The Treasury Department <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0572">dropped the hammer</a> Thursday on a sprawling network of terror-supporting hypocrites, slapping heavy sanctions on Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas operators who hide behind fake charities and underground banks to fund violent extremism.
The Trump administration isn&#8217;t playing games. The Office of Foreign Assets Control exposed a senior U.K.-based Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood official, alongside three money-laundering operatives and three front organizations secretly fueling Hamas’s military wing.
“The Trump administration will relentlessly pursue terrorists and those who finance them,” warned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “Whether operating under the guise of charities, businesses, or underground financial networks, those who enable Hamas will be exposed, sanctioned, and held accountable.”
Thursday&#8217;s action pulled back the curtain on how these terror networks exploit donors while funneling cash directly into violent ops. Mahmoud al-Abyari, secretary general of the Muslim Brotherhood General Secretariat, was exposed for managing ties with Hamas and helping raise cash for previously sanctioned terror-linked groups like Hayat Yolu.
Entities like Indonesia’s Tujah Bulah Global (operating under the alias Seven Spikes Global) and the Gaza-based Madad Palestine Charitable Society claimed to gather cash for needy civilians. Instead, the money was secretly diverted straight into the pockets of Hamas fighters. Turkey-based El-Kahira for General Trading, owned by Khuldun Khamis Zakaria Alden and operated with shareholders Zaid and Abdullah Al-Jebouri, moved hundreds of thousands for Hamas. The operation didn&#8217;t stop at terror. It also provided underground fiat and crypto banking to violent European organized crime groups like Sweden’s notorious Foxtrot Network.
This crackdown marks the latest salvo in an aggressive, ongoing push by the Treasury Department to relentlessly pursue Muslim terrorist entities and dismantle their global cash pipelines.
Thursday&#8217;s blitz builds directly on Treasury enforcement actions from earlier this year, including the <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0415">March 12 dragnet</a>, when Treasury targeted four bogus non-profits, including Türkiye-based Ghazi Destek Dernegi and Indonesia’s KNRP, and captured Hamas documents proving that they were secretly funneling cash, supplies, and construction materials exclusively to armed militants in Gaza.
On <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0368">January 21,</a> Feds exposed six Gaza-based front groups posing as medical clinics, including the Waed Society and Al-Nur Society, that were directly integrated into Hamas&#8217;s security apparatus. Treasury also sanctioned the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA) and UK organizer Zaher Khaled Hassan Birawi for orchestrating political propaganda and Gaza-bound &#8220;flotillas&#8221; at the direct behest of terror bosses.

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Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman reclassified crocodiles from wild animals to “<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-902827">cultivated wild animal</a>s,” opening the door for them to be used to guard the country’s prisons holding Hamas operatives.
The regulation implemented Wednesday allowed crocodiles to be bred by government officials as long as they are held “in conditions determined by the [Nature and Parks Authority] director, to prevent their interference with nature,” the Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/likud-minister-reclassifies-crocodile-as-tended-paving-way-for-ben-gvirs-prison-plan/">reported</a>.
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who pitched the idea last year, celebrated the change online. 
“Ministers Ben-Gvir and Silman are collaborating and surrounding the prisons with crocodiles!” Ben-Gvir <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1442179624624396&amp;set=a.320758186766551">posted</a> on Facebook Thursday, adding an AI-generated image of himself with a pet crocodile and the caption, “You filthy terrorist, thinking about making a run for it? Think twice.” 
Ben-Gvir and Silman have taken inspiration from Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” that used the Everglades’s natural alligator population to deter its inmates from escaping, according to <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/israel-reclassifies-crocodiles-imitate-alligator-alcatraz/">NewsNation</a>.
Ben-Gvir hopes that Nile crocodiles will be placed at Ketziot Prison, which hosts many prisoners from Hamas.
Nile crocodiles are one of the most dangerous animals in the world. SeaWorld <a href="https://seaworld.org/animals/facts/reptiles/nile-crocodile/">notes</a> that Nile crocodiles can grow up to 20 feet long — half the length of a typical school bus — and can weigh over 1,500 pounds.
Not only do Nile crocodiles prey on hippos, zebras, or wildebeest, and they are one of the only known reptile species to actively hunt humans.
Neta Drori, the Environmental Protection Ministry’s legal adviser, wrote to Silman in June that there is no known precedent of using crocodiles to protect prisons, and noted that crocodile breeding in the past has led to the animals escaping and terrorizing local populations.
“With regard to the use in the United States, it was noted that this was a short-lived trial that was discontinued. It apparently took place in an area where crocodiles already occur in the wild, and there is therefore no basis for comparison,” Drori <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-902827">wrote</a>.
“Although Prison Service officials said they are aware of and prepared to ensure the animals’ physical welfare, among other things based on their experience with dogs, the organization apparently has no expertise in raising dangerous wild animals such as crocodiles,” Drori added.
Drori concluded that despite the reclassification of the crocodile, Israeli law requires legislative approval of the decision to add crocodiles to the country’s prisons.
Silman has rejected Drori’s opinion, citing testimony from senior officials that the bureaucratic framework allows her and Ben-Gvir to implement the crocodile plan.
The Nature and Parks Authority is expected to meet soon and discuss the legality of Silman and Ben-Gvir’s plan. 
“The minister is acting contrary to her own legal adviser, contrary to the legal opinion of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, contrary to the authority’s plenum, and contrary to the law. In other words, there is no legal basis for this,” an official told the Jerusalem Post.

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Ro Khanna was having a great week.
Everyone was feeding right into the publicity stunt he pulled by traveling to the West Bank and getting &#8220;detained&#8221; by Israelis. Ink was spilled in think-pieces, man-hours were spent on thorough &#8220;debunkings,&#8221; and Khanna got to fling all the slop he could in various Twitter fights.
In the attention economy age, things were going perfectly to plan. Ro was dominating the conversation.
There&#8217;s just one problem: it wasn&#8217;t enough for the people who it was meant to impress.
After his trip, Khanna did an interview with the terrorist-friendly third-worldist outlet Drop Site News, seeking to capitalize on his momentum. There, <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2077101764277399717">he was confronted</a> by journalist Jeremy Scahill.
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💢 Jeremy Scahill asks Rep. Ro Khanna:
“Do Palestinians have a right to kill Israeli soldiers, Congressman?”
“On October 7, did Palestinians have a right to attack Israeli military bases in the Gaza envelope? Yes or no?”
🎥 Watch Khanna’s response in the attached clip. Longer… <a href="https://t.co/x05LkvFxgU">https://t.co/x05LkvFxgU</a> <a href="https://t.co/CmZqgpahBZ">pic.twitter.com/CmZqgpahBZ</a>
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&#8220;Do Palestinians have a right to kill Israeli soldiers, Congressman?&#8221;
&#8220;The first targets that were hit on the morning of October 7 were multiple military bases. Did Palestinian forces have the right to attack those military bases?&#8221;
Scahill, who does very cool things like call terrorists by their formal names (&#8220;The Qassam Brigades, Palestinian Forces&#8221;), subjected Khanna to a seven-minute struggle session where he repeatedly asked the Congressman to say October 7 was a good thing.
Khanna was forced to flail and give generic answers about &#8220;non-violent resistance&#8221; and even invoked Gandhi. But it wasn&#8217;t good enough for Scahill. He needed to endorse killing Israelis. He needed to say October 7 was justified. Anything less was insufficient.
I must say I delighted in the exchange. I will admit there was a time I fell on the more non-interventionist, anti-war side of foreign policy. I still do, to a large degree. But I was forced back toward the center as I realized gradually over time just how insane the &#8220;anti-war&#8221; faction is.
The reality is most of them aren&#8217;t anti-war when you scratch just a tad below the surface. What they actually are is anti-American and anti-Western. They side with terrorists, dictators, and adversaries of the United States. People like Scahill cry anti-imperialism and then have nothing to say about Vladimir Putin&#8217;s genocidal war of aggression against Ukraine.
Drop Site wasn&#8217;t the only one to call BS on Khanna&#8217;s stunt because it didn&#8217;t go far enough. Hasan Piker delivered the presidential hopeful a backhanded compliment, <a href="https://x.com/socialistadri/status/2077100119644656082">calling him &#8220;moveable&#8221; on Israel</a>, which is better than, say, Chuck Schumer.
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🚨&#8221;If he&#8217;s movable on this issue, we can get others to be far, far more aggressive in their posture. I will take Ro Khanna over Chuck Schumer. I will take Ro Khanna over Haley Stevens. I will take Ro Khanna over Cory Booker.&#8221; Hasan Piker discussing <a href="https://x.com/RoKhanna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RoKhanna</a>&#8216;s inconsistencies on… <a href="https://t.co/vre16FIuAZ">pic.twitter.com/vre16FIuAZ</a>
— adri ♡ (@socialistadri) <a href="https://x.com/socialistadri/status/2077100119644656082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2026</a></blockquote>
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His audience&#8217;s reaction? To turn on Piker himself and call him impure.
The comments under Piker&#8217;s post and the Drop Site interview indicate that Khanna is learning a harsh lesson. Until he embraces out-and-out extermination of the Israeli state and support of Hamas, his silly games will get him nowhere. Only pure, uncut radicalism will do. He joined the <a href="https://x.com/Cavalorn/status/654934442549620736">leopards-eating-faces party</a>, and now he&#8217;s got to dislodge the teeth from his orbital bone.
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&#8216;I never thought leopards would eat MY face,&#8217; sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People&#8217;s Faces Party.
— Adrian Bott (@Cavalorn) <a href="https://x.com/Cavalorn/status/654934442549620736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2015</a></blockquote>
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A <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-wanted-20-000-peacekeeping-troops-in-gaza-he-is-starting-with-10-to-20-cf0ab958">new report</a> from The Wall Street Journal reveals the promised International Stabilization Force (ISF) for Gaza is currently struggling to deploy an initial group of just 10 to 20 troops.
The force was originally envisioned as a 20,000-strong multinational peacekeeping presence tasked with securing Gaza and preventing the terrorist group Hamas from rebuilding its military. Instead, regional instability has severely hampered recruitment.
The deployment shortfall comes amid deep skepticism over political developments within Gaza. On Monday, Hamas announced that its governing body would step down and transfer administrative authority to a United Nations-backed Palestinian technocratic council.
Here’s the catch: Hamas conspicuously refused to commit to disarming its military wing.
Critics argue that Hamas is attempting to replicate the &#8220;Hezbollah model&#8221;—allowing a civilian administration to handle municipal duties like garbage collection while the terrorists maintain real power through their arsenal. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar strongly condemned the move, writing:
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Hamas’s trick is simple. Hamas’s apparent willingness to “make room” for a technocratic government is designed to prevent its own disarmament. Hamas seeks to replicate the “Hezbollah model” in Gaza: a technocratic administration would be responsible for garbage collection and other municipal services, while Hamas would remain the dominant military force.
As long as Hamas retains its weapons, any civilian government will of course operate as Hamas dictates. This would allow Hamas to continue oppressing the Palestinian people in Gaza, while pursuing its jihadist war against Israel. Israel insists on the full implementation of the Trump plan, with its core principles being the disarmament of Hamas and all other terrorist organizations, and the complete demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas’s trick is simple.
Hamas’s apparent willingness to “make room” for a technocratic government is designed to prevent its own disarmament.
Hamas seeks to replicate the “Hezbollah model” in Gaza: a technocratic administration would be responsible for garbage collection and…
&mdash; Gideon Sa&#39;ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) <a href="https://x.com/gidonsaar/status/2074154631152742813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The ISF&#8217;s current troop shortage underscores the massive hurdles facing the broader peace plan. A small contingent of Moroccan soldiers, originally scheduled to arrive in June, is now delayed by several months. Once they arrive, they will not enter Gaza immediately; instead, they will base themselves at a newly constructed logistics hub in Israel near the border to conduct training and limited reconnaissance operations.
Broader recruitment efforts have collapsed due to conflicts involving Iran and Lebanon. Indonesia—which had previously floated a commitment of thousands of peacekeepers—placed its participation on hold after four of its UN peacekeepers were killed during clashes between Israel and Hezbollah.
Until Hamas fully disarms, the civilian power transfer will remain entirely symbolic.

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Nearly half of the rapidly growing Muslim population in the United States has a favorable opinion of the terrorist group Hamas, according to a stunning new survey.
According to the <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/07/09/americans-views-of-israelis-have-grown-increasingly-negative-but-views-of-palestinians-have-held-fairly-steady/">Pew Research Center poll</a>, a staggering 44% of Muslim Americans expressed a favorable opinion of Hamas. The view is out of step with Americans overall, with an overwhelming 84% of the broader American public viewing the jihadist group negatively.
The poll comes as Muslims have gained political power, with New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani becoming one of the most prominent Democrats in the United States. In Michigan, a state where Muslim populations have become the majority in certain pockets such as Dearborn, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is the favorite to be the party&#8217;s nominee for U.S. Senate.
Both candidates are harsh critics of Israel, where the terrorist group Hamas operates. The poll drops alongside a mountain of sickening evidence exposing the subhuman savagery unleashed by the terror group upon innocent hostages. Since the October 7, 2023 massacre, captives dragged into the dark labyrinth of Gaza had been subjected to a calculated campaign of psychological and physical destruction.
A report released in May, <a href="https://cc4e0711-9401-400e-ae14-65ae0400675b.filesusr.com/ugd/aab121_c40e37b3d22a4ca5af625523ac4fab8f.pdf">“Silenced No More: Sexual Terror Unveiled,”</a> painted a stomach-churning picture of the depravity. Captives were starved in suffocating underground cages, denied medical treatment, and forced to endure systematic, dehumanizing torture designed to break their spirits.
Most horrifying of all was the weaponization of &#8220;kinocidal&#8221; sexual violence — a deliberate, systematic campaign of rape and sexual abuse deployed by Hamas monsters to terrorize and erase families. Family members were forced to perform sexual acts on each other. Other instances occurred where family members were forced to watch as Hamas brutally abused other family members.
The report states:
<blockquote>Hamas and its collaborators inflicted SGBV (sexual and gender-based violence) in multiple locations, employing recurring patterns of abuse. The Civil Commission identified at least thirteen patterns of abuse across multiple sites, including: 1) Rape, gang rape, and other forms of sexual assaults; 2) Sexual torture, including intentional burning and mutilation; 3) Deliberate shootings to the head, face, and genital area; 4) Killings and executions following or committed in conjunction with SGBV; 5) Postmortem sexual abuse, humiliation, and desecration of bodies; 6) Forced nudity and exposure; 7) Handcuffing, binding, and restraint of victims; 8) Public displaying and parading of women and children; 9) Abduction of mothers and children; 10) SGBV inflicted in the presence or near vicinity of family members; 11) Filming and digital dissemination of SGBV, including use of social media to document, glorify, and amplify the atrocities; 12) Threats of forced marriage; 13) Rape and other forms of sexual violence against boys and men.</blockquote>
Firsthand testimonies and forensic evidence confirm that women, men, and children were subjected to brutal, sexualized torture both during the initial cross-border raid and inside the terror tunnels. This systemic degradation wasn&#8217;t just a byproduct of war; it was used as an intentional tool of psychological warfare, aiming to permanently shatter the social and familial fabric of the victims.
As the public grapples with these horrifying accounts of barbarism, the Pew poll serves as a chilling wake-up call about a group that routinely practiced unspeakable, unadulterated cruelty.

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WASHINGTON — A Kuwaiti man who obtained a green card in the U.S. is being sent home after he called America &#8220;the enemy&#8221; and expressed support for terrorists.
Tareq Alkhudari entered the country on a non-immigrant student visa in 2014 to attend San Jose State University, a source familiar with the situation said. He gained lawful permanent resident status in November 2024, but is now in federal custody pending removal from the United States after Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated his legal status. 
In posts from his Instagram and Bluesky accounts, Alkhudari repeatedly expresses disdain for the United States and white people. In December 2025, he posted a cartoon of a brown-skinned individual preparing to set fire to the American-flag-cape draped over the shoulders of a woman dressed in red, white, and blue.
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In another post he speaks positively of the &#8220;Al-Aqsa Flood,&#8221; the code name given by Hamas for their terror attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
&#8220;Since Al-Aqsa Flood, we&#8217;ve witnessed an unprecedented surge in public support for Palestine,&#8221; reads a graphic that Alkhudari shared. The post questions whether Western supporters of Palestinians are genuine and whether their support is &#8220;consequential and coincidental, or has it been prepared for this inevitable time?&#8221;
He also shared a graphic stating &#8220;the compass remains Palestine&#8221; and &#8220;the enemy remains Isntreal and Amerika.&#8221;
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In another post, he mocks a woman for defending both Palestinians and Americans, writing: &#8220;Lol I wonder what this cracker would think if she knew I watch documentaries and investigations of white on white crimes to soothe myself to sleep.&#8221;
In an Instagram post about his plans to travel home to Kuwait before President Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, Alkhudari blames &#8220;Isntreal and Amerika&#8221; for the &#8220;instability&#8221; and says those countries are responsible even if an Iranian missile kills him.
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As he lamented reports of a deal between Iran and the United States, Alkhudari posted a photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump, saying: &#8220;Hope whatever the other carries is contagious and they both perish from a comet striking them just before they take their final breaths suffocating on white phosphorous [sic] and their own blood.&#8221;
He also railed against &#8220;incessant Amerikan and zionist expansion proxy warfare, sectarian fragmentation, and the normalization of colonial presences across the region.&#8221;
&#8220;The Trump administration will never allow foreigners who denigrate our great nation to abuse the hospitality of the United States and remain on American soil,&#8221; a State Department official shared. 
“This foreign national wished harm on our president, referred to America as &#8216;the enemy,&#8217; and voiced support for foreign terror organizations,&#8221; the official added. &#8220;Foreign nationals who echo propaganda from foreign adversaries while residing in the United States should expect to find themselves on a deportation flight. They must return home.” 
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Alkhudari also expressed an intense hatred of Americans, even those who agreed with his political causes.
&#8220;You satiate your desperations from theatrical representations with more American consumerism, as the country continues its planned genocides, colonization, and exploitation of Black, Brown, and indigenous bodies,&#8221; he wrote in a post on Bluesky.
Another post slams Westerners who &#8220;identify as pro-Palestine&#8221; but don&#8217;t understand why Iran is targeting American bases in the Middle East, saying that these Westerners are &#8220;exposing the limits of their political literacy and nature of their performativity.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no point walking them through it,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;It&#8217;s fruitless labor. Imagine explaining sectarianism to a white Amerikan who roots for Francesca Albanese and thinks Pierce [sic] Morgan&#8217;s sympathy signifies change&#8230;If one cannot situate the Zionist entity within the broader architecture of regional militarization and normalization, the confusion is self imposed.&#8221;
In a Kuwaiti newspaper article, Alkhudari tears into New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, arguing that Mamdani is not radical enough and &#8220;came from the heart of the American liberal establishment and enjoyed the support of white feminist movements and liberal normalizers whose true loyalty remained with the American colonial system, even if they wore the mask of &#8216;progress and civilization.'&#8221;
And as he reflected on how Americans are beginning to view the Palestinian cause and what freedom means to him, he questions: &#8220;Does it mean a state alongside the occupier? Or does it mean dismantling the existing entity and establishing a single, just state on all of the land? Eyes are beginning to open to the fact that among them are normalization advocates and traitors hiding behind masks of freedom.&#8221;

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Hamas said Monday it <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-palestinians-hamas-war-government-146f9a609580d4c8c42ab35fbe60d5b3">dissolved its de facto government</a> in Gaza and is ready to transfer civilian control of the territory to a U.N.-backed committee of Palestinian technocrats, a move tied to the ceasefire plan brokered by the Trump administration.
The announcement marks a potential shift in who handles Gaza’s government services, but it does not answer the central question hanging over the ceasefire: whether Hamas will give up its weapons.
If implemented, the proposal would be the most significant change to <a href="https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/israeli-palestinian-conflict">Gaza&#8217;s governing structure</a> since Hamas violently seized control of the territory in 2007, potentially ending nearly two decades in which the group has served as Gaza&#8217;s de facto governing authority. 
Hamas said its Government Emergency Committee, which has overseen ministries in Gaza, had been dissolved. Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas-run government media office, said technical and professional staff would remain in place to keep basic services running and would be prepared to work under the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza.
Hamas described the decision as a step toward implementing the ceasefire agreement and facilitating an administrative transition. Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem called it “a positive step forward” in carrying out the deal.
The National Committee is based in Cairo and led by Ali Shaath, a Gaza-born engineer and former Palestinian Authority official. The committee is expected to oversee civilian affairs and restore essential services under the supervision of the U.N. and the Trump-appointed Board of Peace.
The Board of Peace said it was aware of Hamas’s announcement but would judge the move by “actions, not promises.” The board also stressed that the technocratic committee must control all weapons in Gaza under the ceasefire agreement.
Israel dismissed the announcement, saying Hamas was trying to avoid disarmament while preserving its influence. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Hamas’s willingness to make room for a technocratic government was designed to prevent the group from giving up its weapons.
“As long as Hamas retains its weapons, any civilian government will of course operate as Hamas dictates,” Saar said.
Hamas has not said it will disarm or hand over security to an international force. Reuters reported that Hamas said its ministries and appointed staff would stay in place and that the group would still <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-dissolves-gaza-government-presses-progress-stalled-peace-plan-2026-07-06/">oversee security and policing</a> in parts of Gaza under its control.
The dispute comes nine months after the ceasefire framework was signed, with Israel and Hamas still deadlocked over the second phase of the agreement. That phase includes Hamas’s disarmament and Gaza’s reconstruction.
Hamas has insisted on implementing the first phase of the agreement before moving to discussions over its weapons. Israel, meanwhile, has said all parties must fully implement the Trump-backed plan, which includes Hamas laying down its arms.
Shaath said the committee was ready to assume responsibility in Gaza once the necessary resources and conditions were in place. He also said the committee’s success would require one governing authority, one legal framework, and one security apparatus accountable to that authority.
The announcement came as fighting continued despite the ceasefire. Gaza health officials claimed that Israeli strikes killed at least five people Monday, including two in an apartment in Gaza City and three in Khan Younis. The Israeli military said the Gaza City strike targeted a Hamas operative while a Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant was targeted in Khan Younis.
The war began after Hamas led the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

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At least 28 drones have successfully entered the Gaza Strip in recent months despite dozens of Israeli interception efforts, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-901044#google_vignette">raising concerns</a> among Israeli security officials that many of them could be used by Hamas terrorists.
Army Radio reported Wednesday that the drones crossed into Gaza through multiple routes, including from Egypt and from within Israel. According to the report, Israeli defense officials believe most of the drones that successfully entered the strip ultimately reached Hamas, though it remains unknown what cargo many of them were carrying.
Israeli officials say the drones themselves could become valuable operational assets even if they were not transporting weapons or other supplies. According to Army Radio, Hamas has increasingly used drones to observe Israeli troop movements and carry out attacks by attaching explosives to the aircraft.
The report said Israeli authorities have thwarted 89 drone smuggling attempts since January. Combined with the 28 drones believed to have entered Gaza, that represents at least 117 known drone smuggling operations during the first half of the year. Israeli officials also cautioned that the figures only include known cases, meaning the real number of attempted or successful smuggling operations could be higher.
&#8220;The IDF claims that all smuggling attempts intercepted so far contained drugs only,&#8221; Army Radio reported. &#8220;However, as noted, dozens were not intercepted, and these figures represent only the cases known to the military.&#8221;
The report added that Israeli officials acknowledge some drones may have entered Gaza without ever being detected. <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/429465">Security officials also said</a> it is impossible to determine what the drones that reached Gaza were carrying, according to Israel National News.
Israeli authorities have recently stepped up efforts to disrupt the smuggling networks. In June, Israel Police and the Defense Ministry confiscated property linked to drone smuggling into Gaza, while Defense Minister Israel Katz imposed economic sanctions on individuals accused of participating in the operations.
&#8220;Anyone who smuggles weapons, equipment, or funds to terrorist organizations in Gaza is part of the terrorist network itself and will pay a heavy price,&#8221; Katz said in a statement.
<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-897758">The concerns come as Israeli military leaders</a> continue to warn about the growing role of drones in modern warfare. Hamas is reportedly studying Hezbollah&#8217;s use of explosive drones in Lebanon, where such attacks have killed 16 Israeli soldiers and wounded many more in recent months, according to the Jerusalem Post.
In May, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir described Hezbollah&#8217;s first-person-view drone capabilities as &#8220;a challenge&#8221; but said the military already has &#8220;operational and technological solutions&#8221; in development to counter the threat.
&#8220;The drone threat is a challenge, but we will overcome it,&#8221; Zamir said. &#8220;The battlefield is unpredictable and always will be, but we are dedicating the IDF&#8217;s best resources, minds, and capabilities to this issue.&#8221;
Israeli officials have increasingly pointed to drones as one of the evolving threats facing the military, both from Hezbollah in Lebanon and from Hamas in Gaza, as armed groups continue adapting commercially available technology for military purposes.

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The United Nations has accused the Jewish state of deliberately hunting Palestinian children, and after 94 pages of this “U.N. report,” it cannot prove a single case.
Technically, the <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session62/a-hrc-62-crp-2.pdf">accusation</a> comes not from the United Nations as a whole but from the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, a body created by the Council rather than by the Security Council or General Assembly. In practice, however, the distinction disappears. The report is published on U.N. websites under the U.N. emblem, promoted through official U.N. channels, and reported around the world simply as a “U.N. report.” That branding launders the Commission’s allegations through the institutional credibility of the United Nations itself, giving them an authority the evidence does not earn. Most readers will never know the difference, and most headlines never mention it.
The report came this month, and its charges are the gravest of international law: war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Yet the only proof it offers is a body count and a theory. Nowhere does it identify a single Israeli soldier who looked at a child, knew the child was a civilian, faced no threat, and fired anyway because the child was the object of the attack. Not one.
The Commission convicts itself in its own caveats, and it does so repeatedly. Incident after incident, it “could not find any indication of a threat” (paragraph 58), “could not verify any claims of exchange of fire” (paragraph 89), does not know who fired or whether combat was underway nearby, and then somehow, every time, reaches a “clear conclusion” of intentional murder anyway.
Here is what the report says: Israeli forces deliberately targeted children across Gaza.
Here is what it leaves out: Hamas.
No tunnels, no human shields, no command posts under hospitals, no acknowledgment that Hamas spent 17 years building a military state beneath the civilian one, hiding rockets under children’s beds and a sniper’s rifle inside a child’s teddy bear. At paragraph 11, the Commission notes “reports of the use of children by the parties to the conflict,” then admits these “have not yet been investigated.” A report on children in armed conflict announces, on page four, that it never looked at the fact that the armed terrorist group in question uses children.
Take the signature horror: an armed quadcopter that, the Commission says, saw inside a tent in daylight and put a single round through a nursing ten-day-old’s head, and another through a four-year-old’s as she was eating. It calls the weapon, in paragraph 60, “a sniper rifle mounted on a quadcopter.” One glaring problem is that one of us served twenty-five years as a U.S. Army infantry soldier, has spent more than a decade studying modern warfare, and has made multiple trips into Gaza with the IDF. No such weapon exists. A .338 sniper rifle does not ride on a small quadcopter and deliver a precision head shot through a tent flap. The Commission appears to recognize this difficulty because four paragraphs later, the same platform is described as firing “an assault rifle,” and 10 paragraphs after that, it becomes “shotguns.” A drone is not a sniper. The report cannot consistently identify its own alleged murder weapon, yet it builds one of its most serious factual findings on this internally inconsistent account.
The forensics are worse because there are none. A child is shot; surgeons remove what the Commission is told was a three-centimeter bullet; and from that one secondhand line it “assesses” a .338 Lapua cartridge, a rifle, and an Israeli division (paragraph 68). No chain of custody, no laboratory, no proof the round was even Israeli. Its experts on ballistics and battlefield intent are doctors, who may be able to describe a wound but cannot know who fired the gun, from where, or why. The Commission cites them anyway, but only when their guesses point one way.
To be clear, children have died in Gaza in heartbreaking numbers, and every one is a tragedy. The laws of armed conflict recognize that civilian deaths, however tragic, can occur even during lawful attacks on military objectives. The legal question is not whether civilians died but why and under what circumstances. What is disputed is whether a child’s death, standing alone, proves a war crime. The Commission says it does. The law says it does not.
At paragraph 268, the report states its theory outright: because Israel “knew that children were present in the areas it attacked” and struck anyway, the attacks “were intentional” and the children “intentionally targeted collectively.” The Commission converts knowledge that civilians might be nearby into intent to kill them. That is simply not the law. Under the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I, knowing civilians are near a military objective triggers the duties of proportionality and precaution; it does not make the strike murder. The Rome Statute crime of attacking civilians requires that civilians be the object of the attack, not its regrettable cost. Genocide demands dolus specialis, the specific intent to destroy a group as such; the U.N.’s own International Court of Justice held in Bosnia v. Serbia that such intent must be the only reasonable inference from the conduct. The Commission infers a plan to destroy “the future of the Palestinians” from the bare fact that children died.
Its working rule is even simpler: any target Hamas hides among civilians becomes untouchable, and any civilian who dies beside it becomes proof of murder. The deeper Hamas burrows into homes and schools and hospitals, the safer it gets and the guiltier Israel looks, which inverts the very law that forbids using civilians as shields. The West Bank makes the inversion even plainer: the Commission counts 213 dead minors, tells readers that 206 were boys, and from that ratio divines a “policy of targeting boys” as “future terrorists.” A war on children does not kill boys at 97%. That statistic instead raises the obvious question: many of those “boys” were actively participating in hostilities.
Of course, the Commission never asks the question. Under U.N. definitions, every person under 18 is counted as a child, whether a 10-year-old in a classroom or a 17-year-old carrying an assault rifle. Hamas, meanwhile, has long recruited, trained, and used minors, including teenagers and younger children, a practice the Commission acknowledges has been reported but expressly declines to investigate. By collapsing all persons under 18 into a single category while omitting the role of child soldiers, the report invites readers to equate every “child” casualty with a civilian who was not participating in hostilities. That omission is central to its narrative.
This is how a libel becomes a fact. The body counts originate with the Hamas-run health ministry and are relayed to the world under a U.N. logo. Human rights groups, several funded by the anti-Israel governments that demanded the inquiry, refer to it as settled. Reporters cite the groups without reading the report; policymakers cite the resulting “consensus”; and within 48 hours, the media print “deliberately targeted” as if it is an established fact. It is the same machine that once blamed Israel for the Al-Ahli hospital blast that American, British, and Canadian intelligence traced to a misfired Palestinian rocket. Anti-Israel bias does not need evidence, only an audience that has already convicted Israel.
The messenger does matter, and here it is the Human Rights Council’s only open-ended commission of inquiry, aimed permanently at a single country, on a council where roughly half of all country-specific condemnations name Israel. The world still calls it the Pillay Commission, after the previous chair who famously pronounced Israel guilty of war crimes before she was appointed to judge it. When Washington, D.C., sanctioned the council’s Palestinian rapporteur last year, the commissioners themselves resigned and promised to “reconstitute.” They did not, however, reform it, so the remedy is simple.
A bipartisan group in Congress already drafted the Commission of Inquiry Elimination Act, which would cut U.S. dollars from a permanent mandate that runs on $4 million a year and has dropped even the pretense of fairness or due process. The United States already refuses to fund discriminatory U.N. conduct, and this qualifies by any measure. The Commission titled its report “The essence of childhood has been destroyed,” but it chose the wrong noun. What this report destroys is the essence of evidence, the rule that an accusation of murder must be proven and not merely felt. After 94 pages, it still identifies no soldier, no order, no forensic proof, no battlefield investigation establishing intent, and no evidence capable of sustaining the accusation it makes.
The proper response is not to treat this report as a serious finding. You cannot defend against insanity. But we can and should stop funding it.
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Mark Goldfeder is CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center and a law professor at Touro Law School.
John Spencer is the Executive Director of the Urban Warfare Institute.

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The hall of the United Nations Human Rights Council fell into an uneasy silence earlier this week as a small woman walked to the microphone and prepared to do something the world&#8217;s most powerful human rights body had failed to do: bear witness.
Ilana Gritzewsky, a survivor of Hamas&#8217; October 7 massacre, stood before Reem Alsalem — the U.N.&#8217;s own special rapporteur on violence against women, who is Jordanian — and refused to be erased.
What followed was one of the most searing moments in recent U.N. history, not because of what the diplomat said in response.
Because of what she didn&#8217;t say.
Gritzewsky recounted the morning terrorists stormed her kibbutz — the murders, the burning, the kidnapping. She described being touched, beaten, and sexually abused until she lost consciousness, waking half-naked with seven Hamas fighters standing over her. She described the broken hip, the broken jaw, the scarred soul she carried home from captivity. She spoke of how the wail of an air raid siren or the thunder of an Iranian rocket still hurls her back into that darkness.
&#8220;In captivity, Jewish women were raped, abused, and humiliated. And you, special rapporteur, you choose silence and denial. You say there was no evidence of sexual violence on October 7th,&#8221; she told Alsalem directly. &#8220;I&#8217;m standing here today, not as a report, not as a statistic. I am a woman who survived. I am the living proof of sexual violence by Hamas.&#8221;
Then she asked the question that hung over the chamber like smoke: &#8220;When I, another Israeli woman, begged not to be raped — why were you silent? Please look at me. Do you believe us now? Will you apologize?&#8221;
Alsalem sat silent after Gritzewsky&#8217;s testimony. She did not apologize.
She smirked.
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This is the UN. Look at the face of the UN special rapporteur who is meant to stand up for women but has refused, again and again, to speak up for Israeli women. Look at her face when a former hostage challenges her. <a href="https://t.co/whThRNG92u">pic.twitter.com/whThRNG92u</a>
&mdash; Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) <a href="https://x.com/nicolelampert/status/2069691978707513797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The confrontation laid bare a record that is nothing short of a scandal. As U.N. Watch <a href="https://unwatch.org/analysis-of-reem-alsalems-violence-against-mothers-report-omissions-distortions-and-double-standards/">noted</a>, Alsalem publicly declared last November that &#8220;no independent investigation found that rape took place on October 7&#8221; — a claim directly contradicted by a U.N. report issued months earlier that found reasonable grounds to believe Hamas committed sexual violence during the attack, with an even higher evidentiary threshold met for assaults on hostages held in captivity. As recently as April 2026, she was still dismissing survivor testimony as &#8220;misinformation&#8221; deployed to &#8220;justify genocide against Palestinians.&#8221;
Her June 2026 report to the Human Rights Council, titled &#8220;Violence against Mothers,&#8221; completed the picture. It accused Israel of reproductive violence and genocide, cited a single article from an openly anti-Israel outlet, and lamented that U.S. and Israeli action against Iran might undermine Tehran&#8217;s record on women&#8217;s rights — a position that drew immediate ridicule from prominent Iranian women&#8217;s rights activist Masih Alinejad, who had publicly celebrated those same strikes. The report made no mention of Hamas. It said nothing of Israeli mothers murdered in front of their children, nothing of hostage families psychologically tortured for over two years, nothing of the deliberate phenomenon so systematic it has been given its own name: kinocide.
Ilana Gritzewsky offered Reem Alsalem a simple human choice on June 23: look at her, and reckon with what she represents.
The special rapporteur looked away.

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An Al Jazeera cameraman mourned as a journalist killed by Israel was also a Hamas sniper operative, <a href="https://x.com/IDF/status/2068442916977275317">according to the Israel Defense Forces</a>.
Ahmed Washah was killed Saturday in central Gaza after an Israeli drone targeted a home in the Bureij refugee camp. Al Jazeera and multiple media outlets described him as a cameraman for Al Jazeera Mubasher, Al Jazeera’s Arabic-language live channel. Al Jazeera said two other people were also killed and others were wounded.
But the IDF says Washah was not simply a journalist and was targeted in the strike because he was “a terrorist in Hamas’ military wing who served as a sniper operative.” The IDF also said Washah had recently advanced sniper attack plans and worked alongside his brother, Mohammed Washah, whom the military described as a key terrorist in Hamas’ rocket and weapons production headquarters. Ahmed was <a href="https://honestreporting.com/ahmad-washah-hamas-terrorist-who-masqueraded-as-an-al-jazeera-journalist/">reportedly</a> killed alongside Siba’i Abu Hasna, a member of Hamas’ <a href="https://honestreporting.com/ahmad-washah-hamas-terrorist-who-masqueraded-as-an-al-jazeera-journalist/">Shadow Unit</a>, which is responsible for guarding hostages kidnapped into Gaza.
Ahmed was widely presented as an Al Jazeera cameraman killed by Israel. While leaving out his ties to Hamas, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/israeli-airstrike-kills-al-jazeera-cameraman-rcna350990">reported</a> that Ahmed was an Al Jazeera cameraman killed by Israel and noted that his brother Mohammed, an Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent, was killed in a separate Israeli strike in April. Al Jazeera, meanwhile, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/21/kind-principled-palestinian-journalists-remember-slain-gaza-journalist">said</a> Ahmed became the 12th network employee killed by Israel and said he had covered numerous stories for the outlet, including what Al Jazeera described as “several massacres” committed by Israel in Gaza.
The IDF <a href="https://x.com/IDF/status/2068442916977275317">posted</a> publicly that Ahmed “served as an Al Jazeera photojournalist” while simultaneously operating as a Hamas sniper. The IDF also described Mohammed as “a key terrorist in Hamas’ rocket and weapons production headquarters” and said he also operated “under the guise of an Al Jazeera journalist” before he was killed in April.
After the IDF’s claims about Ahmed were challenged online, it <a href="https://x.com/IDF/status/2069422062117003612">posted</a> a photo of his apparent military ID and a video showing him firing a rifle into the air. 
That context has received less attention from the legacy media than the initial description of Ahmed as a journalist killed by Israel. A Google AI Overview shown for a simple search of “Al Jazeera journalist” described Ahmed as “an Al Jazeera cameraman who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza” and listed him among “recent notable and slain journalists from the region.” The summary does not mention the IDF’s claim that he was a Hamas sniper operative.
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The same pattern appeared in headlines from major outlets. NBC headlined its article, “<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/israeli-airstrike-kills-al-jazeera-cameraman-rcna350990">Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Gaza months after his journalist brother died in a separate strike</a>.” The Guardian’s headline read, “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/20/al-jazeera-cameraman-ahmed-wishah-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-gaza">Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Wishah killed in Israeli strike on Gaza</a>.”
An Associated Press report carried by <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/israeli-army-confirms-journalist-killed-in-gaza-calls-him-hamas-terrorist-11665140/amp/1">NDTV</a> also identified Ahmed as an Al Jazeera cameraman killed in an Israeli strike. The report said the Israeli military asserted that Ahmed had been part of Hamas’ military wing and had posed a threat to troops in the area.
Al Jazeera has denied Israel’s claims about Ahmed, according to NBC News, and condemned his killing, calling it an attempt by Israel to silence and intimidate journalists. NBC also reported that a source close to Hamas told the Committee to Protect Journalists that Ahmed had no affiliation with the organization.
 Prominent anti-Israel figures, including New York City <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/23/us-news/al-jazeera-journalist-that-mamdani-mourned-was-allegedly-hamas-sniper-idf-claims/">Mayor Zohran Mamdani</a>, portrayed Ahmed as a journalist killed by Israel while criticizing the IDF. 
“More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire,” Mamdani said Monday. “Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Washah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike.” Mamdani did not mention the IDF’s claim that Washah was a Hamas operative.
The IDF’s claim does not erase reports that Ahmed worked for Al Jazeera. But those reports also do not erase the IDF’s claim that he served in Hamas’ military wing and had recently advanced sniper attack plans against Israeli troops.
Since the first reports described Ahmed as a journalist without including Israel&#8217;s claim that he was also a Hamas sniper, many readers were left with a narrow version of the story. Israel&#8217;s account presents a very different version of the strike than the one circulating online.

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee offered a blunt solution Wednesday to one of the Middle East&#8217;s most intractable problems: deport every member of Hezbollah and Hamas to Iran.
&#8220;Iran demands Israel cease defense of border against Hezbollah. Gaza peace plan depends on Hamas disarming,&#8221; Huckabee posted on X. &#8220;Idea: EVERY member of Hezbollah &amp; Hamas DEPORT to &#8216;Mothership&#8217; in Iran. Result? Lebanon &amp; Israel free from Iran terror proxies. Give PEACE a chance!&#8221;
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Iran demands <a href="https://x.com/Israel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Israel</a> cease defense of border against Hezbollah. Gaza peace plan depends on Hamas disarming. Idea: EVERY member of Hezbollah &amp; Hamas DEPORT to &quot;Mothership&quot; in Iran. Result? Lebanon &amp; Israel free from Iran terror proxies. Give PEACE a chance!
&mdash; Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) <a href="https://x.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/2067154997607845901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The proposal, characteristically direct, cuts to the heart of a dynamic that has destabilized the Levant for decades — both Hamas and Hezbollah are, in the most meaningful sense, Iranian instruments. The Congressional Research Service has documented that Iran&#8217;s support for regional armed groups has been &#8220;a pillar of the Iranian government&#8217;s foreign policy since the 1979 founding of the Islamic Republic,&#8221; coordinated through the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The State Department estimates Iran provides up to $100 million annually to Palestinian terrorist groups including Hamas, while Hezbollah — Iran&#8217;s most powerful proxy — receives the bulk of its &#8220;funding, training, weapons, and explosives&#8221; directly from Tehran.
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Huckabee&#8217;s quip lands against a backdrop of renewed diplomatic activity. Reports of a possible Israeli-Lebanese rapprochement have emerged in recent weeks, raising cautious hopes that Lebanon might finally escape the orbit of Iranian influence. But history counsels skepticism. Lebanon&#8217;s sovereignty has been hollowed out twice over — first by the PLO following the 1969 Cairo Accord, which turned southern Lebanon into a launchpad for attacks on Israeli civilians and helped ignite the catastrophic civil war that killed roughly 150,000 people, and then by Hezbollah, which filled the vacuum left after Israel&#8217;s 1982 war forced the PLO terrorist Yasser Arafat into Tunisian exile.
By 2023, Hezbollah&#8217;s arsenal had grown to over 150,000 rockets, dwarfing the Lebanese army it nominally coexists with. Its financial corruption has metastasized through Lebanon&#8217;s banking sector, contributing to what the World Bank describes as one of the most severe economic depressions globally since the mid-19th century. The Lebanese pound, pegged at 1,507 to the dollar for two decades, had lost over 98% of its value.
The human cost of Iran&#8217;s proxy strategy was underscored when 92 retired U.S. generals and admirals published an <a href="https://jinsa.org/open-letter-from-retired-u-s-military-leaders-in-support-of-israel-on-october-7-anniversary/">open letter</a> on the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas massacre of over 1,200 Israelis, warning that &#8220;Iran&#8217;s reign of terror transcends boundaries&#8221; and that &#8220;October 7 is not an isolated incident, but one front in a much larger global civilizational struggle.&#8221;
Huckabee&#8217;s &#8220;Mothership&#8221; proposal won&#8217;t appear in any formal peace framework. But its underlying logic — that sustainable peace in Lebanon and Gaza requires severing, not managing, Iran&#8217;s grip on its proxies — reflects a growing consensus among U.S. and Israeli strategists that half-measures have consistently failed.

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