Church in central Brussels opens its doors to hunger strikers for Gaza
from #MiddleEastMonitor
June 16, 2025 at 7:45 pm
"A group of activists including a priest has initiated a hunger strike inside a historic church in central #Brussels, demanding urgent justice for #Palestine and pressing the #EuropeanUnion to sever all ties with #Israel.
The Beguinage Church, known for its longstanding commitment to social responsibility projects supporting migrants, the homeless, and the poor, is now hosting a five-day hunger strike to highlight ongoing human rights violations in Palestine."
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#news #press #politics #EU @palestine
Israel’s greatest threat isn’t #Iran or #Hamas, but its own hubris
from #972Magazine newsletter [published in Israel]
Other articles:
* Trolling the #Madleen reveals the depths of the #Israeli media’s delusion
* How #Israel is engineering #Gaza’s social collapse
* For pregnant #Palestinian women, checkpoints are a matter of life and death
* The planned expulsion of Gaza’s population is already underway
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=185314
#BlockTheBombs
#NoWarWithIran
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine @israel
Egypt's Crackdown on the Global March to Gaza
Instead of receiving permission from #Egyptian authorities to march to the Rafah border crossing, participants have been subject to hotel raids, harassment, arrests, and deportations.
from #DropSiteNews
Ahmed Dahaby
Jun 14, 2025
"CAIRO, EGYPT—On Friday, some 200 participants in the Global March to Gaza were stopped at a security checkpoint outside of #Cairo, #Egypt as they made their way to Ismailia, a city on the Suez Canal 80 miles east of Cairo. After being held at the checkpoint for several hours and having their passports temporarily confiscated, marchers were physically dragged onto buses back to Cairo by plainclothes security officials. Other participants who separately managed to reach the hotel in Ismailia were similarly rounded up, some beaten and forced onto buses back to Cairo."
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #news #press #politics @palestine
Leaked Data From Meta Reveal Israeli Companies Are Struggling To Find Customers
from #DropSiteNews
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 #YairLapid, who is often discussed as a more humane, centrist alternative to #BenjaminNetanyahu. Give it a listen and see if you agree with that label."
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine
A Doctor Said Israel’s War Is Fueling Health Crises in Gaza. UCSF Fired Her.
Dr. Rupa Marya of San Francisco is suing for discrimination after her university punished her for speaking out against Israel’s genocide of #Palestinians.
from #TheIntercept [may have paywall]
d continue practicing medicine. " 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.... 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. "
#BlockTheBombs
#EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press #politics @palestine
‘I Felt a Bullet’: Palestinians Recount Deadly Shooting Near New #Gaza Aid Site
Nearly 50 people have been reported killed and 300 others wounded in incidents near the Israeli-backed distribution center, which was designed to keep food out of the hands of Hamas.
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
June 6, 2025 Updated 5:39 a.m. ET
"The rollout of the new aid effort over the past week by the #GazaHumanitarianFoundation, an effort conceived in #Israel and endorsed by the US, was supposed to help #Palestinians get aid while keeping it out of the hands of #Hamas.
Instead the effort, criticized by multiple aid groups and the UN, has devolved into scenes of chaos and death. The #NewYorkTimes spoke to eight witnesses who described how attempting to reach the sites had become a life-threatening endeavor."
#EndBlockadeOfGaza
#FoodAsWeapon
#Palestine #MiddleEast
#news #press #politics @palestine
The Deadliest Period in History for Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Detention
After October 7, 2023, prisoners' conditions and abuse inside all Israeli detention centers have rapidly deteriorated, resulting in at least 70 deaths.
from #DropSiteNews
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.
#EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity
#StopGazaGenocide
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine @israel
#Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in #Gaza, hospital says
Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by #Israel-backed foundation
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
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."
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza
#EmbargoBlockadeIsrael
#ExpelIsraelFromUN
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity
#ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#news #press #politics #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia @palestine
Opposition to Gaza war grows among Israeli soldiers as strikes ramp up
“I refuse to commit war crimes,” Yuval Ben Ari told NBC News earlier this month. “The patriotic thing to do is to say no.”
from #NBCNews #NBC
May 31, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
By Hala Gorani and Shira Pinson
"TEL AVIV — Barely noticeable only a few months ago, opposition is growing about fresh #Israeli operations in #Gaza even among the country’s military reservists, some of whom have publicly called out the government for what they say is an immoral and politically motivated decision to continue the war."
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine @israel
Opposition to Gaza war grows among Israeli soldiers as strikes ramp up
“I refuse to commit war crimes,” Yuval Ben Ari told NBC News earlier this month. “The patriotic thing to do is to say no.”
from #NBCNews #NBC
May 31, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
By Hala Gorani and Shira Pinson
"TEL AVIV — Barely noticeable only a few months ago, opposition is growing about fresh #Israeli operations in #Gaza even among the country’s military reservists, some of whom have publicly called out the government for what they say is an immoral and politically motivated decision to continue the war."
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine