Palestine

By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 29 April 2025 14:07 BST

"On 1 April, all 25 bakeries supported by the World Food Programme (WFP) across the Gaza Strip shut down due to the lack of wheat flour and fuel.

Today, families are using the last remaining bags of wheat flour they received from the WFP before the aid suspension to bake their bread in primitive, handmade ovens using firewood."

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4746458

Louis Theroux spends time with the growing community of Israeli religious-nationalist settlers. Their settlements are illegal under international law, and they have been protected by the army, the police and the Israeli government.

Since the Hamas-led attacks on 7 October 2023, in which 1,200 Israelis were killed, there has been an acceleration in the establishment of settlements, with settlers pursuing a campaign of violence against local Palestinian communities.

What was once a fringe movement has now won support at the highest levels of government, with their supporters holding key positions in the cabinet and able to influence not only the role the military plays but also the future of this conflict.

Louis Theroux embeds himself in the West Bank, meeting prominent settlers - including the ‘godmother’ of the movement, Daniella Weiss - and travelling throughout the territory to understand the consequences of their activity. Louis also meets Palestinians whose lives have been impacted by settlers moving into their communities. As the world focuses on Gaza, where at least 50,000 Palestinians are estimated to have been killed by Israeli forces since 7 October, Louis discovers that the settlers are already making plans to move into that territory, too.

posted the documentary in peertube since the youtube one was taken down and the twitter one could also be taken down

By MEE staff
Published date: 28 April 2025 19:13 BST

"New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Sunday that he has launched an investigation into two physical attacks by a pro-Israeli mob that took place as Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, visited a city neighbourhood last week."

""Initial reports indicate that one female protester was isolated from her group, harassed by counter-protesters, and suffered injuries. In another incident, a second woman was surrounded and subjected to vile threatening by counter-protesters," he wrote. "

Gaza is no longer a concentrations camp, it is a death camp.

Israel is bombing civilians at will, starving them to death and preventing water and medicine to get it.

Even the symbolic BS food drops have stopped and people are eating one meals a day at most.

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #DeathCamp #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #SaveGaza
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Youth Demand Disrupt London Marathon (2025-04-27)

https://youthdemand.org/2025/04/27/gaza-is-running-out-of-food-stop-arming-israel-youth-demand-disrupt-london-marathon/
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>> Youth Demand supporters have disrupted the London Marathon. Youth Demand is a youth-led civil resistance group calling for the [UK] government to impose a full trade embargo on Israel, and make the fossil fuel elite pay damages to communities and countries most harmed by fossil fuel burning.

>> At approximately 10:35am, two Youth Demand supporters jumped over the barriers and threw red powder paint in front of the men’s elite race at the London marathon as it crossed Tower Bridge. ... City of London police quickly moved to arrest the pair.

>> [a spokesperson from Youth Demand:] “This is a race against time: Gaza is running out of food. Millions of starving Palestinians are being bombed with UK complicity..."

#LondonMarathon #YouthDemand #StopArmingIsrael
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4729425

2025-04-25, via ReliefWeb

GAZA, Palestine – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza.

Today, WFP delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meals kitchens in the Gaza Strip. These kitchens are expected to fully run out of food in the coming days. For weeks, hot meal kitchens have been the only consistent source of food assistance for people in Gaza. Despite reaching just half the population with only 25 percent of daily food needs, they have provided a critical lifeline.

WFP has also supported bakeries to distribute affordable bread in Gaza. On March 31, all 25 WFP-supported bakeries closed as wheat flour and cooking fuel ran out. The same week, WFP food parcels distributed to families – with two weeks of food rations – were exhausted. WFP is also deeply concerned about the severe lack of safe water and fuel for cooking – forcing people to scavenge for items to burn to cook a meal.

No humanitarian or commercial supplies have entered Gaza for more than seven weeks as all main border crossing points remain closed. This is the longest closure the Gaza Strip has ever faced, exacerbating already fragile markets and food systems. Food prices have skyrocketed up to 1,400 percent compared to during the ceasefire, and essential food commodities are in short supply raising serious nutrition concerns for vulnerable populations, including children under five, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and the elderly.

More than 116,000 metric tons of food assistance – enough to feed one million people for up to four months – is positioned at aid corridors and is ready to be brought into Gaza by WFP and food security partners as soon as borders reopen.

The situation inside the Gaza Strip has once again reached a breaking point: people are running out of ways to cope, and the fragile gains made during the short ceasefire have unravelled. Without urgent action to open borders for aid and trade to enter, WFP’s critical assistance may be forced to end.

WFP urges all parties to prioritize the needs of civilians and allow aid to enter Gaza immediately and uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law.

Jason Burke in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza
Sun 27 Apr 2025 12.00 EDT

"Humanitarian organisations including the World Food Programme and Unwra, which supplies food and services to more than 2 million Palestinians across Gaza, have now distributed the last of their stocks of flour and other foodstuffs to the dozens of community kitchens in the territory that serve basic meals to those with no other option.

Aid groups’ warehouses were filled during the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that came into effect in mid-January and ended in early March. They are now empty."

🇨🇭Swiss team turns back on Israeli gold medallists at fencing championship - The Jewish Chronicle (2025-04-27)

https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/swiss-team-turns-back-on-israeli-gold-medallists-at-fencing-championship-y45wh43e
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👏
( I understand -and appreciate- the action as against the State of Isr, not against the athletes.)

“The Swiss fencing team turned its back on the winning Israeli team during the medal ceremony at the under-23 European Fencing Championship in Tallinn, Estonia, on Saturday night.”

“During the podium ceremony, as Israel’s national anthem, Hatikvah, played, the Swiss fencers kept their backs turned to the Israeli team in alleged protest, rather than turn to the right, as was expected.”

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Japanese Hotel [rec. Guesthouse] Asks Israeli Settler Tourist to Sign Anti-War Crimes Declaration - Quds News Network (2025-04-26)

https://qudsnen.co/japanese-hotel-asks-israeli-settler-tourist-to-sign-anti-war-crimes-declaration/
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>> The tourist, a former combat medic in Israel’s navy reserves, said staff at the Wind Villa Hotel gave him the form after he presented his Israeli passport. The document demanded he confirm that he had never attacked civilians, killed prisoners, tortured detainees, committed sexual violence, or participated in forced displacement or looting.

>> The hotel reportedly requires all Israeli and Russian guests to sign the same pledge.

>> The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported the incident on Saturday. The Israeli tourist called the request “ridiculous and absurd,” but he eventually signed to avoid being denied a room.
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So far no coverage in Japanese media (ex. in X, maybe). Will post if something should come up.

#WarCrime
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Western media will never report these outrageous speeches

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Ahmed Alnaouq & Pam Bailey (eds.), _We Are Not Numbers. The Voices of Gaza’s Youth_, Hutchinson Heinemann, 2025 (ISBN: 9781529155174)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468800/we-are-not-numbers-by-bailey-ahmed-alnaouq-and-pam/9781529155174
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>> These are the stories of young people from Gaza, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses, who keep fighting to be recognised not as numbers, but as human beings with hopes, dreams and lives worth living.

>> We Are Not Numbers was founded in 2014 to give voice to the youth of Gaza. In this collection, vital, urgent and full of heart, spanning over ten years to the present moment, we gain an unparalleled insight into the past, as well as the current and next generation of Palestinian leaders, artists, scientists and scholars and imagine where we might go from here.

#WeAreNotNumbers
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They are the chosen people. they can't be held accountable for their actions.

it's their birthright.
/sarcasm
#USpol #Racism #NewYork #Zionism #Politics @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Quique Kierszenbaum in Tel Aviv
Fri 25 Apr 2025 09.43 EDT

"Veronika Cohen, 80, a #Holocaust survivor who was born in the ghetto in Budapest, said she had come to protest outside Yad Vashem on the day of remembrance because: “I don’t think we can remember our suffering without acknowledging the suffering of #Gaza, the deaths of tens of thousands of children, the starvation that’s going on this minute, for which we are partially responsible. It occupies the same place in my heart.”"

Israeli militant #settlers kidnapped two young men during the attack on the town of Cooper, north of #Ramallah.

#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics
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Mark Carney condemns Israeli blockade on food to Gaza [on X] | CBC News (2025-04-25)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-gaza-blockade-1.7519408
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>> "The UN World Food Programme just announced that its food stocks in Gaza have run out because of the Israeli Government's blockade — food cannot be used as a political tool," Carney said on X.

>> The UN agency said no humanitarian or commercial supplies had entered Gaza for more than seven weeks because all main border crossing points were closed, the longest closure the Gaza Strip had ever faced.

>> "Palestinian civilians must not bear the consequences of Hamas' terrorist crimes," Carney wrote in the social media post. "The World Food Programme must be allowed to resume its lifesaving work."

Link to the original X post ⬇️
https://x.com/MarkJCarney/status/1915892388721295618

#Canada #WFP

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By MEE staff Published date: 25 April 2025 12:59 BST

"Meanwhile, some officials, including the former ambassador to Italy, Dror Idar, said no representatives should attend the pope's funeral on Saturday because he "incited antisemitism".

Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88, was an outspoken supporter of the Palestinian people during Israel’s ongoing 18-month assault on the besieged Gaza Strip.

Thousands of pro-Palestinian social media users, including many from Gaza, have paid tributes to him."

Teaching Israel/Palestine at Harvard: Course probes the modern history of the Holy Land. (Harvard Magazine, 2025-03-27)

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/03/teaching-israel-palestine-at-harvard
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An example of alleged “anti-semitism” in Harvard?😏

Sarcasm aside, worth a peek.

>> Frost professor of Jewish history Derek Penslar has taught university courses about Israel for the past 35 years. But his current class in the history department, “One Land, Two Peoples: The Modern History of Israel/Palestine,” comes at an especially fraught time for the Middle East—and for Harvard.

>> [prof. Penslar:] “It is possible to have a very deep attachment to Israel and acknowledge Palestinian national rights and claims. How you reconcile them is another story.”

#HarvardUniversity
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Anna Betts
Fri 25 Apr 2025 13.02 EDT

"A group of high-profile Democratic lawmakers has called on the Donald Trump administration to immediately release the Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, praised her “unwavering spirit” and warned that the White House is engaging in “repression”."

By JULIA FRANKEL, PHIL HOLM and JOSEF FEDERMAN
Published 1:02 AM EDT, April 25, 2025

"#Israel is staging a massive offensive across four major refugee camps in the north of the #WestBank. The raids, at their height, pushed 40,000 people from their homes. Many are now sheltering with relatives in neighboring villages, others racking up debt renting apartments while they wait to return.

#Israeli officials, meanwhile, have said those displaced will not be allowed to go back for at least a year."

Gaza is being starved. By Israel.

The UN World Food Programme just delivered its last food supplies to Gaza.

Gaza is out of food.

Because Israel has sealed the borders for more than 7 weeks.
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#Starvation #FoodAsWeapon #Gaza #Israel #SanctionIsrael

Gaza these days...

Painting by unknown artist.

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By Sean Mathews Published date: 25 April 2025 17:21 BST