Minnesota Mother Raises over $600k after Going Viral for Racial Slur

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Minnesota Mother Raises over $600k after Going Viral for Racial Slur

(José Niño, Headline USA) What began as a confrontation at a Rochester, Minnesota park has turned into a nationwide debate over race and online fundraising.

In late April 2025, a Minnesota mother, Shiloh Hendrix, was recorded at Soldiers Field Memorial Park in Rochester, Minnesota, where she berated a 5-year-old black child for allegedly taking items from her 18-month-old son’s diaper bag. 

In the video, she can be seen holding her own child on her hip.

“I called the kid out for what he was,” Hendrix stated on her subsequent fundraiser page. She called the child a “n****” according to the video. 

Per NBC News, Sharmake Beyle Omar, who is of Somali origin, filmed the entire incident. After Hendrix berated the 5-year-old, Omar started filming and told her that her language constituted “hate speech.”

In the United States, there are no laws that ban speech that are offensive to people based on race or ethnicity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

In response to Omar’s hectoring, Hendrix said she didn’t “care at all.” 

Omar warned her, “We’ll see about that, what the internet has to say about you,” adding, “I have never witnessed anyone being racist to a child on the autism spectrum. Today, that is her.” 

As detailed by NBC News, Omar mentioned that the child in question has autism spectrum disorder. He claimed to be acquainted with the child’s parents, who are originally from Somalia, and asserted that they were present at the park supervising their three other children at the time of the incident.

Following the video’s viral dissemination, Hendrix established a GiveSendGo fundraiser titled “Help Me Protect My Family.” Originally setting a goal of $1,000,000, she has raised over $600,000 as of the time of this writing.

In her fundraiser description, Hendrix claims she has been “put into a very dire situation” following the incident. She alleges her personal information has been compromised: “My SSN has been leaked. My address, and phone number have been given out freely. My family members are being attacked. My eldest child may not be going back to school. Even where I exercise has been exposed.”

On Friday, Hendrix updated her campaign, writing: “We are currently doing okay. No one has been harmed, and we are getting by. We are taking the proper procedures in order to stay safe from these constant threats. I’m still very frightened, and I don’t think I will feel safe until we can escape completely.”

The fundraiser has attracted supporters from the political Right. One donor, CEO of RiftTV Elijah Schaffer, who contributed $650, wrote: “We are all tired and recognize that instead of altering their conduct, minorities prefer to regulate our language.” 

In response to Hendrix’s fundraising success, the Rochester Branch of the NAACP launched a GoFundMe campaign titled “Help Us Seek Justice for a 5-Year-Old Facing Racial Hate.” 

“Let us be clear: this was not a misunderstanding or a moment of poor judgment-this was a deliberate, racist, and threatening attack on a young black child,” the NAACP stated on their fundraiser page.

As of the time of this writing, the NAACP’s fundraiser had raised over $340,000. The NAACP fundraiser emphasizes that public parks should be “safe, welcoming places for all children and families-not sites of hate and trauma.”

Walé Elegbede, president of the Rochester Branch of the NAACP, described the video as “deeply disturbing” and told the Minnesota Star Tribune the fundraising for Hendrix was “unacceptable.”

The Rochester Police Department has acknowledged awareness of the video and stated they are “collecting information and actively investigating the situation.” 

This incident has caused online sleuths to investigate the backgrounds of Hendrix and Omar, respectively. 

According to KAALTV, Omar was previously charged alongside Mohamed Hussein Omer in a 2022 case involving the alleged sexual assault of a 16-year-old runaway.

However, court records show the Olmsted County Attorney’s Office dismissed all charges against both Omar and Omer in March 2025 “in the interest of justice.” 

With respect to Hendrix, she has a history of being convicted for disorderly conduct in 2012 and driving under the influence (DUI) in 2014. She also has a history of eviction in 2015. 

The cases can be found below:

Minnesota Court Records Hendrix DUI

Minnesota Court Records Brawling

Minnesota Court Records Eviction

The Hendrix fundraiser has parallels to another controversial GiveSendGo campaign for Karmelo Anthony, a 17-year-old Texas student charged with murder after the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a track meet, as Headline USA previously reported. Anthony’s fundraiser has raised over $522,000 as of this writing. 

As investigations continue and fundraising totals grow, the case highlights ongoing tensions surrounding free speech, and the role of online platforms in amplifying and monetizing controversial incidents.

José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino 

Alleged MS-13 Prison Inmates Injure 5 Guards

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Alleged MS-13 Prison Inmates Injure 5 Guards

(Headline USA) An attack by inmates at a Virginia prison injured five guards, according to state corrections officials who said most of the assailants were MS-13 gang members who entered the U.S. illegally.

Three guards were stabbed and were transported for medical treatment along with two others hurt Friday at Wallens Ridge State Prison in western Virginia, the state Department of Corrections said.

The agency said in a press release that six inmates involved had all been convicted of violent crimes including murder and rape and that five of them were “confirmed MS-13 gang members from El Salvador, who were in this country illegally.” It said the sixth inmate was a U.S. citizen with ties to a different gang.

“Five of the individuals responsible for this senseless attack should never have been in this country in the first place,” Chad Dotson, director of the Virginia Department of Corrections, said in a statement. “Every single day, our officers put their lives on the line to ensure public safety. … This attack is an example of the dangers they face when they show up to work every day.”

Corrections officials gave no further details about the prison attack, citing an ongoing investigation.

The agency said three of the injured officers were treated and released the day of the attack. The remaining two were hospitalized in stable condition.

Carla Miles, a Department of Corrections spokesperson, said she did not know if the two guards remained in the hospital Sunday.

It’s unclear how six MS-13 inmates ended up together in a state facility in the first place. In the federal prison system, all MS-13 members have been confined in the same prison — a facility that’s specifically designed to handle gangs.

“In March 2022, it received all La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang inmates who had been housed at other [Bureau of Prisons] institutions. The BOP made the decision to transfer all MS-13 inmates to one institution to prevent system-wide gang violence after MS-13 members murdered two rival gang members at USP Beaumont in January 2022,” states a report from the DOJ-OIG published last September.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

 

Yemeni Missile Strikes Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport

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Yemeni Missile Strikes Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A missile fired from Yemen struck an access road on the grounds of Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday, as a heavy US bombing campaign has failed to deter Yemen’s Houthis, who are officially known as Ansar Allah.

According to The Times of Israel, the Israeli military tried multiple times to intercept the missile but failed. A US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system that’s deployed to Israel also failed to intercept the Yemeni missile.

The missile left a crater, and six people were injured by the attack, though none of them were seriously hurt. The Houthis have fired a series of missiles and drones at Israel since the Israeli military resumed its genocidal war on Gaza on March 18, but the Sunday attack marked the first time a Yemeni missile made it past Israel’s air defenses.

Later on Sunday, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree announced the Yemeni force would impose a “comprehensive air blockade” on Israel by “repeatedly” targeting airports in the country. He said the move was a response to “expand aggressive operations against Gaza.” His announcement came after the Israeli military announced it was calling up tens of thousands of reservists to expand the assault on Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would respond to the Houthi attack. “We’ve acted against them in the past, and we’ll act again in the future,” he said. “This isn’t a one-and-done, but there will be some big hits.”

Israel launched a few rounds of airstrikes on Yemen last year but hasn’t done so under the Trump administration. In March, the Israeli news site Ynetreported that the US has asked Israel not to respond to the Houthis’ attacks and said that US forces will handle the retaliation.

Netanyahu also suggested that Israel might attack Iran in response to the Yemeni missile strike. On X, Netanyahu shared a Truth Social post from President Trump dated March 17. In the post, Trump said he would blame each Houthi attack on Iran.

“President Trump is absolutely right!” Netanyahu wrote. “Attacks by the Houthis emanate from Iran. Israel will respond to the Houthi attack against our main airport AND, at a time and place of our choosing, to their Iranian terror masters.”

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also recently threatened Iran over the situation in Yemen, accusing Tehran of providing “lethal” support for the Yemeni group and warning there would be consequences. While the Houthis are aligned with Iran, they make their missiles domestically, which President Trump has acknowledged.

Since March 15, the US has launched over 1,000 strikes on Yemen, killing more than 200 civilians. The Trump administration started the bombing campaign in response to the Houthis announcing they would re-impose their blockade on Israeli shipping after Israel imposed a total blockade on Gaza in violation of the ceasefire deal.

The Houthis, who are known for their resilience, have vowed they will not stop their attacks on Israel or end the blockade on Israeli shipping unless there’s a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli siege. They have offered to stop attacking US warships if the US stops bombing Yemen, but the Trump administration has shown no interest in the offer.

This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com.



Police Didn’t Read Alleged Left-Wing Assassin His Rights and Weren’t Using Body Cameras

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Police Didn’t Read Alleged Left-Wing Assassin His Rights and Weren’t Using Body Cameras

(Headline USA) Luigi Mangione‘s lawyers urged a judge Thursday to throw out his state murder charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arguing that the New York case and a parallel federal death penalty prosecution amount to double jeopardy. Lawyers also revealed that police searched Mangione without a warrant, and without their body cameras turned on.

If the state charges aren’t dropped, then Mangione’s lawyers want terrorism charges dismissed and prosecutors barred from using evidence collected during Mangione’s arrest last December, including a 9 mm handgun, ammunition and a notebook in which authorities say he described his intent to “wack” an insurance executive.

Mangione’s lawyers also want to exclude statements he made to police officers who took him into custody at a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, 230 miles west of New York City, after a five-day search.

Among other things, prosecutors say the Ivy League graduate apologized to officers “for the inconvenience of the day,” and expressed concern for a McDonald’s employee who alerted them to his whereabouts, saying: “A lot of people will be upset I was arrested.”

Thompson’s Dec. 4 killing outside a Manhattan hotel “has led to a legal tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors as they fight for who controls the fate of 26-year-old Luigi Mangione,” his lawyers, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Marc Agnifilo and Jacob Kaplan wrote in a 57-page court filing.

They called the dual state and federal cases, plus a third in Pennsylvania involving gun possession and other charges, “unprecedented prosecutorial one-upmanship.” They said prosecutors ”are trying to get two bites at the apple to convict Mr. Mangione” of murder.

“Yet, despite the gravest of consequences for Mr. Mangione, law enforcement has methodically and purposefully trampled his constitutional rights,” his lawyers wrote. They allege officers questioned him without telling him he had a right to remain silent and searched his property without a warrant. Officers also allegedly weren’t using their body cameras during the search.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office said it would respond in court papers.

The defense’s demands to end or limit Mangione’s state case could preview his legal strategy for his federal murder case, where prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty. The state charges carry a maximum punishment of life in prison.

Mangione, who turns 27 on Tuesday, has pleaded not guilty in both cases. He has been held in a Brooklyn federal jail since authorities whisked him to New York by plane and helicopter after his arrest.

Mangione is due back in court for the state case on June 26, when Judge Gregory Carro is expected to rule on the dismissal request. He next federal court date is Dec. 5, a day after the one-year anniversary of Thompson’s death. No trial date has been set in either case.

Prosecutors had said they expected the state case go to trial first, but Friedman Agnifilo said last week that she wants the federal case to take precedence because it involves the death penalty.

Along with seeking to dismiss the state case, Mangione’s lawyers alternatively asked Carro to throw out charges alleging he killed “in furtherance of terrorism” and as an act of terrorism. They argue there are “absolutely no facts to support this theory” and that charging him under a post-9/11 terrorism statute flouts the intent of lawmakers.

Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting Thompson from behind as the executive arrived for UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor conference. Police say “delay,” “deny” and “depose” were scrawled on the ammunition, mimicking a phrase commonly used to describe how insurers avoid paying claims.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has said that the ambush “was a killing that was intended to evoke terror.”

Mangione’s federal charges include murder through use of a firearm, which carries the possibility of the death penalty, along with two counts of stalking and a firearms offense.

Last month, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she was directing Manhattan federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for the killing, calling it “an act of political violence” and a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”

The killing and ensuing search leading to Mangione’s arrest rattled the business community while galvanizing health insurance critics who rallied around Mangione as a stand-in for frustrations over coverage denials and hefty bills.

In their filing Thursday, Mangione’s lawyers argued that the conflicting theories of the state and federal cases — intending to “intimidate or coerce a civilian population” vs. stalking a single person — has created a “legal quagmire” that makes it “legally and logistically impossible to defend against them simultaneously.”

“This situation is so constitutionally fraught that we are hard pressed to find precedent for such an unprecedented situation,” Mangione’s lawyers wrote.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

 

Report: Mike Waltz Compromised National Security by Using Israeli Messaging App

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Report: Mike Waltz Compromised National Security by Using Israeli Messaging App

(José Niño, Headline USA) If a picture is worth a thousand words, this snapshot of Michael Waltz’s phone screen may be worth millions in security risks.

Several weeks after “SignalGate,” former National Security Adviser Michael Waltz created new security vulnerabilities by using a message-capturing service rather than genuine encrypted communications.

A Reuters photograph captured ousted National Security Adviser Mike Waltz checking his phone during a White House cabinet meeting, per a report by Wired. 

While initially appearing to show the end-to-end encrypted Signal app, closer examination revealed “TM SGNL”– TeleMessage Signal, an Israeli-developed application designed to archive communications that would otherwise remain private.

This revelation follows March’s “SignalGate” scandal, where Waltz accidentally added The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a sensitive Signal group chat discussing military strikes in Yemen. 

Waltz admitted responsibility, telling Fox News, “I take full responsibility. I built the group. We’ve got the best technical minds looking at how this happened.”

The controversy centers not on Signal itself, but on Waltz’s apparent switch to TeleMessage’s archiving product. While Signal provides strong privacy protections through true end-to-end encryption, TeleMessage creates duplicates of communications in centralized archives – potentially compromising security. 

Security experts manifested their concerns at the use of a third-party archiving tool for sensitive government communications.

“I don’t even know where to start with this,” said Jake Williams, a former NSA hacker and the current vice president of research and development at Hunter Strategy. “It’s mind-blowing that the federal government is using Israeli tech to route extremely sensitive data for archival purposes. You just know that someone is grabbing a copy of that data.”

Johns Hopkins cryptographer Matt Green added pointedly: “I have no doubt the leadership of the US national security apparatus ran this software through a full information-assurance process to ensure there was no information leakage to foreign nations. Because if they didn’t, we are screwed.”

There are also concerns that TeleMessage could subject U.S. government officials to Israeli intelligence operations due to the Israeli company’s connections to  military apparatus. 

Guy Levit, TeleMessage’s CEO and co-founder, served “as the head of the planning and development of one of the IDF’s Intelligence elite technical units” from 1996 until 1999, according to his official biography. He co-founded TeleMessage immediately following his service in this intelligence role.

Gil Shapira, co-founder and Vice President of Business Development, served “in the Israeli Air Force from 1993 – 1999 as a computer programmer, project manager and team leader of the IAF’s special R&D software development unit.” Like Levit, Shapira moved directly from his military technical role to founding TeleMessage.

There appears to be significant movement of personnel between TeleMessage and other Israeli security and intelligence-linked firms.

As reported by Drop Site News, “Tech professionals have moved between companies like TeleMessage and some of the leading Israeli spyware firms.”

Specific examples include Alon Falah, a former technical support manager at TeleMessage who left to join NSO Group, a controversial Israeli spyware company.

Another employee, Itzhak Demoza, joined TeleMessage after working at Cellebrite, a company known for making phone hacking technology used by law enforcement agencies.

For a national security team already under fire, Waltz’s latest blunder is a stark reminder that the stakes for secure White House communications have never been higher. 

José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino 

14 People Shot at a Party in Houston

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14 People Shot at a Party in Houston

(Headline USA) At least one person was killed when up to 14 people were shot at a party in Houston early Sunday, police said.

The Houston Police Department began receiving calls reporting shots fired around 12:50 a.m. at the 6000 block of of Cherry Hill in southeast Houston, Assistant Chief Patricia Cantu said during a news briefing.

Officers arrived at the scene minutes later and saw multiple people wounded in various locations around a home, she said.

A family party was taking place and an uninvited guest was asked to leave the home. That person is believed to have started shooting, which prompted return fire from others, Cantu said.

The Houston Fire Department responded and at least one person was confirmed dead. Multiple people were in critical condition and in surgery, according to Cantu, who said some victims transported themselves to area hospitals.

Police detained multiple people but were not immediately certain if they had the shooting suspect in custody as the investigation continued Sunday morning, Cantu said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

 

Anti-Christian Liberals Clutch Pearls over Trump-Pope Meme

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Anti-Christian Liberals Clutch Pearls over Trump-Pope Meme

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Democrats and anti-Trump pundits clutched their pearls Saturday after President Donald Trump posted on Friday an AI-generated meme of himself dressed as the Pope.

Critics claimed the image was offensive to the Catholic Church—despite the Democratic Party’s decades-long support for policies directly opposed to Catholic doctrine, including abortion and repeated mockery of Christian beliefs. 

The hypocritical outrage stemmed from a photo Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday. The image showed him seated, finger raised and wearing papal attire, including robe, chain and mitre.  

The White House re-shared the image on X. 

MSNBC mouthpiece Michael Steele was among the individuals who attacked Trump over the meme, claiming that “this affirms how unserious and incapable he is.” 

He added, “At 78 he remains a 10yo child, emotionally scarred and broken while desperate to prove he could be somebody. His problem: he can’t grow up to prove it.” 

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul joined the pile-on, declaring: “This is deeply offensive to me and to my fellow Catholics around the world as we continue to mourn our beloved Pope Francis.” 

Self-described Republican Bill Kristol, who is Jewish, tagged Vice President JD Vance in a repost of the meme, asking if he was “fine with this disrespect and mocking of the Holy Father?” 

Amy McGrath, a failed Democratic Senate candidate from Kentucky, also chimed in: “To all my fellow American raised and practicing Catholics, are you cool with this? Is this just funny stuff that everyone is laughing at? I follow a lot of Catholic priests in this platform. I wonder if there will be any response at all to this.” 

The meme comes just two weeks after the death of Pope Francis, who led the Catholic Church since 2013 before passing away from heart failure. The Church is now searching for a new leader. 

While Democrats claim to be mourning Francis’s death, their track record tells another story. 

In 2024, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was forced to apologize after a video showed her feeding a Dorito chip to a podcast host—an act widely viewed as mocking Holy Communion.

“I would never do something to denigrate someone’s faith,” Whitmer later claimed in a statement to local media. 

During the Olympics, a group of transgender and drag performers recreated the Last Supper in a performance viewed as blasphemous toward Christianity. 

And while leftists clutch their pearls over a meme, their party platform explicitly endorses abortion on demand—an issue at odds with the teachings of the Catholic Church. 

Letitia James Threatens Trump over HHS Cuts Funding for Illegal Alien Care

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Letitia James Threatens Trump over HHS Cuts Funding for Illegal Alien Care

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New York Attorney General Letitia James has once again started a dispute with President Donald Trump—this time taking legal action over the Trump administration’s efforts to cut funding in the healthcare sector. 

Speaking at a Manhattan rally orchestrated by the National Action Network on Saturday, James announced her intent to summon Democratic attorneys general in a lawsuit against Department of Health and Human Service’s decision to pause funding to 16 grant recipients who failed to respond to federal inquiries.

The recipients did not clarify whether any of the taxpayer funds have been used to assist illegal aliens.

Despite that, James shouted, “The White House is threatening our way of life in so many ways, and I just want you to know that in the coming days we will be filing a lawsuit against [HHS].”

As reported by the New York Post, James claimed the funding freeze affected programs like Head Start program and the Meals on Wheels and the World Trade Center Healthcare Program for 9/11 first responders. 

“All of these funds and more,” James stated. “We got to stand up, and that’s why Democratic attorneys general will be joining me in filing this lawsuit in the coming days.” 

James had hinted at legal action in a May 1 press release, accusing the Trump administration—without evidence—of playing “politics with the lives of the American people.” 

“By slashing funding to necessary health care clinics and providers, they are putting millions of Americans at risk while forcing states to clean up the mess,” James added. 

She described the temporary cuts as a “cruel and shortsighted attack on essential health care” that may “have disastrous impacts in every corner of our country.” 

The Trump administration notified impacted organizations on March 31 that their funding would be suspended after they failed to answer whether taxpayer funds were being used in violation of Trump’s executive order banning federal funding for illegal aliens. 

James claimed the subgrantees were responsible for nearly 25% of Title X clinics. 

An HHS spokesperson clarified that the grants were put on hold “pending an evaluation of possible violations of their grant terms, including based on Federal civil rights laws and the President’s Executive Order 14218, ‘Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders.” 

“HHS is conducting this evaluation to ensure these entities are in full compliance with Federal law and applicable grant terms, and to ensure responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars,” the spokesperson added, as quoted by Time Magazine. “They did not respond to questions about the details of the ‘possible violations,’ how much money was being withheld from the affected organizations, and which organizations were being impacted by the funding freeze.” 

Elvis Chan Finally Removed from FBI Role after Hunter Biden Censorship

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Elvis Chan Finally Removed from FBI Role after Hunter Biden Censorship

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The FBI has finally removed one of the agents involved in Big Tech’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell ahead of the 2020 election. 

The agent, Elvis Chan, was identified by the House Judiciary Committee as one of the key players in the FBI’s efforts “to suppress true information about Biden family influence peddling shortly before the 2020 presidential election.” 

Chan has been placed on “terminal leave,” according to sources cited by the Independent Newsroom. 

In the weeks before the 2020 election, Chan had confirmed to Big Tech that the laptop story—first reported by the New York Post in October 2020—was real. However, the FBI had already primed social media companies to expect a disinformation campaign supposedly from foreign actors. 

Ultimately, those FBI briefings prompted Big Tech to censor the story. The laptop contained information confirming that then-candidate Joe Biden was deeply involved in his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings. 

As of this article’s publication, Chan still lists his position as assistant special agent in charge of the cyber branch for the San Francisco division of the FBI. 

He had long been under scrutiny by the House Judiciary Committee. In September 2024, he was subpoenaed after the Biden-led DOJ refused to make him available for a voluntary interview. 

“As the primary liaison between the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) and social media companies, you are uniquely positioned to aid the Committee’s oversight,” Jordan told Chan at the time, as reported by Just the News.

US GBU-39 Bomb Remnants Found at Location of Strike on Yemen Migrant Facility

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US GBU-39 Bomb Remnants Found at Location of Strike on Yemen Migrant Facility

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The remnants of a US GBU-39 bomb were found at the location of a US airstrike on a migrant facility in Saada in northwestern Yemen, Drop Site News reported on Thursday.

According to Yemeni media, the US strikes on the facility killed 68 people, and all the casualties appear to have been African migrants who were detainees at the facility.

In response to the reports of major civilian casualties in the strikes, a Pentagon official said Monday that the US was “currently conducting our battle-damage assessment and inquiry into those claims,” but so far, there have been no further comments from the US military.

A Yemen-based Ethiopian activist who spoke with survivors of the attack told Drop Site that the detention center was hit by three separate strikes in slow succession. Trevor Ball, a munitions expert and former US Army ordnance specialist, said the facility was likely targeted intentionally since GBU-39 bombs are precise weapons, and it was struck multiple times.

US-made GBU-39 bombs have been used frequently by the Israeli military in attacks on Gaza, including in strikes on tents. Ball said the remnants of the GBU-39 at the migrant center appear to be the first evidence of the US using the bomb in Yemen.

The same migrant facility was targeted by Saudi Arabia in 2022 in a strike that killed 91 civilians, according to the Yemen Data Project, which means the US should have been aware that attacking the detention center would have caused significant civilian casualties.

Since the Trump administration launched its bombing campaign in Yemen on March 15, the US military has struck over 1,000 targets in the country. The Pentagon has shared virtually no details about the airstrikes, which have killed more than 200 civilians.

This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com.

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