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[Metro Trees @TreesMetro]

Never forget.
#FreePalestine

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Ahead of today's game, Egypt coach Hossam Hassan appealed to the world to "let the Palestinian people live." Israel responds by killing the head of public relations for the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza:

[Metro Trees @TreesMetro]

Learning from Japanese Knotweed in Brussels’s Feral Wetlands

https://t.co/Nnbx0ZiUko

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[THEE Jenn #MorrisseyGirl4Life 🪷 @JenniferLBrewer]

@kizzriee If the earth was flat, cats would've pushed everything off it already.

[Metro Trees @TreesMetro]

"The consequences of this extraordinary–and for the Americans, humiliating–state of affairs are far-reaching. Majority of Palestinians are in exile; the rest live under Israeli occupation...Lebanon has been wrecked. Other Arabs are fearful of suffering from Israeli expansionism"

[Metro Trees @TreesMetro]

Written over 40 years ago and still true.

"The difficulty is not merely that America does not put pressure on Israel, who is militarily and economically dependent on her, but that Israel effectively controls American policy in the Middle East."

https://t.co/F6qR61h5VA

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇨🇴 🇵🇸 “Israel’s war is also a war against truth.”

Colombia’s Permanent Rep. to the UN, Leonor Zalabata Torres, addressed the Security Council meeting on the situation in Gaza on June 18. She said:

“The dissemination of biased, partial information, alongside the prohibition of access by the international press and the deliberate killings of more than 200 journalists in Gaza since 2023, cannot fabricate an alternative reality… Israel must allow the entry of the international press and protect the life, integrity, and work of journalists and humanitarian personnel across the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

The international community must demand the immediate, safe release of medical and healthcare personnel, including personnel from the Palestinian Red Crescent who have been abducted by the IDF and associated militias...

Fourth: We appeal for consistency.

The halls of the U.N. ring out with expressions of concern regarding the humanitarian situation in Gaza. We repudiate violations of international law by Israel.

However, all too often, the same countries that make these statements allow their ports to be used to send weapons to Israel, weapons that war criminals pursued by the ICC take in or allow to move through their territory.

Businesses continue to trade with those advocating for the annexation and displacement of the Palestinian people.

The genocide in Gaza has been, and continues to be, facilitated by the actions and oversights of the international community. Stopping that genocide is a collective responsibility.”

🎥 UN, June 18, 2026. Full remarks below ⬇️

[Metro Trees @TreesMetro]

In #Nairobi, we stand with #Palestine. Never forget #Gaza.

Victory to the resistance. Glory to the martyrs.

#FreePalestine

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I don’t know how you remain consistent by claiming an anti-apartheid legacy here in the United States of America while enforcing it abroad.”

Coates told Chris Hayes that the Democratic Party cannot continue avoiding the issue of Gaza and Palestine, saying the party is already facing a political and moral reckoning ahead of 2028.

[Bear @Beargirl_1]

Talk to the trees. They've been here since time they know everything

[Metro Trees @TreesMetro]

"They do not compete for height or visibility. They definitely don’t rush. In a culture obsessed with scale and spectacle, lichen practices smallness. In a system that prizes individual achievement, lichen models distributed survival." 👏👏

[Metro Trees @TreesMetro]

"To kneel before lichen is to encounter a body made of negotiations.
This is what I mean by lichen logic."

https://t.co/hKCD6dgCIA

[🩷 @sephora_2tw]

Malgré la distraction de cette CDM n oublions pas nos frères palestiniens dans nos duaas qu Allah leurs viennent en aide

[Lara Bitar @LaraJBitar]

There is nothing more beautiful than witnessing the joy of southerners returning to their towns and villages, even if the war and occupation are far from over.

Watching Lebanese Zionists pulling their hair out in anger today is another beautiful sight.

Iran taught subjected and oppressed peoples everywhere what sovereignty looks like in practice.

Iranian liberatory praxis will be studied for decades to come.

[Karl Marx @marxhaunting]

We do not say to the world: Cease your struggles, they are foolish; we will give you the true slogan of struggle. We merely show the world what it is really fighting for, and consciousness is something that it has to acquire, even if it does not want to.

[Parwiz Hamidi _🇵🇸 @Palestine001_]

🇵🇸🇰🇷South Korean fans have arrived at the 2026 FIFA World Cup carrying Palestinian flags.

[Metro Trees @TreesMetro]

More extraction from Africa 😢😢😭😭

"The Sahara fertilises the Amazon. The fact is true, well-measured, and ecologically consequential."
https://t.co/xs0QFV6bjF

[Habib Battah @habib_b]

Hey New Yorker: Do you ever ask if the world’s most genocidal military could be stopped? And can your own government stop supporting genocide? Is that an “interesting” question for you?

[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

This World Cup, everyone with Norway 🇳🇴

The joy Norway experienced at the end of the match after defeating Israel 5-0:

Norway donated all the match's proceeds to Palestine.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 “The whole world should be talking about Dr. Hussam’s case, standing with him and demanding his immediate release,” his sister, Samahir Abu Safiyah, tells Drop Site News.

Drop Site contributor Abdel Qader Sabbah spoke with Samahir in Gaza after the pediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyah, appeared in an Israeli court on Wednesday after more than 500 days in detention without charge.

“When I saw the picture, I was shocked. I couldn’t believe that this was my brother,” she said.

“He used to be handsome, well-built, and healthy. How did he become like this, and for what? What charge did they accuse him of? Because he is a pediatrician?”

Appearing before the Israeli High Court this week, Dr. Abu Safiyah described his imprisonment as “unjust and arbitrary.” Footage from the hearing showed him looking noticeably thinner. Samahir said lawyers told the family he has lost roughly half his body weight, suffers from deteriorating eyesight, contracted scabies while in detention, and remains held in solitary confinement in Nafha Prison. He was brought before the court in handcuffs and shackles.

“The picture showed us the torture he was subjected to,” she said, pointing to bruises visible on his hands and a face that “looks much older than his age.”

She questioned why her brother remains imprisoned after being seized from Kamal Adwan Hospital, where he continued treating patients even after Israeli forces killed his son in 2024.

“He buried him in the hospital courtyard… and then he went back to work,” she said. “He refused to leave the wounded. He refused to leave the children.”

Samahir said Dr. Hussam appears to know little about what has happened in Gaza during his detention. “If he knew anything about Gaza, he wouldn’t have sent a message through his lawyer asking Anas Al-Sharif to talk about the suffering of the people of Gaza,” she said, referring to the famous Al Jazeera journalist Israel assassinated in 2025.

“He has committed no crime,” Samahir said. “His only crime was staying in the hospital for the sake of the children, the injured, and the wounded. The whole world must stand with him.”

🎥 @AbdSabbah91