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[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

Amnesty has an Urgent Action on behalf of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. Israel must release him now. Why oh why such cruelty? Why oh why those with the power to hold Israel authorities accountable for their cruelty failing over and over?

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya should be with his loved ones, and caring for the many many people in need of his skills. The last place where he should be is solitary confinement.

https://t.co/ewJQfpEfpZ

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

"Nations committing genocide don't recognize it in real time:" Yuli Novak, Executive Director of B'Tselem, joins this week's edition of the @haaretzcom Podcast to discuss Israel's moral crisis, the government's "propaganda machine," and the hotly debated New York Times article about sexual abuse of Palestinians.

Link to the full episode >> https://t.co/1IGAoJC5fl

Edited by Matan Oz.
Credits: Ofer Vaknin; Mahmoud Illean/AP; Video footage used in accordance with Section 27A of Israel's Copyright Law.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Breaking: After Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s legal team appealed his arbitrary detention, Israeli authorities transferred him on 3 June 2026 from Naqab Prison to solitary confinement in Nafha as a punitive measure. The move comes amid harsh conditions and denial of medical treatment.

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

“We do not load death.”

Dockworkers’ unions from more than 35 ports sign joint declaration calling for an end to Israel’s genocide and apartheid against Palestinians and for a day of international struggle of dockworkers in October.

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

Twitterites, I will be having very major surgery on Thursday. Those who have followed me for some time may remember that I have been waiting for this surgery since I was diagnosed with cancer in October 2024. for a long while it seemed as though I could not undergo the operation. It involves a major hepatectomy (lopping off of at least half my liver) in an attempt to make me cancer free (metastases have been limited to my liver for a while now). There are numerous complications, quite a few of them life threatening. I will be closely monitored and expect to be hospitalized for 10-12 days at least. Then I will a long convalescence and chemo and all the other treats to which this good news entitles me :)

I've decided to stop writing here till I can physically return, hopefully within several days. I am afraid, but thankfully not in a paralyzing way. Frank Herbert's litany from Dune has helped me focus ("I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer..."). I was afraid of being torn asunder by my fear. Acknowledging this fear has helped me to realize that live or die, I will remain Ori. My faith in human solidarity is only strengthened by my conviction that we are all fleeting and temporary, that we are all on the verge of being consumed by fear, that we are the first and most important village required to raise all of us.

Be good :) Do everything I wouldn't do. I will resurface as soon as I can. You are my community, a constant source of hope and even solace (as well as permanent annoyance sometimes). I have no plans of disappearing anywhere or anytime soon. Thank you for reading, for writing, for insisting on interaction. You mean the world to me.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

My article 'Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza' in Third World Quarterly is currently free to access, download it while you can! https://t.co/iJDKFAKD5N #GazaGenocide‌

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

Theft and war crimes in full day light. The world permits this atits own peril.

https://t.co/j7tiudD2lZ

#Gaza #Nakba #Genocide #Settlers

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

Wow, the solar panels, likely from one of the flotilla boats, have washed ashore in Gaza.

From IG: https://t.co/UeFwicajP2

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

Human development in the #Gaza Strip has been set back 77 years as a result of the war, according to report by @WorldBankGroup @‌EUpalestinians @‌UN. The past two years has brought a severe decline in living conditions, livelihoods, food security, gender equality, and social inclusion.

Today, the entire population of Gaza is experiencing significant, direct, and long-term negative effects to health, psychosocial well-being and livelihoods. UNRWA’s lifesaving assistance, including healthcare, helps negate some of these negative effects.

UNRWA has the infrastructure, staff, knowledge, experience, skills that would allow it to scale up its services and support to the community if only more supplies are allowed into the Gaza Strip.

Read more: https://t.co/V5ZLwPo8V8

[elDiario.es @eldiarioes]

ENTREVISTA | Ilan Pappé: “Si la UE impusiera a Israel la mitad de las sanciones que impone a Rusia, salvaría a miles de palestinos”https://t.co/g5owcTaNuA

[M Graetz @MaeGraetz]

@Ladaktusson @bladetledare Tänkte att detta kunde vara intressant i sammanhanget: https://t.co/P4YIAaWVQ5

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Taybeh: The West Bank's last fully Christian village is on the verge of erasure.

Yesterday, Israeli soldiers stormed the village and attempted to shut down a Catholic Marian festival honoring the Virgin Mary.

The local church had to contact church authorities immediately — escalating the matter until it reached Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Lex Pouliot, manager of Middle East projects for the Vulnerable People Project: "Our fear this morning was that radical settlers would disrupt preparations for the Marian Festival. Instead, it was far more disturbing to watch the Israeli military intervene."

Church leaders and residents are calling on the world to intervene before it's too late — they are under attack by the Israeli army and settlers. So far, no one seems to care, as the attacks on the village continue.

Israel appointed its first-ever Special Envoy to the Christian world this month. Has anyone heard from him about the attacks on Taybeh? https://t.co/tOCw1yfZE0

[MK Aida Touma-Sliman @AidaTuma]

מערכת הבריאות הפלסטינית בגדה קורסת מול העיניים.
מרפאות נסגרות, תרופות אוזלות, חולי סרטן וכליות נשארים בלי טיפול, אמבולנסים נתקעים במחסומים ורופאים עובדים בלי שכר.

זו לא ״קריסה״ שנפלה מהשמיים. זו תוצאה ישירה של מדיניות: עיקול כספי הרשות, חסימות, סגרים, פירוק מוסדות פלסטיניים והפיכת החיים עצמם לבלתי אפשריים.

טרנספר לא מתחיל רק בגירוש.
הוא מתחיל כשמפרקים קהילה צעד אחרי צעד: בריאות, פרנסה, תנועה, חינוך וביטחון בסיסי.

על זה בדיוק נדבר ביום שלישי בכנסת.
כך עושים טרנספר: קהילות תחת מתקפה

הכתבה המלאה:
https://t.co/kz0qcgsUaT

[Euro-Med Monitor @EuroMedHR]

🧵Serious allegations of sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli detention have been raised by UN bodies, human rights organisations, and media.

Instead of allowing independent investigations or granting access to international investigators, #Israel has responded by prosecuting journalists, discrediting human rights organisations, and launching smear campaigns against those documenting the allegations.

Calls for accountability continue, but so far the response has been denial, obstruction, and pressure on those who report.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

🚨Research from Save the Children: Palestinian children are being physically, emotionally and sexually abused, humiliated and starved in Israeli military detention.

The torture, and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of children, is getting worse.

🔴 More than half of the formerly-detained children we surveyed reported witnessing or experiencing sexual violence
🔴 99% reported physical assault
🔴 82% reported being forcibly stripped naked
🔴 94% reported being denied medical care
🔴 100% reported being denied contact with their families

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

It isn’t just Palestinians – Western media is also ignoring shocking accounts of abuse from white Western activists detained by Israeli forces after an illegal raid on the Global Sumud Flotilla.

We compiled 11 of the most disturbing testimonies.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 NEW: UN report details rape, gang rape and genital violence against Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces

The UN Secretary-General’s report submitted to the Security Council verifies 31 victims of sexual violence linked to Israeli forces in 2025 — against 14 men, seven women, nine children and one girl — across detention facilities in Gaza and the West Bank, according to Haaretz, which said it had reviewed the report.

Key Details:

🔸“Violations consisted of rape, including with objects, gang rape, attempted rape, physical violence to the genitals, instances of targeted shooting of the genitals, touching of breasts and genitals, strip and cavity searches conducted without apparent security justification, forced nudity and threats of rape,” the report said.

🔸 9 victims, most of them Gaza residents, were subjected to rape and gang rape — in some cases repeatedly. Men and boys were allegedly subjected to rape or attempted rape and violence to the genitals, “resulting in five male victims suffering severe rectal bleeding or swelling for multiple days or weeks and, in some cases, without receiving medical treatment.”

🔸 The report named the IDF, Israeli Prison Service and Border Police Counter Terrorism Unit as responsible. Facilities cited include Sde Teiman, Etzion, and prisons Megiddo, Ofer, Ramla, HaSharon, Shatta, Nafha and Damon.

🔸 The UN said its findings likely reflect only part of a broader pattern, citing Israel’s continued denial of access to detention facilities and explicit threats against detainees to coerce them not to report abuse.

🔗 Full report below.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

By the summer of 2024, Israeli infantry officers in Gaza were routinely press-ganging Palestinian civilians to serve as human shields. The practice became so widespread that it had its own name: the human shields were called “mosquitoes." https://t.co/mbrkNE3TR9

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Yeah, your job was not to interview the perpetrator, your job was to find his victims and ask them about what happened so Jonathan can be brought to justice. What is this “I feel bad about my war crimes” discourse ffs

[Jacobin @jacobin]

After Colombia successfully halted coal shipments to Israel’s war machine, South Africa — one of the world’s strongest critics of Israel’s genocide in Gaza — kept Israel’s coal plants burning, now supplying 88% of Israel’s seaborne thermal coal. https://t.co/l2qU0SNaFt

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

Let us be clear. The report “Laundering Propaganda” is not a bonafide assessment of humanitarian reporting in Gaza. It is an Israeli State-authored "counter-narrative," produced in the midst of ongoing proceedings before the International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ, mounting international scrutiny of Israel’s conduct in the occupied Palestinian territory, and unrefuted evidence of catastrophic humanitarian harm in Gaza.

Its central argument is that @UN agencies, humanitarian actors, and independent experts systematically manipulated information in service of Hamas. Yet the report fails to demonstrate the one thing required to sustain so grave an allegation: evidence of coordinated bad faith. Instead, it proceeds by insinuation, conflating the inevitable imperfections of data collection during hostilities with deliberate institutional deceit. Humanitarian agencies operating in a besieged and devastated territory will necessarily rely, at least in part, on local sources, including health authorities. That is not “laundering propaganda.” It is how humanitarian operations function in modern armed conflict. The relevant question is whether information is transparently sourced, caveated, and revised when necessary, not whether it originates from actors Israel distrusts.

More troubling is the report’s profoundly distorted understanding of neutrality in international humanitarian law. It repeatedly suggests that humanitarian actors lose neutrality when they report civilian deaths, starvation risks, attacks on civilian objects including hospitals, forcible transfer of protected persons, or restrictions on humanitarian access without simultaneously foregrounding Hamas conduct. That proposition has no basis in the law governing humanitarian action. Neutrality does not require silence in the face of human suffering, nor does impartiality require the artificial balancing of every factual statement concerning civilian harm.

The report also proceeds from an apparent assumption that Hamas violations materially dilute Israel’s own legal obligations. They do not. Even where Hamas unlawfully embeds itself among civilians or violates the customary rules of war, Israel remains fully bound by the principles of military necessity, distinction, proportionality, precautions in attack, and by its obligations as occupying Power under the Fourth Geneva Convention, including the duty to facilitate humanitarian relief.

International humanitarian law is not reciprocal. One party’s violations do not license the other’s.

The report is perhaps most revealing for what it omits. There is scarcely meaningful engagement with the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinions of 2024 and 2025, the Court’s provisional measures in South Africa v. Israel, the law of occupation, or the extensive ICRC commentary governing humanitarian access and relief operations. Nor does it seriously confront the preventive nature of famine warnings and IPC assessments, which are designed precisely to warn before mass mortality occurs. Instead, the document seeks to reframe humanitarian alarm itself as evidence of political hostility.

In that respect, the report does not read as a forensic examination of evidentiary standards. It reads as an attempt to delegitimize the institutions, legal frameworks, and humanitarian actors documenting the consequences of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, at the very moment those consequences have become impossible for much of the world to ignore.