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Since October 7, 2023, the situation in Israeli prisons has been the worst it has ever been since the beginning of the Israeli occupation. Prisoners say that whoever had been detained before October 7 had never truly seen prison. Just as the Israeli occupation carries out a genocide in Gaza, it is aslo carrying it out behind bars, using torture, deliberate starvation, sexual assault, humiliation, and SA. Even Israeli doctors have notoriously assisted in the torture of Palestinian detainees, sharing prisoners’ medical information with interrogators to “greenlight” torture, teaching interrogators how to inflict pain without leaving physical marks, and sometimes directly engaging in torture themselves.

Prisoners released from the occupation’s jails are the clearest evidence of the conditions inside. A large number of them are released having lost significant weight, or suffer from serious health conditions such as scabies, requiring immediate transfer to hospitals.

In recent months, several prisoners have died in Israeli prisons. According to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoners Club, the number of martyrs from the prisoners’ movement has reached 64 since the beginning of the genocide on October 7, 2023, and these are only the ones whose deaths have been officially announced.

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Updated / Wednesday, 16 Apr 2025 10:03

""Israel's policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with the population," Mr Katz said in a statement, days after the UN warned the territory was facing its most severe humanitarian crisis since the war began in October 2023.

Israel has blocked aid from entering since 2 March."

The Palestinian Authority has attacked the Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), Mustafa Barghouti, on Friday over statements he made that were described as "offensive" to the UAE.

The attacks comes as part of a PA-driven media campaign against Barghouti since the outbreak of the Gaza War in October 2023. The current accusations concern a video in which Barghouti apparently criticised the rulers of the UAE for its policy of normalisation with Israel and the Abraham Accords.

Observers say his consistent presence and outspoken support for Palestinian resistance have made him a target of an orchestrated campaign by certain factions within the PA. These factions, critics argue, appear more focused on silencing pro-resistance voices than confronting the Israeli occupation itself—at times even downplaying or rationalising its actions.

【Interview 】“They Were Shot in the Head”: What Feroze Sidhwa Saw in Gaza (The Third Draft - Hanno Hauenstein, 2025-04-16)

https://open.substack.com/pub/hannohauenstein/p/they-were-shot-in-the-head-what-feroze

>> In this interview, U.S. surgeon Feroze Sidhwa describes the collapse of Gaza’s health system as well as the toll on healthcare workers on the ground.

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By Syma Mohammed Published date: 15 April 2025 21:30 BST

"Harvard University has been hit with a $2.3bn federal funding freeze after the Ivy League institution took a stand against the Trump administration’s ongoing demands.

The freeze, representing 35.9 percent of Harvard's $6.4bn operating expenses, immediately followed a letter on Monday from Harvard University lawyers to the Trump administration, stating that it rejected the government’s demands.

The letter, issued by Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and LLP King & Spalding LLP, said that “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”"

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Updated 9:27 PM EDT, April 15, 2025

"The strike hit the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in the Muwasi area, where hundreds of thousands have sought shelter in sprawling tent camps. The wounded were all patients and medics, and two of the patients were in critical condition after the strike, said Saber Mohammed, a hospital spokesman."

Educators, reservists, ex-diplomats are latest to urge hostage deal, even by ending war | The Times of Israel (2025-04-15)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/educators-reservists-ex-diplomats-are-latest-to-urge-hostage-deal-even-by-ending-war/
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"A wave of public petitions calling for the return of hostages from Gaza even if it means an immediate end to the war continued on Monday, representing several more sectors of Israeli society, with thousands signing on to back the call originally made by Israeli Air Force reservists last week.

"Separate letters were published Monday in the name of some 3,500 higher education academics, 3,000 education officials, 1,500 armored corps soldiers, 1,000 parents, dozens of former Foreign Ministry officials, and IDF Spokesperson’s Unit reservists."

"'The war serves mainly personal political interests,' the petition [signed by academics] charged. ... 'As has been proved in the past, only an agreement can bring hostages back to Israel safely.'”

#IsraeliOpposition #CeasefireNow
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Julia Conley Apr 14, 2025

"A month after the international far-right pro-Israel group Betar named Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi as the next target in its campaign to push for the deportation of Palestinian rights defenders, Mahdawi was arrested Monday at an immigration office in Colchester, Vermont, where he had arrived to complete a test to be a naturalized U.S. citizen. "

By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER
Updated 6:04 PM EDT, April 14, 2025

"A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University was arrested Monday at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship, his attorneys said.

Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident who has held a green card since 2015, was detained at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, his lawyers said. "

Issam Apr 14, 2025

'"We live in constant anxiety, day and night, due to settler attacks," Bsharat told Drop Site. His family of 12 relies primarily on their flock of sheep for a living. In recent months, they have been repeatedly threatened by Israeli settlers, who warn they will be shot if they cross onto the nearby land. "They raid our communities with tractors, provoke residents, and prevent us from accessing grazing areas. The army and settlers have seized the land for settler cattle farms."'

Nach Kritik aus Deutschland - Israel rechtfertigt Attacke auf Krankenhausgebäude in Gaza (Deutschlandfunk, 2025-04-14)

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/israel-rechtfertigt-attacke-auf-krankenhausgebaeude-in-gaza-102.html
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“Nach Kritik auch aus Deutschland hat sich Israels Regierung für den Angriff auf das Al-Ahli-Krankenhaus im Gazastreifen erneut gerechtfertigt… Es reagierte damit auf einen englischsprachigen Beitrag des deutschen Außenministeriums.”

“Kritisch äußerte sich auch die geschäftsführende Bundesaußenministerin Baerbock im Onlinedienst Bluesky.”

“Nach Angaben des Chefs der Weltgesundheitsorganisation, Tedros, wurde bei dem Angriff unter anderem die Notaufnahme zerstört. 40 Schwerkranke hätten nicht mehr in Sicherheit gebracht werden können. Ein Kind sei gestorben, weil man es nicht mehr habe versorgen können.”

#AlAhliArabHospital #Germany
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Experts say images obtained by The Washington Post show blast patterns and shell fragments that are consistent with two #Israeli tank shells. The #IDF has denied responsibility for the strike, which killed a European aid worker.

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Palm Sunday strike on Gaza hospital draws Christian condemnation - UPI.com (2025-04-13)

https://www.upi.com/Top/_News/World-News/2025/04/13/palm-sunday-strike-gaza-christian-condemnation/9331744567207/
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“A hospital in Gaza was intentionally hit by the Israeli military on Palm Sunday prompting widespread condemnations from Christian groups in the Middle East.”

“Without publishing evidence, the IDF claimed Hamas fighters used the hospital to ‘plan and execute terror attacks’ against Israel. Israel's previous claims that hospitals have been used by Hamas have been refuted by authorities and questioned by the media.”

“The hospital is administered by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, a regional diocese of the Anglican Communion representing Anglican and Episcopal Christians across the Middle East.”

“British Foreign Minister David Lammy also decried Israel's ‘deplorable’ actions [on X]”

#alAhliArabHospital #AnglicanChurch #PalmSunday
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To be sure, war crimes are all in a day’s work for Israel—and covering them up is, it seems, all in a day’s work for the corporate media. In a dispatch about how Israel “acknowledged flaws” in its “mistaken” account of its killing of the rescue workers, the New York Times‘ Isabel Kershner (4/6/25) cited Israeli military affairs analyst Amos Harel on how the Israeli soldiers who did the killing “had ‘good reason to be anxious,’ and that it would be wrong to assume immediately that the case was one of ‘murder in cold blood.’”

Naturally, it would be inhumane to assume that any aspect of genocide might transpire in cold blood. And as Israel continues its quest to normalize total depravity, Western journalism is becoming ever more cold-blooded, too.

Many of the images that have been seen from Israel’s war in Gaza have already been seen for the last time. With Gaza under siege from the Israeli military and tech companies censoring and taking down material, the responsibility falls on the people of Gaza to document and archive their own evidence of war crimes and genocide. How will it survive?

A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News. The data show that Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests issued by Israel since October 7, 2023. Israel is the biggest originator of takedown requests globally by far, and Meta has followed suit—widening the net of posts it automatically removes, and creating what can be called the largest mass censorship operation in modern history.

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While Israel continues its genocide in Gaza, militarily and diplomatically supported by the U.S. and Western powers, imperialist rhetoric shapes the ongoing slaughter and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. And although it was written decades ago, Ghassan Kanafani’s impeccable and distinguished writing still articulates the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle with amazing clarity.

Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings (Pluto Press) was published in October 2024, a year after Israel’s genocide in Gaza began. Through a translated selection of Kanafani’s political writings, the reader is able to understand Palestinian anti-colonial resistance through his analysis. In the words of editors Louis Brehony and Tahrir Hamdi from the book’s introduction, this resistance is “a confrontation between imperialism and an anti-imperialist liberation movement against brutal settler-colonialism.”

The writings are grouped into five main themes, each chapter distinctively showing how language is essential in conveying the meaning of anti-colonial resistance, the perils from within, and the necessity of looking at Palestinian anti-colonial resistance in terms of what it faces regionally and globally

Kanafani is synonymous with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and renowned for his literary works. It was not until 2005 that Israel admitted to killing him in a targeted assassination by a car bomb in Beirut in July 1972.

In light of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Kanafani’s succinct description of what Palestinians are up against holds absolute relevance.

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