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Israel ‘weaponizing’ water in Gaza – medical charity

Shortages have triggered a disease surge in the enclave, Doctors Without Borders says in report

Israel has used access to water as a weapon and a form of “collective punishment” against Palestinians in Gaza, according to a report by international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Israel has rejected the claims as baseless.

The organization said in a report released Tuesday that Israel has “engineered” water scarcity in the strip, creating “conditions incompatible with human dignity and survival.” Access to water, sanitation and hygiene has been “severely undermined” since the start of the Israeli offensive in Gaza in October 2023, it stated.

The report highlights a sharp rise in water-shortage-related diseases, including diarrhea, skin infections, lice, and infected wounds. Additionally, the lack of clean water and sanitation is also worsening malnutrition and severely affecting mental health.

Gaza has no natural freshwater sources, relying instead on groundwater and seawater, both of which require treatment. Much of the infrastructure, including desalination plants, boreholes, pipelines, and sewage systems, has been rendered inoperable or inaccessible, according to MSF.

Amid the collapse of the public system, MSF has become the largest non-governmental water producer in Gaza, pumping and desalinating groundwater through mobile units and distributing it by truck to affected areas. The report noted that multiple MSF trucks have been attacked by Israeli forces.

The minimum humanitarian threshold is about 15 liters of water per person per day, including 6 liters for drinking and 9 liters for domestic use. In Gaza, people are receiving this bare survival level at best, according to UNICEF, with many unable to access even the minimum amount of safe drinking water.

Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) rejected the report in a series of posts on X on Tuesday, calling the claims “baseless” and “factually incorrect.” They said that Israel is facilitating, not restricting, water access, citing the operation of four supply lines, infrastructure repairs, and the provision of fuel and electricity for water systems. They accused MSF of biased reporting and operational shortcomings.

Despite a ceasefire agreed last October, Israeli strikes and gunfire continue across Gaza, with over 700 Palestinians killed since the truce began, according to the UN. The overall death toll since October 2023 has exceeded 72,000, according to Gaza’s health authorities.

https://www.rt.com/news/639225-israel-gaza-water-weapon-msf/

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April 28, 4:50 PM

Iran in ‘state of collapse,’ Trump claims

US President Donald Trump claimed that Iran has informed him that they are in a “state of collapse” as they figure out their leadership situation, in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday.

He added that Iran also wants the US to open the Strait of Hormuz “as soon as possible.”

This is a developing story.

April 28, 4:38 PM

Did Israel risk lives? Debate rages over Israel sending Arrow missiles to Germany mid-Iran war

Israel's capacity to produce Arrow missiles for Israeli defense increased between seven and 10 times, The Jerusalem Post learned.

A debate is raging over whether Israel's sending Arrow air defense missiles to Germany during the middle of the Iran war, when it was being showered with ballistic missiles, cost Israeli civilian lives.

The Jerusalem Post has confirmed that Israel continued to send Arrow missiles to Berlin mid-war as part of a contract between the countries, even though Israel had a shortage of its own interceptors.

Some commentators upon learning this information have accused the Israeli government of allowing at least five persons to die and hundreds to be injured when the IDF did not use the Arrow to defend from certain attacks.

April 28, 2:53 PM

Iranian embassies openly recruit for ‘sacrificing life’ campaign in the West

Iranian embassies in the UK, Germany, Australia, and Sri Lanka have openly sought recruits for a martyrdom campaign amid ongoing conflict with the US and Israel.

The Iranian embassies in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Sri Lanka have openly attempted to recruit fighters willing to “sacrifice their lives” in a new campaign as Tehran continues to refuse terms for an end to the war with the US and Israel.

On April 15, Tehran’s official embassy page in London called for “proud compatriots residing in the United Kingdom” to join the efforts.

April 28, 2:52 PM

Rubio on White House shooting: 'A lot of leadership' and warns Iran 'seeks to dominate the region'

Rubio called the shooting an “unfortunate situation” that an individual could disrupt the important event, and said, "That’s kind of the world we live in right now.”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised US President Donald Trump’s leadership and transparency during the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, as he also addressed ongoing tensions with Iran and conflict involving Hezbollah in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Trey Yingst on Monday.

Rubio called the shooting an “unfortunate situation” that an individual could disrupt the important event, and said, "That’s kind of the world we live in right now.”

When asked what it was like to rush back to the White House he said, “I think the President’s decision to return to the White House, release the video, and then address the American people in a press conference…really showed a lot of leadership by the President, and I think calmed the nation down, and I think has allowed us to pivot towards the investigation and move on with the work of the country.”

April 28, 2:52 PM

Israel's purchase of 'stolen' Ukrainian grain is not 'legitimate', Zelensky says

Ukrainian President Zelensky condemned Israel's purchase of grain from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories, stating it cannot be considered legitimate business and warning of sanctions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Israel's purchase of grain from occupied Ukrainian territory "stolen" by Russia "cannot be legitimate business" and that Kyiv was readying sanctions against those attempting to profit from it.

"Another vessel carrying such grain has arrived at a port in Israel and is preparing to unload," Zelensky said on X/Twitter. "This is not – and cannot be – legitimate business."

"Israeli authorities cannot be unaware of which ships are arriving at the country's ports and what cargo they are carrying," he stated.

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Anti-ICE Group Received Millions From Taxpayers In A Year — Here’s What We Got In Return

A pro-illegal immigrant group received more than $8.7 million from taxpayers in the year that it helped spark destructive protests, but despite outcry and probes from Washington, it faces no consequences.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) reported the government grants in its latest tax filing covering July 2024 through June 2025, the month that Los Angeles, California, was set ablaze by anti-deportation rioters. The chaos kicked off in June 2025 after CHIRLA created an anti-ICE network that led to a union leader’s arrest and encouraged supporters to arrive at a federal building for a rally that turned violent, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported. CHIRLA defended the mob as rioting against deportations spread across central California for days and caused damages somewhere between $32 million and $1 billion, according to local and federal agencies.

House and Senate lawmakers responded by announcing investigations into CHIRLA that have produced no findings or legislative reforms as leftists use the tax-exempt nonprofit system to fund radical causes. The House Judiciary Committee and Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri sent CHIRLA letters in June demanding records of its finances and internal communications.

There have been no reports of CHIRLA handing over the information, and lawmakers have announced no further action. The House Judiciary Committee did not threaten a subpoena if CHIRLA ignored its requests, while Hawley threatened “potential referral for criminal investigation.” The IRS and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli did not respond to the requests for comment about a probe they announced last year into the anti-ICE riots, while the FBI’s Los Angeles office declined to comment.

CHIRLA’s $8,726,683 from taxpayers in fiscal year 2024 made up 35% of its total revenue, according to its records. CHIRLA has received more than $80.6 million in government grants since former President Joe Biden took office and opened the U.S. border to historic illegal immigration, tax filings show.

The nonprofit became a fixture in the U.S. immigration system after the Obama administration’s Board of Immigration Appeals tapped the group to provide immigration services in 2011. CHIRLA “filed thousands of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) initial and renewal applications” and gave thousands of migrants services such as “adjustment of status, U-Visa, deportation defense” and fighting for “Temporary Protected Status” from deportation since 2012, the group wrote. CHIRLA and other organizations sued the Trump administration in March for halting Biden-era federal grants for citizen naturalization programs, but district and appeals judges have upheld the move, court records show.

The House Homeland Security Committee sent a letter to CHIRLA in June demanding information on its immigration-related activities, another move that appears to have brought no results.

CHIRLA did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment. “We will not be intimidated for standing with immigrant communities and documenting the inhumane manner that our community is being targeted with the assault by the raids, the unconstitutional and illegal arrests, detentions, and the assault on our First Amendment rights,” CHIRLA told the press in response to Hawley’s letter.

Hawley’s office, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee did not respond on the record to the DCNF’s requests for comment. “The [Judiciary] Committee conducts to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse and stop taxpayer funding of violent anti-government activity and liberal pet projects,” a source familiar with the Judiciary Committee probe told the DCNF.

Demonstrators gathered at the Los Angeles federal building on June 6 to protest the arrest of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) leader David Huerta on charges of obstructing an immigration raid earlier that day. CHIRLA’s initially peaceful rally took a turn — protesters threw items at police, blocked a street and vandalized property in what cops declared an unlawful assembly, local media reported.

Fellow anti-ICE group Hispanic Federation complained in a June 9 press release that “members of our partners at CHIRLA” and another group were “detained and injured” while demonstrating.

https://dailycaller.com/2026/04/28/chirla-anti-ice-los-angeles-riots/

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United Arab Emirates Ditches OPEC

The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday that it will depart from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on May 1, 2026.

In an official statement delivered via the Emirates News Agency, the UAE noted that its “long-term strategic and economic vision” had diverged from OPEC’s. The move comes as global oil benchmark Brent crude rose to over $110 per barrel after markets opened.

Joining OPEC in 1967 as the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the UAE served as OPEC’s third-largest producer in its nearly 60-year tenure with the group.

“While near-term volatility, including disruptions in the Arabian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, continues to affect supply dynamics, underlying trends point to sustained growth in global energy demand over the medium to long term,” UAE officials stated in the press release announcing their departure from OPEC. “The decision reflects a policy-driven evolution in the UAE’s approach, enhancing flexibility to respond to market dynamics while continuing to contribute to stability in a measured and responsible manner.”

President Donald Trump has criticized the oil cartel since his first term, accusing them of market manipulation detrimental to U.S. interests.

“OPEC and OPEC nations, are, as usual, ripping off the rest of the world, and I don’t like it. Nobody should like it,” Trump said in a 2018 speech at the United Nations. “We defend many of these nations for nothing, and then they take advantage of us by giving us high oil prices. Not good.”

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has long sought to increase its production, but disagreements with Saudi Arabia prevented this expansion. The UAE maintains OPEC’s second-largest spare production capacity following Saudi Arabia. Spare production capacity is the maximum volume that can be activated within 30 days and maintained for at least 90.

“We reaffirm our appreciation for the efforts of both OPEC and the OPEC+ alliance and wish them success,” the UAE continued. “During our time in the organisation, we made significant contributions and even greater sacrifices for the benefit of all.”

https://dailycaller.com/2026/04/28/united-arab-emirates-oil-petroleum-exporting-countries/

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Apple Adds Age Verification to Digital ID in Wallet, Moves Beyond TSA Airport Checkpoints

Apple's age verification rollout arrives without fanfare for a reason.

Apple just turned on the next phase of its Digital ID rollout and the framing in the company’s support documentation is almost casual. The passport-derived credential in Apple Wallet can now be used to confirm a user is over 18 when creating an Apple Account, updating iOS, adjusting safety settings, or downloading apps rated 18+. No press release accompanied the change, by the way.

The understated rollout undersells what is actually happening. Apple, like Google, Meta, Discord, and every other consumer-facing platform of significant size, is racing to operationalize digital identity infrastructure to meet a wave of age-verification mandates landing across the US, UK, EU, and Australia.

The companies did not invent this demand; lawmakers did, but the response is arriving faster than the laws themselves, and the architecture being built right now will outlast any specific statute that prompted it.

The UK’s Online Safety Act is already forcing platforms to verify ages with documented credentials.

Discord attempted its own age-verification rollout earlier this year, paused after backlash, and has continued reworking the system. State laws in the US are moving in the same direction with Texas, Louisiana, Utah, and a growing list of others passing mandates that target app stores, social platforms, and adult content sites.

Federal proposals keep recycling similar models. The European Union is preparing its own age-verification framework. Australia has already legislated a social media ban for under-16s.

The platforms doing the verifying have a choice. They can build the credential infrastructure themselves, license it from third-party vendors who upload your passport to their servers, or hand the job to the operating system that already lives on your phone. Apple’s Digital ID, and Google’s parallel work on digital credentials in Android, are bids to be the third option. They are also bids to be the default option, because once an OS-level identity wallet exists, regulators tend to treat it as the natural place to plug in.

What Apple actually launched, and when

Digital ID went live last November as Apple’s workaround for the slow march of state-issued mobile driver’s licenses. Twelve states and Puerto Rico currently support adding a real driver’s license to Wallet, which left most US iPhone owners without a digital credential. So Apple built one.

At launch, acceptance was limited to TSA checkpoints in over 250 US airports.

Apple was explicit at the time that this was a starting point. Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s vice president of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet, said, “With the launch of Digital ID, we’re excited to expand the ways users can store and present their identity — all with the security and privacy built into iPhone and Apple Watch.”

The same announcement promised that “in the future, users will be able to present their Digital ID at additional select businesses and organizations for identity and age verification in person, in apps, and online.” The first organization to accept Digital ID for age verification is now Apple itself.

The mechanics appear in a support page titled “If you’re asked to confirm that you’re an adult.”

Apple lists the acceptable proofs and rules out the obvious ones. Passports, debit cards, and gift cards do not work. A footnote states, “A Digital ID in Apple Wallet created using a U.S. passport can be used to confirm that you’re an adult.”

https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-digital-id-age-verification-rollout

>>24550111

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>>24549703 King Charles Marks America's 250th Birthday with Historic Address in US Congress [LIVE]

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>>24549556 LATERS - President Trump Hosts State Dinner for King Charles III & Queen Camilla

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>>24549923 @realDonaldTrump - @SenRandPaul My Bill moves the Ballroom project forward without extra taxpayer funds & ensures Congress can expedite review

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>>24549392 WATCH - Education Secretary Linda McMahon Defends Trump's 2027 Budget Before Senate Committee [LIVE]

>>24549332 Maurene Comey’s lawsuit against DOJ over her firing can proceed, judge rules

>>24549371 @FBIDirectorKash Weaponization of the USG by its senior members in a time of global pandemic, who were entrusted to protect us.

>>24549381 Charges dropped against elderly pro-lifer for holding sign in abortion ‘buffer zone’

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>>24549391 A King County program manager who ran a taxpayer-funded racial equity initiative steered more than $800,000 in grant money to five of her own family members

>>24549414 The United Nations elected Iran as one of 34 vice presidents of the 11th Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

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>>24549482, >>24549503 Benjamin Netanyahu returns to court

>>24549513, >>24549523, >>24549534 Cole Allen's Ties To A Far-Left Group “The Wide Awakes”

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>>24549604 BREAKING: Social Media manager for United Healthcare FIRED following deranged video disappointed that the shooter missed

>>24549620 OKeefeIII: 1:00 PM EDT Fox VP Caught on Camera: Brags About Strip Club Charges & Lies on Fox Expense Reports

>>24549627 Billionaire Ken Griffin Blasts Mamdani’s ‘Personal Attack’ - Says He’s Meeting With Gov. Hochul

>>24549632 Watch LIVE - Iran Revolution

>>24549641, >>24549839 Trump’s FCC Preparing Review of ABC Broadcast Licenses in Wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s Melania Joke

>>24549648 A giant carnivorous grasshopper measuring 25 centimeters was spotted in Diyarbakir

>>24549660 Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit boarded M/V Blue Star III, a commercial ship suspected of attempting to transit to Iran in violation of the U.S. blockade

>>24549714 Strategic Overview - There Are No Lone Assassins: This Is Political Warfare - April 27, 2026

>>24549818 @HSI_HQ and @HSISaintPaul are zeroing in on the rampant fraud of taxpayer dollars in Minnesota.

>>24549840, >>24549853 Chuck Schumer already moving on to a new, not happening, war.

>>24549843, >>24549849 Securing the ultimate high ground: how the Space Force is revolutionizing airborne target tracking

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>>24549900 Teacher's Unions pour more than $1 BILLION into left wing causes. Radicalizing the children.

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