The IDF's HQ is in the heart of Tel Aviv because Israel is using civilians as human shields.


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🔻Herd of settlers running for their lives

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This too is genocide: Israel destroyed 95% of the Gaza City municipality's heavy vehicles.

These are waste removal trucks, construction machinery, water trucks, and most importantly in this moment, the difference between life and death when digging survivors out of bombed homes.


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Intelli Times Hebrew website:

The firing of rockets at the center of the country surprises Israel against the background of the intelligence picture presented through military reports, but in the strategic test it appears that Hamas planned its last line of defense (Rafah) in a surprisingly strong way.

“Your government is lying to you”

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UNRWA’s Same Rose to CBCNews:

"We have a deeply traumatised, deeply malnourished population - & they can't survive on food aid alone"

There is nowhere close to enough supplies to stop the suffering of the people in Gaza.

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Science Business:

A growing number of European universities are ending their ties with Israel over the war in Gaza, including in existing Horizon Europe projects, prompting Israel’s science minister to hold emergency talks with the country’s research leaders over how to retain scientific links with Europe.

Gila Gamliel has said that Israel is considering new incentives to encourage academics to come to Israel, and last week signed a cooperation agreement with Guatemala to try to shore up the country’s outside scientific links in the face of European boycotts.

With student protest camps spreading across the continent, European university boycotts could prove a major headache for the EU’s entire science strategy, which has since 1996 included Israel, a technology leader, as a fully integrated part of its research and innovation framework programmes.

To date, Israel has received more than €600 million from Horizon Europe, more than many EU member states, including Poland and the Czech Republic.

An internal Israeli Ministry of Intelligence report compiled in mid-April warns that the growing wave of European boycotts “pose risks to Israel's scientific-technological position in the world, and in the long run could lead to damage to national security and the strength of Israel's economy”. It also warns that the boycott movement risks stopping Israeli scientists joining research consortia as part of Horizon Europe.

The report singles out Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium and Italy as the European countries where action including protests, petitions and boycotts have been particularly pronounced.

Israeli media last month warned that the country’s academics were facing an “unprecedented” global boycott, with conference invitations cancelled, overseas lectures disrupted, and scientific articles rejected for political reasons.

These boycotts are “already straining existing collaborations between individuals”, said Michael Elbaum, a cell scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. “A boycott is impersonal, based on association rather than familiarity,” he said.

University boycotts also raise the question of how European governments will respond – either leaving universities to determine their own policy, or intervening to try to preserve research relations with Israel.

A further headache for the EU is that the European Commission has proposed allowing dual use research in Horizon Europe’s successor, FP10, due to start in 2028.

It’s unclear whether this military-related research will be restricted to EU member states, but any hint of military use could make Israeli involvement even more controversial.

In March, the Statewatch NGO published an investigation that found multiple Israeli drone companies had received money from EU framework programmes, and that this drone technology was now potentially being used in the war in Gaza.

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UPDATE: An important twist with the new website: visitors are being redirected based on location.

Setting my VPN near Gaza leads me to the website.

Setting my VPN to the US leads me to the Telegram page.
We are still working on it!

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🔻Fires broke out in the Avivim and Malkiya area due to the number of anti-tank missiles fired from Lebanon in the last hour.

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The Israeli Minister of Finance:

Rafah must be completely and forcefully occupied, and the army’s control must be extended over the entire Gaza Strip


You mean your army, which has become a laughing stock🤡🤡🤡

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The panel consulted by Karim Khan for the ICC (Lord Justice Fulford, Judge Theodor Meron CMG, Amal Clooney, Danny Friedman KC, Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG KC) has detailed their views on the conflict in an article in the Financial Times.


The attacks by Hamas in Israel on October 7 and the military response by Israeli forces in Gaza have tested the system of international law to its limits. This is why, as international lawyers, we felt compelled to assist when the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, asked us to advise whether there was sufficient evidence to lay charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

For months, we have engaged in an extensive process of review and analysis. We have carefully examined each of the applications for arrest warrants, as well as underlying material produced by the prosecution team in support of the applications. This has included witness statements, expert evidence, official communications, videos and photographs. In our legal report published today, we unanimously agree that the prosecutor’s work was rigorous, fair and grounded in the law and the facts. And we unanimously agree that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the suspects he identifies have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity within the jurisdiction of the ICC.

We were selected because of our expertise in public international law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law, and, in the case of two of us, experience as former judges of international criminal tribunals. Our common goal is advancing accountability and we have reached our conclusions based on an assessment of the warrant applications against an objective legal standard. We have reached these conclusions unanimously. And we believe it is important to publish them given the extent to which discourse has been politicised, disinformation has been rife and international media has been denied access to the front lines.

The Panel unanimously agrees with the prosecutor’s conclusion that there are reasonable grounds to believe that three of Hamas’s most senior leaders — Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh — have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity for the killing of hundreds of civilians, the taking of at least 245 hostages and acts of sexual violence committed against Israeli hostages.

The Panel also unanimously agrees that the evidence presented by the prosecutor provides reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Israel’s minister of defence Yoav Gallant have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. This includes the war crime of intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and the murder and persecution of Palestinians as crimes against humanity.

It is important to understand that the charges have nothing to do with the reasons for the conflict. The charges concern waging war in a manner that violates the long-established rules of international law that apply to armed groups and the armed forces in every state in the world. There is no conflict that should be excluded from the reach of the law; no child’s life valued less than another’s. The law we apply is humanity’s law, not the law of any given side. It must protect all the victims of this conflict; and all civilians in conflicts to come.


Lord Justice Fulford, retired lord justice of appeal, former vice-president of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and former judge at the International Criminal Court

Judge Theodor Meron CMG, visiting professor at the University of Oxford, honorary fellow, Trinity College, and former judge and former president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Amal Clooney, barrister, adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and co-founder of the Clooney Foundation for Justice

Danny Friedman KC, barrister, expert in criminal law, international law and human rights