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[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

WARNING! GRAPHIC!

While the rest of the world was watching the World Cup, Israel did this to a young Palestinian child in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, Gaza.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 GAZA | June 29

Israeli forces killed at least 8 Palestinians, including two young girls, and wounded more than 40 others across Gaza on Monday, pressing their violations of the ceasefire into a 263rd straight day, Palestine Online reported, citing medical sources.

🔸 Diana Mohammed Salem Abu Draz, 23, and her one-year-old daughter Sawar Thaer Abu Draz were killed when Israeli aircraft struck displacement tents in the Ard al-Basal area of Mawasi Khan Younis, causing heavy destruction

🔸 Mohammed Fathi Abu Fakhr and Khalil Hussein Khalil al-Louqa were killed and 8 others wounded in a drone strike on a seaside rest area in Khan Younis.

🔸 Salim Khader al-Ashqar, 31, was shot dead by an Israeli tank northeast of Hamad City, north of Khan Younis. Married only months ago, he was expecting his first child.

🔸 Three people, including a child, were killed in an airstrike near a bakery in southwestern Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says 1,041 Palestinians have now been killed since the ceasefire took effect in October, part of a cumulative toll of 73,054 since October 2023.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

A Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 fan at the World Cup sees an 🇮🇱 flag & shouts for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸:

‘I was a nurse in Gaza 🇵🇸’
‘I volunteered’
‘I saw it for myself’
‘It is a genocide’

Refusing to be silenced 👏

A Flower of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

I have been reading the new UN report about how Israel has been targeting children in Gaza. There are no words to describe how awful it is. Here are some of the worst examples:

1) Hind Rajab and family, Tel al-Hawa, Gaza City, 29 Jan 2024. Named. A family of seven plus two paramedics killed. Hind Rajab, 5 to 6, stayed on the phone with rescuers for hours, trapped in a car among her dead relatives. Her cousin Layan Hamadeh, 15, was killed mid-call. The rescue ambulance, dispatched with COGAT clearance, was shelled.

2) The 15-year-old with the white flag, Khan Younis, 24 Jan 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the foot during an ordered evacuation while holding a white cloth, then shot twice more in the back and neck as he tried to rise. His 20-year-old brother killed running to him; their mother shot signaling for an ambulance. Assessed as DAN .338 sniper fire from about 200m.

3) The 10-day-old baby, Nuseirat camp, 12 Apr 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the head by a quadcopter-mounted rifle while being breastfed inside a tent. Survived with brain damage and seizures.

4) The 14-year-old killed with fragmenting pellets, Aug 2024. Anonymous. Cube-shaped pellets that fragmented internally like cluster munitions, destroying multiple organs. The report flags the munition itself as a possible war crime.

5) Jadallah "Jad" Jadallah, Al-Far'a camp, Tubas, 16 Nov 2025. Named. Jadallah Jihad Jouma Jadallah, 14, shot at close range and left bleeding for roughly 45 minutes while about 14 soldiers stood around him. One kicked his cap back when he threw it for attention, one filmed him, one placed a stone beside him to stage a stone-throwing pretext. Soldiers fired at his approaching mother and blocked two ambulances. Body withheld.

6) Layla al-Khatib, Muthallath al-Shuhada, 25 Jan 2025. Named. Layla (Laila) Muhammad Ayman al-Khatib, 2, shot in the back of the head during dinner at home, four bullets fired through the living room window. Youngest West Bank child killed in the reporting period. B'Tselem found the only man in the building was her grandfather, contradicting the "wanted terrorist" claim.

7) Saddam Rajab, Tulkarem, shot 28 Jan 2025, died 7 Feb 2025. Named. Saddam (Sadam) Rajab, 10, shot during an incursion. A soldier told the father, "I am the one who shot your son. God willing, he will die." Medical care obstructed; the boy died of his wounds days later.

8) Walid Ahmad, Megiddo Prison, died 22 Mar 2025. Named. Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, from Silwad. Healthy at arrest in Sept 2024; dead six months later of starvation, muscle wasting, untreated colitis and scabies. First Palestinian minor to die in Israeli custody since Oct 2023. Family learned of his death from a news article; body withheld.

9) The Sde Teiman 15-year-old, detention. Anonymous. Held among 70 adults, shackled until his hands bled, dogs released on prone detainees; described as "the worst days of my life." A separate 15-year-old reported being electrocuted via a needle in his shoulder over 54 days.

10) The four newborns at Al-Nasr Pediatric Hospital, Nov 2023. Anonymous. Found decomposing, still attached to defunct life-support machines, after staff were forced to evacuate without being able to move them. Independently verified by the Commission, Washington Post, and CNN.

11) Newborn hypothermia deaths, Dec 2024 to Feb 2025. Anonymous. At least 15 newborns, including a one-day-old girl, died of cold linked to lack of shelter, fuel, and incubators. UNICEF called the deaths preventable.

12) Sexual violence in detention. Anonymous. Forced public stripping and filming of boys during mass arrests; two cousins aged 7 and 13 stripped at gunpoint in Jenin; new reports of boys raped in custody, one on multiple occasions.

The Commission documents at least 20,179 Palestinian children killed and 44,143 wounded in two years, 30 percent of all the dead in Gaza, alongside 213 more killed in the West Bank. Thirteen times the Commission asked Israel to respond, and thirteen times it heard nothing back. Israel doesn't care enough to even respond. It kills children as a matter of policy.

[UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc]

Israel continues to commit genocide, atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children, @UN independent commission finds.

#HRC62 | @UN_News_Centre story
https://t.co/I7YCaeqvsC

[Reuters @Reuters]

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry says https://t.co/C2z0FoxakE

[OrangeMaxxing FreddyG @OrangeFreddyG]

Just saw a video of a kid in Gaza with a hole in their head that was even more disturbing than the dozen other times I’ve seen that since 10/7. She had a softball sized hole in her head and a Mickey Mouse shirt on.

If anything we are too nice to people who support Israel

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children https://t.co/v7Cul4wHzP

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Starmer calling Corbyn's Labour morally bankrupt in his resignation speech — from a man who defended collective punishment in Gaza, fed intelligence to Israeli génocidaires, and had activists trying to stop it arrested as terrorists. Not a decent man. An indecent sociopath.

[Narrative explorer @NarrativeOther]

@henrikhinai hard to give a more boring interview

[Narrative explorer @NarrativeOther]

@RnaudBertrand No, it was because she finally said something right for a change https://t.co/2H3Y8LgQQF

[Euractiv @Euractiv]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas compared Israel to apartheid-era South Africa during high-level talks in Mexico – breaking ranks with the EU's official diplomatic line.

This is bigger than a slip of the tongue. Here's why it matters. 🧵 1/6

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

“Israeli soldiers would never shoot a child in the head, this is blood libel”

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨 CAUGHT ON CAMERA: THE SHOOTING THAT KILLED 7 MONTH OLD SAM ABU HAIKAL

Newly obtained footage exposes the moment the Abu Haikal family came under Israeli fire. Seven month old baby Sam Abu Haikal was killed, while both of his parents were wounded.

The video clearly shows the family’s car slowing to a stop when an Israeli soldier opened fire. A seven month old baby was killed in an attack that the footage appears to show was carried out without any immediate threat from the vehicle.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This shows that Germany obviously still doesn't get it: their "historical responsibility" isn't to support Israel even as they commit genocide.

When the lesson of Nazism is obviously a universal one about justice, they instead think it's a blood debt to a particular people.

Which is, when you think about it, the Nazi way of looking at it: hierarchizing peoples and assigning collective responsibility - or collective impunity - on that basis.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Their absence of self-awareness is a serious pathology. They just killed 3k civilians (really, civilians) and are complaining that their invading soldiers are facing some risks WHILE INVADING.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Malak Mahmoud, the heavily pregnant woman filmed being thrown to the ground by a Dutch police officer as her Palestinian husband from Gaza was detained, has spoken to Al Jazeera.

Police in Zeist say they are reviewing the use of force and have opened an investigation.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Dr. Teresa Soldner, a Minnesota trauma surgeon who recently returned from Gaza, testified at the United Nations about the collapse of the territory’s healthcare system, and what she described as the “unconscionable habituation to violence that has happened to Palestinians” after nearly three years of war.

🎥 Video via @RefugeesIntl

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Powerful words by 102 years old philosopher Edgar Morin, one of France's most revered intellectual figures, as well as a Jewish WW2 resistant who fought as a lieutenant in De Gaulle's France combattante.
https://t.co/SJXMywTXb5
Here are his words on Gaza: "I am both astonished and outraged by the fact that those who represent the descendants of a people who were persecuted for centuries for religious or racial reasons... That the descendants of this people who are today the decision-makers of the State of Israel, that they could not only colonize an entire people, partly drive them out of their land and seek to expel them for good... But also, after the massacre of October 7, engaged in a real massive slaughter on the populations of Gaza and continue, incessantly, hitting civilians, women, and children.

And to see the silence of the world, the silence of the United States, protectors of Israel, the silence of the Arab states, the silence of the European states who claim to be defenders of culture, humanity, human rights.

I think we are living through a horrible tragedy because we are also powerless in the face of this thing that is unleashing. At least, I say: bear witness! The only thing that remains if we cannot resist concretely is to testify. Let's resist in our minds, let's not be fooled, let's not forget, let's have the courage to face things head-on."

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Edgar Morin died today 😢 May he rest in peace, he remained deeply committed to morality and justice to the very end 👇

A very big loss.