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 Israelโs 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 stateโs 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 todayโs 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 stateโs 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 todayโs 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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โPrisonersโ food not enough for a cat; I was arrested weighing 120 kilograms, and now I weigh 60โ
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 Journalistโs 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 Actionโa non-violent resistance groupโnow 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 Israelโyet 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 Trumpโs 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 โantisemitismโ lawsโweapons 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 fallโnot 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 Actionโa non-violent resistance groupโnow 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 Israelโyet 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 Trumpโs 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 โantisemitismโ lawsโweapons 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 fallโnot 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
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EU data for 2024 shows that several European countries approved arms export licences to Israel despite the ongoing war in Gaza and growing calls for sanctions.
The largest exporters were France (โฌ362m), Germany (โฌ169m), and Greece (โฌ114m), followed by Romania (โฌ103m), the Czech Republic (โฌ35m), and Finland (โฌ17m).
Smaller amounts were approved by Hungary, Latvia, Croatia, and several other EU states.
The largest exporters were France (โฌ362m), Germany (โฌ169m), and Greece (โฌ114m), followed by Romania (โฌ103m), the Czech Republic (โฌ35m), and Finland (โฌ17m).
Smaller amounts were approved by Hungary, Latvia, Croatia, and several other EU states.
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Participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla have experienced mistreatment and violence following an attack by Israeli occupation naval vessels in international waters near Greece.
Those on board said they endured around 40 hours under harsh conditions, including limited access to food and water and being forced to sleep on flooded floors.
When occupation forces attempted to detain two participants, Saif Abukeshek, a Spanish national of Palestinian origin, and Thiago รvila, a Brazilian activist, others on board resisted nonviolently, after which Israeli occupation forces used more violence.
Those on board said they endured around 40 hours under harsh conditions, including limited access to food and water and being forced to sleep on flooded floors.
When occupation forces attempted to detain two participants, Saif Abukeshek, a Spanish national of Palestinian origin, and Thiago รvila, a Brazilian activist, others on board resisted nonviolently, after which Israeli occupation forces used more violence.
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Displaced families in Gaza are facing a growing public health crisis, with UN reports indicating rodents and pests spreading across more than 1,600 shelters, affecting over 1.45 million people.
With poor sanitation and mounting waste due to Israel's systemic destruction, more than 70,000 skin infection cases have been recorded in 2026, while families in tents report nightly rat attacks, bites, and food contamination, deepening the humanitarian suffering.
With poor sanitation and mounting waste due to Israel's systemic destruction, more than 70,000 skin infection cases have been recorded in 2026, while families in tents report nightly rat attacks, bites, and food contamination, deepening the humanitarian suffering.
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NEW | Instead of condemning the Israeli attack and abduction of international activists, The United States condemned the Global Sumud Flotilla, claiming it is linked to Hamas and describing it as a political effort undermining its policy plans.
Washington called on allied countries to block the flotilla by denying port access, docking, and refueling, and warned participants could face legal consequences.
U.S. officials also claimed the flotilla bypasses established aid channels and said they are considering measures against those supporting it.
Washington called on allied countries to block the flotilla by denying port access, docking, and refueling, and warned participants could face legal consequences.
U.S. officials also claimed the flotilla bypasses established aid channels and said they are considering measures against those supporting it.
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Reporters Without Borders declares 2026 lowest point for global press freedom
More than 52 percent of countries are now classified as 'difficult' or worse for press freedom, compared to only 13.7 percent in 2002.
More than 52 percent of countries are now classified as 'difficult' or worse for press freedom, compared to only 13.7 percent in 2002.