Cess

I can no longer stand idly by

[Cess @Cee_Ceefee]

“The report on children and armed conflict… verified more cases of war crimes against children in the occupied territories and Israel than anywhere else, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Somalia, Nigeria and Sudan.”https://t.co/kMVUrSilFW

[Cess @Cee_Ceefee]

@rich_toronto So you believe in the destruction of Palestinians in Palestine to make way for the creation of a Jewish ethnostate. Thats ultimately what Zionism all comes down to

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨This short film exposes the true story of Israel's creation, entirely through the words of its own founders

For decades, Israel’s lies have been carefully designed to demonize its victims. To ensure that no matter the crimes it commits, the children it slaughters, the world remains incapable of empathy for Palestinians, or at best, treats it with the same apathy that has allowed this to go on for as long as it has

On the 78th anniversary of its creation, it's time the world knew that Israel's past is not different from the brutal present the world is finally seeing

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

A thread of testimonies from international doctors who have spent time working in Gaza during Israels genocide. Clips are in no particular order.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

"Israeli officials and their allies in Congress and pro-Israel organizations are seeking to ensure that going forward, the Israeli prime minister and his/her officials will be functionally – and permanently – granted seats in the U.S. situation room."

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The goal was always occupation and land.

[B.M. @ireallyhateu2]

On this day, 59 years ago, on June 6, 1967, Qalqilya was occupied by Israeli forces. All of its residents, about 15,000 people, were expelled. A significant part of the city was destroyed.
Following massive international pressure, Israel was forced to allow the residents to return.

Later, the mayor of Qalqilya recounted that the soldiers seated him on a jeep, handed him a note in Arabic, and ordered him to call on the residents to leave.

According to the UN envoy, 850 out of 2,000 homes were destroyed by the army. Other estimates are even higher.

Following the expulsion, droves of Israeli civilians living in the area arrived in the city and looted whatever remained.

One Israeli soldier recounted seeing refugees leaving Qalqilya on trucks: "Trucks packed to the brim, mostly with babies and women. Because there were no men. They also traveled on buses." In one instance, a soldier tossed part of his combat rations toward the refugees. "It was horrific to witness. They pounced on it... and it really shook me up."

IDF commander Ze'ev Shaham later wrote: "The instructions regarding it (Qalqilya) were clear: evacuate the residents and destroy the place."

In the photo:
A Palestinian girl returning to her destroyed home in Qalqilya (Photo: AP)

[B.M. @ireallyhateu2]

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Fifty-nine years ago, during the 1967 war, the residents of three Palestinian villages in the Latrun area - Imwas, Yalo, and Bayt Nuba - were expelled.

The villages themselves were completely destroyed, razed to the ground.

In the photos: Imwas 1958/1968

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

They are using a 100,000 shekel Polaris Ranger to loot the crops.

The Israeli government gave them those Polaris Rangers, for free, to do exactly this.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Add your name to those of lawyer Michael Mansfield, former General Charlie Herbert, barrister Daniel Machover, genocide scholar Martin Shaw, Yanis Varoufakis, surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah, MPs J.Corbyn, J.McDonnell, Diane Abbott and many others, and sign here 👇

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

On 5 June 1967, Israel launched a war of aggression against Egypt, Syria and Jordan, and came to occupy the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza, territory intended to form part of a future Palestinian State.

Within weeks, a young legal adviser at Israel's Foreign Ministry, Theodor Meron, set out the legal consequences with remarkable clarity. In a memorandum I recovered during archival research in 2019, he affirmed the applicability of the 1907 Hague Regulations and the Fourth Geneva Convention to the newly occupied territories, and recalled the prohibition on annexation.

Two months later, writing to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Meron advised that the establishment of civilian settlements in the occupied territories would be, in his words, in "contravention of explicit provisions" of international humanitarian law.

History has a habit of leaving breadcrumbs. Meron would later become President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and decades later advised the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on atrocity crimes committed by Netanyahu and others in Gaza. The legal position he articulated in 1967 has not changed. What has changed is that nearly six decades later, the warnings were ignored, the occupation entrenched and metastasized into unlawful presence, and the consequences are before us all.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Yes, you read that correctly, the Israeli army shot and killed a 7-month-old Palestinian baby.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Apartheid South Africans used to say all the time that South Africa was "the only democracy in Africa."

They would herald South Africa's High Court decisions such as those nullifying racist state laws, as evidence of their democracy!

Sound familiar? https://t.co/EwaG70D8IY

[Good Shepherd Collective @Shepherds4Good]

The situation on the ground in the West Bank is hurtling closer toward one of de jure annexation across more and more land, including land in Areas A and B.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Today is Naksa Day.

It commemorates Israel's expulsion of 300,000 Palestinians & 130,000 Syrians from their homes in 1967.

This is a brief history of Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians and Syrians in 1967, my latest: https://t.co/T98GYaJlAZ

[Good Shepherd Collective @Shepherds4Good]

Another blocked road in the north of the West Bank, targeting Palestinian farmers in Qabalan, south of Nablus, to prevent them from reaching their agricultural lands and crops.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🪖 A study published in One Earth by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and Lancaster University calls for mandatory reporting of military emissions under the UN climate framework, noting that countries are currently not required to disclose the carbon footprint of warfare.

[Euro-Med Monitor @EuroMedHR]

When you turn on the tap today, remember that for most people in #Gaza, clean running water is no longer a part of daily life.

After more than two and a half years of relentless destruction of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure, families are forced to walk long distances carrying heavy containers of water, simply to meet their most basic daily needs.

[Jadaliyya @jadaliyya]

On how the Palestinian context is buried in misleading reporting

"It's not about giving a history lesson every time you write an article," says @AssalRad.

It's about ensuring historical context of the Palestinian Nakba is already known and understood, so that when new violations, atrocities, and today genocide occur, people are aware of how we got here.

Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series: Understanding U.S. News Media's Complicity in Israel's Genocide w/ @LailaAlarian, @MinotaurLives, @AssalRad, and @4Bassam

https://t.co/FQDN4K3a5F

[Hadi Hoteit | هادي حطيط @HadiHtt]

More than 10 Israeli drone strikes on different areas in Nabatieh region since morning, including outskirts of Ragheb Hareb hospital between Toul and Doweir, Ebba, Habboush, Harouf.
Massive explosion in Hujair area was seen and felt from 15 km away. Mostly a demolition or a first time use of a heavier type of bombs (2 t at least).
Airstrikes have repeatedly bombed residential areas in Qsaybeh and Jebchit and other nearby villages.
Artillery shelling on Jebchit did not stop since yesterday.
"Trump's Ceasfire"