2026-05-25: Palestine Roundup

So far today: 2026-05-25 09:36am GMT

Comb Cutters (2026-05-25). Saturday 5/23: Bees, Land, & Liberation: Storytime from Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | combcutters.xyz/solidarity

Free Palestine (2026-05-25). Friday 5/22: Free Virtual Screening of "No Other Land" indybay.org Zoom | us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/yqYCp9w…

LVP (2026-05-25). Canada CLC Breaks with Zionist Histadrut at Their 2026 Congress. indybay.org The Canadian Labour Congress at their 2026 convention after a struggle ended their relationship with the Israeli Zionists corporate trade union the Histadrut. Hassan Husseini with Labour For Palestine made a report to the Labor For Palestine committee.

News Desk, The Cradle. (2026-05-24). Gaza Flotilla Activists Recount 'Super Sadistic' Torture, Sexual Abuse During Abduction In Israel. popularresistance.org International activists with the Global Sumud Flotilla revealed upon their arrival in Türkiye on 21 May that they were subjected to sexual abuse and torture during their abduction in Israel. | Survivors reported prolonged beatings, starvation, and degrading strip searches, with reports of rape and sexual assault. | Arriving in Istanbul, the activists bore clear signs of torture and mistreatment with swollen hands, broken bones, and severely bruised by the violence. Footage captured upon their arrival showed detainees displaying their injuries, one removing a scarf to reveal painful wounds sustained in custod…

Reuters (2026-05-24). Israeli fire kills parents and their baby in Gaza refugee camp, officials say. scmp.com An Israeli air strike on a flat in ‚Å a refugee camp in central Gaza on Sunday left three people dead, including a six-month-old child, health officials said. | Medical workers named the three who died in the Nuseirat refugee camp as Mohammad Abu Mallouh, the infant's father, Alaa Zaqlan, the mother, and their child, Osama. | Later on ‚ÄåSunday, Israeli gunfire killed a Palestinian man in the north of the enclave, near a UN-run medical clinic in Jabalia refugee camp, medical workers said.

William I. Robinson, M. Gàºrsan ≈ûenalp (2026-05-24). Pax Silica, the Gaza genocide, and the crisis of global capitalism. mondoweiss.net Gaza was the first AI war of the 21st century, and if Global Trumpism succeeds, it will become a testing ground for its vision to dominate the future: Pax Silica, or the merger of the high-tech military-surveillance complex and transnational finance.

Global Voices (2026-05-25). When Privacy disappears: Life inside Gaza's displacement Shelters. juancole.com Written by Shelters, including a temporary improvised bathroom set up between the tents. Photo by the author, used with permission. | By Marwa Rommaneh | In the early morning hours, when schools are supposed to prepare to welcome students, the yards are filled with men sleeping on the ground. Movement begins before sunrise, and lines gradually form outside sanitation facilities. Gaza's schools are no longer places of education, but have been transformed into displacement shelters, hosting hundreds of families within a single sha…

Codepink (2026-05-25). Friday 5/29: Calling Party for Gaza. indybay.org Zoom | www.codepink.org/cp529

Dave DeCamp (2026-05-24). Israeli Strike in Gaza Kills Father, Mother, and Their Six-Month-Old Baby. news.antiwar.com An Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on Sunday killed three family members, including a six-month-old baby, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal. Medics told Reuters that the Israeli strike hit an apartment in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp and killed Mohammad Abu ‚ÄåMallouh, Alaa Zaqlan, and their six-month-old infant Osama. Photos from …

newarab (2026-05-24). Gaza facing worsening medicine crisis due to Israeli siege. newarab.com

newleftreview (2026-05-24). 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.

newarab (2026-05-24). UK and Irish Gaza flotilla activists return after detention. newarab.com British and Irish activists who were part of a Among the Irish activists who arrived at Dublin Airport via Turkey was Margaret Connolly, the sister of Irish President Catherine Connolly. | She recounted being held with the other detained activists in "containers", where she said several people risked hypothermia. | Several supporters sporting keffiyeh scarves and P…

APR editor (2026-05-24). Haka, waiata welcome for NZ's Gaza flotilla activists after brutal ordeal at hands of Israeli military. asiapacificreport.nz Asia Pacific Report An emotional and inspiring welcome greeted two of Aotearoa New Zealand's three Gaza Sumud Flotilla humanitarian activists who arrived home today after their ordeal at the hands of the brutal Israeli military and prison forces last week. About 60 whƒÅnau, supporters and well-wishers greeted HƒÅhona Ormsby and Mousa Taher with a waiata…

newarab (2026-05-24). Spain protest condemns police beating of Gaza flotilla activists. newarab.com Around two thousand protesters took to the streets of the Spanish city of Bilbao on Sunday to condemn the Basque police's treatment of activists from a When a relative of one of the six returning activists tried to approach them at Bilbao airport on Saturday, a police officer forcefully prevented him from doing so, leading to scuffles between both sides, images from state broadcaster TVE showed. | Images showed police striking people with batons and pinning others to the ground while being jeered…

newarab (2026-05-24). Israeli settlers attack towns, destroy property across West Bank. newarab.com The attacks came alongside continued Israeli military raids and arrests across multiple areas of the occupied territory. | Munir Abu…

No Azure for Apartheid (2026-05-25). Friday 5/22: No Azure for Apartheid Nakba Day Teach In. indybay.org Zoom | zoom.us/meeting/register/w5R03KFPQrW3vJ1…

Tom Hussain (2026-05-25). Why Trump's draft peace pact with Iran threatens Netanyahu's Middle East plans. scmp.com For decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has preached a mantra of peace and stability in the Middle East through the destruction of Iran's Islamic Republic. | The obliteration of the ayatollahs, he prophesied, would lead to the normalisation of relations between Israel and the wider Arab-Islamic world — with Israel emerging as the Middle East's dominant power and indispensable security provider.

newarab (2026-05-25). Deadly Israeli strikes pound south, east Lebanon. newarab.com Israeli strikes pounded south and east Lebanon Sunday despite a ceasefire as Hezbollah's chief expressed hope for an agreement between Iran and the United States to Lebanon's health ministry raised the overall toll in the war since March 2 to 3,123 killed. | It said two people including a paramedic from the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee were killed on Sunday in Israeli raids. | A day earlier 11 people including six women and a child were killed in…

WSWS (2026-05-25). Rising unemployment in Australia points to Iran war's deepening impact. wsws.org These results provide an indication of the worsening price being paid by working-class households, and especially young people, for the criminal US-Israeli war on Iran.

hindustantimes (2026-05-24). Trump to allow Iran to dictate terms, protecting its deadliest proxy right before major attack. hindustantimes.com Hezbollah claimed Iran's latest ceasefire proposal included guarantees for Lebanon as Israeli strikes intensified across the south. The group said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sent a message promising Tehran would "never abandon" Hezbollah amid fears of renewed U.S.-Israel military action. Reports also claimed Pakistani mediators carried Iran's proposal to Washington. Meanwhile, Lebanon insisted its security talks with Israel must remain separate from U.S.-Iran negotiations. Fresh Israeli evacuation warnings and strikes in Nabatieh have now fueled fears that the Lebanon front could once again explode i…

aljazeera (2026-05-24). Israeli strikes kill six in southern Lebanon amid fresh evacuation orders. aljazeera.com Israel's attacks in southern Lebanon are expanding despite supposed ceasefire.

Muhammad Arshad (2026-05-24). Israel's Push for Conflict Reveals Deep Divide With Washington. thinktank.pk As the United States pushes for fragile ceasefire diplomacy with Iran and regional actors, Israel appears increasingly unwilling to fully embrace de-escalation. Recent reports suggest that Israeli political and military circles continue discussing renewed military options despite ongoing negotiations led by Washington and regional mediators. This contradiction has raised a larger geopolitical question: why does …

aljazeera (2026-05-24). Fatou Bensouda on Israeli threats against her and the ICC. aljazeera.com The court's former chief prosecutor says justice is being sacrificed to political interests.

Wyatt Reed (2026-05-24). Daily Mail lies: Oct 7 victim saved from rape by non-existent Muslim prohibition on violating scarred women. thegrayzone.com The latest Oct. 7 rape hoax propaganda piece from The Daily insists that the only reason a woman at the Nova music festival wasn't raped by Hamas members is that she had a scar — and falsely claims that "scars have a spiritual significance in the eyes of the terrorists." In one of its most brazen disinformation efforts in years, the British tabloid The Daily Mail has published a fake news story claiming that an Israeli woman who was permitted …

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