Defense for Children International has received the autopsy of 17-year-old Palestinian-Brazilian dual national Walid Ahmad, the first child to die in Israeli prisons. Ahmad reportedly likely died from starvation, dehydration, and infections due to prolonged malnutrition and medical neglect.

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Today’s videos from Russia’s special military operation.

Another collection of recent Russian drone strikes on Kiev regime military equipment: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Russian-FPV-drone-destroys-Ukrainian-Armed-Forces-logistics!:0

Russian drone destroys a Kiev regime T-72 tank in Kharkov oblast: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/04/03/1204268.html

Surrendered Ukrainian soldier states that Western mercenaries would shoot them if they tried retreating: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--THE-MERCENARIES-WERE-RIGHT-BEHIND-US!!:3

US airstrikes continue on Yemen for the 21st night in a row, with two airstrikes reported in Saada Governorate, around an area known to contain underground facilities, east of Saada city.

Two statements by the Yemeni Armed Forces earlier today:

No ballistic missiles at Israel, just a long range Sayyad one way attack drone, called 'Yaffa" for this operation. The Shark F360 drone is a mix of a quadcopter and winged drone, to allow for vertical takeoff and landing. It’s a pretty small fully electric drone about 1.75m long, with a wingspan of 3.6m. Wonder how one got into Yemen in the first place. Mossad or CIA agents?

The B-2s are operating in Yemen now, and we have uncensored satellite imagery of weapons loading taking place on the B-2s. I’ve updated my post on it here, with the uncensored imagery.

Al Masirah TV twitter

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Anyone have any reading on South Sudan? Both on the current situation and generally. Seems like they’re headed into a civil war, and I haven’t seen any coverage on it, not even here which is odd.

If the Dems had a backbone, part of their Project 2029 platform would be threatening to do the full Venezuela on El Salvador unless they throw this guy into his own prison.

New banger from the armed wing of the PFLP

CW- dead Palestinians, adult and children

https://streamable.com/6pvz2o

NYT: U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burning Through Munitions With Limited Success

President Trump said this week that Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen have been “decimated by the relentless strikes” that he ordered beginning on March 15.

But that’s not what Pentagon and military officials are privately telling Congress and allied countries.

In closed briefings in recent days, Pentagon officials have acknowledged that there has been only limited success in destroying the Houthis’ vast, largely underground arsenal of missiles, drones and launchers, according to congressional aides and allies.

The officials briefed on confidential damage assessments say the bombing is consistently heavier than strikes conducted by the Biden administration, and much bigger than what the Defense Department has publicly described.

But Houthi fighters, known for their resiliency, have reinforced many of their bunkers and other targeted sites, frustrating the Americans’ ability to disrupt the militia’s missile attacks against commercial ships in the Red Sea, according to three congressional and allied officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.

In just three weeks, the Pentagon has used $200 million worth of munitions, in addition to the immense operational and personnel costs to deploy two aircraft carriers, additional B-2 bombers and fighter jets, as well as Patriot and THAAD air defenses to the Middle East, the officials said.

The total cost could be well over $1 billion by next week, and the Pentagon might soon need to request supplemental funds from Congress, one U.S. official said.

So many precision munitions are being used, especially advanced long-range ones, that some Pentagon contingency planners are growing concerned about overall Navy stocks and implications for any situation in which the United States would have to ward off an attempted invasion of Taiwan by China.

The U.S. strikes, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth named Operation Rough Rider after the troops Theodore Roosevelt led in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, likely could continue for six months, officials said.

A senior Pentagon official late Thursday pushed back on the assessments described by the congressional and allied officials.

The senior official, also speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, said the airstrikes had exceeded their goal in the campaign’s initial phase, disrupting senior Houthi leaders’ ability to communicate, limiting the group’s response to a handful of ineffective counter strikes, and setting the conditions for subsequent phases, which he declined to discuss. “We’re on track,” the official said.

Someone is lying here to the NYT about how this bombing campaign is actually going. Based on what @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net has been reporting, specifically on the latest and greatest bunker busters being dropped from B-2s, I suspect it’s Trump/Pentagon officials, but there’s money and political implications to all of this. Depleting US munitions means more money for defense contractors. All I can say for sure is that Yemen continues to learn why Americans don’t have healthcare.

I’m shocked they didn’t just turn off the stock market today. Wonderful how you can do that you know, just turn off the stock market and pretend like it makes any sense whatsoever

An update on the bombings of the “Amad Tunnels” in Yemen. Satellite imagery has been released, showing a 100m/330ft+ long gash in a mountain in the Amad area. Only one aircraft in the US fleet carries a bomb big enough to make such a huge hole in a mountain, the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber with the GBU-57 MOP bomb. So B-2s are being used in Yemen now. This also explains the censored satellite imagery of the B-2s at Diego Garcia, they were being worked on for missions. Expect official confirmation soon from US news sources.

Twitter link showing the satellite imagery

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Image of the 100+m gash:

How the site usually looks like on Google Maps, the gash would be just below the pin. You can also see the tunnel entrances along the main road:

Attempt to provide a measurement for context:

Official confirmation just in from CNN. Abdul Malik al-Houthi (the leader of the Ansarallah/Houthi movement) also commented on the use of B-2s in his latest speech.

B-2 bombers out of Diego Garcia are also being used against the Houthis, and an additional aircraft carrier as well as several fighter squadrons and air defense systems will soon be moved into the Central Command region, defense officials said this week.

The CNN article makes an error in munitions use though, the US Navy is using SLAM-ER cruise missiles, not JASSM cruise missiles.

More confirmation: the uncensored satellite imagery of the B-2s at Diego Garcia has been released, weapons loading in progress:

Given that the bombing of the Amad Tunnels took place on the morning of April 1st, Rybar were correct in their statement about B-2 bombers being used in Yemen.

Just checked, Rybar said the bombings tool place during March 29-30, a bit early.

In assessing the military impact of the US campaign, I’d say that the US has stopped Ansarallah from launching ballistic missiles at Israel for now, countered the unmanned aerial systems (cruise missiles and drones) threat with new weaponry and tactics, and suppressed their air defences to some extent, but Ansarallah are still able to shoot down slow flying drones like the MQ-9 Reaper, and Anti Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) capability appears to remain intact, given that the US Navy Carrier Strike Group is not coming within 700km of Yemen. As long as Ansarallah have ASBM capability, they can blockade the Red Sea. This a key capability that Ansarallah cannot allow to be degraded or lost. It’s the backbone of their ability to carry out naval blockades. Ansarallah are set to unveil a new variant of their “Red Sea” missile based off of Iranian artillery rockets (so around 140km range) just for this purpose.

All in all this is another warning shot to Iran, the US just put a 400ft long crater in a mountainous bunker in Yemen. The GBU-57 MOP is a serious threat to underground facilities. I did a post on it here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2xey4m2ygo reform party member kicked out for calling Jimmy Savile a working class hero, and he looks just like you’d think

Dow is now down YTD for the last year

If the Eurozone and China cut interest rates, Trump will have largely won, the dollar going up in value means the stock market losses today and yesterday will be recouped

For Trump’s plan to succeed, it all depends on what global central banks do in the coming weeks

SP500 -5.2%

Will we hit a circuit breaker today?