The messages invoked the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler and Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel. 

In one message Ha wrote, “The end of American jews is close. Let’s start with the jews in Lower Merion,” the Philadelphia township where Haverford is located. In another he said, “If jews are so special then they should also be placed in special camps and receive special treatments,” court documents show. 

Dana Joudeh was in shackles when she found out she was pregnant.

The 35-year-old from the West Bank city of Nablus was newly married and had just spent her first night in an Israeli prison. Israeli forces had arrested her without charges and put her under administrative detention, an arbitrary condition for holding Palestinians hostage abducted her.

She lost consciousness in front of Israeli soldiers at Sharon Prison, a temporary detention facility torture dungeon in the city of Netanya, and they took her to a hospital blindfolded. There, with her hands and feet bound in chains, she was given a pregnancy test that came back positive.

Israeli forces used sound grenades inside the prison, according to Joudeh’s family and her lawyer, Hassan Abbadi, who provides volunteer legal support for detained Palestinians. They said soldiers would force the women to lie face down on the floor.

On September 12, Joudeh gave birth by C-section under local anesthesia, watching the operation as it was happening. Maram said that Joudeh’s hands and feet were shackled while she was cut open, and female Israeli soldiers surrounded her with guns in the operating room, standing guard.

Joudeh’s doctor was Israeli, and she recalled him speaking to her in cruel, degrading terms, according to Maram. “The terrorist has arrived,” she remembered him saying about the fragile newborn. Joudeh named her Lia.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11806379

[Original in German. This is a paraphrased automated translation with minimal edits.]

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"I think the Russians saw me through the drone camera. When I heard the drone, I hid in the stairwell for ten minutes. When I came back into the yard, the drone hit right next to me. My legs folded away and then I only saw a blood fountain, says the boy, who is now home after the operation. Andrij's mother, 43-year-old Yuliia Spitsa, is convinced that the Russian drone pilot knew that he had hunted a child. But that did not stop him.

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Andrij has injury of drone shards on his leg. He was rescued by Ukrainian soldiers who were passing by. They put on a pressure bandage and took the boy first to his mother, later to the hospital. Now the 11-year-old can walk again. His family says that compared to other victims of Russian drone strikes in Cherson, Andrij was quite lucky.

The 11-year-old can recognize different types of Russian weapons by their sounds, his playground is surrounded by air defenses.

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According to Human Rights Watch, 30 civilians were killed by Russian drones in Cherson between May and December 2024, and at least 500 were injured. In January 2025, short-range drones, particularly FPV drones, accounted for 70 percent of all civilian casualties in the Ukraine-controlled part of the Cherson area, according to the United Nations.

The port city of Cherson is shelled almost daily. The city on the right bank of the river Dnipro was liberated by Ukrainian troops in November 2022. According to local authorities, about 60,000 people still live here today, compared to 279,000 in January 2022.

“Santa”, the Ukrainian soldier, watched this video [showing the drone attack on the 1-year old Andrij] several times and tried to analyze the action of the Russian drone pilot.

"This was not a practice or a mistake. The man was not a beginner – he simply cold-bloodedly chased a civilian. The Russians know that they can no longer take Cherson. And they simply try to destroy what they are not entitled to, what they cannot get, says the man who has been defending his hometown since the first days of the great war."

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In one of many related report, France24 published ‘Not an isolated incident’: Russian drones stalk Ukraine’s civilians in ‘human safaris',

The video of a Ukrainian cyclist being targeted and killed by a short-range drone posted – and later deleted – by the Russian military Friday left viewers outraged and shaken. But it’s not the first time that Russian drone operators have been accused of terrorising Ukrainian civilians by deliberately targeting them in “human safaris” denounced as a war crime by an independent UN commission.

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The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation giving Donald Trump broad powers to impose sanctions on Russia and tariffs of up to 100% on countries that buy Russian oil and gas. It will now go to Trump to be signed into law.

Thieves stole about 30,000 bottles of some of Italy’s most prized wines worth an estimated 5 million euros ($5.8 million) from a winery in Tuscany, in what the producer described Friday as the country’s largest wine theft on record.

The theft targeted Marchesi Antinori’s facility near Cortona, in the province of Arezzo, where a group of at least seven thieves on Saturday night made off with bottles of some of Italy’s most sought-after wines, including Solaia, Tignanello and Guado al Tasso. The theft was discovered Monday, but the company made it public on Friday to avoid interfering with the investigation.

Chief Executive Renzo Cotarella said the thieves disabled the winery’s alarm system and surveillance cameras before entering with two large trucks. Using the company’s forklifts, they loaded the vehicles with wine and fled during the night.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52941424

Ethiopian minister says Eritrean troops advanced up to 60 km into Tigray

Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of having declared war in bid for sea access

More explosions reported overnight near Tigray town of Adigrat

Ethiopian Airlines flights to Mekelle to resume on Sunday

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Ethiopia said an "all-out invasion" by Eritrean forces had left it with no option but to defend itself, in a letter to the UN ‌shared with Reuters on Friday, as blasts continued near the border between the two countries.

In response, Eritrea's information minister said his country had shown restraint since Ethiopia had declared a war of aggression against Eritrea by stating in 2023 it would acquire sovereign access to the sea.

The countries traded accusations after a reported incursion by Eritrean troops this week raised fears of outright war in the region, where the two nations have fought previous conflicts. The stakes have been raised this time around by conflicts in the Horn of Africa region and tensions across the Red Sea.

Ethiopia lost its access to all coastline when Eritrea secured independence in ⁠1993. Addis Ababa argues that restoring sea access is an existential issue but has said it would be restored through peace and dialogue.

Ethiopia has accused Eritrea of supporting a rebel alliance in Ethiopia. Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos said in the letter that Eritrean forces had advanced up to 60 km (37 miles) into the country.

Tesla has changed the name of its advanced driver assistance system in Europe after pushback from Germany’s transportation ministry. It’s now called “Tesla Assisted Driving,” instead of “Full Self-Driving (Supervised).”

It’s a big capitulation from Tesla, which has been using the “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” name for years despite the system requiring humans to pay attention to the road and take over when necessary. But the name change could help Tesla achieve its goal of wider adoption on the continent, which could unlock a potentially massive new revenue stream for the company.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53804936

The film shatters ‘respectable’ Israelis’ illusion of moral superiority: The most prestigious, highly educated soldiers are the primary culprits of genocide.

from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Oct. 4, 2026

Also:

• ‘The Gaza Holocaust won’t be forgotten’: An Israeli musician screams into the void
• On Israeli campuses, Palestinian students are guilty until proven innocent
• ‘I’d rather die than go back’: A Palestinian teen’s 10-month nightmare in Israeli jail
• Palestinian MKs in Israel have long faced election bans. This time is different

Trump said on social media he had a "highly successful" discussion with President Vladimir Putin in which they agreed that Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 metric tons of diesel to US and ​global markets, equal to about 2.25 million barrels of fuel.

A man named Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has secured a narrow victory in Peru's local elections, exit polls show.

The candidate for the centre-left Ahora Nación party was elected mayor of Queropalca, a remote district in the Peruvian Andes.

Some 229 residents voted for the 45-year-old, putting him ahead of the second-place candidate from right-wing Renovación Popular Perú by just 25 votes.

The European Parliament has urged this Thursday the Member States to analyze whether certain entities and individuals linked to the Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood should be added to the European list of terrorist organizations, within a package of actions to curb the infiltration of these networks into democratic institutions and strengthen the oversight of their funding and activities in Union territory.

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In this context, the Eurochamber maintains that Europe must continue to be a "free, open, and true to its principles" society, but emphasizes that it cannot continue "financing, consulting, or legitimizing networks that use its language, its procedures, and its funding to weaken its values from within."

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Members of the European Parliament also ask the community institutions to tighten controls prior to any cooperation with entities potentially involved in these strategies, explicitly citing the European Forum of Muslim Youth and Student Organizations (FEMYSO) and other structures related to the Muslim Brotherhood.

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For this evaluation, the Parliament demands that it not be limited to "the formal structures" of the organization, but also extend to associated entities, front organizations, financial intermediaries, youth networks, and individuals with leadership or coordination responsibilities.

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In the financial sphere, the MEPs demand greater traceability of European funds and "stricter" controls over the organizations that receive community aid. Furthermore, they ask the European Commission for a detailed report on the resources granted to individuals or entities suspected of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood or political Islam.

The text also calls for strengthening oversight of foreign funding and transnational associations, particularly those involving actors linked to Qatar or Turkey, as well as enhancing cooperation among member states, Europol, and Eurojust to identify possible influence networks.

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The resolution also calls for the creation of a European list of hate preachers, following the example of initiatives already in place in some member states, with the aim of tightening controls on the granting of visas and residence permits to individuals included in that register.

At the same time, the Parliament emphasizes that the response to Islamist infiltration must be accompanied by specific measures to protect Muslim citizens from discrimination, which it qualifies as a "democratic obligation," and requests support for civil society organizations and Muslim representatives who defend democratic values and oppose Islamist pressures.

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/world/p/1455923/drones-and-death-families-reel-from-the-uaes-catastrophic-strikes-in-war-on-isis

The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal that the U.S. believes has become politicized and attempted to unfairly and illegally prosecute Americans and Israelis on war crimes charges.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the sanctions Friday, after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to South African prosecutor Navi Pillay, a former judge at the ICC and other international courts. Trump has coveted that prize for himself. The move, however, long predated the Nobel Prize announcement.

“We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate against us,” Rubio said in a video address posted to social media. “The United States and the American people are not subject to the jurisdiction of this fake ICC.”