cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34725607

Drop Site Daily [news summary] Aug 14, 2025

At least 54 Palestinians were killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours, 23 of whom by Israeli strikes on Gaza City and at an aid site near Rafah. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approves roughly 3,400 settlements in the “E1” zone between East Jerusalem and Ma‘ale Adumim seeking to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advocates for an expansionist Greater Israel. Israel sends a deputy foreign minister to South Sudan a day after reports that Israel aims to send Palestinians from Gaza to the country. U.S. President Donald Trump rejects Mayor Muriel Bowser’s call for making D.C. a state, calling it “ridiculous.” Nigeria’s anti-insurgency campaign in its northeast is heralded by the Nigerian military. New Zealand’s co-chair of the Green Party was expelled from Parliament after introducing a bill to sanction Israel over war crimes in Gaza. A new report from Drop Site’s Murtaza Hussain on the increasing ties between Israeli military intelligence and Silicon Valley.