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吾心吾行 澈如明镜

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Lamine Yamal in Gaza right now!

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇦🇺 Palestinian Groups Sue Australia to Expose Secret Arms Exports to Israel

Three Palestinian human rights organizations — Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — filed a federal court application on April 8 to compel Australia’s Defense Minister to disclose classified arms export permits to Israel, including permits predating October 7, 2023 that remain active and exports routed through global military supply chains. 

Australia is the sole global supplier of a key F-35 component used in missile deployment, even as the Albanese government has insisted it does not directly arm Israel, arguing its parts are controlled by U.S. companies.

“We cannot accept the Government’s ‘trust-us’ attitude to something as grave as potential Australian complicity in genocide,” said Rawan Arraf of the Australian Centre for International Justice, which is supporting the groups.


[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

Apple has removed Lebanese village names in Southern Lebanon.

As Israel invades, they are already setting the state to justify occupation.

I’ve never seen something like this.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Since February 28, when Israel and the US began bombing Iran, Israel also, on a near-daily basis, launched deadly attacks on Lebanon, Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

In that short time, Israel killed at least 107 Palestinians in the Strip https://t.co/aZHcLKb0w8

[蝉 @ianua]

@mranti 这么说来俄语是以色列第三大语言，苏联解体后，为了人种白化接受了大量的俄国人，和俄国开战不符合以色列利益

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

The regime change happened successfully.

MAGA😀

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇦🇺 🇵🇸 Israeli President Isaac Herzog—who faced international condemnation for inciting genocide by holding an "entire nation" responsible for Oct. 7—is in Australia on a four-day official state visit to Australia. New South Wales authorities invoked emergency powers to suppress protests, with police using pepper spray against demonstrators on Feb. 9 as Herzog met with Premier Chris Minns, who welcomed him as a guest of honor.

The visit comes amid a diplomatic rift following Australia’s recognition of Palestinian statehood and Israel’s decision to blame the Australian government for the Bondi Beach attack that killed 15 members of the Jewish community. While Zionist groups welcomed Herzog, the Jewish Council of Australia denounced the visit as an “outrage,” saying it weaponizes Jewish identity to shield the Israeli state from accountability for documented crimes.

🎥 Protest outside Sydney Town Hall as demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and called for Herzog’s arrest.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

AJ EXCLUSIVE: Heba Muraisi, a Palestine Action-affiliated activist in the UK tells Al Jazeera that she is suffering with pain as her 72-day protest reaches a critical stage https://t.co/L9dqZvzb7z

[蝉 @ianua]

@ishowspeedsiu0 Bro should be nominated and winning Nobel peace price for showing the world what the world looks like.

[蝉 @ianua]

@dashaloveu @shangguanluan 你说的对，中国没有乱炸日本渔船，没有乱扣押日本的运油船，确实不算制裁

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel has dropped more than 200,000 tons of explosives - this means that Israel has dropped ~100 kilograms of explosives on Gaza for every man, woman, and child.

Each red dot shows a bombed place in Gaza. (UN Satellite Centre, July 6th 2024)

This is what genocide looks like.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Do you know about the Pal Action hunger strikers? It’s one of the most important stories developing right now - and it’s been buried.

Here’s what you need to know.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ The U.S. and Israel are moving ahead with a project that would reorder Gaza into a permanent two-zone system: a Hamas-controlled “red zone” where most Palestinians remain trapped, and an Israeli-controlled “green zone” where Washington is rushing to build new “Alternative Safe Communities,” The New York Times and Wall Street Journal report.

1. “Alternative Safe Communities”:
The New York Times said that Aryeh Lightstone, backed by Jared Kushner and senior Trump officials, is directing plans for 10–11 residential compounds along the Israeli-held half of Gaza, starting in southern Gaza’s Rafah. Each compound would hold 20,000–25,000 people, built from modular or containerized units, with clinics, schools, and tight security perimeters. U.S. officials frame it as rapid relief; the NYT notes others warn the sites risk resembling internment-style camps with fences, cameras, patrol roads, and Israeli-run vetting that could bar large portions of Gaza’s population. The camps will not be ready for several months.

2. U.S. Leading the Project:
The Wall Street Journal adds that U.S. military engineering teams stationed at the CMCC are already helping lead debris clearing and unexploded ordnance removal operations in the “green zone,” hoping the new compounds will pull civilians away from Hamas-run areas. The WSJ underscores that the U.S. is proceeding because disarming Hamas is not close, and donors refuse to rebuild anything under Hamas’ authority.

3. Population Transfer:
European diplomats told the NYT they fear Palestinians may not be allowed to leave the compounds; Egypt told the WSJ it worries Rafah-based camps could become a prelude to population transfer into Sinai.

4. A Permanent Yellow Line:
It also reports Israel fortifying the internal “yellow line” with a permanent-looking security presence — troops, tanks, berms, and newly laid water and electrical infrastructure. The WSJ reiterates this is not a temporary posture: Israel is building out the basic utilities needed to sustain a long-term footprint on its side of the divide, reinforcing the sense that the partition of Gaza will remain in place for the foreseeable future.

5. Zooming Out:
Washington and Israel are building a “new Gaza” inside the Israeli-controlled half, backed by the UN-approved International Stabilization Force, while leaving the fate of the majority population in the “red zone” unresolved.

6. Former UNOCHA OPT Head Jonathan Whittall, writing for Al Jazeera, describes the project as the next phase of a colonial containment strategy: “zones of managed dispossession” where Palestinians must be screened to receive services but are barred from returning to their homes in the “red zone.” Whittall situates the plan in the history of counterinsurgency “new villages,” “strategic hamlets,” and apartheid bantustans, explaining this would simply be extending the logic of mass displacement.

📸 Excerpts from NYT on the US official leading the effort

[蝉 @ianua]

@saranekosa @SpoxCHN_MaoNing Simply because when a kid is acting out, the proper and normal thing to do is to speak with its parent first.

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

Want to look through Jeffrey Epstein’s documents yourself?

We published a searchable database of the entire set of new Epstein files and emails.

Despite Trump saying this is a scam, Trump is mentioned more than anyone else. Search for yourself here: https://t.co/GGdhNpgjzu

[Fear& @FearAndPod]

I'm not asking you to become Chinese. I'm saying, when the time is right, you will look in the mirror and already be Chinese.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 In blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, Israel has announced it will slash agreed aid shipments in half and keep the Rafah crossing closed, after Hamas returned four of the 28 bodies of Israeli captives believed to be in Gaza.

Hamas officials had repeatedly told mediators — and said in interviews with Drop Site since early October — that it would be “impossible” to locate and transfer all Israeli bodies within 72 hours of a ceasefire, given the scale of destruction. The ceasefire’s humanitarian protocol explicitly established a joint operations room — including Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, the U.S., Israel, and Hamas — to manage such complications, with Hamas required to submit all information it holds on living and deceased captives.

PIJ deputy leader Mohammed al-Hindi, in an interview on October 1 with Al Araby, said: “They demand the handover of [Israeli] prisoners in 72 hours. But even if they were all together in one house, or even buried in one grave, it would be impossible to hand them over in 72 hours. The situation is complicated, and everyone — Israel, America, and the mediators — knows it is complicated.”

According to Reuters who cited three Israeli officials, the Rafah crossing will remain closed through Wednesday, and aid deliveries will be sharply reduced. And Israeli outlets are claiming Hamas violated the deal, with Channel 12 citing an official alleging Hamas is “in severe breach” by not releasing more bodies. Egypt has reportedly deployed teams in Gaza to help locate them.

In a formal COGAT communication, Israel tied humanitarian aid directly to the return of bodies — a move amounting to collective punishment of a famine-stricken population:

“Yesterday, Hamas violated the agreement… As a result, political leadership has decided to impose a number of sanctions related to the humanitarian agreement. Starting tomorrow, only half of the agreed number of trucks — 300 — will be allowed to enter, all belonging to the UN and humanitarian NGOs. No fuel or gas will be allowed into the Strip, except for limited humanitarian needs.”

Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill last week that a prisoner exchange “would be impossible” while Israeli forces remain in Gaza’s population centers:

“We don’t know exactly where the prisoners are. Even the negotiators don’t know their locations. There cannot be an exchange if Israeli forces remain.”

Marzouk warned that Israel’s refusal to withdraw proves it “does not want Trump’s ceasefire plan to be implemented.”

As early as October 3, when Hamas first delivered its response to Trump’s plan, Marzouk said on television that locating remains “would take months” after Israel destroyed and blocked off delivery of desperately needed heavy machinery. It would be “impossible” in 72 hours.

[Harry Kane @HKane]

Been an incredible welcome for me and my family in Munich in the last 24 hours! Buzzing to have signed for such a massive club with an incredible history, can't wait to get started! #miasanmia