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Asteris Masouras 正义 retweeted
Yesterday, a sand embankment collapsed onto tents sheltering displaced families.
Today, the wall of a house collapsed onto a tent for displaced people in the Al-Mufti area, north of Nuseirat, in central Gaza.
We are so, so exhausted. 💔
Today, the wall of a house collapsed onto a tent for displaced people in the Al-Mufti area, north of Nuseirat, in central Gaza.
We are so, so exhausted. 💔
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On Wednesday, the first hearing in the retrial of @Linaattalah takes place, after she learned she had been sentenced to a one-year absentia jail sentence on charges of publishing false news and managing an unlicensed website.
All my solidarity with Lina and the @MadaMasr team.
All my solidarity with Lina and the @MadaMasr team.
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Asteris Masouras 正义 retweeted
For last 24 hours I’ve seen footage of horrific scenes from Gaza, just absolute human misery. Yet..it’s not there on any news outlet’s home pages, not discussed on our witless political shows. We’re just going to ignore it? Is that the plan?
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Exclusive: A covert Russian network sought to exploit last month's riots in France by using social media to blame the unrest on uncontrolled immigration and portray the government as having lost control, according to an internal EU assessment seen by Reuters reut.rs/3UMHXCW
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Israel runs what Israeli rights group B'Tselem calls a network of torture camps, where it systematically starves, tortures and sexually assaults Palestinians. About half of the Palestinians at these camps have never been charged with any crime. Those who are charged face military courts where the conviction rate tops 99%. All are denied all family visits.
In June 1944, after pressure from Denmark and the Red Cross, Nazi Germany let the Red Cross tour Theresienstadt, its concentration camp-ghetto in occupied Czechoslovakia. To prepare, the Nazis ran a "beautification" campaign where they painted buildings, planted gardens and set up fake shops, a café and a school. To make the camp look less crowded, they deported about 7,500 prisoners to Auschwitz, the extermination camp. Then they walked the delegates past coached prisoners along a planned route. The Red Cross ended up writing a favorable report.
Israel staged its own version in September 2026. A Red Cross team toured parts of an unnamed military detention facility, its first since October 7, 2023, but unlike Nazi Germany, Israel did not feel the pressure to allow them to meet a single Palestinian detainee. More than three years after Israel cut off visits, the United States and its Western allies, Israel's main backers, haven't pressured Israel into allowing real visits to detainees, despite a June 2026 order from Israel's own Supreme Court.
On Oct. 25, the Red Cross once again noted that prison visits "have not yet resumed.” Read more on the treatment of Palestinians in these torture camps in the latest report below ⬇️
In June 1944, after pressure from Denmark and the Red Cross, Nazi Germany let the Red Cross tour Theresienstadt, its concentration camp-ghetto in occupied Czechoslovakia. To prepare, the Nazis ran a "beautification" campaign where they painted buildings, planted gardens and set up fake shops, a café and a school. To make the camp look less crowded, they deported about 7,500 prisoners to Auschwitz, the extermination camp. Then they walked the delegates past coached prisoners along a planned route. The Red Cross ended up writing a favorable report.
Israel staged its own version in September 2026. A Red Cross team toured parts of an unnamed military detention facility, its first since October 7, 2023, but unlike Nazi Germany, Israel did not feel the pressure to allow them to meet a single Palestinian detainee. More than three years after Israel cut off visits, the United States and its Western allies, Israel's main backers, haven't pressured Israel into allowing real visits to detainees, despite a June 2026 order from Israel's own Supreme Court.
On Oct. 25, the Red Cross once again noted that prison visits "have not yet resumed.” Read more on the treatment of Palestinians in these torture camps in the latest report below ⬇️
🚨80% of Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons Infected With Scabies, Amid Widespread Torture, Starvation and Violent Raids
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported Sunday that approximately 80% of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, including women and children, are infected with scabies, with authorities denying adequate treatment, clothing and hygiene facilities.
Based on lawyers’ visits throughout October and early November, PPS documented:
▪️ Violent raids every two to three days in some prison sections, with prisoners subjected to severe beatings, attacks by police dogs, rubber-coated bullets and gas.
▪️ Broken teeth and ribs, severed hand tendons, burns and extensive bruising, with injured prisoners denied necessary surgeries and medical care.
▪️ Systematic food deprivation, with prisoners receiving severely inadequate quantities and quality of food.
▪️ Severe overcrowding, forcing prisoners to sleep on floors while guards confiscate mattresses during the day.
▪️ Women prisoners at Damon Prison suffering painful skin infections, severe itching, sleep deprivation and inadequate healthcare. Israeli prison authorities reportedly dismiss confirmed scabies infections as allergies.
▪️ October 28 raid at Naqab Prison: Israeli forces fired rubber-coated bullets and sprayed gas at prisoners, injuring three and severely beating others.
Separately, Palestinian rights organization Al-Dameer warned that prisoners at Naqab Prison are being denied winter clothing despite falling temperatures, with scabies causing painful boils, blisters and skin sores.
More than 9,300 Palestinians, including approximately 90 women, are currently imprisoned by Israel, according to PPS.
The organization described the abuses as a systematic campaign of torture, starvation and medical neglect intended to destroy Palestinian prisoners physically and psychologically.
Sources: Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and Al-Dameer, November 8, 2026.
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Asteris Masouras 正义 retweeted
"5 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza after a sand embankment collapsed. It buried tents housing forcibly displaced families. 4 of the victims were children"
Israel is still blocking the entry of machinery, materials & shelters into Gaza. It murdered these people.
Israel is still blocking the entry of machinery, materials & shelters into Gaza. It murdered these people.
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Palestinians are crying for help from sewage-flooded tents.
In just 12 hours, 70,000 tents have been submerged in floodwater and sewage after heavy rains.
In just 12 hours, 70,000 tents have been submerged in floodwater and sewage after heavy rains.
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The irony of the century: genocide perpetrators become members of the UN’s “Independent Audit Advisory Committee.”
REALITY CHECK: “ISRAEL” HAS KILLED 74,500+ PALESTINIANS IN COLD BLOOD.
REALITY CHECK: “ISRAEL” HAS KILLED 74,500+ PALESTINIANS IN COLD BLOOD.
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3 years after the onset of the genocide and dozens of thorough investigations later, this 👇 is not misinformed analysis. It is willful whitewashing of verifiable war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken:
The Israelis didn't intend to harm Palestinians.
The target was Hamas.
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In 2010, I learned about the Khan Younis massacre through #JoeSacco’s Footnotes in Gaza. I carried the book on a trip to Gaza. At Erez, a UN official asked me to cover it-lest we upset the Israeli guards.
How long have we normalised Palestinian massacres by keeping them unspoken?
How long have we normalised Palestinian massacres by keeping them unspoken?
Today marked the 70th anniversary of the Khan Yunis Massacre.
On November 3, 1956, during the Tripartite Aggression against Egypt, Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians in Khan Yunis. According to figures documented by UNRWA, 275 Palestinians were killed, including 140 residents. Just nine days later, another 111 people were reported killed in Rafah, bringing the combined reported death toll to 386.
Palestinian survivors described horrifying acts of brutality: Israeli soldiers raiding homes, dragging men into the streets, separating fathers and sons from their families, lining up unarmed civilians against walls, and opening fire with machine guns. Witnesses also described bodies lying in the streets and grieving families unable to bury their loved ones because of military curfews.
Palestinian historian Salman Abu Sitta recounts how Israeli soldiers rounded up men from Khan Yunis, including teachers, shopkeepers, farmers, and other ordinary civilians, and marched them toward the historic Barquq Castle. According to his account, soldiers lined the men against a wall near a school, ordered them to jump across a ditch, and opened fire with machine guns, turning the ditch into a grave.
Palestinian historian Ihsan Khalil al-Agha documented a higher death toll, estimating approximately 520 victims of executions and other killings during the broader assault and occupation. Survivor testimonies also describe women being left to collect the bodies of their husbands, sons, and brothers and bury them in mass graves.
The attached image shows some of the victims.
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What an odd way to say Israeli authorities killed a child by depriving him of food while illegally imprisoning him
Israel to release body of Palestinian teen who died malnourished in prison haaretz.com/west-bank/2026…
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Britain says it opposes Israel's illegal settlements and restricts arms exports.
Yet its ambassador is honorary president of a trade chamber connected to Israeli arms manufacturers and a bank helping finance those very settlements.
My home in Gaza is rubble. Thousands of laced.
And Britain is still helping build business relationships with those profiting from all this.
#Gaza #Palestine #UKPolitics
Yet its ambassador is honorary president of a trade chamber connected to Israeli arms manufacturers and a bank helping finance those very settlements.
My home in Gaza is rubble. Thousands of laced.
And Britain is still helping build business relationships with those profiting from all this.
#Gaza #Palestine #UKPolitics
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The sand embankment that collapsed onto tents sheltering Palestinian families in central Gaza killed 6 people, including 4 children & a mother qudsnen.com/share/68584
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🚨 BREAKING | Gaza Civil Defense: Our vehicles have stopped responding to humanitarian emergencies in the Central and Gaza governorates due to a lack of spare parts.
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Heavy rain has flooded tens of thousands of tents housing displaced Palestinians across Gaza.
It was a sleepless night for many, as the rain washed away makeshift shelters and soaked blankets and mattresses.
More than a year after the ceasefire began in Gaza, little has changed ,000 residents – most of whom now live in tent camps.
It was a sleepless night for many, as the rain washed away makeshift shelters and soaked blankets and mattresses.
More than a year after the ceasefire began in Gaza, little has changed ,000 residents – most of whom now live in tent camps.
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Asteris Masouras 正义 retweeted
A Palestinian child froze to death in Gaza this morning.
This brings the number of children who have died from the cold since last winter to 12.
This brings the number of children who have died from the cold since last winter to 12.
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Anyone who has camped in serious rain knows how miserable it can be, especially when your attempts to keep the rain out fail. All you want is to feel dry again. When it’s cold it’s exponentially worse. When you’re with your kids, you feel awful for them as they shiver. Now imagine the tent is your forced home, the water keeps rising, and there’s nowhere to go to get dry or warm.
I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
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Israel refuses to allow genocide survivors regular access to toilets.
The Israeli goal is to spread disease among Palestinians to further the genocide.
The Israeli goal is to spread disease among Palestinians to further the genocide.
🚨HORRIBLE: Sewage has mixed with rainwater as floodwaters engulf displaced Palestinians’ tents in Gaza. For the fourth consecutive winter, families are once again facing flooding, contamination, and unimaginable suffering as a result of Israel’s genocidal war.
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🟢 Hamas: Israel’s Refusal to Allow Shelter Supplies Into Gaza Responsible for Worsening Humanitarian Catastrophe
Hamas condemned the Israeli military’s claims that it is coordinating with international organizations to address Gaza’s winter emergency as a “blatant attempt to evade responsibility” for the catastrophe caused by its destruction of homes, ongoing blockade, and refusal to allow shelter supplies into Gaza.
“Tens of thousands of tents” have flooded and hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have been left exposed to the cold and rain, Hamas said, accusing Israel of continuing to block shelter materials, reconstruction supplies, and essential equipment.
“The occupation’s blatant attempt to present itself as responding to Gaza’s humanitarian needs fools no one,” Hamas said, accusing Israel of deliberately delaying implementation of the ceasefire’s humanitarian provisions.
Hamas rejected Israel’s attempts to condition reconstruction and humanitarian assistance on political or security demands, insisting that shelter, food, medicine, and a dignified life are fundamental rights, “not a tool for blackmail.”
Hamas condemned the Israeli military’s claims that it is coordinating with international organizations to address Gaza’s winter emergency as a “blatant attempt to evade responsibility” for the catastrophe caused by its destruction of homes, ongoing blockade, and refusal to allow shelter supplies into Gaza.
“Tens of thousands of tents” have flooded and hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have been left exposed to the cold and rain, Hamas said, accusing Israel of continuing to block shelter materials, reconstruction supplies, and essential equipment.
“The occupation’s blatant attempt to present itself as responding to Gaza’s humanitarian needs fools no one,” Hamas said, accusing Israel of deliberately delaying implementation of the ceasefire’s humanitarian provisions.
Hamas rejected Israel’s attempts to condition reconstruction and humanitarian assistance on political or security demands, insisting that shelter, food, medicine, and a dignified life are fundamental rights, “not a tool for blackmail.”
Heavy rainfall triggered flooding through displacement camps in Gaza City, with Palestinians saying their belongings, including their bedding, have all become soaked reut.rs/3VcFphx
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