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Aharon Haliva is first Israeli official to take responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas attack or recent Iranian counterstrike. The head of Israeli military intelligence has resigned for failing to prevent the October 7 Hamas attack. The Israeli army announced the departure of Major-General Aharon Haliva on Monday. He is the first senior Israeli official to take responsibility for failing to prevent the assault, with the government seeking to keep the focus on its ongoing war in Gaza. Haliva, who served in the military for 38 years, reportedly took responsibility for failing to prevent the attack in his resignation letter. More than 1,100 people were killed in the attack, while about 240 were taken captive. “Major General Aharon Haliva, in coordination with the chief of the general staff, has requested to end his position, following his leadership responsibility as the head of the intelligence directorate for the events of October 7,” the military said in a statement. With the approval of Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, the military statement said, it was decided that Haliva “will end his position and retire” from the army “once his successor is appointed in an orderly and professional process”. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/22/israels-military-intelligence-chief-resigns-over-october-7-attack Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Israel has not informed UN agency of any concrete concerns relating to staff since 2011, independent review finds. Israeli authorities have not provided "any supporting evidence" to back up allegations that United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees employees are members of groups that attacked Israel on 7 October, a review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said. The Colonna report, which was commissioned by the UN to look at Unrwa's operations and policies in the wake of Israel's allegations and will be released on Monday, said Israeli authorities have not responded to letters Unrwa in March and April requesting names and evidence in order to open an investigation. The Israeli government, according to the independent review, "has not informed Unrwa of any concrete concerns relating to Unrwa staff since 2011". In late January, Israel accused 12 Unrwa employees of participating in the 7 October attack on Israel in which 1,200 people were killed. As a result of the allegations, Unrwa terminated the contracts of 10 of the employees (two were confirmed dead) and 16 countries paused or froze their financial contributions to the agency, amounting to around 50 percent of the agency's budget for the year. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-has-not-provided-any-supporting-evidence-unrwa-over-hamas-allegations-report-finds Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Israeli leaders on Sunday harshly criticized an expected decision by the U.S. to impose sanctions on a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers in the Israeli military. The decision, expected as soon as Monday, would mark the first time the U.S. has imposed sanctions on a unit inside the Israeli military and would further strain relations between the two allies, which have grown increasingly tense during Israel’s war in Gaza. While U.S. officials declined to identify the unit expected to be sanctioned, Israeli leaders and local media identified it as Netzah Yehuda — an infantry battalion founded roughly a quarter of a century ago to incorporate ultra-Orthodox men into the military. Many religious men receive exemptions from what is supposed to be compulsory service. Israeli leaders condemned the anticipated decision as unfair, especially at a time when Israel is at war, and vowed to oppose it. “If anyone thinks they can impose sanctions on a unit in the IDF, I will fight it with all my might,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netzah Yehuda, or Judea Forever, has historically been based in the occupied West Bank and some of its members have been linked to abuses against Palestinians. It makes up just a small part of Israel’s military presence in the territory. The unit came under heavy American criticism in 2022 after an elderly Palestinian-American man was found dead shortly after he was detained at a West Bank checkpoint. A Palestinian autopsy said Omar Assad, 78, had underlying health conditions, but had suffered a heart attack caused by “external violence.” It said doctors found bruises on his head, redness on his wrists from being bound and bleeding in his eyelids from being tightly blindfolded. A military investigation said that Israeli soldiers assumed that Assad was asleep when they cut off the cables binding his hands. They didn’t offer medical help when they saw that he was unresponsive and left the scene without checking to see if he was alive. https://apnews.com/article/israel-us-army-palestinians-west-bank-gaza-dd18e8ebf07b937bdad09ce9b56bd0cf Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

The attacks come a day after hundreds of settlers stormed al-Mughayyir village, killing one Palestinian and wounding 25 others. Israeli settlers on Saturday attacked villages in the occupied West Bank, wounding several Palestinians and setting fire to houses and cars, under full protection from the Israeli army. The rampage came a day after hundreds of settlers, many of them armed, stormed the village al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, after an Israeli teenager from a nearby settlement disappeared on Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said the missing Israeli teenager was found dead in the West Bank. Barakat Dawabsha, a resident of Duma, south of Nablus, told Middle East Eye that more than 500 armed settlers attacked the village from the northern, western and southern sides. He said that several people were wounded by live bullets, and dozens of homes and vehicles were burned. The settlers also attacked people with batons and stones, causing more injuries. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/one-palestinian-killed-dozens-wounded-settler-attack-west-bank Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Hungary will use its veto power if necessary once it assumes the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. The country is scheduled to take over the Council on 1 July, succeeding Belgium. As presidency holder, Hungary will be in charge of setting the political agenda, moderating talks among member states and representing the institution vis-a-vis the European Parliament and the European Commission. This prospect has fuelled fears that the country will disregard the role of "honest broker" and abuse the position to stall, block or simply ignore key files that it views unfavourably, such as support for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia. According to Zoltán Kovács, the government's international spokesperson, who is coordinating the upcoming presidency, Hungary will not withhold issues from the common agenda but will nevertheless make its voice heard. "We know what it means to be an honest broker," Kovács said on Thursday during a briefing with journalists, attended by Euronews. "We know our role and duties concerning the presidency, but it doesn't mean that Hungary is not going to speak out for its own position." Since Vladimir Putin decided to launch its all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Hungary has outraged its fellow countries by extensively using its veto power to derail collective decisions and extract concessions. This has been the case in the EU ban on Russian oil, the blacklisting of Patriarch Kirill and the €50-billion special fund for Ukraine. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/04/11/hungary-wont-rule-out-using-veto-during-eu-council-presidency Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Israel pledged that it will “exact a price” from Iran as the country weighs its response to an unprecedented overnight barrage of drone and missile strikes while facing international pressure to de-escalate. The overnight attack – which saw Tehran launch a series of strikes at Israel over a five-hour period – threatens to tip the crisis in the Middle East into an untempered regional war. Israel’s war cabinet has been authorized to respond to the attack and met on Sunday, with one of its members, Benny Gantz, saying the “event is not over.” He cited the need to “build a regional coalition and exact a price from Iran, in a way and at a time that suits us.” Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant earlier said Israel had “thwarted this attack in a way that is unparalleled” but added “we must be prepared for every scenario.” In his first comments, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “we have intercepted, we have contained. Together we shall win.” An Israeli official separately told CNN that Israel will respond to Iran’s attack, but the scope of that attack has yet to be decided. The official said Israel is yet to determine whether to try and “break all the dishes” or do something more measured. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/14/middleeast/israel-iran-attack-response-intl/index.html Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Despite rulings in European courts saying the Baltic country was home to a secret prison, the issue has been shrouded in official secrecy in a nation closely allied with the United States. First came containers loaded with equipment for a secluded property under renovation on the edge of the forest. It had housed a horseback riding academy and a cafe, but was being reconfigured for a mysterious enterprise. Then muscular young men appeared, jogging through the trees at strange hours and speaking to one another in English. Juozas Banevicius, who watched the comings and goings in the tiny settlement of Antaviliai, Lithuania, nearly 20 years ago, recalled thinking it a bit odd that the newcomers would shoo away anyone who came close to the security fence they had put up around their property, which was previously open to the public. “Nobody knew what they were doing inside,” recalled Mr. Banevicius, 66. The answer has been subjected to intense news media and judicial scrutiny in the years since. It has all pointed to the same conclusion: The village of Antaviliai was home to a secret C.I.A. detention and torture center, one of three so-called black sites that the agency set up in Eastern Europe after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/world/europe/cia-black-site-lithuania.html Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Seoul and Pyongyang are in a race to put more reconnaissance satellites into orbit amid rising tensions on the peninsula. South Korea has successfully launched its second military reconnaissance satellite, days after North Korea reiterated its intention to launch multiple spy satellites this year. The satellite entered orbit after its launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the John F Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the United States on Sunday, South Korea’s National Ministry of Defense said. Seoul’s military said in a statement that its “independent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities have been further strengthened” by the successful launch. “We will proceed with future satellite launches without a hitch,” it added. The Falcon 9 rocket was launched at 23:17 GMT and the satellite successfully separated from the launch vehicle 45 minutes later and entered its targeted orbit, according to the statement. It made successful communications with a ground station about two hours and 40 minutes after the launch, the ministry added. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/8/south-korea-puts-second-military-spy-satellite-successfully-into-orbit Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Israel’s military announced Sunday it had withdrawn its forces from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, wrapping up a key phase in its ground offensive against the Hamas militant group and bringing its troop presence in the territory to one of the lowest levels since the six-month war began. But defense officials said troops were merely regrouping as the army prepares to move into Hamas’ last stronghold, Rafah. “The war in Gaza continues, and we are far from stopping,” said the military chief, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi. Local broadcaster Channel 13 TV reported that Israel was preparing to begin evacuating Rafah within one week and the process could take several months. Still, the withdrawal was a milestone as Israel and Hamas marked six months of fighting. Military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity under army policy, said a “significant force” remained in Gaza to continue targeted operations including in Khan Younis, hometown of the Hamas leader, Yehya Sinwar. https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-news-04-07-2024-5257a90302686de80788469f74aab40c Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelite

Iran tipped off Russia about the possibility of a major "terrorist operation" on its soil ahead of the concert hall massacre near Moscow last month, three sources familiar with the matter said. In the deadliest attack inside Russia in 20 years, gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers on March 22 at the Crocus City Hall, killing at least 144 people in violence claimed by the Islamic State militant group. The United States had also warned Russia in advance of a likely militant Islamist attack but Moscow, deeply distrustful of Washington's intentions, played down that intelligence. It is harder, however, for Russia to dismiss intelligence from diplomatic ally Iran on the attack, which has also raised questions over the effectiveness of Russian security services. Moscow and Tehran, both under Western sanctions, have deepened military and other cooperation during the two-year Ukraine war. "Days before the attack in Russia, Tehran shared information with Moscow about a possible big terrorist attack inside Russia that was acquired during interrogations of those arrested in connection with deadly bombings in Iran," one of the sources told Reuters. Iran arrested 35 people in January, including a commander of Islamic State's Afghanistan-based branch ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K), who it said were linked to twin bombings on Jan. 3 in the city of Kerman that killed nearly 100 people. https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-alerted-russia-security-threat-before-moscow-attack-sources-say-2024-04-01/ Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

‘Combat’ or ‘kill’ zones designed to target fighters have indiscriminately targeted civilians who enter these zones. The Israeli army has created “kill zones” that have targeted and indiscriminately killed civilians in the Gaza Strip, according to a new report. Senior army officials and soldiers who have served on the frontlines confirmed to Haaretz that its forces had killed civilians and later claimed they were terrorists because they were in a particular area designated as a so-called "combat zone". “It's astonishing to hear the reports after every operation regarding how many terrorists were killed," a senior officer within the army’s southern command told Haaretz. “You don't need to be a genius to realise that you don't have hundreds or dozens of armed men running through the streets of Khan Younis or Jabaliya, fighting the IDF." Officers also admitted to Haaretz that some of the Palestinians killed in so-called “combat” or “kill” zones may have been going back to their homes or searching for food as fears of a famine in northern Gaza continue to mount. The soldiers explained to Haaretz that the “combat” zone is where a group of soldiers set up inside an abandoned house, with the surrounding area designated as a combat zone. The soldiers then use observation posts outside the Gaza Strip to observe the area and determine what is deemed a danger. The boundaries for each zone, however, are subject to interpretation by the commanding officer in that specific area. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-army-created-kill-zones-kill-unarmed-palestinian-civilians Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Sudan’s warring parties are using food as a weapon and targeting local activists for feeding their communities. On March 23, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) arrested activists from the Sharq al-Nile neighbourhood in the war-torn capital, Khartoum, while they were supervising soup kitchens feeding thousands of hungry people every day. The recent arrests in Khartoum are only part of a broader strategy of the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) – who are fighting for power in the country – to clamp down on civil society actors by arresting volunteers, limiting access to aid and obstructing the arrival of relief, according to local volunteers and aid groups. “More arrests could affect the many poor people who depend on the [soup kitchens] to survive,” Musab Mahjoub, a human rights monitor in Sharq al-Nile, told Al Jazeera as a nationwide famine looms. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/4/1/are-sudans-civil-society-activists-being-targeted-by-both-warring-sides Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Dozens of migrants found in a wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea between northern Africa and southern Europe have been transported to the Greek island of Crete, Greece’s coast guard said Monday. Crete has recently seen a rise in migrant arrivals from Libya, which Greece’s government promised Monday to address with more funding and extra coast guard personnel. The boat with 74 people on board was found late Sunday 25 nautical miles (46 kilometers, 29 miles) south of the small Greek island of Gavdos on Sunday night, the coast guard said, adding that a patrol boat transported the 73 men and one woman to Crete. It was not immediately clear where or when the boat had launched or what countries the passengers were from. No injuries or illnesses were reported among them. They were taken to a temporary shelter. Greece is a major entry point into the European Union for people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. https://apnews.com/article/greece-migrants-mediterranean-africa-crete-f14fae745c215334956c5f572fe1652c Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

A woman hustles her young child into a waiting car, half-dragging him as she shields his eyes. Other family members follow with heavy suitcases, averting their eyes too. They’re leaving the city, even though the drive through gang-controlled roads is risky. The reason lies in the street before their house: A burned corpse; the remains of a suspected gang member killed by their neighbors. His knees are bent and torso pitched forward as if in supplication, metal wires wrapped around the charred flesh. This is the fourth such corpse CNN has seen in two days. Just up the hill, another mother is rushing toward a waiting helicopter holding her infant. Eyewitnesses tell CNN that she left her car seat behind, urged to move quickly by armed guards. The unauthorized helicopter landing is attracting attention; video of the flight shows a fight breaking out on the ground as the chopper lifts off. They’re fleeing anarchy. Until yesterday, people like these were the holdouts; the ones who had a choice but stayed until Port-au-Prince became unbearable. Now even they are leaving amid an unprecedented frenzy of terror in the Caribbean nation. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/21/americas/haiti-council-gang-intl-latam/index.html Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Port Said governor defends the demolition of El-Gameel neighbourhood as part of development plans. But residents and legal experts have another story to tell. On a sunny spring day in Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Port Said, a woman stood on the top floor of her home, watching as a bulldozer demolished it, balcony by balcony. “I still cannot believe that I am alive. The house could have collapsed and I would have died,” Ragaa Muharram Ali, a medical scan specialist, told Middle East Eye, a week after a video documenting the incident went viral online. “But even if I survived, being forcibly evicted from my family’s home is like taking my life away,” she added. On Thursday 14 March, the house was fully demolished. Ragaa is among hundreds of residents of El-Gameel neighbourhood in Port Said, whose homes have been razed or are slated for imminent removal to pave way for investments on the prime beachfront land. The demolition began in early February and continues unabated as of the time of this report. According to the residents who spoke with MEE, 290 homes were demolished and approximately 25 homes remain, whose owners await the same fate. The El-Gameel neighbourhood in western Port Said was built in 1978, when the governorate allocated 317 pieces of land located directly on the Mediterranean coast, 10km from the city, to alleviate pressure on other overpopulated parts of the governorate, according to the El-Gameel Environmental Protection and Development Association. The residents built their homes on the land with their own funds, with permits from the governorate, under a usufruct arrangement. They also collaborated to introduce facilities at their own expense without government support, according to three residents who spoke to MEE. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-forcibly-evicted-residents-mediterranean-el-gameel-sell-land-port-said Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Mexico’s president said Friday he won’t fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs. Over the years, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has laid out various justifications for his “hugs, not bullets” policy of avoiding clashes with the cartels. In the past he has said “you cannot fight violence with violence,” and on other occasions he has argued the government has to address “the causes” of drug cartel violence, ascribing them to poverty or a lack of opportunities. But on Friday, while discussing his refusal to go after the cartels, he made it clear he viewed it as part of what he called a “Mexico First” policy. “We are not going to act as policemen for any foreign government,” López Obrador said at his daily news briefing. “Mexico First. Our home comes first.” López Obrador basically argued that drugs were a U.S. problem, not a Mexican one. He offered to help limit the flow of drugs into the United States, but only, he said, on humanitarian grounds. “Of course we are going to cooperate in fighting drugs, above all because it has become a very sensitive, very sad humanitarian issue, because a lot of young people are dying in the United States because of fentanyl,” the president said. Over 70,000 Americans die annually because of synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which are mainly made in Mexico from precursor chemicals smuggled in from China. https://apnews.com/article/mexico-first-nationalistic-policy-drug-cartels-6e7a78ff41c895b4e10930463f24e9fb Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Venezuela's parliament has approved a law creating a federal state in the disputed oil-rich area of Essequibo across the border in Guyana, which on Friday slammed a "flagrant violation" of its sovereignty. Caracas has long laid claim to Essequibo, which makes up about two-thirds of Guyana's territory, but started taking active steps to retrieve the land after massive offshore oil deposits were discovered there in 2015. Lawmakers unanimously approved a law on Thursday that was drawn up after a December referendum in which 95 percent of voters, according to officials, supported declaring Venezuela the rightful owner of Essequibo. "This National Assembly vindicates the right of the Venezuelan people to defend their territory," said MP Diosdado Cabello after the vote to make Essequibo the 24th state in the country. The law that was passed has been submitted to the Supreme Court to validate its constitutionality. Guyana's foreign ministry said in a statement the government was "gravely concerned over the adoption of a law by the Venezuelan National Assembly declaring the Essequibo region ... to be a constituent part of Venezuela." "This is a flagrant violation of Guyana's sovereignty and territorial integrity," said the statement, which called on the international community to "uphold the rule of law by rejecting Venezuela's illegal expansionism." Essequibo has been administered by Guyana for more than a century and is the subject of border litigation before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. Venezuela rejects the court's jurisdiction in the matter. https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240322-venezuela-s-parliament-approves-creation-of-state-in-disputed-oil-rich-essequibo Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

On a visit to the Rafah crossing, Antonio Guterres urges Israel to give people in Gaza unfettered access to humanitarian aid. The line of blocked aid trucks stuck on Egypt’s side of the border with the Gaza Strip while Palestinians face starvation on the other side is a “moral outrage”, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on a visit to the Rafah crossing. “I have come to Rafah to shine a spotlight on the pain of Palestinians in Gaza,” the UN chief said on Saturday, addressing a news conference in El Arish, in Egypt’s northern Sinai, where much of the international relief for Gaza is stockpiled as Israel continues to block aid from entering. “Here, from this crossing, we see the heartbreak and heartlessness of it all. A long line of blocked relief trucks on one side of the gates, the long shadow of starvation on the other,” he said. “That is more than tragic. It is a moral outrage. Any further onslaught will make things even worse – worse for Palestinian civilians, worse for hostages and worse for all people in the region.” The visit by Guterres, which is a part of his annual “solidarity trip” to Muslim countries during Ramadan, comes as Israel faces global pressure to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza, which has been devastated by more than five months of war. “You cannot see so many people being killed, you cannot see so much suffering without feeling hugely frustrated,” Guterres said while taking questions from reporters. “We don’t have the power to stop [the war in Gaza], I appeal to those who have the power to stop it to do it,” he added. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/23/un-chief-says-blocked-gaza-aid-is-a-moral-outage-calls-for-war-to-end Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with a U.S. intelligence agency, five sources familiar with the program said, demonstrating deepening ties between billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's space company and national security agencies. The network is being built by SpaceX's Starshield business unit under a $1.8 billion contract signed in 2021 with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an intelligence agency that manages spy satellites, the sources said. The plans show the extent of SpaceX's involvement in U.S. intelligence and military projects and illustrate a deeper Pentagon investment into vast, low-Earth orbiting satellite systems aimed at supporting ground forces. If successful, the sources said the program would significantly advance the ability of the U.S. government and military to quickly spot potential targets almost anywhere on the globe. https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-is-building-spy-satellite-network-us-intelligence-agency-sources-2024-03-16/ Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Former President Jair Bolsonaro presented top Brazilian military leaders with a plan to stage a coup after he lost the 2022 election, newly released court documents have alleged. The country’s Supreme Court released the testimonies from former army commander Marco Antonio Freire Gomes and former air force commander Carlos de Almeida Baptista Jr. to the Brazilian Federal Police on Friday. Bolsonaro allegedly presented the plan in a meeting on December 7, 2022, at the presidential palace in Brasilia. In their testimonies, both Gomes and Baptista Jr. said they refused to carry out Bolsonaro’s alleged plan to stay in power and threatened to arrest him, documents show. Bolsonaro surrendered his passport to authorities in early February as part of a police investigation into an alleged coup attempt. The former president has denied the allegations. He recently led a large rally of his supporters in Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo, which he said was in “defense of the democratic rule of the law.” Last year, Bolsonaro was barred from running for political office until 2030 by the country’s highest electoral court for abusing his power and misusing public media during the 2022 election campaign. After Bolsonaro lost that election by a narrow margin to leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, his supporters rioted and broke into government buildings in Brasilia on January 8, 2023. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/15/americas/brazil-bolsonaro-coup-plot-allegations-intl-hnk/index.html Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Capture of crucial site marks turnaround in fortunes for Sudanense Armed Forces over last month. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have claimed control of the national broadcast building in the city of Ondurman from their rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF).The paramilitary RSF captured the site in the first days of the war almost a year ago. The RSF's loss of the important piece of national infrastructure is the latest in a string of victories claimed by the army. Footage posted by the army showed some of its troops within a kilometre of the radio and TV building cheering after seizing vehicles and weapons. Middle East Eye could not independently verify the footage. Since late January, the SAF had been concentrating its efforts in Omdurman and Bahri, cities that lie across the White Nile and Blue Nile rivers from the capital Khartoum. The previous months had seen a string of devastating defeats for the military. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-army-claims-control-national-broadcast-building-omdurman Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Jimmy Cherizier tells Al Jazeera: ‘It’s not just people with guns who’ve damaged the country but the politicians too.’ A powerful Haitian gang leader has rejected attempts by foreign nations for an electoral road map and a path to peace as the country plunges deeper into violent chaos and armed groups control most of the capital following the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Regional leaders of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) held an emergency summit last week to discuss a framework for a political transition, which the United States had urged to be “expedited” as gangs wrought chaos in the capital, Port-au-Prince, amid repeatedly postponed elections. “We’re not going to recognise the decisions that CARICOM takes,” Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, a former police officer whose gang rules vast swaths of Port-au-Prince, told Al Jazeera. Rights groups have accused his gang alliance of committing atrocities, including killings and rape. “I’m going to say to the traditional politicians that are sitting down with CARICOM, since they went with their families abroad, we who stayed in Haiti have to take the decisions,” Cherizier said, flanked by gang members wearing face masks, adding that he rejected plans for a transitional council made up of the country’s political parties. “It’s not just people with guns who’ve damaged the country but the politicians too,” he added. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/16/overthrow-the-system-haiti-gang-leader-cherizier-seeks-revolution Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Destruction of buildings, too few ambulances and having to work in ‘red zones’ all adding to trauma. There have been no medical evacuations from northern Gaza for more than a month so severely injured people are trapped in damaged hospitals where they cannot get adequate treatment, a leading medical charity has warned. Ambulances need urgent access to take the most vulnerable patients for specialist care, said Patrick Münz, head of mission in Gaza for German medical charity Cadus. There are no intensive care units operating in northern Gaza, so Palestinians most seriously injured in Israeli airstrikes and fighting on the ground have died. But dozens of patients in the two functioning hospitals in Gaza City have been stabilised after amputations or with severe burns, and could survive if they got treatment in Rafah or beyond Gaza. Cadus is working with the World Health Organization trying to get ambulances into the north for evacuations, travelling with UN aid convoys bringing food or medical supplies. “The people we will transport at least at the beginning are critical care patients, but who are stable,” said Münz, adding that there had been no transports for over a month. “They should have been evacuated yesterday already.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/severely-injured-patients-are-left-in-limbo-as-charitys-relief-efforts-are-scuppered Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Chae-ran made her first escape after finishing high school. She’d been assigned a job at a coal mine, like her father and most people in their village near the Chinese border – but the teenager didn’t want to spend her life doing hard labor, deep underground. She’d seen other villagers crossing the river that separates North Korea from China to find work and wanted to help support her family. So, one day, without telling her mother, she and a friend left home with the help of a broker – people who plan and facilitate the journey out of North Korea for a fee. She remembers it was early evening in autumn; the sky was still light when she crossed the river. But upon reaching the other side, she and her friend were put into cars and driven into northwestern China, where they were given a choice, she said: entertain customers at a bar, or marry a Chinese man. “I wanted to cry but I knew nothing could change even if I did,” she said, speaking in Korean during a conversation with CNN. “I thought I couldn’t work at a bar so that left me only one option, marrying a Chinese man.” Shortly afterward, Chae-ran says she was separated from her friend, who she never saw again, and introduced to the man who had bought her, a Chinese farmer eight years her senior. “I didn’t like the man because he was short, but I didn’t want to be sold again so I stayed quiet,” she said. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/08/asia/north-korean-refugees-trafficked-china-intl-hnk-dst/index.html Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek

Presidential candidates in Senegal kicked off their election campaigns on Saturday, following weeks of violent protests across the African country after the vote was delayed. The 19 approved candidates vying for the top job now have a shorter period to rally supporters ahead of the March 24 election, expected to be the most tightly contested race since Senegal gained independence more than six decades ago. The former mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall, who is running for the fourth time, organized a marching caravan through the streets of the capital to begin his campaign. The front-runners will likely be former Prime Minister Amadou Ba as the ruling party's choice, and imprisoned Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a lesser known candidate who gained popularity as the chief of the dissolved PASTEF party. Diomaye Faye has been behind bars for nearly a year but is due to be released in time for elections after the president passed a decree to exonerate political prisoners. He has stepped in for opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, also in prison and who has been barred from running. In June, Sonko was charged with corrupting youth and sentenced to two years in prison. Ruling party candidate Amadou Ba is yet to launch his campaign. The only woman candidate is Anta Babacar Ngom, the head of Sedima, one of the country’s biggest food companies. The recent violent protests have also raised concerns for a country that used to be seen as a beacon of democratic stability in West Africa, a region plagued by coups and insecurity. President Macky Sall, who is prevented from running because of term limits, postponed the election last month, just weeks before it was to take place on Feb. 25. His announcement that the vote would instead be held 10 months from now plunged Senegal into chaos as opposition protests filled the streets. Senegal’s highest election authority, the Constitutional Council, rejected Sall's postponement and ordered the government to set a new date as soon as possible. https://www.africanews.com/2024/03/10/senegal-election-campaigns-begin-ahead-march-24-vote/ Reganelite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@REGANELITE?sub_confirmation=1 Join Patreon for Exclusive Content https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite All my social media links here: https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.instagram.com/reganelite_shorts/ https://www.tiktok.com/@reganelite https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reganelitek