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zion¿st enemy stepped up its aggression on Lebanon on Friday, launching a series of strikes that hit several targets across south Lebanon and West Bekaa, in violation of the ceasefire which ended the brutal Israeli 66-day war on the country in late 2024.

Al-Manar correspondent reported zionist strikes on Al-Rihan Heights and Iqlim Al-Tuffah in south Lebanon.

The strikes hit Al-Jarmaq, Al-Rihan, Jbaa, Ansar, Bureij, Tebna, Zrairieh and the valley between Houmine and Roumine, according to our correspondent.

Meanwhile, our correspondent in Bekaa reported a zionist strike on the outskirts of Zelaya in Western Bekaa.

The Israeli enemy continues to bomb Lebanon, mainly the country’s south, almost daily and maintains occupation over five posts along the southern border, in violation of a ceasefire deal reached following a brutal 66-day zionist war between September and November 2024.

At least 333 people have been martyred and more than 950 others have been wounded in since the ceasefire took effect on November 27, 2024, according to a toll conducted by Al-Manar in late November 2025, based on figures obtained by the Lebanese Health Ministry.

Source: Al-Manar English Website

A former Royal Air Force technician has called on the UK government to publish footage from surveillance flights launched from its Akrotiri base in Cyprus over Gaza, citing intelligence sharing with Israel.

Steve Masters, who served 19 years in the RAF, told Declassified UK that withholding the footage fuels suspicion Britain is “materially aiding a genocide.”

He said the UK has admitted to sharing intelligence from the flights in real time, according to his account, and warned such data could be used for broader military targeting beyond hostage-related matters.

The claims have drawn criticism in parliament. Labour MP Brian Leishman called the situation “scandalous,” accusing London of training Israeli soldiers while hiding Akrotiri’s role behind national security. Similar concerns were previously raised by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who questioned how intelligence gathered over Gaza is being used.

British officials have denied the Cyprus bases were involved in US strikes on Iran, while confirming past deployments from the island in support of Israel, citing the UK’s “unwavering commitment” to its security.

The Cradle Media

Anduril calls itself an “arsenal of democracy.”

So why is it partnering with an authoritarian monarchy to build drones?The American weapons maker Anduril says its founding purpose is to arm democratic governments to safeguard the Western way of life.

The company’s official mission document, titled “Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy,” contains 14 separate references to democracy, two more than the name of the company. Building weapons isn’t simply a matter of national security, the company argues, but a moral imperative to protect the democratic tradition. “The challenge ahead is gigantic,” the manifesto says, “but so are the rewards of success: continued peace and prosperity in the democratic world.”

Mentions of democracy are noticeably absent, however, from Anduril’s recent announcement of a new joint venture with a state-run bomb maker from an authoritarian monarchy that is facilitating a genocide.

Anduril is partnering with EDGE Group, a weapons conglomerate controlled by the United Arab Emirates, a nation run entirely by the royal families of its seven emirates that permits virtually none of the activities typically associated with democratic societies. In the UAE, free expression and association are outlawed, and dissident speech is routinely and brutally punished without due process. A 2024 assessment of political rights and civil liberties by Freedom House, a U.S. State Department-backed think tank, gave the UAE a score of 18 out of 100.

The EDGE–Anduril Production Alliance, as it will be known, will focus on autonomous weapons systems, including the production of Anduril’s “Omen” drone. The UAE has agreed to purchase the first 50 Omen drones built through the partnership, according to a press release, “the first in a series of autonomous systems envisioned under the joint venture.” The Omen drone was described as a “personal project” of Anduril founder and CEO Palmer Luckey, a longtime Trump ally and fundraiser.

EDGE Chair Faisal Al Bannai explained in a 2019 interview that EDGE was working to develop weapons systems tailored to defeating low-tech “militia-style” militant groups.

The UAE has been eager to sell its weapons around the world, both to generate profit and to exert political influence. This most recently and brutally includes Sudan, where the Emirates supply the Rapid Support Forces, an anti-government militia. Weapons furnished by the UAE have been instrumental in the ongoing civil war, now widely described as having descended into an RSF-perpetrated genocide. In October, video imagery emerged from Sudan showing RSF soldiers indiscriminately slaughtering civilians in Darfur. Reports of rape, torture, and other atrocities at the hands of the RSF are now widespread, and a current “low estimate” of people murdered by the RSF during its recent takeover of the Sudanese city of El Fasher is 60,000, according to a recent report by The Guardian. The Trump administration determined in January that the RSF’s massacres constituted a genocide, echoing assessments by the Biden administration and human rights observers.

The RSF has been able to rapidly overtake the Sudanese army with the help of weapons from Anduril’s new partner. An April investigation by France 24 found EDGE subsidiary International Golden Group funneled tens of thousands of mortar rounds into Sudan for use by the RSF.

Nathaniel Raymonds, who leads the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, told The Intercept mortars were among “three weapons systems that went into the hands of RSF that changed the course of the war.”

Raymonds, whose office at Yale previously partnered with the State Department to monitor atrocities in the Sudanese civil war, described Anduril’s joint venture as “mind-boggling” given the role Emirati drones and other weapons have played in facilitating the RSF’s genocide. “You have a DIA and [State Department] assessment that in a just world will trigger Leahy Act and shut this thing down from day one,” Raymonds said, referring to legislation that nominally prohibits the provision of assistance to foreign militaries that have committed major human rights violations.Neither Anduril nor EDGE Group responded to a request for comment. A November press release from both companies noted “EDGE and Anduril will work closely with U.S. and UAE authorities to ensure full compliance with applicable laws and regulations including trade compliance rules and regulations.”

A 2024 report by Human Rights Watch noted the use of drone-delivered thermobaric bombs sold by EDGE. In October, The Guardian reported the RSF’s use of armored personnel carriers manufactured by an EDGE subsidiary. In 2024, a United Nations panel of experts deemed the UAE’s backing of the RSF as “credible,” and this year a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers issued a statement criticizing “[f]oreign backers of the RSF and SAF–including the United Arab Emirates.” The Wall Street Journal reported in October that both the State Department’s intelligence office and the Defense Intelligence Agency agreed the UAE was supplying the RSF with a wide array of weapons, vehicles, and ammunition. The UAE has repeatedly denied this support despite ample evidence.

Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, a researcher at Human Rights Watch who has tracked the flow of arms into Sudan, told The Intercept that EDGE Group’s products have exacerbated the horror of the ongoing war. “The rapid support forces, which we found responsible for crimes against humanity across Sudan, has made widespread use of armored vehicles made by Nimr, a subsidiary of Edge Group,” he said. “The name of Adasi, another subsidiary of Edge Group which specializes in drone technology, appeared on crates of Serbian-made 120mm munitions that the RSF has been using and which equip some of their quadcopter attack drones.” Nan Tian, a senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, added that the Nimr vehicles are armed with “a gun that is made by KNDS which is a French-German arms maker. KNDS has a military partnership with EDGE Group.”

Raymonds argued that “not since Operation Cyclone,” the CIA effort to arm the Afghan mujahideen, “has there been a covert action by any nation state to arm a paramilitary proxy group at this scale and sophistication and try to write it off as just a series of happy coincidences.”

EDGE was launched at a 2019 inauguration ceremony overseen by Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, and consists of over 30 subsidiaries spanning bombs, drones, ammunition, and various military and intelligence software systems. EDGE’s chair of the board, Faisal Al Bannai, is a businessman and adviser to the prince.“There’s very few conflicts in the in the wider region that the UAE haven’t had a hand in, and very often a rather malign hand.”EDGE isn’t the only Emirati weapons company, but the conglomerate represents the bulk of the country’s arms industry by volume and illustrates the amorality of its export policy, according to Sam Perlo-Freeman, a researcher with the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, which has advocated for an arms embargo against the UAE. “As a state-owned company, they will be used as an agent of Emirati state policy,” he said. “Arms supplies to allies and proxies across the Middle East, North, and East Africa has been for quite a while a major facet of Emirati state policy.” This has manifested beyond furnishing arms to the RSF, with the UAE arming militaries in Libya, Somalia, and the ongoing genocidal war in Tigray. “There’s very few conflicts in the in the wider region that the UAE haven’t had a hand in, and very often a rather malign hand.”

Reports of EDGE wares winding up in the hands of armed proxies stretches back over a decade.

A 2013 report by the United Nations Security Council found International Golden Group facilitated the import of hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition into Libya in violation of a global arms embargo.

In 2019, a report by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism found UAE-backed combatants in the ongoing Yemeni civil war armed with pistols manufactured by Caracal, an EDGE subsidiary.

As in Sudan, a nominal civil war waged within the Tigray region of Ethiopia was exacerbated by foreign entanglement and a flood of outside weaponry. In 2023, Gerjon’s Aircraft Finds, an aviation analysis Substack, published imagery indicating the import of guided bombs manufactured by Al Tariq, another EDGE subsidiary, for use by the Ethiopian Air Force, responsible for widespread civilian death during the Tigray war.Anduril, most recently valued by private investors at over $30 billion, has a wide array of weapons in the U.S. and with its allies, including Australia and Taiwan. It works closely with the Department of Defense and has operated surveillance towers along the U.S.–Mexico border for nearly a decade. Its business has surged as it has cast its products as a vital tool in a tech arms race between the West and China, matching the company’s rhetoric positioning it as a lethal bulwark against autocracy.Luckey has long cast his company as a defender of democracy. “Soldiers who defend western values should all be superheroes with superpowers,” he tweeted in 2019. In an interview that year, Luckey explained backing democratic allies against “rogue nations” around the world: “I like working with the British,” he said. “Everyone’s a little bit different but more or less we all believe in western values and democracy and universal human rights.”

Anduril co-founder Matt Grimm similarly advanced the company’s moral case for an arms race on human rights grounds, describing China in a 2024 interview as the world’s “greatest evil,” denouncing the Chinese state’s “basic approach to human rights.” Grimm added that “I think they’re conducting an ongoing genocide with their Uyghur population, I think their approach to free speech, to political speech, to religious freedom, are fundamentally antithetical to how the West values human life and how we think about human rights.”

“The fact of Anduril saying they’re an arsenal of democracy and partnering with EDGE Group, it’s obviously ridiculous,” said Perlo-Freeman, “but it’s part of the broader picture of Western democracies treating the UAE as a valued partner and ally and shielding them from consequences.”

The Intercept report

zion¿st enemy forces detonated a building under construction north of Mays al-Jabal southern Lebanon and targeted a house in Adaysah with a quadcopter drone early this morning, according to Al-Manar TV correspondent.

In another attack, enemy forces targeted the roof of a building opposite a spring in the town of Adaysah with an explosive device dropped from a quadcopter drone.

These attacks came within the context of ongoing Israeli aggression in southern Lebanon, where enemy forces resort to using attack drones and targeted bombings against civilian buildings and facilities in southern villages and towns.

These repeated attacks over the past few weeks have caused widespread damage to property and infrastructure, amid silence from the committee overseeing the cessation of hostilities and a lack of effective official Lebanese government action to curb these violations.

The occupying forces are accused of daily violations of the ceasefire agreement concluded last November, which ended a 66-day offensive. During that offensive, the forces allegedly committed dozens of massacres against civilians and caused massive destruction to public and private property in Lebanon, particularly in the south, the Bekaa Valley, and the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Source: Al-Manar correspondnet in south Lebanon

The United States’ annual military spending bill obliges Washington to mitigate the effects of international arms restrictions imposed on zionist colony over the regime’s brutal crimes against Palestinians.

On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2026 that authorizes $900 billion in military programs.

The 3,000-page bill contains an extraordinary provision that requires the US to systematically identify, assess and compensate for any zionist colonial weapons shortfalls caused by sanctions slapped on the occupying regime over its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip and atrocities in the occupied West Bank.

It says the US war secretary should conduct a continual assessment of current and emerging embargoes on arms transfers to Israel and examine how such limitations weaken the Israeli military.

It also compels Washington to identify specific weapons systems or technologies that Israel can no longer acquire or modernize due to  sanctions and then to devise practical ways of filling in the gap.

The NDAA Section 1706 “functions as a form of political and logistical insurance, effectively insulating Israel from global accountability,” Middle East Monitor reported.

“In effect, if Israel is prohibited from acquiring a weapons system from another supplier, the United States will manufacture a replacement, expedite sales or adapt its military-industrial output to meet Israeli needs.”

The House Armed Services Committee, which examines the NDAA before it moves to a vote in the House of Representatives, said the annual military bill has “unprecedented levels of support for the security of Israel”.

The bill includes $80 million for a joint American and Israeli anti-tunneling project and another $70 million to help Israel counter drone attacks and other aerial “emerging threats”. It further allocates $35 million for the US to establish a new cooperative program with Israel and G7 allies and test cutting-edge technologies, including artificial intelligence, quantum, cyber security, robotics, and automation.

Israel typically receives around $3.3 billion in annual US military aid, but in 2024 the figure more than doubled to $6.8 billion.

The criminal Israeli regime has used the American-supplied weapons to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide against Palestinians.

Human rights groups say the US government is complicit in Israel’s grave violations and has the blood of Palestinians on its hands.

Al Masirah report

The Leader of the Revolution  Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi extended congratulations to the Muslim world on the anniversary of Sayyida Fatimah al-Zahra’a, revered as the highest model for women in Islam, coinciding with International Muslim Women’s Day.

In a statement today, the Leader emphasized the spiritual and moral significance of the occasion, highlighting the exemplary role of Muslim women, particularly in a time when the Islamic nation faces “the most severe soft Satanic war, misleading and corrupting,” aimed at undermining its religious identity and promoting cultural loyalties that diverge from Islam.

He noted that this “soft, corrupting war” has inflicted greater damage than conventional conflicts, leaving much of the two-billion-strong Muslim community in states of confusion, humiliation, poverty, and blind dependence on hostile powers. Wealth has been exploited, lands converted into military bases, and human resources enslaved, he said.

The Leader condemned the global silence toward the atrocities committed by the Israeli enemy and its American allies against the Palestinian people, describing them as including mass killings of children, infants, women, and the elderly, as well as acts of rape and humiliation against women.

He sharply criticized some Arab regimes for providing economic, financial, media, and intelligence support to the Israeli enemy, contributing to the incapacitation of the Muslim nation and reflecting a profound moral and ethical decline.

The Leader stressed that the Muslim world’s spiritual and moral bankruptcy has emboldened the Israeli enemy to violate the sanctity of blood, honor, land, and religion, and warned against those within the Muslim nation who pledge loyalty to the Zionist entity while opposing true believers and fighters, calling it “blind servitude disguised as peace.”

Citing Syria as an example, he noted that groups loyal to the US yet non-hostile to the Israeli enemy still suffer thousands of Israeli airstrikes, occupation of territory, and daily kidnappings.

The Leader concluded by urging Muslims to draw inspiration from the life of Fatimah al-Zahra’a and Islamic occasions in general to revive Islamic spirit, restore human dignity, uphold justice, protect the oppressed, and resist tyrants, rather than remain submissive to arrogant powers.

Sayyed Abdulmalik’s warning comes amid the Israeli enemy’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, carried out with full US backing and resulting in mass civilian casualties and the destruction of vital infrastructure. The silence or complicity of several Arab regimes—some of which continue security and political coordination with the Zionist entity—has intensified public anger across the region.

The remarks also align with the Leader’s repeated cautions about a “soft Satanic war” targeting the cultural and religious identity of the Muslim world, which he says is orchestrated by Western powers and their regional partners to weaken Islamic values and normalize submission to foreign domination.

The speech coincided with the anniversary of Sayyida Fatimah al-Zahra’a birthday, a symbolic occasion used to reaffirm Islamic principles and call for steadfastness and support for the oppressed, particularly the people of Gaza.

Al Masirah report

A young Palestinian detainee has died in zion¿st colonial custody after enduring harsh conditions and systematic medical negligence in zion¿st prisons, bringing the death toll to over 100 since the occupying Tel Aviv regime launched its all-out onslaught on the Gaza Strip in October 2023.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society and the Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs announced in a joint statement on Wednesday that Abdul Rahman Sufian Muhammad al-Sabateen, 21, from the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem, had passed away at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in west al-Quds.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing official sources, reported that Sabateen had been held since June 24 and remained in detention until his death.

The two groups placed full responsibility for Sabateen’s death on the Israeli prison authorities and urged the international community to step in and ensure the protection of prisoners.

They said Israel has intensified its violations against the Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, with reports pointing to an increasing number of deaths caused by severe detention conditions, such as a lack of medical care and mistreatment.

According to Palestinian figures, more than 100 Palestinian detainees have lost their lives in Israeli custody since October 2023, with many Gazan prisoners still subjected to enforced disappearance.

In November, Israel released nearly 2,000 prisoners, including 1,700 from Gaza, under a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement with the Hamas resistance movement.

Many of those released at the time were in poor health, sharing accounts of torture, starvation, and humiliation endured during their time inside Israeli prisons.

Over 10,000 Palestinians, including women and children, are currently held in Israeli prisons, where they face medical neglect and conditions that have resulted in the deaths of several detainees, as reported by both Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups.

Phase one of the Gaza ceasefire agreement involves the release of Israeli captives in return for Palestinian prisoners. Additionally, the plan outlines efforts to rebuild Gaza and establish a new governing structure that excludes Hamas.

Al Masirah report