Israel has dropped 100,000 tons of explosives on Gaza: War on Gaza Day 580

A Palestinian man who had been detained for 19 years in an Israeli prison passed away a few months after he was released, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society announced on Thursday.

Moatasem Taleb Raddad, 43, from the town of Seida in the West Bank, passed away on Thursday evening in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt, after a long battle with cancer. 

Raddad was exiled to Egypt after he was released as part of a prisoner exchange agreement in January between the Israeli government and Hamas. He had been in prison since 2006 and was among the most seriously ill of the Palestinian prisoners.

He was transferred to a hospital in Egypt after his release, but his condition had already reached a critical stage, leading to his death just three months later.

‘Assault on Children’: UNRWA Condemns Israeli Raids on East Jerusalem Schools

Israeli occupation forces enforced a ban on the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees on Thursday by storming three schools in East Jerusalem, terrorizing children and staff as they shuttered the facilities and drawing condemnation from human rights defenders.

According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, heavily armed Israeli security forces raided the schools in the Shu’fat refugee camp in illegally occupied East Jerusalem, detaining one UNRWA employee and forcing around 550 children out of their classrooms as the invaders closed the facilities.

“As a result, UNRWA was forced to evacuate all children across the six schools it runs in East Jerusalem,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said. “Now, nearly 800 girls and boys—some as young as 6 years old—are left in shock and trauma.”

“Storming schools and forcing them shut is a blatant disregard of international law,” Lazzarini added. “These schools are inviolable premises of the United Nations. By enforcing closure orders issued last month, the Israeli authorities are denying Palestinian children their basic right to learn. UNRWA schools must continue to be open to safeguard an entire generation of children” (continue reading here).

Trump ‘Disappointed’ with Netanyahu, Excludes Israel from Regional Plans – Report

Tensions between former US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appear to be escalating, according to the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom.

Citing sources with sources close to Trump, the report revealed that Trump “is disappointed” with Netanyahu.

“Relations between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the US president have reached a low point with mutual disappointment on both sides,” according to the report.

While previous reports highlighted Netanyahu’s own discontent with Trump, sources now say the feeling is mutual.

Two senior figures within Trump’s inner circle reportedly told Israel Hayom that Trump “has decided to stop waiting for Israel and instead move forward with Middle East initiatives without Netanyahu.”

Trump reportedly believes Netanyahu is dragging his feet on critical decisions, and that “he president wishes to make decisions he believes will advance American interests, particularly regarding Saudi Arabia and Gulf states.”

Saudi Arabia has repeatedly made it clear that any agreement on normalization with Israel must include an end to the genocidal war in Gaza and a formal Israeli commitment to a future Palestinian state.

Adding to the rift, Trump is said to be “furious” over what he perceives as an Israeli attempt to pressure his former National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, into supporting military action against Iran (continue reading here).

Israeli App on Mike Waltz’s Phone Exposed User’s Passwords

TeleMessage’s website was improperly configured, according to a source who contacted Drop Site. The website’s backend exposed users’ unencrypted emails, passwords, usernames, and phone numbers to the public.

Following a report by 404 Media that showed the website had been hacked in the past few days, the source pointed out that the company had been publicly exposing user credentials for years—with no hacking required to view them.

To confirm the tip, Drop Site used open-source tools to recreate a list of URLs inadvertently left public over the past few years that included exposed credentials (continue reading here).