2026-06-22: Palestine Roundup

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SIU HIN LEE (2026-06-22). Palestine Watch: Our First Edition of Gaza Reader ËØªÊáÇÂä Ê≤ô June 2026 Edition. indybay.org Our first edition of Gaza Reader ËØªÊáÇÂä Ê≤ô Volume One June 2026 Edition has just published! Articles are written from voices of the Global South and the inner-city people of color communities!

aljazeera (2026-06-22). Egyptian football fans chant for Palestine in Vancouver. aljazeera.com Egyptian fans gathered outside BC Place in Vancouver ahead of their World Cup match against New Zealand.

Angela (2026-06-22). Saturday 6/20: Free virtual screening of "My Palestine" indybay.org Zoom | us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_is4D…

UMMID (2026-06-21). Now, Palestinians in Gaza found their bank accounts frozen, inaccessible. ummid.com Bank of Palestine account holders in Gaza, including employees, traders, lawyers, exchange shop owners and ordinary citizens, report that both their bank accounts and electronic payment apps were frozen simultaneously without explanation.

Philip Weiss (2026-06-21). My generation still can't discuss Palestine, but thankfully we no longer control the debate. mondoweiss.net My generation of Jews entered Harvard in the 1970s as outsiders and left as the establishment that built support for Israel. Today, attitudes have shifted completely, yet my group still can't discuss Palestine. Fortunately, no one is waiting for us.

Truthout (2026-06-22). In Gaza, Fathers Can't Promise Their Children Food or Even Survival. juancole.com By Hassan Herzallah | This article was originally published by Every Palestinian father faces the impossible task of trying to create a sense of safety in a place where there is none. | In Gaza, where I live, the Israeli occupation has stripped fathers of the most basic promises of fatherhood. | A father cannot promise his children a safe place, because the place they flee to may be bombed only hours later. He cannot promise them a meal at the end of the day, because food has becom…

| Reuters | (2026-06-21). Israeli fire kills nine in Gaza. tribune.com.pk Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least nine people, including a child, in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, health officials said. | An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinians, including two women and a child, in an apartment building in Gaza City, health officials said. | The attack on the building in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City destroyed the apartment and wounded several other people, medics added. | The Israeli military said it struck a militant, without elaborating. In another incident, Israeli forces shot and killed a woman in Beit Lahiya town further north, medics said. An Israeli airstrike kil…

newarab (2026-06-21). Israeli drones kill 3 Palestinians, including child, in Gaza. newarab.com Three An Israeli drone struck the Dream Palace hall west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing Akram Mohammed Mahmoud Abu Madi, 31, and Julia Khaled al-Balawi, 8, according to local sources. | Medical teams…

Michael Leonardi, Counter Punch. (2026-06-22). Ports Of Resistance: Blocking The War Machine And Genocide Economy. popularresistance.org As Israel's genocidal campaign grinds on — with over 70,000 Palestinians slaughtered in Gaza and its aggression now spreading into Lebanon — a powerful new front of resistance is emerging at the world's ports. Dockworkers, truckers, and solidarity activists are refusing to be complicit in the machinery of death, physically blocking weapons shipments and exposing the global supply chains that fuel endless war and profit from mass slaughter. | These actions are not symbolic gestures. They are a developing strategy to choke the war machine and dismantle the genocide economy at its weakest links.

James North (2026-06-21). How mainstream media bias contributed to Israel's genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net Robin Andersen's indispensable new book, The Complicit Lens, offers a comprehensive examination of the media's role in supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

ICRC (2026-06-22). Every drop counts: Gaza's water crisis deepens as summer takes hold. icrc.org

| AFP | (2026-06-21). Israeli strikes kill 11 in Gaza City. tribune.com.pk Gaza health officials said Israeli strikes on Saturday killed at least 11 people, including four members of the same family, in the latest violence to rock the Palestinian territory despite a ceasefire. | Israel and Hamas trade near-daily accusations of truce violations and the Gaza Strip remains gripped by bloodshed as progress on permanently ending the war remains stalled. | An overnight Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City killed four members of the Al-Safadi family, including the husband, wife and their two daughters, according to the civil defence agency, a re…

aljazeera (2026-06-21). Football fans in Gaza gather to watch Spain-Saudi Arabia match. aljazeera.com Palestinians in Gaza gathered to watch Spain's World Cup victory over Saudi Arabia.

newleftreview (2026-06-21). 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.

Dan Bacher (2026-06-22). Sacramento Approves Ethical Investment Policy Amendment, Divests from Lockheed Martin. indybay.org Sacramento joins Alameda County, Richmond, Albany, Dublin, and Pasadena as well as communities across the country responding to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement's call to cut ties with the companies fueling genocide, apartheid, and war crimes, as well as systems of oppression here at home, like mass incarceration and immigrant detention and surveillance.

| APP | (2026-06-21). We have to keep Netanyahu 'a little bit sane', says Trump. tribune.com.pk US President Donald Trump delivered a blunt critique of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press interview, stating their relationship is "good, but we have to keep him a little bit sane" | The remark came when Trump was asked by Axious, an American media outlet, about his ties with the Israeli premier amid ongoing efforts to end fighting in Lebanon. | Trump asserted he can control Israeli military actions in Lebanon because officials there "do as I say." | He highlighted American military superiority, saying that the US provides "the guns" and "B-2 bombers," and claimed that without his interv…

scorinoco (2026-06-21). Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz After US-Israeli Violations of MoU. orinocotribune.com Iran's central military command has officially declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all maritime traffic, citing US and Israeli violations of a memorandum of understating between Tehran and Washington. | In a formal statement on Saturday, the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said the closure comes in response to "the explicit breach of the first clause of…

newleftreview (2026-06-21). 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.

Pacific Media Watch (2026-06-21). Drop Site News: Stand with analyst Trita Parsi against deportation from US. asiapacificreport.nz EDITORIAL: Drop Site News The Free Press, an American news organisation founded by the Zionist editor-in-chief of CBS News, Bari Weiss, and now owned by David Ellison, reported recently that the Trump administration had launched an investigation into Trita Parsi, one of America's most prominent critics of the US-Israeli war on Iran. The aim is…

newarab (2026-06-21). Can the US-Iran deal survive Israel's war on Lebanon. newarab.com The talks came a day after a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon was announced and with no Israeli attacks reported in Despite the apparent pause, Israel…

Jason Ditz (2026-06-21). Israel Sets 'Red Lines' for Lebanon Ceasefire: No Withdrawal and No Ceasing of Fire. news.antiwar.com Massive Israeli attacks against Lebanon over the weekend managed to derail the US-Iran peace deal, and the ceasefire announced on Friday went so predictably poorly that US officials are organizing another round of Israel-Lebanon talks to try to come up with another deal. While most aren't getting their hopes up for the next round doing …

Jason Ditz (2026-06-21). Lebanon Death Toll Passes 4,000 as Israel Continues Strikes. news.antiwar.com Despite yet another ceasefire implemented on Friday, the death toll from Israeli attacks across Lebanon this weekend were substantially higher than normal, with around 100 killed over the course of three days, and the attacks show no sign of slowing. The surge in killings has brought Lebanon to another stark milestone, with over 4,000 people …

| AFP | (2026-06-21). Israel lifts war curbs on northern border. tribune.com.pk Israel on Sunday announced the lifting of all restrictions imposed on northern border areas as part of the war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, after fighting wound down following a flare-up. | "Starting at 6am on Monday, June 22, 2026, all restrictions will be lifted in the Confrontation Line area," the Israeli military said, adding that the border communities "will move to a full activity level, with no restrictions, instead of a partial activity level". | Israel's military chief said that Hezbollah had suffered a severe blow fighting Israeli forces and was now in a "very difficult position", as he met with troops…

APR editor (2026-06-21). The new Middle East: How the Old Order died and what is rising in its place. asiapacificreport.nz ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean An Israeli cabinet minister has named the new Middle East on live radio — and he named it in alarm. What Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli called the "Türkiye-Qatar-Pakistan axis" is not a threat. It is the architecture of a new regional order. And once you see its logic, you cannot…

aljazeera (2026-06-21). Mourners gather to remember Lebanese conservationist killed by Israel. aljazeera.com People gathered in Beirut in memory of beloved turtle conservationist Mona Khalil, killed in Israeli attack.

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