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Drop Site NewsThe Grassroots Movements to Break the Siege on GazaThe failure of global and regional efforts to stop Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip is now giving rise to a burgeoning grassroots movement aimed at breaking the siege of the territory and building direct solidarity with Palestinians. On Monday, an activist group sailing on the ship the Madleen was intercepted by the Israeli military. That ship was attempting to break the naval blockade on the territory, while delivering a symbolic amount of aid to Gaza. The activists on the Madleen, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg, were detained by Israel after being abducted in international waters. Some were su...2025-06-1053 min
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 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