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In Haifa, ‘coexistence’ requires silence about Israeli war crimes (Ghousoon Bisharat | +972 Magazine, 2025-06-06)

https://www.972mag.com/haifa-protest-genocide-coexistence/
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A report from #Haifa, "a mixed Jewish-Palestinian city". Do click ⬆️ and read the whole article.

>> Last Saturday, I joined thousands in the streets to protest the genocide. But the ensuing backlash has made me question whether I'm welcome in my own city.

>> I would like to start with a confession: this was the first time I joined a demonstration against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza...

>> The demonstration was organized by the Peace Partnership, a broad coalition of dozens of organizations and political parties ...

>> The backbone of this coalition is the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash/Al-Jabha), the only Arab-Jewish party in Israel, though the vast majority of its members and voters are Palestinian citizens of Israel.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30810219

International views of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are much more negative than positive, according to a Pew Research Center survey of 24 countries conducted this spring.

Like many American Jews, I was brought up to see Israel as infallible. Living among Palestinians taught me vital truths about the reality of the occupation.

I finished that year [his "year in Israel"] with little understanding of Israel’s occupation. While I noticed more “Arabs” (the word “Palestinians” never crossed our lips) around my settlement than in Israel proper, I remained oblivious to their reality of living under foreign military rule, with no citizenship or voting rights.

Breaking news:
5 #IDF soldiers killed & 2 wounded with very serious injuries with severe burns throughout their bodies, in the security incident in #KhanYounis
An elite force consisting of 12 soldiers & officers, was subjected to an ambush & collapse of a booby-trapped building in Khan Younis, #Gaza

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Israeli drone strikes and air raids on Thursday killed at least 23 Palestinians, including four journalists at Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.

Israeli settlers set fire to homes while families were still inside, according to Palestinian media reports about an arson attack on a village in the occupied West Bank.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the country is using armed gangs in Gaza to help fight Hamas, his admission coming after a new wave of military strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip that left at least 52 Palestinians dead.

Netanyahu said the government had “activated” powerful local clans in the enclave on the advice of “security officials”, his video statement posted to X on Thursday coming hours after former Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused him of deploying the tactic.

The statement marked the government’s first public acknowledgement that it had backed the armed Palestinian groups based around powerful families, which stand accused by aid workers of carrying out criminal attacks and stealing aid from trucks as starvation stalks the entire territory due to a punishing Israeli blockade.

An Israeli official cited by news agency The Associated Press said that one of the groups Netanyahu was referring to was the so-called Popular Forces, led by Yasser Abu Shabab, a local clan leader in Rafah.

Last month, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on the group’s activities – though it was named the “Anti-Terror Service” in the report – saying that sources in Gaza claimed it consisted of roughly 100 armed men operating with the tacit approval of the Israeli military.

In recent weeks, the Abu Shabab group announced online that its fighters were helping protect supply shipments to new US- and Israel-backed distribution centres run by the shadowy Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)...

It is hard to imagine that 20 months after the outbreak of the Gaza war, the government of Israel may collapse – not over the most horrendous security failure in the country's history

None of these chipped an inch of plaster off the edifice of this coalition of blood; it was even strengthened by four shameless Knesset seats.

It is only now teetering because the politician at its head failed in his efforts to ensure that 80,000 young Haredi men who are subject to conscription would receive a perpetual exemption, padded with billions of shekels for the parties that represent them in the government.

On Wednesday, the three Haredi factions said they would back a bill dissolving the Knesset. The fact that the Shas party joined in the threat shocked the prime minister and his people. Is this Aryeh? Our Aryeh? Yes. Dery is subordinate to his super-extremist rabbis, who defer to their Ashkenazi brothers. If it were up to Dery, he would turn off the lights in the government compound. But not this time.

Story by Yahya Al-Qassas
June 5, 2025

"The first school Jameel was forced to clear out was in Beit Hanoun. He was ordered to head to the school, put the displaced civilians in lines and move them out. Then came something else. Soldiers would force him to enter destroyed and burned-out homes – alone. The APC door would open and he would be told to get out—dressed in an IDF uniform—and search inside. A drone hovered over him, emitting a voice that directed him where to go.

Once he cleared the home, the drone filmed everything. Then soldiers stormed in, planted explosives on the support pillars, and later blew up the house. That was the cycle. Again and again. House after house."

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Jamil Al-Masri, a 63-year-old hospital employee, was taken hostage by Israeli soldiers in October, 2024. For three months, he was starved, abused, and used as a human shield. He tells his story.

publicado de forma cruzada desde: https://hexbear.net/post/5144990

May 22, 2025, was the last day of life as they knew it for the Bedouin community of Maghayer al-Deir, which until recently used to reside east of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank. The 24 Palestinian families who made up the community were forced to gather their belongings and leave their home in the eastern slopes of Ramallah overlooking the Jordan Valley. After three days of intense harassment and attacks on the community, Israeli settlers now have complete control over the little valley.

Since October 7, 2023, Israeli settlers have intensified their attacks on Palestinian rural communities in the West Bank, harassing, attacking, and completely displacing thousands of Palestinians. With each new displaced community, Israeli settlers gain control of more strategic areas for the expansion of established settlements or the establishment of new settler outposts.

According to Hasan Mleihat, spokesperson for the al-Baidar organization for the defense of Bedouin rights in Palestine, Israeli settlers have displaced 62 out of the 212 Bedouin communities in the West Bank since October 2023. These include 12,000 out of the roughly 400,000 West Bank Palestinian Bedouins.

“It is a wholesale ethnic cleansing campaign of exclusively Bedouin communities, which has been happening far away from the media’s attention,” Mleihat told Mondoweiss.

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Kenyan Muslims pray for Gaza as they celebrate Eid Al-Adha | Africanews (2025-06-06)

https://www.africanews.com/2025/06/06/kenyan-muslims-pray-for-gaza-as-they-celebrate-eid-al-adha/

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"Israel has provided assault rifles and light weapons to crime families in Gaza, on Netanyahu's orders," Lieberman, the head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party and a former finance minister and deputy prime minister, told Israeli public broadcaster Kan on Thursday...

"In my opinion, it did not pass cabinet approval. The head of the Shin Bet knows, I'm not sure the chief of staff knows. We're talking about the equivalent of Isis in Gaza," he added, referencing the Islamic State group.

Hebrew media sources:
- At least 5 soldiers from the army were killed as a result of ongoing security incidents, with 2 others in critical condition
- Rescue efforts continue to extract 6 other soldiers trapped under the rubble.
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As people attempted to slowly advance to the aid site from the Al-Alam roundabout, more than a dozen witnesses interviewed by CNN described the IDF opening volleys of intense fire on the crowd starting as early as 3:30 a.m.

Robert Maher, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Montana State University, who specializes in forensic audio analysis, examined the footage for CNN and said that the bursts of gunfire were at a rate of 15 and 16 shots per second (or 900 and 960 per minute), fired from a distance of about a quarter of a mile (450 meters).

Trevor Ball, a former US Army senior explosive ordnance disposal team member, said the rate of fire was consistent with the FN MAG, a heavily-used machine gun in the Israeli military’s arsenal. The FN MAG is commonly equipped on the IDF’s Merkava tanks, which several eyewitnesses said they saw open fire on the crowds.

Doctors working at Nasser Hospital shared photos with CNN of the bullets retrieved from patients injured and killed in the attack, which weapons experts say appear to match the type of ammunition used in the Israeli military’s machine guns. “This bullet is consistent with the NATO standard 7.62mm M80, which would be fired by IDF 7.62x51mm weapons, including the Negev 7.62 and FN MAG,” Ball said of one of the images.

‘Madleen’ Responds to Mayday for Refugees at Sea - Freedom Flotilla (2025-06-05)

https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/05/madleen-responds-to-mayday-for-refugees-at-sea/
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>> Violation of Non-Refoulement Feared as Libyan Forces Violate International Law

At approximately 07:36 EEST, the #Madleen, en route to Gaza, received a mayday relay from a Frontex drone operating in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The crew responded via VHF radio after which the drone provided an updated position for the distressed vessel. Madleen immediately contacted Greek and Egyptian authorities. However, both confirmed they were too far away to respond and advised the Madleen to intervene if possible.

to be continued >

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GENEVA – UN experts* today called for safe passage for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ship carrying essential medical aid, food, and baby supplies to Gaza which departed from Italy on 1 June 2025.

“The people of Gaza have the right to receive aid through their own territorial waters even under occupation, and the Coalition ship has the right to free passage in international waters to reach the people of Gaza,” they said. “Israel must not interfere with its freedom of navigation, long recognised under international law.”

“Israel has imposed a full blockade on Gaza for 17 years. This blockade has been total and absolute since 2 March 2025, preventing aid from entering the Strip for over 80 days, only recently allowing a trickle of aid to enter,” the experts said.

“As the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ship approaches Palestinian territorial waters off Gaza, Israel must adhere to international law and comply with orders from the International Court of Justice to ensure unimpeded access for humanitarian aid,” they said.

This is a really weird one. But shout-out to Amelia for actually mentioning Palestine on her platform. How sad is it that we have to celebrate such small bloody things?

James Elder, UNICEF spokesperson, warns of deadly risks Palestinians face seeking aid in Gaza and calls for urgent safe access.