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?

#Morocco has awarded a special 'gift of friendship' to the commander of the Israeli Air Force, who is in charge of bombing the #Gaza Strip on a daily basis.

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Deporting prisoners is not enough for Israel, now they want to deport the widow of a #Prisoner who died in prison from cancer and medical neglect.
https://aljarmaq.net/public/post/26042/%D8%A8%D9%86 غفير يطالب بطرد زوجة وليد دقة من أراضي48
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Loay Khatib, a member of the political bureau of Abnaa alBalad, is speaking about the the abuse and hard health conditions of the administrative detainee Raja Agbarya.
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If This Is What Israel Does, Then Israel Shouldn't Exist (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-05-29)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-this-is-what-israel-does-then
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#CaitlinJohnstone as crisp and clear as could be:

>> … I’m saying a genocidal apartheid state should not exist. A state is an artificial construct of the human mind, held together by human actions. If the actions we are witnessing in Gaza are the product of the artificial construct of the Israeli state, then that artificial construct should be dismantled, and those actions should cease.

>> I would say this about any other man-made construct that is doing the things Israel is doing. If some scientists built a robot that spends all day every day massacring children, then I would say the robot should be unmade. If you drew a Star of David on the robot’s head, it wouldn’t suddenly make me an evil antisemite to say that the child-murdering robot should be dismantled.

#StopIsrael #StopGenocide

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By MEE staff Published date: 28 May 2025 17:06 BST

"In speech addressing crowds at a Jerusalem Day rally on Monday, which celebrates Israel’s occupation of the old city of Jerusalem, Smotrich also called for “complete redemption” and reconstruction of “the Temple here,” referring to Al-Aqsa Mosque, which settlers had raided earlier.

“We are conquering the Land of Israel, liberating Gaza, settling Gaza and defeating the enemy,” #Smotrich said to crowds that had chanted “death to Arabs” as they marched through Jerusalem’s Old City and attacked #Palestinians. "

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
Updated 2:07 AM EDT, May 27, 2025

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — With flies buzzing all around them, the woman and her daughter picked through the pile of garbage bags for scraps of food at the foot of a destroyed building in Gaza City. She found a small pile of cooked rice, a few scraps of bread, a box with some smears of white cheese still inside.

Islam Abu Taeima picked soggy bits from a piece of bread and put the dry part in her sack. She will take what she found back to the school where she and hundreds of other families live, boil it and serve it to her five children, she said.

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 6:58 PM EDT, May 28, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said the Trump administration’s effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil because of his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University likely violates the Constitution.

In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz wrote the government’s primary justification for removing Khalil — that his beliefs may pose a threat to U.S. foreign policy — could open the door to vague and arbitrary enforcement.

I have recently gotten a lot of criticism on my views on the Palestine-Israel situation, I'm now trying to learn more to have a more accurate and holistic perspective. So my question is how accurate is that video?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30814447

Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and Manisha Ganguly
Wed 28 May 2025 16.44 EDT

“Hordes of hungry people broke into WFP’s al-Ghafari warehouse in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, in search of food supplies that were pre-positioned for distribution,” WFP said in a statement, which warned of “alarming and deteriorating conditions on the ground”.

“Humanitarian needs have spiralled out of control after 80 days of complete blockade of all food assistance and other aid into Gaza,” the statement said. “Gaza needs an immediate scale-up of food assistance. This is the only way to reassure people that they will not starve.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30814447

Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and Manisha Ganguly
Wed 28 May 2025 16.44 EDT

“Hordes of hungry people broke into WFP’s al-Ghafari warehouse in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, in search of food supplies that were pre-positioned for distribution,” WFP said in a statement, which warned of “alarming and deteriorating conditions on the ground”.

“Humanitarian needs have spiralled out of control after 80 days of complete blockade of all food assistance and other aid into Gaza,” the statement said. “Gaza needs an immediate scale-up of food assistance. This is the only way to reassure people that they will not starve.”

MATW claims to still be distributing food via local distributors inside blockades. Does anyone have information on MATW or other charities on the ground? Is there somewhere folks can donate money that actually translates to more food for the starving?

At dawn on Wednesday, Israeli occupation forces carried out two new massacres in the central and northern Gaza Strip, while intensifying their bombardment of residential areas.

According to medical sources cited by Al-Jazeera, at least 14 Palestinians were killed in Israeli shelling across the northern and central parts of the enclave since midnight.

Al-Jazeera reported that eight people were killed and several others injured when Israeli airstrikes targeted the home of journalist Osama al-Arbid’s family in the Saftawi neighborhood in northern Gaza.

By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine and Mera Aladam
Published date: 28 May 2025 15:53 BST

Lorenzo Tondo, Quique Kierszenbaum and Sufian Taha in Jerusalem
Wed 28 May 2025 01.30 EDT

"The settlers left the injured where they lay and departed before the ambulance arrived. Ten Palestinians were wounded, some with multiple fractures.

“This is all part of a project of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank,” said Mohar. “It’s not done by crazy settlers. It’s a state project. The state is informed of everything. If there was a will to stop those attacks, it would have happened in a minute.”"

Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Wed 28 May 2025 06.37 EDT

"Witnesses said Israeli forces started shooting after crowds of Palestinians broke through the fences on Tuesday around the distribution site, as an Israeli military helicopter fired flares and bursts of gunfire were heard in the distance. In one video, a large crowd of panicked civilians, including women and children, can be seen running away from the distribution site, trampling the fencing."

From the Gaza Tribunal in Sarajevo, this is just starting now:

Panel 5: Cultures of Erasure
Moderator: Wesam Ahmad

Politics of Palestine Exception – Ussama Makdisi

Zionist Culture and Genocide Denial – Saree Makdisi

Gaza Tribunal itinerary:

https://richardfalk.org/2025/05/25/gaza-tribunal-program-for-sarajevo-public-sesssion-may-26-29-2025/

Panel 5 YouTube live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd1XiULLJ4k

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#Gaza #GazaTribunal #Palestine #history #ethics #philosophy

Writers [of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland] Demand Immediate Gaza Ceasefire | by #WritersForGaza | May, 2025 | Medium

https://medium.com/@horatioclare/writers-demand-immediate-gaza-ceasefire-65ae44bd7241
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h/t https://eupolicy.social/@Akshay/114585370286244107

>> We… ask our nations and the peoples of the world to join us in ending our collective silence and inaction in the face of horror.

>> We ask all people to join in our call for compassion, for reason and for mediation...:

1. We demand the immediate unrestricted distribution of food and medical aid throughout Gaza by the UN.
2. We demand that sanctions be imposed on the State of Israel if the Israeli government does not heed this call… for an immediate ceasefire.
3. We demand a ceasefire which guarantees safety and justice for all Palestinians, the release of all Israeli hostages, and the release of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners arbitrarily held in Israeli jails.

#OpenLetter
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