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The announcement comes amid a legal battle over the government’s decision to fire the top security official last month.

Israel’s domestic security chief Ronen Bar has said he would stand down on June 15, following weeks of boiling tensions with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who cited a lack of trust as he attempted to fire Bar in a move that sparked mass protests.

The two men have publicly traded accusations and counteraccusations. Political turmoil ensued, but Netanyahu’s survival…

Major power outages across large areas of Spain and Portugal, as well as parts of southern France, knocked out traffic lights and disrupted public transportation and airport operations on Monday.

Officials did not say what caused the outages, but several denied any foul play.

“Grid operators in both countries [Spain and Portugal] are working on finding the cause, and on restoring the electricity supply,” the president of the European Council, Antonio Costa, wrote in a post on X.

Costa…

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- A new report by Israeli Channel 13, translated by Drop Site News, has revealed that Biden administration officials admitted they never pressured Israel to end its genocide in Gaza.

The Channel 13 investigation showed that despite more than 30,000 Palestinian deaths, Biden aides continued to back Israel without enforcing a ceasefire. Israeli leaders openly bragged about using the administration’s support to prolong the genocide until Donald…

On the morning of April 25, Aamer and Muhammad Al-Huraini set out to their wheat fields in Wadi Al-Rakhim, a small Palestinian community in Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank. The wheat was not yet ripe for harvesting, but this was their only chance to save it. 

Daily incursions by Israeli settlers, who descend from nearby outposts and graze their sheep on the privately-owned Palestinian land, had forced the community to harvest over a month early, accompanied…