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The settlers are increasingly crossing the border into Syria, with at least tacit support from the Israeli military.

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On April 27, Israel bombed 27 different locations in Southern Lebanon in one day – in direct contravention of the supposed ‘ceasefire‘.

According to reporting from Courtney Bonneau, a war correspondent currently in Lebanon, Israel attacked 17 locations by air. Additionally, it launched three drone attacks and seven artillery shelling strikes.

Summary of Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory on 4/27/2026:

Airstrikes:
Barashit
Zawtar al-Sharqiyah
Kounine
Kfardounine
Kherbet Selm
Haris
Shaqra
Outskirts of Kfour
Basaliya
Bint Jbeil
Tibnine
Yatir
Al-Sawana
Yaroun
Touline
Al-Ghandouriya
Yahmar al-Shaqif

Drone…

— courtneybonneauimages (@cbonneauimages) April 27, 2026

At the same time, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) destroyed civilian homes and infrastructure in at least 6 towns. This included the towns of Aita al-Shaab and Shamaa.

Based on an update by Courtney Bonneau:

Israeli forces carried out a wide wave of attacks across southern Lebanon on April 27, 2026, striking at least 17 locations by air, alongside 3 drone strike areas and 7 sites hit by artillery shelling. The bombardment spanned key towns…

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) April 27, 2026

After an evening full of Israeli airstrikes, the Israeli army just conducted a controlled demolition of homes and civilian infrastructure in the town of Chemaa. It was violent enough to shake my doors and windows 8 kilometers away.

Destroying civilian homes and infrastructure…

— courtneybonneauimages (@cbonneauimages) April 27, 2026

Israel is a murderous regime

These attacks take the total number of people that Israel has murdered since it launched its illegal attack on Iran to 2,521. The attacks have injured an additional 7,804 people.

Lebanon: 2,521 Killed, Over 10,000 Casualties Since Start of Israeli War

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says 10,325 people have been killed or wounded since February 3, including 2,521 killed and 7,804 injured, according to a new national overview covering the war through April… https://t.co/Q4qiKLbSHc pic.twitter.com/mGDPOnumxS

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) April 27, 2026

Importantly, Israel is purposefully targeting civilian infrastructure, which in itself is a war crime.

Israel is massively bombing multiple villages across South Lebanon in the middle of the night.

Directly targeting homes and infrastructure.

This isn’t a ceasefire.

It is the relentless mass bombardment of civilian areas. pic.twitter.com/NvJiL0QU6u

— sarah (@sahouraxo) April 27, 2026

Israel dropped bombs on a civilian home in Al-Souwaneh, South Lebanon.

A woman is now buried alive beneath the rubble of her own house as rescuers fight to reach her.

This is what Israel calls a “ceasefire.” pic.twitter.com/sJMY5wkq7p

— sarah (@sahouraxo) April 27, 2026

As if it wasn’t clear enough that Israel was targeting civilian infrastructure, it has damaged at least 16 hospitals in Lebanon since the start of its attacks on Iran. This has forced four of them to close.

The genocidal terrorist state has also murdered 100 healthcare workers and injured 233, including paramedics and hospital staff. Similarly, it has hit emergency service workers hard. A total of 130 attacks were recorded, resulting in damage to 117 vehicles.

Ceasefire?

Of course, the current ceasefire applies to everyone except Israel. But this is nothing new – Israel has a long track record of ignoring ceasefire agreements. 

Since October 2025 alone, Israel has committed 2,575 violations of the Gaza ceasefire. This equates to an average of 13.2 violations per day.

Israel has murdered 809 Palestinians, including 213 children, 89 women, and 23 older people. It has also wounded 2,267 people, more than half of whom were children, women or older people.

Additionally, Israel continues to illegally hold approximately 34 square kilometres beyond the agreed withdrawal lines. It has also blocked repairs to electricity, water, and sewage infrastructure.

Similarly, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the Lebanese government reported more than 15,400 ceasefire violations by Israel since the 2024 ceasefire. During this time, Israel killed more than 370 people.

From November 2024 there was a ceasefite in Lebanon which Israel violated 15,400 times according to the UN.
I witnessed 4 months of Israeli violations personally.
When Hezbollah finally fired back, the entire western media reported they “initiated” the current war.
Now Israel…

— Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg) April 28, 2026

On February 25, before Israel and the US launched their illegal and unprovoked attacks on Iran, Doctors Without Borders reported that:

These attacks are driving repeated waves of displacement, damaging civilian infrastructure, including homes and essential services, and preventing thousands of people from returning to their villages to rebuild.

A pattern

But only soon after the settler-colonial state was created, it started violating the UN-brokered Armistice Agreement. In the process, it killed and expelled Arab civilians from their land.

Since its very creation, Israel has not played by the rules of international law.

Still, to this day, Israel is continuing to make a mockery of the supposed ‘ceasefire’ and international law as a whole, at the expense of thousands of civilian lives.

As soon as Hezbollah retaliates or tries to protect Lebanese land from illegal Israeli attacks, Western media parrot IOF lines, calling it a “violation of the ceasefire”. Of course, Hezbollah aims at Israeli soldiers while the IOF blows up homes, schools, and hospitals.

Meanwhile, the whole world turns the other way while Israel ethnically cleanses Gaza, and now Lebanon, under the guise of ‘ceasefires’.

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POLICE in Greece today arrested an 89-year-old man who allegedly opened fire with a shotgun in a social security office and a courthouse in central Athens, wounding at least four people.

The suspect was arrested near the city of Patra, some 130 miles west of Athens.

He initially opened fire at the social security office, wounding an employee, police said.

He then fled and later opened fire on the ground floor of a court building in another part of central Athens, wounding several people.

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A pair of progressive Democrats unveiled a bill on Tuesday that would raise the federal minimum wage to $25 per hour, considered the bare minimum a single adult needs to meet the cost of living in much of the US.

The Living Wage For All Act is the first bill to be introduced by the newly sworn-in Rep. Analilia Mejía (D-NJ), who won a special election earlier this month after helping to lead the fight for a $15 minimum wage in her home state of New Jersey.

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Ukrainian prosecutors, in coordination with the National Police and law enforcement agencies from several countries, have uncovered a network allegedly operating under the direction of Russian intelligence services that was preparing a series of contract killings and acts of sabotage across the European Union.

This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine on April 27.

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According to the investigation, the operation had been active since August 2024, with Russian intelligence coordinating activities from abroad through intermediaries. The network’s primary objective was to organize violent crimes within EU member states.

One of the key targets was in Lithuania, where the group prepared contract killings. Suspects conducted prolonged surveillance of two individuals: a Russian opposition activist granted political asylum in Lithuania and a Lithuanian citizen known for supporting Ukraine. The group collected detailed information on their residences, daily routines, and movement patterns in preparation for a potential attack.

The network reportedly involved individuals from multiple countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Georgia, Latvia, Moldova, and Greece. Participants carried out various roles, ranging from surveillance and recruitment of perpetrators to financing, logistics, and coordination.

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For more than six decades the organisation has provided help for those affected by alcohol, drugs or trauma, but now its women’s service, which supports those who have suffered violence or abuse, could be set to close due to a £60,000 funding shortage.

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Tony Blair’s think tank has called for people with anxiety, depression and ADHD to be banned from claiming Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) disability benefits.

The latest in a long line of murky think tanks weighing in on benefits, the Tony Blair Institute says the government should pull the ’emergency handbrake’ on benefit claims. Whatever the fuck that means. The institute, founded by the former Prime Minister and war criminal, is claiming that the current system is ‘vulnerable to misuse’.

This is a ridiculous statement clearly made by someone who has never had to claim benefits. Anyone who knows how complex it is to navigate the system.

Warmonger attempts to make disabled people the enemy

The Tony Blair Institute wants to make what they call ‘non-working limiting conditions’ ineligible for benefits. This includes, instead, these people would be pointed towards treatment. Which is hilarious when you consider how much stress the NHS is already under and the backlog there already is for ADHD and mental health diagnosis and treatment.

Speaking to the Telegraph the Tony Blair Institute said

The handbrake is based on a simple idea: there are certain conditions that in the vast majority of cases do not limit an individual’s ability to work, and the default presumption should be that these non-work-limiting conditions no longer attract cash benefits

This is yet another think tank that wants to cut benefits for people with mental health and neurodivergent conditions whilst at the same time the government is trying to prove they’re over-diagnosed. This is despite experts already coming out and saying otherwise

And once again, they rely on this false idea that you do not need medical proof to get disability benefits. The Telegraph article said:

While it stressed there would be no blanket ban on claims, the TBI said claimants would have to support them with medical evidence.

It’s absolutely absurd that we’re expected to believe that neither the Telegraph nor a think tank ran by Tony sodding Blair knows you need mountains of evidence to qualify for Personal Independence Payment or the health element of Universal Credit.

But once again, they’re relying on the general public, who they’re attempting to turn against disabled people, not knowing.

They’re also relying on the public not knowing that PIP isn’t awarded based on what condition you have, but how the conditions affect your life and your ability to do things. During the 2025 PIP cut proposals, the DWP wanted to make mental health and neurodivergent conditions ineligible by changing the daily living criteria scoring system. They failed on that, so the Tony Blair Institute wants to bypass that completely.

There’s also the fact that it almost definitely won’t be medical professionals who decide which conditions are ‘work-limiting’ or not. It’ll be politicians and shadowy think tanks who want to do everything they can to cut benefits.

Tony Blair Institute policy quickly falls apart

In theory, it’s enough to get all the right wing disability haters rubbing their trousers, but practically it doesn’t work.

Most disabled people don’t just have one health condition; I’ve got thirteen. In theory I’d be disqualified because I have mental health and neurodivergent conditions, but I’ve also got a whole host of other things. Would I only be able to claim for them? Or would I be blanket-banned?

And there’s the big elephant in the room here that the right wing shitrags and the think tanks started by fucking ghouls like Blair and Iain Duncan Smith want us to ignore. Say it loudly: PIP isn’t an out-of-work benefit. And that while UC Health element is at the minute, the DWP plans to move it over to PIP too.

I, and many others, claim PIP and work – and the DWP know this. It’s absurd to propose restricting benefits only to conditions that stop you from working, when many disabled people rely on PIP so that they can work in a way that is safest for them without having to worry about not earning enough.

It’s clear this is yet another ‘policy’ that has been created so the bullshit rags on the right have another excuse to turn the public against disabled people.

Another way to turn the public against disabled people

And that’s exactly what this is designed to do, so that it’s easier for the DWP to cut benefits in the first place.

To back up this bullshit, the Tony Blair Institute also commissioned YouGov to ask a section of the UK public their thoughts on benefits claimants. One question, which shows you how vile their polling is was

Do you personally know anyone who you believe is receiving health-related welfare benefits, but you think does not genuinely need them?

This question doesn’t really do anything to further the Tony Blair Institute’s point except show that the DWP’s propaganda is working. These people have no proof, they just think they know someone who is gaming the system, based on what the media and government saturating them with constant stories of ‘lazy benefit skivers’.

In the current climate when working class people are spending every bloody hour working and still not being able to afford a good life, you can see why so many have been turned against those on benefits. But what this really speaks to is who holds all the power.

At the end of the day, your wages aren’t going to increase if your neighbour who you think doesn’t deserve it loses their benefits. Food and bills will still continue to go up. And when they’ve turned us all against disabled people, immigrants and every other minority, they’ll come for you too.

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By Rachel Charlton-Dailey

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