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Lara, speaking from Brazil, has had no contact with her husband, Thiago Ávila, since he was abducted and detained illegally by Israeli forces from the 'Madleen'. Since then, Thiago has been placed in solitary confinement, denied communication with his family.

According to Lara, Israeli authorities threatened Thiago with the psychological torment of isolation without light or ventilation. Despite this, Thiago remains on hunger strike, holding firm to his belief in justice for Palestinians and the right of every child to food, safety, and freedom.

From his prison cell, he wrote a letter to his 1-year-old daughter. Lara generously shares that with us today.

This is a call not just for Thiago’s release—but for the world to pay attention to Gaza, to Palestine, and to all people who are exploited, forced to live under occupation.

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And another new update from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition:
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Lara, speaking from Brazil, has had no contact with her husband, Thiago Ávila, since he was abducted and detained illegally by Israeli forces from the 'Madleen'. Since then, Thiago has been placed in solitary confinement, denied communication with his family.

According to Lara, Israeli authorities threatened Thiago with the psychological torment of isolation without light or ventilation. Despite this, Thiago remains on hunger strike, holding firm to his belief in justice for Palestinians and the right of every child to food, safety, and freedom.

From his prison cell, he wrote a letter to his 1-year-old daughter. Lara generously shares that with us today.

This is a call not just for Thiago’s release—but for the world to pay attention to Gaza, to Palestine, and to all people who are exploited, forced to live under occupation.

#FreedomFlotilla #Madleen #Thiago #IOF #WeWillSail #BreakIsraelsSiege #EndTheBlockade
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#Israel #IOF #Shortage
@palestine

"After 20 months of genocide on the Gaza Strip, Israel is suffering from an acute manpower shortage and has turned to women to replace key roles"
"In May, the Israeli military acknowledged a shortfall exceeding 10,000 soldiers. The crisis is compounded by revelations that over 9,000 reserve troops involved in the Gaza offensive are now undergoing treatment for psychological trauma"
Psychological trauma? My heart bleeds

middleeastmonitor.com/20250611

Middle East Monitor · 1 in 5 Israeli combat soldiers is now female – Middle East Monitor<br /> <b>Warning</b>: Undefined variable $sm_desc in <b>/www/wwwroot/middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/themes/memouk/header.php</b> on line <b>159</b><br /> ...
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New update from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition:
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Some snippets from Greta’s interview after being deported by Israeli authorities. Continue fighting for Palestinians in Gaza, including those in wider Palestine who are unlawfully imprisoned, including over 400 children.

#Madleen #IOF #GretaThunberg #FreedomFlotilla
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#FreedomFlotilla Official Update: It's time for our governments to do their jobs & #sanction #Israel. Its illegal attack on #Madleen while sailing in international waters is a small extension of their #warcrimes in #Gaza. Governments, institutions, media, & corporations must stop protecting Israel, now. They must stop prioritising profit over human lives. Protect our volunteers & protecting #Palestinians.

#BreakIsraelsSiege #EndTheBlockade #Volunteers #IOF #StandWithGaza #StandWithPalestine

#FoodAid #Gaza #StarvingGaza #HungerAsAWeapon #Strips #Genocide #Israel #IsraelTerroristState

All this using a supposedly food aid to lure Palestinian and eventually shooting them as they run to think they're gonna get a little something to prevent their kids from dying is just another way of delivering arms to the fascist zionist army.
...and it is way cheaper than offering billions in armement.

Imagine, a truck of food costs peanuts compared to price of a 1 ton bomb; and #IOF #Snipers can kill hundreds when a bomb kills "just" dozens.
This might sound very cynical but nonetheless true.

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Freedom Flotilla's latest official update, ~1h ago:
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Freedom Flotilla Official Update: It's time for our governments to do their jobs and sanction Israel. Its illegal attack on 'Madleen' while sailing in international waters is a small extension of their war crimes in Gaza. Governments, institutions, media, and corporations must stop protecting Israel, now. They must stop prioritising profit over human lives, now. Protect our volunteers while protecting Palestinians in Gaza and wider Palestine.

#BreakIsraelsSiege #EndTheBlockade #Madleen #FreedomFlotilla #Volunteers #IOF #StandWithGaza #StandWithPalestine
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> Freedom Flotilla Official Update: It's time for our governments to do their jobs and sanction Israel. Its illegal attack on 'Madleen' while sailing in international waters is a small extension of their war crimes in Gaza. Governments, institutions, media, and corporations must stop protecting Israel, now. They must stop prioritising profit over human lives, now. Protect our volunteers while protecting Palestinians in Gaza and wider Palestine.

The kidnapping of the crew of the #Madleen by the #IOF is, as with most actions by #Israel in & around #Gaza & #Palestine as a whole, a flagrant violation of international laws.

The continuous impunity shown in actions by the #USA and its allies reveals who these laws are really for. The silence of western governments and media speak louder still of the kinds of people at the helm.

Keep up the pressure, hold them accountable. This is only acceptable if we allow it to be.

Free Palestine.

French Union #CGT refuses to participate to the genocide by loading pieces of armement ment to be deliver to #IOF

Where are the other French Unions ? They are to afraid to displease Macron's government and the fascist state of Israel, thus being called anti-Semitic.

Quid des autres syndicats et en particulier des carpettes de la CFDT, trop occupés à s’aplatir devant la Macronie pour garder leur statut de "1er syndicat de France".
Trop terorisés qu'on puisse les taxer, évidemment, d'antisémitisme.

#Union #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #StandUpAgainstGenocidalIsrael
#UnitedWeStand #DividedWeFall #NoMoreArmsDeliveriesToFascistStates

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@Doug_Bostrom hier moeten we in NL ook uiterst scherp op zijn: Palantir is een ultra fascistische organisatie die technologie, vooral gezichtsherkenning, als wapen inzet en zo een surveillance-staat fasciliteerd, erg populair bij autocratische psychopaten zoals #Netanjahu, #47, #Putin. In de #gazaGenocide spelen ze ook een cruciale en uiterst lucratieve rol: doelselectie. Zij selecteren de hulpverleners en ziekenhuizen die vernietigd worden. Door van Nederlandse wapens voorziene F35s van de #IOF

#IOF #Humanshields
@palestine

"Israeli soldiers have "systematically" used Palestinians as human shields during the 19-month assault on the Gaza Strip"
""Orders often came from the top, and at times nearly every platoon used a Palestinian to clear locations," APreported, citing the account of an unnamed Israeli officer"
As always with Israel, every accusation is a confession.

commondreams.org/news/israel-u

Common Dreams · Israeli Officer Says 'Nearly Every' IDF Platoon Has Used Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza | Common Dreams"These are not isolated accounts; they point to a systemic failure and a horrifying moral collapse," said the executive director of Breaking the Silence.
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The IDF fired at foreign diplomats pressuring Israel to halt its genocide in Gaza and US Ambassador Huckabee thinks the UK, Canada, and France should apologize.

ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/21

Nina-Bytes: Warning Shots and Tidal Forces

"Look, I don’t blame folks for being skeptical of the idea that Pig Empire politicians that have actively enabled Israel’s genocidal war of extermination in Gaza for the past nineteen months actually care about Palestinian lives; they demonstrably do not. Public opinion across pretty much all of the Western world, however, has now swung so hard against “starving babies to death”, that the very same governments that enabled this nightmare are now trying to distance themselves from the slaughter they’ve helped create before it topples them. Time is running out for team genocide. While I realize that the Netanyahu government is jam-packed to the gills with emboldened, bloodthirsty racists, this is an unprecedented act of diplomatic aggression that is going to live in infamy right alongside the genocide Israel is conducting against Palestinians in Gaza; the multiple US governments who’ve made all this carnage and murder possible will be similarly remembered. Zionists have lost their fucking minds if they think they can bully the whole world at once; the tide is turning against Israel and Netanyahu, which is why they’re trying to wipe out all the Palestinians in Gaza as fast as possible, before anyone works up the courage to actually try and stop them."

Nina Illingworth Dot Com | "When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution" · Nina-Bytes: Warning Shots and Tidal Forces | on NIDCThe IDF fired at foreign diplomats pressuring Israel to halt its genocide in Gaza and US Ambassador Huckabee thinks the UK, Canada, and France should apologize.
#Israel#Genocide#Gaza

If you're sure, then release the report!

Microsoft acknowledges it supplied AI technology to Israel's Ministry of Defense, but claims "no evidence" it's been used to "target or harm people in the conflict in Gaza"

eurogamer.net/microsoft-acknow

#Microsoft#AI#Azure