Firas Shehadeh

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

This is colonial grift. You make money from the slaughter and you make more money from the spectacle of contrision.
In both cases you eliminate the victim

[Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي @Helyeh_Doutaghi]

Calling it a total “internet blackout” is misleading. What has been restricted is *international* connectivity, not the domestic internet: national websites, banking systems, and local alternatives to platforms like Uber, YouTube, and Google remain fully functional.

The adoption of alternative digital infrastructures is not uniquely Iranian. States that perceive themselves as vulnerable to imperialist cyber operations or disinformation campaigns in hybrid warfare adopt this strategy. Reliance on domestic platforms in this context is a matter of digital sovereignty and resilience.

[Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي @Helyeh_Doutaghi]

The Iranian parliament is in the process of adopting what may constitute the most effective/codified boycott, divestment, and sanctions regime in contemporary history against the US and the Zionist entity. This new legal framework can be read as both an attempt to neutralize sanctions, and to reassert sovereign agency within an international (western) legal order historically structured by imperial domination. Its significance lies as much in its enforcement mechanisms as in its challenge to the entrenched imperial hierarchies that have long governed global law and the political economy.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.

This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.

Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.

I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.

Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

[Mezna Qato @meznaqato]

An archive commemorating the lives of Palestinian scholars killed in the genocide in Gaza. https://t.co/Udh6kIV45D

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

A murderous bombing campaign in Iran, continuing genocide in Palestine, serial aggression abroad, belligerent occupation of several countries, acts of transnational terrorism, repression at home, schemes to profit from murder and colonization, systematic coverup of the Mossad-Epstein operations, massive corruption of the public and private sectors across the West, sanctions against human rights defenders and international courts, attacks on international institutions, the dismantling of international law, mass surveillance of the rest of us, and a growing trail of blood and destruction around the globe.

The US-Israel Axis is the greatest threat facing humanity today. To deny this in the face of so much evidence is to either reveal your ignorance or to declare your complicity.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

NEW | Gaza Death Toll Likely Exceeds 100,000, Max-Planck Study finds at least 100,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza during the more than two-year-long Israeli genocide. Between October 7, 2023 - October 6, 2025, around 112,000 Palestinians were killed, including 27% children under 15 and 24% women. Life expectancy in Gaza, which plummeted from pre-war averages of 77 years for women and 74 for men to 46 and 36, respectively, reflecting the extreme danger faced by civilians.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

If the UN Security Council adopts Trump’s colonial proposal today, as it appears poised to do, it will represent the greatest betrayal of the Palestinian people, the rules of international law, and the principles of self-determination and decolonization, since the UN adopted the partition plan in 1947 against the will of the indigenous people, setting the stage for 80 years of Nakba. And it will drive the last nail in the coffin of UN legitimacy. But this ruse will not succeed. And history will remember the collaborators who bowed to the empire to allow this to happen.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨🇵🇸 BREAKING:
Gaza’s Government Media Office:
“We formally accuse the Israeli army of stealing organs from the martyrs.”

Dr. Ismail Al-Thawabta, head of the Office, says Israel returned 120 mutilated bodies – blindfolded, bound, crushed under tanks, and missing corneas, livers, and limbs. He is demanding an international probe into torture, mutilation, and organ theft.

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[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Israel just bombed a tent in Khan Younis and killed two children.

[عاصم النبيه Asem Alnabih @AsemAlnabeh]

The bombing has been absolutely relentless all through the night and still continuing, even just moments ago.

I’ve been trying to follow the news to understand where the strikes are happening, but sadly, the coverage of what’s unfolding in Gaza City is painfully limited.

Please talk about Gaza. Let the world know we’re still here.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

Germany’s Annalena Baerbock, infamous for her active and enthusiastic complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people, for disseminating the Israeli regime’s genocidal propaganda, and for publicly justifying its war crimes, was sworn in today as President of the UN General Assembly. In her first address, she stumbled clumsily through a chain of empty platitudes and blatant hypocrisies, posing triumphantly from her podium of impunity. This day marks yet another stain on an organization already badly sullied by two years of inaction during a live-streamed genocide. Shame on the member states that willfully handed the keys to the UN to this ignominious figure, just as the UNGA is being called upon to act to stop Israel’s extermination of the Palestinian people. #Shame

[Amal Saad @amalsaad_lb]

Israel’s, US-backed, assassination attempt on the Hamas’ negotiating team in Qatar reveals it isn’t just desperate to win this war but to dismantle every principle that could restrain it, and to impose a world made in its own image where sovereignty, alignments, negotiations, and diplomacy become obsolete.
The US imperial order denies sovereignty not only to adversaries but also to so-called allies and collaborators who are routinely humiliated and reminded that they are not states but vassals and protectorates. Even the pretense of negotiations is cast aside, because negotiation implies equality and sovereignty. Perfidy is now a governing logic where deception and betrayal are normalised and routinized instruments of statecraft. The world is forced into two camps, with no middle ground: vassalage or resistance.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

In his open letter to Netanyahu, Macron openly brags about equating anti-Zionism with anti-semitism and then tells Netanyahu that his actions at the UN (including recognizing an unarmed Palestinian Bantustan) are meant “to transform the military gains Israel has achieved on regional fronts into a lasting political victory, to the benefit of its security and prosperity…to [secure] Israel’s … full regional integration in the Middle East … its normalization… [and] the end of Hamas.” France is not defending Palestinian freedom. It’s defending Zionism.

[Meqdad Jameel @Almeqdad]

It was an incredibly difficult night. Three houses were bombed in my neighborhood, one of them right next to my own. A large number of people were killed, and we stayed awake all night to the sound of missiles and warplanes that never stopped flying and bombing.

After our neighbors’ house was struck, no ambulance came to rescue the wounded. People rushed into the street, screaming: “Ambulance! Ambulance!” The scene was absolutely horrifying.

The demolitions never stop. Their force pierces our ears, shattering windows and doors each blast wiping out dozens of houses at once.

It was one of the harshest, most brutal nights in #Gaza City.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Israelis do not want to end their genocidal war on Gaza because they will not know what to do with themselves if the war ends today. This is not about Netanyahu and his coalition, it is about how this entire “society” has indulged so deeply in bloodshed, sadism, and murder that there is no return from it anymore. Once you take joy, pride, and comfort in the mass murder of families and children, in starving people, in torturing and raping prisoners systematically, once you normalize the complete destruction of cities, the erasure of communities and memories, once you dig up graves and desecrate bodies, once you mutilate the dead, once you shoot hungry children in the head, once you do all of this every day for years without pause, you lose whatever is left of your humanity. You become a monster, and death and destruction become your only profession and industry. There is no return from this. Israel will not stop unless others stop it. And Gaza will not be the final stop. Genocide will expand and engulf the entire region.

Their message is clear: either the region submits to the will of Israel and its leaders, where Israel becomes the sole hegemon that conquers, occupies, assassinates, destroys, bombs, seizes resources, and controls strategic positions whenever and wherever it wishes, or the region will be punished and disciplined. That's it. Israel has now revealed its true, original, and authentic self: a murderous and genocidal machine that knows no bounds.

All those who hesitated, collaborated, or believed their silence, collaboration, or complicity would buy them safety and spare them Israel’s fury will regret it sooner or later. They will be forced to fight back, and they will be forced to defend themselves. The region will be at war for years, perhaps decades, and it will not see peace or stability until the very questions at the heart of this are resolved: occupation, tyranny, equality, and dignity. This could be stopped now if the international community had even a modicum of will and courage. But it does not seem like it.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

You know, the killing is so relentless that you almost get used to it. A classroom of children killed every single day. You write about it, you read about it. Someone’s mother digs herself up from the rubble. Someone’s father is split in half. There was a video of wounded man using his arms to crawl across the road. Another man is so hungry he weeps. You read the stories. Each one is more brutal than the next and somehow the brutality is banal. You are numb, for better or for worse. But there are moments in the day, maybe just a singular moment, when you actually contend with the magnitude of the tragedy, when you are able to quantify the loss and in those moments you feel crushed—there are no adjectives. There are people mourning their lovers. Students missing their teachers. Orphans. Widowers. Grandmothers who look just like your own. I cry when I think about the people who were martyred just hours before they could apologize for something, or confess to something, or have something to eat. Or the slain who believed they would survive. And as the rancid rotten people of the world pontificate and debate the definition of genocide, you are at war with yourself, trying desperately to ignore the material meaning of the word. You read the news and you read the news and it is so hard to accept that the dead, the thousands of people they are slaughtering, they are your loved ones and your loved ones’ loved ones. This isn’t just a bad dream.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

According to UNICEF, over the last 5 months, Israel killed 540 children per month.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

100% of Thai women working in Israeli agriculture report being sexually assaulted in Israel — 654 of 654 surveyed. A report by immigration experts Dr. Yahel Kurlander and Dr. Shahar Shoham said “the State of Israel has abandoned these women” and that filing a complaint can mean losing both job and home.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

We are the indigenous population of that land, called Palestine.
We are being wiped out by European settlers.
Like they wiped out many indigenous populations before us.
Their genocidal tools are slaughter, diseases, and famine.
How little have they evolved.