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Thursday, September 11, 2025

"Settler violence, carried out under the protection and encouragement of Israeli authorities, is an inseparable part of the Jewish supremacy regime, which perpetrates genocide in the Gaza Strip and forcibly displaces thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank."

https://x.com/btselem/status/1966063601292120437

Every day, settlers invade Palestinian lands to "demonstrate presence" and instill fear: through shouting, property vandalism, trespassing into homes and yards of families, riding ATVs through homes and sheep pens, filming, and creating provocations.

Sometimes these routine harassments escalate into severe violence and even killing. 

Settler violence, carried out under the protection and encouragement of Israeli authorities, is an inseparable part of the Jewish supremacy regime, which perpetrates genocide in the Gaza Strip and forcibly displaces thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank.

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

Stop the genocide. Now.

 

 

 

 B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Such a future will only be possible when the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime end. That is the future we are working towards. B’Tselem (in Hebrew literally: in the image of), the name chosen for the organization by the late Member of Knesset Yossi Sarid, is an allusion to Genesis 1:27: “And God created humankind in His image. In the image of God did He create them.” The name expresses the universal and Jewish moral edict to respect and uphold the human rights of all people.   https://www.btselem.org/about_btselem

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For nearly two years, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza, acting in a systematic, deliberate way to destroy Palestinian society there through mass killing, causing serious bodily and mental harm and creating catastrophic conditions that prevent its continued existence in Gaza. Israel is openly promoting ethnic cleansing and the destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure for individuals and the group, with 2 million people starved, displaced, bombed and left by the world to die. The genocide must be stopped.

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" “Why does the PM insist on blowing up any deal that comes close?” despaired the mother of a hostage held in Gaza, following Israel’s airstrike in Qatar on Tuesday. For anyone who doubted Benjamin Netanyahu’s commitment to the forever war he unleashed after 7 October..." The Guardian view on Israel’s attack in Doha: western passivity is allowing Netanyahu to cross every red line

A grab from CCTV of the Israeli attack on Hamas negotiators in Qatar. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
The attempt to assassinate Hamas negotiators in the capital of a US ally was the act of a rogue government uninterested in peace
 

“Why does the PM insist on blowing up any deal that comes close?” despaired the mother of a hostage held in Gaza, following Israel’s airstrike in Qatar on Tuesday. For anyone who doubted Benjamin Netanyahu’s commitment to the forever war he unleashed after 7 October, the attempt to wipe out Hamas’s ceasefire negotiation team in Doha offered grim confirmation that peace – and the return of Israeli hostages – is low on Mr Netanyahu’s list of current priorities.

Just how close Hamas’s leadership was to endorsing ceasefire proposals backed by Donald Trump – which were being discussed in the capital of an established US ally – is unclear. However, Mr Netanyahu’s strike has ensured that its negotiators will not agree to sit round a table again anytime soon. Israel swiftly stated that the attack was in response to the Hamas-claimed shooting in Jerusalem on Monday, in which six people died. But it also occurred as the Israeli military ordered the complete evacuation of Gaza City, ahead of a full-scale invasion that will bring further death and destruction to a starving, traumatised population.

It could not be plainer that ending the suffering is not compatible with the goals of Mr Netanyahu, and the far-right allies on which his government depends. But faced with such contemptuous intransigence – and growing evidence that those goals include establishing a “Greater Israel” stretching beyond 1967 borders – the west’s response is pusillanimous and painfully inadequate.

As Mr Trump issues ignored deadlines and empty exhortations to peace on social media, Mr Netanyahu is deploying US-derived military might to act with impunity, unilaterally striking targets when and where he wishes. Yet though the president criticised Israel after Tuesday’s attack for violating the sovereignty of a US ally, he also made a point of approving the general aim of eliminating Hamas. For Mr Trump, it appears that there are no truly red lines for Israel’s extremist government to cross.

Against that alarming and dangerous backdrop, it is imperative that Sir Keir Starmer and other European leaders seek to exert greater pressure both on Washington and Israel itself... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/10/the-guardian-view-on-israels-attack-in-doha-western-passivity-is-allowing-netanyahu-to-cross-every-red-line

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Maps: Israel has attacked six countries in the past 72 hours In just three days, Israel has carried out strikes in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Qatar and Yemen.


Since its onset in October 2023, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 64,656 people, including at least 404 who have died of starvation. Thousands more have been lost under the rubble and are believed to be dead.


Despite a truce, Israel bombs Lebanon

On Monday at 1:00pm local time (10:00am GMT), Israeli warplanes carried out strikes in the Bekaa and Hermel districts of eastern Lebanon, killing at least five people.

Israel’s military claimed it had struck weapons depots and military facilities used by Hezbollah, though the assertion could not be independently verified. Hezbollah has not yet issued a response.

The attacks marked the latest breach of a ceasefire agreement signed last November.

Despite the truce, Israel has continued near-daily assaults on Lebanese territory, particularly in the south, and maintains an occupation at five border outposts in violation of the ceasefire’s withdrawal terms.

On Tuesday, an Israeli drone strike was reported at the entrance of the village of Barja, about 30km (19 miles) south of Beirut, wounding a Hezbollah member.

Israel targets Syria

On late Monday night, Israeli warplanes struck several sites in Syria, hitting a Syrian air force base in Homs and a military barracks near Latakia, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).... READ MORE  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/10/maps-israel-has-attacked-six-countries-in-the-past-72-hours

Israel targets [bombs] Yemen

Israel targets [bombs] Lebanon

Israel targets [bombs] Palestine

Israel targets [bombs] Syria 

Israel targets [bombs] Tunisia

Israel targets [bombs] Qatar...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/10/maps-israel-has-attacked-six-countries-in-the-past-72-hours

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Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Arab Christian Bedouin woman from the town of Al-Karak, Ottoman Empire, 1898... before WWII shaped Western imposed borders & bigotry that ended freedom & respect for Arabs in The Holy Land

Arab Christian Bedouin woman from the town of Al-Karak, Ottoman Empire, 1898.

1946, Jerusalem, Palestine: Janette Mikhael with teachers and students of the Girl Scout Leaders at Horsh al-Qubaybeh located west of Jerusalem.

1946, Jerusalem, Palestine: Janette Mikhael with teachers and students of the Girl Scout Leaders at Horsh al-Qubaybeh located west of Jerusalem.  @palsofnations


Girl Scout Promise

On my honor, I will try:
To serve God* and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law.

*Members may substitute for the word God
in accordance with their own spiritual beliefs.

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Israel targets and kills at least one child every hour...

Israel targets and kills at least one child every hour

I know people who obeyed Israeli displacement orders and evacuated Gaza City to the south, only to be killed there It’s never about where we can be safe, but about where the Israeli occupation chooses to bomb us
 
Israeli forces bombed a residential building of the Hussari family in Shate refugee camp, west of Gaza City, bringing it down on its inhabitants. Around 25 family members remain trapped under the rubble.
 
 
It’s not an “evacuation order” when there is nowhere to go and Israel is destroying the city so Palestinians have nothing to return to. 
 
The words they refuse to use are ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, war crime… Western media is whitewashing genocide in real time.
 
 
Keep your eyes on Gaza 
 
In just 72 hours:
Israeli occupation military bombed and destroyed FIVE high-rise buildings that included 209 apartments. 
 
Each apartment sheltered at least 30 people —owners and displaced relatives. 
 
More than 350 tents were destroyed, each hosting around 10 displaced persons —about 3,500 people lost their last refuge.
 
 
The attacks on residential towers in #Gaza have displaced dozens of families, many left on the streets without shelter or basic necessities. 
 
With humanitarian access severely restricted, the suffering of already displaced persons is only deepening. 
 
We need a #CeasefireNow.
 
 
#Gaza is being obliterated, reduced to a wasteland. 
 
Gaza is being emptied from its starving population forced to move into the so called “humanitarian” area of Mawasi. 
 
There is no safe place in Gaza, let alone a humanitarian zone. It is a large and growing camp concentrating hungry Palestinians in despair. 
 
Warnings of #famine have fallen on deaf ears. 
 
Will warnings of this deepening catastrophe also fall on deaf ears? 
 
 #Ceasefire, before it is way too late. 
 
 End the impunity before atrocities become the new norm.
 
"#Gaza is a graveyard." 
 
Speaking at the @UN Human Rights Council, @UNHumanRights chief @volker_turk said he was "horrified by the open use of genocidal rhetoric, and the disgraceful dehumanization of Palestinians by senior Israeli officials." 
 

Mahmoud Khalil : “My story is just a small story,” he says. “A story of how violence against Palestinians can be transported around the world.” ... A Palestinian refugee, intimately familiar with the experience of repeated displacement, he remains resolute in the face of a prospective fresh exile. “Even if I am deported, I would continue to speak out for Palestine,”

"Liberation doesn’t mean throwing anyone out. Liberation means liberating everyone, whether the oppressed or the oppressors"

"In a time where you know that injustices are happening around you, staying silent is complicity"

"What shocked me, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria"

‘Who I am has been skewed so much’ … Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was released from Ice detention in June, in New York, August 2025. Photograph: Ahmed Gaber/The Guardian

Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty’

His grandparents survived the Nakba and he fled Assad’s Syria. Khalil is no stranger to political persecution, but not even Trump’s crackdown can silence him

Mon 8 Sep 2025 08.00 EDT When a history of resistance to the lurching authoritarianism of... READ MORE   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/08/mahmoud-khalil-update-release-detention-trump 
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Monday, September 8, 2025

US visa refusal for Palestinian delegation prompts calls to move UN meeting to Geneva. General assembly session about two-state solution for Palestine and Israel due to start in New York on Tuesday

The UK, France, Australia, Canada and others are expected to recognise a Palestinian state if certain conditions are met. Photograph: Haitham Imad /EPA
The US’s refusal to grant visas to the Palestinian delegation to the UN general assembly has led to calls for a one-day conference on a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel to be moved from the UN’s headquarters in New York to its other main site in Geneva.

Donald Trump’s White House has already refused to grant a visa to the Palestinian Authority (PA) president, Mahmoud Abbas, and 80 other Palestinian officials for the general assembly session, which begins on Tuesday.

There is now speculation that, citing anti-terrorist laws, he will also ban diplomats from Brazil, Iran, Sudan and Zimbabwe.

In 1988 the US debarred the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), Yasser Arafat, from travelling to New York.

But the White House is going further than before by withholding visas from the entire travelling Palestinian delegation to probably the most important diplomatic event for Palestine since the Oslo accords – a one-day event at which the UK, France, Australia, Canada and others are expected to recognise a Palestinian state if certain conditions are met, which has infuriated Israel.

Such a blanket ban has never been attempted in the history of the UN. Per Clausen, a Danish MEP who is a member of the Left group, has called for Europe to propose a temporary transfer to Geneva “both to uphold the Palestinians’ right to be represented and to... READ MORE    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/08/us-visa-refusal-for-palestinian-delegation-prompts-calls-to-move-un-meeting-to-geneva

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Israel used to lie about killing journalists; now it barely bothers to do so. What happened? by Meron Rapoport in The Guardian

A person holding a picture of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on 10 August, at a protest in New York, 16 August 2025. Photograph: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

Israel used to lie about killing journalists; now it barely bothers to do so. What happened?

The ‘most moral army in the world’ has killed at least 248 journalists in Gaza, seemingly without any shame

Meron Rapoport is an Israeli journalist for +972 magazine and Local Call

In September 2022, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published the results of an internal investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin four months earlier. “There is a high possibility that Ms Abu Akleh was accidentally hit by IDF gunfire that was fired toward suspects identified as armed Palestinian gunmen,” read the summary of the investigation. The IDF expressed “its deep condolences” over her death. “The freedom of the press and maintaining the safety of journalists are part of the primary components of Israeli democracy, which the IDF is committed to upholding,” it added.

This statement had little to do with the facts. Not only did numerous independent investigations indicate that Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli soldiers (a claim which the Israeli army initially denied, saying “there is a possibility, now being looked into, that reporters were hit – possibly by shots fired by Palestinian gunmen)”, but the New York Times also reported after reviewing the scene that “there were no armed Palestinians near her when she was shot”. A report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, published a year later, found that no Israeli soldier was charged in the killing of 20 journalists – 18 of them Palestinian – in the West Bank and Gaza between 2001 and 2023, making the IDF’s purported commitment to the freedom of the press look deprived of any real meaning.

Yet now we can only long for these kinds of half-truths, lies and empty words from the Israeli army. In early August, the Israeli army proudly announced that its missiles had killed Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif in Gaza City. It did not even try to pretend that it was a mistake. He was the target. Gone was the commitment to the freedom of the press. The army claimed that Sharif was a Hamas militant but shared scant evidence that he was involved in military operations during the war. The Israeli army did not bother to “express its deep condolences” for the killing of five other journalists who happened to be sleeping in the tent near Sharif and against whom no claim of Hamas affiliation was mentioned. They were collateral damage.

But even this shady justification seems rock-solid compared with the recent attack on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis which killed at least 20 Palestinians, among them five journalists – bringing the number of journalists killed in Gaza to at least 248 since the beginning of the war, according to the UN. This time around the target was not a supposed “Hamas operative”, as in the case of Sharif, but a camera. For the Israeli army, a camera, whose position was well known – journalists have used this spot for a live feed from Khan Younis for a long time – was worthy of firing two or four tank shells. If, three years ago, the army was allegedly embarrassed by the killing of a journalist, now it has become routine.

This lack of shame is now one of the main features of Israel’s war on Gaza... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/08/israel-journalists-kill-army-gaza?CMP=opinionuk_email 
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