Murtaza Hussain, Waqas Ahmed, and Ryan Grim Jun 09, 2025

"A review of leaked data from Meta, provided to us by company whistleblowers, shows that Israeli companies since 2023 are finding it increasingly difficult everywhere around the world to attract new customers, leading to advertising-cost increases in the billions.

We also just posted the translated audio of an extraordinary interview just given by former Israeli PM Yair Lapid, who is often discussed as a more humane, centrist alternative to Benjamin Netanyahu. Give it a listen and see if you agree with that label."

IDF is attacking a civilian ship carrying humanitarian aid on International waters.

#FreedomFlotilla

#palestine #Politics #ShipToGaza #Activism #Israel #Gaza

@palestine@lemmy.ml @israel
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Stop administrative arrests! a solidarity and protest vigil. We stand as unified voice against the political harassment and arbitrary arrests. we stand in solidarity with our administrative detainees who are arrested without trial, in contradiction to human and legal values.
In front of #Haifa courthouse, 12.6, 15:30
We demand the release of Raja Agbarya and all prisoners of political expression.
@palestine@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31397537

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the Madleen’s crew is being taken to Israel after Israeli commandos seized the vessel in international waters. The Madleen ship, launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, was close to 100 miles [160km] from Gaza when it was stopped. The ship was carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinians starving because of Israel’s siege. Israel’s most recent total blockade began on March 2, and has only partially lifted under mounting international pressure.

All eyes on #madleen
#breakthesilence
#STOPtheGENOCIDE

#FreedomFlotilla

#palestine #Politics #ShipToGaza #Activism #Israel #Gaza

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31421240

By YESICA FISCH and TIA GOLDENBERG Updated 11:14 AM EDT, June 9, 2025

"The activists had set out to protest Israel’s ongoing military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which is among the deadliest and most destructive since World War II, and its restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid, both of which have put the territory of around 2 million Palestinians at risk of famine."

There are clear laws on enforcing blockades – Israel’s interception of the Madleen raises serious questions (The Conversation, 2025-06-10)

https://theconversation.com/there-are-clear-laws-on-enforcing-blockades-israels-interception-of-the-madleen-raises-serious-questions-258562
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>> International law also strongly protects the freedom of navigation, particularly in international waters ...

>> There are only a few exceptions when a country can lawfully stop a foreign ship in international waters ...

>> international humanitarian law, … protects civilians during conflict. This protection extends to people delivering humanitarian aid, so long as they do not directly take part in hostilities.

>> Bringing aid to civilians, even if politically controversial, does not meet this legal threshold [to be considered directly participating in hostilities]. As a result, the #Madleen’s passengers remain protected civilians and should not be treated as combatants or detained arbitrarily…

#FreedomFlotilla #BreakTheSiege
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Hebrew source article:

פרסום ראשון: ישראל חיסלה מחבלים שניסו לפגוע במליציית אבו שבאב ברצועה

Jonah Valdez
June 5 2025, 6:00 a.m.

"In late May, UCSF terminated Rupa Marya following a nine-month suspension from the elite medical school based on social media posts in which she criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza and questioned how Zionist ideology affects health care outcomes. As a part of her dismissal, UCSF officials will place a letter of censure in Marya’s file for 10 years, which she said will likely damage her ability to seek future employment and continue practicing medicine. "

Journalist MosabAbuToha shares a witness account of an attack near a Rafah GHF site this morning:

• Around 3AM, gunmen speaking fluent Palestinian dialect gathered crowds, pretending to manage aid lines.

• At 7AM, they opened fire — shooting some people in the head — before fleeing toward Rafah, where Israeli forces are stationed.

Link to Mohsen's full interview

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5205179

On 30 April, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told Sky News Arabia that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas had raised the issue of disarming Palestinian factions in Lebanon’s refugee camps at the emergency Arab Summit in Cairo in early March.

It was a remarkable revelation. The emergency summit’s goal was the reconstruction of Gaza. But Abbas had other priorities. Both before and in the weeks since the Arab summit, Abbas has criticized the armed resistance by Palestinian factions on several occasions, especially by Hamas, notably demanding that what he called the “sons of dogs” release the remaining Israeli captives in Gaza.

For decades, the Lebanese authorities have treated the Palestinian camps in Lebanon as armed hotbeds that could explode at any moment and have ignored Palestinian refugees’ human rights.

Instead of transcending this narrow approach, Abbas’ ​​visit reduced the Palestinian presence in Lebanon to only a security matter.

Why, and why now?

Full Article

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/27899482

BREAKING FROM THE MADLEEN‼‼‼‼
‼️🚨 Alarm has been sounded on the Madleen. Life jackets are on preparing for interception.
#Madleen
#FreePalestine
#FreedomFlotilla
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Israeli Military Attacks [intercepts] Madleen in International Waters — Weeks After Bombing of Conscience - Freedom Flotilla (Freedom Flotilla Coalition, 2025-6-09)

https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/09/israeli-military-attacks-madleen-in-international-waters-weeks-after-bombing-of-conscience/
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>> …#Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, has been attacked/forcibly intercepted by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CET in international waters at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E. The ship was unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo … confiscated.

>> “Israel has no legal authority to detain international volunteers aboard the Madleen … These volunteers are not subject to Israeli jurisdiction and cannot be criminalized for delivering aid or challenging an illegal blockade—their detention is arbitrary, unlawful, and must end immediately.”

>> “The world’s governments remained silent when Conscience was bombed. Now Israel is testing that silence again,” said , Tan Safi another Freedom Flotilla organizer…

#FreedomFlotilla
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5182073

The Israeli military is arming gangs to combat Hamas in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Thursday. The revelation comes to light after right-wing Israeli lawmaker Avigdor Lieberman accused Netanyahu on Israeli public broadcaster Kan yesterday of arming a gang of hundreds of men in Rafah as a counterweight to Hamas influence in the Strip. The Prime Minister’s office responded by saying that it was combating the Palestinian resistance group “in various ways, on the recommendation of all heads of the security establishment.”

Later, Netanyahu officially confirmed the reports in a video posted on X. “On the advice of security officials, we activated clans in Gaza that oppose Hamas,” the Israeli Prime Minister said. “What’s wrong with that? It only saves the lives of Israeli soldiers.”

Among these groups is an armed gang led by a man named Yasser Abu Shabab, a thief and drug trafficker from Rafah who led groups of hundreds of armed men in looting aid convoys during the latter half of 2024. Descended from the influential Bedouin Tarabin clan, which spans southern Gaza, the Sinai, and the Naqab Desert, Abu Shabab has been described by Israeli media outlets as “linked to ISIS,” likely due to Abu Shabab’s involvement in drug trafficking networks between Gaza and the Sinai in which ISIS has been implicated.

This policy comes in the wake of a systematic Israeli campaign of assassinating the Hamas government’s civil servants to cause social collapse in Gaza and foment chaos and lawlessness in the Strip. The Israeli army has been deliberately targeting Interior Ministry bureaucrats, the police force, and the security services to create a vacuum that is then filled by armed looters like Abu Shabab’s group, as recently reported by Mondoweiss.

Full Article

À 1h40, heure de Paris, des drones (probablement israéliens) crachent un liquide blanc sur les bateaux de la Freedom Flotilla...

At 1.40am Paris time, drones (probably Israeli) sprayed a white liquid at the Freedom Flotilla boats...

#FreedomFlotilla

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Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that its fighters killed two 'Israeli' soldiers at point-blank range last Tuesday on Al-Nazzaz Street, east of the Shuja'iya neighborhood in Gaza City.

The group said the soldiers were targeted after returning from the front lines.

In a separate development, Al-Qassam stated that on Saturday, its fighters struck an 'Israeli' D9 military bulldozer with a “Yassin 105” shell near the Yarmouk site in the Al-Manara neighborhood, south of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Greenpeace calls for international action to release the Madleen aid vessel - Greenpeace International (2025-06-09)

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/75331/greenpeace-calls-for-international-action-to-release-the-madleen-aid-vessel/
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>> #Greenpeace demands:

• An immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire to halt the assault on civilians and the environment.
• The release by Hamas of all hostages.
• The release by Israel of all illegally detained Palestinians.
• The imposition of targeted sanctions and a comprehensive arms embargo, enforced by the international community.
• The unhindered delivery of aid by the UN and other humanitarian organisations.
• An end to the illegal occupation of Palestine.

>> If the international community continues to stand-by without taking concrete action as ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity mount, it will have to answer for aiding and abetting a genocide. The time to act is now!

#BreakTheSiege
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31416536

from The Forward [Jewish publication from USA]

By Arno Rosenfeld and Jacob Kornbluh June 6, 2025

[contains links to audio of his speech]

"“We are an apolitical, non-partisan organization, but you have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see what’s happening on the left,” #Greenblatt said Friday, according to audio from the event obtained by the #Forward.

“There is a throughline from Occupy Wall Street to BLM to ‘defund the police’ to ‘River to the Sea,’” he added, referring to the Black Lives Matter movement launched a decade ago to protest police violence. “They are the same people, these are the same kind of nihilists.”"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31312529

UK firm RCV Engines has officially cancelled its agreement with Israel for the supply of drone engines, after the deal and the use of the drones to attack civilians in Gaza was exposed by Declassified UK in April.

A Declassified UK investigation exposed the company’s involvement in supplying the engines for the ‘APUS 25’ “long-endurance TactiQuad” drone manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for use by the occupation against the people of Gaza.