#FreePalestine#FromtheRivertotheSea Like they say: “It’s no use going back to who I was yesterday because I was a different person then.” — Lewis Carroll
The shamelessness of the Board of Deputies to call Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons company, a "Jewish-owned business", like it's your local bakery or kosher butcher.
Hantavirus, leptospirosis, fleas, other viruses and pests are spreading in Gaza because there's no longer a functioning sanitation system. Children are being bitten and falling sick and there's not enough medication and materials for treatment: this is also part of genocide.
Very unfortunate that the Stand Up for Sudan Act has been lost in the news cycle. This is a necessary bill in order to end the violence in what the UN has called “the epicenter of human suffering in the world”. Please call your congressperson and ask them to co-sponsor the bill
Among the properties on offer are homes in Gush Etzion, an Israeli settlement bloc in the occupied West Bank that the British government considers illegal under international law. Following public scrutiny, organisers altered their website to obscure this fact.
The event also features companies involved in settlement construction in occupied Jerusalem. According to reporting by Middle East Eye, participating firms include the Meshulam Levinstein Group, which has developed residential and commercial projects in Israeli settlements in both the West Bank and Jerusalem, including in Homat Shmuel. Another participant, Africa Israel Residences, has likewise been involved in multiple settlement projects across occupied Palestine.
The event has already prompted calls for government intervention from MPs, public figures, and more than 100 organisations that endorsed a Palestinian Youth Movement statement demanding that it be banned.
The organisers’ secrecy reflects the strength of the Palestine movement in Britain today. They know that openly advertising the sale of settlement properties would provoke widespread public opposition. They know the British public overwhelmingly rejects the dispossession of Palestinians and the expansion of settlements, yet they continue to prioritise profit from land theft, occupation, and genocide.
The bottom line is simple: this event should be banned. If it proceeds, people across London should join the mobilisation against it and stand in solidarity with Palestinians resisting dispossession and settlement expansion.
🚨 On June 14, the “Great Israeli Real Estate Event” is set to take place in London, where properties built on stolen Palestinian land will be marketed to Jewish buyers. As shown in the attached screenshot, prospective buyers are required to list a synagogue affiliation.
New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever.
Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car.
Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother.
In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.