Actions of both sides have reduced traffic through the strait:
- Trump Keeps Saying the US Controls the Strait of Hormuz. Does It? (CNN)
- ‘Hormuz Remains Blocked’: Iran Disputes Trump Claims as Traffic Sinks to Near 3-month Lows (CNBC)
- Due to the Iran War, Iraq Is Running Out of Money (Deutsche Welle)
“Oil prices fell on Thursday after reports that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) released Iran’s frozen assets held in Emirati banks, including gold valued at roughly $200-283 million”:
- UAE Reportedly Released Iran’s Frozen Assets Worth Billions of Dollars, Bitcoin Rebounds (Coingape / Yahoo)
Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue:
- In West Bank Village, a New Israeli Order Enables Settler Attacks While Claiming to Prevent Them (Drop Site)
- Huckabee Condemns ‘Horrific Terror’ Against Palestinians in West Bank, Says Embassy ‘Very Involved’ (Jerusalem Post)
- ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Palestinians Is Accelerating in West Bank, Israeli Human Rights Group Warns (Arab News)
- Palestinian Women in Gaza Face Legal Hurdles in Divorce Struggles (Aljazeera)
“Prosecutors say Peter Larsen obtained a knife at a mall, asked employees if they were Muslim, and then stabbed one employee who had answered in the affirmative. The attack was stopped when bystanders intervened and subdued Larsen until police arrived“:
- Federal Grand Jury Returns Hate Crime Indictment in Stabbing of Muslim Man in Utah (Reuters / GW Wire
The Zionist war on free speech continues:
“[F]indings by the federal government were related to foreign groups based on actions performed abroad. Stitt is now citing them to target local Muslim social and advocacy groups”:
“Katrina vanden Heuvel, Jeet Heer, Daniel Levy, Eli Clifton, and Ian Lustick discuss Clifton and Lustick’s new book, Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power”:
- Israel’s Lobby: An Online Event (The Nation / Zoom)
Sudan war updates:
- Paramilitary RSF Unleashes Drones Attack Against Sudan’s Capital Khartoum for Second Day (New Arab)
- Sudan: Attacks and Further Displacement in Blue Nile and North Kordofan (UN)
“[D]espite all the flaws of social media … Palestinians were able, for the first time, to talk about their reality without the mediation of media outlets”:
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