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A group of 100 Palestinian Arabs living in the Gaza Strip is slated to immigrate to Indonesia in the coming days, as part of a new program launched by Israel’s Defense Ministry to help facilitate mass migration from Gaza to third-party countries.
According to a report by the Israeli Channel 12 TV network on Wednesday, the prospective émigrés are working in conjunction with the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), under the authority of COGAT chief Major-General Ghassan Alian.
The migrants will not be barred from returning to the Gaza Strip should they choose to leave Indonesia, but COGAT is working to help the emigrants permanently settle abroad, and has found work for them in Indonesia, primarily as construction workers.
The migration is the first attempt by COGAT to help facilitate mass migration to Indonesia – the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.
As part of a larger effort by the Defense Ministry to help Gazans settle abroad, the COGAT program seeks to facilitate the migration of thousands of Gazans to Indonesia.
In the past, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said his country would take a limited number of injured Gazans for a temporary stay, while shying away from committing to accepting large numbers of migrants.
“We are taking steps to channel assistance to Palestine,” he said last June. “Indonesia has announced its readiness to evacuate 1,000 patients for medical treatment in Indonesia. They will be returned to Gaza after recovering, once the situation there stabilizes.”
Earlier this week, Channel 12 reported that 1,000 Gazans permanently emigrated from the coastal enclave in the first three weeks in March, with 600 more slated to leave in the coming days.
They join 35,000 others who are estimated to have settled abroad since October 7, 2023.
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Democratic members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence grilled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe during an open hearing on March 26 over their handling of a Signal chat that described an ongoing U.S. military operation and was inadvertently shared with a journalist.
That chat included Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Gen. Michael Kurilla, Vice President JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, and others.
Texts shared throughout the operation included updates on operational security; local weather conditions in Yemen; the timing and sequence of attacks to be conducted; the specific types of weapons platforms to be used, including F-18 fighter jets, MQ-9 Reaper drones, and sea-launched Tomahawk missiles; and an informal assessment of damage to one of the buildings struck in the attack.
Intelligence Committee Democrats expressed anger and disbelief that such operational details would have been shared with a journalist in the chat and that the leak could have placed U.S. service members at risk.
Intelligence leaders had pushed back on that idea on March 25 during a similar hearing with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, when Ratcliffe said that his communications on the chat “were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.”
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) took issue with that characterization on March 25, saying the information included in the chat should have been classified according to current U.S. policy and that intelligence leaders’ suggestions to the contrary were misleading.
“The idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee, would not be classified, we all know is a lie. That’s ridiculous,” Castro said.
Current classification rules published by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence suggest that Top Secret classifications be applied to any communications that include “military plans, weapons systems, or operations,” “foreign activities of the United States,” or “information detailing damage assessment.”
To that end, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) noted that authorities currently in place under Executive Order 13526 place the responsibility for classification on the agency heads in question.
As such, he suggested that Hegseth resign immediately for improperly allowing the leak of operational information that should have been classified.
“The reason why it’s important that this information not be disclosed is that we don’t want the adversaries to know what’s about to happen,” Krishnamoorthi said.
“Using the DOD’s manual, as well as the executive order in operation today with the Trump administration, this text message is clearly classified information. Secretary Hegseth has disclosed military plans as well as classified information. He needs to resign immediately.”
“No locations. No sources & methods. NO WAR PLANS. Foreign partners had already been notified that strikes were imminent,” he wrote on social media platform X.
He said the bottom line is that “President Trump is protecting America and our interests.”
Hegseth said that Goldberg’s story was a hoax and contained no classified information.
“So, let’s me get this straight. The Atlantic released the so-called ‘war plans’ and those ’plans’ include: No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information,” Hegseth wrote on X.
Gabbard appeared to downplay her testimony from the previous day, during which she said she was not aware of weapons packages, targets, or timing being discussed on Signal.
When pressed by members of the House committee on March 26 over the fact that she had been on the chat in question, the intelligence leader said that she had misremembered the details.
“My answer yesterday was based on my recollection, or the lack thereof, on the details that were posted there,” Gabbard said.
“I did not recall the exact details of what was included there.”
“It was a mistake that a reporter was inadvertently added to a Signal chat with high-level national security principals having a policy discussion about imminent strikes against the Houthis and the effects of the strike,” Gabbard said.
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(AP) – Dollar Tree is selling Family Dollar to a pair of private equity firms for $1 billion after a decade of trying to make its acquisition of the bargain chain fit.
Dollar Tree Inc. acquired Family Dollar for more than $8 billion in 2015 after a bidding war with rival Dollar General.
Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, said that after acquiring the rival chain, Dollar Tree struggled with supply chain issues, poor store locations and other operational difficulties.
“Basically, Dollar Tree bit off far more than it could chew,” he said.
Last year Dollar Tree announced that it planned to close hundreds of Family Dollar stores. The company also said at the time that it would record a $950 million impairment against the trade name Family Dollar, on top of a $1.07 billion goodwill charge.
Dollar Tree had been scouting options for Family Dollar for a while and said Wednesday that the sale to Brigade Capital Management and Macellum Capital Management will allow it to focus on its core business.
“This is a major milestone in our multi-year transformation journey to help us fully achieve our potential,” said Mike Creedon, who was made permanent chief executive officer of Dollar Tree late last year.
Bargain chains like Dollar Tree, which have raised some of their prices in recent years, are finding that they have little room to maneuver. Americans have tightened their spending as consumer confidence in the economy slides.
Family Dollar, which moved its headquarters from North Carolina to Chesapeake, Virginia, after the sale to Dollar Tree, will maintain its headquarters in Virginia.
“This transaction presented a unique opportunity to play a key role in reinvigorating an iconic business,” Jonathan Duskin, CEO and Partner of Macellum, said.
Saunders said Brigade and Macellum with have several issues to fix at Family Dollar, including pricing that isn’t as sharp as many of its rivals and a customer base that isn’t as loyal.
The deal is expected to close later in the second quarter.
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