Palestine

Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 25, 2025

Israel attacked the Cairo Elementary School for Girls in central Gaza City just as people had gathered in the school yard for Friday prayers, according to multiple eyewitnesses. Many of the displaced in the school are from areas in northern Beit Hanoun, which has been nearly completely destroyed and emptied by the Israeli military. So far, Israel has not published even a perfunctory justification for the strike and the Israeli military did not immediately respond to questions submitted by Drop Site about the attack.

Ryan Grim
Jul 24, 2025

The Israeli government has pivoted to a new deflection: The famine in Gaza is not the result of Israel’s publicly announced March 2 blockade of all food entering Gaza, nor is it connected to the Israeli- and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which replaced the UNRWA aid system Israel shut down with its own militarized version in late May. Instead, according to the new Israeli campaign, the blame lies with the United Nations. “Hundreds of aid trucks have entered Gaza with Israel’s approval, but the supplies are standing idle, undelivered,” the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared on X. “The reason? The UN refuses to distribute the aid.”

Reminder 🚨: 19 International Human Rights defenders and 2 Journalists from 12 different countries set sail on the Handala Freedom Flotilla on Sunday 20 July on a bold mission to challenge Israel’s illegal and inhumane blockade of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

They currently remain en route (as of July 25, 2025) and on mission. Communications have been restored after drone fly-bys caused concern of those onboard and contact was temporarily lost.

The Handala, now at sea, carries life-saving humanitarian aid and a direct political message: the blockade must end.

Human Rights Defenders on Board:

Christian Smalls (United States 🇺🇸) – Founder of the Amazon Labor Union

Huwaida Arraf (Palestine/United States 🇵🇸🇺🇸) – Human rights attorney, Freedom Flotilla Coalition steering committee member

Emma Fourreau (France/Sweden 🇫🇷🇸🇪) – Member of the European Parliament and human rights activist

Gabrielle Cathala (France 🇫🇷) – Parliamentarian and former humanitarian worker

Dr. Frank Romano (France/United States 🇫🇷🇺🇸) – International lawyer and actor

Robert Martin (Australia 🇦🇺) – Human rights activist

Jacob Berger (United States 🇺🇸) – Jewish-American activist and content creator

Bob Suberi (United States 🇺🇸) – Jewish U.S. war veteran

Antonio Mazzeo (Italy 🇮🇹) – Teacher, peace researcher, and journalist

Santiago González Vallejo (Spain 🇪🇸) – Economist and human rights activist

Sergio Toribio (Spain 🇪🇸) – Engineer and environmental activist

Justine Kempf (France 🇫🇷) – Nurse with Médecins du Monde

Ange Sahuquet (France 🇫🇷) – Engineer and human rights activist

Antonio La Picirella (Italy 🇮🇹) – Climate and social justice organizer

Braedon Peluso (United States 🇺🇸) – Seasoned sailor and direct action activist

Chloé Fiona Ludden (United Kingdom/France 🇬🇧🇫🇷) – Former United Nations staff member and scientist

Hatem Aouini (Tunisia 🇹🇳) – Trade unionist and internationalist activist

Tania “Tan” Safi (Australia 🇦🇺) – Journalist and organizer born to Lebanese refugees

Vigdis Bjorvand (Norway 🇳🇴) 70-year-old activist with an unwavering commitment to justice spanning nearly five decades

Journalists on Board:

**Mohamed El Bakkali **(Morocco 🇲🇦) – Senior journalist with Al Jazeera, based in Paris

**Waad Al Musa **(Iraq/United States 🇮🇶🇺🇸) – Cameraman and field reporter with Al Jazeera

More then 10k #Palestinians were marching today in #Sakhnin to express solidarity with #Gaza and to protest against the genocide.
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5653850

In an unusual move since it first began operations, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) announced on its Facebook page that aid distribution would today be exclusively for women. The distribution was supposed to be carried out at two locations in southern Gaza: the Saudi neighborhood in Rafah and the city of Khan Younis. The GHF’s call instructed women in Gaza to head to these points at 9:00 a.m.

“Our local team will guide women to a designated area where each will receive a box,” the GHF said in its announcement in Arabic, accompanied by what appears to be an AI-generated photo of smiling male GHF workers holding boxes and welcoming a group of women approaching them. “Men are requested to avoid the site during this distribution,” the statement added.

But when the women arrived, GHF personnel attacked them with pepper-spray and batons, while Israeli military vehicles opened fire with bullets over their heads, eyewitnesses said in testimonies obtained by Mondoweiss. One woman who was at the site says she witnessed a GHF worker beating a pregnant woman on her stomach. Other eyewitnesses reported to local journalists that two women were shot dead by the Israeli army and several others were injured.

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Gaza is being deliberately starved. The West Bank is next.

Thousands join sit-ins at Dutch train stations in Gaza protests - DutchNews.nl (2025-07-25)

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/07/thousands-join-sit-ins-at-dutch-train-stations-in-gaza-protests/

>> Thousands of demonstrators gathered at railway stations across the #Netherlands on Thursday to protest the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, demanding an end to the famine and urging the Dutch government to take stronger action against Israel’s blockade.

>> The largest sit-ins took place at Amsterdam Centraal and Rotterdam Centraal, where around 1,500 and 1,000 people took part respectively. Several hundred joined similar actions in The Hague, Utrecht and Leiden, with smaller protests reported in Enschede, Groningen, Eindhoven, Amersfoort, Hengelo, Assen and Den Bosch.

>> In several cities, sit-ins later moved from the stations into city centres. In Amsterdam and Eindhoven, marchers continued on foot through shopping streets... Police presence was minimal.

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Amichay Eliyahu’s comments came amid growing hunger in the territory, where Israel controls the delivery of food.

Patrick Kingsley and Johnatan Reiss
July 24, 2025 Updated 5:23 p.m. ET

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5644587

For 100 days, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank town of Idna have been surviving without running water. The town of some 40,000 inhabitants has been relying on rain reservoirs and water tanks sold by vendors. The town’s water crisis was provoked by the April decision of Israeli national water company Mekorot to reduce the daily provision of water to the Hebron governorate of the southern West Bank. The water supply shrank from 32,000 cubic meters to 26,000, which included completely shutting down Mekorot’s water line for Idna.

This water crisis isn’t new, and it isn’t limited to Idna. Every summer, multiple parts of the West Bank experience prolonged water cuts that can extend for up to a month, mainly due to the lack of water supply by Mekorot, which controls most of the water resources in Palestine.

In Idna, residents met in the municipality hall on Monday to discuss the crisis. The mayor of the town shared the Israeli company’s argument for cutting off their water: that some residents were “illegally stealing water.”

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France to Recognize what’s Left of Palestine

https://farid.ps/articles/france/_to/_recognize/_whats/_left/_of/_palestine

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Genocide is an unspeakable madness, a monstrous abyss of cruelty that obliterates the very soul of humanity. It is the ultimate, unforgivable crime, a grotesque betrayal of all that is sacred, staining the earth with the blood of innocence and scorching the conscience of the world with its unrelenting horror.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33609844

By MEE staff Published date: 24 July 2025 13:49 BST

Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he has launched a new political party alongside fellow independent lawmaker Zarah Sultana.

In a joint statement published on X on Thursday, the two said that the system was “rigged” when the current government “says there is no money for the poor, but billions for war”.

The pair also cited UK complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza as reason for the need for an alternative party.

“The suspects were identified and arrested… at the Tomorrowland festival… they were formally interrogated and released. The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed that a criminal investigation is now underway.”

This is a great step forward in the realm of International Law and holding war criminals accountable for their crimes in real time. A “reservists organization” is intending to pay for the accuseds’ legal fees, signaling this is indeed moving forward in the justice system.

From my understanding, the Israelis in question are not barred from travel, but the fact that this is entering court systems in Europe is an unprecedented step forward toward accountability for the atrocities being administered daily in Gaza by Israeli forces and their global network of enablers.

I just want to commend The Hind Rajab Foundation and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and thank all of their hard-working volunteers seeking Justice and Dignity for the Palestinian people. I hope to see this movement spread beyond Brazil and Belgium and upward towards the seats of power that are enabling and partaking actively in the Palestinian Holocaust.

**No one big or small should ever feel protected committing atrocities. **

Israeli Times: Canada’s Probe is making War Criminals Uneasy

AP News article

JNS article

Thursday, July 24th 2025 - 09:32 UTC

Brazilian authorities announced Wednesday the South American country's formal decision to join South Africa's lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people.

Itamaraty said in a statement that the government was outraged by “recurring episodes of violence against the civilian population in the State of Palestine,” extending beyond the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.

By #MEE staff
Published date: 24 July 2025 11:59 BST

It said the international community "cannot remain inactive" in the face of "ongoing atrocities", and that the move is based on the “plausibility that the rights of Palestinians to protection against acts of genocide are being irreversibly impaired”. [...] However, campaigners have pointed to Brazil's crude oil exports to Israel - 2.7m barrels were shipped in 2024 alone - prompting calls from Brazilian oil worker unions for the government to implement an energy embargo against Israel.

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Protest against Gaza war prevents Israeli visitors from touring Greek island (AP, 2025-07-23)

https://apnews.com/article/greece-israel-gaza-protest-syros-cruise-ship-69735c4ab6a7d19752d304c92ffc03fc
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>> A cruise ship carrying Israeli tourists left the Greek island of #Syros Tuesday without its passengers disembarking, after more than 150 protesters demonstrated at the island’s port, unfurling Palestinian flags and calling for an end to the war in Gaza.

>> The ship is operated by an Israeli company, Mano Cruise, which said about 1,700 passengers were on board and it is sailing to Cyprus.

>> Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar contacted his Greek counterpart, George Gerapetritis, over the incident, the Greek foreign ministry confirmed. It did not release any details of their discussion.

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