💢 Israel confirms it is walling off the half of Gaza it controls
The Israeli military has built more than 23 kilometers (14 miles) of earthen barriers cutting through Gaza, physically dividing the roughly 50% of the territory it occupies from the crowded coastal strip where Palestinians have been forced to live, according to Planet Labs satellite imagery reported by The Associated Press.
The findings confirm and extend reporting Drop Site News first published in January, when analysis by Forensic Architecture revealed Israel had begun turning the so-called “yellow line” into a physical barrier of raised earth berms. Drop Site reported in May that the berms had grown into a mostly unbroken wall, often running west of the line and deeper into Palestinian land.
What’s New:
🔹Presented with the images, Israel’s military confirmed to the AP for the first time that it has built the barrier, and said it established a “security zone” around the line.
🔹One southern section splitting the ruins of Rafah from the Mawasi tent camps grew from 500 meters to 2.4 kilometers in the first two weeks of July alone.
Image 1: AP’s new map published today.
Image 2: Drop Site map published in May with @ForensicArchi.
one of the funnier aspects of culture war is how all the borderline European ethnicities were suddenly lumped into the category of white back in the 1950s. now, you’re claiming a people from 3200 years ago were white even tho your grandparents generation didn’t think so
if you have ADHD, it's imperative you learn that pop psychology has lead people to pathologize every single aspect of human condition and that you should not fall for it
This is so honest that everyone needs to read it to understand what settler colonialism looks like and why people do it. Colonial powers put people there to establish physical boundaries of containment for the locals.
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting.
We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
They're planning another 9/11 style event and all the dumb flyover stunts are laying the groundwork for a cohesive narrative after the fact. An F18 is going to crash into a college campus and they'll say the pilot had been radicalized by Cuban spies in left wing nonprofit groups.
Since 2023, there have been over 20 documented instances of police misusing Flock cameras to stalk romantic interests and rivals.
One Idaho officer tracked his wife's movements over 700 times and, to avoid suspicion, put the word "test" before each search.
An Illinois police chief used a neighboring district's Flock cameras 'hundreds of times' to track six people he knew personally. Three of the victims used to be romantically involved with him.
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Florida beach flyover combined with the I-5 stray artillery thing from last year leads me to believe: American military will accidentally cause a civilian mass casualty incident in the continental US before Trump’s term is out
I don’t understand how you can support & understand the abolition of the zionist entity but draw the line at honoring treaties & indigenous sovereignty in the imperial core lol
“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it”❤️🩹
I searched a Gaza war crimes archive for my family.
I quickly realized I wasn’t using it the way most people would. I wasn’t browsing it as an activist, researcher or journalist.
I was looking for my family.
My heart sank as I filtered the archive by the dates we lost them and searched for someone I loved.
I found footage I hadn’t seen before of the bombing of the Church of St. Porphyrius, where my cousin Soliman was killed.
I searched for the day my great aunt Elham was murdered, and the day Nahida and Samar Anton were killed by Israeli snipers at the Holy Family Catholic Church.
Eyewitnesses told us Elham was crushed by an Israeli tank. I have graphic photographs of her body that were sent to me by church workers in Gaza, but I found no footage of what happened.
It made me wonder how many people died without leaving behind any visual record.
The realization stayed with me.
Here was a digital graveyard where pieces of my own family history are preserved for journalists, historians, truth seekers and, undoubtedly, those seeking to exploit or consume human suffering.
I know I won’t be the only person to experience this. Other Palestinians searching for loved ones almost certainly will too. But it struck me that this is a form of grief that could scarcely have existed before our time.
It’s a form of grief I never imagined could exist.
“This should radicalize you” most people have resigned to look at phone and play with they worm. Any time someone does do something we race to say it was some kind of op.