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An Israeli airstrike in the war-torn Gaza Strip on Sunday killed at least four Palestinians, including a young boy and his pregnant mother, according to hospital authorities.
The strike targeted a house in Nuseirat, an urban refugee camp in central Gaza, resulting in the deaths of a couple and their son, as confirmed by the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
A fourth fatality was transported to the Awda hospital, also in Nuseirat. The Israeli military has yet to issue a comment regarding the incident.
These deaths mark the latest casualties among Palestinians in the coastal enclave since an October ceasefire agreement aimed to halt the more than two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
While the most intense fighting has subsided, the ceasefire has been punctuated by almost daily Israeli fire.
open image in galleryA young boy and his pregnant mother died after an Israeli airstrike, according to hospital authorities (AP)Israeli forces have conducted repeated airstrikes and f..

President Donald Trump’s invocation of the 25-year-old bombing of an American warship as part of his justification for launching a massive bombing campaign against Iran could hamper long-running Pentagon efforts to finally bring the alleged terrorists accused of perpetrating the terror attack to justice.
On two occasions over the nearly two weeks since the Defense Department launched Operation Epic Fury against targets across Iran, Trump has claimed Tehran was responsible for the October 2000 bombing of U.S.S. Cole, a grisly attack that killed 17 U.S. Navy sailors and left 37 others injured.
When he announced the start of the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign in the early hours of Feb. 28, Trump claimed Tehran “knew and [was] probably involved” with the Cole attack, and he repeated the allegations during a press conference on Monday when he insisted that Iran had been “involved very strongly” in the attack.
Yet according to the very government he leads — including a blue-ribbon commission’s ..

Four of the six crew members aboard the U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft that went down in western Iraq on Thursday have been confirmed dead, U.S. Central Command officials have said.
This brings the number of U.S. service members killed in the conflict to 11.
Rescue efforts are continuing, and the circumstances of the incident are under investigation, the officials said, although the aircraft’s loss was not due to either hostile or friendly fire.
Officials believe that a collision in midair may have caused the crash, The New York Times reported.
The identities of the service members are currently being withheld until 24 hours after their next of kin have been informed.
It was earlier reported that the plane went down following an “incident” involving another U.S. plane at approximately 2 p.m. ET Thursday.
open image in galleryRescue efforts are continuing and the circumstances of the incident are under investigation, the offiicials said, although the loss of the aircraft ..

A US Air Force refuelling aircraft crashed in western Iraq during a mission linked to the ongoing war with Iran, according to military officials.
“Rescue operations are ongoing,” the officials said, adding that they were trying to establish the full details of the incident.
“US Central Command is aware of the loss of a US KC-135 refuelling aircraft,” Centcom, which runs US military operations in the Middle East, said in a statement.
“The incident occurred in friendly airspace during Operation Epic Fury, and rescue efforts are ongoing.”
However, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of armed factions backed by Iran, said it was responsible for downing the aircraft.
The group said in a statement it had shot down the aircraft “in defence of our country’s sovereignty and airspace”.
Centcom said “two aircraft were involved in the incident. One of the aircraft went down in western Iraq, and the second landed safely”.
“This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire,” it adde..

Elon Musk’s disciples in his so-called Department of Government Efficiency were embedded across federal agencies with a mandate to fire thousands of public employees and radically cut federal spending.
When Musk deployed DOGE into the National Endowment for the Humanities, which provides vital financial support to research and arts programs, Musk’s staff abruptly choked off more than 1,400 grants, eliminating tens of millions of dollars in public funding within less than a month.
More than 10 hours of newly released video testimony from January uncovers how two DOGE operators relied on ChatGPT and their own largely uninformed judgments to make sweeping decisions about funding for a range of programs and projects — and the people who rely on them.
The depositions, stemming from a lawsuit from the Modern Language Association, the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Historical Association, included testimony from two young DOGE officials, Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh..