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Vaccination Data on Amish Children Screened for 2010 Autism Study Was Never Made Public

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by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.
September 2, 2026

A study presented by researchers in 2010 found an autism rate among Amish children of roughly 1 in 271 — much lower than the national average. The researchers collected the vaccination data on the children they studied. However, they didn’t disclose the data — making it impossible to know if the Amish children who developed autism were vaccinated or unvaccinated. Experts suggest it would be valuable to make that data public.

Controversy is swirling around a 2010 study on autism rates among the Amish, after President Donald Trump on Monday posted a graphic citing the study.

Trump’s post on Truth Social claimed, “No published case has explicitly documented an unvaccinated Amish child with autism.”

The social media post cited a study, conducted in 2008 and 2009 by researchers who screened 1,899 Amish children in Indiana and Ohio for autism. The researchers confirmed seven cases of autism among the children.

The study concluded that among the Amish children in the study, the autism rate was roughly 1 in 271 — far lower than the national rate, which at the time was estimated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as 1 in 91.

According to Trump’s post, the study authors collected vaccination histories for the children but “did not report any confirmed case” of autism as “completely unvaccinated.”

The post drew a mix of cheers and fact checks, according to health writer Sayer Ji.

Ji called Trump’s post “factually imperfect” but “genuinely important.”

The post contained factual inaccuracies — for instance, it stated that the Amish have been around for 330 years. However, although the Amish broke away from the Mennonites 333 years ago in 1693, Amish settlements in the U.S. didn’t begin until the 1720s.

Trump’s post also drew attention to the verifiable fact that the Amish tend to have lower vaccination rates and lower autism rates, compared to the mainstream.

Ji praised the president for highlighting the 2010 study. “Whatever else you think of the man, he [Trump] pointed at the study,” Ji wrote.

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) CEO Mary Holland told The Defender she was pleased that Trump highlighted the relative absence of autism among the Amish, who typically have lower vaccination rates than mainstream communities.

“It’s high time we start dealing with reality — the current vaccine schedule causes brain injury called autism. Let’s be humble enough to learn from the Amish,” Holland said.

What did the 2010 Amish autism study show?

Trump’s post cites a 2010 study conducted by human genomics researchers from the University of Miami and Vanderbilt University, according to a conference abstract about the study.

However, contrary to Trump’s post, the study was never published in a peer-reviewed journal.

The study’s abstract, dated May 22, 2010, appeared on the website for the International Meeting for Autism Research, a research gathering held by the International Society of Autism Research.

The study authors appeared to have presented the study at the May 2010 meeting. There is no online record of the study’s full report.

The abstract’s methods section states that the researchers collected the children’s vaccination data. However, the results section doesn’t state whether the seven Amish children in the study who were identified as having autism were vaccinated or unvaccinated.

The abstract states:

“Preliminary data have identified the presence of ASD [autism spectrum disorder] in the Amish community at a rate of approximately 1 in 271 children using standard ASD screening and diagnostic tools although some modifications may be in order.”

The authors wrote that “further studies are underway” to address the cultural norms and customs that may affect how parents talk about their children’s behavior when interviewed by researchers.

It is unclear if the study authors looked at whether the seven children with autism had been vaccinated.

The study’s lead author, listed as J. L. Robinson, did not respond to The Defender when asked if the researchers ever ran a vaccination-stratified analysis of the seven confirmed autism cases, and why the researchers never published the study.

The Defender asked Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D., director of the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami and one of the study’s authors, the same questions. However, the inquiry was directed to the university’s public relations director, who did not respond by deadline.

Ji searched online public records to see if the study authors ever spoke again publicly about the study or submitted it for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, but found nothing.

That is significant, Ji told The Defender. “I searched for and could not find any public statement by any of the six authors, in sixteen years, on why the paper never appeared or what became of the data. That absence is the finding.”

Ji said he isn’t accusing the study authors of intentionally burying their data on the Amish children’s vaccination histories. “I am not alleging that any of the six destroyed data or acted in bad faith — I have no evidence of that.”

But their data were effectively “buried,” in that the data were never published and never appeared in a future study.

Ji acknowledged that even if the study had explicitly linked all seven autism cases to not vaccinating, the study wouldn’t prove that unvaccinated children do not get autism, because seven is too small a number to power a statistical model.

But the data would still be helpful because they “would fill a hole in the record and tell us whether the screening infrastructure can be rebuilt at scale,” he said. “A statistician could do it in weeks if the files exist.”

The study authors did not respond when The Defender asked if they still had the original research files for the study.

Given that the study appeared to use federally funded research dollars, according to the abstract, the public deserves to know what happened to the files, Ji said.

Trump focused on uncovering autism-vaccine link

Trump’s post referencing the 2010 study comes amid a roiling debate about vaccines and autism. In May, Trump pressed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to do more to investigate a possible link between vaccines and autism, according to a July 27 Wall Street Journal report.

Last month, Trump signed an executive order calling for sweeping changes to U.S. vaccine policy, including reducing the number of diseases for which kids receive routine childhood vaccines from 18 to 11.

According to The Associated Press, Trump is “fixated on connecting autism to vaccines.”

During a Sept. 22, 2025 press conference, Trump said, “There are certain groups of people that don’t take vaccines and don’t take any pills that have no autism. … The Amish, as an example, they have essentially no autism.”

According to Ji, the 2010 Amish study does not prove that vaccines cause autism.

However, the story of what happened to the 2010 study reveals that when data are collected that could potentially contribute to answering the question of whether vaccines cause autism, that data “doesn’t become available,” Ji said.

In Ji’s view, studies looking at Amish autism rates should examine many factors, including vaccination status, exposure to glyphosate, acetaminophen, ultrasound, diet, endogamy and access to healthcare.

The full results should be made public, regardless of what the studies find. “That isn’t anti-vaccine. It’s science.”

The connection between lower vaccination and autism rates among the Amish was something that investigative journalist Dan Olmsted spent years documenting.

Olmsted, founder of Age of Autism, authored “Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic” (2011) and “Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future” (2017) before he passed away in early 2017.

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Where did Trump get the graphic he posted?

The Amish continue to be central to ongoing national debate on vaccines. In New York, Amish are threatening to leave the state due to the state’s school-based vaccine mandate, according to an Aug. 26 New York Post report.

Pennsylvania, which is home to the largest Amish population in the U.S., has been making headlines for its current measles outbreak and ongoing investigation of measles-related deaths.

Steve Kirsch created the graphic that Trump posted to social media. On Aug. 14, Kirsch posted the graphic on X with the statement, “Baffling, isn’t it? Autism is only found in vaccinated Amish kids. I wonder why?”

Kirsch told The Defender he created the graphic using ChatGPT.

He instructed ChatGPT to create a graphic based on the 2010 study and based on his understanding that there is no evidence that an unvaccinated Amish child has ever been diagnosed with autism.

“Nobody has ever heard of an unvaccinated Amish child with autism,” Kirsch told The Defender.

Kirsch said he referred to the study as “published” in the graphic because the International Society of Autism Research posted the study’s conference abstract online. He acknowledged that the study itself was never published.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccination-data-amish-children-screened-2010-autism-study-never-made-public/

Analysts warn of colonization as US saturates Australia with 110 bases

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US Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin stand in formation with Australian Army soldiers during the opening ceremony of exercise Southern Jackaroo at Robertson Barracks, Northern Territory, Australia, June 15, 2021.

Press TV

7 Sept 2026

The United States reportedly wields control over, or has access to, 110 military facilities belonging to Australia — a presence so extensive that analysts now describe it as a “saturation” and even a “colonization” of the Australian continent.

The Guardian, citing information gathered from the database of the Nautilus Institute, reported that the US military or US defense corporations have access to more than half of Australia’s military facilities.

According to the database, the United States controls 17 military facilities on mainland Australia, has access to 75 more Australian-run military installations elsewhere, while US defense corporations have access to an additional 18 facilities.

“This is not a matter of penetration, it’s a matter of saturation,” said Prof Richard Tanter, the database’s author.

“Over half of the defense facilities that we have looked at have some level of American access: that means American personnel, it means American corporations, some of the biggest armaments companies in the world.”

The US military in Australia engages in gathering intelligence, accessing satellite data for targeting information, and communications intercepts.

Other military activities include training for some 2,500 marines on dry-season rotation in the Northern Territory, as well as the pre-positioning of warfighting assets, weapons, munitions, and fuel, stored in case of a regional war in the Pacific.

The US now practically owns Australia’s human, soil, and mineral resources through its control of the nation’s military, according to critics.

The US military presence will continue to expand. From next year up to 1,200 uniformed military personnel will operate from the HMAS Stirling submarine base just off Fremantle.

The government insists that technically this will not be a US base — rather a “rotation” — but there is little contestation of its actual implication.

The Aukus nuclear submarine agreement, described by former defense minister Christopher Pyne as “a lot more than the submarine procurement,” effectively establishes a new United States submarine base in the Indian Ocean.

“For the Americans, being able to have a submarine base in the Indian Ocean is a massive strategic advantage,” Pyne told a public inquiry.

Dr Vince Scappatura, author of The US Lobby and Australian Defense Policy, described US base access across Australia as a kind of “second wave of colonization.”

“Today we are shaping up to be the ‘tip of the spear’ for US power projection into the region — that’s what the sprawling US base access represents,” he said.

“Each one of those dots on the map represents a point of leverage Washington has over Canberra when it comes to matters of defense and foreign policy.”

Scappatura noted that the phrase “empire by invitation” was originally coined to describe US hegemony over western Europe “but it is applicable equally here. I sometimes describe it as ‘voluntary subordination’.”

The United States has been escalating militarization in the Pacific by resetting ties with regional countries in an attempt to form a coalition against China.

Beyond Australia, US bases and military access points are expanding across Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and other regional nations, effectively drawing them into Washington’s orbit.

Critics say this is a desperate bid by Washington to arrest the rise of China, with Australia and other regional countries being used as forward operating bases in what could become a larger confrontation.

Tanter says that the acceptance of the US military presence has become so ingrained within the government and defense that unwinding Australia’s enmeshment within the world’s most powerful military is increasingly difficult.

“This is a massive institutional failure in Australia, a kind of learned incapacity at a political, parliamentary and bureaucratic level,” he said. “We’ve learned how not to ask those questions.”

Dr Emma Shortis, director of international and security affairs at the Australia Institute, says Australia’s increasing integration with the US military has resulted in “an accelerating erosion of Australia’s independent, sovereign, decision-making power.”

“Instead of having the option of saying ‘no’ to involvement in United States wars, involvement becomes the default position,” she said.

She cited the March attack by a US nuclear-powered submarine on an Iranian frigate, sinking it and killing more than 100 people. Three Australian naval personnel were onboard, part of the submarine’s crew: the US did not forewarn Australia of the attack.

“Australia might maintain the pretense of sovereign decision-making power, but that’s not the reality,” Shortis said.

Dr Albert Palazzo, an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales Canberra and formerly the director of war studies for the Australian army, told the Guardian the US military’s accelerating buildup carries danger for Australian security.

“The Australian government seems to be waltzing its way into a war between the United States and China, by allowing this country to become an outpost or bastion of the US military, and as a platform from which they will launch military force against Chinaa,” he said.

Australians’ faith in the US is fragile and fracturing. A Lowy Institute poll showed Australians’ “trust in the United States to act responsibly in the world” has fallen to 31%, the lowest level in its polling history.

Just 21% of Australians have confidence in Donald Trump to do the right thing in world affairs, the lowest level of confidence in a US president yet.

More than twice as many Australians (59%) now believe Australia’s interests are best served by a more independent foreign policy rather than a closer alliance with the US (23%). Just 13% of Australians believe the US is a “very reliable” security ally.

This represents, Shortis says, a “seismic shift” in Australia’s perception of its once-great and powerful friend.

“After following the US into nearly every war since World War II, Australians have had enough. They see tangible risks in being so close to President Trump’s bleak and violent version of America.”

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Via https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/07/775832/Guardian-US-controls-or-has-access-to-110-defense-facilities-in-Australia-Nautilus-Institute

Israeli Defense Minister Katz: 70% Of Gaza Is Desolate, 80% Of Gazans Want To Migrate, Israel Is Ready To Move Them Out

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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz delivered a wide-ranging assessment of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, making clear that the forced displacement of Gaza’s population remains central to Israel’s strategic vision — and that Israel is prepared to carry it out the moment political conditions allow.

Katz stated that between 60% and 70% of Gaza is now desolate. “About 70% of the area is desolate — without residents, without houses, without tunnels,” he said, while acknowledging that work remains to be completed.

On the question of Gaza’s population, Katz was direct: “There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration.” He cited surveys showing that approximately 80% of Gaza’s population wants to emigrate, adding that Hamas is the primary obstacle preventing them from leaving. “Hamas doesn’t allow them, and there are no countries in the world that will take them,” he said.

Katz said Israel is fully prepared to facilitate the departure of Gaza’s population by sea, by air, or by any other available means. He noted that Egypt has refused to serve as a transit route. The sticking point, he explained, is that Arab countries willing to accept Gazan migrants are demanding U.S. backing before moving forward. “Every country that is willing wants American backing,” Katz said. “Currently, President Trump didn’t cancel this; he froze it. All the Arab countries came to him due to their pressure on this matter.”

Katz indicated that the moment for resumed military and territorial action will come when it becomes clear that Hamas is not meeting its commitments. “Then we will get a green light to move forward militarily, territorially, and in other areas, and this thing will gain momentum,” he said.

On the West Bank, Katz rejected the characterization of settler violence as “Jewish terror,” stating he has canceled that term. “Terror is whoever acts to commit terror against the State of Israel,” he said. He confirmed that the IDF has conquered refugee camps in the West Bank, evacuated 40,000 residents who have not returned, destroyed infrastructure, killed terrorists, and remains inside those areas.

Katz also summarized the broader scope of Israeli military action: “We destroyed 70% of Gaza. We destroyed areas in southern Lebanon; we ruined dozens of villages that served as Hezbollah strongholds. We evacuated 200,000 residents.”

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Via https://tsionizm.com/news/2026/09/06/israeli-defense-minister-katz-70-of-gaza-is-desolate-80-of-gazans-want-to-migrate-israel-is-ready-to-move-them-out/

UK prepares landmark ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements

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The Cradle

Sept 7 2026

According to Whitehall sources cited by Middle East Eye correspondent Imran Mulla, the United Kingdom is poised to announce a sweeping ban on trade and investment tied to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Scheduled for formal rollout on Tuesday, the policy is designed to bring British trade policy into direct compliance with the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) landmark July 2024 advisory opinion, which ruled the entire Israeli occupation unlawful.

The anticipated measures are expected to prohibit economic activity and investment in businesses operating within illegal settlements, closing a long-standing loophole that allowed goods from occupied territories to skirt rigorous enforcement.

While legal advocates and UN special rapporteurs have emphasized that third-party states carry a binding obligation under international law not to render aid or assistance in maintaining illegal colonial enterprises, the impending move has already drawn fierce pushback from pro-Israel lobbies and foreign capitals intent on shielding the occupation infrastructure from economic accountability.

Via https://t.me/thecradlemedia/67552

Families of dozens of Lebanese kidnapped by Israel demand answers

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The Cradle

Sept 7, 2026

According to an in-depth investigative report by The Public Source, families of Lebanese abductees held by Israel are demanding urgent government action to secure the release of dozens of Lebanese citizens abducted during Israeli incursions across southern Lebanon.

The report highlights a systematic pattern of land and sea abductions carried out by occupation forces during so-called ‘truces.’

At least 30 Lebanese—including farmers, fishermen, local officials, and residents returning to check on their homes—are currently detained without charge in Israeli military facilities, with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirming it has been denied access to them.

Advocacy groups, including the Lebanese Association for Prisoners and Detainees and the newly formed Popular Campaign for the Freedom of Lebanese Detainees and Abductees, have criticized the Lebanese government for failing to champion the cases through international legal channels.

With diplomatic avenues yielding no results, families of the abducted report placing their sole hope in the resistance and military leverage to force the return of their loved ones.

Via https://t.me/thecradlemedia/67562

Anti-War Activists Getting ‘Debanked’ In The UK.

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Written By: Justin K.P.

The UK has been, for years, waging an all-out war on its own people, particularly on those who are anti-war and anti-Zionist.

Journalists like Richard Medhurst and Asa Winstanley have had their devices seized by UK “counterterrorism” authorities for their reporting on the Israeli genocide in Gaza, while thousands of peaceful activists have been arrested on terrorism charges for holding signs stating they support Palestine Action, a non-violent direct action group which was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government at the behest of the Zionist lobby.

The war on anti-war and anti-Zionist figures continues, with multiple anti-war figures recently losing their bank accounts within a short time period.

George Galloway, a former Labour MP, known for his staunch firebrand opposition to Zionism and empire, had his bank account closed without explanation, preventing him from receiving his parliamentary and old age pensions, which he paid into throughout his career.

On X, Galloway wrote: “39 years ago I opened a personal bank account with Bank of Scotland in Byres Rd, Glasgow. Yesterday, without explanation or notice, they closed my accounts. My parliamentary and old age pensions are paid into these accounts. The mortgage on our family home is paid out of them. The mortgage is with them. They haven’t heard the last of this.”

Shortly before Galloway was debanked, the independent news outlet The Canary reported that it had its Bank account closed for the second time within months, the first time being in July.

“This has meant that once again, some staff were not paid for August,” the outlet noted, adding that, like Galloway, it received no explanation for why it lost its Bank account.

Due to the debanking, the outlet was forced to “suspend operations” which “is a necessary step to protect what remains of the Canary and to give us the opportunity to rebuild on a stable foundation.”

It wrote that “recent events have created circumstances in which we have been left with no responsible alternative but to suspend the Canary’s operations with immediate effect,” adding that, “It is the direct consequence of the debanking of the Canary’s funds, the resulting financial disruption, and the serious internal consequences that followed.”

It seems clear that this is a coordinated effort, almost certainly spearheaded by the British state, to debank voices critical of Zionism and warmongering, in yet another attempt to shut them down.

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Via https://the307.substack.com/p/anti-war-activists-are-getting-debanked

Democrats Invite Women To Freeze Their Eggs So They Can Go Fight Wars

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U.S. Airmen conduct a training scenario during exercise Patriot Warrior 2019 at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Aug. 16, 2019. Patriot Warrior is Air Force Reserve Command's premier exercise providing Airmen an opportunity to train with joint and international partners in airlift, aeromedical evacuation, and mobility support. The exercise builds on our capabilities for the future fight, increasing the readiness, lethality and agility of the Air Force Reserve. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Gregory Brook)

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By: Ashley Bateman

A new Pentagon pilot program will pay for egg and sperm freezing rather than fix the policy that puts women in harm’s way during their most fertile years.

The pilot program, launching Sept. 14 under the Veteran Families Health Services Act of 2025, will run for three years and reimburse costs of sperm freezing up to $500 and egg cryopreservation up to $10,000 for service members who meet deployment or separation requirements.

The program fulfills a longtime Democrat-backed effort to disassociate military women from maternal family roles; increases dissonance in already strained military families, further divorces procreation from spousal stability, and ensures mothers can be separated from their children.

The Sexes Are Not Equal in Combat

Women have supported the armed forces in non-combat roles since the development of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901, with increased but limited access to positions until 2013. At that time, then-President Barack Obama supported a lifting of the ban by former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. By 2016, gender specific roles in the military were effectively eliminated.

The exclusion of women from serving in combat roles has been justified. Combat poses the direct and imminent risk of injury and death, as well as placing soldiers in tactical locations that cannot adequately accommodate gender separation. Forward operating bases and outposts offer little to no separate housing or privacy barriers between the sexes. Experiential hardships can extend well beyond privacy, encompassing lack of food and sleep that disproportionately harm women.

A small-scale study of Army rangers claiming that women are less physiologically affected by rigorous training than men, does not match up with any large-scale studies of women exposed to extreme physical hardship. The study presents an insufficient apples-to-oranges comparison and should not be utilized as an argument to place excessive physical strain on women in the military.

The Biological Clock

Soon after the military opened doors to place women in hazardous duty stations, Democrat-led efforts for IVF-related services began. Building on that effort, in 2018 Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., called IVF the “most effective form of assisted reproductive technology” for service members whose fertility was affected by their service. Rather than improving health and safety for women, the costly, unethical, and dangerous technology was promoted.

Ten years after so-called integration, women who entered combat in their peak fertility years are now aging out of childbearing, or at least edging closer to the end of their fertile years. The possibility of deployment has likely affected the many military women choosing to begin families after age 35, further decreasing their likelihood of conceiving naturally.

As infertility continues to disproportionately plague women in service, IVF serves as an expensive, politically driven distraction.

An Unhealthy Family Unit

Members of the partisan-led advocacy initiative have lauded the pilot program as “an important step … guaranteeing that members of the military have the support they need to have children.” But this is inaccurate. Extending coverage for separation from a “spouse, domestic partner or dating partner” only encourages atypical family situations, contributing to less stable families and higher stress within the ranks.

The divorce rate of service members is already significantly higher than the general public. Contributing factors are many and varied, and directly affect emotional and mental health outcomes.

Health coverage in the military was designed around traditional family units and is not equipped to adequately provide care for increasingly nontraditional situations. Traditional family units have historically provided a source of stability for those who place their lives on the line for the protection of Americans, and that stability is critical.

The need for advance directives in case of maternal death highlights the program’s controversial underpinnings. Increased risk of death leaves the complex issue of the eggs or sperm left behind if a service member dies downrange. Program participants are required to provide directives for the handling of their “genetic material” in the case of death. Increased rates of poor health outcomes in children born through IVF are another serious consideration.

Republicans have effectively blocked military-wide coverage of IVF, but have failed to stop the creep of subsidiary programs like the one launching this month.

When actualized, the gamete cryopreservation pilot program will result in all-around losses. Loss of improved health for military women, loss of funding support for stable, healthy family structures, and the potential loss of a parent before a child’s birth.

The program is one in a long line of policy failures passed in the name of “equity” disserving women.

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Eight Arab and Muslim states reject Israeli displacement plans for Gaza

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Eight Arab and Muslim countries have condemned remarks by far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Israel Katz on plans to forcibly displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

The foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye and Qatar said in a joint statement released on Sunday that such Israeli plans violate international and humanitarian law and pose a direct threat to the Palestinian people’s legitimate and inalienable rights.

The ministers voiced rejection of any Israeli attempt to displace Palestinians from or within the occupied territory, warning against transforming extremist rhetoric on forced displacement into official state policy.

The ministers warned that the displacement of Gazans would destabilize the region and derail global peace efforts, undermining US president Donald Trump’s plan to end the Gaza war, which clearly rejects forced population transfers.

The ministers stressed that Gaza is an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territories, calling for preserving the unity of Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

They reiterated their countries’ support for a two-state solution establishing an independent Palestinian state along the June 4, 1967 lines, with east Jerusalem as its capital.

They urged the international community and UN Security Council to oppose Israeli attempts to impose a new demographic or geographic reality in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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Via https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/09/06/369659/

IRGC ballistic missile retaliation forces US aircraft carrier and destroyer to flee

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Press TV
6 Sept 2026

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Aerospace Force has launched several ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and an American destroyer participating in Washington’s illegal naval blockade against the Islamic Republic, forcing the vessels to flee.

The force staged the reprisal against the vessels “belonging to the child-killing, aggressor US military that had been harassing Iranian vessels and participating in the blockade,” the Corps said in a statement on Saturday.

“After sustaining damage and fearing another reprisal, the two warships were forced to flee the area of engagement,” it added.

‘US admission proof of IRGC’s capability’

The US Central Command, meanwhile, acknowledged that the vessels had come under “multiple” Iranian strikes.

Referring to the admission, the IRGC noted how the “aggressor enemy, which for years had swaggered around the region with false pride and hollow claims, was today forced to officially acknowledge that two US Navy warships had come under strikes.”

“CENTCOM’s acknowledgment confirming this operation is living evidence of the enemy’s strategic defeat and proof of the IRGC’s offensive capabilities.”

IRGC vows further responses

The IRGC, meanwhile, asserted that the Corps and the rest of Iran’s Armed Forces remained committed to defending the Islamic Republic’s sovereignty and security.

“Should the hostile and aggressive actions continue, the US regime must expect devastating responses from the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic. We stand stronger than ever. Victory belongs to the resilient people of Islamic Iran, while defeat and regret are the inevitable fate of the aggressors.”

The Corps expressed confidence that the bravery displayed by the Armed Forces alongside the strong nationwide popular support for the country’s defensive and retaliatory operations would “prevent the enemy from achieving its sinister objectives.”

Earlier, the IRGC had unveiled previously unreleased footage of its decisive action against non-compliant vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, debunking the United States’ allegations of effectively supporting trespassing vessels’ transit through the waterway.

“The United States is the greatest threat to the security of regional countries and maritime trade; US support and escort operations are nothing but a big lie!” the IRGC had cautioned.

Prior to the release of the footage, the Corps had also announced striking three United States-linked vessels and three trespassing oil tankers in retaliation for earlier American attacks on Iranian tankers.

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Via https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/05/775751/Iran-IRGC-ballistic-missiles-launch-American-aircraft-carrier-destroyer

Iran to declare new ‘restricted zone’ outside Strait of Hormuz

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An Iranian speedboat approches a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. (File photo)

Press TV

Iran’s top security official has announced that a new restricted zone will be declared outside the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days, warning that any vessel entering the area would be placed on a sanctions list.

In a televised interview on Sunday night, Major General Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, said the zone “will begin from the US Navy’s blockade line and extend into parts of the Persian Gulf.”

He also made clear that the Strait of Hormuz is “completely closed and under the control of the armed forces,” dismissing US President Donald Trump’s claim that the strategic waterway remains open as a “big lie.”

Rezaei said that before Iran closed the strait, more than 100 ships carrying over 100 million tons of cargo passed through it daily. Now, he said, only seven to eight ships carrying essential goods for Iran are transiting the waterway.

“The Americans are trying to smuggle five to six vessels through at great expense, but these ships are usually struck,” Rezaei said, without elaborating on who was behind such strikes.

He added that Iran has not decided to sink the smuggling vessels, as they carry oil and would damage the region’s environment.

Iran tested anti-ship missile over US Navy vessel 

The top security official also revealed that Iran has successfully tested a new anti-ship missile, saying the test was conducted above a US Navy ship just 48 hours ago.

“For the first time, we tested our anti-ship missile above an American warship,” he said. “This special missile created hell for the Americans, and they fled.

Via https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/06/775804/Iran-to-declare-new-restricted-zone-outside-Strait-of-Hormuz–Top-security-official-