#Gaza : “It could take up to three years to retrieve the bodies (....) the #UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said, amid rising temperatures that will accelerate the decomposition of bodies, potentially increasing the threat of disease spreading'

Relevant to section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act and National Security Memorandum-20.

IS claimed attacks (Nashir/Amaq) in Iraq/Syria in April continues the trend of being double from 2023 averages.

Apr: 29
Mar: 32
Feb: 23
Jan '24: 53
Dec: 14
Nov: 13
Oct: 13
Sep: 14
Aug: 17
Jul: 12
Jun: 21
May '23: 14

Map for April:

WASHINGTON, April 29(Reuters)-The U.S. State Department found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in incidents that took place outside of Gaza before conflict broke out between Israel and Hamas in October, the State Department said.

#Iraq #KRI : “It is the same place that was hit last time,” he said, referring to the January 26 drone attack (...) The mayor added that three people were killed and three others were injured in the attack. The dead are foreigners, but their nationality is not known'

'The departure of U.S. military advisers in both countries comes as #Niger , as well as Mali and Burkina Faso, is turning away from years of cooperation with the United States and forming partnerships with #Russia '

#Gaza :'A survey in (..) shelters in December and January found that at least 90 per cent of children under 5 years old have one or more infectious illnesses(..)And that doesn’t account for the hundreds of thousands of people who aren’t in refugee shelters' newscientist.com/article/242138…

U.S. government condemns the recent burning down of a Kurdish National Council office in #Qamishli in NE #Syria — but fails to mention that the perpetrators were associated with the #SDF (our counter- #ISIS partners).

NE #Syria , #Canada : 'Greenspon said it was a “circular argument” to deny a Canadian help because police lack evidence to arrest her (...) F.J. has since left the detention facility in Syria on her own, and her whereabouts are unknown'

globalnews.ca/news/10445059/…

Cutting assistance under the Leahy laws is not a sanction. It’s not discretionary, it’s mandated by US law when there is credible info a unit of a foreign security force committed a gross violation of human rights — the worst kind of crimes. No country in the world is exempt.

'...one of a small number of ships that maintain the subsea cables that carry 99 percent of the world’s data (...) But earthquakes, Hirai knew from experience, were different. They didn’t just break one cable — they broke many, and badly'