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Bulletins and International News Discussion from October 13th to October 19th, 2025 - Escalating Against The Bolivarian Revolution

Image, sourced from this article, is of George Bush in 2002 meeting with María Corina Machado, who was even then being trained as a figure to oppose Venezuelan socialism, and very briefly succeeded with the Carmona Decree. Now the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, she has begged the Zionist entity to drop bombs on the Venezuelan people.

As of me writing these sentences, it appears that the ceasefire in Gaza is underway. Zionist ceasefires are, of course, an oxymoron - not only in the grand sense that their work to continue genocidal atrocities against others locally and regionally will not cease until the Zionist entity's occupation of Palestine is overthrown and Palestinians can resume the governance of their territory - but also in the literal sense; that bombings and shootings are often only merely reduced, and rarely cease entirely (as was/is the case on their northern border with Lebanon). Nonetheless, hopefully the population can receive some aid, and the long process of rebuilding can begin.

On the other side of the world, it seems increasingly likely that a new war is set to begin. Because the US is eschewing the usual process of generating pro-war propaganda and casus bellis (aside from a laughably transparent Nobel Peace Prize award) and seems content to just skip straight to the "bomb and depose" step, it's quite hard to predict what precisely they want to do. Anything seems to be on the table - from freely striking Venezuelan territory where "drug dealers" are to try and prompt a Venezuelan response, to assassinating Maduro and/or his generals and hoping a power vacuum can be filled with compradors, to attempting to outright invade Venezuela and establish direct American control over important government sites. All appear to be possibilities, though as of right now, the most drastic measures seem unlikely due to their difficulty.

We know that the US has almost totally abandoned diplomatic communication with Venezuela, and that the US has deployed warships, a nuclear submarine, F-35s, surveillance planes, and at least 4,000 military personnel to the Caribbean, with some sources putting the numbers higher. Some people have suggested that the point is to try and force Maduro into a situation where he must begin hostilities, or be seen as weak and perhaps overthrown from within. It is at least encouraging that Maduro is not like Allende in Chile, and is taking this situation extraordinarily seriously; the masses are being trained and mobilized in the event of an invasion, and military drills are ongoing. Venezuela has no real capacity to stop the US from attacking and bombing them, but it is much more possible to prevent a West-friendly puppet from gaining meaningful control of the country. A comprador might be able to make a brief statement or decree in a Venezuelan city saying that Chavismo is over, but actual power will hopefully prove very elusive.

2020, and particularly 2022, has clearly become a turning point for the Western imperial system, in which increasingly aggressive and reckless moves are required to keep the system functional (stability is, at this point, out of the question). Unfortunately, this has also resulted in the deaths of many long-lasting, inspiring figures, such as Nasrallah, and many more will certainly die before the empire collapses. If Maduro is assassinated - and I'm having trouble imagining how he won't be doggedly pursued in the days. weeks, and months to come - I have hope that a successor will rise to continue to lead the Bolivarian Revolution.

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::: spoiler Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.

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  • Western yurop.

    Cops gave me a concussion. Will press charges tomorrow. There's vidz of unmarked mf beating up people everywhere, even national newz had to talk about it.

    tldr I saw a kid getting georgefloyed, called them murderer (nobody cared) and told them not wearing id number was illegal. They georgefloyed me and put me in detention for 12 hours. No food nor drink. Guy next to me got beat up bad, a guy told me they were putting CS gaz right into his eyeball.

  • The Argentinian currency reserves in US Dollars situation continues to deteriorate. The country is bleeding reserves, the Central Bank lost 513 million USD in just two days. The immense weight of the foreign debt continues to crush the country's economy, and thus the exchange rate between the Peso and the US Dollar remains very high, which makes everything expensive despite the "low inflation".

    Meanwhile, the US Treasury announced the bailout towards Argentina would reach 40 billion USD. The US Treasury is directly intervening in the Argentine market by buying excess pesos. This is yet another form of debt, but that massive accumulation of pesos immediately becomes a ticking bomb: If tomorrow a new administration takes place that doesn't have the US approval, the US could potentially re-release these pesos back into the market and drop a literal nuclear bomb into the economy, perhaps provoking inflation to spiral completely out of control. Or it could be used as a way to blackmail future administrations into further consessions, who knows?

    I think the fate of this country, as we once knew it, is sealed. When the US falls off from the world stage, we (alongside "israel") will follow. We're now bonded together, not as equals, but as dogs and their master.

    On a more personal note, the images of milei hanging out with Trump a day or two ago are really hard to speak about. Never in my life I have seen a president get dragged around the mud so much, never seen a more pathetic representation of what a vassal is.. ever. Menem (the guy who did most of the shock therapy policies in the 90s) was a MASSIVE US fan, ridiculous even. But even then Menem stood with leaders like Clinton with some presence, even in public he was not humilliated. Other presidents, who gave a lot to the US, were also well received and treated with some respect. The same cannot be said for milei, whose clown-like appearance was mocked by the likes of Trump (another clown, but this one is different). It is humilliating as a nation to have leaders like these. And even though I am not particularly fond of this nation, even though I am not a nationalist, I still hold some love to it, I don't want to see it being dragged across broken glass, mud and shit for nothing, especially so because millions upon millions depend on it. It is humilliating, it's beyond words.

    May the United States of America die, may javier milei get beheaded and as always: Death to "israel".

  • In this morning's Economist Espresso:

    The Trump administration wants to revive American shipbuilding, an industry that China now dominates. China’s shipbuilding capacity is more than 200 times greater than that of America.

    When put in those terms it's very funny. Good luck with that Donald.

    • So that means Trump is gonna invest in state owned shipbuilding industry right? Oh no it just means tons of handouts to private companies who will absolutely never actually build a single ship. Most efficient system in the world folks

    • Where are the startups working on 📝🤨 intudstrial capacitanc- capacity. Yeah that stuff whatever it is

      • gonna disrupt the shipbuilding industry by bringing the gig economy to the shipyards, download my new app and register as a naval architect to get the most of surge pricing during peak demand

    • Didn't they sink the SS United States like a year ago? That's pretty much the state of the American shipbuilding industry right now.

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, and other delegates are heading to Washington DC, USA this Friday, to discuss (with government officials, energy and most notably US defence companies) "air defense and our long-range capabilities aimed at exerting pressure on Russia for the sake of peace." In other words, Tomahawk cruise missiles. (And potentially other weapons, but Tomahawk will be the main discussion point due to it's unmatched range of over 1600km/1000mi)

    Co-incidentally today, Oshkosh has revealed a Ground-Based Tomahawk Launcher, called X-MAV, that can launch 4 Tomahawk BGM-109 cruise missiles per truck.

    Two points here: This illustrates that it's not a significant engineering challenge for the US military industrial complex to mount 4 launch cells to a truck, trailer or shipping container; even if Ukraine doesn't get X-MAV, there are alternatives. Secondly: 4 cruise missiles per ground launch vehicle is actually a lot in the context of the Ukraine - Russia war. 1 Russian Tu-95 bomber can carry 8 Kh-101 cruise missiles maximum (all externally), and 1 Russian missile corvette in the Black Sea can launch 8 Kalibr cruise missiles. So you only need two trucks/trailers/containers to match the maximum loadout of a Russian Tu-95 bomber or warship. Three to match a Tu-160 bomber, which carries 12 Kh-101 internally (rarely used). Obviously strategic bombers and missile corvettes have a much wider use case outside of the constraints of the Ukraine-Russia war, but in the context of this war, you only need 2 trucks to match one's combat capabilities.

    The threat these advanced low flying cruise missiles is significant. This is a completely different threat to the crude Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo or even Ukraine's upgraded Kh-35/Neptune cruise missiles (the latter have caused significant losses, most notably the sinking of the Moskva), which is why Ukraine wants them so badly, and why Russia is quite concerned.

    To defend Moscow from all angles against Tomahawks and the AGM-86, the USSR in the 1980s calculated that they would need a ring of 56 S-300P batteries, (That's 168 launch vehicles, 672 surface to air missiles, 56 fire control radars, 56 low altitude surveillance radars, 14 command posts and 14 long range surveillance radars). Accompanied by mobile Tor air defence systems, and the inclusion of look down-shoot down capability in the radar of the MiG-31 (MiG-25 did not have this) to "thin the herd" of cruise missiles beforehand. And this was just to defend Moscow, which still has an impressive air defence ring to this day. Obviously not every facility can have such protection. While Russia did manage to shoot down Tomahawks over Syria, the actual number was insignificant. Now air defence systems have advanced significantly since the 1980s, and Russia is vastly more defended than Syria. But if (big if) Ukraine gets Tomahawks, some will get through and hit targets, just like ATACMS and Strom Shadow/SCALP-EG previously. And mission planning will be done by or heavily assisted by US military staff. Russia will probably respond with more actions towards Europe if this happens.

    • Nuclear-capable US-satellite-guided terrain-hugging super-long-range cruise missiles. I mean, where else would you draw a red line? My jaw will drop if this does come to pass.

      It would be probably the most significant geopolitical escalation in modern history, surpassing even the Cuban Missile Crisis, in my opinion.

      • Modern variants of the BGM-109 haven't been nuclear capable for over a decade. There's zero chance Ukraine gets nuclear armed Tomahawks. Russia fires conventional Kh-101s, Kinzhals and Iskander-Ms at Ukraine (which all have nuclear capable variants currently in service) weekly. I think all the talk of nuclear capable missiles is completely overblown on both sides.

        The real big thing Tomahawks offer in navigation is Digital Scene Matching Area Correlator (DSMAC) and Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) navigation. The first Tomahawks were operational before GPS/satellite navigation was, and relied on this to navigate. DSMAC compares images from its optical sensors with those stored in memory, taken from spy satellites and converted to the perspective of a low flying cruise missile. TERCOM uses an altimeter to measure the altitude of the missile and compared it to stored topographical data. Modern Tomahawk variants combine this with satellite navigation, and this is why these missiles can be accurate in GPS denied environments, and can hug the terrain very effectively. It's also why US military assets will be very involved in any potential mission planning. This is the big issue that can't be ignored. Who is actually firing the missiles, if all the mission planning is done by the United States?

        Modern Tomahawks probably can do "GPS only" missions, so that's an option, but I doubt that it would be used in such a scenario.

        Firing standoff weapons provided by a third party against a nuclear armed nation happened earlier this year, India fired plenty of Israeli and French/British made missiles at Pakistan, and hit plenty of targets. Pakistan fired a few Chinese made missiles at India, didn't hit much in comparison. (This is about ground targets, Pakistan shot down a number of Indian fighter aircraft). The stability-instability paradox may no longer be relevant with such modern weapons. States may be perfectly fine with firing conventionally armed standoff weapons directly against a nuclear power and escalating despite the risk of nuclear conflict. Iran did so twice towards Israel last year, but backed down after Israeli attacks in response. "Standoff wars" may be a new variable that hasn't been accounted for adequately in doctrine and statecraft.

      • *Turkish Missile Crisis

    • Interesting. US military Tomahawk operators and maintainers are required to have a Top Secret clearance, so it would absolutely be US troops doing everything up to pushing the “Fire” button

    • This seems like a massive escalation for no advantage that opens up a lot of risk of Russia flattening significant portions of western Ukraine in retaliation.

      • The advantage would be hitting key manufacturing sites, and all of these actions must be seen in the context of threat reduction both in Ukraine and a hypothetical NATO-Russia land war in Europe, as this is what NATO is thinking. Ukraine is not going to waste Tomahawks on random sheds in Russia (like the US does in the Middle East). For instance, the "target" that there's a lot of noise about is the Alabuga Geran/Shahed one way attack drone manufacturing facility in Tatarstan. Destroying that would put a large dent in Russia's drone production, reducing the amount of one way attack drones in over Ukraine, and the size of the stockpile Russia can build up against Europe (in theory). Apply the same theory to missile production, air defence production, fighter jets, etc. This is what NATO planners are thinking about. To bring Russia to the "negotiation table". They know Ukraine is unlikely to take back ground currently, so this is the card they might play.

        As for a hypothetical Russian response, what was Russia's response to having over 10 Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 bombers being destroyed? That was a big attack by Ukraine. Russia doesn't have air superiority over western or central Ukraine, launching attacks require on that part of Ukraine requires one way attack drones, cruise and ballistic missiles. Standoff weapons. Russia has been carrying out such attacks for over three years, a big one usually involves hundreds of one way attack drones and dozens of cruise and ballistic missiles. Russia can't turn Lviv or Kiev into 2022 Mariupol. The Russian ability to respond directly to Ukraine is limited. Which is why I think that they'll look to respond outside of Ukraine if they respond, there are more options available.

    • will russia strike their plane over atlantic or continue cuck any% run 🤔

      • If decapitation strikes won wars then there wouldn't be any wars.

      • I think such a move would be largely symbolic and such moves are avoided by both sides for good reason, they don't want to open "Pandora's box" of civil leadership strikes. Zelenskyy is not going to push the big red button to launch the missiles cold war movie style, and the chances of him being replaced by a pro Russian leader are slim to none in the event he's assassinated by Russia. If anything, Ukraine would be even more anti Russia and such a move would fail to establish deterrence.

    • So what will Russia respond with? Nukes? Are we all gonna die? 0.0

      • There are still many escalation options short of nuclear weapons. In that case of nuclear escalation it could be a tactical nuke in a non-NATO country. Make some tea you're going to sit through much more of this

      • Highly doubt any nuclear response. Escalation against Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania, or one way attack drones/cruise missiles towards Poland? Maybe. Russia has already flown MiG 31s in Estonian airspace and flown drones made of styrofoam with no warhead over Poland.

  • Reuters' US National Security reporter Phil Stewart has just tweeted this out:

    SCOOP! - There's another U.S. military strike in the Caribbean, and this time there are survivors. Strike happened today.

    Source

    Reuters article up now

    I don't even know what to say anymore...

    US Southern Command (responsible for military activities in the region) commander Alvin Holsey has also announced his retirement at the end of the year.

  • Venezuela begins restructuring its foreign service with the closing of embassies in Norway and Australia and the opening of embassies in Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso

    “New embassies will be opened in the Republic of Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso. With this decision, the Bolivarian Government strengthens its historic ties with the African continent and establishes resident diplomatic missions in two sister nations, strategic partners in the anti-colonial struggle and resistance to hegemonic pressures.”

    “The central objective of this reorganization is to optimize state resources and redefine our diplomatic presence to strengthen alliances with the Global South”

  • This ceasefire has me wondering if we have reached a critical mass of international support here similar to the beginning of the end of apartheid in South Africa. I don't see a path back to the international status quo Israel had achieved pre-conflict. The hearts and minds of pretty much all young people they had internationally were nearly completely lost by Israel, including the unwavering support of one of their most important international sponsors: The Democratic Party base in the US. Support for Israel has massively cratered, from ~60% down to only 33% amongst self-described democrats in the US. Support for Israel from independents in the US is also down from 75% positive favorability to only 48%. With far more attention drawn to the Palestinian cause, it really does feel like there has been a fundamental change in understanding of the Zionist occupation of Palestine for the average person in the US, whereas it used to be considered a rather balck and white issue of not supporting Israel = fringe position of the far left or antisemitism. Both during and after the Second Intifada in the early 2000s, American opinion on Israel remained steady, never really dropping or rising. This is uncharted territory.

    Frankly, I don't see a way for Israel to claw back that support, especially amongst young people. There is not really any amount of short term propagandizing that can undo multiple years of seeing the brutality of the zionist entity commit atrocities day in and day out directly on the front page of their most consumed media sources. Of course, if there is to be a change in support from the US government it comes with the huge caveat that there will likely be a years-long lag before we see it come to fruition.

  • President Lula says that “no president of another country should interfere in Venezuela or Cuba.”

    "What we defend is that the Venezuelan people are masters of their own destiny, and no president of another country has the right to interfere on what Venezuela or Cuba will be like."

  • that Chinese chip company that the Dutch seized? well, turns out their genius act of "safeguarding on Dutch and European soil of crucial technological knowledge and capabilities" now threatens to shut down European car manufacturing! https://archive.ph/36hYY

    ACEA calls for quick resolution to critical chip supply shortage

    Brussels, 16 October 2025 – The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) is deeply concerned by potential significant disruption to European vehicle manufacturing if the interruption of Nexperia chips supplies cannot be immediately resolved.

    this is likely a consequence of China's retaliatory export controls (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-14/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover)

    I guess the Dutch forgot to check if, you know, the company actually fully manufactured stuff in Europe and wasn't reliant on imports from China. From looking at their site (https://www.nexperia.com/about/worldwide-locations/manufacturing), they don't even have a plant in The Netherlands anyway? There's a plant in Hamburg which seems to be their main thing, and I assume it's those guys getting screwed over now. Love how the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs specifically said "the company’s regular production process can continue" and like a week later it turns out that, uh, no, it fucking can't.

    and the Dutch may already be folding https://archive.ph/ea0jc

    Dutch government in talks with China over Nexperia export controls

    AMSTERDAM, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The Netherlands is in talks with China over export controls imposed on the Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia, which has become tangled up in the trade frictions between the U.S. and China.

  • Both CNN and The Financial Times are now reporting that no Tomahawks or other long range cruise missiles (AGM-158 JASSM family) will be sent to Ukraine in the immediate future. It looks like Putin's phone call to Trump yesterday did the trick and stalled the momentum Ukraine was building on that issue. Now we await another summit in Hungary between the USA and Russia.

    Elite stalling skills from Putin to be honest, he's probably bought Russia a few weeks to months before the topic of long range fires is back on the agenda, provided the summit in Hungary goes alright. Alaska summit didn't go well, but it also went well enough to prevent any serious escalation against Russia (long range fires were also a topic of discussion beforehand then.)

    Hopefully we can all breathe a sigh of relief, at least until escalation ramps up again in a few weeks to months.

  • Wikipedia lumping all these together as being a part of “the Gen Z protest movement” is the dumbest shit but it’s also hilarious because it’s pretty clear the consent manufacturing machine that came up with this moniker doesn’t actually support all of these and are probably mad that the strikes for Gaza in Italy and elsewhere are being described as Gen Z protests

    The whole narrative surrounding this is bizarre and incoherent…. Young people are protesting? That in of itself is not novel and deserving of a label and this will only get more weird when Wikipedia is forced to contend with the fact that basically any protest that involves young people is going to be called a Gen Z protest by a “reliable source” that isn’t deeply integrated into the consent manufacturing machine such as the nytimes which only describe protests as Gen Z protests if it aligns with US interests.

    Because we are being told that this is all innocuous it’s just about young people it will inevitably just be applied to anything and as mass media picks and chooses what does and does not constitute a Gen Z protest the people buying into this bullshit will have to increasingly jump through more and more hoops to justify why any of this even makes sense.

    I think it speaks to how lazy the people pushing this stuff have gotten since the effort required is so small compared to back in the day you just have to game the algorithms and get your hashtags out there until western media starts running with the narrative.

  • Turkish government to play out the last part of the LGBT discrimination threats leaked one year ago. The 11th Amendment to the Criminal Code, to be voted on this month, contains changes to:

    -Obscenity laws(the ones that ban public sex) to increase the penalty to 1 to 3 years. It will also now include "actions incompatible with biological sex, encouraging or praising such actions" and (symbolic) gay wedding ceremonies.

    -Legal reassignment. The minimum age is now 25 and "scientific necessity" must be proven. This is in a country where legal transition is nearly impossible due to lack of professionals and absurd expectations from doctors. Any "changes to an individual's gender" outside of the law is punishable by 3 to 7 years.

    Here is a good English source: https://kaosgl1.org/en/single-news/11th-judicial-package-prison-sentences-for-lgbti-s-gender-reassignment-age-raised-to-25

    I assume nobody will want to take this part out in order to not be seen as "friendly towards gays". None of the bans before this got any attention except from LGBTQ orgs.

  • Sorry if this is a little too inside-Canadian-baseball, but I think this situation is kind of interesting.

    China will remove canola tariffs if Canada scraps EV levies: ambassador

    Canada put a 100% tariff on Chinese EV imports, and China retaliated with tariffs on some Canadian agricultural products. The reason for the EV tariff was ostensibly to protect Canadian auto manufacturing, but the reality is that Canada was just aligning policy with the US. That move made (some) sense prior to Trump's trade war when the assumption was that there would be another boring Democratic administration and everyone would go along to get along as usual. However, since Trump got into office, the status quo for Canada-US trade and diplomatic relations has been disrupted. The US is no longer a reliable trade partner, which calls into question how closely aligned Canada needs to be to the US in its own foreign policy.

    Dropping the EV tariffs in exchange for the agricultural tariffs would be good for the agricultural sector, good for Canadian consumers, good for propagation of EVs, and would represent a meaningful divergence from US policy, which is a major reason the current government was elected. If Canada wants to be less reliant on US trade then it's going to need to actually do more trade with other markets instead of just whining that Trump isn't being fair. And no, doing more trade with Europe isn't going to cut it. I'm not convinced that they'll actually take this offer seriously, but there are very good arguments to go for it, and very real consequences of turning it down. It probably won't happen, but it's a thing that actually could happen, even in a world where nothing ever happens.

  • 🚨 BREAKING: Drop Site’s Ryan Grim reports U.S. officials knew within hours that the Rafah explosion – which Netanyahu used to justify halting all Gaza aid and resuming airstrikes – was actually caused by an Israeli settler bulldozer running over unexploded ordnance, not a Hamas tunnel attack.
    Despite that, Netanyahu blamed Hamas, suspended aid, and ordered new bombings.
    After Washington told Israel it knew the truth, Netanyahu quietly announced he would reopen the crossings “in a few hours.”

    From the Drop Site News twitter. Another source in the thread says it was an IOF tank hitting an IED.

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