⚡️U.S. Central Command

U.S. forces continue to enforce a blockade against Iranian ports, preventing ships from entering or exiting. American forces have directed 38 ships to turn around or return to port.

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Al Jazeera has some additional news on the closure of the International Humanitarian Law Cell within the UK Foreign Office.

https://t.me/WarfareAnalysis/206786

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Irish GP Margaret Connolly - sister of Ireland's President Catherine Connolly - has joined the Sumud flotilla.

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United Nations human rights watchdogs have protested to the government about the alleged ‘harassment, intimidation and misuse of counterterrorism powers’ against lawyer Fahad Ansari.

The solicitor’s treatment by the state raises ‘serious concerns as to the independent exercise of the legal profession and the confidentiality of lawyer-client communications’, five UN special rapporteurs claim in an 11-page letter.

Ansari, a consultant at Duncan Lewis solicitors, was previously principal solicitor at Riverway Law solicitors, which led a legal bid to deproscribe Hamas. After the application was submitted, then shadow home secretary Robert Jenrick and the Campaign Against Antisemitism reported him to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

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Handala claims to have sent this message to thousands of US Marines in the Persian Gulf via WhatsApp.

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