Israel Security Minister Says Palestinian Prisoners Should be 'Shot in the Head" - Will Pass a Law to Allow it. | Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security of "Israel", calls for Palestinian prisoners to be shot in the head and announces that they will pass a law to legalize their executions. In a televised interview, he said "They ask me if Palestinian prisoners should be given food... and I say that Palestinian prisoners should be killed by a shot to the head. We will pass a law on the execution of prisoners."

The Mask Comes Off - Hal Turner Editorial — With his public remarks, Israel's Minister of Security shows how utterly Barbaric he is - and how Barbaric the Israeli government actually is! It gives you a sense of what Palestinians have had to endure for years. The mask is off. [...] What we have with "Israel" in the Middle East is a fraud. Zionists cleverly hide behind the Jewish religion to justify their political moves. Anyone who criticizes their barbaric actions, their outright theft of other people's lands, is smeared as an "Anti-Semite" or a "Jew Hater." They whine that they're hated "Because they're jews" but that is false. They're hated because of their behavior. [...]

Ilana Mercer | |Israel is engaged in the mother of all performative contradictions: denying genocide, while committing genocide, all the while demanding the right to genocide. | The Jewish State is genocidal not because it has been denounced as “genocidal” by ostensible “antisemites” and “terrorist sympathizers,” but by virtue of its actions. Israel is genocidal by virtue of what it has done to Gaza, the people and their land. [...] Thus, the labels “antisemite” and “terrorist sympathizer” amount to a blood libel leveled at millions, perhaps billions, in the Global South, in particular—although the wholesale slaughter carried out by Israel in Gaza has stirred hearts across the world.

■ US to unblock bomb shipments to Israel – Axios (RT.com) | The US has decided to release a shipment of 1,800 bombs to Israel that was suspended several months ago amid concerns over destruction in the Gazan city of Rafah, Axios reported on Thursday. According to unnamed US and Israeli officials who spoke with the news site, the administration of US President Joe Biden is willing to send a batch of 500-pound (226kg) bombs that were put on hold in April.

Russian specialists are studying the guidance and flight correction system of the US-made ATACMS tactical ballistic missile, an expert told Sputnik.

💬 "There are three ring laser gyroscopes [in the missile's guidance system]. They allow the missile to stay on a configured ballistic trajectory. [There is also] a GPS antenna, thanks to which correction [of the missile] is made at the primary and final stages of the ballistic trajectory. We can analyze the operation of the missile systems at the entire stage of the flight trajectory," the expert said.

The United States began providing ATACMS ballistic missiles to Ukraine in 2023. The missiles are manufactured by Lockheed Martin and have a caliber of 610 millimeters, a length of 4 meters, and a weight of 1.6 tonnes. The flight range of the Block 1 modification is 165 kilometers (102 miles).

Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally (RN) has topped the 1st round of France's parliamentary elections, winning 33.4% of the votes on Sunday. The New Popular Front leftist coalition came in second, securing 27.99%, while President Emmanuel Macron's center-right alliance Ensemble took third place with 20.04%. | President Emmanuel Macron’s center-right alliance Ensemble has been “practically wiped out” by Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally (RN) in the first round of the snap elections to the National Assembly in France. That is how the leader of the French right-wing National Rally party's parliamentary faction referred to the results of the first round of the parliamentary elections. After the second round, the RN could clinch between 230 and 280 seats - a relative majority - in the 577-seat lower house, according to national TV calculations. It had but 88 seats in the outgoing parliament. Macron's coalition is projected to lose over 160 seats, potentially winning only between 70 - 100 seats.