قوات الاحتلال تعتقل الناشطَين سيف أبو كشك و"تياغو أفيلا"، بعد الإفراج عن 175 ناشطًا من "أسطول الصمود" عند "السواحل اليونانية
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VIDEO | "The government of the United States is engaged in acts of mass murder, and I refuse to be complicit in them."
Activist Guido Reichstadter has shut down the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in Washington, DC, for the second time in four years, scaling the arches on Friday afternoon to protest the US-led aggression on Iran and the development of artificial intelligence.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, the 45-year-old Florida native called for "mass nonviolent direct action" to collapse the current administration’s war efforts. Reichstadter, who previously occupied the same bridge for 28 hours in 2022 to protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade, warned that the combination of regional war and unregulated "machine superintelligence" poses an "imminent danger" of human extinction.
Reichstadter released a statement on X which read in part: "I'm calling on the people of the United States to bring an immediate end to the Trump regime's illegal war on Iran and the removal of the regime from power through mass nonviolent direct action and non-cooperation."
Activist Guido Reichstadter has shut down the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in Washington, DC, for the second time in four years, scaling the arches on Friday afternoon to protest the US-led aggression on Iran and the development of artificial intelligence.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, the 45-year-old Florida native called for "mass nonviolent direct action" to collapse the current administration’s war efforts. Reichstadter, who previously occupied the same bridge for 28 hours in 2022 to protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade, warned that the combination of regional war and unregulated "machine superintelligence" poses an "imminent danger" of human extinction.
Reichstadter released a statement on X which read in part: "I'm calling on the people of the United States to bring an immediate end to the Trump regime's illegal war on Iran and the removal of the regime from power through mass nonviolent direct action and non-cooperation."
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Journalist Bushra Shaikh reporting from Iran, exactly from the B1 bridge in Karaj, Alborz, which Donald Trump celebrated bombing with nine U.S. bunker buster bombs in a double-tap strike last month.
The attack killed at least 13 Iranian civilians, including pregnant women and children as young as six months old. Two hundred and fifty Iranians were injured on a day when families were picnicking below the bridge to celebrate Nature Day
The attack killed at least 13 Iranian civilians, including pregnant women and children as young as six months old. Two hundred and fifty Iranians were injured on a day when families were picnicking below the bridge to celebrate Nature Day
On World Press Freedom Day, Palestinian journalist Sumaya Jawabreh, a mother of four, has been under indefinite house arrest for more than two years after being detained by Israeli occupation authorities while seven months pregnant.
She was released under strict conditions, including a complete ban on leaving her home, working, or using phone and social media, along with a fine of 50,000 shekels and the risk of re-arrest for any violation.
She was released under strict conditions, including a complete ban on leaving her home, working, or using phone and social media, along with a fine of 50,000 shekels and the risk of re-arrest for any violation.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said the Gaza Strip is the deadliest place in the world for journalists, marking World Press Freedom Day.
The office called on the international community to move beyond statements of condemnation and solidarity, stressing the need for accountability, the protection of journalists, and guaranteed independent access for international media.
The office called on the international community to move beyond statements of condemnation and solidarity, stressing the need for accountability, the protection of journalists, and guaranteed independent access for international media.
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Dozens of protesters gathered in Montreal, Canada, to denounce Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla's vessels attempting to break the blockade on Gaza.
The demonstrators later marched through the streets, calling on Canada to end its support for the Israeli occupation.
The demonstrators later marched through the streets, calling on Canada to end its support for the Israeli occupation.
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VIDEO | Israeli court extends detention of two Gaza flotilla activists until Sunday following their interception in international waters
An Israeli court in Ashkelon has ordered that two activists intercepted during a Gaza-bound flotilla mission remain in custody until Sunday. During a hearing held earlier today, a judge granted the state’s request for a second extension of the detention for Spanish national Saif Abu Keshek and Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, who both appeared with leg shackles.
The decision follows an initial two-day remand granted on Sunday after the activists were seized in international waters. While the state reportedly sought a full six-day extension during today’s proceedings, the court ultimately ruled that the pair be held for an additional five days as authorities continue their investigation into the maritime challenge to the Gaza blockade.
Legal representatives for the activists, including the Adalah rights group, have expressed concern over the prolonged incarceration, noting that the two men are the only remaining detainees from the intercepted mission still in Israeli custody. The activists were part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a high-profile effort aimed at delivering humanitarian aid and drawing international attention to the ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli court in Ashkelon has ordered that two activists intercepted during a Gaza-bound flotilla mission remain in custody until Sunday. During a hearing held earlier today, a judge granted the state’s request for a second extension of the detention for Spanish national Saif Abu Keshek and Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, who both appeared with leg shackles.
The decision follows an initial two-day remand granted on Sunday after the activists were seized in international waters. While the state reportedly sought a full six-day extension during today’s proceedings, the court ultimately ruled that the pair be held for an additional five days as authorities continue their investigation into the maritime challenge to the Gaza blockade.
Legal representatives for the activists, including the Adalah rights group, have expressed concern over the prolonged incarceration, noting that the two men are the only remaining detainees from the intercepted mission still in Israeli custody. The activists were part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a high-profile effort aimed at delivering humanitarian aid and drawing international attention to the ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip.
UK judge convicts Palestine Action activists over raid on Israeli arms giant
British authorities have intensified efforts to criminalize direct action against the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
British authorities have intensified efforts to criminalize direct action against the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
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VIDEO | Footage shows residents of the Shatila refugee camp in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, mourning Ibrahim al-Khalayli and Hudhaifa Ghanaimeh, Hamas fighters who were recently killed in clashes with invading Israeli occupation forces in southern Lebanon.
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“Prisoners’ food not enough for a cat; I was arrested weighing 120 kilograms, and now I weigh 60”
This is how journalist Ali Al-Samoudi Summarizes the overall dire conditions in Israeli prisons after he spent a year under administrative detention. Al-Samoudi described the experience as deeply traumatic, reflecting the broader suffering of other Palestinian detainees.
This is how journalist Ali Al-Samoudi Summarizes the overall dire conditions in Israeli prisons after he spent a year under administrative detention. Al-Samoudi described the experience as deeply traumatic, reflecting the broader suffering of other Palestinian detainees.
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The Law That Cannot Save a Dying Project: A Palestinian Journalist’s Reckoning
Gaza City
They wrap their repression in parchment and call it justice. From London to Berlin, from Washington to Amsterdam, Western regimes have unleashed a legal architecture designed for one purpose alone: to shield Israel from accountability while crushing every voice that dares to speak for Palestine. But let me tell you plainly, as someone who has watched my homeland bleed for seventy-five years: no law, no decree, no emergency power can save a project that the entire world has now seen for what it is.
I write this from a city that no longer exists on any map worth trusting. Gaza has been turned into rubble, its children pulled from concrete, its doctors operating by phone light. And what has the West done? In the United Kingdom, police powers have expanded so dramatically that supporting Palestine Action—a non-violent resistance group—now carries the same legal weight as supporting Al Qaeda. Fourteen years in prison for a chant. Hundreds arrested in London alone. Amnesty International calls it free speech suppression. I call it desperation.
In Germany, regime authorities have banned Arabic chants at demonstrations, fined protesters for referencing the Holocaust in connection to Gaza, and deported foreign activists for peaceful sit-ins. Over seven hundred cases of repression tracked since 2019, spiking brutally after October 2023. France banned all pro-Palestine protests outright last year, deploying tear gas and water cannons against citizens exercising their most basic democratic right. The Netherlands? Mayors cancel rallies, police detain dozens, and courts nod along.
And let us not forget Florida and Texas, where disaster victims seeking FEMA aid after hurricanes must navigate nothing related to Israel—yet Florida proudly announced $10 million in state bonds to Tel Aviv in October 2023, taxpayer money diverted to an occupying power while homeowners drowned. Even Trump’s administration tried to tie preparedness grants to support for Israel, backtracking only after public fury.
The American campus crackdown is even more revealing. Universities that once championed free speech now ban tents, encampments, amplified sound, and require permits for any pro-Palestine gathering. Students suspended, expelled, even targeted for immigration enforcement. All under the cover of “antisemitism” laws—weapons wielded not against hate but against truth-tellers.
Here is what they refuse to understand. You cannot arrest an idea whose time has come. You cannot legislate away the conscience of humanity. Every day, more people see the reality: a settler-colonial project sustained by Western money, Western arms, and now Western police powers turned inward against their own citizens. The world has woken up. From Cape Town to Kuala Lumpur, from Dublin to Santiago, millions march. Not because they are simplistic. Not because they are funded. But because they have eyes.
The Zionist project was never natural. It was imposed by force, maintained by terror, and shielded by hypocrites who wrap themselves in flags while funding massacres. Everything born of injustice carries within it the seed of its own end. That end is here. No law, no bond, no campus ban, no terrorism designation can reverse the moral arc of this universe. Israel will fall—not by rockets, but by the weight of its own crimes and the rising tide of a humanity that will no longer look away.
To every Western regime clutching your legal texts like talismans: your paper walls are already cracking. The children of Gaza are not asking for your laws. They are asking for your souls. And history will record whose side you chose.
#OpIsraelTeam
Gaza City
They wrap their repression in parchment and call it justice. From London to Berlin, from Washington to Amsterdam, Western regimes have unleashed a legal architecture designed for one purpose alone: to shield Israel from accountability while crushing every voice that dares to speak for Palestine. But let me tell you plainly, as someone who has watched my homeland bleed for seventy-five years: no law, no decree, no emergency power can save a project that the entire world has now seen for what it is.
I write this from a city that no longer exists on any map worth trusting. Gaza has been turned into rubble, its children pulled from concrete, its doctors operating by phone light. And what has the West done? In the United Kingdom, police powers have expanded so dramatically that supporting Palestine Action—a non-violent resistance group—now carries the same legal weight as supporting Al Qaeda. Fourteen years in prison for a chant. Hundreds arrested in London alone. Amnesty International calls it free speech suppression. I call it desperation.
In Germany, regime authorities have banned Arabic chants at demonstrations, fined protesters for referencing the Holocaust in connection to Gaza, and deported foreign activists for peaceful sit-ins. Over seven hundred cases of repression tracked since 2019, spiking brutally after October 2023. France banned all pro-Palestine protests outright last year, deploying tear gas and water cannons against citizens exercising their most basic democratic right. The Netherlands? Mayors cancel rallies, police detain dozens, and courts nod along.
And let us not forget Florida and Texas, where disaster victims seeking FEMA aid after hurricanes must navigate nothing related to Israel—yet Florida proudly announced $10 million in state bonds to Tel Aviv in October 2023, taxpayer money diverted to an occupying power while homeowners drowned. Even Trump’s administration tried to tie preparedness grants to support for Israel, backtracking only after public fury.
The American campus crackdown is even more revealing. Universities that once championed free speech now ban tents, encampments, amplified sound, and require permits for any pro-Palestine gathering. Students suspended, expelled, even targeted for immigration enforcement. All under the cover of “antisemitism” laws—weapons wielded not against hate but against truth-tellers.
Here is what they refuse to understand. You cannot arrest an idea whose time has come. You cannot legislate away the conscience of humanity. Every day, more people see the reality: a settler-colonial project sustained by Western money, Western arms, and now Western police powers turned inward against their own citizens. The world has woken up. From Cape Town to Kuala Lumpur, from Dublin to Santiago, millions march. Not because they are simplistic. Not because they are funded. But because they have eyes.
The Zionist project was never natural. It was imposed by force, maintained by terror, and shielded by hypocrites who wrap themselves in flags while funding massacres. Everything born of injustice carries within it the seed of its own end. That end is here. No law, no bond, no campus ban, no terrorism designation can reverse the moral arc of this universe. Israel will fall—not by rockets, but by the weight of its own crimes and the rising tide of a humanity that will no longer look away.
To every Western regime clutching your legal texts like talismans: your paper walls are already cracking. The children of Gaza are not asking for your laws. They are asking for your souls. And history will record whose side you chose.
#OpIsraelTeam