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As Israeli forces ramp up their use of live ammunition, they, along with Israeli settlers, are deliberately targeting “Palestinian protestors – and the medics trying to rescue them” … Palestinian Medics on the Front Line Fighting to Save Lives (Al-Jazeera) … meanwhile, Israel’s Internal Security Minister hypocritically declares, “The right to demonstrate is a right…

“What if all the Palestinians in the West Bank entered and protested in Sheikh Jarrah? Can the [Israeli] occupation arrest thousands? Our numbers will be larger than theirs”–a Palestinian journalist: Israel’s Biggest Fear Is the Palestinian Masses Gathering (Middle East Eye) 15 year old Mohammad Said Hamayel was killed and six others wounded by Israeli…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer noted that this is the first time that a member of America’s “third largest religion … will become the first to ever serve as an Article III judge”: Senate Confirms Zahid Quraishi as First Muslim American Federal Judge in US History (CNN) The Israeli authorities’ decision to shut down the…

Israeli police arrested leading Sheikh Jarrah activist Muna El-Kurd at her family’s home on June 6, claiming that she was accused of “participating in riots” … Israel Arrests Palestinian Activist Muna el-Kurd in East Jerusalem (BBC) … and ordered Arabs in the city of Nazareth detained suspected of participating in riots “to sit on the…

An “estimated one million public and private bomb shelters” across Israel do not benefit “unrecognized” Palestinian-majority  villages such as Dahmash, which does not have access to a single one, and lack “basic services and infrastructure”: Israeli Ambassador Slammed for Exploiting Death of Young Palestinian Citizen of Israel (Middle East Eye) Marathon runners peacefully protesting the…

Facebook has repeatedly bowed down to government demands to take down content that is against their interests including removing “posts from prominent Palestinian activists” and helped Indian PM Narendra Modi “stifle criticism of his government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic”: India and Israel Inflame Facebook’s Fights With Its Own Employees (NY Times) UN decision to…

Unconditional support for Israel has made it increasingly difficult for the US to claim “moral high ground on the world stage” as Israel employs its “superior military power” to “kill and terrorize residents of Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon with near impunity”: It’s Time to End the ‘Special Relationship’ With Israel (Foreign Policy) Increasing…

At least 61 children were among the victims arrested as Israeli forces are rounding up Palestinians en masse inside Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory: ‘Terrorizing a Generation’: Israel Arresting Palestinian Children (Al-Jazeera) The War on Palestinians Continues—Now in the Form of Mass Arrests (The Nation) The tipping point in public willingness to close its…

Once Palestine’s cultural and economic capital, Jaffa is still home to around 20,000 Palestinians that lived there before Israel’s establishment in 1948, but government backed gentrification aims to push them out: The Other War in Israel: Gentrification (Intelligencer) Undercover Israeli forces, known as “Mista’arvim”, sneaked their way into the Umm Al-Sharayet neighborhood, where they shot…