Israeli pilots dumped 'unused bombs' over Gaza during Iran strikes: Report


#Gaza #war #genocide

Israeli fighter pilots returning from air defense missions during the 12-day war with Iran were routinely authorized to unload their leftover munitions on the Gaza Strip, according to a 2 July report by Maariv.

The move, initially a pilot-led initiative to โ€œassistโ€ Israeli ground forces in Khan Yunis and northern Gaza, was quickly expanded by Air Force Commander Tomer Bar into a daily operational policy across all squadrons.

The report outlines how, during the operation, pilots assigned to intercept missiles and drones launched from Iran were equipped not only with air-to-air missiles but also with air-to-surface munitions.

After completing their Iran-related missions, pilots contacted Gaza operation control rooms and offered to drop remaining bombs on designated targets in the enclave.

Air Force officials embraced the initiative. Within hours, the ad hoc proposal became standard practice, with squadrons instructed to coordinate with ground units before landing and to strike Gaza โ€œHamas targetsโ€ on their return.

Military officials described the program as a โ€œforce multiplierโ€ that allowed the air force to expand bombing raids in Gaza without additional resources.

โ€œInstead of bouncing planes off the ground for an attack policy, planes that were already in the air carried out the missions,โ€ an Israeli Air Force source told Maariv. โ€œIt saved a great deal of resources and increased the Air Forceโ€™s capabilities.โ€

The result was what the report describes as โ€œwaves of powerful air strikesโ€ on the strip, far removed from the Iranian front. According to the Israeli army, dozens of fighter jets participated daily, each releasing surplus munitions over the besieged enclave before landing.

While presented as a resource-efficient strategy, the practice effectively turned Gaza into a secondary front in a war that had no operational connection to the territory.

The attacks were directed based on instructions from Israeli ground forces already operating in Khan Yunis and northern Gaza, amplifying the daily bombardment of areas already under siege.

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@scottdhansen as I said, Iโ€™ve wanted to replace it w/concrete for years. Unfortunately the $10k investment in it has always been overshadowed by other priorities (i.e. furnace/AC, plumbing, water heater, interior remodels, etc.) as long as I can drive to my garage (oh yeah, garage replacement happened 15 years ago too) I can keep patching it. Winters here are rough, so eventually I am sure Iโ€™ll need to do it.

News story this AM on the local broadcast, Independence Day cookouts are more expensive this year. How much? โ€œAlmost 2% for a group of 10โ€. But this amount was not stated until the very end. They spent the time saying how much the price burgers/beef or brats have have gone up.

So NOW they want to tell us how inflation is affecting us. But under 4 years of Biden when inflation was running much higher (forgive me, Iโ€™m too lazy to go look up the amount) it was never talked about.

This study investigates the association between speakers' personal attributes, such as political stance or military experience, and their variable pronunciations of Iraq/Iran, as elicited through a rapid anonymous survey. For both target items, speakers' choice of variant appears to be associated not with political affiliation but with two other factors: ability to speak a second language and military service. English speakers who report being able to speak a foreign language are more likely to employ a variant more aligned with the source language, [irษ‘:k]/[irษ‘:n], while those with a record of military service tend toward the Americanized variants, [ajrรฆk]/ [ajrรฆn]. These results suggest that while specific variants might index political attitude in contexts where the construction of a particular political identity is desirable, in the absence of such a context, speakers' choice of variant is governed primarily by experiential factors.


#linguistics #pronunciation #Iraq #Iran #Americans


โ™ฒ Laurel Stvan - 2025-06-21 02:44:58 GMT

Some of my colleagues wrote a paper on this pronunciation variation with Iraq :read.dukeupress.edu/american-sโ€ฆ

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ยซ Mes amis Lorsque lโ€™on est persuadรฉ dโ€™รชtre trรจs compรฉtent, on stagne dans son apprentissage, car on ne voit pas lโ€™intรฉrรชt dโ€™approfondir. Demandons-nous alors : ยซ Et si je ne savais pas tout ? Et si je jouais la carte de lโ€™humilitรฉ ? ยป Lโ€™humilitรฉ fait apprendre. Lorsque lโ€™on se lance dans lโ€™apprentissage, il se peut que lโ€™on se croie douรฉ au dรฉpart, jusquโ€™ร  ce quโ€™on dรฉcouvre quโ€™il existe une infinitรฉ de choses ร  apprendre ! Nous nโ€™en finissons jamais. Nous tombons dans la vallรฉe de lโ€™humilitรฉ : je sais que je ne sais pas tout, que je peux toujours progresser. Cโ€™est ainsi que je progresse.

Lorsque lโ€™on est persuadรฉ dโ€™รชtre incompรฉtent, on se bloque aussi, car on considรจre que cโ€™est peine perdue. Demandons-nous : ยซ Et si jโ€™en savais plus que je ne croyais ? Et si je pouvais progresser ?

ยปRรฉflรฉchissez ร  ces biais cognitifs, afin de vous entraรฎner ร  accueillir de nouvelles pensรฉes, une nouvelle vision du monde et des choses. Chaque fois que vous รชtes persuadรฉ dโ€™avoir raison sur un sujet, osez une remise en question. ยป

Juan Branco, un inclassable sur les crรชtes รฉtroites - Par La rรฉdaction | Arrรชt sur images


#politique

(dans mon partage)

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Je n'ai pas le temps de regarder pour l'instant. J'ai รฉcoutรฉ Branco sur Thinkerview. Il me laisse toujours un peu dubitatif, sorte de mรฉlange de Tintin et de Robin des bois.
Mais il est intรฉressant, et dans le quasi dรฉsert intellectuel et politique en France (hors quelques "complotistes" et plateformes "alternatives") ce n'est pas ร  nรฉgliger.
Donc on va suivre ce gauchiste bourgeois en voie de rรฉdemption.

An investigation by The Guardian revealed that the Israeli military used a powerful 500-pound bomb, likely an MK-82, in its attack on Al-Baqa cafรฉ by the #Gaza seaside.

This bomb, caused a massive explosion and scattered shrapnel over a wide area, leaving a large crater at the site. The use of such a weapon may amount to a war crime.

#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar

#politique

Musk lรขche lโ€™Amรฉrique : les BRICS rรฉcupรจrent tout


Elon Musk vient-il de tourner le dos dรฉfinitivement aux ร‰tats-Unis ?
Alors que Tesla coupe ses partenariats fรฉdรฉraux, que SpaceX est exclu des contrats militaires, et que Starlink se dรฉploie dans les pays des BRICS sans lโ€™aval de Washington, une nouvelle รจre commence.

Le 5 juin 2025, Musk accuse Trump dโ€™ingratitudeโ€ฆ et commence ร  transfรฉrer ses technologies vers la Chine, le Brรฉsil, lโ€™Inde et lโ€™Afrique du Sud.Tesla alimente dรฉsormais le rรฉseau รฉnergรฉtique chinois. Starlink รฉchappe au contrรดle du Pentagone. Et lโ€™influence amรฉricaine vacille.**

Washington a-t-elle perdu le dernier technologue quโ€™elle ne pouvait pas se permettre de perdre ? Ou Musk vient-il dโ€™ouvrir une brรจche que dโ€™autres suivront ?

Dans cette vidรฉo, on dรฉcrypte les dรฉcisions radicales de Musk, les rรฉactions internationales, et ce que cela rรฉvรจle du nouvel ordre technologique mondial.


youtu.be/d-9Q46d8GSc

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Jakarta Post - Four people died, 30 missing and 31 survived after a ferry carrying 65 people sank near Bali.
thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2โ€ฆ

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Mads Gilbert, an emergency medicine doctor who has spent extensive time working in Gaza, says the Gaza Health Foundation (GHF) distribution centres are part of the Israeli occupation forces and the Israeli government plan to ethnically cleanse and to fulfil their goal of genocide in Gaza.

โ€œThe distribution organisation is aimed at using food as bait to attract starving people, to terrorise them and to kill them. The shooting of people in food lines is a war crime.โ€

@palestine
#Gaza
#aid

We, the undersigned, call on the UK Home Secretary to urgently proscribe the โ€œIsrael Defence Forces (IDF)โ€ as a terrorist organisation, under the Terrorism Act 2000. We believe their actions meet this definition and that they pose a threat to the safety and security of innocent civillians.

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitionsโ€ฆ

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Zionist lobbyists in California are pushing a bill AB 715 that aims to put classrooms under the control of Israeli military thought police

trackbill.com/bill/california-โ€ฆ

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I lost my niece and nephew in Gaza. Until the world calls this a genocide, we have no hope of peace | Ahmed Najar theguardian.com/commentisfree/โ€ฆ #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Palestinianterritories #Israel-Gazawar #Worldnews #Gaza

Ceasefire Theater: Gaza Talks Mask Israelโ€™s Push for Ethnic Cleansing mintpressnews.com/israel-gaza-โ€ฆ

Israel limits entry of baby formula in Gaza as infants die of hunger

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While waiting to enter Gaza on a medical aid mission, an American doctor watched Israeli security forces confiscate the cans of powdered baby formula packed in his luggage. The vital product is desperately lacking in the Palestinian enclave, where about 50 children have died of hunger since March.

#StarvingGaza #BabyFormula #KillingChildren #Sadism #Cruelty #WarCrimes #Israel

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Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territories, has called on countries to impose a full arms embargo as well as cut off trade and financial ties with Israel, which she alleged is waging a genocidal campaign in Gaza.

โ€œIsrael is responsible for one of the cruellest genocides in modern history,โ€ Albanese said in a speech to the UN Human Rights Council.

@palestine
#Gaza
#genocide
#FrancescaAlbanese
#UN
#news

Un biais cognitif, cโ€™est comme un piรจge dans notre tรชte.
Cโ€™est quand notre cerveau fait une erreur sans quโ€™on sโ€™en rende compte. Il croit quโ€™il pense bien, mais en fait, il se trompe un peu. Cโ€™est comme porter des lunettes qui changent un peu la rรฉalitรฉ : on voit les choses dโ€™une faรงon spรฉciale, mais pas toujours juste

๐Ÿงƒ 1. Biais de confirmation

Cโ€™est quand tu penses quโ€™une chose est vraie, et tu cherches seulement ce qui te donne raison.
๐Ÿ“Œ Exemple :
Tu dis : โ€œLe jus de pomme, cโ€™est le meilleur !โ€
Alors tu รฉcoutes seulement les copains qui disent โ€œOui, moi aussi jโ€™adore !โ€
Mais tu ignores ceux qui prรฉfรจrent le jus dโ€™orange.

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๐Ÿง’ 2. Effet de groupe (ou biais de conformitรฉ)

Cโ€™est quand tu fais comme tout le monde, mรชme si ce nโ€™est pas ce que tu veux vraiment.
๐Ÿ“Œ Exemple :
Tu veux dessiner un chien, mais tous les autres dessinent des chats.
Alors tu dessines un chat aussi, juste pour รชtre comme eux.

โธป

๐Ÿญ 3. Biais dโ€™ancrage

Cโ€™est quand la premiรจre chose quโ€™on te dit influence ce que tu crois, mรชme si ce nโ€™est pas logique.
๐Ÿ“Œ Exemple :
On te dit : โ€œCe bonbon coรปte 10 dinars !โ€
Puis on te dit : โ€œMais je te le fais ร  5 dinars, cโ€™est une super affaire !โ€
Tu crois que cโ€™est pas cherโ€ฆ alors quโ€™un bonbon de 5 dinars, cโ€™est dรฉjร  beaucoup !

โธป

๐Ÿง  En rรฉsumรฉ :

Les biais cognitifs, ce sont des faรงons bizarres ou trompeuses de penser.
Ils arrivent ร  tout le monde, mรชme aux grands !
Mais quand on les connaรฎt, on peut mieux rรฉflรฉchir.

For Rida Abu Hadayed, summer adds a new layer of misery to a daily struggle to survive in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

With temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), daybreak begins with the cries of Hadayedโ€™s seven children sweltering inside the displaced familyโ€™s cramped nylon tent. Outside, the humidity is unbearable.

apnews.com/article/israel-hamaโ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

A family of six was completely wiped out in an Israeli strike that targeted a tent in the so-called โ€œsafe zoneโ€ of al-Mawasi in southern Gaza. last night. Seven others were also killed in the same attack.

Local sources reported that the Israeli strike targeted a makeshift tent in a displacement camp, where clusters of tents sheltering already displaced families also caught fire.

qudsnen.co/israeli-attack-on-tโ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

In a speech to the UN Human Rights Council, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese said: โ€œThe situation in the occupied Palestinian territory is apocalyptic.โ€

โ€œIsrael is responsible for one of the cruellest genocides in modern history,โ€ she added, in a speech that was met with a burst of applause from the Geneva council.

arabnews.com/node/2606747/middโ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Amnesty International issued a report Thursday claiming a controversial Israeli- and U.S.-backed system to distribute aid in Gaza uses starvation tactics against Palestinians to continue to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The U.K.-based human rights group condemned Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which the U.S. and Israel have backed to take over aid distribution in Gaza from a network led by the United Nations.

apnews.com/article/israel-paleโ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

At least 15 Palestinians were killed earlier on Thursday in an Israeli attack targeting a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City. The victims include children who were burned to death.

Medical sources reported that 11 people were killed in the Israeli attack on the Mustafa Hafez School in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in western Gaza City.

Local sources reported the bombing caused a fire at the school, burning people alive.

qudsnen.co/israeli-strike-on-gโ€ฆ

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

US terrorist govt approves $510 million arms sale to Zionist criminal regime en.abna24.com/news/1704197/US-โ€ฆ

ยซ Mes amis Notre cerveau reรงoit beaucoup dโ€™informations au quotidien et ne conserve que celles que nous estimons utiles. Sinon, il serait dรฉbordรฉ. Cette caractรฉristique nous rappelle que lโ€™apprentissage doit รชtre conscient. Pour retenir une information, nous devons choisir de la retenir. Nous devons nous investir. Dโ€™oรน lโ€™intรฉrรชt, toujours, de sโ€™entraรฎner dรฉlibรฉrรฉment. Dans lโ€™apprentissage, notre volontรฉ dโ€™apprendre et lโ€™attention que nous y mettons y participent au plus haut point. ยป
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On July 3, 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg reached its climax, with 140,000 troops facing each other on the battlefield. From Culpโ€™s Hill to the fields south of town, Day 3โ€™s battlesโ€”culminating in Pickettโ€™s Chargeโ€”produced over 15,000 casualties, deciding the battleโ€™s outcome. Leeโ€™s Confederates staked everything on breaking Meadeโ€™s Union line, while the Army of the Potomac fought to hold the high ground.
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Frustrated by Day 2โ€™s failures, Lee planned a massive assault on the Union center, led by Longstreet, with Pickettโ€™s fresh division, while Ewell renewed attacks on Culpโ€™s Hill and Stuartโ€™s cavalry probed the Union lines to the rear. Both commanders braced for a decisive confrontation under the sweltering July heat.

At 4:00 AM, Union XII Corps, under Brig. Gen. George S. Greene, launched a counterattack to reclaim Culpโ€™s Hill trenches lost to Johnsonโ€™s Confederates on July 2nd.

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Over 10,000 Union troops, backed by artillery, blasted Ewellโ€™s brigadesโ€”Steuartโ€™s and Danielโ€™sโ€”in a seven-hour slugfest. By 11:00 AM, relentless Union assaults, led by regiments like the 137th New York, drove the Confederates off the hill, securing the Union right. The fighting, marked by heavy musketry and cannon fire, cost over 2,000 casualties, ending Leeโ€™s hopes of turning Meadeโ€™s flank and shifting his focus to the Union center.
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Around noon, Confederate cavalry under Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, 6,000 strong, clashed with Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. David M. Gregg east of Gettysburg at Rummelโ€™s Farm. Lee aimed to disrupt Union lines, but Greggโ€™s 5,000 troopers, including Custerโ€™s brigade, stood firm. Custer rallied the 1st Michigan, shouting, โ€œCome on, you Wolverines!โ€
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After hours of mounted and dismounted fighting, and about 500 casualties, Stuartโ€™s advance was halted. Securing Meadeโ€™s rear and foiling the Confederate flanking maneuver.

Late on July 3, Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. Elon Farnsworth, part of Kilpatrickโ€™s division, launched a doomed charge against Longstreetโ€™s right flank south of Big Round Top. Ordered to disrupt Confederate lines, Farnsworthโ€™s 300 troopers faced Lawโ€™s infantry and artillery across rocky terrain.

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At 1:00 PM, 150 Confederate cannons, stretching along Seminary Ridge, unleashed a thunderous two-hour bombardment on the Union center at Cemetery Ridge. The barrage, meant to soften Meadeโ€™s line, sent shells screaming into II Corpsโ€™ positions under Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock. Eighty Union guns, led by Col. Freeman McGilvery, replied, cloaking the field in smoke. Despite the deafening roar, Union troops, sheltered behind stone walls and earthworks, suffered minimal losses.
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The artillery duel, one of the warโ€™s largest, set the stage for Leeโ€™s climactic assault, as both sides braced for the decisive moment, Pickettโ€™s Charge.

At 3:00 PM, 12,500 Confederatesโ€”Pickettโ€™s, Pettigrewโ€™s, and Trimbleโ€™s divisionsโ€”emerged from Seminary Ridge for Pickettโ€™s Charge. Advancing a mile across open fields, they faced a storm of Union artillery from Cemetery Ridge, led by Lt. Alonzo Cushingโ€™s battery.

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Hancockโ€™s II Corps, including the 69th Pennsylvania and 1st Minnesota, unleashed devastating rifle volleys. Pickettโ€™s Virginians, with Armisteadโ€™s brigade, breached the Angleโ€™s stone wall, but Union counterattacks, led by Col. George Stannardโ€™s Vermonters, crushed the assault. Over 6,000 Confederates fell, including Armistead, in a catastrophic defeat.
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Day 3โ€™s battles cemented Union victory. Culpโ€™s Hillโ€™s recapture secured the right, while cavalry fights east and south, led by Custer and Gregg, blocked the Confederate threats. Pickettโ€™s Charge, a disastrous failure, cost Lee 6,000 men, with total Day 3 casualties nearing 15,000โ€”8,000 Confederate, 7,000 Union. Meadeโ€™s line held firm. Leeโ€™s dream of victory collapsed, forcing a retreat. The Union, bloodied but triumphant, claimed the field, setting the stage for the warโ€™s turning point.
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Leeโ€™s army, with 28,000 losses, would retreat the next day, July 4th. Meade, with 23,000 casualties, did not pursue, sparking debate. Critics, including Lincoln, argued he missed a chance to crush Lee. Defenders cite Meadeโ€™s exhausted troops, low supplies, and Leeโ€™s still-formidable army, arguing caution preserved the victory.

Gettysburg shifted the warโ€™s tide, but Meadeโ€™s restraint, praised by some and scorned by others, left the Confederacyโ€™s in tact dragging the war on for two more years.

ยซMes amis le cerveau nโ€™est pas un organe figรฉ, mais une structure qui se remodรจle en permanence, au grรฉ de nos expรฉriences. Chaque fois que lโ€™on vit de nouvelles choses, que lโ€™on apprend de nouvelles informations, la myรฉline se fortifie. La myรฉline est la gaine qui protรจge les synapses, qui elles-mรชmes sont les cellules situรฉes entre les neurones. Une myรฉline renforcรฉe accroรฎt la connexion et la communication entre nos neurones. De nouveaux chemins neuronaux se dessinent. Notre cerveau devient plus performant ; il fait des liens entre toutes les informations quโ€™il hรฉberge, ce qui nous aide ร  avoir de nouvelles idรฉes, des facilitรฉs de comprรฉhension, un esprit plus vif, de lโ€™humour aussiโ€ฆ Ce phรฉnomรจne se maintient tout au long de la vie. Il nโ€™y a pas dโ€™รขge pour apprendre ! ยป
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