Palestine

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40061691

Dec 08, 2025

In late 2024, Israeli lawmakers approved a ban on UNRWA in Israel over disproven allegations that some of its staffers were Hamas members who took part in the October 7, 2023 attack. Those accusations led to numerous nations suspending financial support for UNRWA, although most of the countries have since restored funding. Israel has also sought to ban UNRWA from Gaza since early 2024.

Israeli forces have killed more than 370 UNRWA staff members since October 2023 and destroyed or damaged over 300 of the agency’s facilities in Gaza. Lazzarini and others have also accused Israeli forces of torturing UNRWA staffers in a bid to force false confessions of Hamas involvement.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40059752

Dec. 6, 2025

Since I left Gaza in November 2023, my life has been defined by visa rejections and endless hours waiting in airport lines. I watch people behind the counters staring at my Palestinian passport with confusion, often having to “call for help” just to process it.

I’ve learned to explain the details automatically: “My name is Plestia, Rana is my mother’s name. Yes, on Palestinian passports, we include our mother’s name.” One rejection after the other; I am stuck in Gaza, I am stuck outside. Where are #Palestinians supposed to go? We are pushed out of our own land, then met with locked doors everywhere else.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40060343

By MEE staff Published date: 4 Dec 2025 15:06 GMT

It found that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) introduced a separate, sparse menu for “security prisoners”, which is used to describe mostly Palestinian prisoners, leaving many malnourished.

Released prisoners told media outlets and rights groups that meals sometimes consisted of a tiny portion of undercooked rice shared between several inmates for an entire day, while others went days without food.

The report described the resulting hunger as “severe, manifested in extreme weight loss and associated physical symptoms, including extreme weakness and fainting”.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40050390

A cease-fire after two years of war with Israel has allowed Hamas to tighten its grip on power again. “It’s still standing,” one Israeli official said.

https://archive.ph/PJEPZ

from New York Times
Dec. 8, 2025
[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]

Over two years of war, top Hamas commanders and thousands of fighters have been killed, and the group’s arsenal has been severely depleted. It now controls less than half of the territory in Gaza, with the rest occupied by Israel.

Yet Hamas has managed to reassert its power in Gaza, according to Israeli security officials and an Arab intelligence official.

This swift regrouping presents a formidable obstacle to the Trump administration’s plan to reconstruct a Gaza free of Hamas. [yes!]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40050986

Israel kills seven Palestinians in attacks on Saturday. A humanitarian aid coordinator tells Drop Site the ceasefire masks a “catastrophic reality” on the ground in Gaza. Israeli police raid UNRWA compound in Jerusalem. In Doha, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa responds to questions about his militant past; diplomats discuss the International Stabilization Force and reproach Israel for its ceasefire violations; Saudi Arabia is the lone voice in support of disarmament. A secret meeting between Qatar, Israel, and the U.S. The White House wants more economic and diplomatic meetings between Israel and its neighbors. The FBI is making a list of “extremists.” Rep. Adelita Grijalva pepper-sprayed by ICE. Mass rapes and spiking malnutrition reported in Sudan. LIBRE alleges fraud in Honduras and calls for new elections. A major rally in support of Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum draws 600,000 people. Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia renewed. Coup in Benin foiled. U.S. Senate to vote to extend Obamacare subsidies. A vote for the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act is expected in the House this week.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39990149

from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Dec 7, 2025

In the wake of the Gaza ceasefire, far-right Israeli ministers and activists are pushing to release dozens of Jewish prisoners, including murderers, who attacked Palestinians. Sivan Tahel revealed several Jewish terrorists on this hidden list, as the state refuses to disclose their identities.

Also:

• Legislating apartheid: How Israel entrenched unequal rule during Gaza war
• Netanyahu’s veiled threat to outlaw Ra’am is a message to all Palestinian citizens
• The billionaire family poised to rewire U.S. media in Israel’s favor
• PODCAST: Uncovering the inner workings of an AI genocide

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39990892

from The Wire [online publication of Jewish Voice For Peace JVP in USA]

In North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota, local campaigns have notched divestment wins totaling more than $27 million.

Across the country, JVP chapters and our partners are organizing to demand their state and municipal fund managers divest from Israel Bonds — essentially investments in Israeli genocide and apartheid — and invest instead in the well-being of our communities.

This organizing targets the engine enabling Israel's violence against Palestinians: material support from our own institutions in the U.S. And the momentum is growing...

Also:

• Defend anti-Zionist students.
• Plug in locally.
• Join Power Half-Hour.

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1996977635553939504 (https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1996977635553939504)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39908251

Israeli attacks continue across Gaza. Trump plans to unveil his “Board of Peace” before Christmas. The UN says aid into Gaza is still being blocked. Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti is brutally beaten. Nicholas Kristof confronts former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak about his Epstein ties. Another U.S. strike in the Pacific. NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani asks 179 city officials to resign, while outgoing Mayor Eric Adams signs a pro-Israel executive order. Federal judge dismisses antisemitism suit against Harvard. U.S. President Donald Trump shortens asylum seekers’ work permits. Rwanda and the DRC sign a peace deal in Washington. Forty-seven killed, mostly children, after the RSF attacks a kindergarten in Sudan. Ukraine is staring at a massive population crisis, according to a Reuters report. Russian President Vladimir Putin is found culpable for a 2018 death by a UK public inquiry. Clashes between the Yemeni government and UAE-backed separatists in Hadramaut. A boycott of Israeli participation in Eurovision materializes. Netflix to buy Warner Bros.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39867577

Israeli attacks kill six people across Gaza, with 16 others injured, in the past 24 hours. Yasser Abu Shabab, leader of Israel-backed gang, is killed. Israeli tanks roll into Gaza City. Israel and Hamas trade casualties in Rafah. Israeli forces used bulldozers to hide the bodies of Palestinians killed while seeking aid at Zikim. President Donald Trump says the ceasefire is “moving along.” Israel strikes four towns in southern Lebanon in a new military operation announced Thursday. Lebanon and Israel hold first direct talks in 40 years. Israeli raids near Tubas in the West Bank. Israel is building a fence through the Jordan Valley, on the model of its West Bank wall. DHS launches another raid in a major American city, this time in New Orleans. Trump pardons Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar on his bribery case, primarily because he shares his right-wing immigration views. Legal experts warn Microsoft about its complicity in the Gaza genocide. Changes in medical record-keeping at the Department of Veterans Affairs portend disaster. Romanian navy intercepts a Ukrainian-manufactured drone. Indian police kill 12 Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh. A bomb in northwestern Pakistan kills three police officers, while Afghanistan-Pakistan talks stall. Fighting intensifies in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf
is now caught up with the collection on YouTube. From now on, new #videos from YouTube will be quickly loaded to #PeerTube as well. [The previous Cuddly.Tube channel will be taken down soon.]

URL: https://peertube.wtf/c/cuba/_botb/_videos/videos

Also significant is the expansion of playlists. BotB produces a lot of videos, and it is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for. I spent some time going through the collection and adding playlists. 

If you set up a login on PeerTube.wtf, you could also develop and save your own private playlists. But logins are not necessary to browse videos on PeerTube.wtf.

One playlist that will probably get a lot of use is Cuba and #Palestine, which contains 17 videos.

When you get a chance, please check them out.

#LetCubaLive #EndTheEmbargo #Solidarity #FreePalestine
#politics #BellyOfTheBeast #Cuba #Gaza

@palestine

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39814137

Israel announces it will open the Rafah border crossing but only for Palestinians leaving. Hamas to hand over the body of another Israeli captive. Over 200 prominent cultural figures sign a letter calling for the release of Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti. ICE begins targeting Somali Americans in Minnesota. President Donald Trump gives this new antagonism rhetorical support, calling Ilhan Omar and Somalis in general “garbage.” Trump Department of Justice official Harmeet Dillon slanders Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as an “antisemitic demagogue,” and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blames youth solidarity with Palestine on TikTok. Israel launders its talking points through actress Noa Tishby and her foundation, a new report alleges, and may have violated FARA in the process. Trump admin threatens to cut off SNAP funding in blue states. ICE moves toward a “mega-warehouse” detention facility. Ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is released from prison after a Trump pardon. Centrist candidate Salvador Nasralla takes a slim lead in Honduras’ elections. More violence in Pakistan’s northwest. The Ukrainian military disputes Russian claims of gains in the Donbas. Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to cut off Ukrainian access to the sea. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces are systematically holding trapped residents for ransom in El-Fasher. Venezuela resumes repatriation flights. The Philippine military is using U.S. hardware in its counter-insurgency efforts, a new Drop Site report shows. As the feds closed in on Jeffrey Epstein, he estimated in a private email that there might be as many as 20 underage victims, Saagar Enjeti reports for Drop Site.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39791607

from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972Magazine [published in Israel]
Nov. 30, 2025

Gazan analyst Muhammad Shehada examines how Israel is using the ‘Yellow Line’ to re-engineer its control over the Strip even after the ceasefire. [Podcast]

Also:

• Why the death penalty would cement the Israeli radical right’s ascendancy
• At settlers’ bidding, Israel arrests prominent Palestinian activist
• Israel is set to destroy our guesthouse. But Masafer Yatta still welcomes all who resist
• AI-powered surveillance firms are gunning for a share of the Gaza spoils

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39770036

Israeli military kills Palestinian photojournalist in Gaza; as Israeli forces also kill two Palestinian teenagers in the West Bank. 200 trucks enter Gaza daily (far below the number required by the ceasefire agreement), while 6,600 trucks wait. More reports emerge of drugs being smuggled into Gaza by Israel-supported gangs. Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks with President Trump again and receives another invitation to the White House. Saudi Arabia sends the Palestinian Authority $90 million. Northwestern University surrenders to Trump and accepts additional federal government control over campus policies, admissions, and more. The Trump administration now admits it struck a “drug smuggling” boat in the Caribbean twice in a September operation. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem wants an even wider travel ban, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that the U.S. takes in “essentially…zero” refugees. Starbucks is ordered to pay up for labor law violations in New York. “Operation Midway Blitz” is suffocating the economy of the city’s most prominent Latino neighborhood. The U.S. wants to increase uranium mining, even if it means spiking cancer rates for the communities that do the work and for those who live nearby. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces takes a critical transportation hub in the South, where another attack leaves 40 dead. Gang operations overrun central Haiti. The Nigerian government grants asylum to the leader of Guinea-Bissau’s opposition.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39755013

Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 01, 2025

Trump’s 20-point plan has been endorsed by an assortment of Arab and Islamic states and Mahmoud Abbas, the deeply unpopular 90-year old head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), but it has been rejected by a wide cross section of other Palestinian political factions and parties.

“It’s an Israeli plan that has been rebranded as a Trump plan,” said Diana Buttu, a human rights lawyer who previously served as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators. “All of the guarantees are being given to Israel, but there’s no guarantees that are given to Palestinians. The fact [is] that all of the control rests in the hands of Israel. No control is ceded to anybody else; it looks to me entirely like an Israeli plan that was rebranded as a Trump plan—not the other way around,” Buttu told Drop Site. “It was a plan that was designed to ease the pressure off of Israel and, at the same time, let Israel continue to kill Palestinians—let them try to ethnically cleanse Gaza. It exactly matches what Israel said from the beginning.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39748429

https://archive.ph/ErKmx

[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]

Opinion - Guest Essay Ben Rhodes

During the Biden presidency, it was short-handed the “hug Bibi” strategy — the idea that smothering Mr. Netanyahu with unconditional support would give the U.S. leverage to influence his actions. Over the final 15 months of the Biden presidency, this approach led the White House to provide a flood of weapons for Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians, veto United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a cease-fire, attack the International Criminal Court for pursuing charges against Mr. Netanyahu, ignore its own policies about supporting military units credibly accused of war crimes and blame Hamas for not accepting cease-fire terms that the Israeli government was also rejecting.

Didi here. As a refuser and the head of Refuser Solidarity Network, I'm writing to you at a fragile moment. News shifts by the hour: one headline declares a "ceasefire," the next warns of the "reoccupation" of Gaza. Amid the confusion, one truth remains clear: the only force that has ever stopped Israel's wars of annihilation is the people who refuse to fight them.

This ceasefire was not granted by the government or diplomacy. It was forced into being by resistance: by global outrage, by organizing, and by soldiers who said no. Refusers slowed mobilization, broke ranks, and disrupted the machinery of war.

Now those same refusers face a new challenge as Israel prepares to reoccupy Gaza under the guise of peace. That is why we are turning to you today. RSN is launching its end-of-year campaign to grow this movement with the momentum of the ceasefire. Netanyahu is betting on silence, on the world's attention fading so he can deepen control. But we are still here. The struggle did not end but changed phase.

That is why we need you today. We plan to continue training organizers, support refusers, and build the movement that can stop this. Help us today to reach our end-of-year goal of $50,000 so that we can continue to support refuser groups, build up their infrastructure, and expand our movement.

In recent weeks, Israeli officials have begun sketching plans for a long-term reoccupation of Gaza. New military zones have been mapped across the Strip, separating the west from the east. Armed checkpoints and "buffer areas" are expanding even though they are supposed to be temporary, effectively carving Gaza into controlled enclaves. Displaced Palestinians remain barred from returning home. The Israeli government doesn't even pretend this is temporary while it entrenches itself in the Gaza Strip. This is a new phase of domination that is poised to expand. We need a strong resistance movement to stop it.

At RSN, we know refusal works. It worked during the Intifada, it worked during this war, and it will work now. Our mission is to make refusal widespread, organized, and impossible to ignore. We support the networks that make it happen: from reservist groups to grassroots activists.

Together, we are building the most powerful resistance Israel has ever known, a movement that grows stronger each time someone says enough. But refusal demands resources. It needs us. Because the truth is, the ceasefire is fragile, the fire has not ceased, and the occupation is not over. Yet we have an opportunity to end the Israeli occupation, but it can happen only with real resistance.

But resistance will continue to grow, despite the ceasefire, and in spite of Israel's plans. Support the movement that makes it possible and contribute to our campaign today. Your donations will provide crucial support in this critical phase. It will allow us to expand our work by building refuser groups' organizational capacity, mentoring, media consultation and mental health support.

In solidarity,

Didi Remez
Executive Director
Refuser Solidarity Network

(Taken from an email sent to me by the Refuser Solidarity Network. Emphasis original.)

From this source, the soldiers were interrogated for 5 hours, and were then released without conditions. Their weapons were not confiscated, and they returned to their unit.

And if Israel doesn't want "terrorists", then they simply have to accept the Oslo agreements, they could have been at peace even before the 90s if they weren't so selfish and greedy(, they don't care about al-Aqsa for example). Sadistic abusers playing the victims.

https://www.mecaforpeace.org/one-palestinian-child-killed-every-3-days-by-israel-for-13-years-statistics

Teachers Union Escalates: General Strike in the Next 3 Days in Protest of Governments Failure to Meet Commitment

Anyone know the what commitment the palestinian government failed to meet?

sadanews.ps/en/news/253942.htm…

While people around the world sleep in warm, safe homes, we are trying to survive in a torn tent. The cold cuts through the thin fabric, and we shiver through the night with no protection, no warmth, and often no food.

Prices have become unbearably high, and I can no longer provide my family with even their most basic needs. Every day feels heavier than the one before, and every night feels colder and harsher.

We urgently need your support. Please donate — even the smallest amount can help us survive among this rubble.

Please, don’t forget us. Your kindness could be the warmth that saves my family https://gofund.me/00439328

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39484565

Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Nov 25, 2025

DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA STRIP—Ten-year-old Rateb Abu Qleiq sat in a rusted chair in front of his tent in Deir al-Balah. As he spoke, he unconsciously swung his right leg, which was amputated just below the knee, back and forth—the stub tracing a short arc in the air. On his lap he cradled a makeshift prosthetic, nothing more than a piece of plastic sewage pipe outfitted with an orange covering secured by a piece of string.

“My leg is gone,” Rateb told Drop Site. “This pipe doesn’t make up for my leg.”

Rateb was severely wounded in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis earlier this year that killed his mother and brother. His right leg was crushed and had to be amputated. He has undergone five surgeries in his abdomen since the attack.