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By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine
Published date: 25 January 2025 17:31 GMT

By Lubna Masarwa in Jerusalem Published date: 26 January 2025 10:44 GMT

[some very ominous statements from #Trump]

Israel Welcomes the Return of the Women Who Warned of a Raid From Gaza - The New York Times (2025-01-25)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/world/middleeast/israel-spotters-hostages.html?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.sE4.seD9.QcnFLH%5C_PnN27
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“The four women released by Hamas on Saturday … are ‘spotters’ for the army who were stationed in a small military base about a half-mile from the border.”

“In the months leading up to the assault, [a former lookout] Ms. Yerushalmi … said, there were growing signs of something afoot. … the spotters saw convoys of 20 to 30 white pickup trucks filled with Hamas fighters driving along the border with increasing frequency, stopping occasionally and peering into Israel through binoculars. They would also put up drones a few times a day…”

“The spotters reported the activity, she and several relatives of the other lookouts said, but were told by their superiors that their job was to be the eyes, not the brains, of the Israeli military. Their reports, they said, appeared to have been dismissed.”

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Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza? (Jewish Currents, 2024-12-19)

https://jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide-studies-survive-a-genocide-in-gaza
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"Immediately after October 7th, 2023, ... some major institutions of Holocaust and genocide studies determined that their mission required them to speak out."

"... On October 13th, ... the historian Raz Segal, director of the program of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, wrote in a widely shared article in this magazine, 'A Textbook Case of Genocide,'..."

"And yet, amid this ever-worsening assault, many of the scholars and institutions that had issued or signed statements condemning Hamas after October 7th stayed silent.... Little changed even after Amnesty International published a landmark report ... in December 2024. For Nimer Sultany [SOAS] ..., this silence pointed to a glaring double standard..."

#SilenceIsComplicity #AcademicResponsibility
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State Department freezes new funding for nearly all US aid programs worldwide [exceptions incl. military aid to Israel and Egypt] | AP News (2025-01-25)

https://apnews.com/article/state-department-trump-foreign-aid-bf047e17ef64cb42a1a1b7fdf05caffa
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“The State Department ordered a sweeping freeze Friday on new funding for almost all U.S. foreign assistance, making exceptions for emergency food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt.”

“Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s order, delivered in a cable sent to U.S. embassies worldwide, specifically exempted emergency food programs, such as those helping to feed millions in a widening famine in warring Sudan.”

“While Rubio’s order exempted military assistance to allies Israel and Egypt from the freeze, there was no indication of a similar waiver to allow vital U.S. military assistance to Ukraine through.”

#USPol #ForeignAssistance #Ukraine #Egypt
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Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jan 24, 2025

Statement on the destruction of the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza - January 22, 2025 🧵 1/4

copied from https://x.com/MosabAbuToha/status/1882233920856731726
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#EdwardSaidPublicLibrary

"My name is Mosab Abu Toha and I’m a Palestinian poet and writer from Gaza.
Today morning with a heavy heart I received the news of the destruction of the Edward Said Public Library in Beit Lahia, north Gaza. The news and pictures came through just three days after Gazans were allowed to return to north Gaza.
Starting 2016, I started collecting books from around the world to build Gaza’s first English language library. With the endorsement and support of authors and intellectuals around the world, I raised the needed funds to open the library in the summer of 2017.

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Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft (+972 Magazine, 2025-01-23)

https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/
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"Microsoft has a 'footprint in all major military infrastructures' in Israel, and sales of the company’s cloud and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli army have skyrocketed since the beginning of its onslaught on Gaza, according to leaked commercial records from Israel’s Defense Ministry and files from Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary."

"These revelations are the product of an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call in collaboration with The #Guardian. It is based in part on documents obtained by Drop Site News, which has published its own story. The investigation shows how the Israeli army deepened its reliance on civilian tech giants after October 7, and comes amid growing protests by cloud company employees who fear that the technology they developed has helped Israel commit war crimes."

#972Magazine #DropSiteNews
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By Muhammad Ateeq in Jenin, occupied Palestine and Mera Aladam. Published date: 23 January 2025 14:39 GMT

2024 West Bank olive harvest: Israel furthers land grab through tighter restrictions on Palestinians and extreme state violence (B’Tselem, 2025-01-22)

https://www.btselem.org/video/20250122/_2024/_west/_bank/_olive/_harvest/_israel/_furthers/_land/_grab/_through/_tighter/_restrictions/_on/_palestinians/_and/_extreme/_state/_violence#full
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An extensive report from B’Tselem, a must read. #WestBank

“Over the last 20 years, Israel has employed various bureaucratic measures to prevent Palestinians from accessing their private land. This is part of a broader effort to force Palestinians out of entire areas in the West Bank, while expanding settlements and the territories under Israeli control.”

“… The Israeli regime has increased its use of these systems since the heinous Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023. … the ‘coordination’ mechanism was halted and the possibility for farmers to ‘coordinate’ access to their land was almost entirely blocked. The following year (2024), … the Civil Administration refrained from publishing information on ‘coordination’ of harvest days…”

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Trump Reportedly Resuming Shipments of 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel | Truthout (2025-01-21)

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-reportedly-resuming-shipments-of-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel/

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from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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By Lara Jakes, Fatima Abdul Karim, and Hiba Yazbek
Jan. 22, 2025 Updated 8:58 a.m. ET

"Israel’s military said on Wednesday that it was pressing ahead with what it called a new counterterrorism operation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Palestinian officials said that at least 10 people had been killed."

"The Jenin battalion of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, an armed group loosely affiliated with Fatah, the political faction that controls the Palestinian Authority, said in a statement on social media that its fighters were engaged in “fierce clashes” with Israeli forces in several areas of Jenin and had detonated explosive devices."