't body, was quoted in state media as saying the death toll from the US-Israeli war on Iran...

🚨 REPORT | Netanyahu called Trump – & US position on Lebanon changed Multiple diplomatic sources told CBS News that Pres. Trump was informed the regional ceasefire would include Lebanon & agreed to those terms. A WH official also said Israel had signed on to the Pakistan-brokered deal. Then PM...

💢 U.S. delegation heads to Pakistan as ceasefire talks hinge on Lebanon VP Vance will arrive in Pakistan on Friday to lead a US delegation on high-level talks w/ Iran in Islamabad along w/ US envoys Steve Witkoff & Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Iran’s speaker of parliament, Mohammad Bagher...

📈White House told staff to stop insider trading The WH Management Office sent a staff-wide email on March 24 warning employees against using their positions to place well-timed bets in futures markets, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. 3 accounts on the prediction platform...

⭕️Inflation spikes on record energy price increases Consumer prices rose 3.3% in March from a year earlier, the Dep't of Labor said Fri., up significantly from just 2.4% in Feb. & the biggest yearly increase since May 2024. The increase in inflation was driven by a record spike in energy prices...

🗳️ DNC rejects res. targeting AIPAC influence The DNC's res. committee rejected a symbolic resolution targeting the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Dem. primaries, & referred a pair of measures calling for conditioning military aid to Israel to the party’s Middle East...

💢 Lebanese outlet Al Mayadeen says U.S.-Iran direct talks, if they begin on Saturday, will include the following delegations: 📌 The Iranian delegation ▫️ Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf ▫️ FM Abbas Araghchi ▫️ SNSC Sec. Mohammad Bagher Zolqadr ▫️ Deputy FM Majid Takht-Ravanchi 📌 The U.S...

Joining me and Sharif Abdel Kouddous (X: @sharifkouddous on the @dropsitenews.com livestream now is Abubaker Abed (X: @AbubakerAbedW) to memorialize a friend and colleague, journalist Mohammed Wishah, assassinated this week by Israel

⚡️Drop Site Daily | April 9, 2026 Israel “blatantly” violating ceasefire, Iranian president says; 34 new settlements approved in occupied West Bank; China brokers deal in Afghanistan-Pakistan war www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-cea...

💢 Iran-linked hackers claim breach of former Israeli army chief’s phone, leak 19,000+ files The group ‘Handala’ says it has accessed more than 19,000 files from fmr. IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi’s phone, including images & videos from sensitive meetings. Some of the material reportedly shows...

🇪🇸 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez posted on X that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “contempt for life and international law is intolerable.”