🇵🇸 Automated Apartheid in Palestine

🇵🇸"In the Gaza Strip, modern brutality has made its terrible presence felt through atrocity after atrocity, in full view of the entire world. These horrors were caused not by a natural disaster, but by the tsunami of modern genocide carried out by Israel using American and western weapons, munitions and technologies. Genocide has taken possession of the defining features of everyday life in all their details, leaving its tragic imprint on the population in every sphere. The fragments that follow are drawn from that reality. The children of Gaza know no daily life without a menacing sound accompanying them day and night, without pause. This has been the case almost since the moment they first opened their eyes to the world." Opinion by Hossam Shaker | MEE #Palestine #Genocide #Gaza #Children

🇵🇸Palestine Deep Dive: I Couldn’t Stay at the BBC After This | Karishma Patel In the first episode of a brand-new Palestine Deep Dive series, Karishma Patel sits down with Ahmed Alnaouq to discuss why she left the #BBC after five years as a #journalist and newsreader.  The conversation offers a rare insider perspective on one of the most consequential debates in journalism today as Karishma shares her journey from aspiring public service journalist to becoming one of the BBC's rising on-air reporters, before ultimately concluding that she could no longer work within an institution she believes failed to uphold its journalistic principles during Israel's genocidal war on #Gaza. Together, they explore the culture inside mainstream newsrooms, editorial decision-making, political pressure, media ethics, the role of evidence in journalism, and why so many journalists have become disillusioned with legacy #media. #Podcast

🇱🇧Where Have We Seen This Before? The Gazafication of Lebanon | This Is Palestine As violence escalates in Lebanon, many are drawing comparisons to Gaza. In this episode, we speak with Palestinian journalist and activist Lama Abu Kharoub, from Burj el-Shemali refugee camp in #Lebanon, who shares firsthand insights from Lebanon, where communities continue to face displacement, destruction, and uncertainty despite repeated promises of multiple ceasefires. The discussion explores the similarities between Israel’s assaults in Lebanon and #Gaza, and its impact on civilians trapped in the violence. www.imeu.org #Podcast #BurjElShemali

🇵🇸Wonder how much patience it needs to have our homes rebuilt.. and our lives back @wizardbisan #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #Infastructure

🇵🇸🇬🇷'Unwanted in Our Country': Protesters Confront Israeli Cruise Ship in Greece | Palestine Chronicle "Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered at the Port of Piraeus, near Athens, on Friday to protest the arrival of the Israeli cruise ship Crown Iris, in the latest mobilization targeting Israeli tourism and Greece’s close relationship with Israel. The protest began in the early hours of Friday, August 14, as activists, trade unionists and supporters of the Palestinian community assembled near Gate E12 of #Greece’s largest port. The Greek Union of Sailors (PENEN), which organized the action, was joined by political groups, associations, collectives and #Palestine solidarity #activists. Demonstrators marched through the area waving Palestinian flags and carrying banners denouncing Israel’s #genocide in #Gaza." Video source - DawnNews

🇵🇸Palestinian families in West Bank's Qusra besieged by soldiers, settlers for eight consecutive days. Palestinian families in the town of #Qusra in the occupied West Bank city of #Nablus have remained trapped in their homes for the eighth consecutive day, with UN and Palestinian officials visiting the besieged locals on 16 August. "UN representatives arrived at homes in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, that had been blocked by settlers over the past week, bringing residents food and water," "#UN representatives brought a #water tanker with them, but security forces did not allow it to remain at the site, which remains a closed military zone." Activists have attempted to aid the besieged Palestinians repeatedly in over the past few days... @thecradlemedia @QudsNen @Eyesonpal #Palestine #oPt #Settler #SettlerViolence #IOF #Disposession #Siege

🇵🇸Between alleys and #checkpoints... The details of daily life for the residents and children of #Hebron’s Old City, where #occupation forces impose a siege and restrictions that turn the simplest aspects of life into a constant confrontation with #oppression. @eyesonpal #Palestine #Apartheid #Occupation

🇵🇸Israeli settlers harass a Palestinian woman in the village of Umm al-Khair in #MasaferYatta. @eyesonpal #Palestine #oPt #WestBank #Settler #SettlerViolence #Colonization

🇵🇸The ADL wants to cancel susan abulhawa | The Electronic Intifada As #genocide continues in #Gaza, the pro-Israel lobby in the US is stepping up its campaign against Palestinian cultural expression in the West. Now, the Anti-Defamation League, one of the world’s most influential anti-Palestinian hate groups, is demanding a major publisher drop susan abulhawa, a leading Palestinian novelist. Earlier in August, one of Simon & Schuster’s subsidiaries announced it would republish two of abulhawa’s novels. Since then the lobby has piled on the pressure to cancel the books, claiming the author has used “anti-Semitic rhetoric.” Being a bestselling novelist has never stopped abulhawa from speaking out against the oppression of her people. She visited Gaza towards the start of the genocide, and has written essays and reports from on the ground for The Electronic Intifada. @electronic_intifada #Palestine #Culture #Book #SusanAbulhawa #US #ADL #Censorship #CancelCulture

🇵🇸Exclusive: UK funded therapy for Israeli soldiers | Declassified UK British taxpayers funded “therapeutic healing” for Israeli soldiers who fought in #Gaza, Declassified can reveal. An Israeli organisation received the undisclosed sum via a UK charity, with 25% Gift Aid added on by the British government. Emails obtained by Declassified show how the Yahalom Foundation – an Israeli veterans group – tells British supporters to channel their donations via its “registered partner platform in the UK”. #Palestine #oPt #UK #IOF #ZionistFoundation #UKCharity

🇵🇸 Palestinians are thus trapped in a brutal equation. If they do not resist, the army and settlers advance. If they fight back, Israel invokes “Palestinian terrorism” to intensify the very policies that produced the resistance in the first place. Tell exposed that equation, but it also demonstrated its limitations. Indeed, Israel can demolish homes, close roads and arrest entire families. It can empty refugee camps, as it has attempted to do in #Jenin, £Tulkarem and #NurShams. It can maintain the illusion that overwhelming violence has pacified the Palestinian people. But military domination is not real control. Netanyahu and his extremist ministers have so far benefited from what Naomi Klein described as the “shock doctrine”: the exploitation of collective trauma and disorientation to impose political realities that would otherwise face greater #resistance. #Gaza was subjected to unprecedented “shock and awe,” while the West Bank was rapidly transformed under the cover of that catastrophe. Shock, however, has a limited lifespan. Eventually, fear gives way to anger, and anger begins searching for a collective political expression. Palestinian history has repeatedly demonstrated this pattern. Neither #Intifada began according to the calculations of political parties or intelligence agencies. Both erupted when accumulated humiliation, economic strangulation and military violence reached a point at which ordinary Palestinians were no longer willing to accept the existing order. Israeli Violence Pushing West Bank to Breaking Point – Ramzy Baroud - Consortium News #Palestine #oPt #WestBank

A BBC reporter documented the escalating settler violence in Qusra, where four Palestinian homes have been under siege for four days, leaving seven Palestinians trapped inside. The settlers have cut off water and electricity, damaged property and set up a tent outside the homes, while repeatedly returning after Israeli forces briefly intervened. The reporter described the siege as a new tactic used to pressure Palestinians into abandoning their homes, amid a broader surge in settler violence across the occupied West Bank. According to the United Nations, settler attacks have reached unprecedented levels, with Palestinians facing daily violence, displacement and growing threats to their homes and land.

🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷Wes Streeting's Cyprus land grab EXPOSED | Declassified UK The British army has requisitioned a large area of Cypriot land to build over 130 military antennas, which campaigners fear will be used to spy on the Middle East. While the land - amounting to over 60 football pitches - is technically in the British occupied part of Cyprus. This land grab has led to a furious response from Cypriot residents, who held a protest outside the RAF #Akrotiri air base on Saturday. Akrotiri is one of the most important areas for biodiversity in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean. The Akrotiri Salt Lake is a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention, a Special Protection Area (SPA) and a Special Conservation Area (SCA) within the Natura 2000 network, and at the same time, it is one of the most important migratory routes for birds in the Eastern Mediterranean.  https://terracypria.org/ανησυχίες-για-τις-προτεινόμενες-κερα/ #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran #5Eyes #Cyprus #Wildlife #Birds

🇵🇸THE ISRAEL INTERVIEW MEDIA WANT TO BAN: Sangita Myska Doesn’t Hold Back | Double Down News 48 hours after interviewing an Israeli government spokesperson on live radio, Sangita Myska was taken off air and removed from her show. Now, breaking her silence on Double Down Newswatch former LBC broadcaster Sangita Myska exposes the legal gag orders, perpetual NDAs, social media monitoring, and institutional cowardice silencing journalists across British mainstream media. @DoubleDownNews #Palestine #UK #Media

🇵🇸The struggle to save the Palestinian wheat fields on the front lines of settler violence For generations, Palestinian farmers timed the wheat #harvest by the stars and the rain. Now, Israeli settlers set the harvest instead, as their cows graze freely in Palestinian wheat fields across the West Bank after displacing Bedouin herders. #Palestine #WestBank #Agricilture #Wheat #Settler #SettlerViolence

🇵🇸Understanding Israel’s campaign to destroy Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank | Mondoweiss Israel has vowed to occupy another West Bank refugee camp, as it did in #Jenin and #Tulkarem. A new raid on the #Qalandia refugee camp makes clear that the Israeli campaign isn’t only about ending Palestinian #resistance but also what the camps represent. @mondoweigram #Palestine #WestBank #RefugeeCamp #Occupation #Dispossession #Colonization #QalandiaRefugeeCamp #Kalandia

🇵🇸Israel Holds Bodies of 1,700 Palestinians for Possible Future Exchanges | Report Palestine Chronicle "Israel is holding the remains of approximately 1,700 Palestinians as potential bargaining chips in future prisoner exchanges, despite Hamas currently holding no Israeli captives, according to a report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The figure reportedly emerged during recent discussions inside the Israeli security establishment and was provided to Haaretz by two sources familiar with the matter. According to the newspaper, Shin Bet chief David Zini supports continuing to hold the bodies in anticipation of a scenario in which Israelis could be captured or go missing in the future." @PalestineChronicle #Palestine