2026-02-08: Palestine Roundup

So far today: 2026-02-08 4:26pm GMT

Comb Cutters (2026-02-08). Sunday 2/8: Bees, Land, & Liberation: Storytime from Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/UZiKWMf…

Quakers for Peace (2026-02-08). Monday 2/23: Webinar: Witness From Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/w9SoK1c…

Staff (2026-02-08). Khaled Barakat on Palestine Today TV: The detention of Mohammed Khatib is linked to the Greek-Cypriot-Zionist gas deal. samidoun.net Khaled Barakat, member of the Executive Committee of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, appeared on Palestine Today TV on Saturday, 7 February 2026 to address the case of Mohammed Khatib, Europe coordinator of Samidoun, and his detention in Greece. On Saturday morning, Mohammed Khatib traveled from Athens to Heraklion airport in …

Staff (2026-02-08). Liberated Palestinian prisoner Abdel-Nasser Issa speaks at event in Crete, expresses solidarity with Mohammed Khatib, urges Greek action for Palestine. samidoun.net On Saturday, 7 February, liberated Palestinian prisoner Abdel-Nasser Issa, who spent 30 years in Zionist prisons, spoke remotely at an event in Heraklion, Crete, organized by the Assembly of Solidarity to the Palestinian People. This is the event that Samidoun Europe coordinator, Mohammed Khatib, had traveled to Crete to attend as a speaker when he …

Palestinian Heritage Committee (2026-02-08). Wednesday 2/11: Exhibit Honoring the Children of Palestine – Reception. indybay.org Santa Clara County Government Center | 70 West Hedding Street | San José, CA 95110…

Robin Andersen (2026-02-08). Bystander Footage in Minneapolis and Bearing Witness in Gaza. counterpunch.org When ICE murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti in the streets of Minneapolis cellphone footage went viral and the visual documentation outraged the public, just as Palestinian journalists on the ground in Gaza bore witness to Israel's genocide and global publics were horrified. On Saturday morning January 24, in Minneapolis, masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "agents" […] | To read this article, log in
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Islam Elhabil (2026-02-08). The toxic legacy of genocide. electronicintifada.net Israel's assault on Gaza unleashes long-term environmental nightmare.

albawaba (2026-02-08). Video: Israel booed on stage at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Massive protests recently erupted in Milan against the ongoing 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics over its possible impact on Italy's economy and environment, and Israel's participation in the sports event. Videos flooding social media captured the Israeli Olympic team getting booed on stage during the event's opening ceremony due to the country's war in Gaza, which left over 72,000 Palestinians dead and more than 171,000 injured since October 7, 2023. Several internet users criticized the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics for inviting Israel but not Russia, calling it "hypocritical." According to Eurone…

ICRC (2026-02-08). Gaza: Severe winter conditions compound humanitarian crisis for displaced Palestinians. icrc.org

Codepink (2026-02-08). Friday 2/6: Calling Party for Gaza. indybay.org Zoom | www.codepink.org/cp26

aljazeera (2026-02-08). Israel is killing far more civilians than fighters in Gaza. aljazeera.com The Palestinian civilian death toll in Gaza is far worse than Netanyahu claims.

aljazeera (2026-02-08). Families 'inconsolable' in Gaza as Israel returns more unidentified bodies. aljazeera.com Palestinian medics say several of the 54 bodies were found to be mutilated and showed extensive signs of abuse.

ICRC (2026-02-08). ICRC president: States must harness momentum to improve Gaza's dire humanitarian situation in next phase of ceasefire. icrc.org The following is a quote attributable to ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric on the urgent need to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Middle East Monitor (2026-02-08). What is Israel planning for Palestinians in the West Bank? juancole.com by (

newleftreview (2026-02-08). Kevin Cox: South Africa In History's Shadow. newleftreview.org Why is South Africa seemingly still mired in the income and spatial segregation patterns of the apartheid era? Standard explanations focus on the ANC, either as too neoliberal or too statist. Kevin Cox looks instead at the making of classes—and expropriation of African farmers—in conditions of globalization's labour shock.

geo.tv (2026-02-08). Israel's Netanyahu expected to meet Trump in US on Wednesday and discuss Iran. geo.tv US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk in the midst of a joint news conference in the White House in Washington, US, January 28, 2020. — ReutersWednesday's meeting to be 7th between two leaders since Jan last year.Meeting was moved up from…

Michael Hauser Tov (2026-02-08). Haaretz fact-check: Meeting protocols show lies and deceptions about October 7. haaretz.com Minutes reviewed by Haaretz prove that Netanyahu lied, distorted and omitted facts in his version of the events of October 7 and the decision-making that led to the intelligence failure, which he published in a 55-page declassified document…

Staff (2026-02-08). Iran: Talks with U.S. progressing, Tehran bow down to pressure. haaretz.com

aljazeera (2026-02-08). Somalia's Mohamud slams Israel's 'interference', rejects base on Somaliland. aljazeera.com Somali president promises to confront Israeli military presence amid reports of base plan in breakaway Somaliland.

Staff (2026-02-08). The Tunisian Initiative for Supporting Prisoners Condemns the Arrest of Mohammed Khatib by Greek Authorities. samidoun.net The Tunisian Initiative for Supporting Prisoners condemned the arrest of Palestinian activist Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of the Samidoun Network in Europe, by Greek authorities. Khatib was arrested upon entering Greece to participate in a seminar dedicated to discussing the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. The Initiative considered this arrest to be an arbitrary …

Skwawkbox (2026-02-07). Manchester Jews condemn lobby attacks on Guardiola for opposing genocide. thecanary.co The Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine (MJAP) group has condemned a local Israel lobby group for attacking Manchester City football manager Pep Guardiola. Guardiola, who has a consistent record of solidarity with and support for the Palestinian people, spoke out against Israel's slaughter again on 4 February. The BBC amplified the manufactured pearl-clutching of the […] | By

Ramzy Baroud (2026-02-07). How the Middle Powers Cynically left Gaza to be Genocided. juancole.com (

Shamai Leibowitz (2026-02-07). When Delay becomes Killing in Gaza: Wisdom from the Talmud. juancole.com Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) — In the heat of war, the Torah or Hebrew Bible demands an unexpected restraint: Do not cut down the fruit trees. | The Jewish ecological principle known as Bal Tashchit ('do not destroy') forbids the destruction of fruit-bearing trees — and by extension any source of nutrition — even during a siege — is rooted in Deuteronomy 20: 19, "If you besiege a town for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you must not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them. Although you may take food from them, you must not cut the…

newarab (2026-02-07). 900 Palestinians displaced in West Bank this year so far. newarab.com More than 900 Palestinians in the Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, the UN Secretary-General's spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said that the high number of displaced people is largely due to "settler violence and access rest…

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