Palestine Open Thread 2025-136
News & views related to the war in Palestine ...
Posted by b on June 19, 2025 at 12:19 UTC | Permalink
Surely if, as the mainstream media has said, the US has withdrawn troops from some of their outlying middle east compounds, that is a victory for Iran? Should I presume that in IRAQ at least, those basses will now be occupied by Iraqi militia?
Posted by: scepticalSOB | Jun 19 2025 12:32 utc | 2
Assal Rad
@AssalRad
.@AndrewMarr9
: Why did Israel use drones, tanks and artillery to kill 51 people queuing for food?
🇮🇱: When we win the Iran war we’re gonna have a ceasefire in Gaza
Marr: I’m asking why you’re killing civilians—
🇮🇱: We're not
Marr: You are
See why they started a war with Iran
https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1935214588926259330
Posted by: Menz | Jun 19 2025 12:36 utc | 3
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Gaza Notifications
@gazanotice
🚨BREAKING | Several killed and injured as Israeli warplanes target displacement tents near Al-Quds Hospital, run by the Palestinian Red Crescent, in Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest Gaza City.
https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1935654594085785866
Posted by: Menz | Jun 19 2025 12:37 utc | 4
Middle East Observer
@ME_Observer_
⚡️⭕️ Occupied West Bank :
Documentation of soldiers holding a birthday party in a house in the town of Jaba after evicting its residents
https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1935425820744389047
Posted by: Menz | Jun 19 2025 12:38 utc | 5
Repeating the set of local Palestine links....
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/GazaNewsNow?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/NewsPs0?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Martyred:
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/hossamsshbat?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Reporting from Rafah
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/madinat_khanyuns?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Posted by: Ornot | Jun 19 2025 13:01 utc | 6
I put this up on the Iran tic-toe. Here it is again. The world stays pretty much silent. Any news on the "1000 boat" relief effort from Maylasia? I'm with Caitlyn. Never forget. Never forgive.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/israeli-forces-continue-demolition-of-homes-in-jenin-refugee-camp/
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Jun 19 2025 16:16 utc | 8
I would just like to reiterate that the actual death toll in the Gaza Strip from Oct. 2023 to now has to be at least 600,000 to 1,000,000. I cannot conceive of how the Gazans can even survive trapped in such a small area with no food and very little medical help. That would not count the maimed either. This is a crime for all the ages that will continue to reverberate as long as any of the present company are alive, and it will keep producing consequences. Israel will never get out of this.
Posted by: Cabe | Jun 19 2025 17:49 utc | 9
This is evil. God's Chosen People are evil.
Indisputable, recurrent, ghastly, premeditated evil.
Wake up, true Christians. If you countenance this, you're evil, too.
What would Jesus make of this horror?
Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Jun 19 2025 18:43 utc | 10
ADAM
@AdameMedia
Europe is about to condemn Iran for bombing a military base next to a hospital.
But when Israel did it they were all for it.
German FM Baerbock:
"We will not be ashamed to target civilians and hospitals as long as it ensures Israel's security."
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1935588582892216722
Posted by: Menz | Jun 19 2025 20:40 utc | 11
From one of the most vile peoples on Earth:
Sprinter Observer
@SprinterObserve
Israeli Sports Minister Zohar:
"Only the most vile people on earth can fire missiles at civilians lying in hospital beds."
https://x.com/SprinterObserve/status/1935608574161420328
Posted by: Menz | Jun 19 2025 20:41 utc | 12
Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
Smotrich is on record saying that it is explicit Israeli policy to target civilian infrastructure and civil officials in Gaza. He said it openly.
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Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
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May 23
Smotrich: “The IDF is finally conducting a campaign against the civilian rule of Hamas and not just focusing on the military infrastructure. We are eliminating ministers, officials, money changers, and elements of the economic and governmental system.”
https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1935691797881069753
Posted by: Menz | Jun 19 2025 20:42 utc | 13
Trita Parsi
@tparsi
+50,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered in Gaza
+500 Iranians have been killed
But Netanyahu's son has had to postpone his wedding twice!
Every time the West says "Israel has a right to defend itself" when Israel commits acts of aggression, the West adds to this delusion.
Suppressed News.
@SuppressedNws
⚡️🇮🇱JUST IN: Israeli PM Netanyahu following Iran’s latest missile strike:
“We all bear a personal price , It didn't pass by my family, this is the second time my son Avner’s wedding is delayed because of missiles, it's a huge personal price for him, for his fiancé & my family."
https://x.com/tparsi/status/1935744489773318480
Posted by: Menz | Jun 19 2025 20:43 utc | 14
Assal Rad
@AssalRad
Another Israeli massacre today in Gaza. Where is the wall-to-wall coverage for this?
Video (1:11)
https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1935753518897680689
Posted by: Menz | Jun 19 2025 20:45 utc | 15
Flicking through and listening to the news today, it strikes me just how worthless Palestinian lives are to the West.
Posted by: Menz | Jun 19 2025 20:47 utc | 16
Israeli force demolished 10 homes and arrested 4 people in the Quneitra countryside
An Israeli force demolished 10 homes and arrested 4 people in the Quneitra countryside following a military incursion and house searches near Israeli military sites.
On Monday, an Israeli military patrol demolished eight civilian homes in the village of Al-Hamidiyah, claiming they were close to its military base. The forces also arrested two civilians from eastern Samdaniyah, without knowing the charges against them.
According to the Syrian Observatory, the arrests came hours after an Israeli patrol consisting of four vehicles loaded with personnel and weapons entered the village of eastern Samdaniyah in the central Quneitra countryside and searched several homes in the village.
Israeli forces also demolished two homes in the village of Al-Hamidiyah in the Quneitra countryside, claiming they were close to an Israeli military post. They arrested two civilians, bringing the total number of demolished homes to 10, and the number of detainees to four.
Israeli forces continue to commit violations that anger residents, without any official comment from the Syrian transitional government authorities.
Posted by: Menz | Jun 19 2025 20:49 utc | 17
Middle East Observer
@ME_Observer_
⚡️⭕️ Occupied West Bank :
Documentation of soldiers holding a birthday party in a house in the town of Jaba after evicting its residents
https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1935425820744389047
Posted by: Menz | Jun 19 2025 20:50 utc | 18
Israel is not only increasing the killing in Gaza, but is fencing off and committing atrocities in the West Bank in a tear.
They are getting the West Bank caged in just like Gaza. So much easier to murder those who cannot escape.
These are just two stories from the West Bank today.
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The Israeli military installed an iron gate at the main entrance to the town of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm, fully sealing off the access point, Wafa news agency reported on Thursday.
Local residents told Wafa that the Israeli military replaced the earth mounds that had previously blocked the entrance and replaced them with a metal gate, a move seen as tightening the siege imposed on the town.
The Israeli military originally closed the main entrance to Beit Lid in November 2023 by erecting earth mounds to isolate the town from surrounding areas. Since then, residents have been forced to use dangerous and rugged alternative routes to reach Tulkarm and other destinations.
In a related development, the Israeli military also recently sealed off the main entrance to the neighbouring town of Ramin, also located east of Tulkarm, with an iron gate. That entrance had likewise been blocked by earth mounds since November 2023.
Israeli authorities order closures for most cities in the West Bank, Al Jazeera's correspondent report.
Israeli forces have also been conducting raids and demolitions across the occupied territory, wounding several Palestinians since dawn, and have even stolen money and gold during house searches, according to local media.
Additionally, several homes in the West Bank were turned into military posts, after residents were forcibly removed from them.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-authorities-close-cities-occupied-west-bank?nid=423617&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=545642
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Posted by: teri | Jun 19 2025 22:22 utc | 19
meanwhile back at the Ranch
see the photo at the links
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1935833802049302965
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs
If one needs people starving to death, scheletric, or burned alive to call it genocide, there we are.
But wait. Does one also need for the victims to be a specific number, like 6 million or close to it, to call it genocide? That would be over two times Gaza's population and equivalent to all Palestinians under Israeli rule. Is this what States are waiting for to stop Israel?
https://x.com/ASE/status/1935754026559115630
Ahmed Eldin | احمد الدين @ASE
As Israel cries about Iran’s retaliation, it is dropping bombs on tents full of displaced civilians in Gaza—burning entire Palestinian families alive. AGAIN.
Over 144 killed in less than 24 hours.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 20 2025 1:21 utc | 20
see the 53-second video at the first link. Graphic
see the 43-second video at the second/third link
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1935647150614167580
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
The Western-backed Zionist regime has carried out another major massacre in Gaza, bombing tents full of refugees.
Silence is complicity.
#GazaGenocide
#GazaHolocaust
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https://x.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1935605181158232524
Free Palestine TV @TVFreePalestine
For months our FPTV team (Laith Marouf & @HadiHtt) reported from scenes like this in Beirut and all over Lebanon. It is heart warming to finally see the Zionist enemies of humanity finally taste their own depravity.
https://x.com/angeloinchina/status/1935602131115131186
Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹🔻🔻🔻 @angeloinchina
Tel Aviv getting a very very tiny taste of what they did to Gaza
Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 20 2025 2:24 utc | 21
I can't access x, michaelj72 | Jun 20 2025 2:24 utc | 21, sorry. I never did Twitter, so not a recent decision. But thanks for keeping on with your informative posts. I saw on Daniel Davis that Trump is beginning to withdraw troops out of harm's way. Davis said also that videos showing tanks killing innocents whose only crime was to be starving. I wish Trump would have thought more about what he has been enabling, but there is much we do not know. And meanwhile, the Palestinians ... it is all terrible.
I posted a link to Daniel Davis' great last video on the open open thread. I hope it is still available. It references Putin's statement about his people in Iran. He is leaving them there, and might send more. karlof1 might have some translations by the weekend to clarify. I saw a long newspiece following Putin's meeting with press people. Putin gave a full accounting, memorable. I can't wait to see what karlof1 can bring us.
'night.
Posted by: juliania | Jun 20 2025 3:10 utc | 22
Another day - more deaths. Only 22 comments on Gaza/Palestine. The evil Izzies are using the Iran drama to ramp up the killing in Gaza. Disgusting. https://www.telesurenglish.net/gaza-infants-face-death-as-formula-runs-out-under-israeli-siege/
"I wish Trump would have thought more about what he is enabling" Julianna he DID think about what he's been enabling. He
and his offspring in partnership with the Saudis are planning golf courses and resort hotels for Gaza. Trump and Nutty Yahoo are both 100% psychopaths. You have been reading about the plans to move Palestinians to...Egypt. Jordan. Lebanon. etc etc. ???
You can find D. Davis posts on Larry Johnson's site Sonar21.
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Jun 20 2025 14:24 utc | 23
More on Gaza. The Rabid Dogs of Izzyhell are bragging about the body count in Gaza. https://globalsouth.co/2025/06/10/the-war-genocide-thread-3/.
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Jun 20 2025 14:30 utc | 24
I found 2 new articles that summarize very well what has been going on Gaza and the West Bank this week while we are all focused on Israel's assault on Iran. Rather than post parts of them, I'll just give a link to each. You can read for yourself if you are interested.
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A summary of Israel's actions in Palestine from Friday 13th to Thursday 19th (yesterday):
https://www.newarab.com/news/while-bombing-iran-heres-what-israel-did-gaza-west-bank
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Details of Israeli crimes from yesterday. Warning: some gruesome videos of food aid murders, Palestinians burned alive in tents, etc. Israel has not let up at all on the Palestinians while attacking multiple other countries.
https://imemc.org/article/thursday-in-gaza-dozens-of-casualties-in-ongoing-israeli-bombing/
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This is from yesterday, and is included in the imemc article above. I just think it should be shared. This is what Israel, along with the US, is doing to the children in Gaza. No, it is NOT a video of a child blown apart. This is a little girl who only had her father and two brothers left. She was wounded in the strike; her father and two brothers were killed. She begs to talk to her father and wants to go with him rather than be left behind with no family:
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"Didn't you say you'd take me to the beach on Saturday?" With these words, wounded Palestinian girl Luna Rasras bid farewell to her father and two siblings after an Israeli strike targeted their tent in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis.
Luna had been waiting for a simple promise, a day at the beach. Instead, she was left injured and alone, mourning the loss of her family of what was supposed to be their shelter. This is the reality of the ongoing genocide the Israeli occupation has been committing against Palestinians. No safety. No childhood. No hope for survival.
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Posted by: teri | Jun 20 2025 14:59 utc | 25
This is a little girl who only had her father and two brothers left: from my above at #25.
Correction: It was her father and a brother and a sister who died.
Posted by: teri | Jun 20 2025 15:04 utc | 26
According to an internal EU audit report, Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip are not compatible with the established principles for close cooperation. A corresponding analysis with this result has now been sent to the member states, as the German Press Agency in Brussels was informed by diplomats.
Posted by: Apollyon | Jun 20 2025 15:12 utc | 27
teri and Michael. Thanks for continuing to post. We must !!!! keep talking about it and keep trying to wake up the world. Here's this https://www.telesurenglish.net/venezuelans-march-for-peace-back-iran-and-palestine-amid-israeli-aggression/
Also, in Murika, Veterans for Peace is staging a Fast for Gaza. You may have heard? 250 calories per day, which is what the average Gaza receives. Let me know if you want a link.
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Jun 20 2025 16:55 utc | 28
The English government is to ban the group Palestine Action – making it a criminal offence to support them – of course the English government has no problem with you – if you support the proscribed terrorist head choppers (HTS) – or the genocide committing Zionists, or the Neo-Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jun 20 2025 18:22 utc | 29
see the 40-second video at the first link. graphic
see the photo at the second link
see the 26-second video at the third link
there is no phony two-state solution. fock that. israel must and will be abolished. There is one nation there, and it is Palestine
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1936106533311684910
Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws
⚡️🇵🇸🇮🇱BREAKING:
Israel just bombed civilians near the Durabiya roundabout by the Asia Mosque in western Gaza City.
⚠️TW.
https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1935654368398712900
ADAM @AdameMedia
These were the doctors and nurses at Kamal Adwan Hospital.
They weren’t fighters.
Never forget.
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1936114858904502656
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
America is the Great Satan.
#GazaHolocaust
Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 20 2025 19:36 utc | 30
see the 40-second video at the first link. graphic
see the 13-second video at the second link
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1936118870277812307
Drop Site @DropSiteNews
NEW: Israeli Drone Strike Kills at Least 7 in Al-Nasr Neighborhood, Gaza City
At least seven Palestinians were killed Friday when an Israeli drone strike hit the Darbieh roundabout in Al-Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City— in an area the Israeli military had earlier ordered Gaza City residents to evacuate to for safety.
➤ Healthcare Workers Watch (@HCWWatch) reports a nurse and his father were among those killed in the strike, which targeted a group of civilians gathered around a charging point.
➤ Quds News confirmed the death toll had reached seven, with several more wounded.
➤ Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza, said Israel has carried out 12 drone strikes in just over 24 hours—many targeting people “gathering in the streets, waiting for water, for food.” And around tents which have some of the only power sources in neighborhoods.
Grisly footage shows men, women, and children collapsed in pools of blood, plastic chairs melted into rubble, and walls shredded with shrapnel. Some bodies appear burned beyond recognition—others lie lifeless with limbs torn apart near a charging station.
⚠️ GRAPHIC: Footage of the aftermath (from the area the Israeli military directed Palestinians to for their ‘safety.’)
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1936108987612594503
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
Zionist bulldozers have continued the widespread demolition of homes in Nour Shams refugee camp, located in the occupied West Bank.
The regime issued demolition notices for dozens of houses in the camp and the neighboring Tulkarm refugee camp.
Ethnic cleansing is quickening.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 20 2025 20:00 utc | 31
Also, in Murika, Veterans for Peace is staging a Fast for Gaza. You may have heard? 250 calories per day, which is what the average Gaza receives. Let me know if you want a link.
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Jun 20 2025 16:55 utc | 28
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Yes, I had heard of that.
My brother and I regularly fast as part of our personal practices....although our reasons are somewhat different and our fasting times are different. In any case, this is not the place for that kind of too-much-personal-info kind of stuff, so enough about that. Fasting can clarify thoughts, but one must do it properly. Suddenly drastically down on caloric intake to the extent you are talking about is quite hard on the body, including the heart and brain, as well as the metabolism of someone not used to it.
Thank you for bringing it up, though. Maybe it will bring some attention to Gaza. One can hope!
Best,
Teri
Posted by: teri | Jun 20 2025 20:56 utc | 32
The Centre For Israel & Jewish Affairs (Canada)
https://x.com/CIJAinfo/status/193615207153714
"Tomorrow is Indigenous Peoples Day...We treasure the friendships we've built with our Indigenous partners and look forward to continued dialogue and allyship in the years ahead. We also stand with them and all Indigenous peoples in Canada, in the pursuit of true reconciliation and justice..."
No they don't. Beware.
"...This is not the first time that CIJA has expressed 'support' for beleagured Natives. For years now, just as hundreds of Canadian MPs, MPPs, police, officials, and what-have-you are invited regularly on junkets to Israel by CIJA or other pro-Israel groups, CIJA self-proclaimed 'social activists' are now courting local native groups with similar free trips.
The Native resistance movement has continued to grow in the past half century. And anyone with even a slight awareness of how Natives in Canada were dispossessed and abused by colonial settlers can easily see the parallel between Canada's Natives and Palestinians.
So it makes perfect sense for Canada's Zionists to be proactive, to try to convince Canada's natives that it is the (largely European and American) Jews who are indigenous to Palestine, not the native Arabs.
The story the Cree are told on their Youth Leadership Development Missions is that Israelis, like the Natives, are merely trying to reassert their legitimate indigenous rights to their land..."
Natives & Israel: Manipulating Genocide (2013)
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/natives-and-israel-manipulating-genocide/
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 21 2025 4:11 utc | 33
Corrected url for above: The Centre For Israel & Jewish Affairs (Canada)
https://x.com/CIJAinfo/status/1936152071537147942
"...We also stand with them, and all Indigenous Peoples in Canada, in the pursuit of true reconciliation and justice."
No you don't. Beware.
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 21 2025 4:16 utc | 34
'We Have No Food To Eat!' Says A Hungry Child in Gaza (& vid)
https://x.com/GazaaStrip/status/1935788870052069452
"Israel has blocked everything - food, water, life! But now Iran is teaching Israel a hard lesson. Gaza is not alone anymore."
we in the belly of the beast should be tearing it apart and our complicit political class with it.
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 21 2025 6:36 utc | 35
https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1936097794344779783
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis
How long are we going to tolerate this for? When will the world throw Netanyahu and his criminal gang in the dark cell in which they belong?
https://x.com/BBCWorld/status/1934915074679771249
BBC News (World) @BBCWorld
Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians waiting for flour at Gaza aid site, witnesses and rescuers say
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74zj9kv2xjo
https://x.com/LACryptoDoctor/status/1934953555149967662
CryptoCardiologist @LACryptoDoctor
They have done so many repeated vile depraved acts of inhumanity & war crimes that it’s now an expected event.
But we must not allow the IDF to make us loose our humanity.
Don’t look away. Don’t become numb.
Raise your voice against any politician who supports this brutality.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 21 2025 20:24 utc | 36
The comments to this entry are closed.
Should develop a list of Israeli lies.
1) It started with a lie. G-d gave Palestine to the Jews.
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90712) The Gaza Holocaust was never about hostages or Hamas it was about stealing land. Motivated by greed,
and religious based delusions (see lie #1)
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91634) The recent attack upon Iran was to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.
Posted by: Otto Penn | Jun 19 2025 12:31 utc | 1