🇱🇧/🇮🇱 🗺 The town of Bint Jbeil on the verge of falling

🔹 The Zionist regime army began heavy attacks on Bint Jbeil yesterday, covered by aircraft and artillery. These attacks have destroyed most of the buildings in Bint Jbeil, Aynatha, and even the villages of Kounine and Tayri, leaving those areas in a dire situation.

➡️ Heavy fighting is ongoing between the Zionist regime army and Hezbollah on three axes: north, east, and west of the town of Bint Jbeil, the largest border town in southern Lebanon.

✍️ Bint Jbeil is one of the large and populous districts of Nabatieh province, located only four kilometers from the northern borders of occupied Palestine. This town suffered extensive damage during the 33-day war and the previous war, and became known as a symbol of resistance in southern Lebanon due to its steadfastness against the Zionists. The fall of Bint Jbeil would embolden the Zionists, demoralize the people of southern Lebanon, and facilitate the dispatch of more Israeli army reserve forces to southern Lebanon.

🟡 The Zionists, as usual, are advancing with a “siege and destroy” method. By demolishing most of the eastern buildings of Bint Jbeil, they are moving toward the town center. On the western axis, an Israeli armored convoy has passed through the Christian town of Ain Ebel without difficulty and has taken up positions along the western road of Bint Jbeil. These convoys began their attacks toward the center of Bint Jbeil this afternoon and have so far destroyed many buildings in their path.

🟡 Bint Jbeil is now in a semi‑encircled state. Hezbollah fighters, engaging at close range and supported by rocket and artillery fire from other areas, are resisting and defending Bint Jbeil. However, this approach is unlikely to be very effective against heavy Israeli fire.

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🇺🇸🤝🇻🇪 — 🏦 The United States Department of the Treasury has announced a significant easing of financial sanctions on Venezuela’s state banking system. This measure responds to the urgent need to unlock billions of dollars from oil sales and allow public banks to operate legally again within the global financial system controlled by Washington.

🇺🇸📸🇧🇷 — Former federal congressman Alexandre Ramagem, detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had his first photo released by the U.S. government. The image was published by the Orange County Department of Corrections.

📝 Ramagem’s name was entered into the Florida state database as Alexandre. According to the record, he is being held in custody for immigration reasons, identified under the term “immigration hold.”

🇧🇷🤡❗️🇺🇸 — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said that the government of U.S. President Donald Trump is sheltering a Brazilian criminal and stated that Congressman Alexandre Ramagem will return to Brazil to serve the sentence imposed by the Supreme Federal Court (STF).

“You know, I think the guy is going to come back here. The right wing here in Brazil is saying he was arrested over a small fine — no. He was arrested, he had already been sentenced to 16 years in this country. He was a coup plotter who has been convicted. He has to return to Brazil to serve his sentence.

Well, regarding Trump, that’s it. I hope that… I hope he gradually starts learning. That image of Jesus Christ, that is a… a… honestly, that does not contribute to those who believe in the multilateral system, who believe in democracy.”

🇧🇷⚖️❌📝🏛 — Justice Flávio Dino said it is a “gigantic historical mistake” to point to Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) as the “greatest national problem.” The statement was made on Instagram after the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) on Organized Crime indicted STF justices as well as the Prosecutor General of the Republic (PGR), Paulo Gonet. Dino did not mention names.

“The Supreme Federal Court has a significant body of judicial decisions against organized crime in Brazil, within the limits of its constitutional powers, reaching armed groups, political crimes, and factions in general. The same can be said of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

It is irresponsible to investigate organized crime and not address militiamen, drug traffickers, illegal arms dealers, illegal mining operations, factions that control territories, hitmen, and gunmen, etc.

Currently, some people are making the mistake of pointing to the STF as the ‘greatest national problem.’ It is, to say the least, an immense error. I stress: a gigantic historical mistake, which requires better reflection on its consequences.

Criticism and investigations should indeed be carried out. But with respect for people’s dignity and with the preservation of democratic institutions, because without them there are no fundamental rights or future for the nation.

Unfortunately, my position as a judge prevents me from writing more about how much the STF has done and is doing in the fight against organized crime. It is not my place to speak, but it is on record.

However, I can and must express my PERSONAL SOLIDARITY to colleagues who are targets of injustice.”

➡️ The rapporteur of the commission, Senator Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE), indicted Gilmar Mendes, Alexandre de Moraes, and Dias Toffoli. The lawmaker attributed to the three justices crimes of responsibility, which could support impeachment requests.

➡️ Vieira argued that Moraes and Toffoli acted “in a manner incompatible” with the honor, dignity, and decorum of their positions due to their relationship with Banco Master. In the case of Mendes, he pointed to the suspension of confidentiality breaches requested by the CPI as a way to protect his colleagues.

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🇧🇷🏛🥱👑⚖️ — The rapporteur of the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) on Organized Crime, Senator Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE), criticized what he called a “Louis XIV complex” among justices of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) during the reading of the committee’s final report

➡️ Louis XIV was a 17th-century French absolutist king associated with the phrase “I am the State.” According to Vieira, some justices “embody this spirit.” The senator also responded to criticism of his request to indict three STF justices and the Prosecutor General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, in the Master case.

“There is a need for this Senate to help the Supreme Court overcome what seems to me to be a Louis XIV complex. That French king who said ‘I am the State.’ We have justices who effectively incorporate this spirit when they say or understand that criticism directed at their individual conduct translates into criticism of democracy or criticism of the Supreme Court as an institution. That is not true.”

❗️ The statement comes after Justice Gilmar Mendes, who is one of the targets of Vieira’s report, said that the CPI “has no legal basis” to indict magistrates for crimes of responsibility and that it is “serious” to attempt to “criminalize” the granting of habeas corpus.

⚠️ Vieira stated that the attack against him “is not an isolated action by Justice Gilmar.” According to the senator, it is a “repetition of a modus operandi that mixes the politicization of technical decisions with the constant use of threats through harsh statements, using media outlets or social networks.”

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🇧🇷⚖️🚫📝🏛 — Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Dias Toffoli criticized lawmakers after the rapporteur of the CPI on Organized Crime, Senator Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE), requested his indictment along with other members of the Court. During a session of the Second Panel, Toffoli stated that those who attack institutions “to gain votes” act against democracy and must be punished

“We cannot refrain from electorally removing those who have abused their power by attacking institutions to gain votes and taint the will of the electorate. That is what this is about when a reckless report like this emerges! This could even lead to ineligibility. The Electoral Court will not fail to punish those who abuse their power to gain votes through electoral proselytism. An immediate end must be put to this drive that attacking certain institutions brings votes.”

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