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[Ricardo Karam ريكاردو كرم @RicardoRKaram]

Thursday morning, an Israeli airstrike struck the home of Mona Khalil in Mansouri, South of Lebanon. The home itself was modest. But what it sheltered was extraordinary.
For decades, while many spoke about protecting nature, Mona lived that commitment every single day. From her small house overlooking the sea, she became the guardian of a coastline, the protector of countless sea turtles, and a voice for creatures that could not speak for themselves.
She chose to stay. She stayed through uncertainty, through fear, through danger. She stayed because the beach she watched over was not just a stretch of sand. It was a sanctuary. A place of life. A place worth defending.
Mona was seriously injured and her assistant suffered burns. Both are thankfully in stable condition. Yet the tragedy goes far beyond their wounds.
With war reaching a woman whose life’s mission has been to protect life, something deeper is injured, a part of our humanity is wounded. Violence does not distinguish between a fighter and a conservationist, between a military position and a nest of endangered turtles, between those who destroy and those who dedicate their lives to preserving.
Mona Khalil spent years protecting one of Lebanon’s most fragile treasures. Today, it is Mona who needs protection. And perhaps the greatest tribute we can pay her is to ensure that her courage, her mission, and her love for this land survive long after the smoke has cleared ❤️🇱🇧

#lebanon #humanity #truth #worldenvironmentday2026

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Two years of lying about bombing hospitals in Gaza – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off.

Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

If 9 Israelis had been burnt alive yesterday, they’d have called it a barbaric & savage antisemitic massacre.

When Israel burns alive 9 Palestinians to death, they call it a ceasefire.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Thank you President 🇸🇮.
Palestine is the moral compass of our time.
From Spain to Slovenia there is hope for Europe. A Europe that puts people above banks and markets, rights above profits, and respects int'l law regardless of political calculus.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

The New York Times accidentally revealed the moral bankruptcy of capitalism.

China is making breakthroughs in cancer drugs, clinical trials, biotech research, and life-saving medicines.

The first American reaction is not:
“How many patients can this save?”

It is:
“Will this threaten U.S. dominance?”
“Will American biotech lose its edge?”
“Will Big Pharma struggle to keep up?”

That tells you everything.

In a sane world, better cancer drugs would be a human victory.
In Washington’s world, even medicine becomes a battlefield the moment China helps people live.

China’s biotech rise is not just about winning.
It is about responsibility to a massive patient population that cannot wait for American monopolies, American prices, or American permission.

Cancer patients do not care about U.S. dominance.
They care about staying alive.

And that is exactly why China cannot leave this field to America.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Bolivian police have arrested indigenous women's leader & ex-senator Simona Quispe. She was grabbed off the street by men in civilian clothes, thrown in an unmarked vehicle and taken to unknown location.

The general strike against neoliberalism continues, despite the repression.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"De joven, tomaba a los gatos, les ataba 5 petardos en el cuerpo y los explotaba, esperando que volasen... pero ya te puedes imaginar lo que pasaba".

Este psicópata se llama Abelardo de la Espriella, es el fascista elegido por EEUU para ser próximo presidente de Colombia en su nueva doctrina Monroe, en la cual está llevando al poder a la peor basura nazi de Latinoamérica a través de elecciones amañadas.

Estos son los criminales que genera el capitalismo y que son los abanderados de la "libertad" de EEUU, psicópatas que fácilmente podrían ser dictadores en potencia y exterminar a media población solo para agradar a su amo yanki.

[Palestina En Español 🎒 @PalestinaVence]

🇵🇸🇮🇹 Italia se levanta con fuerza

Se ha convocado una huelga general nacional en más de 75 ciudades de Italia, exigiendo: Boicot completo a Israel Ruptura total de todos los lazos económicos, militares y diplomáticos Fin inmediato del genocidio en Gaza y Líbano
El pueblo italiano, como muchos otros en Europa, ya no tolera que sus gobiernos sigan siendo cómplices del terrorismo sionista.

Trabajadores, estudiantes y ciudadanos comunes salen a las calles para decir ¡Basta!

La solidaridad con Palestina ya no es solo una manifestación… se está convirtiendo en acción real en todo el mundo.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

What Israel is doing in Lebanon is unambiguously genocidal against Shias. And it is unambiguously an attempt to reoccupy and even annex a huge part of the country. It’s infuriating that we’re pretending that there’s a ceasefire. And even more infuriating that Western media continues to turn a blind eye to Israel’s endless colonial expansion and insatiable hunger for Arab land.

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

Almost three years of uninterrupted Israeli bombardment and calculated targeting of hospitals in different countries in the region.

[FreeMarwanNow @FreeMarwanNow]

BREAKING: Activists unveil Marwan Barghouti statue in Parliament Square

Today, activists unveiled a new statue of Marwan Barghouti in Parliament Square, but were then intercepted by police.

Marwan Barghouti has been imprisoned by Israel for 24 years, 1 month and 19 days for crimes he did not commit. He was convicted by a court he did not recognise in a trial widely criticised by legal experts and human rights observers.

A sitting Palestinian parliamentarian at the time of his arrest, he remains, more than two decades later, the most popular choice for Palestinian leadership in opinion polls.

Often called ‘Palestine’s Mandela’, he is a powerful symbol of hope and a long-time advocate for freedom and dignity for the Palestinian people.

Nelson Mandela was once politically isolated and labelled a terror*st before being recognised as a global symbol of freedom and justice. Marwan Barghouti faces a similar fate.

The statue may not stand in Parliament Square yet, but we know this is a just cause. One day, Marwan will take his rightful place alongside other civil rights leaders.

Free Marwan. Free Palestine.
@FreeMarwanNow

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

We need the same… so polluters pay not the pollutees!! And.. more to the point, there’s an incentive NOT to do it!!

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

HORRIFIC: Israeli settlers attacked the village of Baytin in the West Bank, setting tens of olive trees on fire.

The Israeli army is blocking fire trucks from reaching the site.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.

Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.

Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

According to the Gospels of both Matthew and Mark, Jesus himself visited Tyre. The Christian community there is certainly 2000 years old.

Israel has been killing Tyre Christians for a month.

There is a shrine and church in the hills where locals believe his mother Mary waited for him while he was in Tyre and Sidon.

I visited with Laith Marouf and we interviewed the priest who strongly supported resistance to Israeli occupation.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING - A Swiss Tribunal recognises the legitimate right to peacefully oppose the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

One again: justice for Palestine starts at home. It only takes people caring and applying Intl Law. And persevering.

[Global Property Guide @GlobalPropGuide]

1-Year House Price Change in Europe (Nominal, Latest Data):

Hungary: 23.4%
Portugal: 23.2%
Croatia: 16.1%
Denmark: 16.0%
Montenegro: 13.9%
Spain: 13.1%
Bulgaria: 12.6%
Lithuania: 12.5%
Romania: 12.4%
Andorra: 12.2%
Czechia: 10.4%

Source: National statistics offices and ECB

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

Ban Ki-moon, then secretary-general of the United Nations, commented on how, in his visits to some of the most forgotten areas of the world, there was a common factor: the presence of Cuban doctors.

“They are always the first to arrive and the last to leave.”

[José Vico 🔻🇵🇸🇿🇦 @josevico4]

En @LaHoraTVE han estado 40 minutos hablando de la huelga general indefinida de los docentes valencianos.
Esto sería impensable si no fuera por las acciones que están llevando a cabo, culminadas con la acampada de anoche.

Están siendo un ejemplo mundial, esto debe exportarse a otros territorios, ante el auge del fascismo, unión y acción.
Ortí dimissió.
Consell dimissió