2026-06-12: Palestine Roundup

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hindustantimes (2026-06-11). Trump foe's spy network inside US? FBI exposes China's 'spy plot' just before Taiwan 'war'. hindustantimes.com Weeks after President Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping, the FBI has shut down more than a dozen websites it says were fronts for a covert Chinese recruitment network inside the United States. According to investigators, fake consulting firms, AI‚Äëdriven job offers and crypto payments were used to lure current and former U.S. officials into sharing sensitive insights on U.S.—China ties and flashpoints like Iran and Israel‚ÄëPalestine, underscoring fears of a broader Beijing influence campaign.

Eyewitness Palestine (2026-06-11). Wednesday 6/17: Webinar: Fighting For Education Under Genocide. indybay.org Online | www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/akelius-we…

Jody McIntyre (2026-06-11). Little change likely on Palestine if Starmer ousted. electronicintifada.net Both Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting have close ties to Britain's pro-Israel establishment.

aljazeera (2026-06-11). Palestine Action activists could face UK 'terror' sentences: What we know. aljazeera.com Four members of the Palestine Action group could be sentenced as 'terrorists' over Elbit factory raid in 2024.

JAY (2026-06-12). There's No Room for Palestine in "Viewpoint Diversity" portside.org There's No Room for Palestine in "Viewpoint Diversity" |

aljazeera (2026-06-11). UK, Australia, Canada launch $4m peace fund for Israel-Palestine conflict. aljazeera.com Fund will provide humanitarian support to Palestinians, crack down on Israeli settlers and support Gaza peace plan.

WSWS (2026-06-11). US Army Special Operations Forces conduct urban warfare exercises across Los Angeles region. wsws.org The same military apparatus bombing Iran and funding genocide in Gaza now conducts combat exercises over working-class Los Angeles neighborhoods.

newleftreview (2026-06-11). Nancy Fraser: Gaza as World Event. newleftreview.org The global reverberations of Israel's destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to reveal the changing nature of the times. Philosophical reflections on the rise of a new-era McCarthyism in Germany and the US.

aljazeera (2026-06-11). Video shows Gaza teen fisherman before Israeli forces killed him at sea. aljazeera.com Mohammad Abu Giab was a 15-year-old fisherman from Gaza that was shot dead by Israeli forces off Deir el-Balah.

Codepink (2026-06-11). Thursday 6/25: Calling Party for Gaza. indybay.org Zoom | www.codepink.org/cp625

al-monitor (2026-06-11). Prominent Gazan doctor held by Israel without charge appears before Supreme Court. al-monitor.com JERUSALEM, June 10 (Reuters) – A prominent Palestinian doctor captured by the Israeli military in Gaza in late 2024 and held in detention ever since appeared by video link at a Supreme Court hearing in Jerusalem on Wednesday.Hussam Abu Safiya appeared in the video to have lost weight since being captured at a Gaza hospital, looking noticeably thinner in his face and around his abdomen. Media were briefly allowed into the courtroom before being ushered out as proceedings got underway.

ecns.cn (2026-06-11). Medical evacuation from Gaza ready as Rafah crossing reopens: UN office. ecns.cn UNITED NATIONS, June 10 ⚪ With the reopening of the Rafah crossing on Wednesday, UN humanitarians said medical evacuations of people seeking treatment outside Gaza are now ready to resume.

Aseel Saleh, Breakthrough News. (2026-06-12). Global Sumud Activists Continue Hunger Strike. popularresistance.org Three weeks after being kidnapped by the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), 10 of 11 volunteers of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud land convoy remain unlawfully detained in an immigration facility in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi. | The Global Sumud Flotilla coalition announced that Mehdi Bouzguenda (from Tunisia), was the only volunteer to be released and return to his country on Sunday, June 7. | The fate of the remaining 10 activists is still uncertain. Refusing both food and water, their "dry" hunger strike has continued for around 10 days, while they remain barred from communicating with the outside world. At t…

newarab (2026-06-11). Israeli war denies Gaza sports journalists 2026 World Cup access. newarab.com Youssef Baalousheh has covered roughly 40 international and regional tournaments across his career, travelling between six and nine months a year to photograph stadiums around the world. Today, the 54-year-old father of eight follows what sports coverage he can on his phone when he has a signal. | Those 40 tournaments were the architecture of his professional life. They took him across football, volleyball, basketball, tennis, cycling, and athletics, a career built on movement, on being present at the moment a body crosses a finish line or a ball hits the back of a net. | He was one of Gaza's most widely travelle…

Ramzy Baroud (2026-06-11). Israel's Netanyahu is Annexing Gaza, regardless of "Board of Peace" juancole.com ( Currently, much of the international debate centers on a single official: Bulgarian di…

aljazeera (2026-06-11). World celebrates, but Gaza watches the World Cup from a distance. aljazeera.com Amid war and ruins, Gaza footballers keep training but feel erased from the World Cup and global football stage.

aljazeera (2026-06-11). Detained Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safia shows signs of torture, family says. aljazeera.com Gaza paediatrician appears by video link in Israeli court, as lawyer and family demand release, fearing for his life.

newarab (2026-06-12). Israel releases Hamas co-founder after two years of detention. newarab.com The son of a Hamas co-founder said that Israeli authorities released his father in the occupied West Bank on Thursday after Hassan Yousef, 71, was "freed near the southern West Bank city of Yousef is a senior leader of Hamas in the West Bank, having co-founded the group in the 1980…

Staff (2026-06-11). Headlines for June 11, 2026. democracynow.org U.S. Continues to Strike Iran for a Second Day in a Row, U.S. Attacks Tanker Off the Coast of Oman, Killing 3 Indian Sailors, Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank, FBI Conducts Raids of Pro-Palestinian Activists in Michigan, Anti-Immigrant Riots Continue in Belfast as Police Deploy Water Cannons to Quell Second Night of Unrest, U.S. Inflation Hits Highest Level in 3 Years Driven by Increasing Gas Prices, New Jersey Health Inspectors Find Unsafe and Unsanitary Food Prep at Delaney Hall, GAO Report Finds Sweeping Failures at ICE Jail in Fort Bliss, Texas, U.S. Measles Cases Top…

newarab (2026-06-11). UK sanctions Israeli settler orgs following TNA investigation. newarab.com The United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) announced coordinated sanctions against enablers of settler violence in the West Bank on June 9, according to a Among the six entities sanctioned by Whitehall are two organisations, Artzenu and Shivat Zion Lerigvey Admata, that The New Arab (TNA)

al-monitor (2026-06-11). Israeli settlers impeded firefighting near Christian West Bank village, Palestinians say. al-monitor.com By Ali SawaftaTAYBEH, West Bank, June 10 – Israeli settlers obstructed Palestinians putting out a large blaze near a Christian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank late on Tuesday, a local priest and Palestinian civil defence firefighters said.The incident comes amid rising strife in the West Bank, where some Western countries announced sanctions on settler groups this week over violent Israeli attacks on Palestinians.

APR editor (2026-06-11). Trump's World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples' struggles. asiapacificreport.nz By Stephanie Westbrook of PACBI As FIFA Men's World Cup begins, millions around the world gather to cheer for their favorite teams. Let's use the occasion to protest host nation the United States, the top supporter of Israel's settler-colonial apartheid regime and financier of its military machine, and the US-Israeli imposed might-makes-right order. Let's raise…

APR editor (2026-06-11). Trump's World Cup — no sportwashing, a platform for supporting peoples' struggles. asiapacificreport.nz By Stephanie Westbrook of PACBI As FIFA Men's World Cup begins, millions around the world gather to cheer for their favorite teams. Let's use the occasion to protest host nation the United States, the top supporter of Israel's settler-colonial apartheid regime and financier of its military machine, and the US-Israeli imposed might-makes-right order. Let's raise…

ecns.cn (2026-06-11). Trump, Netanyahu discuss Iran negotiations over phone. ecns.cn President Donald Trump discussed the memorandum of understandingbeing formed with Iran to enter negotiations during a phone call on Thursday evening, read a statement by Netanyahus office.

Jenny Williams (2026-06-12). Lebanon Is Not Netanyahu's Escape Route. moderndiplomacy.eu There is a familiar cruelty in the way Lebanon is treated whenever Israel wants to change the regional conversation. A village becomes a message. A suburb becomes a signal. A border town becomes a lever in someone else's negotiation. Last night's escalation was not an isolated military episode; it was part of a pattern that …

newarab (2026-06-11). Inside Albania and Israel's quietly expanding alliance. newarab.com

Michael Arria (2026-06-11). Congress is pushing to integrate the Israeli and U.S. militaries on behalf of Netanyahu. mondoweiss.net U.S. lawmakers are joining Benjamin Netanyahu in pushing for closer integration of the Israeli and U.S. militaries. Critics warn this will give Israel dangerous leverage over U.S. foreign and defense policy.

ecns.cn (2026-06-11). Lebanese president outlines conditions for peace with Israel. ecns.cn BEIRUT, June 11 ⚪ Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Thursday that peace with Israel hinges on meeting key Lebanese demands, including an Israeli withdrawal.

al-monitor (2026-06-11). Tehran says no final decision as Trump touts imminent deal. al-monitor.com Tehran said Friday it had not reached a final decision on a deal to end the Middle East war, despite US President Donald Trump claiming an agreement could be signed in days and cancelling threatened strikes on Iran.Trump's statements fueled a stock market rally and tanked oil prices, again spurring hopes a resolution was nearing in the war triggered by US-Israeli strikes in February.

newleftreview (2026-06-11). Alexander Zevin: Trump's Gulf War. newleftreview.org Asymmetries of the US-Israeli assault on Iran, as an uneasy balance holds between Tehran's tourniquet on the Strait of Hormuz—and the world economy—and the enormous firepower of the aggressors, at the end of the first round.

al-monitor (2026-06-11). Displaced families bury Hezbollah dead in temporary graves. al-monitor.com At a cemetery in southern Lebanon, Ghada Hussein clutched images of her son, a Hezbollah fighter killed in an Israeli strike and buried in a temporary grave because the family cannot return to her border village.In a section just above the regular cemetery in Haret Saida, dozens of graves have been dug into the gravelly earth, many lined with cement blocks and holding coffins made with construction board.

Human Rights Watch (2026-06-11). Israeli Displacement and Killings of Civilians in Lebanon Rage On. hrw.org Click to expand Image | A nurse looks out of the Jabal Amel Hospital at areas struck during an Israeli airstrike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, June 2, 2026. | © 2026 Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo…

Staff (2026-06-11). Ministro supremacista israelí llama a tropas a secuestrar civiles libaneses. cubadebate.cu El ministro de Seguridad Nacional de Israel, el extremista de derecha Itamar Ben Gvir, pidió durante una reunión del gabinete esta semana que las fuerzas israelíes secuestren a mujeres y niños libaneses para presionar a Hezbolá. Bajo las órdenes de Ben Gvir, el ya brutal sistema penitenciario israelí se ha hecho más inhumano.

newarab (2026-06-11). Arab parties fail to form joint list before Israeli election. newarab.com The prospects of forming a Sources who participated in a meeting held at the Sakhnin Municipality in the Lower Galilee between th…

aljazeera (2026-06-11). Bodies of Evidence: Sexual violence in Israeli prisons. aljazeera.com For years, Palestinian prisoners reported mistreatment in Israeli custody; post-Oct. 7 claims include sexual violence.

geo.tv (2026-06-11). US military secretly helped 100m barrels of oil through Hormuz: Trump. geo.tv US President Donald Trump looks at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, US, June 8, 2026. — ReutersHormuz remains largely closed in response to US-Israeli attacks.Trump says he ordered secret mission to support tankers and ships via Hormuz.More than 200 commercial ships…

newarab (2026-06-11). Are European sanctions on Israeli settlers too little too late. newarab.com The recent sanctions on extremist Jewish Israeli settlers and the networks enabling them in the These Western sanctions, which include asset freezes and travel bans on six entities and one individual involved in financing and enabling the control of settlers an…

newarab (2026-06-11). UNICEF warns of surge in Israeli killing of Palestinian children. newarab.com Israel's escalating In its latest

geo.tv (2026-06-11). US military secretly helped 100m barrels of oil through Hormuz: Trump. geo.tv US President Donald Trump looks at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, US, June 8, 2026. — ReutersHormuz remains largely closed in response to US-Israeli attacks.Trump says he ordered secret mission to support tankers and ships via Hormuz.More than 200 commercial ships…

Tom Hussain (2026-06-11). Iran's 'unity of theatres' strategy exposes US-Israel rift. scmp.com The rapid escalation in hostilities between Iran and the US-Israel alliance since Sunday is being driven by Tehran's growing confidence that it can arise like a mythical phoenix from the ashes of war, strategically stronger than ever in the Middle East. | To achieve this objective, Tehran has enacted a tactical shift in its "unity of the theatres" strategy involving its Axis of Resistance allies in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq: Israeli and US attempts to decapitate one head of this hydra-like monster,…

UMMID (2026-06-11). Israel's Defiance of Trump Shattered 100-Day Truce in US-Iran War. ummid.com Marking exactly 100 days since a catastrophic conflict reordered the Middle East, a fragile, US-brokered truce violently collapsed as Israeli jets struck deep inside Iranian territory.

Craig Mokhiber (2026-06-11). The U.S. and Israeli campaign to liquidate the ICC is working. Countries of conscience must intervene. mondoweiss.net The recent suspension of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan over allegations of sexual misconduct, despite a lack of evidence, shows the U.S., Israel, and their Western allies will stop at nothing to torpedo any effort to hold Israel accountable for genocide.

geo.tv (2026-06-11). US military secretly helped 100m barrels of oil through Hormuz: Trump. geo.tv US President Donald Trump looks at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, US, June 8, 2026. — ReutersHormuz remains largely closed in response to US-Israeli attacks.Trump says he ordered secret mission to support tankers and ships via Hormuz.More than 200 commercial ships…

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