cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5669661

updated as of yesterday (July 21): based on a statistical model developed by a prestigious medical journal called The Lancet, Israel has killed roughly 434,800 people in Gaza since the country’s military started to attack the territory on 8 October 2023. That’s 20.7% of Gaza’s entire pre-conflict population dead. Over half are women and children.

Israel has long restricted or completely blocked aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control

By Natan Odenheimer Reporting from Jerusalem July 26, 2025 Updated 1:34 p.m. ET

More than 100 aid agencies and rights groups warned this past week of “mass starvation” and implored Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian assistance. The European Union and at least 28 governments, including Israeli allies like Britain, France and Canada, issued a joint statement condemning Israel’s “drip-feeding of aid” to Gaza’s two million Palestinian residents.

Israel has largely brushed off the criticism.

David Mencer, a government spokesman, said this week that there was “no famine caused by Israel.” Instead, he blamed Hamas and poor coordination by the United Nations for any food shortages.

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Grindr won’t allow users to add “no Zionists” to their profiles, but allows any number of other phrases that state political, religious, and ethnic preferences, according to 404 Media’s tests of the platform and user reports.

Several users received an error message that says “The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists,” when they tried to add the phrases to their bios on Thursday. I tested this myself on a new Grindr account, and received the same error message. I was able to add “Zionist” to my profile (without “no”), however, and could also add any phrase I could think of: “no Arabs,” “no Blacks,” “no Palestinians,” “no Muslims,” “no Christians,” “no Jews,” “no trans,” “no Republicans,” “no Democrats,” and so on. “No Zionist[s]” was the only phrase that was blocked in my testing.

The Vueling Incident Was Not Antisemitism. It Was Zionist Narrative Warfare.

https://farid.ps/articles/vueling/_incident/_was/_not/_antisemitism

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X / Elon Musk is systematically silencing (Pro-)Palestinian voices.

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Israeli Knesset Overwhelmingly Passes Motion Calling for West Bank Annexation | Truthout (2025-07-25)

https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-knesset-overwhelmingly-passes-motion-calling-for-west-bank-annexation/
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>> The motion, to declare the Palestinian territory as “an inseparable part of the Land of Israel” and proclaiming “Israeli sovereignty” in the region, passed 71 to 13.

>> The motion does not formally authorize any actions, rather serving as a symbolic measure urging the government to take action…

>> ... Some members [of Knesset] walked out of the chamber in protest of the vote, Haaretz reports.

>> However, … the measure is an alarming show of the wide support in Israel for erasing the Palestinian people and finalizing Israel’s takeover of what little is left of historic Palestine.

>> U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) said that … is yet another show of the impunity that Israel enjoys among American politicians, many of whom are actively enabling Israel’s slaughter and occupation.

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They're Starving Civilians To Steal A Palestinian Territory, And They're Lying About It (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-07-26)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-starving-civilians-to-steal
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>> That’s what this is all about. That’s all this has ever been about. It’s not about hostages. It’s not about Hamas. It’s not about Israel defending itself. It’s about stealing a Palestinian territory, and anyone who says otherwise is lying.

>> And the lies have been erupting like a geyser in recent days. Israel and its apologists have been frantically pushing the narrative that Gaza is starving because the UN isn’t allowing aid in (swiftly refuted by Drop Site News), … because Hamas is stealing the aid (swiftly refuted by Reuters), and … because Hamas attacks people who try to go to aid sites (already refuted by Israeli soldiers telling the Israeli press that they’re the ones shooting the aid seekers)…

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130 Diplomaten fordern einen härteren Israelkurs der Bundesregierung | DIE ZEIT (2025-07-24)

https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2025-07/auswaertiges-amt-diplomaten-fordern-haerteren-israel-kurs
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>> Unter dem Motto "loyal nonkonform" haben sich laut einem Bericht [des Spiegel] Diplomaten im Auswärtigen Amt vereint. Sie fordern eine deutlichere Kritik an der israelischen Regierung.

>> Für das deutsche Außenministerium ist die Bildung einer solchen Gruppe eher ungewöhnlich…

>> [auch] Die SPD-Bundestagsfraktion forderte in einem Schreiben einen Kurswechsel der Bundesregierung in der Israelpolitik. Sie drückte ihre Unterstützung für eine Erklärung von 28 Staaten aus, die ein sofortiges Ende des Gazakriegs fordern und die unzureichende Versorgung der Zivilbevölkerung mit Hilfsgütern verurteilen…

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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

https://archive.ph/wip/tnJEu