Mariya Petkova

Bulgarian journalist and editor working on the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Currently with Al Jazeera English.

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2026-03-09 08:12:33 UTC

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It seems it is off of China's coast.
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/1063607

2025-12-24 09:24:18 UTC

If you read one thing this holiday season, let it be this oped by Rev Munther Isaac:
"Jesus was not born into serenity but into upheaval.
He was born under military occupation, to a family displaced by an imperial decree, in a region living under the shadow of violence...
Indeed, Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path."
#Christmas #Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12/24/christmas-is-not-a-western-story-it-is-a-palestinian-one

2025-11-30 06:52:11 UTC

"I don’t know what glory there is in being light-skinned descendants of Black people because of resettling in northern climes with weak UV rays."
https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/nationalists-europeans-multiracial.html

2025-11-22 05:48:34 UTC

27,000 human beings were massacres in the span of 3 days. THEEE DAYS.
#Sudan #genocide
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/darfur-governor-minni-minnawi-says-rsf-killed-27000-sudanese-el-fasher

2025-11-21 14:17:45 UTC

Palestine is no longer in the news, but Israeli executions of Palestinian children continue.
#Palestine #Gaza #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/11/20/video-shows-palestinian-child-after-shooting-by-israeli-forces

2025-11-18 08:04:23 UTC

#Canada has decided that 95-year-old Richard Falk, a former UN rapporteur on Palestine, is a "national security threat".
#Palestine #Gaza #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/17/calls-for-answers-grow-over-canadas-interrogation-of-israel-critic

2025-10-18 06:01:09 UTC

This is Bisan Owda's documentary on her return to the north. It is a heavy watch.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP7AYDmEaA4/?l=1

2025-10-15 08:27:24 UTC

Jewish journalist Noa Avishag Schnall describes how Israeli soldiers abused her:
"I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways."
#Gaza #FreedomFlotilla #Palestine #JournalismIsNotaCrime
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/14/headlines/journalist_abducted_by_israel_says_she_was_tortured_in_israeli_custody

2025-10-14 07:44:53 UTC

Palestinian writer Bassem Khandaqji has finally been released after 20 years in Israeli prison, but was forcibly exiled to Egypt. This is him meeting his sister.
He won the Arabic Booker Prize for one of the novels he wrote while imprisoned.
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=1404359381202348&vanity=alarabytelevision

2025-10-12 08:28:43 UTC

Mouin Rabbani:
"[Israel's] approach will most likely focus on either abrogating the agreement altogether or ensnaring the Palestinians into an endless, Oslo-like process over the terms...
For this reason, it is essential to keep Israel’s feet to the fire and heighten the flames. Palestinians are now in a position to leapfrog the meaningless process being prepared for them through an intensification of the global campaign to isolate Israel"
#Gaza #Palestine
https://www.newarab.com/opinion/good-news-or-bad-gaza-peace-those-least-fit-keep-it

2025-10-04 09:43:41 UTC

If you are wondering what to make of the ceasefire development, here is a very good analysis by the Drop Site News and Sami Al-Arian.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine #ceasefirenow
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-responds-to-trump-gaza-plan

2025-09-28 06:07:28 UTC

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https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115277395470977185

2025-09-09 17:28:37 UTC

The Israeli attack on Qatar comes at an interesting time:
- Netanyahu was in court today to testify in the corruption case against him
- a photo of Epstein's book released today appears to suggest that he sold a woman to Trump for $22,500
#Palestine #Gaza #genocide

2025-08-13 14:51:34 UTC

The colonisation of #Palestine model is being replicated.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/edd38844-5409-4278-a592-2b4c77186a63?shareToken=b9b24cee0e7845dd6d55a4c6643e9229

2025-08-11 06:08:18 UTC

And so, after threatening him many times, Israel assassinated our colleague Anas Al-Sharif, correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, who despite the threats and starvation never stopped broadcasting from northern Gaza.
He was assassinated along with colleagues Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.
May they all rest in peace, and may we live to see their murderers face justice.
#Gaza #genocide #journalism
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/10/al-jazeera-journalist-anas-al-sharif-killed-in-israeli-attack-in-gaza-city

2025-07-22 06:43:36 UTC

""Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing a colleague die of hunger," the association said in a post on X, sharing the statement."
#Gaza #Palestine #starvation #genocide
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/afp-journalists-in-gaza-at-risk-of-starvation-warns-journalists-association/3637836

2025-07-19 14:05:58 UTC

"In a statement, Pope Leo expressed sorrow and called for peace, but stopped short of naming Israel as the attacker, prompting disappointment from Palestinian Christians and observers around the world"
#Palestine #Gaza #genocide
https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/shameful-response-pope-leo-under-fire-over-vague-gaza-statement

2025-07-09 06:40:56 UTC

"The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents, and educators.
Now, the three million-member National Education Association has finally said no.
In July 6 vote, the NEA’s 7,000-member Representative Assembly cut all ties with the ADL. "
#Palestine #goodnews
https://labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties?emci=a73d57a1-265c-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=053ff021-295c-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&ceid=128793

2025-07-06 07:28:43 UTC

Making money from genocide 101:
"The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) helped design and run the US and Israeli-backed [GHF] scheme which aimed to supplant United Nations-led aid coordination mechanisms in Gaza.
...
BCG was more enmeshed with the scheme than the firm has publicly acknowledged, with the company contracted to perform $4m worth of work over a period of seven months.
Over a dozen BCG staff worked directly on the project, dubbed "Aurora"."
#Gaza #genocide
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-consultancy-firm-involved-ghf-aid-scheme-modelled-plans-relocate

2025-07-04 08:19:32 UTC

"A decision to drop criminal charges against fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv football club has ignited controversy in the Netherlands.
Dutch prosecutors took the decision after CCTV footage showing violent behaviour by Israeli hooligans towards Muslim women last November was found to have been erased."
#Palestine #Gaza #TheNetherlands
https://aje.io/xoi4su?update=3817189

2025-06-14 07:46:09 UTC

"The US quietly delivered hundreds of Hellfire missiles to Israel before its unprecedented attack on Iran on Friday, Middle East Eye can reveal.
The US sent around 300 Hellfire missiles to Israel on Tuesday in a large-scale stock-up of supplies before its attack, and as the Trump administration was saying it was ready to continue engaging Iran in nuclear talks. "
#Iran #Israel
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-us-quietly-sent-hundreds-hellfire-missiles-israel-iran-attack

2025-06-01 08:22:25 UTC

These days, you can only see/hear Greta on alternative outlets like Zeteo. Can't remember the last time I have seen her on a TV screen...
#Gaza #Palestine #FreedomFlotilla
https://zeteo.com/p/the-worlds-silence-is-deadly-greta

2025-06-01 07:52:58 UTC

It is painful to see Laila Soueif looking so frail. May she find the strength to pull through and see her son released.
#Egypt #FreedomForAllPoliticaPrisoners
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/doctor-warns-alaa-abd-el-fattahs-mother-faces-sudden-death-she-marks-22th-day-her-hunger

2025-05-28 14:36:00 UTC

#Israel kills 6 Palestinians trying to reach Gaza aid distribution point
Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Government Media Office, confirmed to Al Jazeera 6 people were shot and killed by Israeli forces while trying to reach an aid distribution point west of #Rafah
Their names:
Salem Ata Salem Abu Mousa
Kifah Odeh Suleiman al-Sawarka
Mohammed Imad Ramadan Abdel Hadi
Khalil Ashraf Khalil Mousa
Ashraf Anwar Khalil Mousa
Khalil Anwar Khalil Abu Mousa
#Gaza #Palesrine

2025-05-28 07:59:23 UTC

Yes, in Gaza, PR aid stunts kill and waste money.
- airdrops killed dozens, especially children; they cost $400,000 per flight
- the pier killed at least 267 Palestinians when Israel launched a military operation through it; it cost $230m and delivered the equivalent of 500 trucks of aid before it was dismantled
- now the GHF fiasco has so far killed 3 Palestinians and injured 46 (given the lack of medical supplies, injuries easily cause death)
#Gaza #Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/28/un-aid-groups-slam-us-israel-backed-initiative-after-deadly-rush-in-gaza

2025-05-27 16:42:15 UTC

A good overview of the inevitable aid fiasco that happened in #Rafah today.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hunger-stronger-awareness-palestinians-received-limited-ghf-aid-despite-doubts

2025-05-26 11:56:48 UTC

"In an 11-second clip shared on the messaging site Telegram, a young girl can be seen trying to make her way out of a burning classroom following a deadly Israeli strike on the Fahmi Al-Jargawi girls' school.
Health officials told reporters they had recovered the severely burned bodies of 31 people, including children, after the late-night strike.
It was unclear whether the child who featured in the video survived the attack."
#Gaaa #genocide #Palestine
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-child-tries-escape-flames-after-israel-school-attack

2025-05-25 06:26:14 UTC

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I hope Bel Trew and the Independent take responsibility at some point for helping spread falsehoods about Oct 7 that directly contributed to what is happening now.
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/there-is-no-proof-palestinian-fighters-beheaded-babies-the-only-source-is-a-radical-settler/

2025-05-24 17:37:37 UTC

"The attack hit the home of Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatrician at the southern city’s Nasser Hospital, on Friday, setting it ablaze and killing nine of her 10 children, according to the head of the hospital’s paediatrics department, Ahmad al-Farra."
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/24/outrage-horror-after-israeli-attack-kills-nine-children-of-gaza-doctor

2025-05-24 17:23:58 UTC

Another Israeli politician is acknowledging what is going on in Gaza is genocide.
In a May 22 oped for the Hebrew Haaretz, former PM Ehud Olmert (long-time member of Likud, youth member of Beitar, son of Irgun members), writes that he can no longer deny to the world that Israel is committing war crimes.
Here is a link to the original: https://archive.ph/3vvOi
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/114/563/934/603/017/774/original/dc917eb075ff3325.jpg

2025-05-20 09:13:50 UTC

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The significance of the quote is Israeli acknowledgement that Palestinian children are being purposefully killed.

2025-05-20 08:06:03 UTC

An Israeli politician saying what foreign doctors on medical missions in #Gaza have been saying for a long time.
"Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country,” the left-wing leader said in an interview with the Kan public broadcaster.
“And a sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill children as a hobby, and does not give itself the aim of expelling populations."
#Palestine
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/golan-israel-becoming-a-pariah-state-is-killing-children-as-a-hobby/

2025-05-19 20:32:12 UTC

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"Under international law, when international peace is under threat and genocide is being committed, states and corporations have the duty to act. Among the measures they can resort to are embargoes as a form of economic pressure to stop violations of international law."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/4/3/the-legal-case-for-imposing-embargoes-on-israel

2025-05-19 20:30:29 UTC

It took an official death toll of more than 53,000 Palestinians (God only knows the true number) , 70,000 Palestinian children hospitalised with acute malnutrition, scores of them dying for the UK, France and Canada to say the "sanctions" word.
How many more dead Palestinians and starved Palestinian children will it take to actually impose them?
#Palestine #Gaza #genocide
https://aje.io/9glnx5?update=3720713

2025-05-19 16:38:08 UTC

"We in Gaza have seen PR exercises masked as “humanitarian action” before. We remember the airdrops that were killing more people than they were feeding. We remember the $230m pier that barely got 500 truckfuls of aid into Gaza from the sea: a feat that could have been accomplished in half a day via an open land crossing.
We in Gaza are hungry, but we are no fools."
#Palestine #Gaza #genocide #starvation
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/5/19/cheer-up-people-of-gaza-youll-get-killed-on-a-full-stomach

2025-05-19 16:33:48 UTC

The US pressure on Israel over the starvation of #Gaza is so strong that the Israeli army let in today FIVE WHOLE TRUCKS.
#genocide #Palestine
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-may-19-2025/#liveblog-entry-3552808

2025-05-16 19:08:54 UTC

“It was a deal,” said Basem Naim, a member of Hamas political bureau who has previously engaged in direct talks with U.S. officials. He said the pledge was made by “Witkoff, himself.”...“If we release [Alexander], Trump will speak out thanking Hamas for its gesture, obliging Israel on the second day to open the borders and allow aid to come into Gaza, and [Trump would] call for an immediate ceasefire and to go for negotiations to end the war.”
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/witkoff-hamas-trump-deal-edan-alexander-lift-blockade-israel

2025-05-11 16:07:47 UTC

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"Trump has no intention of pouring American taxpayer money into Gaza. He hopes that other countries will open their hearts and wallets. The U.S. has written a 13-page document in the hope of persuading donors. But so far, no one is interested.
The United Arab Emirates has already said no, as have Qatar and Saudi Arabia. As far as they are concerned, there is no need for a new body, and it's possible to end the war and work with the UN aid agencies. And if Israel is screwed – so much the better"

2025-05-11 16:07:08 UTC

"Together with Israel, [Trump] has charted an outline for a new, supervisory body to distribute Israeli-secured aid without intervention from Hamas.
On Friday, the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee gave a briefing as if this was an independent American initiative. This is inaccurate. The plan is coordinated with Israel, but there is one key problem: Who will fund it?"
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-11/ty-article/.premium/netanyahus-office-has-no-idea-what-trump-will-say-on-middle-east-visit/00000196-bbcc-d1bb-a5d6-bffcf14e0000

2025-05-10 04:35:23 UTC

Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), commenting on #RumeysaOzturk 's release ruling:
“it is unfathomable that in the [US] legal system, it takes 45 days for a judge to rule that people can’t be put behind bars for writing op-eds the government doesn’t like. Without a system committed to its principles, the Constitution is just words on paper.... Öztürk’s abduction and imprisonment is one of the most shameful chapters in First Amendment history"
#Palestine

2025-05-09 08:13:45 UTC

"A U.S. official confirmed the authenticity of the proposal and said the former director of the U.N. World Food Program, David Beasley, is the lead choice to run GHF.
....
Beasley is also a senior advisor to Fogbow, a private U.S. firm that participated in the short-lived project delivering aid to Gaza by sea via a U.S. military-built pier. "
#Palestine #Gaza #genocide
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-aid-distribution-israel-hamas-8417c39884394656fd5328d4aebdad64

2025-04-29 10:43:12 UTC

I just spoke to a colleague in #Gaza .
All the family has left is two cans of chickpeas and a packet of sugar.
That's all.
#genocide #starvation

2025-04-29 09:44:04 UTC

A message from Gaza:
A Palestinian man is asked what message he would send to the world.
He answers: "Keep sleeping."
https://bird.makeup/users/meemmag/statuses/1917149358019236306

2025-04-28 17:30:47 UTC

Another horror story that will barely make a blip in the West.
A US strike killed 68 people from African countries kept in a detention centre in Yemen's Saada province. No comment from the US army.
These are people who had already endured unimaginable abuses on their dangerous trips fleeing their countries and crossing into Yemen on the way to Saudi Arabia.
God only knows what will happen to the survivors and the injured.
#Yemen
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/28/at-least-8-killed-in-latest-us-air-attacks-on-yemens-capital-saana

2025-04-22 19:44:39 UTC

The Israei authorities consistently lie and yet their claims are unquestionably reported.
"An investigation by Israel’s public broadcaster Kan has found that the Israeli military fabricated the discovery of a tunnel in the Philadelphi Corridor along the #Gaza Egypt border, saying instead that the structure was a shallow canal.
....
The purpose of this assertion “was to exaggerate the importance of the Philadelphi Corridor and delay a hostage deal”, it added."
#Palestine
https://aje.io/3kwlvu?update=3660975

2025-04-22 12:56:55 UTC

"The video ...was reportedly first posted by the fundamentalist group Temple Mount Activists before being shared by other extremist Israeli settler accounts. It depicts Islam's third-holiest site engulfed in flames, followed by a gold-domed Third Temple rising from the rubble. Dramatic music plays in the background alongside the Hebrew phrase, "Next Year in Jerusalem… Messiah Now," a slogan commonly associated with messianic Jewish groups."
#Palestine #genocide
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2025-04-21/ty-article/.premium/far-right-israeli-settlers-share-ai-video-of-temple-mount-al-aqsa-mosques-destruction/00000196-59a2-da35-a1d7-fbe375750000

2025-04-20 06:55:20 UTC

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This is a podcast with Pastor Munther Isaac trying to make sense of this Christian silence on genocide.
https://www.aljazeera.com/audio/podcasts/the-take

2025-04-20 06:50:32 UTC

It is quite incredible that the Christian world is marking Easter and priests and officials talk about Christ and the holy places and say nothing, not a word, about what is happening in these same holy places now.
#Easter #genocide #Palestine

2025-04-19 07:46:37 UTC

The latest news from the Israeli war on Palestinian children:
"Israel’s army has confiscated the body of a 16-year-old boy who was shot dead on Thursday evening, a killing that marks the 22nd Palestinian child killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank this year."
#Palestine #genocide #waronchildren
https://aje.io/dl5zbh?update=3653499

2025-04-13 07:35:55 UTC

On Palm Sunday, Israel bombs the BAPTIST hospital in Gaza. Israel confirms. BBC still puts "Hamas says" in the title.
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/114/329/495/100/960/013/original/629413f853a2f818.jpg

2025-04-02 08:05:05 UTC

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"It's important to note that we can enter houses without using human shields. We did it for months, according to a proper entry procedure which included sending in a robot, a drone, or a dog. This procedure proved itself, but it took time, and the command wanted achievements here and now.
In other words, we forced Palestinians to act as human shields not because it was safer for IDF troops, but because it was faster."
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide

2025-04-02 08:00:11 UTC

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"the IDF's Military Police Criminal Investigation Division opened 6 investigations into the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, and my jaw dropped. I've seen cover-ups before, but this is a new low. If the MPCID wanted to do its job seriously, it would have to open far more than even a thousand investigations. But all the MPCID wants is for us to be able to tell ourselves and the world that we're investigating ourselves, so they've found 6 scapegoats and are pinning it all on them."

2025-04-02 07:57:33 UTC

An Israeli soldier talks about the true scale of "human shields" practice which he calls slavery:
"Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, and at least 36 in a brigade. We operate a sub-army of slaves."
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-03-30/ty-article-opinion/.premium/in-gaza-almost-every-idf-platoon-keeps-a-human-shield-a-sub-army-of-palestinian-slaves/00000195-e627-deaf-a397-f6674e390000

2025-04-01 13:12:47 UTC

"Walid is the first Palestinian child to ever die inside Israeli prisons, according to documentation collected by DCIP. Israeli authorities are withholding his body from his family."
#Palestine #genocide
https://www.dci-palestine.org/17_year_old_palestinian_child_dies_in_israeli_prison_in_unclear_circumstances

2025-03-24 15:09:09 UTC

Today, the Israeli army killed Al Jazeera colleague Hossam Shabat in #Gaza. His car was directly targeted in Beit Lahia.
He is one of 208 journalists killed in Gaza.
#genocide #journalismisnotacrime
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/114/218/018/673/150/055/original/5dc6dcd53ca2ecfc.jpg

2025-03-24 06:25:19 UTC

Imagine being at that meeting and not saying anything.
#Palestine #Gaza #genocide
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-envoy-austria-suggests-executing-minors-gaza-secret-recording

2025-03-19 11:29:59 UTC

Israel just attacked the UN headquarters in Gaza, killing at least one UN worker and injuring seriously 5 others... because it can.
And all it will get is statements of concern and condemnation, not arms embargoes, not sanctions, just words.
#Palestine #Gaza
https://aje.io/5apaas?update=3589220

2025-03-18 08:57:18 UTC

Al Araby Al Jadeed is reporting that a Hamas source has said one Israeli captive has been killed and others injured in the massive bombardment Israel unleashed on the #Gaza Strip.
#Palestine #genocide
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/politics/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5-%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84-%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9

2025-03-16 14:33:19 UTC

The #Gaza hashtag seems to be taken over by Israeli bots. I guess it was going to happen sooner or later.
#Palestine
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/114/172/583/859/418/091/original/a3f5645e3e747f5e.jpg
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/114/172/594/227/853/646/original/4c8523050e7c1217.jpg

2025-03-14 07:58:00 UTC

Footage of Jewish Voice for Peace's occupation of the Trump Tower in New York calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil.
#Palestine
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHJliHbMpqw

2025-03-13 17:07:31 UTC

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"The victims include women, children, and young men who are known to have supported the Syrian revolution against Assad.
The extremist Islamist (Sunni) affiliations of the members of these "rogue" elements are known, as is the fact that they previously fought against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in past battles that occurred in northeast Syria.
The fear is that the de facto authorities have no control over these elements, nor the ability to disarm them"

2025-03-13 16:31:14 UTC

"Efforts to bring an end to the atrocities, and recover looted property...don't eliminate the urgent need for clear responses from the interim government on key questions, like why these factions were permitted to remain outside the new military and security institutions. Furthermore, why were they stationed along sectarian frontlines in the coastal region? How did they manage to carry out such crimes, details of which are increasingly horrifying?"
#Syria
https://www.newarab.com/opinion/sectarian-slaughter-alawites-syria-must-not-be-downplayed

2025-03-13 16:12:19 UTC

"On the morning of March 3rd, I was notified of an online report about me. An obscure AI-powered right-wing Zionist platform called “Jewish Onliner” published a report falsely accusing me of being a “terrorist”. Rather than defend me, the Yale Law School moved within less than 24 hours of learning about the report to place me on leave."
I think we can safely use the term "political persecution" for what is happening in the US.
#Palestine #education #persecution
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/suspended-for-pro-palestine-speech-my-statement-on-yale-law-schools-embrace-of-ai-generated-smears/

2025-03-13 10:42:54 UTC

So the Trump administration is talking to Hamas and now it is talking to Iran.
Of course, talking does not mean anything.
(Trump also talked to Kim Jong Un and nothing came out of this other than scores of exhausted newsrooms that were driven to do 24/7 coverage of Kim's train and Trump's video imagining NK as a real estate project)
Still, Netanyahu must be fuming.
#Iran #Palestine
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250313-uae-delivers-trump-message-to-iran/

2025-03-12 16:08:43 UTC

"Armed forces participating in the military operations, which the monitor says include “factions and unregulated groups nominally affiliated with the Ministry of Defence”, killed at least 420 civilians and disarmed fighters, including 39 children, 49 women and 27 medical personnel."
#Syria
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-violence-extrajudicial-killings-documented

2025-03-12 14:38:24 UTC

"Experts have warned that the Trump presidency is intent on using Gaza protests as a tool to wage a wider “war on woke” against progressive thought at US universities
And so by punishing us in this way, Cornell and other universities have left the door wide open for Trump’s book-burning insurgents to run riot."
#MahmoudKhalil #education #Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/12/trump-wants-to-deport-foreign-students-like-me-universities-must-defy-him

2025-03-09 13:28:46 UTC

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A chunk of the European and US left (real people, not bots) hold these views. Some out of ignorance; others out of cognitive dissonance; and perhaps some out of material benefit.
There is also the mirror phenomenon of Ukraine supporters who talk about Russian imperialism and war crimes in Ukraine while openly embracing Israeli genocidal language and incitement against the Palestinians.

2025-03-08 11:04:30 UTC

"Time and time again, we see the same pattern: Feminist outrage is conditional, activism is selective, and solidarity is reserved for those whose struggles do not challenge Western power."
#IWD #IWD2025 #Palestine #feminism
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/8/international-womens-day-is-for-the-few-not-the-many

2025-03-02 20:31:34 UTC

Mada Masr is reporting that the plan for Gaza Egypt and other states are preparing will include an administrative body that will govern Gaza alongside the Palestinian Authority for a period of 6 months.
It's unclear who will be part of it. In addition, Egypt will train Palestinian security forces to take over security of Gaza.
The plan will be discussed tomorrow at the Arab Summit.
#Egypt #Gaza #Palestine
https://mada38.appspot.com/www.madamasr.com/2025/03/02/news/u/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7-%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%87-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B7/

2025-03-02 09:05:28 UTC

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thank you. There is a character limit. I haven't had the time to switch to another instance.

2025-03-02 08:18:35 UTC

After violating the ceasefire terms and refusing to engage in stage 2 negotiations, #Israel has now blocked aid from coming into #Gaza.
For those who say "this is all Trump", just a reminder that last week the liberal EU warmly welcomed Israel's FM Gideon Sa'ar in Brussels and issued a lengthy document after the EU-Israel Association Council meeting, expressing unconditional support for Israel.
Israel has a free hand yet again.
#Palestine
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/114/091/825/195/322/377/original/d1a6beb2fc9376e4.jpeg

2025-03-02 06:32:44 UTC

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"Israeli forces have also declared some 60 percent of the city’s area a “restricted and highly dangerous zone”, it said.
“These areas remain highly dangerous, where any movement is met with artillery fire, sniper attacks, and aerial bombardment.”
Nearly half of the 111 people killed and 916 wounded by Israeli forces since the ceasefire were in Rafah...
Some 200,000 of the city’s 300,000 residents are still unable to return, it added."
#Gaza #Palestine
https://aje.io/86m0jg?update=3547058

2025-03-02 06:30:50 UTC

"Al Mezan, a Palestinian advocacy group, says Israeli forces are continuing to demolish private and public property in Rafah...and preventing resident... from returning to their homes.
Israeli forces “have not kept within the designated areas outlined in the ceasefire agreement and continue to maintain positions deep inside Rafah – more than 1km inside the city centre, extending to the eastern garage area, the Palestinian-Egyptian border to the south, and the eastern perimeter fence”, it said."

2025-03-02 06:25:43 UTC

"Palestinians broke the fast on the first day of Ramadan at a mass iftar dinner in Rafah, in southern Gaza on Saturday"
Photo by Ali Jadallah for Anadolu
#Ramadan #Gaza #Palestine
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/114/091/408/121/987/245/original/f5aafb5fecff3d52.jpg

2025-03-01 18:54:31 UTC

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"Secondly, the council's announcement coincided with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements demanding the demilitarisation of southern Syria.
Hani says this wasn't a coincidence but rather confirmed secret coordination with actors seeking to make Suweida a "buffer zone" under Israeli protection and fears the council aims to become a nucleus of "an independent Druze entity"."
https://www.newarab.com/news/what-suweida-military-council-and-why-did-it-appear-now

2025-03-01 18:44:27 UTC

News from #Syria is not good:
"Syrian civil society organisations have said they were forced to cancel a conference regarding transitional justice which was due to take place in Damascus on 27 February...
The Syrian Centre for Legal Studies and Research (SCLSR) and other organisations taking part issued a statement saying that Syrian authorities had banned the conference without offering any official justification, despite it being planned in coordination with them."
https://www.newarab.com/news/anger-syrian-govt-cancels-transitional-justice-conference

2025-03-01 18:39:37 UTC

"Boxes of cash valued at nearly $28m, gold bars, luxury jewellery and 183,000 pieces of weaponry.
These are just a few of the items looted by Israeli soldiers from Syria, Lebanon and Gaza, according to a new report by Israeli outlet Ynet."
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #Lebanon
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/report-reveals-israel-vast-loot-gaza-lebanon-syria

2025-03-01 06:46:13 UTC

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"Israel’s former top military officer, General Aviv Kohavi held private meetings with the editors of major British news organisations one month after the Gaza bombing began, Declassified can reveal.
The meetings took place with Katherine Viner, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Richard Burgess, director of news content at the BBC, and Roula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times. "
#journalism #Palestine #Gaza
https://www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-guardian-editors-private-meetings-with-israeli-general-kohavi/

2025-03-01 06:44:51 UTC

"A reporter from the right-wing Times newspaper said: “I literally cried in the bathroom so many times because of the uphill battle of trying to get things reported.” Disgruntled staff at the liberal Guardian have compiled an “exhaustive spreadsheet” with a “mountain of examples” of the paper “amplifying unchallenged Israeli propaganda…or treating clearly false statements by Israeli spokespeople as credible”."
#journalism #Palestine #Gaza
https://www.declassifieduk.org/battle-for-the-truth-pro-israel-bias-inside-uk-newsrooms-revealed/

2025-03-01 06:25:55 UTC

The Europeans told the Syrians to kick out the Russians - who partook in the butchery of the Syrian popularion - if they want sanctions lifted. Now, Israel through the US is telling them to keep the Russian bases.
"Israel is lobbying the United States to keep Syria weak and decentralised, including by letting Russia keep its military bases there to counter Turkey's growing influence in the country, four sources familiar with the efforts said."
#Syria #Russia #Israel
https://www.reuters.com/world/israel-lobbies-us-keep-russian-bases-weak-syria-sources-say-2025-02-28/

2025-03-01 06:09:15 UTC

"New York Governor Kathy Hochul [issued an] order directing the City University of New York (CUNY) to immediately remove a job posting for a Palestinian studies professor role at Hunter College.
The posting, now removed, sought a professor with expertise in “issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to settler colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid, migration, climate and infrastructure devastation, health, race, gender, sexuality.”
#Palestine
https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-ny-denounces-gov-hochul-order-directing-cuny-to-remove-palestinian-studies-job-posting/

2025-02-26 13:32:49 UTC

Just a reminder that foreign journalists were in #Gaza covering the 2014 war and witnessing and writing about Israeli crimes.
Why is Peter Beaumont not in Gaza now?
#Palestine
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/114/070/423/669/124/014/original/e4250a6feedbc963.jpg
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/114/070/423/745/883/814/original/c62d2050a6b29ebd.jpg

2025-02-26 13:23:54 UTC

I wonder why there is no endless outrage about this piece of news.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/israel-says-vote-against-un-resolution-backing-ukraine-aimed-at-supporting-us-efforts-to-end-war/ar-AA1zK0sJ

2025-02-26 08:44:07 UTC

Rudy Giuliani is in Republika Srpska, rallying support for Milorad Dodik.
#CantMakeThisShitUp
https://n1info.ba/english/news/rudy-giuliani-speaks-at-support-rally-for-dodik-in-banjaluka/

2025-02-25 07:20:38 UTC

"If the US decides to cut funding to all of the UN, then there is a clear response – move the #UN outside of the US and fortress Europe to somewhere in the Global South. [Doing so] would drastically cut costs, promote Global South support for it, and enable its stronger participation. It would do away with the dilemma of [the UN] headquartered in a state that has proven to be the most consistent perpetrator of the crimes that the institution was created to prevent"
#world
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/2/5/it-is-time-to-move-the-un-and-international-law-out-of-the-west

2025-02-25 07:15:32 UTC

Even before becoming chancellor, Friedrich #Merz has joined the gang of Western leaders hellbent on violating and destroying international law.
#Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/24/merz-says-netanyahu-will-be-able-to-visit-germany-despite-icc-warrant

2025-02-24 08:35:58 UTC

I'm going to go ahead and guess that Western media has largely ignored what is going on in Serbia and reduced it to "anti-corruption protests" because it's not a story that fits into the favourite Balkan narratives.
All major universities in #Serbia have been occupied. Higher education is practically paralysed. 80% of Serbian citizens support the rebellion of the students; no other political force, not the SNS, not the opposition has ever seen such popularity.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/2/23/the-protests-in-serbia-are-historic-the-world-shouldnt-ignore-them

2025-02-22 20:09:24 UTC

It is not just Israel that abuses the humanitarian aid issue in #Gaza :
"Efforts to bring goods and aid into Gaza after the ceasefire are complicated by the exorbitant fees imposed on the entry of commercial trucks, and the power granted to Organi’s firms to determine which trucks enter the strip...
Trucks carrying commercial goods, which are later sold in Gaza, are charged at least $20,000, the sources said, while aid trucks are also subject to extortion"
#Palestine
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-organi-firms-add-gaza-woes-charging-trucks-thousands-bribes

2025-02-22 18:45:37 UTC

The #BBC is BBC-ing:
"The BBC has pulled a documentary which follows the life of a boy in war-torn Gaza after seemingly coming under pressure from Israeli supporters.
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But the documentary was removed after the BBC discovered that the boy’s father, Dr Ayman Alyazouri, has worked as a deputy agriculture minister in the Gaza government.
...
Alyazouri only had a technocratic role in the Gaza government. He has reportedly worked for the [UAE] government."
#Gaza #media
https://www.newarab.com/news/bbc-pulls-gaza-documentary-after-pressure-pro-israelis

2025-02-22 18:41:01 UTC

"Israel has canceled the release of six Palestinians from prison who were set to be released on Saturday after they reportedly refused exile abroad.
The six, whose names have not been reported, were due to be among 97 Palestinian prisoners who are set to be exiled upon release according to Israel's army radio."
#Palestine #Gaza
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-cancels-release-six-palestinians-who-refused-exile

2025-02-22 11:00:19 UTC

Israeli soldiers apparently feel so threatened by Palestinian children that they shoot and kill them from the safety of their armoured vehicles.
#Palestine
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/114/047/184/537/739/051/original/241847b5600f9940.jpg

2025-02-20 09:10:14 UTC

"Months after Sen. Jon Ossoff [gave] his support to freeze weapons sales to Israel, local Jewish voters have begun lending their support to Republican Governor Brian Kemp in hopes of unseating the Jewish Democrat in 2026.
"As a bipartisan group of leaders in the metropolitan Atlanta Jewish community, we humbly ask you to consider running for the United States Senate in 2026," read a private mid-December letter to Mr. Kemp."
#Israel #Palestine
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025-02-18/ty-article/.premium/georgia-jews-try-to-recruit-gop-governor-to-unseat-jewish-democrat-senator-jon-ossoff/00000195-1a3a-d785-a3dd-3a3a2c1d0000

2025-02-18 20:28:44 UTC

"Channel 12 reports that two IDF conscripts vacationing in Amsterdam were rushed back to Israel after pro-Palestinian groups got wind of their trip and were mobilizing to have arrest warrants submitted against the pair.
...
They were whisked back to Israel and have arrived safely."
#Palestine #Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/2-idf-soldiers-vacationing-in-amsterdam-rushed-back-to-israel-amid-arrest-warrant-concerns/

2025-02-18 20:14:02 UTC

""Whoever stays until the end will tell the story. We did what we could – remember us.”
These were the words Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila wrote on October 20, 2023, at al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia refugee camp.
...
Abu Nujaila’s words stayed with me for 15 months, as I watched in horror how the medical system in Gaza I had hoped to work in was bombed to rubble, the doctors I had hoped to learn from – killed, tortured, forcibly disappeared."
#Gaza #Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/2/16/i-stayed-until-the-end-dr-nujaila-we-will-remember-and-rebuild

2025-02-18 20:10:32 UTC

"Mr Trump, I think you profoundly misunderstand who we are and what Gaza is to us."
#Gaza #Palestine #Trump
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/2/18/a-letter-from-gaza-to-mr-trump

2025-02-18 17:34:25 UTC

"The Obama administration openly opposed the Goldstone Report, the UN fact-finding mission on the 2008-09 Israeli assault on Gaza... His administration then sought to block #Palestine from gaining UN state recognition in 2012 – a necessary step for [it] to join the Rome Statute"
"Following the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire in November...the Biden administration exerted “great pressure” on the Lebanese government to retract a renewed bid for accession to the Rome Statute."
https://thebadil.com/commentary/chained-by-aid-washingtons-tariff-on-lebanons-pursuit-of-justice/

2025-02-17 18:33:59 UTC

The misfortune of being from a country Israeli soldiers like to visit:
"Over the past six months, at least three incidents of physical violence by Israeli nationals have been reported by the locals, with police investigating them. In each incident, Israeli tourists physically attacked locals on the south coast who were known to be vocally pro-Palestinian."
#Palestine #SriLanka
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/17/no-more-silence-israelis-face-gaza-war-backlash-on-sri-lankas-beaches

2025-02-17 12:19:08 UTC

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"According to the arrest report, Brafman said that while he was driving his truck, “he saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both.”
....
According to reports in Israel, including a post on Facebook by a man who claims to be one of the victims, the targets of the attack were a Jewish Israeli father and son who originally thought that it was an antisemitic attack."
#Israel #Palestine
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/114/019/179/976/042/438/original/c5f53257e85cb1a2.jpg

2025-02-16 18:45:12 UTC

An extremist Zionist group in the US is not only harassing pro-Palestinian activists and students, but it has apparently started coming after Jewish intellectuals. They gave Norman Finkelstein a pager...
https://youtu.be/ifpjzLEqo7A?feature=shared

2025-02-16 13:53:42 UTC

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Hamas
won the 2006 legislative elections in Gaza and the West Bank. The Israeli siege was imposed in 2007 as a result of its victory.
Hamas won over Fatah mostly because the members of Fatah leading the Palestinian Authority were perceived as corrupt and bowing down to Israeli and US demands.