Kristy

Daily reminder that children are still dying in Gaza

YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, 'Judgement Day'

The first in a new series of videos following young writers in Gaza.

Here, Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, Judgement Day, from her searingly powerful debut collection.

Please watch and share widely.

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

Read out loud every single one of them. Every single out of 18457 names. History, past and future slaughtered again and again. And remember you are not innocent, you are not distant. You killed them too. We all did. And we continue to do.

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Slovakia passes law to recognise only two sexes and restrict adoption Critics are warning the change would make life more difficult for LGBT people.

Another abhorrent attack on gender equality and queer rights in name of ethics and Christian values.

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The British tried this before. It was called the British Colonial Office back then. Just putting on it a fancier name now with a different Sir in charge. Nothing new here.

Palestinians in West Bank stranded as Israel shuts only international crossing Many have been unable to leave the territory since the Allenby Bridge crossing was shut indefinitely on Wednesday.

Israel is pulling another lever in the machinery of its genocide.

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Killed seeking food - Jeremy Bowen on Abdullah's shooting and Gaza's lethal aid system Inside Panorama and BBC Eye's investigation into hunger in Gaza and why so many are risking their lives for aid.

“I gave up my eldest son so he could feed his siblings, his father and his mother.”

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Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson

Israeli minister touts Gaza 'real estate bonanza', defying international backlash Bezalel Smotrich, an ultranationalist who has been sanctioned by the UK and others, said he was in discussion with the US over the idea.

Absolutely appalling. But this was long in the making. Hateful rhetoric is not accidental, genocide is not accidental. And the elimination of Gaza, of Palestine is not a matter of 2 year. Listen to the oppressor, no matter how crazy they sound.

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Not just 2 years. Not just Gaza.

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

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BBC witnesses Israeli settlers' attack on Palestinian farm in West Bank A BBC team was interviewing a Palestinian farmer when masked men charged towards them.

Important reminder that conflict in Gaza is not just a war. It’s a part of bigger genocidal settler-colonial regime.

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“The future’s bright
… Dazzling.” ✨✨
#TS12

Harlem to Hebron: the long history of Black solidarity with Palestinians A mutual alliance between oppressed people has been revived with Israel’s full-scale invasion of Gaza

Harlem to Hebron: the long history of Black solidarity with Palestinians

“The clustering of similar injuries … suggests this is a targeting activity at particular body parts”

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food. It calculated how much Gaza needs – but data shows how this is being withheld The mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza. Palestinians cannot leave, war has ended farming and Israel has banned fishing, so practically every calorie its population eats must be brought in from outside. Israel knows how much food is needed. It has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure while avoiding starvation. Continue reading...

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

Eleven minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk Raed Jamal sends the message shortly after he returns, empty-handed, from an aid distribution point to his tent in the al-Mawasi displacement camp in south-west Gaza. “The tanks came and started firing. Three boys near me were martyred,” says the 36-year-old, who has four children. “I didn’t even get anything, just two empty boxes.” Jamal’s journey involved a long walk to and from a former residential neighbourhood bulldozed by Israeli forces and turned into one of four militarised aid distribution centres run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is based in Delaware in the US. Continue reading...

Eleven minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story

Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation * Middle East crisis – live updates At least 798 people have been killed while seeking food at distribution points operated by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and other humanitarian convoys since the end of May, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday. The GHF, proposed by Israel as an alternative to the UN aid system in Gaza, has been almost universally condemned by rights groups for its violation of principles of humanitarian impartiality and what they have said could be complicity in war crimes. Continue reading...

Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

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In a deathblow to the ability to stop blatantly lawless and unconstitutional actions by the government, the Supreme Court just gutted the ability to get universal injunctions.

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I spent five years in Iran’s notorious Evin prison but when Israel bombed it I felt horror and fear | Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Many held there are opponents of the repressive regime. Who is alive now? Who was killed? Were they just collateral damage, asks former hostage Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe

I spent five years in Iran’s notorious Evin prison but when Israel bombed it I felt horror and fear | Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Netanyahu decided on Iran war last year, then sought to recruit Trump The Israeli prime minister had set in motion plans to attack Iran long before President Trump began efforts to resolve nuclear concerns through negotiations.

This article is...quite wild. It suggests that the entire public premise for Israeli (and American) strikes on Iran is false, and a product of Netanyahu seeing a weakened Iran and deciding to strike (and interpreting murky intel in a very particular way to effectuate that).

I thought I would go to see a movie to take my mind of the news.
Turned out that the only screening is a post-apocalyptic zombie horror.

Sticking with small men's shit for the day.

Iran-Israel ‘threshold war’ has rewritten nuclear escalation rules Strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran may increase Tehran’s belief that attaining nuclear weapons is key to establishing a deterrence to regime change.

Israel's strikes on Iran mark the emergence of a "threshold war" - a new form of conflict where a nuclear power uses force to prevent an enemy from acquiring nuclear weapons. An international relations scholar explains the dangerous dynamic: buff.ly/mFpPrPk
By Farah N. Jan @upenn.edu

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

'They are shooting a lot': voice notes from a Gaza hospital as war closes in - BBC News Al-Awda hospital has shut down as Gaza’s health system unravels. In voice notes sent over two weeks, its director documented the collapse - until the moment staff and patients were forced to flee.

May 18: “Women will give birth in the street”
May 19: “pregnant women stop coming”

Last days of one of Gaza’s silenced hospitals.

Great account of Israel’s brutal campaign of profoundly gendered violence designed to annihilate Gaza and Palestinian population.

“Put simply, the Nakba never came to an end.”

REVEALED: Elon and Trump's Plans to Mint More Mothers Introducing the “Fertilization” President and the Surrogate King

Late on this but enjoyed the article

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They just legally defined trans women as biological men i feel so fuckin sick