Israel's conflict with its neighbours

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Israel declares state of emergency following strikes on Iran nuclear facilities

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east ... an-nuclear

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European Dockworkers Refuse to Load Weapons Aimed at Palestine
by Rafeef Ziadah and Katy Fox-Hodess
June 12, 2025

Introduction:

(Labor Notes) On June 4, in response to the unfolding genocide in Gaza, France’s CGT dockworkers refused to load arms components bound for Israel at the country’s largest port in Fos-Marseille. Their action forced the ship to leave port without its deadly cargo.

Across Europe, dockers carried on the fight. In Genoa, Italian dockworkers pledged to inspect the same vessel and block it if weapons were found. At the Italian ports of Salerno and Scilla, the ship sparked protests. Sophie Binet, the CGT’s national secretary-general, called on the French government to immediately halt arms deliveries to Israel.

This was no one-off protest. It built on a decades-long tradition of internationalism, anti-militarism, and anti-imperialism among European dockworkers, including coordinated actions to block weapons to Saudi Arabia in 2019.

As organizers with Workers in Palestine, we support trade unionists around the world who are building solidarity with Palestine. Some of the most powerful actions we’ve seen in the labor movement globally have come from European dockworkers.

Read more here: https://www.labornotes.org/2025/06/eur ... alestine

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Israeli strikes kill at least 62 people in Gaza as ceasefire prospects move closer

Source: AP

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAM MEDNICK
Updated 9:11 AM CDT, June 28, 2025

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes killed at least 62 people across Gaza overnight and into Saturday, health workers said, as ceasefire prospects were said to be improving.

Three children and their parents were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent camp in Muwasi near the southern city of Khan Younis. They were struck while sleeping, relatives said.

“What did these children do to them? What is their fault?” said the children’s grandmother, Suad Abu Teima, as others knelt to kiss their bloodied faces and wept. Some placed red flowers into the body bags.

Also among the dead were 12 people near the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, which was sheltering displaced people, and eight more in apartments, according to staff at Shifa Hospital. More than 20 bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital, according to health officials.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/israel-pales ... f2b9236c75

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Haaretz- 'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid

https://archive.ph/LNFr0

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‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... propaganda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C ... e_Collines

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When the Helping Hand Holds a Machine Gun
By Jeffrey St. Clair
July 4, 2025

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(Counterpuch) There’s no precise number for how many Palestinians have been starved to death by Israel’s embargo on food entering Gaza. But there is a number for how many Palestinians have been killed trying to keep from starving to death at food distribution sites, many of them by Israeli gun or mortar fire: 549, with 5 to 10 more Palestinians being killed every day. More than 4,000 have been wounded.

These killings weren’t accidents. They weren’t provoked. They didn’t come about as an attempt to quell riots. The people killed were not collateral damage in attempts to kill Hamas fighters. The shootings were not in retaliation for any violence from the Palestinians. Israeli troops were ordered to fire on Palestinians coming to get scraps of food handed out by the Christian fundamentalists and mercenaries who run the food distribution sites set up by Trump and Netanyahu. Let’s repeat that: Israeli troops were ordered to kill starving, unarmed civilians who were trying to get food for their families.

These killings aren’t news to anyone who has been paying attention to reports coming out of Gaza from Palestinian journalists, eye-witness testimony from survivors of the attacks, and doctors who have treated the wounded and examined the bodies of the dead.

The news is that the Israeli paper Haaretz got Israeli soldiers to describe how their superiors ordered them to fire into crowds of people seeking food at aid distribution sites that Israel itself had designated. These sites have become the latest kill zones for Palestinian civilians.

Read more here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/0 ... ine-gun/

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Gaza: Evidence points to Israel’s continued use of starvation to inflict genocide against Palestinians

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/ ... estinians/

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NYT- Israel’s Deadly Assault on Iran Prison Incites Fury, Even Among Dissidents

https://archive.is/LglVk

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Rights Group Applauds Vote by Largest US Teachers Union to Cut Anti-Defamation League Ties
By Julia Conley
July 8, 2025

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(Common Dreams) A leading Muslim civil rights group was among those applauding on Tuesday after the largest labor union in the United States took a major step toward "fostering respect for the rights and dignity of all students in public schools" by voting to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League.

The National Education Association (NEA), which represents nearly 3 million educators, approved a measure saying it "will not use, endorse, or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or statistics."

The move is significant considering the influence the ADL has had over curriculum related to Israel in U.S. schools for decades, with the organization devising recent lesson plans about antisemitism "in the extreme political left" in the U.S., noting that such supposed antisemitism "is often centered on opposition to the state of Israel."

The ADL published a report last year that equated antisemitism with anti-Zionism and pointed to nationwide demonstrations against Israel's U.S.-backed assault on Palestinians in Gaza as evidence that antisemitism is on the rise in the United States. The group has also lobbied in favor of legislation like the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which critics have said could be used to limit the right to criticize Israel on school campuses.

The NEA's 7,000-member Representative Assembly voted for the measure on Sunday, finding that "despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be."

Read more here: https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-schools

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"HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THE HOLY AND SACRED NATION OF ISRAEL!!!!1!"

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BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American

https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-israeli-se ... l-american