Trump claimed today: “We have peace in the Middle East.” Drop Site News reports today: “At least 11 Palestinians are killed in Gaza, including journalists and children, in a surge of Israeli attacks.” See video of the slain journalists.
Trump also claimed: “Hamas has agreed to give up their weapons.” Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News has called this “a pervasive lie.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he “accepts the invitation of U.S. President Donald Trump” to become a member of the “Board of Peace.” Scahill quoted from 1984: “The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war…”
Available for a limited number of interviews:
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS, sharif@dropsitenews.
Sharif Abdel Kouddous just wrote the piece “Leaked Documents: ‘Planned Community’ in Rafah Would Force Palestinians Into Israeli Panopticon” for Drop Site News.
He writes: “The U.S. military-led group supporting ‘stabilization efforts’ in Gaza has put forward plans for a housing block for Palestinians in Gaza in an area under full Israel military control. According to materials circulated by the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) and obtained by Drop Site News, the ‘planned community,’ if developed, would contain and control its residents through biometric surveillance, checkpoints, monitoring of purchases, and educational programs promoting normalization with Israel. …
“In November, news first emerged that the Trump administration was planning the construction of a number of residential compounds, dubbed ‘Alternative Safe Communities’ to house Palestinians in Gaza east of the yellow line, an area occupied and controlled by the Israeli military. Analysis of satellite imagery by Forensic Architecture suggests the first of these so-called communities is being prepared on a 1-square-kilometer plot of land in Rafah in southern Gaza at the intersection of two military corridors.“
He quotes Jonathan Whittall, a senior UN official in Palestine between 2022 and 2025 and the executive Director of KEYS Initiative: “Plans are rapidly accelerating for what U.S. officials last week cynically referred to as the ‘Gaza first planned community,’ previously known as ‘alternative safe communities’ … This is the next phase in the weaponization of aid.”
See IPA release from Tuesday: “Israel Literally Bulldozes Relief Agency, Trump Expands ‘Board of Billionaires and War Criminals’.”