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[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel wants you to believe that multiple UN reports and experts are lying. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights Israel…are all lying.

But you should believe the people who did this…

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

British surgeon Nizam Mamode tells BBC the evidence from Gaza is overwhelming, and blamed public ignorance on mainstream media failing to convey the reality of Israel’s systematic and deliberate killing of Palestinian children, citing latest UN report.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

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.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Sidoti: Here is what Australia should do
‘•The first action should be a wide ranging review to identify the many ways in which Australia’s relations with Israel support Israel committing international crimes. 

•Trade and diplomatic measures include ceasing all defence-related trade with Israel, including dual-use products, components, materials and technology, and ending trade and cooperative ventures with companies developing military items for use by Israel. Australia should also withdraw Australian defence and trade officials from our Tel Aviv embassy and impose secondary sanctions on states conducting defence-related trade with Israel.

•Accountability measures comprise Australia affirming its commitment to enforce international criminal court arrest warrants for Israeli political and military leaders, along with imposing personal sanctions against these leaders and Israeli settlers responsible for violence in the West Bank.

•Legal enforcement actions include investigating and prosecuting Australian citizens who have served in the Israel Defense Forces since October 2023 for potential war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide, while prohibiting Australian citizens from fighting in foreign armed forces. The full force of Australian law should be applied to Australians who commit international crimes, as the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has said.

•Settlement-focused measures would prohibit financial transactions with illegal Israeli settlements and end tax deductibility for Australian charities providing funding to organisations supporting illegal settlements.
Additionally, Australia should provide at least 15,000 humanitarian places for Palestinian refugees from Gaza and restore scholarship eligibility for Palestinians to undertake tertiary studies in Australia.
This is not a wishlist. It is the simple implementation of legal obligations. Australia wants to be a good international citizen. This is how it can be that.’

https://t.co/gnkldB6toX

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

The two men in the photo were identified as:
1.Haj Nadi Marouf
2.Haj Ali Marouf

Both were arrested by Israel from their home in Beit Lahiya north of Gaza.

After being used as human shields, their relatives found them three days later executed.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Fahd Abu Heikal carries the body of his infant son Sam, who was executed yesterday night by israeli troops for being born Palestinian

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

IDF fatally shoots baby, wounds parents in West Bank, medics say https://t.co/aRQp83nj1C

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

They put zip ties on babies before killing them. How is anyone with a conscience supposed to process this horror?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The rising hatred of Muslims has been deliberately fomented by Israel and its supporters.

Last year Drop Site News published a leaked polling report commissioned by the Israeli government which found that Israel's crumbling reputation can be salvaged by spreading fear of Islam.

Drop Site reports the following:

“Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of ‘Radical Islam’ and ‘Jihadism,’ which remain high, the research finds. By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to ‘destroy all Jews and spread Jihadism,’ Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country. ‘Especially once the situation in Gaza is resolved, the room for growth in all countries is very significant,’ the report concludes.”

That's why whenever you post something critical of Israel on a public forum you'll get hasbarists in your replies going "But what about MUSLIMS? Muslims are bad!" There's no natural reason for this to be happening — Islam and Israel are not opposites, and the mention of one has no inherent bearing on the other. It's an artificially manufactured false dichotomy that's been forcefully promoted by Israel apologists.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel is dropping bombs on children in South Lebanon burying them alive beneath the rubble.

This is what they call a “ceasefire.”

[eddie @EddreesTaj]

@wyattreed13 @jaraparilla They should never be allowed to forget it!

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Israeli settlers reportedly stole this man's sheep. When his 16-year-old son confronted them, an Israeli soldier shot the boy dead.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Starmer: "I've spent too much time talking about what I'm doing for working people, and not enough time talking about why, or who I stand for"

There you have it. They're going with, its a comms issue.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Reform UK is not the patriotic alternative to the corrupt political elite which sold you out.

The Reform UK funders I have found have two things in common: they all have businesses based in Tax Havens, and they all funded the Conservative Party.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants.

Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict.

Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences.

Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670?

It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide.

Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: https://t.co/RyDHG3Iz81

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Marco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to restore it "back to the way it was" before Trump started the war in Iran

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israeli forces have raided the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, firing live ammunition that killed a 26-year-old Palestinian man and wounded four others, including children.

Dozens of people have suffered tear gas inhalation.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

A daily reminder that after Disney paid $0 in federal income taxes, got a $1.4 billion tax refund, made $12 billion in profits, spent $7 billion on stock buybacks and paid its CEO $46 million in compensation last year, it laid off 1,000 workers. Trickle down economics is a scam.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

One million children.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The people who write these tweets and the people who employ them don’t deserve to have jobs in journalism.

Israel killed the Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil.

Just say that.