From the River to the Sea: Ibaitik Itsasora (172)

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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese condemned Donald Trump’s Gaza plan as “the worst insult,” warning it will prolong the genocide against Palestinians.

She told iPaper she does not trust a peace process that violates international law and compared Israel’s role to “the Hutu deciding Rwanda’s future.”

Albanese criticized U.S. pressure on South Africa to drop its genocide case against Israel and denounced U.S. sanctions against her as “mafia-like tactics” to silence her.

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PALESTINE ONLINE @OnlinePalEng

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Gustavo Petro Urrego, President of Colombia, congratulated Manuela Bedoya and Luna Barreto — the two Colombian women who took part in the Global Sumud Flotilla, the humanitarian mission that reignited global solidarity with Gaza.

Francesca Albanese (@FranceskAlbs) visited Robben Island today with the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s CEO, Dr Mbongiseni Buthelezi. The visit offered a moment to reflect on the history held in this place – where Nelson Mandela and so many others were imprisoned for their commitment to freedom – and the responsibilities this history places on us today.

This visit comes ahead of Francesca Albanese’s lecture at The University of Cape Town’s Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance this evening.

#NMAL2025 #MandelaLecture #GlobalCooperation

Quds News Network@QudsNen

Israeli aircraft are now carrying out multiple airstrikes across Gaza, with several hitting the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital and other residential buildings, resulting in numerous civilian casualties and injuries.

Israel continues to fabricate baseless pretexts to justify its attacks on civilians, repeatedly claiming threats to its soldiers near the Yellow Retreat Line while striking densely populated areas hundreds of meters away. According to Israeli reports, Israel is seeking to expand control over more areas in Gaza in response to Hamas not returning captured Israeli soldiers.

At the same time, Hamas has repeatedly called for allowing agreed-upon heavy machinery into Gaza to recover bodies, but Israel denies access to areas known to contain bodies within the Yellow Line.

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Israel never stopped bombing Gaza. It never stopped killing Palestinians.

It never stopped committing genocide.

And government ministers wonder why we continue to demonstrate in our thousands?

End all arms sales to Israel, now.

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“If you lock 2 million in a concentration camp for 20 yrs, half of whom are children who were born into that concentration camp,

don’t react with shock, dismay, disbelief & indignation at what happened on October 7.”

– Norman Finkelstein

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Like or not, China has lifted more than 100 million people out of poverty in the past 12 years.

They did it by building vast infrastructure, affordable homes, and access to education and equality of opportunity

Not through War, hegemony and division.

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Bissan Owda from Gaza shares a message on Instagram:

“Baby killers in the USA and Israel, are not able to stop sucking our blood. Stop the Genocide, Stop the Occupation.”

Niz@NizMhani

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#Gaza has the highest population of child amputees per capita on Earth.

17,000 children have been fully orphaned.

60,000 children have lost at least 1 parent.

20,000 children have been murdered.

#Israel has now resumed its war of extermination against Palestinian children.

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Francesa Albanese, relatora de la ONU para Palestina: “El intento de Israel no es respetar nada, es limpiar étnicamente Gaza“

#Canal24horas: http://rtve.es/play/videos/directo/24h/

BBC News (World)@BBCWorld

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Brother of journalist killed in occupied West Bank says new report reveals cover-up

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Once upon a time, the EU was a peace project that provided economic benefits to its member states. Now the EU demands its members become rogue states by stealing assets or destroy their national budgets to finance war. Nobody is allowed to pick up the phone and speak to Russia

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Israelis have telegram channels where they post videos of murdered Palestinian babies, toddlers & children so they can celebrate: it’s sick

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Expel the Israeli ambassador. Shut down the embassy. Sever all diplomatic relations with the genocidal apartheid state of Israel.

PalMedia@PalMediaOrg

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It took a genocide for voices inside the Democrats to admit the narrative propagated by Bill Clinton that Palestinians never wanted peace is a straight up lie.

S.L. Kanthan@Kanthan2030

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Indonesia, the new member of BRICS, is borrowing in Chinese yuan/RMB!

Bye bye, US dollar.

China’s “dim sum bonds” – which are issued in Hong Kong – are having a record year.

Governments and corporations around the world are embracing dim sum and Panda bonds – the latter issued within mainland China.

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Sulaiman Ahmed@ShaykhSulaiman_

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BREAKING:

HAMAS STATEMENT ON CEASEFIRE COLLAPSE

“We have no connection to the shooting incident in Rafah, and we reaffirm our commitment to the ceasefire agreement.”

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Israel continues to kill, starve, maim, and displace the Palestinians of Gaza despite the three-week-old truce, says Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory.

LIVE updates: http://aje.io/pn1o1y

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Pasa este post.

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Starmer, Sunak, Lammy, Cameron, Healey, Shapps

They all need to be indicted by ICC for ordering British participation in the Gaza genocide

We will not stop until it happens. The charge sheet is coming together

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“The only way that I see a Palestinian state forming is if we, the American people, stop our government from aiding and abetting the ones who are engaging in genocide right now, and that’s Israel..”

—American Journalist Ana Kasparian

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The most shameless apertheid state ever

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American professor: Yahya Sinwar’s plan to put the issue of Palestine front and centre stage worked:

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This is journalist Ahmad Bakr Abdel Aal, abducted by Israel and disappeared for over a year and a half to silence the truth. He was freed in a prisoner exchange after enduring brutal torture and starvation. He has, quite literally, returned from the graves.

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LinaHua@Linahuaa

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China was right to ban crypto

1) Sucks up all the engineering and math talent that could do something else

2) Sucks up trillions of dollars into sth that may or may not ever become productive

3) Sucks up tons of energy for something that is essentially a fintech gimmick right now

4) Supposed to be some kind of de-centralised revolution, but 2% of whales hoard 90% of all the crypto value.

5) Supposed to be digital gold, but almost correlates perfectly with meme stocks

6) Specifically for China: Fucks them over with capital flight and causes unnecessary social unrest with scams

-> It’s essentially a meme stock with huge opportunity costs that aren’t worth it.

Would probably be better to yolo all the money, talent and energy into A.I.

I have no personal grudge against crypto- the idea is good and I’m like a top 0.5% BTC holder, but let’s be real lol

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You will hear none of this on mainstream media: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs details how the US systematically destroyed the Venezuelan economy through sanctions, killing 40,000+, in order to force Venezuelans to abandon the Bolivarian revolution and topple Maduro

“President Donald Trump, you must be careful because Marco Rubio wants to stain your hands with blood.”

-Venezuela’sNicolas Maduro

The neocons in the Trump Administration such as Rubio and CIA Director Ratcliffe are influencing Trump to abandon his anti-war sentiments as each day goes by

In exchange for pausing the catastrophe in the Middle East, for now, Trump has been convinced to fulfil Rubio’s dreams of turning Latin America and the Caribbean into a war zone.

Quds News Network@QudsNen

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Chris Sidoti, a member of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, stated that the commission has gathered sufficient evidence to confirm that Israeli occupation forces committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.

He noted that the investigation team compiled over 16,000 pieces of evidence, including verified photos and videos, linked to witness testimonies in accordance with United Nations protocols.

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The West Bank has nothing to do with October 7th. Israel uses Hamas as an excuse to violently annex land that was always Palestinian. This is textbook colonialism.

Sony Thăng@nxt888

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JEFFREY SACHS:

“Venezuela has the world’s largest reserves of oil. We’re trying to steal them — pure and simple. It’s not even complicated.

This has nothing to do with narcotics trafficking at all.

This is an insult to our intelligence, to watch this smirking gangster discuss this this way.

He’s the one, by the way — Lindsey Graham’s the one — who says, ‘Oh, we’ve got to fight in Ukraine because they have 10 trillion dollars of minerals.’

He’s just a simple gangster who works in an organized crime mob called the U.S. government.

And the smirk on his face — ‘Lady, you don’t think we can murder the people we want to murder? Are you so naive? Do I have to sit for an interview on Face the Nation and explain to you we can murder whoever we want and we can give any explanation that we want? We can say they’re narcotics traffickers.’

By the way, when Obama put on these orders, and when Trump followed up on these orders in 2015 and in 2019, it had nothing to do with narcotics trafficking. That’s just the excuse of the day.

They’ve been trying to bring down this government for more than 20 years.

And they will murder. They will make inland incursions — so-called.

It’s called an invasion.

And they’ll do that.

They’ll smirk and laugh and threaten like gangsters: ‘You better get out of there, because we’re going to clean this up, and we have the right to do it. We are the United States of America.’

And where does this get us? It gets us war after war after war. So much for MAGA.

So much for the peace president.

Come on. This is gangsterism.

And it’s in full view.

And by the way, please — somebody in Congress, in the courts, in the United States, in the media —say something about this unbelievably vulgar and illegal mobilization of the American military for this ongoing attempt to grab Venezuela’s oil.”

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Ahmed Eldin | احمد الدين@ASE

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In a searing address at the General Assembly, @FranceskAlbs called out member states at the UN to their faces for enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and began by destroying Israel’s propaganda and smears against her. Brava, our favorite “witch” aka “nasty woman”! [PART 1]

Ahmed Eldin | احمد الدين@ASE

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Calm. Precise. Devastating.

@FranceskAlbs to Hungary and Italy at the UN: “You say I make political statements — but you failed to name one. Both of you seem to be reciting the talking points of the Israeli ambassador.” [PART 2]

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The sea in Gaza is no longer a horizon of hope, but a boundary of death and suffering. Fishermen go out daily facing airstrikes, kidnapping, and lack of resources, just to secure a simple livelihood.

Each casualty in these statistics represents an entire family enduring hardship due to Israeli crimes.

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Independent human rights expert @FranceskAlbs: “International law is clear: States must neither aid nor assist in the internationally wrongful acts of others, and must prevent & punish international crimes.”

New report “Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime“: https://buff.ly/4o4gZ3k

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Gaza genocide: A crime Israel did not commit alone, says Special Rapporteur

(https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/10/gaza-genocide-crime-israel-did-not-commit-alone-says-special-rapporteur)

28 October 2025

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CAPE TOWN – Israel’s genocide in Gaza is part of an international system of complicity, a UN expert warned today.

“International law is clear: States must neither aid nor assist in the internationally wrongful acts of others, and must prevent and punish international crimes,” Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 told the General Assembly. “This requires immediately suspending all military, economic, and diplomatic ties with Israel until its crimes cease, and pursuing justice for the survivors by holding perpetrators and accomplices accountable.”

Albanese addressed the General Assembly from Cape Town, South Africa — after US sanctions prevented her from presenting her report in New York.

The Special Rapporteur’s new report, “Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime,” reveals how influential Third States — with the acquiescence of many others — have provided diplomatic, military, economic and ideological support to Israel, entrenching, rather than dismantling Israel’s settler colonial apartheid, now turned genocidal.

“No State can credibly claim to uphold international law while arming, supporting, or shielding a genocidal regime,” Albanese said.

The report shows how Third States are breaching their duty to prevent genocide, apartheid, and territorial conquest by supplying Israel with aid, arms, and political cover despite clear evidence of genocidal intent. Citing rulings from the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, Albanese said that the world has been on notice since at least 2004 — yet impunity has only deepened.

“States knew. States had the means to act,” the Special Rapporteur said. “International law does not allow the luxury of feigned ignorance, delay or rhetorical acrobatics.”

Instead, the report claims, States have obscured, ignored, and even profited from Israel’s violations of international law, through military, economic, diplomatic and even “humanitarian” channels.

Albanese’s report showed how military cooperation—through arms trade and intelligence sharing—has fuelled Israel’s war machine including during the genocide. While the US and Germany alone have provided over 90 per cent of Israel’s arms imports, at least 26 States have supplied or facilitated arms and components, and many others bought weapons tested on Palestinians.

“Trade and investment have sustained—and profited from—Israel’s economy,” the Special Rapporteur said. Between 2022 and 2024, exports of electronics, pharmaceuticals, energy, minerals, and dual-use items, totalling $474 billion, helped Israel finance its military operations. About one-third of this trade is with the EU, while North America and several Arab States continue deepening economic ties. Only a handful of States have marginally reduced trade during the genocide, as indirect commercial flows persist largely undisturbed.

“One of the most sadistic aspects I have witnessed,” the Special Rapporteur said”, “is the weaponisation of aid.”

“What began with the blockade and attacks on UNRWA has become the full subjugation of aid to Israeli and US diktats, stripping the UN of its protective role,” she said. “These measures, aided or endorsed by some States, deliberately worsened Gaza’s living conditions.”

“The problem is also deeply ideological,” Albanese said. “Western leaders have echoed Israel’s propaganda — repeating the ‘self-defence’ mantra, reviving colonial tropes that cast Palestinians as less than human. By framing Gaza’s destruction as a battle of civilisation against barbarism, they have helped Israel erase the distinction between civilians and combatants, and with it, Palestinian rights and humanity.”

“I am also surprised by how little too many in the Global Majority — including across the African continent, once liberated from colonial oppression — have done to confront this genocide,” the Special Rapporteur said. While most Western governments have denied the genocide and shielded Israel through vetoes and diluted resolutions, only 14 States have joined South Africa’s landmark case before the ICJ, and the Hague Group — the main diplomatic forum seeking to end the genocide — counts merely 13 members.

“This is not only about Palestine,” Albanese said. “It is about the survival of the United Nations according to its core values and norms. From the ruins of oppression, a new multilateralism must emerge: not a façade, but a living architecture of rights and dignity for the many, not the few.”

Francesca Albanese: Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967

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Quds News Network@QudsNen

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NEW | A 16-year-old Palestinian girl from Gaza, trapped under Israeli bombardment, has been waiting 18 months for a UK visa despite being offered a scholarship at a prestigious school in Berkshire.

Dania Alafranji, accepted to the Nsouli Scholars Program at Reddam House, has repeatedly appealed to the UK Home Office to reunite with her mother in Manchester and pursue her education, but British authorities have refused to grant her entry, citing rigid visa rules.

Now living amid Gaza’s ruins, Dania says she feels “stuck in hell” as 90% of Gaza’s schools lie destroyed or turned into shelters. “The war is not my fault, and it’s not the fault of the other 600,000 Gazan students,” she told reporters, describing life in the besieged Strip as “like an oven… burning us from the inside and out.”

Her mother, Hayat Ghalayini, who left Gaza early in the genocide, says she has pleaded with officials “to look at it from a humanitarian perspective,” but to no avail. “They helped Ukrainian children,” she said. “Why not my daughter?”

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IS ISRAEL NOT EMBARASSED

-Calling Francesca Albanese a WITCH.

Israel is hated, globally.

It’s quite and accomplishment and much of it is due to the heroism of Francesca Albanese. SHE IS AN ANGEL

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Stop Reducing Palestinian Deaths to JUST NUMBERS Each human is a life, with dreams, hopes, and loved ones.

Ryan Rozbiani@RyanRozbiani

Ana Kasparian calls out Pro-Israel influencer Emily Austin for the $ 7,000-per-post payments. She went from “Why can’t I be paid for that?” to “They’re paying me for my Service.”

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BREAKING | The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that hospitals have received 104 martyrs, including 46 children and 20 women, and 253 injured, among them 78 children and 84 women, since the Israeli occupation began its killing spree last night. Since the so-called ceasefire on October 11th, the total number of martyrs has risen to 211 and injuries to 597, while 482 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble. Since the beginning of the genocidal war, Gaza’s death toll has reached 68,643, with 170,655 injured but these figures only include those who went through a hospital.

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With support from 165 countries, the UN has voted to condemn the US blockade of Cuba. For the 33rd time. Tell me, who’s the rogue state here?

Dr. Mads Gilbert@DrMadsGilbert

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What’s wrong with ISrael?

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil@ivan_8848

Sergei Karaganov to elites (STARMER, MERZ, MACRON, URSULA, KALLAS) would be the first, to be DESTROYED.

Our nuclear doctrine and military doctrine, must include among the initial targets not only, and not so much, military targets, but, the places where elites gather, so that these bastards—will know that they will not survive and that they will be the first.

This needs to be explained clearly and calmly.

Russia must undertake a firm commitment, and, in the event of war with a rival who surpasses it in demographic and economic, status, must use Nuclear weapons. In this way, I hope we can sober someone up.

Aleksey Berezutski @aleksbrz11

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BREAKING NEWS

Xi Jinping :

There is no force on Earth that can stop China from reclaiming Taiwan.

Marta Havryshko@HavryshkoMarta

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War propaganda cultivates the myth of the Ukrainians’ “resilience” and their unwavering will to fight Russia “until victory.” Yet the numbers tell another story — a story of people yearning to break free from the dark cycle of death and to glimpse the light of a future worth living for.

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This is important. Lavrov spelled this out in detail during his interview with Hungarian YouTube channel “Ultrahang.” Agreement was reached at Anchorage. It was Witkoff’s own proposal that was under discussion, and the Russians accepted it. Trump then went back on it when he returned to Washington. Just like Trump went back on his agreement to hold a summit with Putin in Budapest. It is absolutely Trump’s war now.

Laila Al-Arian@LailaAlarian

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Why has Israel been allowed to hold Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya hostage and why aren’t more outlets reporting on his story?

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Martyrs of Gaza@GazaMartyrs

The twins Sham and Yahya Amin Abu Dalal were sleeping peacefully in their home tonight in the Al-Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza.

Israel decided to violate the “ceasefire” and kill both of them along with their mother and father in an airstrike tonight.

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The twins Sham and Yahya Amin Abu Dalal were sleeping peacefully in their home tonight in the Al-Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza.

Israel decided to violate the “ceasefire” and kill both of them along with their mother and father in an airstrike tonight.

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Gaza Notifications@gazanotice

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BREAKING: Palestinian baby Osama Abu Snineh was killed, along with his siblings, in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

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Gaza Notifications@gazanotice

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BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed journalist Mohammad Al-Munirawi, from Falasteen Newspaper, along with his wife, after bombing their tentin Al-Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip.

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Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده@RamAbdu

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Sara and Fadi Shaksh were killed by Israel last night along with about 100 others, half of them children. Israel is a beast that cannot be satisfied with blood.

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Batool and Mohammad are a brother and sister killed by Israel today. They were beautiful children

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