@veraxlab If what he says is true, I wouldโve been on their asses right after tax season, asking for proof of payment. He shouldโve put money aside, just in case they didnโt pay after 1st yr. Donโt wait 5 yrs to try to deal with it.
APPEAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Four Palestinian shepherd communities in the northern Jordan Valley โ Al-Farsiya, Ein al-Hilweh, Khirbet Humsa, and Khallet Makhoul โ face imminent demolition and expulsion. We call on the international community to urgently press Israeli authorities to prevent irreversible measures against these communities, whose families have lived on this land for generations.
Al-Farsiya illustrates the danger facing the last shepherd communities in the region. In May 2026, the army confiscated the community's water tanks and vehicles, leaving residents without water in the summer heat. Demolition orders followed. The Abu Mohsen family, including a child with special needs, depends on herding and farming โ and repeated detentions and confiscations have pushed them to despair.
Al-Farsiya is not an isolated case. Ein al-Hilweh, Khirbet Humsa, and Khallet Makhoul face the same threat. On July 2, 2026, Civil Administration forces demolished structures in Ein al-Hilweh in violation of a court order, while nearby outposts and settlements expand unabated โ raising serious concerns under international law, including the prohibition on altering the demographic composition of occupied territory and of ethnic cleansing.
Residents have pursued every available legal channel. But a recent demolition in Ein al-Hilweh occurred despite a judicial order freezing it. Urgent, direct intervention is needed.
We call on the international community to approach Israeli authorities demanding these demolitions be prevented and press for continued access to grazing land, water, and basic living conditions.
These four communities are among the last shepherd communities holding on in the northern Jordan Valley, fighting to remain and preserve their way of life. We call on the international community to act now, before further demolitions become a fait accompli.
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๐ฅ โSettlers can kill whoever they want, they can injure whoever they want, they can beat whoever they want, they can burn whatever they want.โ
Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar describes settlers as the spearhead of Israelโs land-seizure policy in the occupied West Bank, operating through a revolving door with the military and with political, financial, and legal backing from the state.
The lack of prosecution, Omar argues, is not simply a failure of enforcement. It is part of the system that allows settler violence to advance Israeli territorial expansion.
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A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.
What the evidence shows:
Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.
Built to fail:
The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.
Accountability buried:
Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.
My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.
๐จ Israeli settlers and army are escalating their attacks on the northern West Bank.
Project Crimson Thread is set to cut off vast lands from Palestinian access, and several terror outposts were recently set up in the area, targeting Atouf, Yarza, Ras al-Ahmar, Tayasir and al-Aqaba.
For the past 10 hours I've been in an Israeli police station, arrested and interrogated FOR BEING ATTACKED BY A SETTLER in Masafer Yatta
In the past hour I've been told that i'm detained, then arrested, then not arrested, then free to go, then not free to go
I am still at the police station, I have no idea what's going on, and I feel like today's script was written by Franz Kafka