Malaysian groups plan '1000 ship flotilla' to break Gaza siege (The New Arab, 2025-06-15)

https://www.newarab.com/news/malaysian-groups-plan-1000-ship-flotilla-break-gaza-siege
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>> Malaysian civil society organisations on Saturday announced a plan to launch what they describe as the largest maritime mobilisation in the world to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.

>> The campaign, known as the "Thousand Ship Flotilla", aims to dispatch vessels from multiple continents in a coordinated effort to deliver humanitarian aid and pressure Israel to end its siege.

>> The initiative was unveiled during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur by Azmi Abdul Hamid, head of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisations (#MAPIM).

>> According to Abdul Hamid, coordination is already underway with civil society groups in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and the flotilla idea has received "unprecedented support"…

#ThousandShipFlotilla #BreakTheSiege #Malaysia @[email protected]

Israel's Own Actions Invalidate All Pro-Israel Arguments (Caitlin's Newsletter, 2025-06-14)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-own-actions-invalidate-all
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>> All arguments made in defense of Israel ultimately rest on the unquestioned assumption that the Jewish people must definitely have a homeland where Jewish people are in control, and that this homeland must definitely be in the location that Israel is in right now...

>> But we’ve seen the results of what that premise entails. It necessarily means nonstop violence, tyranny, war and abuse. It necessarily means genocide. It necessarily means ethnic cleansing. How do we know it necessarily means that? Because here we are.

>> So the premise upon which all pro-Israel arguments rest is invalid.

>> Which means all the arguments are baseless.

>> Which means there’s really no good reason to keep maintaining the status quo of modern Israel.

#StopIsrael #CaitlinJohnstone @[email protected] @israel @middleeast

Civilian convoy in overland bid to break past Israel blockade (The Continent, 2025-06-15)

https://continent.substack.com/p/civilian-convoy-in-overland-bid-to
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>> A self-funded convoy of lawyers, doctors, farmers, students and families is winding its way overland across North Africa, heading east from Tunis to Egypt’s Rafah border crossing. Their goal is to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. In the Caravan of Steadfastness are over 1,000 Tunisians and nearly 200 Algerians.

>> … authorities across the region have cracked down on people who have rallied in solidarity with Gaza, or criticised Israel’s war.

>> On Thursday, the convoy was blocked by authorities in eastern Libya, forcing them to camp overnight in the desert ... Egypt’s foreign ministry put out a statement saying that any delegation seeking to approach Rafah needs visas, and to co-ordinate with authorities. Israel’s defence minister also said that if Egypt doesn’t block the convoy, the Israeli army will.

#Soumoud #BreakTheSiege @[email protected] @middleeast

A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the Columbia University graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.

By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET

https://archive.ph/o4Lvd

The #UK is 'currently' hosting & training Israeli terrists from the Iraeli Diaper Farce despite genocide allegations, a Labour minister has admitted....
#LikudLabour #Shameless #WarCrime
#LabourFriendsOfGenocide
#KidStarver #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #IDF

@[email protected] @israel

After Denying Massacring Civilians Seeking Aid, Israel Routinely Massacres Civilians Seeking Aid (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-06-11)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/after-denying-massacring-civilians
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>> Since May 27, some 160 people have reportedly been killed in massacres at these #GHF sites, which people in Gaza are reportedly beginning to refer to as a “death trap”.

>> But, again, … Israel and its spinmeisters were crying antisemitic blood libel at the very suggestion that #IDF troops would fire upon people trying to obtain food.

>> Even without the CNN report [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/middleeast/israel-military-gaza-aid-shooting-intl-invs], Israel’s own actions since June 1 have proved that Israeli forces do indeed deliberately fire upon starving civilians seeking humanitarian aid. Israel lied. Again.

>> … They’ve been caught lying so many times that there is no reason to take any of their denials seriously.

#CaitlinJohnstone #CrimeAgainstHumanity

@[email protected] @israel

Ahmed Dahaby
Jun 14, 2025

"CAIRO, EGYPT—On Friday, some 200 participants in the Global March to Gaza were stopped at a security checkpoint outside of Cairo, Egypt as they made their way to Ismailia, a city on the Suez Canal 80 miles east of Cairo. After being held at the checkpoint for several hours and having their passports temporarily confiscated, marchers were physically dragged onto buses back to Cairo by plainclothes security officials. Other participants who separately managed to reach the hotel in Ismailia were similarly rounded up, some beaten and forced onto buses back to Cairo."

Gaza’s Hamas-run police force said Thursday that it killed 12 members of the Israeli-backed Abu Shabab militia in Gaza, which said its fighters had killed five Hamas operatives but made no mention of its own casualties.

According to Hamas, the Abu Shabab gunmen were killed early Wednesday by the Gaza police’s Sahm unit, which Hamas says was established to combat looting. The unit released video footage showing several dead men lying in the street, saying they were Abu Shabab fighters who had been detained and killed for collaborating with Israel. It was not possible to verify the images or the claims around them.

Abu Shabab has been operating in an Israeli-controlled area of southern Gaza’s Rafah. Israel confirmed last week that it was arming the militia to bolster opposition to Hamas.

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Gaza Strip has plunged into a complete internet and communication blackout after Israeli attacks severed the last remaining fiber-optic line, the Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority announced on Thursday.

The authority confirmed that fixed-line internet and telecommunication services are now entirely cut off across Gaza, including the central and southern regions, which have now joined the digital silence already imposed on Gaza City and the north for the past two days.

“This is the result of systematic attacks on Gaza’s already fragile telecom infrastructure,” the authority said in a statement. Technicians have tried multiple times to repair and reroute damaged lines, but Israeli restrictions have blocked all efforts.

Adalah Update - 12 June 2025, 13 PM Jerusalem Time
via https://x.com/AdalahCenter/status/1933107350455640426

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Two volunteers, Pascal Maurieras (France) and Yanis Mhamdi (France), remain in custody at Givon prison, ... awaiting their deportation tomorrow, 13 June, afternoon. They will be seen by their lawyers today.

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The six volunteers expected to be deported today or early tomorrow morning are:
Mark [Marco] Van Rennes (The Netherlands),
Şuayb Ordu (Turkey),
Yasemin Acar (Germany),
Thiago Avila (Brazil),
Reva Viard (France), and
Rima Hassan (France).
So far, #Adalah lawyers are facing difficulties visiting them at the airport.
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#Madleen #FreedomFlotilla #BreakTheSiege @[email protected] @israel

Japan vows to work with G7 partners to ease Middle East tensions (Al Jazeera, 2025-06-13, 15:50 GMT)

https://aje.io/auoxkc?update=3772588
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>> Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has condemned the attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites, and promised to work with other G7 members to ease tensions in the Middle East.

>> Ishiba was quoted as saying by the local media that Israel’s move was “totally intolerable” and “extremely regrettable,” adding, “any actions that could further escalate the situation must be refrained from”...

Oh, wow... 😮 “TOTALLY INTOLERABLE” !!

#Japan #StopIsrael @[email protected] @israel

#Israel Avichay Adraee announces that the strikes against the #Iran resulted in the elimination of three senior leaders of the Iranian military and security establishment, foremost among them:

• Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces

• Hossein Salami, Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

• Gholam Ali Rashid, Commander of the Iranian Khatam al-Anbiya Command @[email protected] @israel @iran

PS: THIS IS NOT TRUE

I am sorry, but the image is from Iran's petrochemical plant fire a few years ago, there are no report of ID attacks against Abadan right now.

Abadan oil refinery, one of the largest refineries in Iran was attacked by Israeli forces today.

This is not a military target. It's a clear indication that Netanyahu is trying to cripple Iran's economy and bot just it's nuclear plants.

#Iran #Israel #IranUnderAttack #StopIsrael

@[email protected] @israel @iran

The Israeli occupation army spokesperson:
- We killed the heads of the Iranian security system
- We targeted the Iranian defense system
- The army is still attacking on Iranian territory
- 200 fighter jets participated in the attack on Iran
- Our pilots are attacking and continue to attack Iranian nuclear facilities
- Iran was close to obtaining nuclear weapons and the goal of our operation is to eliminate the threat
@[email protected] @israel
@iran

#Haifa, tonight. #Gaza_Genocide @[email protected]
@direkt.gnistor.se

"Dear Tereza,

I’m sorry for not being around these past days, but Daddy was trying to bring food to other children as beautiful as you. Unfortunately, they are starving because some people don’t understand that every human being has the right to freedom.

Your father is one of the millions of people doing something to end the greatest violation of rights of our generation.

I truly hope to come home soon. I think of you and your mother every day. And that is why I cannot accept that the world we live in has so much exploitation, oppression, and destruction.

Do not be afraid for your father. I am okay and hopeful."

Original, untranslated text and video is available here https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/cidades-df/2025/06/7171140-direto-da-prisao-em-israel-thiago-avila-envia-carta-a-filha.html

Convoy #Soumoud tracking link:

https://al-soumoud-convoy.com/

h/t https://mastodon.social/@la/_voix/114669021127596865

#BreakTheSiege #Sumud @[email protected]

10:45pm CET: Air raid sirens are sounding in Iran's capital Tehran.

Al Mayadeen reports that clashes between Iranian air defenses and Israeli aircraft are still ongoing at this moment

#Iran #Israel #Tehran #IranUnderAttack @[email protected] @israel @iran