This has been a very darkly humorous day. Good night.
Well, not quite good night, and no humor:
Shooting by Israel-backed group at a shelter in Gaza is followed by an Israeli strike, killing 8
An Israel-backed armed group in Gaza kidnapped children from a school-turned-shelter on Monday, according to a witness, after which Israel launched an airstrike on the site, health authorities said.
The Israeli military had no response when reached for comment.
An anti-Hamas Palestinian group called Abu Nusseirah posted on social media that they killed five Hamas fighters at the shelter in Maghazi.
An elderly displaced woman sheltering at the school told the AP that dozens of men stormed the site, clashed with people there and forced kids — including girls — into vehicles. Speaking anonymously for fear of reprisals, she said her son was killed in the fighting.
Bodies were taken to al-Aqsa hospital, where health officials said some had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the school after the clashes. AP footage showed dozens of mourners gathered at the morgue.
Many displaced Palestinians say they fear the Iran war has overshadowed Gaza’s dire humanitarian situation.
AP
And those Palestinians are correct. Israel's plan has been to operate in the fog of the U.S. war on Iran and in the fog of their illegal white phosphorous attacks on Lebanon's civilian population
And those Palestinians are correct. Israel's plan has been to operate in the fog of the U.S. war on Iran and in the fog of their illegal white phosphorous attacks on Lebanon's civilian population
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Trump added that the US expected to control Iran’s oil sector after the war. “To the winner belong the spoils.”
Florida Felon has plan to destroy every bridge and power plant in Iran Tuesday night if no deal
At the Easter event, Trump said...“We are obliterating [Iran]… and they just don’t want… to cry ‘uncle,'”. But they will [cry ‘uncle’]. And if they don’t, they’ll have no bridges, they’ll have no power plants, they’ll have no anything.”
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At a White House Easter egg roll event, Trump was asked if his plans to blow up civilian bridges and power plants in Iran would constitute war crimes, and said they would not “because they [Iran] killed 45,000 people in the last month.”
The comments appeared to refer to Iran’s gunning down of thousands of protesters earlier this year amid a large-scale rebellion against the theocratic regime.
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“They asked for an extension of seven days [They did not.]. I said, ‘Give them 10 days,'” Trump said. He would go on to push it off by an additional 24 hours on Sunday.
“I thought it was inappropriate [to attack] the day after Easter. ..."
US President Donald Trump on Monday expanded his threat against Iran to include all of the country’s power plants and bridges...
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“We have a plan… where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o’clock tomorrow night, where every power plant will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again, I mean, complete demolition, by 12 o’clock, and it will happen over a period of four hours if we want that to happen,”We don’t want that,”
Lunatic Florida Man insists Iranian civilians want the US to keep bombing
Trump says everyday citizens are “willing to suffer ... in order to have freedom.”
“‘Please keep bombing. Do it,’” Trump claimed U.S. officials have heard Iranians say via “intercepts.”
“And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding,” he said.
“And when we leave and we’re not hitting those areas, they’re saying, ‘Please come back, come back, come back.’”
JUST IN: Florida Convicted Felon promises strikes on Iran’s civilian infrastructure if Tehran doesn’t capitulate by 8 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday
It does. And he went even farther today: “The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night."
That would be genocide, and the highest order of war crime. But he is not concerned with being an international criminal in addition to a 34-time convicted felon. And the Commander-in Chief of the United States easily could totally destroy Iran, any country, or the entire world "in one night" if he is willing to use nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
Is he? He is counting on the threat working, and there are "hints" that it might be. Israel, the American partner in war crime, attacked the MIT of Iran yesterday. Each of the U.S., Israel, and Iran have committed war crimes including genocide since October 7, 2023, and Hamas committed war crimes on Oct. 7. But the U.S. and Israel started the war with Iran. It was a "war of choice" for Trump. Every U.S. or Israeli attack on civilians or civilian facilities is a war crime. But Trump is not concerned. We come full circle. I predict that there will be no "deal". I think Trump thinks that he has "no choice" here. He can't be TACO again. He has been humiliated when his deadlines have passed or been extended. Therefore, to a standard of more probable than not, I predict that Trump will massively attack Iran's civilian infrastructure with conventional weaponry but not with the atom or hydrogen bomb.
5:25 pm:
Iran Rejects Ceasefire Proposal, Will Only Accept End to War and No Future Attacks
