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[beecier @UdsiAsli]

He literally helped make the genocide unstoppable in the critical first months

[Mary @maryturfah]

I wrote about yoga, genocide, and moral injury for @thebafflermag
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[asia murphy phd (river to the sea) @am_anatiala]

GET MEDICINES FOR A PALESTINIAN FAMILY‼️

Every SATURDAY we send $ to Gaza to help multiple families. We haven't made the goal in A MONTH. Every $5 helps! Small acts can move mountains.

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[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Hundreds of activists gathered outside the Israeli embassy in London on Saturday as part of the international Red Ribbons Campaign, demanding the release of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and condemning Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Demonstrators also called for the immediate release of Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, who has spent six months in solitary confinement following his kidnapping from Gaza by Israeli forces.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s message to the court today as relayed by his attorney:

“I am a pediatrician. I provide medical care to patients, the injured, and vulnerable people in the Gaza Strip. I have carried out my work in accordance with international law and humanitarian standards. My detention is unjust and arbitrary.”

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 The first image of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya to emerge since his detention, taken during the ongoing proceedings before Israel’s High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, shows him visibly emaciated, in stark contrast to his appearance before he was taken into Israeli custody.

His son warned this week that the life of Dr. Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, is in grave danger. He has been held in Israeli detention since December 2024 after refusing to abandon his patients in northern Gaza. The family says Israeli authorities transferred him to solitary confinement in Nafha Prison in retaliation for filing a legal appeal with Israel’s High Court.

According to the family, Dr. Abu Safiya is being held in a two-meter cell, forcibly starved like thousands of other Palestinian prisoners, and denied basic necessities, including clean water, medicine, and access to his lawyer.

[David AttenBruh @AlHendiify]

I’m not even being hyperbolic when I say the US has completely given up on even the pretense of fighting to preserve the habitability of our planet. This goes even beyond politics. Culturally, you can see that Americans no longer care.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Seattle just passed a 1-year moratorium on data center construction. It's now the largest U.S. city to enact a pause or ban.

[CCNY Students for Justice in Palestine @ccnysjpofficial]

🇵🇸Watch as CCNY Colin Powell School students disrupt their own graduation speaker Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who was the sole veto on three separate UN resolutions for an immediate ceasefire and the entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

You feel like these children were just killed while on a hike.

For much of the Western mainstream media, it does not matter where the murdered children come from: Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, or elsewhere.

As long as Israel is the killer, the headline too often leaves out the most important fact. That israel is the killer, especially of children and women.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Students from the Colin Powell School at City College of New York heckled Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the former US ambassador to the UN during the Biden administration, at their graduation ceremony on Thursday

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Belgian sailor and Global Sumud Flotilla volunteer Arno Meyns says he suffered fractured ribs and a collapsed lung after Israeli forces illegally seized a Gaza-bound aid vessel in international waters and kidnapped those on board.

Meyns described being transferred to a makeshift prison ship where detainees were stripped of most of their clothing, deprived of basic necessities and subjected to systematic violence and humiliation.

He said passengers were kept disoriented, forced to keep their heads down, constantly abused, and denied any understanding of where they were being taken.

Meyns said the violence escalated once he was taken into a container aboard the prison ship.

He said guards repeatedly kicked him for an extended period, continuing until he could barely breathe.

The assault left him with fractured ribs and a collapsed lung, injuries from which he is still recovering.

He described conditions aboard the ship as degrading and punitive, with detainees denied pain medication despite injuries and forced to endure flooded floors and poor sanitation.

Meyns also alleged that guards deliberately stepped on detainees in an apparent attempt to break bones and appeared intent on causing further harm.

His testimony adds to a growing number of accounts from international Gaza solidarity volunteers, many of whom have reported rape, beatings, tasering, stress positions, humiliating strip searches, sexual abuse, groping, threats, degrading treatment and other allegations of inhumane treatment aboard the makeshift prison ship.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 BREAKING: Israeli forces killed Jamal Yousef Abu-Oun, chief nurse at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in a drone strike in Deir al-Balah on Saturday, Healthcare Workers Watch reported.

According to the organization, Abu-Oun was targeted just meters from the hospital where he worked. Healthcare Workers Watch described him as a senior nursing leader at one of Gaza’s most critical remaining medical facilities.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"It's like if you've got a bunch of dogs of a certain breed and - let's say German Shepherds - and you decide you're going to bring in a bunch of terriers or something." - Errol Musk on multiculturalism.

Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/8TqiukpDnU

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 U.S. re-adds UN rights expert Francesca Albanese to sanctions list

The U.S. government returned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese to its list of Specially Designated Nationals on Wednesday, after a federal appeals court stayed a lower court injunction that had temporarily blocked the designation. 

The Trump administration first sanctioned Albanese in July 2025, accusing her of “lawfare” and “biased and malicious activities” against Israel, citing her recommendation that the ICC issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.  The sanctions bar her from entering the U.S. and freeze her American assets.

The appeals court said the stay was procedural and “should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits.” 

Source: Reuters / Al Jazeera

[♥️🇵🇸🇵🇸❤️A lover ♥️of homeless cats😻❤️🌱🌱👍🤗 @LoverHomeless]

Eid Mubarak to you, my dear wonderful friends, and to all of your wonderful families.. It is a special and especially joyful day today, as many of us did not expect to be here or I truthfully thought that we might have left for Egypt already, but I am very happy and grateful to be spending it with our friends and family in our wonderful community. Unfortunately this morning did not go as we expected, as my son Salem needed to go to the hospital after he fell and severely hurt his hand while playing. Over the night it became very swollen for him and by morning it was turning blue and he was in a great deal of pain. The doctor confirmed it was broken and prescribed some medication and a cast for his recovery, and we will return to the hospital again in two weeks, God willing. Please pray for my son Salem, my dear ones.. 🫂🙏

💚 I would be so happy and grateful for your continued support for our wonderful friends in the camp and for our beautiful animals who give us so much happiness. You are so wonderful and generous and I am so grateful for your love and support. Reading your words brings comfort to my heart and gives us hope of better days and better conditions.. I wish you happy times filled with joy and happiness, my dear wonderful friends, and I thank you for everything.. 🫂💚🥰🙏🐾🕌🕊🌿♥️🐈😻🇵🇸

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[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Taking medical supplies to pediatric hospitals in Cuba is now a crime? Saving the lives of babies is a crime? This administration is beyond grotesque.

[Emelia🌙 @Em21brave]

This is called a stress position. This is not yoga. Try it on a cold floor, with your hands zip-tied, and see if you can hold it even for 5 minutes. Now imagine being held that way for hours, and even days. Stress positions are used in torture to cut off circulation and create extreme pain in the joints. Postures of humiliation are chosen where you cannot see what is happening, and have no chance to remain calm, clear, and alert. . Having your kidneys exposed to cold air creates vasoconstriction, high blood pressure, strains the renal system, lowers immunity and causes acute physiological stress.

I think of how many people in the world are being tortured right now as I write. I don't have to say this but I will. There are very few people who will put themselves aside to help others. There are only a few who would try (and even try again) to deliver food and medical supplies to Gaza. Both Canada and the US are ratified in the Geneva conventions against torture. In war time or in peace time, torture is not legal.

Stop supplying Israel. Stop supporting Israel. Apply sanctions. If we do not stop Israel's use of torture, one thing is clear. We are complicit. We know this. Write your elected officials, and for God's sake, speak up already.