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[Cayteya @cayteya]

♦️ “Considering the many international armed conflicts around the world, including the latest escalations in the Middle East, the following seeks to recall some of the important principles and rules of international humanitarian law that parties are bound to respect.” - ICRC

[Cordula Droege @CDroegeICRC]

In the Middle East, civilians pay the human cost of the escalation.
All parties, regardless of the side they are on, are bound by international humanitarian law.
And all States have an obligation to respect and ensure respect for #IHL.
These rules👇
https://t.co/N1ZV31hIgw

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Israeli War Minister Katz says Israel will NOT WITHDRAW from Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and the northern West Bank.

He also says Israel expects Trump to get Iran to give up its long-range missiles and support for its regional allies during negotiations.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 Overnight, the Israeli military issued forced displacement orders for several areas of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, covering schools, a rehabilitation center, the municipality building, and the area containing the camp’s wells and its main source of fresh water. Hours later, Al-Maghazi came under heavy bombardment.

Camp resident Shaker Shalabi told Drop Site contributor Mohamed Ahmed that one of his neighbors received a call from Israeli forces at around 10:30 p.m. ordering the area to evacuate, forcing most residents to leave.

"They fired a missile. And in the second area, they also hit a missile. I don't know what the justification was for firing that missile that wiped out the entire neighborhood," Shalabi told Drop Site. "There were some homes standing, look at the furniture, all of it is gone, the gas is gone, it is all gone. What can I say? It's all losses."

“This shows that Israel is a terrorist state—a state defined by attacks,” he said. “They don't want us here, although it is our homeland."

🎥 Mohamed Ahmed

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Residents are fleeing the Al-Sanafour area in Gaza City’s Al-Tuffah neighborhood after Israeli quadcopter drones ordered civilians to evacuate. Israeli forces are advancing the “yellow line” on Salah al-Din Street, expanding military control and displacement orders.

[TRT World Now @TRTWorldNow]

Palestinian resistance group Hamas says Israeli forces have been expanding the military “Yellow Line” further west in eastern Gaza City in violation of the ceasefire agreement. Ashraf Shannon has more

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This is Beit Lahia in northern Gaza. Just now, Israel blew up homes and demolished what remained of other buildings across the city, reducing more of it to rubble.

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

"I used to see dogs as gentle, loyal creatures. Now, every time I pass one, my whole body shakes." Palestinian journalist Marah Al-Wadyi describes how the genocide in Gaza has fractured something in the way Gazans see the animals around them. She speaks about her relative Najwa, killed along with her children Sahar, Tahsin and Tayseer by Israeli quadcopters, whose body was then partly eaten by starving dogs. Marah says she understands the animals were driven to it by hunger, that this is not their nature, that Israel starved the entire Strip, people and animals alike.

Yet she admits the terror and revulsion are things she cannot reason her way out of, because in the end she is human and the images stay with her. She recalls the documented killing of Muhammad Bhar, the young man with Down syndrome who was mauled to death by an Israeli army combat dog in Shujaiya as he pleaded "enough, my love," and she points to the systematic use of trained attack dogs, imported and deployed by the occupation, to rape and torture Palestinian hostages in its prisons.

What she describes is how an entire population's relationship with the living world has been bent out of shape under siege and starvation. She speaks of fearing even cats, sensing they might see hungry, emaciated bodies as their next meal, and of the most haunting detail of all: children in Gaza who, while playing with cats, have started telling them, "Tomorrow when we die, don't you dare eat us." Marah knows it is the occupation's engineered starvation and violence that turned the animals' nature, that the dogs and cats are victims of the same policy as the people. But she is honest that it has also changed something inside her that may be hard to mend, one more wound from a war that has reached into the smallest and most intimate corners of life in Gaza.

@ajplusarabi

[Cayteya @cayteya]

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

The latest images of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya have reignited outrage over his detention.

Once seen walking through the rubble of Kamal Adwan Hospital as Israeli forces advanced on northern Gaza, Abu Safiya reappeared in a Jerusalem court on Wednesday over a video call, after more than 500 days in detention.

Rights groups say he remains held without formal charge under administrative detention, while his legal team has raised concerns about his deteriorating health

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

The Palestinians dying for work
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Israel shut its borders to West Bank laborers after October 7. But desperation means thousands are finding a way in — and Israeli police keep shooting them.

@Charritzjack reports.

https://t.co/plcRxegQwy

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"By facilitating the processing of fungible proceeds from Israel Bonds, Luxembourg is aiding and abetting according to the standards of facilitation... and those who made the decision to approve the prospectus are indeed at personal criminal responsibility for facilitating acts of genocide"

- Shahd Hammouri, Law for Palestine
https://t.co/F2MLlUDdss

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Ahead of today’s first World Cup game, Bosnian legend Edin Džeko writes a letter to the children of Bosnia, reflecting on what it meant to survive war as a child and on the horrors still unfolding in the world today:

“In the end, we survived. Looking back, I’m amazed at how strong we were. We were just little kids. But there was no point to the war. All those innocent people killed, and for what?
For money. Power. Ego. 
For nothing. 
When there is war on the news today, I feel sick.
I don’t want to see it anywhere.
For some reason, adults never learn.” https://t.co/wPzzjylNLL

[Index on Censorship @IndexCensorship]

#Israel has deported French journalist Alice Froussard following her reporting on the country's actions in the West Bank and Gaza.

Read our reporting into the government's growing crackdown on foreign journalists critical of its policies:
https://t.co/wXh1IcvnCv

[Hugh Lovatt @h_lovatt]

According to diplomats from each of the mediating countries “Israeli officials indicated that even if Hamas were to agree now to start the process of disarming, Jerusalem is unlikely to be willing to take the steps necessary to advance the deal.” https://t.co/tDNCe8motc

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

'We cannot let this become the new normal.'

“This weekend eight children were reported killed and a further 17 injured in five different locations in the Gaza Strip, while in the West Bank, a seven-month-old boy died after being shot by Israeli forces" https://t.co/o2WqyAulf1

[SBS Sport @SBSSportau]

The Socceroos have a message for us all ❤️

We are all united for Australia at the FIFA World Cup 2026™ and we are CERTAIN, they are going to do us proud! Come on boys! 🇦🇺

🏆 #FIFAWorldCup | June 12 - July 20 | Every Match on SBS 📺

[Anadolu English @anadoluagency]

#BREAKING Iran's top diplomat says talks to end war will proceed in two stages, first MoU with US, then negotiations on final agreement; nuclear issue deferred to final deal

[Cayteya @cayteya]

▪️A joint investigation by the French daily Libération and Haaretz, which analyzed BlackCore's digital footprint, uncovered a toolkit of influence-operation systems routed through servers in Britain, Germany, Finland and Lithuania. - Haaretz reports
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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇫🇷🇮🇱 France’s foreign disinformation watchdog says it suspects Israeli influence firm BlackCore of carrying out digital interference operations not only in France’s March local elections, but also in New York City’s 2025 mayoral race and elections in Scotland, as well as in Angola and Togo.

French authorities previously linked BlackCore to an online smear campaign targeting three pro-Palestine candidates from the France Unbowed (LFI) party. Officials now say their investigation indicates the group deployed similar online influence operations in multiple countries.

France has asked Israel for explanations and assistance in determining who may have been behind the alleged campaign. Reuters reports it remains unclear who directed the alleged interference.

🔗 Haaretz’s story is linked below. Video report from France 20h is ⤵️

[TRT World Now @TRTWorldNow]

Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar is travelling to Geneva as part of the negotiations between the US and Iran. Reza Hatami has more

[ICRC @ICRC]

In places affected by armed conflict, violence against those providing care and assistance has deeply affected the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, including National Societies, whose volunteers and community health workers are often on the front lines of response.

Medical and humanitarian personnel are protected under different rules of international humanitarian law, and they must be respected and protected at all times. They must not be attacked, threatened, or obstructed from carrying out their work.

Parties to conflict have the power and the responsibility to prevent such acts and ensure respect for their obligations under international humanitarian law (IHL).

[FRANCE 24 English @France24_en]

🇺🇸 ⚽ 🏆 💸 Ahead of the #FIFAWorldCup, the body in-charge of organising the competition promised an economic windfall for the three host nations, notably in the #US, thanks to the influx of international fans visiting to see the matches.

However, amid visa restrictions to enter the US and its ongoing war with Iran, the footfall on the ground is falling short of FIFA's projections.

[Cayteya @cayteya]

“Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Friday that a "final, agreed-upon text" of a cease-fire deal between the United States and Iran "has been reached," as U.S. and Iranian officials continued to dispute the conditions of a potential agreement between the two.”

[Cayteya @cayteya]

“The aim was to finalize the wording by Saturday so the agreement could be signed by Vance and Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf. No venue had been established but Geneva was emerging as the likeliest.”
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[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

U.S.-Iran deal could be signed on Sunday in Geneva, source says https://t.co/xqIQMSAavH