Based on the request of Pakistan and other Countries...and, additionally, the fact that Great Progress has been made toward a Complete and Final Agreement with Representatives of Iran, we have mutually agreed that, while the Blockade will remain in full force and effect, Project Freedom will be paused for a short period of time to see whether or not the Agreement can be finalized and signed.
Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz. Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL.
Garda public order units used pepper spray on a number of fuel protestors who refused to obey instructions to clear a route into the refinery. Major Garda reinforcements and Defence Forces units deployed on Saturday morning around Whitegate oil refinery which had been blockaded for four days by fuel protestors.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Gaza's famine was a man-made disaster, a moral indictment, and a failure of humanity itself. Famine is not only about food; it is the deliberate collapse of the systems needed for human survival, Guterres said. People are starving. Children are dying. And those with the duty to act are failing. The UN chief said Israel, as the occupying power, has unequivocal obligations under international law,
It's to get aid in. It is absolutely appalling what is happening to innocent Palestinians in Gaza. And there are 14,000 babies, according to the UN, that could die in the next 48 hours if aid is not getting in.
