TMH65 (Therese)

Retired lawyer. No DMs

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

These are the locations where Israeli forces killed 54 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank in 2025. The geographic dispersal of cases throughout the West Bank makes it clear this these killings were not isolated exceptions, but a systemic matter.

As part of Israel’s onslaught on the Palestinians since October 2023, the killing of Palestinians in the West Bank, and especially children and teenagers, has risen to unprecedented levels. Since October 2023, Israel has killed 242 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank. Fifteen of them were killed in the first half of 2026 alone, including seven-month-old baby Sam Abu al-Haikal.

This figure is higher than during any comparable period since the occupation began in 1967.

The extensive killing could not occur without the backing and support of Israeli policy makers and public officials.

In early 2025, Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened that if necessary, Israel would operate in the West Bank as it had in Gaza. In November 2023, Finance Minister and Minister in the Defense Ministry Bezalel Smotrich said there were "two million Nazis" in the West Bank. He later declared that "Funduq, Nablus, and Jenin should look like Jabalya."

Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, head of the Israeli military's Central Command, recently boasted that the military is killing Palestinians in the West Bank "like we haven't killed since 1967." This past March, after Border Police undercover forces killed four members of the same family – a father, mother, and their two children – in the village of Tammun, MK Yitzhak Kroizer declared from the Knesset podium: "There are no innocent civilians in Jenin. There are no innocent children in Jenin." He added: "I support IDF soldiers in every situation, even if the collateral damage is children or women."

The reality of killing in the West Bank cannot be separated from the killing of more than 21,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip since October 2023. Under Israel's apartheid regime, Palestinians remaincompletely defenseless in the face of lethal violence.

For our new report, "Unshielded Childhood" >> https://t.co/9AtP0yrs47

[Diana Panchenko 🇺🇦 @Panchenko_X]

Anti-Zelensky revolt in Ukraine!

Young people are protesting, blocking roads, and trying to free men forcibly sent to war by Zelensky.

Ukrainians are prisoners of the regime!

Why wasn’t this even mentioned at the NATO summit?

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis, who’s son serves in the israeli army, is trying to block the Church of England’s report on the genocide in Gaza https://t.co/MHq83QXres

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

People in Mashhad performed a MOCK execution of a lego version of Trump

They hung it from a crane and set it on fire

DISCLAIMER: This is for informational purposes, I don't condone violence.

[stranger @strangerous10]

Breaking: Jillian Segal faces risk of lock up & could be in breach of the Royal Commission Act if she doesn’t “correct the record” on false claims made at the RC, legal experts warn.
Penalty: Up to 5yrs jail

Correct the record & resign. https://t.co/B4nSmgS7s1

[Bryce Greene @TheGreeneBJ]

"Grassroots volunteer group to defend their town against rising settler violence" fundamentally describes the PLO, Hamas, PFLP, Hezbollah, and all anti-Zionist resistance factions.

When these guys get too effective, Israel will just bomb them and say they're terrorists.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is the United Nations now! The organization responsible for ensuring human rights!

I received an invitation to attend this conference and I declined it after knowing that the people who are deeply complicit in the genocide in Lebanon and Palestine, killing civilians using AI technologies are being given the opportunity to brag about this in public using UN stage!

I condemn the UN shameful partnership with criminal tech companies at this conference, as well as the human rights violations and violence that accompanied the removal of protesters.

[Dr Dee Michell #cep @DrDeeMichell]

There’s rightly much talk about Jillian Segal’s criticisms of the ABC & SBS & their coverage of the ‘conflict’ in the Middle East.

Segal told the inquiry that

“… the Jewish community had told her the nature and volume of the coverage of the Israel-Gaza war had contributed to "an impression of great negativity about Israel" (Phoebe Pin, ABC).

About the same time as Segal was complaining about the ‘one sided’ coverage, I was reading John Lyons’ memoir, Balcony Over Jerusalem (2017/2024).

In Chapter 12, “Coffee with the Israel Army 9 December 2011” Lyons recounts a story of being requested to meet with Captain Arye Shalicar of the IDF.

During the conversation, Shalicar said he wasn’t challenging the accuracy of an article Lyons had had published a week or so earlier in the Weekend Australian Magazine but rather that:

“…it’s been published outside of Israel…in Australia”.

Shalicar went on to explain that had the article about the way the IDF treated Palestinian children been published by an Israeli outlet, they would have read it in the context of their ongoing commitment to Israel.

But, Shalicar went on,

“’A story like this may damage the view that Australians have of Israel and they don’t have the commitment to Israel to go along with that.’

Lyons then says that this is not an unusual perspective in Israel:

“… they don’t mind if something is printed in Israel, but when it is published more widely they react badly” (185).

The concern with publishing outside of Israel seems to be about Israel “formalising the occupation into official annexation and achieving Greater Israel” (191).

To do this, “the Israeli public have had to convince themselves that ‘the world hates us anyway’ and would criticise anything Israel did. That is, the world is becoming increasingly anti-Semitic” (191).

John Lyons goes on:

“As long as the media is seen as biased, anti-Israel or anti-Semitic, then Israel is not at fault” (for the occupation).

Hence why Segal is at pains to say the ABC & SBC are biased in their reporting.

Lyons wasn’t being singled out; he knew from speaking with colleagues that “the Israeli Government, Army and lobby groups did not want the reality of the occupation reported” because Israel is losing “the battle for international public opinion.”

And I guess Segal & others don’t want the reality of the genocide being reported because Israel’s brutality is now resulting in a significant decline in international public opinion, with many countries holding negative views of Israel.

[TMH65 (Therese) @TMH651]

@boganintel Is it possible that they were jeering the forced removal of members from the room and not the pro-Palestine stance???

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff privately told him “I will not let two million Nazis live next to your children along the border fence,” referring to the besieged population of Gaza, half of them children, in remarks reported by Israel National News.

Smotrich said the conversation took place on January 30, 2025, when Witkoff met him alongside then-Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in Jerusalem, a day after the envoy toured Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor and viewed footage of the October 7 attack, which Smotrich said left him visibly shaken. Recounting the exchange, Smotrich added: “There is only one thing that hurts the enemy: land.”

The account is Smotrich’s alone; Witkoff has not commented. The alleged remark came days before Trump publicly unveiled his plan to take over Gaza and transfer its population.

The phrase mirrors Smotrich’s own rhetoric: in November 2023 he declared “there are two million Nazis in Judea and Samaria,” and he has argued Gaza needs Jewish settlement because otherwise “there will be two million Nazis who want to destroy us every morning.”

(H/T @DecampDave)

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

The USA has 800 military bases across 80 countries.

Do you know how many the country with the next highest number has?
145 bases across 42 countries. And that would be the UK.

So, no. These military bases are not to "protect" Americans. They are there to dominate the world through military power.

If a military base on the territory of one of the 80 countries hosting U.S. forces is used to launch attacks against a sovereign state, it is entirely foreseeable that the targeted state will view that base as a legitimate military objective and respond accordingly.

The people of countries hosting such bases should be asking why their governments allowed their territory to be used to wage war on another nation, often without meaningful public consent. Accountability begins with those who initiated or facilitated the attack, not with those who retaliated.

Watching some Arab governments, and citizens (!), condemn Iran for striking military installations that were clearly used to launch attacks against it is remarkable. If those bases were indeed used in military operations against Iran, then presenting the response as an "unprovoked attack" ignores the sequence of events.

So spare everyone the selective outrage. If you're unwilling to acknowledge cause and effect, or the role your own governments may have played, your criticism rings hollow.

[Mario ZNA @MarioBojic]

🚨🇺🇦Ukrainians in Lviv Catch Zelensky’s Human Kidnappers, Ripping Their Uniforms Off!

Huge riots exploded in one of Ukraine’s biggest cities after Zelensky’s mobilization thugs tried to snatch a 20-year-old kid off the street and drag him straight to the front.

While furious citizens are fighting back and taking matters into their own hands, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa are literally on fire from massive Russian strikes.

Meanwhile Volodymyr Zelensky is hiding outside the country.

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

Reminder:

The BBC cancelled its own documentaries on Gaza after seeing how bad they made Israel look.

[Persian Girl @Persianserene1]

Americans are so funny

They assassinated our leader and his family, and when Iranians chanted “Death to America” and “Kill Trump,” they said Look! they’re terrorists

F***ing hypocrites 😂

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

Putting to one side the fact Sarah Ferguson rudely (IMO) "welcomes" Professor Mohammad Marandi as "Mohammad Marandi," Ferguson has THE GALL to tell Professor Marandi what's in/what isn't in the MOU. FFS, Sarah ... resign, retire, just get out of our lives. #abc730 #MediaFAIL

[Tom the whistleblower @blowingtom2]

Probably Sarah Ferguson’s worst interview to date. This guy schooled her and she was left stumbling.

[goma @soigomaa]

She was a 25 year old lawyer in Ayacucho, Peru when her boyfriend attacked her in a hotel in July 2015. The security cameras captured everything. Him chasing her. Dragging her by the hair. Her screaming for help while hotel staff tried to intervene. The court watched the footage.
Then sentenced him to one year suspended for minor injuries. The more serious charges - dropped. She refused to accept it. She went public. Put her name and her face to everything. Took the fight to the media, to the courts, to the streets. On August 13 2016 half a million Peruvians marched through Lima. The largest demonstration in the history of Peru. Led by her.
The appeals court threw out the original verdict. He was retried. Convicted of attempted f3micide. Sentenced to 11 years in prison. She went on to become a member of Congress. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Her name is Arlette Contreras. And she was just getting started.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

BREAKING🚨: The remains of the mentally ill man killed by Israeli tanks 9 days ago in east Deir al-Balah were handed over to his pleading mother this afternoon through Israel-backed militias.

Watch as she kissed his decomposed skull & embraced his remains

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Ayatollah Khamenei's Funeral is Reportedly the BIGGEST Funeral in Recorded History

According to official estimates, 41 to 43 million people attended the funeral ceremony over 6 days in 5 cities: Tehran, Qom, Najaf, Karbala, and Mashhad.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

“The Moment Ahmad Raised His Hands in Surrender, an Israeli Soldier Shot Him Directly in the Head”

The Guardian reports that Palestinian aid truck driver Ahmad Esleem was shot dead by an Israeli soldier while transporting humanitarian aid into Gaza, in what eyewitnesses and Gaza’s Transport Companies’ Association describe as a field execution.

Esleem, who was delivering food for World Central Kitchen (WCK) through a fully coordinated humanitarian convoy, was ordered out of his truck after one vehicle broke down near the Philadelphi Corridor.

Witnesses say Israeli soldiers forced the drivers to strip, assaulted them, and made them stand under the sun. As Ahmad Esleem raised his hands in surrender, an Israeli soldier shot him directly in the head.

The 30-year-old, a father of two children, including a one-month-old baby, was killed despite wearing official identification, carrying all required permits, and operating under coordination approved by the Israeli military, according to his employer and Gaza’s truckers association.

Witnesses also said Israeli soldiers threatened the surviving drivers, warning they would meet the same fate as Esleem.