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"What you are seeing is just a small part of it..." Harrowing footage shows two young children, Yamen and Rahaf, in Gaza with cerebral palsy suffering from severe malnutrition. Credit: Sana_AlJamal82

NATO establishes liaison office in Jordan Jordan's foreign ministry has announced the establishment of the Middle East's first NATO liaison office in Amman, aiming to strengthen collaborative ties with the military alliance.

"We saved their bodies to stop them being eaten by dogs..." The bodies of two Palestinians are recovered and removed in horrifying conditions.

Microsoft is banning Palestinians for life from using Skype if they call relatives in Gaza A BBC investigation found numerous cases where Palestinians have had their Microsoft accounts abruptly shut down for making calls to their relatives in Gaza. One affected user, a Palestinian in the US, said, “I’ve had this Hotmail account for 15 years. They banned me for no reason, saying I violated their terms—what terms? Tell me.” In at least 20 recorded instances, Palestinians have had their accounts terminated without explanation.

Hezbollah’s use of Hudhud drones to map out key Israeli sites signals a shift in regional power dynamics. Read Robert's full news brief via the following link: https://www.mintpressnews.com/hezbollah-drone-footage-reveals-israel-impenetrable-defenses/287845/

Chuck Schumer signals to donors that he is open to dropping support for Joe Biden Axios reported that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is privately indicating to donors that he is open to a Democratic presidential ticket without President Biden. Despite his previous public support for Biden, the pro-Israel senator appears receptive to the idea of Biden not seeking reelection. It has also been reported that Schumer has been engaging with donors about the party's future direction, according to sources.

Actor and top Democratic fundraiser George Clooney has called on Joe Biden to drop out of the race for President Following meeting with the US President at a fundraising event that George Clooney had cohosted, he stated that Joe Biden “was the same man we all witnessed at the debate," adding that "our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw."

🔴 State of Play Livestream tonight with Greg Stroker 📍 Wednesday, July 11 @ 7:00 pm EST Internal Dissent: Maryam Hassanein, a Biden political appointee who recently resigned over the administration’s Gaza policy, joins MintPress. Does mass dissent affect policy, or is one simply compelled to follow conscience even if it doesn’t move the needle? 📍Watch via the following link: https://youtube.com/live/jrmi7Juf-0E?feature=share

The Washington Post fears Hezbollah could overwhelm Israel A Washington Post report examined Hezbollah's weapons arsenal and the potential scale of attacks it could launch against Israel in a full-scale war. The report indicates that while most of Hezbollah's weapons are low-grade unguided munitions, their sheer quantity could still overwhelm Israel's aerial defenses if deployed in quantity.

Top Rabbi Dov Lando has called on ultra-Orthodox Jews to refuse conscription Rabbi Dov Lando, a prominent figure in the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox community in the occupied territories and the head of the Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, has declared that "the courts have declared war on the Torah world." In a letter published on the front page of the ultra-Orthodox newspaper Yated Ne'eman, Rabbi Lando urged his followers to ignore any military call-up papers from the Israeli military and to refrain from attending draft offices.