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Even eyesight is restricted for Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s tortorous prisons

Post author:Ben Marmarelli
Post published:6 June 2026
Post last modified:7 June 2026

Even eyesight is not taken for granted in the prisons of Israel. I am a human rights lawyer. I have had a client for four years now, and we have become good friends. I try to visit him as often as possible, sometimes without payment, sometimes for a tiny payment from his family. I have filed many petitions on his behalf without charging for them. I love him and he loves me. This client has been in prison since the days of the Second Intifada. Back then, he was a 22-year-old young man who helped his friends buy a pistol –…

The Naksa of 1967: “Israel’s” war of dispossession and occupation

Post author:Charlie Jaay
Post published:5 June 2026
Post last modified:7 June 2026

During the Naksa, meaning “setback” in Arabic, “Israel” changed the lives of all Palestinians — entrenching them in a system of military control and apartheid that remains today. This war, fought in 1967, brought Palestinians displacement, occupation and loss, expanded on a scale not seen since the Nakba of 1948, when the Jewish state was formed. During the Six Day War — or Naksa — 300,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced by ‘Israel’ It began on 5 June, when “Israel” launched surprise attacks against Egypt and quickly entered a conflict involving Jordan and Syria. By the time the fighting ended, six days…

Corporate Western media appears to celebrate Israel’s Illegal occupation of Lebanon

Post author:HG
Post published:31 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Ethnic Cleansing — Several Western corporate media outlets have appeared to celebrate Israel’s illegal occupation of the Crusader-era Qal’at al-Shaqif Castle in southern Lebanon. “Captured a strategic mountain” At this point it sounds like AP is celebrating Israel’s unlawful occupation of Lebanon. https://t.co/b13dCVICHD — Assal Rad (@AssalRad) May 31, 2026 On Sunday, May 31, Israel issued more illegal forced displacement orders to all residents living south of the Zahrani River. The attack suggests that Israel is moving towards attacking the city of Nabatieh. Israel had issued more than 10 displacement orders in the last 24 hours. On Friday, the IOF crossed…

US reimposes sanctions on UN’s Albanese for opposing Israel’s crimes

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:29 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

The Trump regime has put UN human rights advocate Francesca Albanese back under punitive sanctions for her continued opposition to and scrutiny of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people. US judge Richard Leon had ordered the lifting of sanctions after legal action by her husband and daughter, who are US citizens, but the government appealed. Now a panel of three Washington DC appeal judges have put an “administrative stay” on Leon’s ruling. They described the stay as “procedural” only and insisted that they were making no judgment on the merits of Leon’s decision or the Trump regime’s appeal. But the White…

Israel’s far-right defence minister openly pledges to ethnically cleanse Gaza

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:29 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

The settler-colonial state’s far-right defence minister, Israel Katz, has openly stated Israel’s intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Genocidal intentions have being central to Israeli state ideology. Lawyers and human rights groups attacked Katz. The Guardian reported on 29 May: Katz said the mass departure of Palestinians from Gaza would go hand in hand with the exclusion of Hamas from power. Katz himself said: We committed that Hamas will not rule Gaza civilly or militarily, and so it shall be, and also the voluntary emigration plan from Gaza will be implemented. Everything at the right timing and in the right manner. Yet…

“They have no soul but we’re stronger” – flotilla activist on Israel’s rape and violence

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:22 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Australian anti-genocide activist Juliet Lamont has spoken of the horrors she and other volunteer flotilla crew members suffered after their abduction by Israel in international waters. The Global Sumud Flotilla ships were trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians under Israel’s illegal starvation blockade. Deported crew members show signs of torture and report numerous rapes and the deliberate breaking of bones. Israeli fascist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir himself posted video of the volunteers being beaten and humiliated. But after her own deportation, Lamont gave more detail on what was perpetrated on her and others. It’s truly horrific – but she and her…