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dropsitenews.com
🔴 Two more children die of hypothermia in Gaza as the US and Israel deliberately block shelter aid stockpiled at the border.

A six-month-old girl, Shatha Abu Jarad, died Tue. from exposure to extreme cold, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported. Her death follows that of a 27-day-old infant on Saturday...
🔴 Two more children die of hypothermia in Gaza as the US and Israel deliberately block shelter aid stockpiled at the border. A six-month-old girl, Shatha Abu Jarad, died Tuesday from exposure to extreme cold, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported. Her death follows that of a 27-day-old infant on Saturday, bringing the number of children who have died of hypothermia in Gaza this winter to 9. Another storm is forecast to hit Gaza. The Palestinian Meteorological Department has warned that a polar air mass will bring frost and freezing conditions Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, WAFA reported, further worsening conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians forced to shelter in tents that provide little protection from the cold. Gaza’s Government Media Office says 127,000 of the enclave’s 135,000 tents have been rendered unusable by recent storms. Israel and the United States continue to block the entry of new tents and all mobile homes. See new posts Conversation Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal 🚨Seven-month-old Shatha Abu Jarad died this morning due to the severe drop in temperatures in Gaza, Palestinian Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said, stressing that her death was caused by cold, not illness. He warned that thousands of children remain at serious risk as the Israeli occupation, backed by the United States, continues to block the entry of caravans, safe shelters, heating supplies, and sustainable construction materials, forcing families to survive winter inside torn tents with no protection. Basal said these are preventable deaths, calling for immediate international action before more children lose their lives. mahmoud_basal88 (IG)
January 20, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
This one guy and his mates were the source for a massive chunk of all that terrifying media coverage you read, and that’s been public knowledge since about 2021. It is IMO helpful for the more lib audience of Bluesky to hear about this, because you better believe standards have not improved since.
Labour Party which showed that LAAS' spokesperson and one of its most well-known activists, Euan Philipps, had created a fake persona called David Gordstein, which many readers would take to be a Jewish name. Philipps is not Jewish. Philipps admitted to Al Jazeera that he was David Gordstein but insisted that 'he never claimed to be Jewish when doing sol David Gordstein, as shown below, would play a material role in the success of the astroturf campaign that was incubated by the Labour Together Project. Philipps remained a prominent member and spokesperson of LAAS even after his Gordstein persona was exposed. Previously unseen documents from the Labour Party show that the Gordstein persona was used to make hundreds of complaints of antisemitism to the Labour Party between 2017 and 2021. The reports are detailed, but perhaps the most important feature was the number of times the persona was used to accuse left-wing jews of antisemitism. The outrageous story of Gordstein's complaint about the elderly Jewish party member Riva Joffe, which led to the party investigating her on her death bed, is dealt with in Part Three below. One of the more absurd Gordstein complaints was directed against Miriam Margolyes, the idiosyncratic national treasure and garlanded jewish actress who played Professor Pomona Sprout in two of the film adaptations of Harry Potter. One of Margolyes' allegedly antisemitic acts, according to 'Gordstein", was to use her Facebook profile to share an impassioned article written in 2019 by the highly regarded Jewish social anthropologist and London School of Economics professor David Graeber. Graeber challenged aspects of the mainstream narrative alleging a 'crisis' of antisemitism in the Labour Party." He argued that the way the Labour Party antisemitism crisis' had been covered was itself antisemitic, because it generated unjustified 'rancour, panic and resentment' that 'creates THE FRAUD 61
January 20, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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dropsitenews.com
Israel has dropped roughly 100,000 tons of explosives on Gaza since Oct. 2023 — the equivalent of about 6 Hiroshima-size atomic bombs, according to multiple independent estimates. Yet for Israel & some of its advocates in the West, Gaza has not been bombed enough.

US & Israeli media figures are...
Israel has dropped roughly 100,000 tons of explosives on Gaza since October 2023 — the equivalent of about six Hiroshima-size atomic bombs, according to multiple independent estimates. Yet for Israel and some of its advocates in the West, Gaza has not been bombed enough. U.S. and Israeli media figures are now amplifying claims from a Wall Street Journal report asserting that Hamas is rebuilding tunnels and restoring military capacity. The report relies on unnamed Israeli and Arab intelligence sources to claim Hamas has resumed paying fighters and repairing underground infrastructure. Israeli outlet Ynet separately reports that Israel is weighing a new ground operation in Gaza City, with the military drawing up plans to re-enter areas already obliterated by 27 months of near-constant bombardment. According to Gaza authorities, the U.S.–Israeli genocide has involved more than 12,000 separate massacres, left 70 million tons of rubble, the near-total destruction of civilian infrastructure, and the forced displacement of an entire population. Still, Israel and its advocates argue Gaza has not been bombed enough. See new posts Conversation Bianna Golodryga @biannagolodryga “Hamas has started rebuilding some of its damaged tunnel infrastructure, Arab and Israeli officials said. It is also rebuilding its financial coffers with access to cash it had stored in tunnels, from taxation, and an influx from Iran.” https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-gaza-war-5f1b0548?st=DzcVhb
January 11, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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samfr.bsky.social
The French far right as always been, in part, motivated by anti-Americanism. Le Pen and Bardella have had notably cooler relations with MAGA than, say, Farage or the AfD. (Despite the US alt-right being v influence by French far right thinkers).
flipchartrick.bsky.social Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 17d
Wasn’t expecting this.

Then again, being a US poodle wouldn’t play well with French voters. Not even the fat right ones.
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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adamkeiper.com
Very good point:
Screenshot of a tweet from @ryangrim dated 3 Jan 2026 reading: "It’s important to remember that Trump genuinely believes, and was told repeatedly by Rubio, that Venezuela had a hand in manipulating voting machines to help Biden win in 2020. What Trump did today must be understood in the context of that paranoid lunacy."
January 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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West Bank: More than 200 Israeli settlers storm the Al-Aqsa mosque - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/west-bank-more-200-israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque
West Bank: More than 200 Israeli settlers storm the Al-Aqsa mosque
<article data-history-node-id="433345" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/west-bank-more-200-israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/west-bank-more-200-israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">West Bank: More than 200 Israeli settlers storm the Al-Aqsa mosque</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>More than 200 Israeli settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on New Year's Day, Al Jazeera reported</p> <p>At least 201 settlers are said to have stormed the mosque compound under military and police proptection in both morning and evening incursions.</p> <p>Settlers also conducted stormed the mosque compound multiple times in December.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>
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January 1, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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i-rohl.bsky.social
This appears to be taken unattributed from the work of Japanese graphic designer Hiroshi Nagai.

(Anyone know if this use of his work has been brought to his attention?)

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December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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dropsitenews.com
Originally posted Dec. 22, 2025:

🇺🇳 UNFPA: Premature births in Gaza have surged from 20% to 70% since Oct 2023; 1 in 3 pregnancies is considered high-risk; more than half of youth & 40% of adults are expected to suffer PTSD.

UNFPA Deputy Executive Director Andrew Saberton — who leads...

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🇺🇳 UNFPA: Premature births in Gaza have surged from 20% to 70% since October 2023; one in three pregnancies is considered high-risk; more than half of youth and 40% of adults are expected to suffer PTSD. UNFPA Deputy Executive Director Andrew Saberton — who leads the UN agency responsible for reproductive and maternal health — just returned from his first visit to Gaza. In a word, he described it as “flattened — mile upon mile of rubble and dust.” What he witnessed, he said, “was not collateral damage.” Every UNFPA staff member in Gaza has lost family, and nearly all have had their homes destroyed. “Women have lost everything — their families, their homes, their colleges, their jobs,” Saberton said, noting many now lack even basic hygiene supplies. Thread 🧵
December 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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mbazzi.bsky.social
Israel has bombed Lebanon once every 4 hours on average since a “ceasefire” took effect in late November 2024, according to ACLED, an independent conflict monitor.
Israel attacking Lebanon every 4 hours on average: Research
LONDON: Israel is attacking Lebanon at a rate equal to one strike every four hours despite the reaching of a ceasefire more than a year ago, new data has shown. ACLED, the independent conflict monitor...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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ricksteves.bsky.social
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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mondoweiss.net
“What is happening [in Palestine] today is the true face of Zionist ideology . . . turning Palestinian existence into an unbearable hell,” declares the recently released Kairos Palestine document, "A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide."

mondoweiss.net/2025/12/what...

#Palestine #Israel
‘What is the Christian word in the face of genocide?’: new Kairos Palestine document calls for repudiation of Zionism
“What is happening [in Palestine] today is the true face of Zionist ideology . . . turning Palestinian existence into an unbearable hell,” declares the recently released Kairos Palestine document,...
mondoweiss.net
December 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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madar.bsky.social
“As settlements grow” is another form of passive voice; ethnic cleansing is an act of aggression not an algae bloom
December 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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metaphorman.bsky.social
The words “Erase Gaza” appeared more than 18,000 times in Hebrew-language Facebook posts in 2024 alone, according to a new report on hate speech and incitement against Palestinians
Rebranding Genocide
The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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mondoweiss.net
After the U.S. imposed sanctions, YouTube took down over 700 videos from prominent Palestinian human rights groups. Rights advocates say this censorship goes beyond Palestine and affects the future of international justice and accountability. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/yout...
YouTube and big tech censorship threatens global accountability, Palestinian rights groups say
After the U.S. imposed sanctions, YouTube took down over 700 videos from prominent Palestinian human rights groups. Rights advocates say this censorship goes beyond Palestine and affects the future…
mondoweiss.net
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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dropsitenews.com
⭕️ Gaza’s Gov Info Office rejected US Amb Mike Waltz’s claim that 600 aid trucks enter Gaza daily, calling it misleading & an attempt to absolve Israel of responsibility for starvation and blockade.

Since the ceasefire began 62 days ago, it says only 14,534 of the 37,200 required trucks have...
⭕️ Gaza’s Government Information Office rejected US Ambassador Mike Waltz’s claim that 600 aid trucks enter Gaza daily, calling it misleading and an attempt to absolve Israel of responsibility for starvation and blockade. Since the ceasefire began 62 days ago, it says only 14,534 of the 37,200 required trucks have entered, an average of 234 per day, just 39% compliance. The office said Israel is deliberately restricting aid volumes and controlling contents, allowing low-nutritional goods while blocking essential food, medical supplies, spare parts, and emergency materials. It described this as a systematic blockade and collective punishment, accusing Israel of using food and medicine as tools of pressure and calling for an independent international investigation. See new posts Conversation Ambassador Mike Waltz @USAmbUN Visited the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in Gaza to discuss the implementation of UNSCR 2803 and President Trump’s 20-Point Plan. The U.S. has a few hundred troops on the ground in Israel in a coordinating role – pulling together the humanitarian aid, the IDF, the international community, the UN, and the private sector to make the President’s peace plan a reality. They are doing an AMAZING JOB and the entire world should join me in thanking them!
December 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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theimeu.bsky.social
Israel’s military is arming and funding illegal militias of Israeli settlers. These violent, Israeli state-backed mobs are attacking Palestinian families in the West Bank more frequently and brutally than ever before.

Israel is giving violent settlers weapons to take over Palestinian land.
How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
What often appears as sporadic settler violence is in fact an organized system with an official structure fully operating as intended.
ow.ly
December 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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jvp.bsky.social
Every facet of Israeli society—its government and politicians, its media and its culture—have collectively agreed to “make the decimation of Palestinian life in Gaza simply disappear from Israeli memory,” writes Lee Mordechai for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social.
December 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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sinatoossi.bsky.social
3/ And for Palestinians inside 1948 Israel, the myth of "democratic rights" for all collapses quickly.

Many cannot even repair their homes, let alone build new ones.

Their lives & livelihoods are constantly squeezed.

Discrimination is structural & aimed at getting them to leave.
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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sinatoossi.bsky.social
A friend just returned from Palestine.

Daily humiliation & oppression is intensifying everywhere: raids, settler attacks, home seizures, checkpoints, systematic discrimination for Palestinians in 1948 Israel.

It's hard to fathom. Yet this is what so many in Washington defend.

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December 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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hannibalbrigade.biz
You’ll never guess who bombed another school today
Quds News Telegram post: This morning, Israeli tanks and military bulldozers suddenly pushed deep into the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza enclave, carrying out mass destruction in the area and shelling a school sheltering displaced Palestinian families.
December 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM