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I never thought I would write this. But here it comes: I’m running for #UN Secretary-General 🇺🇳. Because of the 30,000 killed by Israel in Gaza. Because global warming exceeded 1.5° in 2023. We can stop this. Endorse our campaign, #Unite4survival 🗳️ unite4survival.org

A rare strain of Ebola has prompted the World Health Organization to declare a public health emergency of international concern. Most of the cases have occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with more than 100 suspected deaths and nearly 400 suspected infections as of May 18. 🔗 Read more about what we know about this strain of the Ebola virus, known as Bundibugyo: reut.rs/4dDYMW1 ✍️ Anurag Rao, Mariano Zafra 📸 Jean Bizimana, Arlette Bashizi

The world is finally moving after seeing the cowardice & the violence of the Zionist regime against our non-violent solidarity humanitarian mission. But the key problem is that this level of unacceptable violence is still nothing compared to what they do to Palestinians every day

@eucopresident So how about you do more than issue empty statements of condemnation, and take action?! The flotilla members are treated terribly, & it's nothing compared to Palestinian detainees. Time to suspend the EU-Israel trade agreement, put in place a total arms embargo, sanction Israel!

Appalled by the treatment of flotilla members by Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir. This behaviour is completely unacceptable. We call for their immediate release.

A new report from the UN Human Rights office today said Israel has imposed “on Palestinians conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence in Gaza as a group.” It got no media attention, because why would an ongoing genocide be newsworthy?

This is the genocidal maniac some EU states can’t agree to sanction because he was “democratically elected”. @kajakallas @AussenMinDE @BMeinl @Antonio_Tajani @_OrbanAnita @grlicradman @vpetrova_mfa @CzechMFA @GreeceMFA 👇🏼

À 466 km des côtes de Gaza, en pleines eaux internationales, les navires de la Global Sumud Flotilla ont été interceptés et arraisonnés illégalement par des soldats israéliens lourdement armés, dans une impunité totale. Cette nouvelle opération vise une mission humanitaire pacifique et légale, venue briser le blocus de Gaza et dénoncer la complicité de nos gouvernements face au génocide en cours. Pensées et soutien à toutes celles et ceux qui, malgré les menaces, les intimidations et la répression violente, continuent de risquer leur liberté et leur vie pour accomplir ce que les États refusent de faire : défendre le peuple palestinien et briser le blocus illégal imposé à Gaza.

💢 The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) announced Monday that 52 civilian boats carrying 461 volunteers from 45 countries have been intercepted by Israeli naval vessels in international waters while transporting food, baby formula, and medical aid to Gaza. Two weeks ago Israel intercepted 22 of its vessels off the coast of Greece, detaining 181 volunteers, subjecting them to what the group said was physical and sexual violence, and abducting two to Israel. The flotilla is calling on governments in all 45 countries with nationals aboard to demand the immediate release of detained volunteers, safe passage for those still at sea, and concrete steps toward ending Israel’s siege of Gaza.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🎥 Video from GSF

Use this template post: @[YOUR FOREIGN MINISTER] - Israel illegally kidnapped activists of the @gbsumudflotilla in international waters. Demand freedom & safety for all NOW. End complicity with Israel. #FreeSumudFlotilla

🚨 BREAKING: Israeli forces are kidnapping humanitarians trying to reach Gaza, RIGHT NOW. Listen to Yassine, live from the @gbsumudflotilla . Watch. Share. Make noise.

You can follow the @gbsumudflotilla 's livestream here: youtube.com/live/Bv3hxpqHW…

Images coming right now from @AtlasMovement ' Yassine, onboard the @gbsumudflotilla , where the IDF is getting ready to illegally intercept AGAIN humanitarians making their way to Gaza, to break the blockade. @vonderleyen, for once, stand up for human rights, pressure Israel!

Javier Bardem says in #Cannes that genocide being committed in Gaza "is a fact." "You can fight against, you can try to justify it... it is a fact. If you justify it with your silence or your support, you are pro-genocide. Those are facts for me." variety.com/2026/film/fest…

Today marks the commemoration of the Nakba, when Zionist forced expelled over 750,000 Palestinians from them home and committed massive atrocities! Don’t be fooled, the Nakba is ongoing and must be stopped.

Today is Nakba Day, commemorating Israel’s mass expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948. Zionist forces raped dozens of Palestinian women during the war. Here is a summary of the known incidents: 1. In April 1948, Zionist forces attacked Deir Yassin. Zionist commander Yitzhak Levy reported on April 13: "‘Lehi members tell of the barbaric behaviour of the IZL toward the prisoners and the dead. They also relate that the Irgun men raped a number of Arab girls and murdered them afterward." (Morris, The Birth, p.238. Morris's source on this is a report from the IDF archives.). Ilan Pappe adds: “ As they burst into the village [of Deir Yassin], the Jewish soldiers sprayed the houses with machine-gun fire, killing many of the inhabitants. The remaining villagers were then gathered in one place and murdered in cold blood, their bodies abused while a number of the women were raped and then killed." (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.90). 2. In mid-April 1948, during the battle of Mishmar ha-Emek in the western Jezreel Valley, Eliezer Bauer (Be’eri) reported: “Also in the village, when adult males were discovered hiding hours after the end of the battle – they were killed . . . It is said that there were also cases of rape. (Morris, The Birth, p.243). 3. In mid-May, Zionist forces attacked Kfar Saba and Qaqun. “In Qaqun the UN claimed, and testimonies by Jewish troops corroborated, that the takeover had involved a case of rape.” Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.132.) 4. On May 14, 1948, Haganah & Irgun units occupied Jaffa. "On 14 or 15 May, a 12-year-old girl was raped by two Haganah soldiers; there were also a number of attempted rape." (Morris, The Birth, p.220, citing report from the IDF archives.). Very soon after Jaffa was occupied, a Red Cross official, de Meuron, reported how Jewish soldiers had raped a girl and killed her brother. (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.209). 5. On May 13-18, 1948, the Haganah went on an offensive in Western Galilee, Operation Ben-Ami. "The only serious atrocity recorded was the rape-murder of a girl and the murder of her father." (Morris, The Birth, p.231) 6. On May 12-13, 1948, Zionist forces conquored Burayr, northeast of Gaza. “The 9th Battalion troops killed a large number of villagers, apparently executing dozens of army-age males. They appear also to have raped and murdered a teenage girl.” (Morris, The Birth, p.258, citing a Zionist memoir & Zionist oral history). 7. On 13 May, 1948, Zionist forces attacked Abu Shusha. During the operation, “One Haganah soldier twice attempted to rape a 20-year-old woman prisoner.” (Morris, The Birth, p. 257, citing a Haganah archival report). 8. On May 1, 1948, Palmach fighters shot several Palestinians in ‘Ein Zeitun (in the Upper Galilee). According to a May 4, 1948 British report of the attack, “women had been raped” in the village. Morris, The Birth, p.289. 9. May 1948: In Tantura, where Israeli soldiers also carried out a massacre, here is how Najiah Ayyub described what happened: 'I saw that the troops who encircled us tried to touch the women but were rejected by them When they saw that the women would not surrender, they stopped. When we were on the beach, they took two women and tried to undress them, claiming they had to search the bodies.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.211) 10. In the summer of 1948, Palmach militiamen “raped and murdered” four village women from the inhabitants of the Shi‘ite village of Hunin, in the Galilee Panhandle (Morris, The Birth, p.249 & 461, citing a Haganah report) 11. July 1948: ”Reports had been received about Jewish behavior in previously occupied areas …. incidents of rape about which they had heard terrible stories from Acre and Ramla.” (Morris, 1948: A History, p.281). 12. In Oct. 1948, Zionist forces carried a massacre in Dawayima, executing a few hundred Palestinians. They were “‘lined up and killed by machinegun fire,” according to Morris. A Zionist report revealed: “one soldier boasted that he had raped a woman and then shot her.” (Morris, The Birth, p.470, citing a Kibbutz Meuhad Archives report). Pappe adds: “the Jewish soldiers who took part in the massacre also reported horrific scenes: babies whose skulls were cracked open, women raped or burned alive in houses, and men stabbed to death.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.196). 13. On December 9, 1948, a Red Cross report tells of two Jewish soldiers who burst into the house of al-Hajj Suleiman Daud, who had been expelled with his family to Shaqara. The soldiers hit his wife and kidnapped his 18-year-old daughter. 17 days later the father was able to get hold of an Israeli lieutenant, to whom he protested. The abusers appeared to belong to Brigade Seven. Pappe writes: “It is impossible to know what exactly happened in those 17 days before the girl was set free; the worst may be presumed." (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.209). 14. In February 1949, after Israel agreed to allow civilians to remain in the Palestinian towns of Faluja (what was transformed into Kiryat Gat), it quickly reneged on its promise, mounting a campaign of low-key violence and psychological warfare designed to intimidate the inhabitants into flight. The UN Mediator, Ralph Bunche, quoting UN observers reported that ‘Arab civilians . . . at Al Faluja have been beaten and robbed by Israeli soldiers and . . . there have been some cases of attempted rape.” (Morris, The Birth, p.522) 15. Israeli forces attacked Safsaf, a Palestinian village near Safed, on Nov 6, 1948. A Zionist archival report documents: “ ‘52 adult males’ tied together and dropped into a well and of three cases of rape, including of a 14-year-old girl. Nahmani also mentions several cases of rape and ‘a number of dead women’.” Arab oral testimony from the early 1970s, as recorded by Nazzal (Exodus, 93–95), more or less corroborates the contemporaneous Jewish documentation. According to Nazzal, the soldiers raped four women and blindfolded and executed ‘about 70’ men.” Morris, The Birth, p.481). Survivors recall how four women and a girl were raped in front of the other villagers and how one pregnant woman was bayoneted.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.184) On 12 August 1949, Israeli soldiers based in Kibbutz Nirim on the northern edge of today's Gaza Strip, captured a 12-year-old Palestinian girl and locked her up for the night in their military base near the kibbutz. For the next few days she became the platoon's sex slave as the soldiers shaved her head, gang- raped her and in the end murdered her. Ben-Gurion lists this rape too in his diary but it was censored out by his editors. On 29 October 2003, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz publicised the story based on the testimonies of the rapists: 22 soldiers had taken part in the barbaric torture and execution of the girl.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.210) Summary Morris concludes: “There were also several dozen cases of rape, a crime viewed with particular horror in Arab and Muslim societies.” (Morris, The Birth, p.592) Morris adds: “About a dozen cases—in Jaffa, Acre, and so on—are reported in the available contemporary documentation and, given Arab diffidence about reporting such incidents and the (understandable) silence of the perpetrators, and IDFA censorship of many documents, more, and perhaps many more, cases probably occurred.” (Morris, 1948: A History, p.406). Pappe writes: “David Ben-Gurion seems to have been informed about each [rape] case and entered them into his diary. Every few days he has a sub-section: 'Rape Cases'. One of these records the incident Chizik had reported to him: 'a case in Acre where soldiers wanted to rape a girl. They killed the father and wounded the mother, and the officers covered for them. At least one soldier raped the girl.' (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.209). Sources: Benny Morris, The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947-1949 archive.org/details/birtho… Ilan Pappé, The ethnic cleansing of Palestine archive.org/details/ethnic… Benny Morris, 1948: History of the First Arab-Israeli War archive.org/details/1948hi…

15 maggio 1948: inizia la #Nabka. La catastrofe. Oltre 700.000 palestinesi furono costretti ad abbandonare le proprie case dal nuovo Stato di Israele. Più di 530 villaggi palestinesi distrutti, 15.000 persone massacrate. A raccontare come avvenne la Nabka è @haaretzcom , giornale israeliano, in una lunga inchiesta basata su materiali d’archivio, atti processuali e documenti militari dei comandanti di alcuni battaglioni. Tagli l’orecchio a un arabo davanti agli altri e tutti fuggono. E se non basta, si passa alla decimazione di un uomo ogni dieci. Per espellere gli arabi, si legge, “era necessario il terrore”. I villaggi venivano accerchiati, spari e bombardamenti seminavano il panico e costringevano la popolazione a fuggire. Chi restava veniva ucciso, spesso uomini tra i 15 e i cinquantenni che cercavano di resistere. Alcune case venivano incendiate, talvolta con delle persone ancora all’interno. Negli anni Israele ha condotto un lungo processo di occultamento. Dei 17 milioni di documenti conservati negli archivi statali e militari, oltre 16 milioni restano tuttora inaccessibili. Il motivo lo ha indicato la stessa alta corte di giustizia israeliana: la diffusione di documenti relativi, ad esempio, al massacro di Deir Yassin avrebbe potuto compromettere e danneggiare la politica estera del paese. Quella mattanza di oltre 100 cittadini arabi fu condannata da Albert Einstein, Anna Arendt e da altri esponenti della comunità ebraica americana. In una lettera al New York Times definiscono “fascista, nazista e terrorista” il comandante israeliano Begin, che poi diventò persino primo ministro. Ed ecco perché la pulizia etnica a Gaza, in Cisgiordania e in Libano sembrano un orribile déjà vu. Leggi l’articolo di Claudia Carpinella “Palestina 1948: l’anno degli orrori” it.insideover.com/guerra/palesti… #nabka #palestine #israel

Germany’s intelligence agency is monitoring watermelons. Not a joke. The BfV has classified Palestinian symbols — including 🍉 — as indicators of extremism. Germany is also Israel’s second largest arms supplier. A fruit is extremist. Bombs are foreign policy.

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The United Arab Emirates tries to portray itself as a playground and a business center, but its dirty little secret is getting out -- it has been arming the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan as they commit genocide. That is, aiding and abetting genocide. trib.al/dt3UD2q

“As ceasefire fails to stop war” Is it because Israel keeps occupying southern Lebanon, demolishing entire villages, and killing people?

💢 BREAKING: Israel has killed two more on-duty paramedics in targeted strikes in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, journalist Courtney Bonneau reports.