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Drop Site NewsHamas Responds to Trump Gaza Plan: What to KnowHamas issued a response to President Donald Trump’s 20-point ceasefire proposal on Friday “in the interest of stopping the aggression and genocide” in the Gaza Strip. The movement said it “values the Arab, Islamic, and international efforts, as well as the efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump, aimed at halting the war on Gaza, securing a prisoner exchange, allowing immediate entry of aid, rejecting the occupation of Gaza, and rejecting the displacement of our Palestinian people from it.” It continued:"Within this framework, and in order to achieve an end to the war and the full withd...
2025-10-0456 min
Drop Site NewsIsrael expands aggression across the region as it moves to obliterate Gaza CityRyan Grim, Jeremy Scahill, and Sharif Abdel Kouddous discuss Israel's Gaza City offensive and its unprecedented strike on Hamas in Doha, Qatar. "Gaza is burning," Israel’s defense minister said, as the military launched the main part of its ground operation to seize and take control of Gaza City. At least 68 people were killed by heavy Israeli bombardment across Gaza since dawn, including 20 in the bombing of the Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City alone, according to Al Jazeera.Drop Site’s reporters also discuss Israel’s strike on Sana’a on September 10 that killed 32 Yemeni j...
2025-09-161h 18
Drop Site NewsMurdering the Witnesses: Israel’s Assassination Campaign Against Palestinian JournalistsIsrael massacred six journalists in Gaza City on Wednesday in an airstrike on a media tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital—an attack that sent shockwaves throughout Gaza and made headlines across the globe. The Israeli military publicly proclaimed the attack was a targeted assassination of renowned Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif.Over the past 22 months, Israel has killed at least 238 journalists in Gaza, according to the Government Media Office, an unprecedented slaughter of journalists in modern history.Al-Sharif was the most recognizable Palestinian journalist still alive and reporting from Gaza and had been openly targeted by th...
2025-08-121h 05
Drop Site NewsTrump Claims He Wants Ceasefire Deal "Next Week" as Israel Expands Attacks in Gaza and West BankIsrael has continued to intensify its attacks across the Gaza Strip as President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he hopes a ceasefire “is going to happen and we're looking for it to happen sometime next week.” His comments come as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed he will travel to the U.S. this weekend and is expected to meet with Trump, his national security team, and U.S. Congressional leaders. Despite Trump’s public campaign for an agreement for a ceasefire in Gaza, Hamas has said there have been no substantive new proposals submitted and that the discussions seem t...
2025-07-011h 22
Drop Site NewsJeremy Scahill on His Recent Interviews With HamasIsraeli ministers this week approved plans to capture the entire Gaza Strip and remain entrenched there indefinitely. This comes as ceasefire talks remain deadlocked after Israel abandoned the original three-phase framework—which stipulated a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the declaration of a permanent ceasefire—and issued a series of new demands, including the complete demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, a red line for Hamas.Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill recently held a series of rare, in-depth interviews with senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan and other leading figures of Palestinian resistance groups about the state o...
2025-05-071h 05
Drop Site NewsDrop Site Newsroom: Gaza, Yemen, Iran & Trump's Crackdown on DissentIsrael's genocidal war on Gaza resumed in full force on March 18 with a full scale aerial and ground assault killing over 1,000 Palestinians, including hundreds of children, while its total siege and reimposed policy of forced starvation is close to entering its second month. In one of the most horrific attacks, Israeli troops executed fifteen medics and emergency workers conducting rescue operations in southern Gaza and buried their bodies in a mass grave. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is engaged in one of the heaviest bombing campaigns of Yemen in U.S. history, continuing an aerial assault that began...
2025-04-021h 19
Drop Site NewsThe State of the Gaza “Ceasefire” and an Interview with HezbollahWith Phase 1 of the Gaza ceasefire deal set to expire Saturday with no agreement (yet) for its continuation, Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous discuss the recent developments with the negotiations, as well as Egypt’s role in possible Gaza reconstruction and governance paths. A forthcoming Arab League summit is expected to be centered around presenting an alternative plan to Trump’s threats to turn Gaza into a U.S.-owned “Middle East Riviera,” one which would not include the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians of Gaza.Abdel Kouddous has just returned from Lebanon and discusses his reportin...
2025-02-2845 min
Drop Site NewsMustafa Barghouti on Israel’s “Defeat” in Gaza, Saudi Normalization, and the War on the West BankIn a wide-ranging interview, Mustafa Barghouti, the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, speaks with Drop Site News journalists Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous about the latest developments in the Gaza “ceasefire” deal, Israel’s large-scale military operation in the West Bank, national unity talks between Palestinian political factions, President Trump’s plans to persuade Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel, and much more. Barghouti is a former presidential candidate who was elected to parliament in 2006 and has been a leading Palestinian political figure for over two decades. Get full access to Drop Site New...
2025-01-2427 min
Drop Site NewsHow Drop Site News is Covering Israel’s Wars Against Palestine and LebanonOn this joint episode of Intercepted and Deconstructed, the team of journalists from Drop Site News discuss their reporting on the U.S.-backed Israeli wars in the Middle East. Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, and Murtaza Hussain are joined by Drop Site News editor Nausicaa Renner and journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous. They discuss the Biden administration’s enduring commitment to arming and supporting Israel, why Iran might be exhibiting restraint in its military response to Israeli attacks, and what we know about Hezbollah’s military capabilities. They also discuss Drop Site News’s reporting on Pakistan and the attempts to cen...
2024-09-2648 min
The Intercept BriefingThe Night That Won’t End in GazaThroughout the past nine months of Israel’s scorched-earth war against the people of Gaza, the world has watched as the official death toll has increased by the day. Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed. These figures are likely a stark undercount of the true devastation. A recent report from the British aid organization Save the Children estimates that more than 20,000 Palestinian children are missing in Gaza. A new documentary by Fault Lines called “The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza” tells the story of the war's impact on the lives of three Palestinian families in Gaza.This...
2024-06-2651 min
The Intercept BriefingThe Gaza Siege: A Harsh Spotlight on the West’s Moral BankruptcyIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said recently on CNN, “It’s not only our war, it’s your war too.” He was right: The Biden administration has armed, funded, and supported Netanyahu every step of the way as Israel wages a campaign of terror bombings against Gaza. In five weeks of sustained Israeli airstrikes and ground operations, one in 200 residents of Gaza has been killed. Of the more than 11,000 deaths, 4,600 of them are children. President Joe Biden remains entrenched in his support for the scorched-earth campaign of his “great, great friend” Netanyahu.This week on Intercepted, independent...
2023-11-151h 08