cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31023452

By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 1 June 2025 01:38 BST

"As part of the agreement, Hamas has agreed to release 10 living Israeli captives and the remains of 18 others, in exchange for a number of Palestinian prisoners to be agreed upon.

However, the group proposed that the releases be carried out in phases: four living captives would be freed on day one, two on day 30, and the final four on day 60. The remains of Israeli captives would also be returned in stages - six on day 10, another six on day 30, and the final six on day 50."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31023297

By Katherine Hearst
Published date: 1 June 2025 09:22 BST

Sabbah coordinates the Sameer Project with two other Palestinians living in the diaspora - California-based Lena Dajani, who organises medical aid, and an anonymous activist who runs the Instagram page, ‘Translating Falasteen’.

The trio have raised millions of dollars and coordinated with people on the ground in Gaza to respond to requests for food, medicine and emergency aid via Whatsapp groups.

With a skeleton team and a strong web of contacts, the group is agile and flexible in their approach, able to adapt quickly to the daily flurry of requests.

Gaza: Dozens of Palestinians massacred at US-Israel backed food distribution sites | Médecins Sans Frontières UK (2025-06-01)

https://msf.org.uk/article/gaza-dozens-palestinians-massacred-us-israel-backed-food-distribution-sites
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>> Dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured … as they waited for food at the newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution centres in Rafah and close to the Netzarim Corridor, according to the Ministry of Health.

>> … Doctors Without Borders (#MSF) teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis.

>> Patients told MSF they were shot from all sides by drones, helicopters, boats, tanks and Israeli soldiers on the ground.

>> [Claire Manera, MSF emergency coordinator]: “Today’s events have shown once again that this new system of aid delivery is dehumanising, dangerous and severely ineffective…

>> … with the blood banks almost empty, medical staff have had to donate blood…

#StopGenocide #GHF
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Nearly 230 killed or wounded as Israel carries out largest massacre since new aid mechanism was enforced in Gaza (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, 2025-06-01)

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6749/Nearly-230-killed-or-wounded-as-Israel-carries-out-largest-massacre-since-new-aid-mechanism-was-enforced-in-Gaza
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>> Euro-Med Monitor’s field team documented Israeli forces opening fire on thousands of civilians gathered at dawn today, Sunday, 1 June 2025, in Tel al-Sultan, Rafah, near an aid distribution centre established by the Israeli army. Preliminary data indicate that the attack killed at least 31 civilians, including two women, and injured more than 200 others. Several remain missing.

>> The death toll is expected to rise due to the high number of critical injuries and the severe collapse of the healthcare system caused by the blockade and Israeli targeting of medical facilities.

#StopGenocide #GHF #EuroMedHumanRightsMonitor
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from Twitter (via BlueSky)

Proud zionist "Human rights lawyer" threatens 22 year old Swedish woman trying to bring food to starving people of Gaza.

#Genocide #Greta #Terrorism #Politics #Israel #Twitter #FoodAsWeapon #Inhumanity
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Mo Chara ó Kneecap ar an bPalastín (fís le Lara Ní Muirchearteaigh / @laraOlaraOlara ar TikTok)

#Éire #SaoirseDonPhailistín / #Palestine #Kneecap

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31001765

Mariam Barghouti Jun 01, 2025

"Following October 7, 2023, prisoners’ conditions inside Israeli detention centers have rapidly deteriorated. The last 19 months have seen a dramatic escalation in the number of Palestinians behind bars, alongside increasing prisoner abuse and mistreatment by Israeli authorities.

There are currently more than 10,100 Palestinians held in Israeli detention, according to the prisoner rights group Addameer. This is nearly double the number from before October 7. That figure does not include detainees from Gaza held in detention camps run by the Israeli military. Some 3,500 people are held in administrative detention, including 119 children."

By GIADA ZAMPANO and SALVATORE CAVALLI
Updated 11:18 AM EDT, June 1, 2025

"CATANIA, Italy (AP) — Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and other 11 activists set sail on Sunday afternoon for Gaza on a ship aimed at “breaking Israel’s siege” of the devastated territory, organizers said.

The sailing boat Madleen – operated by activist group Freedom Flotilla Coalition — departed from the Sicilian port of Catania, in southern Italy.

It will try to reach the shores of the Gaza Strip in an effort to bring in some aid and raise “international awareness” over the ongoing humanitarian crisis, the activists said at a press conference on Sunday, ahead of departure. "

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30999942

Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and agencies Sun 1 Jun 2025 06.04 EDT

"Thousands of people headed toward the distribution site hours before dawn. As they approached the site, Israeli forces ordered them to disperse and come back later, witnesses said. When the crowds reached the Flag Roundabout, about 1km away, at about 3am, Israeli forces opened fire, the witnesses said."

Mohammed Abu Teaima, 33, said he saw Israeli forces open fire and kill his cousin and another woman as they were heading to the hub. He said his cousin was shot in his chest and died at the scene. Many others were wounded, including his brother-in-law, he said."

A Palestinian father who had lost nine of his 10 children in an Israeli airstrike has died from wounds sustained in the same attack, local health officials have said.

Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, a doctor at Nasser hospital, was critically injured when Israeli forces bombed the family house in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on 23 May, killing nine of his children. He had just returned home after accompanying his wife Alaa, a paediatrician at the Nasser medical complex, to work when the building was struck. He had initially survived alongside his son Adam, 11, who is still in hospital.

PSG soccer fans unfurl banner urging end to 'genocide in Gaza' at Champions League final [in Munich] | The Times of Israel (2025-06-01)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/psg-soccer-fans-unfurl-banner-urging-end-to-genocide-in-gaza-at-champions-league-final/
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>> Paris Saint-Germain (#PSG) supporters displayed a banner saying “Stop genocide in Gaza” during the soccer Champions League final on Saturday.

>> ... Some PSG fans also held Palestinian scarves and flags during the game.

>> PSG could also face a fine. #UEFA bans the use of gestures, words, objects or any other means to transmit a provocative message that is judged not fit for a sports event...

#Germany #StopGenocide
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30568189

June 1st, we’ll attempt to, again, sail towards Gaza and to try to break the siege and open up a humanitarian corridor by delivering aid like food and medical supplies,” says Thunberg. A similar mission to sail to occupied Gaza in May was aborted after a flotilla dubbed the “Conscience” suffered two drone attacks while in international waters.

“Keep your eyes on deck, continue flooding the streets, organize, boycott, and do everything in your power to stand for Palestine,” Thunberg ends her message, readying to set sail for Gaza from Catania, Sicily, on Sunday with aid supplies and several high-profile activists alongside her.

How six months in the West Bank undid a lifetime of Zionist indoctrination (Sam Stein | +972 Magazine, 2025-05-30)

https://www.972mag.com/how-six-months-in-the-west-bank-undid-my-zionist-indoctrination/
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>> Growing up in the American Orthodox Jewish world, spending a post-high school year studying Torah in Israel was simply what one did…

>> I finished that year with little understanding of Israel’s occupation…

>> The first time I recall hearing the word “occupation” was when my rabbi — a resident of the illegal settlement … — grumbled about … restricted access to the Temple Mount. “Israel,” he declared, “is occupied by Arabs.”

>> Seven years after …, I returned to Israel-Palestine — this time with a working understanding of the West Bank’s occupation and the responsibility that came with stepping onto this land. … I came to join All That’s Left, a grassroots, non-hierarchical collective of diaspora Jews committed to direct action against the occupation…

#AllThatsLeft #AmericanOrthodoxJew #EndOccupation
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May 29, 2025 at 9:38 am

"Israeli Knesset Member Yulia Malinovsky held up the keys and the lock of the main door of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) headquarters in East Jerusalem during a parliamentary session yesterday bragging that she had locked the building and even the government could not access it as a result.

Malinovsky, who initiated the legislation to ban the UN agency from Israel and from working with Israeli government bodies, showed the lock to Knesset members, after raiding the UN agency’s office in East Jerusalem earlier this week."

Additional picture (credit ytirawi)

"In this policy lab, Mariam Barghouti and Sharif Abdel Kouddous join host Tariq Kenney-Shawa to discuss Israel’s targeted assassination campaign against Palestinian journalists, the complicity of Western media in normalizing these crimes, and how this silence allows Israel to get away with genocide."

https://al-shabaka.org/policy-labs/israels-war-on-palestinian-journalists/

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@israel

#Palestine #Gaza #Journalists #PalestinianJournalists #news #media #Israel #genocide #WarCrimes #journalism

Breaking the Silence executive director Nadav Weiman on Democracy Now to discuss Israel's use of Palestinians as human shields.

"… then-commander-in-chief of the IDF, was sitting in the meeting room while the mosquito protocol was discussed, meaning that everybody knew."

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/29/israeli_soldiers_using_palestinians_human_shields

Articles discussed:
* https://www.972mag.com/gaza-human-shield-mosquito/
* https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-army-human-shields-80f358dd2c87a1123f26ffada159701c

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@palestine@a.gup.pe
@israel

#Palestine #Israel #IDF #Gaza #Genocide #HumanShields #WarCrimes #news #media #FreePalestine

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30852519

from The Forward [Jewish publication from USA] Jay Michaelson May 28, 2025

"The gulf between Israel’s government and the rest of the world — including its allies, the #Trump administration, the Israeli public, and the American Jewish community — is widening into a chasm. And yet some in Jewish leadership are hiding their heads in the sand.

Critics of the Netanyahu-Smotrich regime are no longer just campus protesters, or hostile-to-Israel regimes, or antisemites like the murderer of two young Jews at an AJC event in Washington DC last week. They include former prime minister Ehud Olmert..."

Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.

Jeremy Scahill, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Jawa Ahmad May 29, 2025

"A new proposal for a Gaza ceasefire spearheaded by Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, includes a 60-day initial truce, a “redeployment” of some Israeli occupation forces, and an exchange of captives, including ten living Israelis held in Gaza. It would also require the “immediate” delivery of humanitarian aid, including by the United Nations and the Red Crescent. Drop Site obtained a copy of the document, labelled a “term sheet” by Witkoff."

The Rising Death Toll of the U.S.–Israel Aid Distribution Plan in Gaza (The Intercept, 2025-05-28)

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/28/us-israel-aid-gaza-ghf-deaths/
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>> The humanitarian community worried the Israeli government would use the new aid plan as a weapon ... Some aid experts likened the zones to a “concentration camp” ... Some Israeli officials said they hoped the plan would permanently expel Palestinians from Gaza.

>> Such fears proved prescient Tuesday…

>> …Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor confirmed on Tuesday the death of seven individuals and said the 47 injured were wounded by bullets fired by both Israeli military and the U.S.-based private security firms... Israeli military soldiers had entered the site to fire on the crowd on Tuesday. And on Wednesday, … the Israeli military had sent texts to Palestinians instructing them to head south to the Morag Corridor area … to receive aid. When they arrived, soldiers once again fired on aid-seeking crowds, killing six,…

#StopIsrael
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30846349

AMMAN, 27 May 2025 – “In a 72-hour period this weekend, images from two horrific attacks provide yet more evidence of the unconscionable cost of this ruthless war on children in the Gaza Strip.

“On Friday, we saw videos of the bodies of burnt, dismembered children from the al-Najjar family being pulled from the rubble of their home in Khan Younis. Of 10 siblings under 12 years old, only one reportedly survived, with critical injuries.

“Since the end of the ceasefire on 18 March, 1,309 children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured.

In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. How many more dead girls and boys will it take? What level of horror must be livestreamed before the international community fully steps up, uses its influence, and takes bold, decisive action to force the end of this ruthless killing of children?