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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 1h

❝ Trump’s new ‘peace’ plan reveals a brutal future of Palestinian displacement for US profit following 24 months of destruction in Gaza ❞ — Toufic Haddad

GREAT, GITA INC: Gaza as a laboratory for a MAGA overseas empire

Trump’s new ‘peace’ plan reveals a brutal future of Palestinian displacement for US profit following 24 months of destruction in Gaza, writes Toufic Haddad.

www.newarab.com

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 2h

The Trump administration's crackdown on dissent started with its targeting of Palestine protesters. Two years into the Gaza genocide, we are now seeing these attacks expand to all critics, regardless of their connection to Palestine.

Two Years of Genocide: Trump’s war on free speech began with Gaza

The Trump administration’s crackdown on dissent started with its targeting of Palestine protesters. Two years into the Gaza genocide, we are now seeing these attacks expand to all critics, regardless ...

mondoweiss.net

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 2h

❝ Israel's government is hallucinating that it's protecting the West, while digging in on the wrong side of history ❞

Haaretz Editorial • Oct 8, 2025
archive.md/TdscZ

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 2h

Israeli forces have intercepted additional aid boats bound for Gaza in international waters, the Global Sumud Flotilla said on Wednesday 8 Oct.

An Israeli army helicopter also attacked another ship, the Conscience, carrying more than 90 people, including journalists and medics.

More Gaza-bound flotilla ships intercepted by Israeli forces

Global Sumud Flotilla says three boats - the Gaza Sunbirds, the Alaa Al-Najjar, and the Anas Al-Sharif - stopped off Gaza coast

www.middleeasteye.net

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 8h

Navi Pillay, the chair of the UN inquiry that found Israel responsible for genocide, says her findings will still stand even if a ceasefire is reached

Exclusive: UN commissioner says Trump's Gaza plan breaches international law

Navi Pillay, the chair of the UN inquiry that found Israel responsible for genocide, says her findings will still stand even if a ceasefire is reached

www.middleeasteye.net

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 9h

❝ I do not know if, or what, will grow out of the void created by 2 years of destruction & death that are not yet over. One thing can be said: no growth is possible until we look into that void, that absence, that abyss, and internalise its dimensions and bring this madness to an end ❞ — Orly Noy

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

www.theguardian.com

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 10h

❝ The world before October 7, 2023, is a distant memory. But we carry on, fueled by the determination that this land will become a place of life once more ❞ — Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

I’ve Endured Two Years of Genocide. But I’m Still Here.

The world before October 7, 2023, is a distant memory. But we carry on, fueled by the determination that this land will become a place of life once more.

www.thenation.com

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 10h

❝ I joined a flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza. After Israeli forces seized our ship, I spent five days inside al-Naqab prison, witnessing the cruelty of Israel’s detention regime ❞ — David Adler

I Spent Five Days in Israel’s Desert Prison

I joined a flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza. After Israeli forces seized our ship, I spent five days inside al-Naqab prison, witnessing the cruelty of Israel’s detention regime.

jacobin.com

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 21h

Plestia Alaqad, an award-winning Palestinian journalist whose on-the-ground reporting from Gaza captured global attention during the early days of Israel’s military assault two years ago. She has now published 'The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience'

“Eyes of Gaza”: Palestinian Journalist Plestia Alaqad Chronicles Life Under Israeli Bombs

We speak with Plestia Alaqad, an award-winning Palestinian journalist whose on-the-ground reporting from Gaza captured global attention during the early days of Israel’s military assault two years ago...

www.democracynow.org

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 21h

❝ The catastrophic war inflicted on Gaza over the past two years has left Israel less secure than ever ❞ — Paul Rogers

Israel’s biggest security threat isn’t Hamas. It’s Netanyahu

The catastrophic war inflicted on Gaza over the past two years has left Israel less secure than ever

www.opendemocracy.net

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 21h

❝ Every day, when we turn on the news, we thank God we survived the genocide. And every day, we regret it. ❞

Two Years of Genocide: The guilt we live with from the miserable safety of exile

Every day, when we turn on the news, we thank God we survived the genocide. And every day, we regret it.

mondoweiss.net

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 21h

❝ Western media has spent 2 years denying Gaza’s genocide, platforming Israel’s lies, & enabling ongoing violence through silence & distortion❞ — Assal Rad

Gaza genocide: 2 years of Western media stenographing for Israel

Western media has spent 2 years denying Gaza’s genocide, platforming Israel’s lies, & enabling ongoing violence through silence & distortion, writes Assal Rad.

www.newarab.com

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 21h

Workers, whistleblowers and developers are forcing the world’s most powerful companies to confront their role in Israel's genocidal campaign against the Palestinians

How Israel's war in Gaza changed big tech

Workers, whistleblowers and developers are forcing the world’s most powerful companies to confront their role in Israel's genocidal campaign against the Palestinians

www.middleeasteye.net

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 22h

[ WATCH ]
❝ Regional leaders have responded to the bravery and steadfastness that Gaza's Palestinians have shown with fear, cowardice and self-interest ❞ — David Hearst

The great betrayal: Why Arab and Muslim rulers backed Trump's Gaza plan

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

www.youtube.com

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 22h

❝ Two years on, complicit governments back a US plan to safeguard Jewish supremacy and mute global outrage, while Israel revives Nazi torture methods to force Palestinian surrender ❞ — Joseph Massad

Trump’s plan for Gaza rewards Israel’s genocide and punishes its victims

Two years on, complicit governments back a US plan to safeguard Jewish supremacy and mute global outrage, while Israel revives Nazi torture methods to force Palestinian surrender

www.middleeasteye.net

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 22h

Occupied West Bank:
Amid the genocide in Gaza, conditions have also been desperate for the region’s largest population of Palestinians

What’s happened in the West Bank since October 2023?

Amid the genocide in Gaza, conditions have also been desperate for the region’s largest population of Palestinians

www.middleeasteye.net

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 22h

❝ Trump has put a gun to the head of the Palestinian people, demanding compliance with a 'peace plan' that strips them of autonomy ❞ — Ghada Karmi

Unless we tackle western racism, the Gaza nightmare will be repeated elsewhere

Trump has put a gun to the head of the Palestinian people, demanding compliance with a 'peace plan' that strips them of autonomy

www.middleeasteye.net

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 22h

❝ For Palestinians in Israel, self-censorship has long been a survival mechanism, our silence the condition of our citizenship. But encountering solidarity abroad, I realized my body forgot what it feels like to speak freely. ❞ — Thawra Abukhdeir

Between a revolution and a whisper

For Palestinians in Israel, our silence is the condition of our citizenship. Abroad, I forgot what it feels like to speak freely.

www.972mag.com

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 23h

Gaza's teenage girls turn survival into online diaries

❝ While girls their age across the world post videos of themselves opening gifts, girls in Gaza document a different reality – which includes hunger, loss and shortages.❞
archive.md/fakhh

archive.md

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists warn war and starvation will alter Gaza children’s genes, risking lasting harm for future generations

Gaza's children face genetic harm 'for generations to come' from Israel's genocide

Scientists warn war and starvation will alter Gaza children’s genes, risking lasting harm for future generations

www.middleeasteye.net

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 1d

Carolyn Gelenter, a descendant of Holocaust survivors who was arrested at a previous Lift the Ban protest in September, described the UK government’s references to the “Jewish community” as a homogeneous group as being “in and of itself, antisemitic”

Jewish activists warn UK protest crackdown will stoke antisemitism

Home secretary announced new measures restricting protest, citing 'large repeated protests' as causing 'considerable fear within the Jewish community'

www.middleeasteye.net

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 1d

Apartheid + Occupation + Genocide

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 1d

Just don't mention the G-word

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 1d

Since Rachel Corrie’s killing in 2003, about a dozen US citizens are known to have died at the hands of Israeli soldiers or settlers, or while in Israeli custody. At least 6 have been killed in the West Bank alone since Israel’s ensuing war in Gaza

‘A club nobody wanted to be a part of’: Families of Americans killed by Israel face uphill climb to justice

Dozens of American citizens have been killed by Hamas and Israel – but the US government has taken a very different approach to the latter

www.theguardian.com

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 1d

Jane Goodall reveals what she would do with Donald Trump, Elon Musk and other human beings she saw as showing similar traits: launch them on a one-way trip into space

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