🇮🇱⚔️🇱🇧 The IAF is deliberately bombing paramedics in Lebanon in double tap or even quadruple tap airstrikes

When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene.

By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks.

One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance.

The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.

In total, the attacks killed four medics and wounded six more, from three different ambulance corps, according to medical sources. Three of the medics were from the Hezbollah-affiliated IHA and Amal-affiliated medical corps, while one was from the Nabatieh emergency services organisation. Under international law, all medics are protected and are considered non-combatants, regardless of political affiliation.

Rescuers in Lebanon have long been wary of the double-tap attack, when Israeli forces target a location, wait until people gather to help survivors, and then strike again. Wednesday’s three-wave attack after the initial one prompted the coining of a fearsome new term: the quadruple tap.

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/israel-escalates-attacks-on-medics-in-lebanon-with-deadly-quadruple-tap

👁 Take a peek inside Palantir’s AI “kill chain” software

😎 Maven Smart System allows the US military to “take classified of all type, unclassified and commercial data” and “aggregate it all together” to allow commanders make decisions, Gen. Chris Donahue told Channel 4 in a new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of the software’s use.

The machine-learning, “computer vision”-equipped tool enables the battle command system to hunt for specific targets, speeding up the detect-to-kill process.

💬 “What you see is now a completely digitally data-driven unit that had all of these new forms of mass – drones, unmanned systems in there to make them able to find the enemy, hide from the enemy, see the enemy and kill the enemy,” Donahue said.

😧 How long before the system is integrated into Palantir’s domestic surveillance software suite? Whoops - it probably already is.

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🇯🇵⚠️ — Japanese Prime-Minister Sanae Takaichi issues directives for the Japanese population following the Quake and Tsunami alerts:

At around 4:53 p.m. today, an earthquake with its epicenter off the Sanriku coast occurred, and a strong shaking with a maximum seismic intensity of 5 on the Japanese scale was observed in Aomori.

In addition, tsunami warnings have been issued for Iwate Prefecture, the central part of the Hokkaido Pacific coast, and the Aomori Prefecture Pacific coast.

Residents in areas where tsunami warnings have been issued should immediately evacuate to higher ground or evacuation buildings and other higher, safer locations.

As the government, immediately after the earthquake, we established the "Prime Minister's Office Contact Room" in the "Prime Minister's Office Crisis Management Center" and, based on my instructions, are fully committed to responses such as grasping the damage situation, emergency disaster measures including lifesaving and rescue, and providing timely and accurate information to the public.

At this time, we have received a report that "human and material damage is currently being confirmed," but from now on, we will receive detailed reports and address the disaster response.

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