Israel just killed Esperanza in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, South Lebanon.
She wasn’t a combatant.
She was a school principal.
Israel dropped a bomb on her vehicle, murdering her, her husband, and her housemaid instantly.
51 years ago today, on July 5, 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first Black man to win a #Wimbledon singles title.
I won the Wimbledon women's singles title the same year, and we shared a dance together at the ball.
📷: Alamy
🚨 UPDATE | Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered the state to respond by Tuesday, July 7, to a petition seeking the release of 14 Palestinian doctors from Gaza held without charge, and to specifically address the condition of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, following new allegations that he faces an immediate risk to his life.
The petition was filed by Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) on April 30, but the state has repeatedly received court-approved extensions to respond. After the state sought another delay, PHRI objected, citing new information from Dr. Abu Safiya’s lawyer, Nasser Odeh, who said his client had been subjected to repeated severe beatings, suffered visible injuries, and had deteriorated to the point that he was difficult to recognize.
PHRI has also asked a Supreme Court justice to urgently visit Dr. Abu Safiya in prison and said it will seek an independent cardiologist’s examination and additional lawyer visits amid growing concerns over his health.
BREAKING (bones)
Why does "Bring Them Home" exist only for some hostages?
Because in Apartheid Israel, where only Jewish lives matter, brutalising the Palestinians isn't an anomaly - it is the system. And the silence around it is the exact measure of our collective hypocrisy.
Physicians for Human Rights Israel has warned that Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, is now in immediate danger of being killed in Israeli occupation custody. His lawyer, Nasser Odeh, who visited him on 2 July at the underground Rakefet interrogation facility inside Nitzan Prison, said he barely recognized him. Dr. Abu Safiya was brought in shackled hand and foot, flanked by masked guards, his head, eyes, ears and neck covered in fresh injuries. He struggled to breathe and speak, could not sit upright without nearly collapsing, and seemed close to losing consciousness, too frightened to speak freely.
He told his lawyer that after his Supreme Court appeal was heard in June, guards entered his solitary cell and beat him with a hammer and batons, and that since his transfer to Rakefet on 24 June he has been beaten daily to the point of repeatedly losing consciousness, with no medical care. He said plainly: this is the last time you will see me, they brought me here to kill me. Held since December 2024 under the occupation's "Unlawful Combatants" law, without charge or trial, Dr. Abu Safiya saw his beatings escalate sharply only after he legally challenged his detention, and both his lawyer and PHRI are demanding his immediate transfer, an independent medical examination and his release, warning that any delay could cost him his life.
🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears, and neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially struggled to recognize him.
🔹Attorney Nasser Odeh, who saw Abu Safiya Thursday at the underground Rakefet interrogation facility in Nitzan Prison, said he arrived shackled hand and foot, escorted by masked guards, struggling to breathe and speak, unable to sit upright, and repeatedly on the verge of losing consciousness.
🔹Abu Safiya told him that after his Supreme Court appeal was heard June 10, four or five guards entered his solitary cell at Ganot Prison and beat him with a hammer and batons, and that since his June 24 transfer to Rakefet he has been beaten daily, losing consciousness several times without receiving medical treatment.
🔹“This is the last time you will see me,” he told his lawyer. “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving. This is the end.”
🔹PHRI notes the escalation in torture began directly after Abu Safiya challenged his detention in court. He has been held without charge since December 27, 2024, under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law.
🔹The group has appealed to Israel’s attorney general and prison service demanding his immediate transfer, an independent medical examination, and an urgent judicial visit “before it is too late.”
Photo: Amnesty International
I am gravely concerned by reports of a severe deterioration in the condition of Dr. Abu Safiyah.
We reiterate our demands for his release, along with all other doctors being held without charge.
Non basta salvarsi dal mare se l’odio ti aspetta a terra.
Fugge dalla Nigeria perché amare una persona del proprio sesso può costarti la libertà o la vita. Nel sud del Paese l’omosessualità è punita con fino a 14 anni di carcere, mentre in alcuni stati del nord, dove vige la Sharia, è prevista perfino la pena di morte.
A soli 16 anni attraversa il deserto. Sopravvive a un anno di violenze e sofferenze in Libia. Affronta il Mediterraneo su un gommone con altre 119 persone: 44 di loro non arriveranno mai a Lampedusa. Il mare inghiotte le loro vite.
Evans Ogbajie arriva in Italia. Ottiene lo status di rifugiato, trova un lavoro come benzinaio a Zanè, in provincia di Vicenza, e conquista tutti sul campo da calcio, diventando capocannoniere con il Silva Marano. Finalmente pensa di poter vivere senza nascondersi, senza paura, senza dover chiedere scusa per ciò che è.
Ma la violenza cambia volto, non sempre sostanza.
Il 2 luglio, alle sette del mattino, trova la sua auto devastata: carrozzeria sfregiata, insulti omofobi, un disegno osceno sul cofano, le scritte “Troia” e “Gay”, la targa strappata e gettata a terra.
Questa non è una bravata. È un crimine d’odio. È il segnale che il pregiudizio continua ad avvelenare la nostra società.
Ci indigniamo per le persecuzioni nei Paesi lontani, ma troppo spesso ignoriamo l’odio che cresce nelle nostre città, nei nostri quartieri, nelle nostre strade. Un rifugiato che scappa dalla persecuzione non dovrebbe ritrovarsi a fare i conti con la stessa intolleranza nel Paese che gli ha promesso protezione.
La dignità umana non ha nazionalità, colore della pelle né orientamento sessuale. Chi semina odio contro chi è diverso non difende alcun valore: calpesta i principi fondamentali di una società democratica.
A Evans Ogbajie va tutta la mia solidarietà. Agli autori di questo gesto, invece, va la condanna più ferma. Perché il silenzio davanti all’odio è la sua forma più pericolosa di complicità.
La Rai non vuole che si parli del calo di ascolti della terza rete, snaturata nel suo Dna dalle scelte del vertice aziendale
La Rai impedisce di mandare in onda i nostri comunicati sindacali, ma intanto sempre più personalità della società civile aderiscono alla nostra campagna
Gary Lineker on Gaza, "It's the worst thing I have seen in my lifetime. Constant images day in, day out of children losing their lives."
"But the minute you raise your voice against it you get accused of being a supporter of Hamas."
Breaking; A Palestinian child was killed and another injured after an Israeli quadcopter drone dropped a grenade on them while they were collecting water behind the Al-Omari Mosque in eastern Gaza City. Both children are from the Toutah family.
Festival identitario a Ferrara. Sul palco proiettata la foto di Italo Balbo con la divisa squadrista della Marcia su Roma del 1922. Il Balbo Quadrumviro e gerarca della violenza fascista celebrato con i loghi e i patrocini del Ministero e della Rai. I fatti sono questi. #matrice
Negli ultimi 1.000 giorni di #GENOCIDIO, Israele ha massacrato 565 bambini, nati e uccisi entrambi nel corso del genocidio, oltre ad aver sterminato 30.000 bambini palestinesi con bombe, con pallottole, missili e con la fame e infezioni… Distruggendo l’essenza dell’infanzia e tutte le condizioni per la sopravvivenza umana a #Gaza.
E ora Israele sta costruendo un campo di concentramento nella parte orientale di Gaza per giustificare i bombardamenti, l’affamamento e l’invasione della parte occidentale di Gaza, dove si è concentrata l’intera popolazione.
Un campo di concentramento dentro il campo di sterminio.
Bisogna esssre sadici e psicopatici per giustificare tale barbarie.
@muhammadshehad2 documenta il primo genocidio in mondovisione.
Esto no es un campo de concentración grabado en el siglo pasado, son imágenes actuales del gueto de Hebrón, en Cisjordania, donde el ejército sionista tiene un apartheid montado para los palestinos, que pasan por jaulas y puntos de controles armados.
No lo verás jamás en TV, así es como vive el pueblo palestino bajo ocupación en su propia tierra.