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Exactly 35 years ago Iceland was the first country in the world to recognize the restored statehood of Lithuania 🇱🇹 Thank you Iceland 🇮🇸 👏
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Hjortur Smarason
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Traveller and storyteller. Keynote speaker. Place branding. Crisis management. Former CEO at Visit Greenland. Father of 5. Married to @inga_ros
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Diplomats worldwide, please stop and think:
Palestine is being used as the laboratory to dismantle UN-led multilateralism. We can still pedal back and take another road: as a human family.
➡️End the genocide and apartheid in Palestine.
➡️Respect intl law.
➡️Practice SOLIDARITY.
Rami Ayari@Raminho
Interesting choice of date. Same day the #UNSC is scheduled to hold a high level meeting on #Palestine. Meant to be presided over by #UK FM Cooper.
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Ending Israeli Apartheid will be a rehumanising act -and a liberation- for both Palestinians and Israelis.
No one can treat other humans as the Israeli society treats the Palestinians, and not lose their humanity in the process.
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Obliterating intl'l law, supinely subjecting it to the will of the mightest, is suicidal.
People in the "west" should not take for granted the freedoms most of us have enjoyed in the last 80 years: they are speedily evaporating.
Howard Beckett@BeckettUnite
When Trump wanted 🇺🇸 to ‘own’ Gaza 🇵🇸, Francesca Albanese gave us invaluable advice It’s never been more relevant: ‘Stay calm’ ‘The international community is made of 193 states’ ‘This is the time to give the 🇺🇸 what it’s been looking for’ ‘Isolation’
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A senior Russian Foreign Ministry official has said that Moscow is ‘seriously committed’ to normalising relations with Georgia, praising the ruling Georgian Dream party’s foreign policy, and describing it as ‘balanced and diversified’.
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His grandfather participated in the Paris uprising against the Nazis. Now he is standing up against injustice. Important message from a Jew:
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Israel will not hesitate to bomb any sovereign country, break every international law, undermine all bonds of trust with a mediator to ensure that there is no peace, that the genocide continues, that its own hostages are given no chance.
Ofer Cassif עופר כסיף عوفر كسيف@ofercass
The Israeli “strike” on Doha is a strike on the life and liberty of the hostages and people of gaza The bombing of Doha, carried out in coordination between Israel and the United States, is a blatant act of aggression that will only lead to the continuation of the genocide in Gaza, the deliberate killing of the remaining hostages, and perhaps even a declaration of war on Qatar. The Israeli public must wake up: the intensification of the genocide—beyond being a crime against humanity—will not bring security or freedom for the hostages. Rather, it will only bring more loss and suffering for us all. The international community must urgently intervene to put an end to the destruction and prevent the occupation of Gaza city. Save the Palestinian and Israeli peoples from the genocidal government!
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I have no words anymore.
States. Must. Intervene.
This isn’t genius, it’s leadership.
1. Impose an arms embargo and cut trade.
2. Break the blockade with your humanitarian navies.
3. Send a protective presence to Palestine to ensure Israel dismantles its occupation NOW.
Muhammad Shehada@muhammadshehad2
Israeli snipers screaming of joy after murdering a child: "YAAAS! Son of a b*tch" "Wow. Hit him in the head" "What a legendary video" "He flew in the air & his leg was" This was 7 YEARS ago, during protests against the siege, when Israeli snipers deliberately shot 940 children!
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This is a Nazi-level genocidal speech. Sorry. There is no way to sugar coat it. He is bone-chillingly explaining his plans for his own Warsaw Ghetto, Madagascar Plan and Lidice Massacre. The willful destruction of civilian infrastructure to make life impossible
Suppressed News.@SuppressedNws
⚡️🇮🇱Israel’s Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich: "We conquer, cleanse, and stay... On the way, we annihilate everything that still remains.….We're breaking Gaza apart, leaving it as a pile of rubble, total unprecedented destruction."
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The absolute incapacity of Western leaders to enforce intl law when it comes to Israel is EPIC.
Ministers, Prime Ministers, Presidents of Republic:
Doing NOTHING, diverting attention, sanctioning individual ministers IS NOT enforcing the intl law that was developed after the Holocaust and WWII to prevent another Holocaust and WWII.
At this critical point,
Your states have a CLEAR obligation to:
1. Sanction Israel
2. Impose a total arms embargo (no buy, no sell, no transfer, direct or indirect)
3. Break the siege (send navies instead of dropping food on the head of starving genocide survivors)
4. Suspend all trade agreements with Israel till the end of the genocide, occupation and apartheid.
5. Investigate and prosecute individuals and orgs that have committed crimes in the oPt.
Together we can, and we will.
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Oh my goodness—how did I miss this until now?
The timing of Israel’s assassination of Dr. Marwan al-Sultan, the director of the Indonesian Hospital and one of Gaza’s top cardiologists, was no coincidence. It happened on the very same day Gaza: Doctors Under Attack was scheduled to air on Channel 4 and Zeteo.
This is the same documentary that the BBC had commissioned and cleared for broadcast back in February 2025—before abruptly pulling it on June 20.
Dr. al-Sultan’s daughter, Lubna, said the missile struck the only room where her father was staying.
It seems like the world still does not understand.
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Israel has written one of the darkest pages in the history of genocide.
Amnesty International@amnesty
With the world looking elsewhere, the militarization of aid adds another layer to Israel’s deliberate imposition of genocidal conditions against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and injured at or near aid distribution points since Israel’s weaponized “humanitarian” aid distribution system was imposed at the end of May. Families are being forced into an impossible choice: die of hunger or die trying to get food. Seeking food should never be a death trap. Israel must end its genocide and lift the blockade now. Act now: amn.st/60174nC0L
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Sem það land sem hefur árum saman trónað efst á listum yfir friðsælustu lönd heims - og sem land sem á allt sitt undir því að alþjóðalögum sé fylgt, þá skora ég á @thorgkatrin og @KristrunFrosta að svara þessu kalli og slást í hóp þessara þjóða og mæta í Bogotá.
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt@FranceskAlbs
Honored to join the #HagueGroup at the Emergency Meeting on Gaza, called by Colombia & South Africa, 15–16 July in Bogotá. The Hague Group opens the door to a different future — rooted in law and accountability. Will other States walk through it? They should: they have an obligation to stop atrocities. Inaction today will go down in history as complicit.
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Israel has reportedly killed 120 Palestinians in 24 hours. That's why breaking the siege is imperative.
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We, UN Independent Experts, urge Member States to protect the Flotilla—whose members are doing what humanity demands, international law protects, and governments too often choose to forget.
Breaking the siege is a collective responsibility.
UN Special Procedures@UN_SPExperts
UN experts call for safe passage for the #FreedomFlotilla Coalition’s ship carrying essential medical aid, food, and baby supplies to #Gaza: "Over 600 days into #Israel’s starvation campaign against Palestinians, the situation is at its most horrific." ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
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I call it genocide because IT IS genocide.
Defined by intent, not by method or means.
Visible without magnification—if we look with context, at the victims: what they share is being part of a group, as such. Because of it, they get killed, tortured, maimed, starved, raped, massacred. In dozens or hundreds daily.
Genocide is a process, not a single act.
A collective act. A criminal venture.
To end it, we must first be willing to see it.
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Waging wars where full destruction is the goal.
Dismembering children with no respite.
Imposing sanctions on an int'l court.
Unflagging a humanitarian ship moments before it gets hit by a drone. Not responding to SOS.
This isn't a dystopic future.
It is ALREADY the new normal.
Assal Rad@AssalRad
American surgeon in Gaza: “There was an 8-year-old boy gasping with blood foaming at the nose and the mouth. Next to him was a 6-year-old girl, her head was open with her brains exposed, her intestines were falling out…all I could do was tell their family just hold their hands” This whole interview is horrifying. But if you’re an American you should listen to every word, our tax dollars are funding it.
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Photojournalist Giles Clarke visited #Sudan with @UNOCHA & @UNDP_Sudan to portray stories of Sudanese resilience.
Here he speaks about the immense impact funding cuts will have on the country.
Thank you to journalist Isa Soares @CNN for keeping the spotlight on Sudan.
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Makes perfect sense. Brothers in ethnic cleansing…
OC Media@OCMediaorg
Israeli Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen has announced that he has granted Azerbaijani state-run oil and gas company SOCAR licenses to explore natural gas deposits in Israeli waters. oc-media.org/israel-signs-d…
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