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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 13h

“The world keeps turning obliviously, and we continue to be robbed of many familiar faces, trusted eyes, and voices of Palestine.”

@hudafakhreddine.bsky.social writes a powerful essay about the Palestinian storytellers Israel systematically targets and kills.

🔗: zeteo.com/p/israel-kil...

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 12h

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12h

UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.

‘Another Nakba’: UN expert says Gaza recovery will take generations

UN special rapporteur on right to housing says Palestinians returning to destroyed northern Gaza face 'profound trauma'.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 11h

What Francesca said.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11h

The Trump-headlined celebration/retroactive justification of genocide happening in Israel today is obscene—and premature. Israel will likely violate Phase 1 of any 20-part plan. As a Trump biographer, I've written a rebuttal to the idea that Trump is anything but one of the most dangerous men alive:

Media and MAGA Calls for Trump to Catch a Nobel Peace Prize Rather Than An ICC War Crimes Indictment Are Obscene

The second-biggest threat to global peace after Putin has earned a cell for war crimes—not a humanitarian award. That his grotesque and scammy appeal for a Nobel Peace Prize is working is terrifying.

sethabramson.substack.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 11h

In southern Lebanon, Israeli troops may no longer occupy towns on foot — but for residents, the war continues overhead and from nearby hilltops.

Drones patrol daily, striking without warning. Snipers stationed on Israeli-held ridges watch roads, rooftops, and fields.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 11h

🔴 Watch: In Feb. 2025, Israel postponed the release of hundreds of Palestinian “prisoners” after 6 Israeli captives were freed, claiming Hamas held “degrading ceremonies” that “demeaned our hostages"...

Below: footage of Palestinians being rounded up in Israeli prisons ahead of this week’s release⬇️

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In February 2025, Israel postponed the release of hundreds of Palestinian “prisoners” after six Israeli captives were freed, claiming Hamas held “degrading ceremonies” that “demeaned our hostages.”

Western media echoed the outrage, calling the scenes — fighters handing captives to the Red Cross before cheering crowds — “savage.”

Below: footage of Palestinians being rounded up in Israeli prisons ahead of this week’s release 👇

Eye on Palestine via X (@EyeonPalestine): "Scenes document the abuse inflicted by the Israeli prison administration on Palestinian prisoners who are scheduled to be released as part of the exchange deal."

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 11h

President of Colombia:

Gustavo Petro via X (@petrogustavo): "Without killing anyone. Without firing missiles. 2.7 tons fall on a speedboat that was heading to Costa Rica through the Pacific Ocean, through which the vast majority of Colombian cocaine travels.

Five Colombians captured and alive."

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 10h

www.peoplesworld.org/article/as-w...

As world watches Gaza, Israel moves against people in West Bank

The world continues to focus on Gaza with hope that the genocidal conflict there might soon come to an end. After two years of slaughter and destruction, it’s understandable that all eyes are on the b...

www.peoplesworld.org

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OpheliaPG @opheliapg.bsky.social · 10h

“Granting the peace prize to someone who has not stopped calling for military invasions, coups d’état, violent protests, and wars is yet another aberration of the current international disorder. It is the world turned upside down.” #NobelPeace for Zionism…
www.telesurenglish.net/corina-macha...

Corina Machado: Nobel Prize for Zionism and Neo-fascism - teleSUR English

Granting the peace prize to someone who has not stopped calling for military invasions, coups d'état, violent protests, and wars is yet another aberration of

www.telesurenglish.net

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 9h

The joke is on Trump. The ethnic cleansing is simply being moved over to the West Bank.

Who in their right mind would believe the Israelis— under Benjamin Netanyahu—about *anything*?

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 9h

There won’t others like The Travellers in Australian cinemas this year. Its window to be seen is brief, not unlike the Verdi arias Beresford so carefully captures in the film. #auspol #TheTravellers

Bruce Beresford’s The Travellers blends opera and the outback in a heartfelt story about homecoming

Famed Australian director Bruce Beresford loves opera. If you weren’t aware of this before watching his new film, The Travellers, you most likely will be by the time the credits roll.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 9h

"Palestinians, carrying what belongings they could, return from the south to the north of Gaza’s Sheikh Radwan and Al-Jala Street with the ceasefire taking effect in the Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)"

www.threads.com/@alijadallah...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13h

🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 151 killed (116 of whom were recovered from the rubble) and 72 injured arriving at hospitals.

This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 67,682 and 170,033 injuries (likely 3-5x higher).

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10h

There is now zero excuse for Israel to continue its ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza.
www.newarab.com/news/journal...

Journalists renew calls for Israel to open Gaza to foreign media

The Foreign Press Association and leading media organisations have urged Israel to allow reporters into Gaza following the ceasefire

www.newarab.com

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 1d

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 8h

Published by Palestinian photojournalist Jehad Abu Shamala yesterday, on Saturday:

"Of course, the children of Gaza deserve to live."

www.instagram.com/p/DPrRPVtCOZ7/

#FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaStrip #Israel #MiddleEast #Palestine

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 2d

A small sample of what is in the report: bsky.app/profile/penn...

Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 2d

DEWR sought an assurance report on the Targeted Compliance Framework. They got it. It told them clearly that the TCF could NOT be assured. And yet the government continues to administer this unlawful system so it can suspend income support payments for bullshit reasons.

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Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 8h

I spoke to the hardest working man in podcasting: BEN MEISELAS of Meidas Touch, who's taking the fight to Maga (and beating Joe Rogan in the ratings), and doesn't mince his words about the state of US media, and its failure to meet the current moment.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

www.theguardian.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 8h

Who treats the hostages they are releasing like this?

War Criminal Israel.

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 2d

It is government policy for at least 4% of people to be unemployed at all times.

When there are not enough unemployed people, they punish mortgage holders with interest rate increases until the economy gets bad enough that people start losing their jobs again.

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 2d

Labor's employment minister rep admits that payment suspensions "cause harm", but they're "an important part" of the (unlawful) mutual obligations system, because

"At the end of the day we want ppl to get off payments and find a job"

gross 'best form of welfare is a job' stuff from the ALP here

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 9h

"In southern Lebanon, daily [ #Israeli occupation] drone patrols hover above villages, launching strikes with no warning."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUMZ...

#Israel #IsraelNews #Lebanon #LebanonNews #MiddleEast #MiddleEastNews #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews

WATCH: Returning Home to a War Zone

YouTube video by Drop Site News

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 10h

"It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of media-ready Palestinian or Palestinian-American guests to choose from, chief among them Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who has not appeared on any of the major Sunday news shows since 2019."

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 8h

Great run-down of the mutual obligations system — both it's current unlawful administration, and it's rotten ideological underpinnings that destroys lives — by @amyremeikis.bsky.social here: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 9h

Genocide is not just about bodies, its about making places unliveable

Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on housing, has stressed that Palestinians in Gaza will be forced to cope with the lasting psychological effects of seeing their homes and entire communities destroyed across the enclave.

“Home is far more than four walls and a roof. Home is basically a repository of peoples’ hopes and aspirations and dreams and particularly, memories … Those are the things that make people into humans ultimately,” he told Al Jazeera.

“What happens when homes are destroyed on a massive scale and an entire community is forced to flee or scatter to the wind, is that it destroys the possibility of the members of the community becoming human again.

“The psychological impacts and trauma are profound, and that’s what we are seeing right now as people are returning to northern Gaza.”

He added that the recovery process will likely take generations. “It’s like another Nakba,” said Rajagopal, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine when Israel was created in 1948, which still affects Palestinians today.

“What has happened in the last two years is going to be something similar.”

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