Hamas Confirms Child Soldier Use in October 7 War After Arabic Media Embraces Tactic - Michael Starr

 

by Michael Starr

After an alleged Hamas child soldier became a celebrity among Arabic news journalists, Hamas came out with a martyr poster for another minor.

 

 

Key Takeaways:

• Hamas confirmed on Tuesday that it used child soldiers in the October 7 War, becoming the third faction to do so after the DFLP and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
• This followed the identification of another child soldier in a Hamas video, who was made a celebrity among Arab media journalists and covered by Al Jazeera.
• Since July, HonestReporting has identified 22 child soldiers largely affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, with almost a dozen more suspected but lacking full cross-reference confirmation.

Hamas on Tuesday became the third faction to confirm that it used child soldiers during the October 7 War, following Arabic media embracing previous evidence of Hamas deploying minors in combat.

A martyr poster and video for Hazem Shadi Al-Arini were published on Telegram channels associated with Hamas on Tuesday. Video showed the armed operative conducting a variety of marksmanship and close-quarters combat drills. Al-Arini was described as a member of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a fighter in the Northern Brigade’s Martyr Fawzi Abu al-Qara’ Battalion.

The birth date listed on the video was 2007, meaning that Al-Arini was about 16 when he was killed on November 19, 2023. The death date matches other Palestinian sources for a war casualty of the same name and age.

Hazem Shadi Al-Arini

Suhaib Labad as Child Hero on Social Media

Israel Policy Forum senior policy associate Gabriel Epstein had previously identified another 16-year-old combatant who had briefly appeared in the martyr video of another Hamas operative. The August 12 video for operative Anas Kamel Munir al-Darimi labeled a rocket launcher-wielding combatant as “al-Qassam martyr” Suhaib Labad. Epstein noted that there was only one name similar to the Al-Qassam operative in Hamas Health Ministry data, and who had a matching age and name to the terrorist.

Abu Labad appears briefly in an official Hamas obituary published today for Anas Kamel Munir al-Darimi (top R and bottom L, ID#: 407848555, age 23), a squad leader in the group's al-Zeitoun Battalion in the Gaza Brigade. The specific footage (2:45-3:03) is of an RPG attack on an… pic.twitter.com/4W7SjAcg6v

— Gabriel Epstein (@GabrielEpsteinX) August 12, 2026

Labad was widely celebrated in Arabic social media and news outlets. In an August 14 article, Al Jazeera presented Labad’s actions within the context of the loss of his family during the war, and the praise heaped on the child soldier by activists — but did not detail moral reservations about sending minors into combat. Ultra Sawt journalist Mohammed Elsakany said on Facebook that Labad was a “man of great deeds for the entire nation,” and Yemeni photographer Ubad Ahmad Al-Fallahi described on the same platform how Labad was an example of being true to one’s word and taking action against injustice. Shehab Agency journalist Mohammed Haniya said on X that Labad was taking revenge, and that the “thousands upon thousands” seeking vengeance like Labad was not terrorism, but the result of Israel’s actions.

Over the past day, Palestinian "journalists" in Gaza have been vociferously praising deceased 16-year-old terrorist Suhaib Abu Labad, after footage of him in combat began circulating online.

The use of child soldiers is a longstanding practice of Hamas and Islamic Jihad pic.twitter.com/K6FdiVuLyb

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) August 15, 2026

Growing Evidence of Child Soldiers in October 7 War

Until Hamas’ confirmation of using child soldiers on Tuesday, only the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) had admitted to the practice. Besides the two teenage Hamas operatives, since July, 22 child soldiers have been identified by HonestReporting, and almost a dozen more are suspected but lack some key cross-reference details. The vast majority so far are affiliated with PIJ.

Seventeen-year-old Wadhah Ashour Al-Batsh was announced on August 14 to be an operative of PIJ’s Al-Quds Brigades, a fighter in the Northern Brigade’s Martyr Wadhah Al-Batsh Battalion. The battalion and the teenager may have been named for the same man, Wadhah Ibrahim Ashour Al-Batsh, who had been killed in 2002 while conducting an operation on behalf of PIJ. The younger Al-Batsh’s mother shared the image of the Second Intifada terrorist on her Facebook page in 2017.

Wadhah Ashour Al-Batsh

Child Soldiers Initiated by Family

Al-Batsh is far from the only Palestinian child soldier for whom terrorism was a family affair — many of those reviewed by HonestReporting had family within terrorist organizations.

Also on August 14, PIJ issued a martyr notice for 16-year-old Anas Muhammad Al-Sawarka. Eulogies by families and affiliated organizations confirmed the date of death and face when cross-referenced with the martyr poster and Gazan casualty databases. They also detailed that Al-Sawarka was killed in the same strike as his uncle and father. According to PIJ, his uncle Yusuf Ahmad Al-Sawarka was in the Northern Brigade’s Artillery Corps, and his father Muhammad Ahmad Al-Sawarka held some sort of coordination position in the same brigade. The 16-year-old was supposedly in the brigade’s Central Mobilization Unit.

Anas Muhammad Al-Sawarka

Even with the popularity of Labad on social media, there has been little news coverage of the child soldier phenomenon since a trend of minor combatant obituaries emerged in July. Two minor Italian and Spanish outlets covered Labad’s story, but among the deluge of Gazan human-interest stories about Palestinian beekeepers, kites, and swimming pools, the problem has still not been touched.

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Michael Starr

Source: https://honestreporting.com/hamas-confirms-child-soldier-use-in-october-7-war-after-arabic-media-embraces-tactic/

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Foreign-born population dropped by roughly 3M under Trump: Report - Ben Whedon

 

by Ben Whedon

While the administration has not publicly altered its target figures for deportation, it has focused primarily on the "Worst of the Worst" criminal illegal aliens.

 

The foreign-born population in the United States has decreased by nearly 3 million people since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, the Washington Times reported Thursday, citing a "preliminary analysis of government numbers to be released Thursday."

That figure includes the roughly 2.3 million illegal aliens who either left voluntarily or were deported, and a drop in legal immigrants by 600,000. Those figures mark the single largest drop in foreign-born individuals in the U.S. in recent decades.

The numbers come as the Trump administration continues to pursue mass deportations in line with the president's campaign promises. The Department of Homeland Security has estimated that roughly 22 million illegal aliens were in the country when Trump returned to office.

While the administration has not publicly altered its target figures for deportation, it has focused primarily on the "worst of the worst" criminal illegal aliens.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent for Just the News. Follow him on X.

Source: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/foreign-born-population-dropped-roughly-3m-under-trump-report

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FBI ‘Round River’ operation undermined constitutional oversight by Congress, Jim Jordan says - Steven Richards

 

by Steven Richards

On Wednesday, Chairman Jim Jordan demanded the FBI turn over all evidence related to a counterintelligence operation that classified President Donald Trump’s own administration officials and political allies as “conduits” of Russian disinformation.

 

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday said that the decade-long era of weaponization at the FBI and Justice Department undermined the spirit of the Constitution by impeding Congress’ duty and power to conduct oversight of the federal government. 

Earlier in the day, Jordan sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel demanding evidence related to the bureau’s counterintelligence operation codenamed “Round River,” which classified President Donald Trump’s own administration officials and political allies, including congressional Republicans, as “conduits” of Russian disinformation – in an apparent effort to tamp down a Ukrainian corruption scandal engulfing the Biden family during the 2020 election. 

As part of that operation, the FBI gave defensive briefings to members of Congress, arguing the lawmakers were spreading Russian disinformation by investigating corruption allegations against President Joe Biden, during his time as vice president, and son Hunter Biden in Ukraine.  

“So almost half the confidential human sources say that was a concern, and yet they said, ‘No, no, no, no, we're going to push that to the side,’ and the Justice Department said we're going to go instead say this is a Russian information operation, and they're using members of Congress as conduits to convey that Russian misinformation that they're trying to get out. That is ridiculous,” Jordan told the Just the News, No Noise TV show.

“So that is how ridiculous this whole thing became, and I think it really underscores when you talk about the weaponization of government and what they were up to in trying to protect Biden and harm President Trump. They were willing to go to that length, to that extreme, saying Republican members of Congress were conduits of Russian information misinformation,” he also said.

Jordan believes the era of weaponization, and infringement on Congress’s oversight powers, began even earlier, during the 2016 election when the FBI relied on the now-discredited Steele Dossier as predicate to spy on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. It extends through the tenure of Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, whom Jordan argues interfered in the 2024 election to damage Trump’s 2024 campaign. 

“It's always been an effort by the government to help the Democrat candidate and harm the Republican candidate," the Ohio Republican lawmaker said. "In this case, each of the three times it was President Trump. That is not how our system is supposed to work. Not how our government's supposed to work.

“It started with the Clinton campaign telling a lie, and they built off of that, and then it was all the other stuff culminating in Jack Smith doing this to a separate and equal branch of government. That's how serious it is. So this has got to end. This is America, the greatest country ever. We don't operate this way, but unfortunately, it happened over the last decade."

The declassified documents released last month show the FBI and U.S. spy agencies received the derogatory evidence about the Bidens from the informants but that a group of FBI analysts launched Round River to reduce the impact of the Ukrainian corruption scandal engulfing his family during the 2020 election by formally designating Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, key members of Congress and journalists as the “conduits.”

One element of Round River was centered in the FBI's Pittsburgh Field Office and initially targeted Trump lawyer and former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his efforts to investigate Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine, but it then expanded to look at numerous public figures who spoke out about Biden family corruption concerns – including elected members of Congress. 

One of the documents, a spreadsheet that was recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files, shows that spy agencies and the FBI created a list of more than six dozen prominent organizations, Americans and foreigners who became figures in the Biden family Ukraine scandal and the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

The spreadsheet neatly divided figures along political lines, with Democrat politicians such as the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama and liberal megadonor George Soros listed as victimized “targets” of Russian disinformation and conservatives such as Fox News, One America News, filmmaker Michael Caputo and Giuliani as “conduit," Just the News previously reported. 

The FBI also labeled two of Trump’s first-term Cabinet secretaries as well as Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes as “conduits.” Jordan himself was also labeled a conduit while they all investigated whether the allegations of corruption against the Biden family were true. 

Jordan said the latest revelations are part of a larger pattern extending back to the 2016 election. 

“I always say it started in ‘16 with [ Peter] Strzok and [Lisa] Page, and you know what they did, the Clinton campaign, the whole thing we talked about. That's where it started, and … it culminated with Jack Smith,” Jordan said. 

The FBI’s Strzok and Page were intimately involved with the bureau’s Trump-Russia collusion probe.

“Jack Smith, his job was to … indict President Trump, go to trial and keep him from being president,” Jordan said. 

Congress found that Smith, during his investigation into the then-former president, accessed the contents of the private communications of more than 40 lawmakers and may have lied to lawmakers about it, raising Constitutional separation of powers concerns. 

The Speech or Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 6) serves as a check on executive power and is designed to prevent members of Congress from being “questioned in any other place,” ensuring they cannot be subjected to the scrutiny of the Justice Department or the judicial branch for their legislative acts.

The scope of Smith’s probe, which centered on Trump’s challenge to the 2020 election results and the events of January 6, 2021, was expansive. Grassley, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, previously released records showing that Smith's office issued nearly 200 subpoenas in his sweeping Arctic Frost-linked case, secretly seeking records on more than 400 Republican personalities and groups—many closely connected to Trump, Just the News previously reported. 

Smith, who was appointed special counsel by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, also conducted a sweeping investigation into then-former President Trump over alleged mishandling of classified materials. Trump was later indicted in both cases, which were dropped after he won the 2024 presidential election and Smith resigned.

That investigation, which was codenamed “Arctic Frost,” was one of the four codenamed probes or operations targeting Trump and his allies. The Round River operation was one of those. 

Steven Richards

Source: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/fbi-round-river-operation-undermined-constitutional-oversight-jim-jordan

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Fourth university in three years settles federal claims over hidden Chinese research ties - Ashe Short

 

by Ashe Short

Taxpayer-funded research at American universities is supposed to come with full disclosure of who else is paying the researchers.

 

The Ohio State University has agreed to pay the federal government a $2.1 million settlement over allegations the school didn’t disclose employee affiliations with China when seeking federal research funding, becoming the latest university to settle over such allegations.

The public research university received an undisclosed amount of funding from NASA and the National Science Foundation from November 2012 to August 2023, during which it failed to disclose on the grant application any foreign government support received by the top researchers. 

Researchers are prohibited from using grant funds in collaboration with China, its government-run universities, or any Chinese government-owned companies.

“American universities that benefit from the federal government’s support for scientific research and advancement must fully disclose all foreign funding in their grant applications,” Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department's Civil Division said in the agency's announcement Monday of the settlement. “We will continue to hold accountable any university that fails to comply with disclosure requirements designed to protect research security and federally funded scientific achievements.”

According to an eight-page document signed by both parties, "the settlement agreement is neither an admission of liability by OSU nor a concession by the United States that its claims are not well founded."

Though a senior official at NASA’s Office of Inspector General called the settlement a “major financial recovery on behalf of the American public,” the sum represents a tiny fraction of what OSU received in grants over the years. In 2024, the school received more than $81 million in research grants just from the NSF, though much of that likely didn’t involve China-linked researchers.

The settlement resolves allegations that starting in 2014, OSU’s annual Faculty Activity Reports identified affiliations with Chinese universities and research organizations, but did not disclose that information when seeking grants from NASA or NSF. 

The agreement document also states OSU denies allegations related to failing to disclose that a former professor, C.K. Shum, and other school personnel who were members of his lab were affiliated with, listed on grant applications for funding from, and/or receiving funding from the People’s Republic of China while working on the federal research grants that were awarded by NASA and NSF. The school also said it agreed to the settlement to "avoid the delay, uncertainty, inconvenience, and expense of protracted litigation of claims."

In 2019, the school learned that one of the principal investigators on a research grant was a participant in China’s Thousand Talents Program, which recruits individuals with knowledge or access to foreign technology intellectual property. OSU did not notify NASA or the NSF about this revelation until 2023.

OSU is not the first school to pay the federal government due to allegations that it did not disclose foreign affiliations in grant applications. 

In October 2023, Stanford agreed to pay $1.9 million, though it is unclear whether China was the foreign country supporting its research. 

In July 2024, the University of Maryland agreed to pay a $500,000 settlement for allegedly failing to disclose current and pending foreign funding that three of its researchers received from Chinese entities on federal grant applications. 

And in September 2024, the Research Foundation of the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY) agreed to pay $313,000 to settle allegations that it failed to disclose the Chinese affiliations and research support of a faculty member on three different grant applications.

The settlement is the latest revelation regarding the Thousand Talents Program, which a nonprofit oversight group warned about earlier this year, Just the News reported at the time. 

The American Accountability Foundation reported that it had found nearly two dozen Chinese academics working at elite U.S. colleges and universities. The organization recommended expelling the academics because of the “dual-use threat of their research, close ties to the military research sector in China, and/or clear ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”

The Chinese government no longer has a website for its Thousand Talents Program, but the program has been named as part of China’s United Front Work Department, which leader Xi Jinping has called “an important magic weapon for the party to defeat the enemy.”

The DOJ has called the program “one of the most prominent Chinese talent recruitment plans that are designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security.”

The schools that employed Chinese academics, according to the AAF report, included Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell University, Brown University, Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin, Georgia Tech, the University of Florida, the University of Michigan, University of Florida, Penn State University, Michigan State University, Indiana University and the University of Southern California.

In August, the Pentagon ordered 30 universities to audit their financial and research ties to foreign entities, including China, or risk losing federal research funding, Fox News reported. 

Harvard, New York University, Georgetown, MIT, the University of California-Berkley, Oklahoma State University, Penn State University, and others were included in the list. 

Ashe Short

Source: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/fourth-university-three-years-settles-federal-claims-over-hidden-chinese

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Treasury announces rules to end tax exemption for private schools with race-based aid - Ben Whedon

 

by Ben Whedon

The Treasury also eliminated IRS provisions that permitted schools to discriminate in admissions, scholarships, and financial aid, but permits such institutions to offer support for by other criteria.

 

The Treasury Department this week announced rules to end tax-exempt status for private schools that offer certain race-based programs.

An institution would become ineligible for tax-exempt status if it offered programs that discriminate on the basis of race or national origin. The Treasury estimates the policy would affect as many as 18,000 institutions.

“Under President Trump, this Administration is standing up for America’s students by ensuring racial discrimination has no place in American education,” Secretary Scott Bessent said. “Schools rebranding race-based preferences as equitable, inclusive, or diversity-enhancing does not change their discriminatory nature. Today’s Treasury and IRS proposed regulations establish a clear standard, and the institutions that continue to use discriminatory practices will no longer receive the benefits of federal tax-exempt status.”

The Treasury also eliminated IRS provisions that permitted schools to discriminate in admissions, scholarships, and financial aid, but permits such institutions to offer support for by other criteria.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent for Just the News. Follow him on X.

Source: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/treasury-announces-rules-end-tax-exemption-schools-race-based-aid

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Report outlines alleged extremist ties, chronological contradictions for pro-Palestinian activist - Alex Carson

 

by Alex Carson

Mahdawi is a Columbia graduate student and prominent pro-Palestinian campus activist who originally moved to the United States from the West Bank as a student, became a lawful permanent resident.

 

MOHSEN MAHDAWI, US Rep. Becca Balint's (D–VT) guest speaks during the "People's State of the Union" event during US President Trump's State of the Union address in Washington, DC, US, February 24, 2026.

(photo credit: REUTERS/ELIZABETH FRANTZ)

 

A comprehensive 101-page investigative report released on Wednesday by antisemitism researchers David Collier and Rachel Feldman presents what they describe as a definitive timeline tracking Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist currently facing deportation proceedings.

Mahdawi is a prominent pro-Palestinian campus activist who originally moved to the United States from the West Bank as a student.

He then became a lawful permanent resident. He was subsequently targeted for removal by immigration authorities under a provision alleging that his campus activism and speech posed adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.

Titled “Mohsen Mahdawi: A Timeline of Support for Terrorism,” the exhaustive document aggregates years of Arabic-language social media posts, historical archives, and public records to challenge the core autobiographical narrative that Mahdawi has presented to American audiences, universities, and mainstream media outlets. 

BREAKING: Mohsen Mahdawi has been presented to America as a peace activst.

We uncovered 15 years of previously unseen evidence - and it tells a very different story.

Today we publish our report. This is just some of what we found.

Thread ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️

— David Collier (@mishtal) September 2, 2026

While Mahdawi’s legal defense team and high-profile political allies have framed his detention and ongoing deportation order as an infringement on free speech and due process, the Collier-Feldman report argues that a vast, previously unexamined digital footprint contradicts his public persona as a peaceful bridge-builder.

Since the report centers on allegations and investigative claims, the researchers emphasize that their timeline relies on documentary evidence and contemporary records that question the veracity of Mahdawi’s public biography.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY student Mohsen Mahdawi poses for a portrait inside Havemeyer Hall on the Columbia University campus in New York City, New York, US, May 18, 2025. (credit: REUTERS/Ryan Murphy/File Photo)

At the heart of their findings is an extensive examination of Mahdawi’s personal origin story.

For years, he has recalled a formative childhood event in the West Bank’s Al-Fara’a refugee camp, describing how his best friend, Hameida, was shot dead in front of him, leaving him consumed by a desire for revenge until his uncle Thaer intervened at the graveside to redirect him toward education and hope.

BREAKING: Mohsen Mahdawi has been presented to America as a peace activst.

We uncovered 15 years of previously unseen evidence - and it tells a very different story.

Today we publish our report. This is just some of what we found.

Thread ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️

— David Collier (@mishtal) September 2, 2026

According to the report, this foundational narrative collapses under chronological and historical scrutiny.

Collier and Feldman cite B’Tselem casualty databases and records from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights to show that only one child was killed inside Al-Fara’a Camp during the entire Second Intifada, a 14-year-old boy named Muhammad Ahmad Mubaraq Ishteiwi, whose death occurred under circumstances that do not match Mahdawi’s accounts.

Further, the report claims a critical chronological flaw, pointing out that Mahdawi’s uncle Thaer was killed on September 12, 2001, meaning he could not have comforted Mahdawi at a graveside if the incident occurred later, a contradiction the authors claim Mahdawi attempted to navigate by shifting his stated age.

ONE OF THE most consequential aspects of the Collier-Feldman report focuses on Mahdawi’s online activity prior to his arrival in the US in July 2014, which raised serious questions as to how he successfully cleared entry visa screenings.

Along with @raychfeldman, I went digging through years of archive material and social media posts.

Let us start long before he came to the U.S.

It is 2010 - his patience is wearing thin - and he promises that "soon, very soon, we will annihilate the Jews" pic.twitter.com/83wlJ3Jqj9

— David Collier (@mishtal) September 2, 2026

Mahdawi alleged to wish annihilation on Jews

The researchers uncovered numerous explicit Arabic-language Facebook posts from the period when Mahdawi was a student leader at Birzeit University in the West Bank.

According to the report, which attributes these statements to Mahdawi’s Facebook profile, he posted in August 2010, following a devastating civil wildfire in Israel, that as long as “Zionists” were burning, he had no problem with the fire and would “be fuel for it.”

He added wishes that neighboring countries would “all burn along with this fake entity.”

Later that month, also on Facebook, responding to an online exchange about patience exceeding its limits, Mahdawi explicitly wrote, “Soon, very soon, we will annihilate the Jews,” the report says.

The report further details that in January 2011, Mahdawi posted a poem on Facebook addressing his rifle as his “beloved” and anticipating his “coming death.”

This was followed in February 2011 by a Facebook attack on political rulers as “servants of the Jews or the Americans,” threatening that “their heads will be cut off.”

According to Collier and Feldman, in August 2011, following a cross-border shooting attack near Eilat that killed six Israeli civilians, Mahdawi used Facebook to refer to the perpetrators as “our mujahideen” [fighters for Islam] and prayed for their “safe escape.”

The report’s authors state that in December 2011, he posted a public Facebook comment saluting Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) founder Fathi al-Shiqaqi.

Moreover, in November 2012, Mahdawi wrote on Facebook that a Palestinian state could not be established without “an armed resistance that targets every inch of land a Jewish foot has stepped upon.”

Along with @raychfeldman, I went digging through years of archive material and social media posts.

Let us start long before he came to the U.S.

It is 2010 - his patience is wearing thin - and he promises that "soon, very soon, we will annihilate the Jews" pic.twitter.com/83wlJ3Jqj9

— David Collier (@mishtal) September 2, 2026

The authors question how these open expressions of hostility and support for terrorist organizations escaped the notice of US consular officials during Mahdawi’s 2014 visa application process.

Their report also details a 2015 Windsor Police report and subsequent FBI interview following allegations from a local gun shop owner that Mahdawi had expressed interest in purchasing automatic weapons, making disturbing remarks regarding his background.

Furthermore, the investigation challenges Mahdawi’s public framing of his family members and friends killed during the conflict.

While he has frequently memorialized various cousins and relatives as innocent civilians or victims of arbitrary sniper fire, the report cross-references their identities with military records and militant group announcements.

The researchers document that multiple family members, including Thaer and Amin Abu al-Kamal, Maysara Masharqa, and Youssef Mahdawi – who was convicted of recruiting a suicide bomber for the 2003 London Café attack in Netanya – were active commanders or operatives within Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and PIJ.

Mahdawi classifies activism alongside armed resistance

The report also tracks Mahdawi’s post-2023 campus activism at Columbia, where he co-founded the Palestinian Student Union and helped launch Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD).

The authors also highlight a December 2024 Arabic-language video in which Mahdawi explicitly categorized his diaspora campus activism alongside armed resistance in the West Bank and Gaza as components of a unified struggle.

Finally, the report notes that despite originally stepping back from a Facebook group promoting his mother’s program – which allegedly glorifies prisoners and terrorists from groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) – Mahdawi re-joined and was restored as an administrator as recently as 2026.

In a joint statement to The Jerusalem Post, Collier and Feldman said, “The real question is no longer whether Mahdawi has a long history of supporting terrorism.

“It is about the negligence of the US media.

“The information was there to be found, and America’s biggest media outlets have written extensively about him. So why did it take two independent Jewish researchers to uncover it?”

Alex Carson

Source: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-907333

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Nothing Spontaneous About Anti-Israel Protests - Robert Williams

 

by Robert Williams

Terror Links, Foreign Funding and Highly Coordinated Activism

 

• "Today's anti-Western influence networks are global, coordinated, top-down, well-funded and sanitised. Viewed graphically, they resemble a series of concentric circles. At their centre sit hostile state actors (Iran, China, Russia, Qatar), terrorist organisations (Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda), and extremist religious-political movements (Muslim Brotherhood). Around them operate charities, campaign groups, protest movements and advocacy organisations that can provide legitimacy, amplify propaganda and serve as vectors of transmission for extremist agendas to society more broadly. Some of these groups are directly funded by hostile actors, or in turn, divert publicly raised donations back to them." — From the NGO Monitor report "Imported Influence," July 8, 2026.

• In the UK, the same six organizations – Stop the War Coalition, Friends of Al-Aqsa, the Muslim Association of Britain, the Palestinian Forum in Britain, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament – were involved in 32 out of the 40 protests mapped by NGO Monitor.

• "Many of these groups are overtly linked to Hamas and other terrorist actors. It is time to see these demonstrations as a significant destabilizing threat and for governments to investigate these networks." — Anne Herzberg, legal advisor to NGO Monitor, speaking at the UK House of Lords, July 8, 2026.

• "[T]he response too often appears to be more security funding, barriers and police protection, rather than addressing the root causes of this hate and violence." — From the NGO Monitor report "Imported Influence," July 8, 2026.

• Why is the British government arresting more than 30 British citizens on average each day, including mothers and pensioners, for mostly harmless social media posts, while activists with links to terrorist groups working against those very societies are left free to unleash their worst?

Since the beginning of the pro-Hamas protests, which began as their October 7, 2023 atrocities in Israel were still unfolding, the media has been driving the notion that these are spontaneous, grassroots protests. According to a new explosive report by the acclaimed international organization NGO Monitor: Dream on. Pictured: Anti-Israel protesters in London on January 13, 2024. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images)

Since the beginning of the pro-Hamas protests, which began as their October 7, 2023 atrocities in Israel were still unfolding, the media has been driving the notion that these are spontaneous, grassroots protests. According to a new explosive report by the acclaimed international organization NGO Monitor: Dream on.

"As thousands of Hamas invaders murdered, raped and kidnapped men, women and children across southern Israel on 7 October 2023, mass anti-Israel demonstrations began appearing on the streets of London, New York and other Western cities. Despite their being thousands of miles apart and spread across the globe, marchers carried the same professionally printed signs and shouted the same slogans and chants....

"The protests have been widely portrayed in the media as grassroots and spontaneous. In reality, they are professionally organised and are part of a well-funded, coordinated global advocacy network."

Much of the world nevertheless bought into this highly orchestrated show. Who is behind it? A dizzying number of actors, all invested in fatally destabilizing the West, destroying Israel and denigrating Jews. According to NGO Monitor:

"Today's anti-Western influence networks are global, coordinated, top-down, well-funded and sanitised. Viewed graphically, they resemble a series of concentric circles. At their centre sit hostile state actors (Iran, China, Russia, Qatar), terrorist organisations (Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda), and extremist religious-political movements (Muslim Brotherhood). Around them operate charities, campaign groups, protest movements and advocacy organisations that can provide legitimacy, amplify propaganda and serve as vectors of transmission for extremist agendas to society more broadly. Some of these groups are directly funded by hostile actors, or in turn, divert publicly raised donations back to them."

In its investigative report, NGO Monitor focuses on how this industry of organized hatred operates in the UK "mapping... 40 major anti-Israel protests... and campaigns in the United Kingdom between October 2023 and May 2026, and the organisations and individuals identified as recurring actors within protest coordination, advocacy, funding and related activity."

So, what did NGO Monitor find?

"Those responsible for the UK demonstrations are a core group of professionally organised NGOs, some even household names in the UK, which are part of a sophisticated, internationally connected and funded ecosystem. This ecosystem, while self-proclaiming the noble aims of peace, human rights and humanitarianism, also launders extremist narratives into UK mainstream politics, media, academia and public life."

In the UK, the same six organizations – Stop the War Coalition, Friends of Al-Aqsa, the Muslim Association of Britain, the Palestinian Forum in Britain, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament – were involved in 32 out of the 40 protests mapped by NGO Monitor.

At least four of those organizations – the Muslim Association of Britain, the Palestinian Forum for Britain, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and the Friends of al-Aqsa (FOA) – have links to Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood, a fact that has been known since at least October 2023.

"Members of the FOA leadership have longstanding overlap with figures associated with Muslim Brotherhood-linked networks in the UK. FOA founder Ismail Patel has participated in events alongside Muslim Brotherhood-linked figures and has been pictured with Ismail Haniyeh, the late political leader of Hamas.... In 2009, Patel delivered a speech in which he rejected the designation of Hamas as a terrorist organisation..."

Supporting Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organization in the UK, could lead to up to 14 years in prison. It's been three years of pro-Hamas agitation, and yet those protests continue to be allowed. So much for equality before the law.

Several other British organizations and institutions are heavily involved in the protest ecosystem, among them: Amnesty International, Palestinian Youth Movement, Islamic Human Rights Commission, CAGE International, Oxfam GB, University College London, Students for Justice in Palestine, Islamic Relief, CODEPINK, and Doctors Without Borders:

"Many receive foreign funding, and some solicit financial support via cryptocurrency. Several are directly involved in targeting youth to groom them in anti-Israel activism. Some have connections to extremist actors or proscribed terrorist organisations, and are involved in violence in the UK."

Palestinian Youth Movement Britain (PYM) -- to mention one example -- is an offshoot of its main organization which primarily operates in the US and Canada, where it has "established a significant professional activist and campus-based infrastructure."

"PYM has 'close ties with the Popular Front [for the Liberation of Palestine] and its affiliates, as well as with the SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine] organisation linked to Hamas'. In 2019, a French court decision citing intelligence reporting similarly described PYM as 'affiliated with' the PFLP'..."

Amnesty International -- another example -- "has played an increasingly active role in protests, activist capacity-building and legal initiatives targeting UK government policy toward Israel," notes NGO Monitor, adding that Amnesty has been brainwashing 16–24-year-olds, effectively training them, since 2019, to become radical activists:

"It is a 'fully funded training course for 16- to 24-year-olds, which helps young people develop their campaigning skills .... [regarding] the Occupied Palestinian Territory [the programme] trained hundreds of young people in protest rights, media engagement and campaign strategy'. In reporting to the Charity Commission, Amnesty stated that Rise Up 'supported activists who were disciplined by their universities for legitimate campaigning. This included connecting some students who had been arrested with legal support.'"

In 2024, Amnesty boasted about the "impact" of its Rise Up campaigns:

"Our student-led campaigns secured major wins: Queen's University Belfast has agreed to divest from companies operating in the illegal Israeli settlements, and several student unions have committed to stock Palestinian produce in their stores. Following our intervention, two universities have also dropped disciplinary action against student activists."

"The anti-Israel protests that exploded across the Western world on October 7 are presented as grassroots appeals for Palestinian human rights," said NGO Monitor's legal advisor, Anne Herzberg, to Britain's House of Lords.

"In reality, and as our new report documents, they are organized by a globally connected and financed network of NGOs aimed at promoting IRGC propaganda, Islamist and anti-Western narratives, and Israel eliminationism. Many of these groups are overtly linked to Hamas and other terrorist actors. It is time to see these demonstrations as a significant destabilizing threat and for governments to investigate these networks."

For the past nearly three years, Jews everywhere have borne the brunt of the deep polarization and violence brought by these protests celebrating Hamas.

The NGO Monitor report concluded:

"As the protests and associated campaigns continue, and society becomes more polarised, British Jews are facing rising intimidation, exclusion, threats, stabbings, shootings and arson attacks. Communities live with fear, while the response too often appears to be more security funding, barriers and police protection, rather than addressing the root causes of this hate and violence."

The exceptional report, however, leaves the reader with more troubling questions than it answers: Why has such organized, unbridled hatred of one minority group – Jews – and the world's only Jewish state been allowed to fester and wreak its destabilizing and polarizing damage on Western societies? Why are governments across the West, whose intelligence services cannot possibly plead ignorance about what and who are behind these protests, not protecting their citizens instead of letting these criminal elements import anarchy? Why is the British government arresting more than 30 British citizens on average each day, including mothers and pensioners, for mostly harmless social media posts, while activists with links to terrorist groups working against those very societies are left free to unleash their worst?

What interests, in short, are British authorities pursuing when they continue to allow, for years, an international cohort of terror supporters to operate freely on British soil?

Robert Williams is based in the United States.

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22819/anti-israel-protests

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Russia secretly aiding Iran in development of supersonic cruise missile technology - report - Tzvi Jasper

 

by Tzvi Jasper

The program, codenamed C430L, began in 2023 and was arranged by Russia's state arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, in coordination with the US-sanctioned NPO Mashinostroyenia.

 

A new surface-to-surface ballistic missile called Khaibar with a range of 2,000 km, unveiled by Iran, is seen in Tehran, Iran, May 25, 2023

(photo credit: WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY) VIA REUTERS)

Russia has been secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles, London-based outlet The Financial Times reported on Wednesday morning, which experts say would likely have been intended for anti-ship and land attacks.

The program, codenamed C430L, began in 2023 and was arranged by Russia's state arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, in coordination with the US-sanctioned NPO Mashinostroyenia, FT reported.

According to FT, Russian arms export officials and senior NPO Mashinostroyenia engineers traveled to Iran repeatedly in 2023.

Among the engineers who conducted these trips were Alexander Dergachev, chief designer for sea-launched missiles and cruise missile complexes; Alexander Chebakov, head of NPO Mashinostroyenia’s design department for air-breathing propulsion units and a specialist in supersonic ramjet propulsion for cruise missiles; and Yuri Prokhorchuk, head of the aerodynamics and ballistics department. 

FT also learned that Vladislav Kuzmichev, head of Rosoboronexport’s department of defense technologies and space, accompanied the delegation on its third trip to Iran, and later negotiated the C430L contract with Iran.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (L) attend a documents signing ceremony in Moscow, Russia; illustrative; January 17, 2025. (credit: REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool)

By 2025, NPO Mashinostroyenia had received various Iranian technical materials, which Russian engineers analyzed and responded to with various questions.

In correspondence seen by FT from April 2025, Rosoboronexport proposed sending a delegation of Russian specialists to Iran and asked Tehran to answer the engineers' questions before the trip. 

“People often think about technology transfers as being solely about sending blueprints, parts, or entire missiles," Fabian Hinz, an Iranian missiles expert and senior analyst with Conflict Armament Research, a UK-based weapons-tracing organization, told FT, "but getting a 60-year-old engineer to fly over and problem-solve, using their experience, is hugely valuable.”

Iranian president thanks Putin for support against United States

On Tuesday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for Moscow's position on the war in Iran and resulting sanctions, and said that together, Moscow and Tehran can resist what he called US "unilateralism."

The two leaders spoke on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek.

During the meeting, Putin told Pezeshkian that Moscow stood in solidarity with the Iranian people in the fight for their interests.

Putin also said that Russia and Iran will maintain their economic and trade relationship despite the current military and political environment.

“During this difficult period, we are striving to provide you with the necessary assistance - as we have discussed - and are supplying you with essential goods,” Putin said.

Pezeshkian accuses US of violating international law

Pezeshkian, in turn, said that the US does not have the right to impose sanctions "whenever they please," and accused them of violating international law and committing acts of aggression.

Russia and Iran, he said, would find ways to circumvent the US sanctions.

"Within frameworks like the SCO and other organizations, we can bypass unilateral measures and cooperate on a multilateral basis,” he stated.

Notably, the US sanctions Pezeshkian was referring to, including Washington’s latest measures targeting Iranian financial networks and IRGC-linked assets, are not in themselves prohibited under international law. Economic sanctions also do not constitute an “act of aggression” under the UN definition.

Reuters contributed to this report. 

Tzvi Jasper

Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-907296

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Iranian attacks on Iraqi Kurdistan aim to transform Iraq into buffer zone, spread war - analysis - Seth J. Frantzman

 

by Seth J. Frantzman

Iran’s attacks seek to strike an area of Iraq that the regime assumes is not well protected, in a push to move fighting outside Iran and avoid insurrections inside.

 

A member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party, known as PJAK, stands inside a tunnel at a site near the Iraqi border with Iran, on the outskirts of Penjwen, in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, Iraq, March 24, 2026.

(photo credit: REUTERS/STRINGER)

 

Iran carried out a number of attacks on the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq last night as clashes with the United States escalated.

The Iranian attacks fit a pattern going back to February. Iran has sought to spread the war to Iraq and other countries via attacks. It has often singled out the Kurdistan Region - made up of Erbil Governorate, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Duhok Governorate, and Halabja Governorate - for attacks. Since February, Iran and its proxies in Iraq have targeted the Kurdistan Region with 1,000 drone and missile attacks.

Rudaw media in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan Region, said that numerous attacks took place overnight. According to the reports from Rudaw in Erbil, “Iran on Wednesday attacked positions belonging to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) dissident group near Erbil with several drones, the group said in a statement. The assault comes against the backdrop of renewed US-Iran escalation over the past 24 hours.”

The KDPI is one of the key Kurdish opposition groups in Iran. Along with six other groups, it has formed a coalition against the regime. Its leader, Mustafa Hijri, also gave a recent interview in which he discussed the importance of opposing the regime and building a democratic Iran.

“At 2 a.m. to 2:40 a.m. on Wednesday morning, the Islamic Republic targeted the bases and headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran,” the KDPI said in a statement.

Damaged buildings after, what the security sources say, a drone struck an arms depot in an attack on the headquarters of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in which two fighters were wounded, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in the town of Dekala in Iraq's Kurdistan region March 4, 2026. (credit: REUTERS/STRINGER)

Iran’s Tasnim news, which is linked to the IRGC, also said that the IRGC had carried out drone and missile attacks targeting American forces in Erbil.

The US has been withdrawing forces from Iraq, including from the KRG. Iran claimed to have targeted a maintenance facility.

Iranian-backed militias have targeted US forces for years in Iraq. They even used drones to try to attack what The Washington Post described as a CIA hangar in Erbil in 2021.

More recently, the regime in Tehran targeted the US consulate and UAE consulate in Erbil, as well as offices linked to Kurdish leaders Nechirvan and Masrour Barzani.

Iran targeted Iraq's Erbil

The KDPI noted several details about the Iranian attacks overnight on Tuesday.

“According to reports, in the first attack, leadership residences in southern Kurdistan were targeted with three drones, and shortly thereafter, the training camp was also targeted. The training camp is located near the city of Erbil and was a residence for families of the Democratic Party,” it said.

The report added that “The Islamic Republic of Iran, since the start of the war with the United States and Israel, has so far targeted family camps of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, as well as the party’s medical and educational banks, with more than 156 missiles and drones.”

Meanwhile, Rudaw reported, “The US-led Global Coalition forces shot down 10 explosive-laden drones in Erbil province early Wednesday, the Kurdistan Region’s Counter-Terrorism Directorate [CTD] announced, as Iran launched attacks targeting US positions across the Middle East amid renewed tensions with Washington.”

The coalition said its “forces intercepted and shot down 10 explosive-laden drones within the airspace of Erbil province,” CTD said in a statement. “Fortunately, there were no casualties,” it added, quoting Rudaw.

“Two Kurdish security sources told Rudaw English on Wednesday that the IRGC struck and destroyed the US Tethered Aerostat Radar System surveillance balloon over Erbil during the overnight attacks. The balloon system, a ubiquitous part of Erbil’s skyline for months, was not seen Wednesday morning.”

According to data compiled by Rudaw, the number of attacks surpassed 800 by late April and continued to rise, reaching over 855 by May and eventually exceeding 900 during the summer.

Iranian-Kurdish opposition works the area, according to the Iranian regime

IRAN HAS justified many of the strikes by claiming that Kurdish Iranian opposition groups, such as KDPI and Komala, as well as other organizations based in northern Iraq, threaten Iranian national security.

However, the attacks have extended far beyond the opposition camps. Iranian-backed groups have repeatedly targeted areas around Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, and Duhok, including locations near US diplomatic and military facilities, energy infrastructure, and civilian areas.

Kurdish authorities have consistently stressed that the Kurdistan Region is not a party to the conflict and has not allowed its territory to be used as a launching pad for attacks on Iran.

Iran’s attacks seek to strike an area of Iraq that Iran assumes is not well protected. It wants the US to leave Erbil. Iran also works closely with Iranian-backed groups in Baghdad. As such, it seeks to target Erbil instead of Baghdad.

Iran also wants to destabilize and weaken the Kurdistan Region since it knows that the region is a partner of the US. The Islamic Republic wants to send a message to Iranian opposition groups, warning them not to envisage an uprising in Iran.

US President Donald Trump has mentioned, on social media, the issue of Iranians rising up. Iran wants to preempt such a move and spread the war to Iraq. It considers Iraq a kind of “near abroad” or zone of influence and a buffer.

The sustained campaign has placed enormous pressure on the Kurdistan Regional Government while highlighting the challenge facing Baghdad in controlling Iranian-backed militias operating inside Iraq.

The attacks have strained Iraq’s relations with the US and neighboring countries and have reinforced calls by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to bring all armed groups under state authority.

For the Kurdistan Region, the conflict has demonstrated both its strategic importance and its vulnerability as regional tensions increasingly spill across Iraq’s borders. 

Seth J. Frantzman

Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-907335

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Beyond lowering drug prices, Trump ups national security by restoring America’s pharma supply chain - Amanda Head

 

by Amanda Head

The ingredients negotiated by Trump can help to rebuild the ingredient layer of the American drug supply that Washington has talked about since the last shortage scare but never actually filled.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

 

On Monday, President Donald Trump made a major announcement about drug pricing for Americans, but what could be even more impactful is the durability it provides for America's national security through domestic pharmaceutical supplies. 

The price cut was the headline that emerged from the Oval Office. However, the longer-lasting aspect never made the podium: nine mid-sized drugmakers pledged $19.6 billion in U.S. plants and, in several cases, tons of raw antibiotics vital to supplying the Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve (SAPIR). 

"It's critical because the original ingredients that are in a capsule or tablet of antibiotics, previously they had been sourced from India or China," Dr. Peter McCullough told Just The News. 

"You can imagine if we got into some difficult, negative relationships with either country, the drug supply could be at risk," he continued. "So it's very strategic, and I think wise, to be able to produce our own key drugs here at home, and that way, Americans don't have to worry if we have a supply chain problem."

Drug security is national security 

If those commitments hold, Trump’s most-favored-nation (MFN) deals are not only bargaining down what consumers pay—they are attempting to rebuild the ingredient layer of the American drug supply that Washington has talked about since the last shortage scare but never actually filled.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The announcement highlighted the administration's efforts to cut U.S. prescription costs to levels paid in other wealthy countries. The new agreements with Alcon, Astellas Pharma, BeOne Medicines, BridgeBio, CSL, Kyowa Kirin, Sun Pharma, Teva Pharmaceuticals and UCB bring the total to 26 companies covering about 89 percent of the branded market, with Medicaid programs gaining access to the lower prices and additional medicines slated for the TrumpRx direct-to-consumer platform. 

The White House reports that patients have already saved more than $700 million through TrumpRx since February and projected the broader MFN deals will save Americans hundreds of billions.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

A reliant nation is a vulnerable nation

Heavy U.S. reliance on overseas pharmaceutical ingredients became a national-security issue during COVID-19, when factory shutdowns and export curbs produced shortages of antibiotics, pain medicines and other hospital drugs. 

China restricted and redirected medical supplies early in 2020 while ramping up domestic use, and analysts have warned that Beijing could later withhold key starting materials (KSM) the way it has restricted other strategic goods. 

India, which supplies much of America’s generic finished drugs, itself depends on Chinese intermediates and has a long record of FDA findings of contamination, data integrity failures, and unsanitary plants. Those two-country chokepoints still leave many essential medicines one disruption away from shortage.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

SAPIR's impact and background

The SAPIR is a U.S. government-backed stockpile of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and KSMs that can be rapidly converted into finished essential medicines during shortages or emergencies. It was created in 2020 under the first Trump administration after COVID-19 exposed heavy U.S. reliance on foreign API suppliers like China and India. 

In May 2020, BARDA (Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority) awarded Phlow Corp. a contract of up to $354 million (potentially $812 million) to manufacture at-risk medicines and help build the reserve. Phlow originated the SAPIR concept and still powers its infrastructure today. 

APIs were chosen because they cost less and last longer than finished drugs. A 2024 analysis found the already-built warehouse sat at roughly 1 percent of capacity. The 2025 White House expressed concerns that the Biden administration did not fill the warehouse, despite billions spent on supply-chain efforts, leaving it nearly empty. 

An August 2025 executive order then directed the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) under HHS to stock a six-month API supply for about 26 critical drugs and plan coverage for 86 essential medicines.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Amanda Head is White House Correspondent for Just The News. You can follow her here. 

Source: https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/drug-announcements-larger-impact-beyond-lower-prices-securing-americas

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