Ibaitik Itsasora
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Gaza BEFORE Israel showed up
Israel is a criminal state
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1887980771178070396
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Zionists in 2025… “Palestine never existed”
Zionists in 1899… “We will colonise Palestine”
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In 1948 Albert Einstein foresaw the Israeli terrorism in Palestine that would eventually bring a catastrophe on the Jewish colonists.
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This reprehensible person will be remembered as centrally culpable in the deaths of an entire generation.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954139044406759736
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As I’ve long predicted
The US, who were central to starting the civil war in Ukraine, which led to this terrible War
Will now dictate terms on its end, to the Ukrainian puppets they installed to perpetuate it
Kiev, Brussles, and London will do as they are told
B:ideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954231451634839963
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Israel Exposed@xIsraelExposedx
44 countries have now joined forces to break the siege of Gaza with dozens of flotilla missions. Follow the @GlobalSumudF to support this initiative and to join them.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954139284891431128
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Gentile News Network™
@Gentilenewsnet
“You think you’re God’s chosen people when you behave like demons.”
–Ana Kasparian
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1953894908684906962
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IMPORTANT:
The armed volunteers in the video below are from the Abu Mughisb Clan Youth Association, a large family network in Gaza. On Friday, they said on their Facebook page that they secured more than 60 aid and commercial trucks from the Kussafim crossing to warehouses across Gaza — protecting drivers, preventing looting, and coordinating with other families.
Israeli forces have systematically killed Gaza police and volunteer security personnel tasked with safeguarding aid convoys. At the same time, Israeli officials, the Foreign Ministry, and prominent propaganda accounts have circulated videos of aid convoys being looted and blamed it on Hamas.
Those same accounts also shared footage of the armed men from the Abu Mughisb clan to claim “Hamas is stealing aid.” They are not affiliated with Hamas. As @MosabAbuToha
notes, the footage is being misrepresented — part of Israel’s disinformation campaign that too many governments and public figures have been willing to echo.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954316566796841052
Important post: These are the people that Israel wants you to believe are stealing aid. I posted about this a few days ago. These people are from a big family in Gaza who work to secure aid and commercial trucks. You saw them on the trucks. Israel told you they were Hamas stealing aid. This is a public post that was posted 11 hours ago. Israel has been lying and some countries and individuals complicit in war crimes are too ready to believe them.
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IMPORTANT Lebanon’s Defense Minister just admitted: “Yes, we received instructions from Israeli intelligence through the mechanism regarding Hezbollah’s disarmament south of the Litani.”
Read that again. The same state that bombs us, violates our airspace daily, & occupies our land is now giving orders on our defense policy, & our ministers are proudly obeying.
Sovereignty? 
Buried south of the Litani.
Via @allouush
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954153980889559464
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I will never stop talking about Palestine!
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Jeremy Corbyn MP exposes Labour as a partner to genocide:
‘Is he seriously trying to tell us they don’t trace F35 parts?’
‘We all know they are going to jets to bomb Palestinians in Gaza 
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Starmer and Lammy 
should be in The Hague.
Stop selling weapons to Israel 
now.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954470957839495316
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Denise Gough ends her incredible speech at our demonstration for Palestine today by reading a poem written by the Palestinian poet from Gaza, Nour Abdel Latif, called “If I Must Starve”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954191739280912852
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IF I MUST STARVE
by Nour Abdel Latif
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If I must starve,
let it be with dignity
in my children’s eyes,
not with my hands
tied by silence.
Let the world witness
that I did not
bow to the hunger
but stood, even as the sky emptied
and the earth
closed her mouth.
If I must starve,
let it be while I still cradle
my child’s hope,
not as a number
lost in footnotes.
Let the sea carry my name
to shores that forgot my people,
and let the wind whisper:
she fed love
when bread was gone.
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Photo 
Seham Tantesh
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erabiltzaileari erantzuten
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“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”
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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.
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We will uncover the full scale of British complicity in genocide – and we will bring about justice for the Palestinian people.
Join us on 4-5 September for The Gaza Tribunal.
Sign up at https://thegazatribunal.uk
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955212598841892982
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Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs: Open Letter to Israel Foreign Minister Sa’ar
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Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs: Open Letter to Israel Foreign Minister Sa’ar
The great threat to Israel’s survival is not the Arab nations, the Palestinians, or Iran, but the policies of Israel’s extremist government.
H.E. Gideon Sa’ar
Foreign Minister
Government of Israel
August 9, 2025
Dear Mr. Minister,
I write to you following your speech at the United Nations Security Council on August 5. I attended the session but did not have the chance to speak with you following the session. I want to share my reflections on your speech.
In your speech your failed to recognize why almost the entire world, including many Jews such as myself, are aghast at your government’s behavior. In the view of most of the world, with which I concur, Israel is engaged in mass murder and starvation; you would not have known it from your speech. You failed to acknowledge that Israel has caused the deaths to date of some 18,500 Palestinian children, whose names were recently listed by The Washington Post. You blamed all the mass murder of civilians by Israeli forces on Hamas, even as the world watches video clips every day of Israeli forces killing starving civilians in cold blood as they approach food distribution points. You lamented the starvation of 20 hostages but failed to mention Israel’s starvation of 2 million Palestinians. You failed to mention that your own prime minister worked actively over the years to fund Hamas, as The Times of Israel has documented.
Whether your oversights are the result of obtuseness or prevarication, they would be a tragedy for Israel alone were it not for the fact that you attempted to rope me and millions of other Jews into your government’s crimes against humanity. You declared at the U.N. session that Israel is “The sovereign state of the Jewish people.” This is false. Israel is the sovereign state of its citizens. I am a Jew, and a citizen of the United States. Israel is not my state and never will be.
Your language about Jews in your speech betrayed the gulf between us. You referred to Judaism as a nationality. This is indeed the Zionist construct, but it runs counter to 2,000 years of Jewish belief and Jewish life. It is an idea that I and millions of other Jews reject. Judaism for me and for countless others outside of Israel is a life of ethics, culture, tradition, law, and belief that has nothing to do with nationality. For 2,000 years, Jews lived in all parts of the world in countless nations.
The great Rabbinic sages of the Babylonian Talmud in fact explicitly proscribed a mass return of the Jewish people to Jerusalem, telling the Jewish people to live in their own homelands (Ketubot 111a). Sadly, the Zionists undertook massive campaigns including financial subsidies and scare tactics to induce Jewish communities to leave their own homelands, languages, local cultures, and relations with their fellow inhabitants to draw them to Israel. I have traveled throughout the world visiting nearly empty synagogues and vacated Jewish communities, with only a few elderly Jews remaining, and where these few remaining Jews insisted that their communities once lived in peace and harmony with the non-Jewish majorities. Zionism has weakened or put an end to countless vibrant communities of our co-religionists around the world.
It is an ironic fact that when Zionists convinced the British Government in 1917 to issue the Balfour Declaration, the one Jew in the Cabinet, Sir Edwin Montagu, strenuously objected, stating that he was a British citizen who happened to be Jewish, not the member of a Jewish nation: “I assert that there is not a Jewish nation. The members of my family, for instance, who have been in this country for generations, have no sort or kind of community of view or of desire with any Jewish family in any other country beyond the fact that they profess to a greater or less degree the same religion.”
In this context, it’s also worth recalling that the Balfour Declaration states clearly and unequivocally that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.” Zionism has failed that test.
Your government is committed to the permanent occupation of all of Palestine and stands in violent, unrelenting opposition to a sovereign State of Palestine. The founding platform of Likud in 1977 hides nothing in this regard, declaring openly that “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.” To accomplish this, Israel demonizes the Palestinian people and crushes them physically, through mass starvation, murder, ethnic cleansing, administrative detention, torture, land seizures, and other forms of brutal repression. You yourself shamefully declared that “all Palestinian factions” support terrorism.
Your counterpart at the U.N. Security Council session, Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour, declared just the opposite. He stated clearly: “The solution is ending this illegal occupation and ending this disastrous conflict; it is the realization of the independence and sovereignty of the Palestinian state, not its destruction; it is the fulfillment of our rights, not their continued denial; it is respect for international law, not its trampling; it is the implementation of the two-state solution, not a one state reality with Palestinians condemned to genocide, ethnic cleansing, or apartheid.”
Israel stands against almost the entire world in its endeavor to block the two-state solution. Already, 147 countries recognize the State of Palestine, and many more will soon do so. One-hundred and seventy U.N. member states recently voted in support of the right of the Palestinian people to political self-determination, with only six opposed (Argentina, Israel, Micronesia, Nauru, Paraguay, United States).
Your presentation utterly neglected the powerful “New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State solution,” issued by the world community at the High-Level International Conference on Implementing the Two-State Solution held on July 29, 2025, just one week before your own speech at the U.N. Security Council. Saudi Arabia and France co-chaired that high-level conference. Arab and Islamic nations all over the world called for peace and normalization of relations with Israel when Israel abides by international law and decency in line with the two-state solution. Your government rejects peace, because it aims for domination over all of Palestine instead.
Israel holds on to its extremist position by a slenderest of threads, backed (until now) by the United States but by no other major power. We also should acknowledge a major reason for the U,S. backing until now: Christian Evangelical Protestants who believe that the gathering of the Jews in Israel is the prelude to the damnation or conversion of the Jews, and the end of the world. Those are your government’s allies. As for overall American public opinion, disapproval of Israel’s actions now stands at 60%, with only 32% approving.
Mr. Minister, the global revulsion you cited is against the actions of your government, not against Jews. Israel is threatened from within by zealotry and extremism that in turn bring worldwide disapprobation of Israel by Jews and non-Jews alike. The great threat to Israel’s survival is not the Arab nations, the Palestinians, or Iran, but the policies of Israel’s extremist government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, and Itamar Ben-Gvir.
The two-state solution is the path—and the only path—to Israel’s survival. You may believe that nuclear weapons and the U.S. government are your salvation, but brute power will be evanescent if Israel’s grave injustice toward the Palestinian people continues. The Jewish Prophets taught again and again that unjust states do not long survive.
Sincerely yours,
Jeffrey D. Sachs
New York City
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/open-letter-to-sa-ar
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These are the names and faces of the 238 Silenced Journalists from Gaza
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The targeted killing of Anas al-Sharif and five other journalists on Sunday means at least 242 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of October 2023. No conflict in modern history has seen a higher number of journalists killed.
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Fun fact: Israel kidnapped a 15-year old American boy, caged him in Megiddo prison without trial (where children are regularly raped), starved him of 25 lbs, denied him medical care after he contracted scabies—no one hearing from him since. Oh, and US taxpayers covered the bill.
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Legacy Musician Madonna calls on The Pope to go to Gaza and force in Aid to save the Children
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Dr Rahmeh Aladwan@doctor_rahmeh
To the British jewish supremacists harassing, attacking, smearing, and threatening me for almost 2 years:
I DO NOT CARE.
Take my medical licence. Take my livelihood. Make me homeless. Imprison me. Hell, go ahead and KILL ME.
You are demonic, genocidal supporters of ‘israel’. We do not fear you. If my British government wants to let you do this to their NHS doctor who has ZERO patient complaints or disciplinary actions and let you dictate who gets to practice medicine in Britain, depriving the British public of my care—then so be it.
You have murdered tens of my loved ones and hundreds of thousands more Palestinians that I never got the honour of knowing.
We will never abandon Gaza.
YOU have no right to operate in Britain. YOU are foreign agents for an evil, illegitimate, apartheid, jewish supremacist and extremist settler colony commiting a Holocaust. YOU are illegally occupying my great grandfather’s land right now.
If Britain had any sense of democracy, free speech or sovereignty—YOU would be banned from this country.
FREE PALESTINE.
LONG LIVE THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE
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Save Our Citizenships 
@LetsStopC9
Musician and model Jura staged a surprise protest at Marimekko’s fashion show, pulling a Palestinian flag from her pocket reading “ACT NOW AGAINST GENOCIDE.”
On Instagram she wrote: “There’s no future without Palestine. If we let Israel starve it now, we accept that the powerful decide which minority is next for genocide. What happens to Palestine is everyone’s future.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955156574416064693
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State of Palestine@Palestine_UN
A few hours before Israel assassinated five journalists, Ambassador Dr. Riyad Mansour said in the Security Council:
“Why don’t you, the Security Council, take with you 100 journalists from your countries and other countries to verify exactly what is happening in Gaza? If Netanyahu is so sure of this global conspiracy about a “lie”, let him prove it. I invite you; he should allow you to go to the Gaza Strip and see exactly what is happening there. Take journalists with you so that you can verify exactly what is happening in Gaza”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954725193684791633
Aipamerna
Al Jazeera PR@AlJazeera
Abu. 11
Al Jazeera condemns the assassination of its journalists by Israeli occupation forces
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns in the strongest terms the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by the Israeli occupation forces in yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom.
In a statement by the Israeli occupation force, admitting to their crimes, the journalists were targeted by a directed assault towards the tent where they were stationed opposite Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza. In which they were martyred. This attack comes amid the catastrophic consequences of the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, which has seen the relentless slaughter of civilians, forced starvation, and the obliteration of entire communities. The order to assassinate Anas Al Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, and his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza.
As Al Jazeera Media Network bids farewell to yet another group of its finest journalists, who boldly and courageously documented the plight of Gaza and its people since the onset of the war, it holds the Israeli occupation forces and government responsible for deliberately targeting and assassinating its journalists. This follows repeated incitement and calls by multiple Israeli officials and spokespersons to target the fearless journalist Anas Al Sharif and his colleagues.
Anas and his colleagues were among the last remaining voices from within Gaza, providing the world with unfiltered, on-the-ground coverage of the devastating realities endured by its people. While international media was barred from entering, Al Jazeera journalists remained within besieged Gaza, experiencing the hunger and suffering they documented through their lenses. Through continuous, courageous live coverage, they have delivered searing eyewitness accounts of the horrors unleashed over 22 months of relentless bombing and destruction.
Despite losing several journalists to deliberate attacks and working under constant threat, Anas Al Sharif, Mohammed Qraiqea, and their colleagues persisted in the strip to ensure the world sees the harrowing truth experienced by Gaza’s populace.
While vehemently condemning these heinous crimes and the ongoing attempts by Israeli authorities to silence the truth, Al Jazeera Media Network calls on the international community and all relevant organisations to take decisive measures to halt this ongoing genocide and end the deliberate targeting of journalists. Al Jazeera emphasises that immunity for perpetrators and the lack of accountability embolden Israel’s actions and encourage further oppression against witnesses to the truth.
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YouTube terminated my channel with 2.1 million subscribers. No strikes, no warnings, no explanations.My fight for free speech.
Pls share/tag
My channel promoted peace between Ukraine and Russia.
Between the US and Russia. Right now, when Trump and Putin so close to peace, somebody silenced the voices of those who want it most.
We can’t let peace get ruined!
The last uploaded video – but NOT published – called WARMONGERS.
About people who need war in Ukraine to rake in millions of dollars.
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Those claiming Australia shouldn’t recognise Palestine after October 7th. Australia recognised Israel after the 1948 genocide of Palestinians in which 16 year olds were raped and ten year olds were thrown in ovens.
Israelis admit.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955026307483570574
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Retweet if you agree with @ZohranKMamdani
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Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister:
“We will arrest Netanyahu and execute the international arrest warrant against him if he comes to our lands.”
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Picture of the year. Huge respect 
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An Israeli 18-year-old preparing to go to prison for not serving in the IDF:
“I don’t care what people who support the starving of children have to say about my morality.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954955248801550668
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This is how you break the news that Israel killed journalists
Take note @BBCNews
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Manchester activists blocked the entrances to BBC to protest its biased coverage of the news of Israel’s assassination of 6 Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955252115493798396
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Upon hearing the news of Anas Al-Sharif, journalist Aseel struggled to carry on.
Her colleague encouraged her, saying, “You are stronger than this. We must share our voice with the world.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955099046386778421
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Before Israel was even created in 1948, Zionist Nazis demanded the US ethnically cleanse Palestine for them, so don’t dare tell me this started on ‘October 7th’.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955062065321673072
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Paris Gestapo Police.
Imagine living in a world where you could get arrested , suspended or beat up for saying don’t kill children, because it might hurt the feelings of the killers.
Free Palestine
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954934084221731046
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How israelis: how could you kill this amazing spirit: a God’s man worth a million more than any israeli; a soul you’ll never earn in a 1000 lifetimes
Bideoa. https://x.com/i/status/1954939120385765793
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PALESTINE ONLINE @OnlinePalEng
Japanese activist Furusawa Yusuke continues to protest alone in the streets of Tokyo, not stopping or taking a break for two years.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955296278587273600
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Ahmed Hassan 
أحمد حسن زيد@Ahmed_hassan_za
Yemeni artist Saddam Al-Adeimi, with tears in his eyes, draws journalist Anas Al-Sharif.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954942508410314949
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I will never forget Anas when he cried bitterly in front of the camera, and people around him shouted, “Keep going, keep going, you are our voice.”
Today, we have lost our voice.
All of Gaza is crying for your martyrdom today.
We will never forget you Anas.
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Journalist Anas Al-Sharif 1997 – 2025
Assassinated by Israel in Gaza last night.
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Leaked documents reveal that as recently as this week, Australia has sent F-35 strike fighter jet parts directly from Australia to Israel in the midst of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Full sanctions now!
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Vietnamese-American actor and voice artist Steven Quoc narrated the will of the late journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who was assassinated in a direct Israeli attack on a press tent at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955310892435796113
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Amnesty International USA@amnestyusa
The targeted killing of Anas al-Sharif and five other journalists on Sunday means at least 242 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of October 2023.
No conflict in modern history has seen a higher number of journalists killed.
The intentional targeting and killing of journalists is a war crime. As is the strategy of Israeli authorities that wants to stop its war crimes from being exposed and those responsible being brought to justice.
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A passenger on a train in Australia captured the most beautiful thing on their mobile phone. I doubt you’ll see this on mainstream media. Much respect Australia 
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954594901502361749
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Keir Starmer secretly privatised UK spy flights going over Gaza for Israel
He got busted
But he is now refusing to say how much the contract is costing the British taxpayer
We are paying a US company to participate in genocide – and we’re not even allowed to know how much
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A new wave of dangerous propaganda is being cooked as we speak! Be aware and inform the world!
Also, pile those lawsuits against GHF in USA AND SHUT DOWN THE KILLING MACHINE! Spread the word!
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955318701114183711
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Human rights group B’Tselem releases shocking video of Palestinian journalist Awdah Hathaleen filming his own murder at the hands of Israeli settler Yinon Levi.
As is usual in Israel, a judge quickly released Levi, even though the footage shows he shot Hathaleen in cold blood.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1954677969391431876
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“…Killing correspondents and journalists will not prevent the spread of the truth, the facts, and their words.”
Al Jazeera employees gathered for a moment of silence to honour its five staff members assassinated in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955099212250591504
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Two days ago, 25-year-old Abdallah Atiat, a Palestinian citizen of Israel from the city of Nazareth, was murdered in cold blood by IDF soldiers, who shot him to death on the street in Jericho, West Bank, while he was visiting relatives.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955340532810494049
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An elderly Palestinian woman from Gaza is crying and pleading from the severity of the israeli-enforced starvation: I just want to eat, she pleads
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955353737591206181
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Eye on Palestine@EyeonPalestine
U.S. general and trauma surgeon Dr. Uzer Kahn is in his final days volunteering in Gaza as part of a Med Global Resiliency Medical Mission. Here, he shares the harrowing story of a young girl who was shot, and the race to save her life.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955329003059052828
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Outrageous behavior of Israeli settlers exposed tonight on
A Palestinian father is shot on his own land by Israeli land thieves, yet the IDF arrest the Palestinian man’s son & not the Israeli settler who shot him. Trade with Israel should be banned in the UK & EU
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“It’s a complete genocide. I have a right to object to my taxes being spent on a genocide.” American actress Susan Sarandon stands with Palestine
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1955109999501287818
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Anas Al-Sharif’s wife wrote:
“Sham is so attached to Anas that she doesn’t leave him during coverage. She looks for him everywhere, and when she hears his voice on the radio, she comes as if hearing it for the first time 
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One day, Sham will stand behind the camera and carry on the path of her father, Anas.
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Israel and the Palestinians: History of the conflict explained
(https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgr71z0jp4o?xtor=AL-71-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_link_id=518728DE-746E-11F0-A033-F0B3187B4E52&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_origin=BBCWorld&at_format=link&at_link_type=web_link&at_medium=social&at_campaign_type=owned&at_ptr_name=twitter)
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people is one of the longest-running and most violent disputes in the world. Its origins go back more than a century.
There have been a series of wars between Israel and Arab nations. Uprisings – called intifadas – against Israeli occupation, and reprisals and crackdowns by Israel have also taken place.
The consequences of the historic dispute over issues including land, borders and rights are still being felt, and include the latest war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
What was Israel before 1948 and how was it created?
Britain took control of the area known as Palestine in World War One, following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled that part of the Middle East.
An Arab majority and a Jewish minority lived there, as well as other ethnic groups.
Tensions between the Jewish and Arab populations deepened when the UK agreed in principle to the establishment of a “national home” in Palestine for Jewish people – a pledge known as the Balfour Declaration.
Jews had historical links to the land, but Palestinian Arabs also had a claim dating back centuries and opposed the move. The British said the rights of Palestinian Arabs already living there had to be protected.
Between the 1920s and 1940s the number of Jews arriving grew, with many fleeing persecution in Europe. The murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust gave added urgency to demands for a safe haven.
The Jewish population reached 630,000, just over 30% of the population, by 1947.
In 1947, against a backdrop of growing violence between Jews and Arabs – and against British rule – the United Nations (UN) voted for Palestine to be split into separate Jewish and Arab states. Jerusalem would become an international city.
No Arab nations supported this. They argued the plan gave the Jews more of the land, even though their population was smaller.
Britain abstained. It decided to withdraw and to hand the problem to the UN at the end of 14 May 1948.
Jewish leaders in Palestine declared an independent state known as Israel hours before British rule ended. Israel was recognised by the UN the following year.
What was the 1948 Arab-Israeli war?
The day after Israel declared independence, it was attacked and surrounded by the armies of five Arab nations.
The conflict came to be known in Israel as its war of independence.
A Haganah (Jewish Underground) fighter just before the start of the Israeli war of independence in 1948
By the time the fighting ended with an armistice in 1949, Israel controlled most of the territory.
Agreements left Egypt occupying the Gaza Strip, Jordan occupying the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Israel occupying West Jerusalem.
About 750,000 Palestinians fled, or were forced from, their homes on land which became Israel and ended up as refugees.
The event is known in Arabic as the Nakba (Catastrophe).
Arab Legion soldiers fire on fighters of the Haganah, the Jewish Agency self-defence force, in March 1948
In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands of Jews left, or were expelled from, Muslim majority countries across the Middle East and North Africa, with many going to Israel.
What was the 1967 Middle East war?
What is known as the Six-Day War changed boundaries in the Middle East and had major consequences for Palestinians.
The war saw Israel fight Egypt, Syria and Jordan.
It started when Israel, fearing an attack by Egypt and Syria, launched a strike on Egypt’s air force.
By the time the fighting ended, Israel had captured the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza from Egypt, most of the Golan Heights from Syria, and East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan.
About a million Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem came under Israel’s control.
Israeli military commanders arrive in East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967
Israel’s occupation of these areas has lasted until this day.
Israel signed a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979 and returned the Sinai.
It annexed East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, making them part of Israel, although this has not been recognised by most of the international community.
What is the status of the West Bank now?
The West Bank – land between Israel and the River Jordan – is home to an estimated three million Palestinians.
Along with East Jerusalem and Gaza, it is part of what are widely known as the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
The Palestinians have always opposed Israel’s presence in these areas and want them to be part of a future independent state, something backed by the vast majority of the international community.
Israel still has overall control of the West Bank, but since the 1990s, a Palestinian government – known as the Palestinian Authority – has run most of its towns and cities.
There are about 160 Israeli settlements, housing about 700,000 Jews, in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Palestinians want all Israeli settlements to be removed and they are considered illegal under international law.
However, Israel’s government disputes this. It says the biggest settlements at the very least are permanent and that all settlements are rooted in its historical rights.
It does not recognise the right of the Palestinians to have their own state and argues that the West Bank is part of the Israeli homeland.
The Israeli government announced plans to expand settlements after coming to power in 2022. It says the creation of a Palestinian state would be a threat to Israeli security.
In July 2024, the top court of the UN, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), said that Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is illegal. It said that Israel should withdraw all settlers and that it was in breach of international agreements on racism and apartheid.
There has been a sharp escalation in attacks by settlers against Palestinian villages since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.
According to a report by the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs, there were 2,208 attacks by settlers against Palestinians resulting in casualties or property damage between January 2024 and June 2025.
What is the dispute over Jerusalem?
Israel and the Palestinians both claim Jerusalem as their capital.
Israel, which already controlled West Jerusalem, occupied East Jerusalem in the 1967 war and later declared the entire city its permanent capital. It says Jerusalem cannot be divided.
The Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
Most of the population of East Jerusalem is Palestinian, only a small minority of whom have chosen to become Israeli citizens.
Holy sites in Jerusalem are at the centre of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The most sacred site – known to Muslims as Al Aqsa Mosque compound, or Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), and to Jews as Temple Mount – lies in East Jerusalem.
The UN considers East Jerusalem to be Palestinian land occupied by Israel.
What has happened in the Gaza Strip?
The Gaza Strip is a stretch of land surrounded by Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. It is 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide.
Home to about 2.1 million people, it is one of the most densely populated places on Earth.
Even before the latest war between Israel and Hamas, Gaza had one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. Many people were living below the poverty line and depending on food aid to survive.
Gaza’s boundaries were drawn up as a result of the 1948 Middle East war, when it was occupied by Egypt.
Egypt was driven out of Gaza in the 1967 war and the Strip was occupied by Israel, which built settlements and placed Gaza’s Palestinian population under military rule.
In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza, though it retained control of its shared border, airspace and shoreline, giving it effective control of the movement of people and goods.
The UN still regards Gaza as Israeli-occupied territory because of the level of control Israel has.
Hamas won Palestinian elections in 2006, and ejected its rivals from the territory after intense fighting the following year.
Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade in response, with Israel controlling most of what was allowed into the territory.
In the years that followed, Hamas and Israel fought several major conflicts – including those in 2008-09, 2012 and 2014. A major conflict between the two sides in May 2021 ended in a ceasefire after 11 days.
Every round of fighting has seen people killed on both sides, the vast majority of them Palestinians in Gaza.
On 7 October 2023, Hamas fighters launched an assault from Gaza, killing about 1,200 people in Israel and taking 251 hostages.
This triggered a massive Israeli military offensive, by land, sea and air.
More than 61,000 people have been killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
In July, the UK and 27 other nations, including Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and Switzerland called for an immediate end to the war. They said the suffering of civilians had “reached new depths”.
The same month, UN-backed experts warned the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in the Gaza Strip. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said there was mounting evidence that widespread starvation, malnutrition and disease were driving a rise in hunger-related deaths.
UN agencies had already warned of man-made, mass starvation in Gaza. They have blamed the crisis on Israel, which controls the entry of all supplies to the territory.
Israel has insisted that there are no restrictions on aid deliveries and that there is “no starvation”.
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Which countries recognise a Palestinian state?
The State of Palestine is currently recognised by 147 of the UN’s 193 member states.
Known as the State of Palestine at the UN, it has an official status of “Permanent Observer State”, which gives it a seat but not a vote.
Some European countries, along with the US, do not recognise a Palestinian state and have said they will only do so as part of a long-term political solution to the conflict in the Middle East.
However, in July France announced that it would recognise a Palestinian state in September, .
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said it would also recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel takes “substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza”.
Canada said it too would formally recognise a Palestinian state at the upcoming UN General Assembly. Prime Minister Mark Carney said the move depended on democratic reforms from the Palestinian Authority.
Israel says it has a historical right to the West Bank and opposes an independent Palestinian state, saying it would pose an unacceptable threat.
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What about Palestinian refugees?
There are about 5.9 million Palestinians registered by the UN as refugees.
They are descendants of the Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes on land which became Israel in the 1948-49 Middle East war.
Most live in Jordan, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Syria and Lebanon.
Palestinians insist on the right of refugees to return but Israel has refused this. It criticises the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, Unrwa, for allowing refugee status to be inherited by successive generations.
What is the two-state solution?
The “two-state solution” is an internationally backed formula for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
It proposes an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, with East Jerusalem as its capital. It would exist alongside Israel.
Israel rejects a two-state solution. It says any final settlement must be the result of negotiations with the Palestinians, and statehood should not be a precondition.
The Palestinian Authority backs a two-state solution but Hamas does not because it is opposed to the existence of Israel.
Hamas says that it could accept an interim Palestinian state based on 1967 de facto borders, without officially recognising Israel, if refugees were given the right to return.
Earlier efforts to settle the conflict saw Israel and Palestinian leaders sign a deal called the Oslo Peace Accords, in 1993. This was intended to provide a framework for peace talks. However, talks eventually collapsed with each side blaming the other.
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Geure herriari, Euskal Herriari dagokionez, hona hemen gure apustu bakarra:
We Basques do need a real Basque independent State in the Western Pyrenees, just a democratic lay or secular state, with all the formal characteristics of any independent State: Central Bank, Treasury, proper currency1, out of the European Distopia and faraway from NATO, being a BRICS partner…
Euskal Herriaren independentzia eta Mikel Torka
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Esadazu arren, zer da gu euskaldunok egiten ari garena eta zer egingo dugun
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MTM: Zipriztinak (2), 2025: Warren Mosler
(Pinturak: Mikel Torka)
Gehigarriak:
MTM klase borrokarik gabe, kontabilitate hutsa da
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1 This way, our new Basque government will have infinite money to deal with. (Gogoratzekoa: Moneta jaulkitzaileko kasu guztietan, Gobernuak infinitu diru dauka.)
