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June 22, 2025
Palestine Open Thread 2025-139

News & views related to the war in Palestine …

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There is no complete victory and no complete joy without Gaza
Gaza is the main issue. It is the beating heart. When Gaza rejoices, we will rejoice, and when Gaza triumphs, all of humanity will triumph.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 24 2025 23:11 utc | 99
I’m with you on that, Michael. I’ve been watching a lot of war discussion today, and nothing being said about Gaza itself and how that features into what comes next. Endless war seems to be changing into endless wars, that is, strangely orchestrated brief tit for tats, and on to the next one. I’m out of my depth, just looking for a way to have peace but apparently peace and profit are two different things. Sort of like how search engines morphed on the internet from being libraries of information to sellers of this that and the other thing. Sad.
I guess it is good that Iran didn’t get regime changed, but still, where does that leave Gaza?

Posted by: juliania | Jun 25 2025 0:26 utc | 101

The Ceasefire That Never Was: Gaza, Lebanon & Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gWclH3jvmM
“Laith Marouf joins photo-journalist Courtney Bonneau to report on the latest attack on Lebanon during its so-called ceasefire with the Zionist colony, as a ceasefire with Iran was coming into effect, and after a ceasefire failed many times in the Extermination Camp of Gaza.
The two discuss the many Zionist attacks on Lebanon that got very little coverage during the Zionist war on Iran, the continuing Genocide in Gaza and more.”
Resist don’t collaborate.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 25 2025 0:58 utc | 102

Israel Opens Fire Killing and Injuring Dozens at Aid Site in Gaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qZ62GHYwE
“This is our life. If only you hadn’t gone my dear…”
As the Western-backed Zio-nazis shoot starving people lured to possible food aid like fish in a barrel – we watch and watch and watch…cautioned by our ‘representatives’ against any anti-semitic response. America could make this genocide stop. Americans could make them do it.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 25 2025 1:19 utc | 103

https://x.com/caitoz/status/1937663149001572582
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
One of the most destructive propaganda narratives around today is the one promulgated by western liberals which holds that all the crimes Israel has been committing are a historical anomaly caused by a few far right extremists coming to power. This is what Israel has ALWAYS been.
https://x.com/Mondoweiss/status/1937541670347673882
Mondoweiss @Mondoweiss
Israel didn’t “turn” far-right — it was built on Jewish supremacy from the start.
@Dr_mauraf traces Zionism’s colonial logic back to Herzl, showing how it borrowed the blueprints of empire and white rule.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/the-jewish-supremacy-at-the-heart-of-the-zionist-project/
The Jewish supremacy at the heart of the Zionist project
Ideas of Jewish supremacy have been central to the Zionist movement from its beginning. Just as we call out white supremacy in the United States, we must call out Jewish supremacy in occupied Palestine……

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 25 2025 1:32 utc | 104

“We are seeing a foreign policy doctrine develop that will change the country (and the world) for the better,” wrote JD Vance, the US vice-president, usually a fierce critic of US military interventions in overseas wars.
1) clearly define an American interest;
2) negotiate aggressively to achieve that interest;
3) use overwhelming force if necessary.”
Can anyone see any change in US foreign policy in Mr Vance’s quoted 3 ‘Underpants Gnomes’ steps?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/trump-israel-iran-ceasefire-netanyahu

Posted by: George | Jun 25 2025 2:57 utc | 105

Laith Marouf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CAcPSmUoTc
“What if…?”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 25 2025 11:07 utc | 106

Sarah Wilkinson
@swilkinsonbc
The israelis have murdered at least 22 Palestinian people so far this morning, while yesterday they killed over 80 | via @SaulStaniforth
https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1937772454639783985

Posted by: Menz | Jun 25 2025 11:46 utc | 107

Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
🔵Maersk Cuts Ties With Israeli Settlements After Pressure Campaign
In a major victory for Palestinian organizers, Maersk has become the first global shipping company to cut all ties with businesses linked to illegal Israeli settlements. The move follows a months-long pressure campaign by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), which found Maersk profiting from Israel’s occupation.
➤ The campaign, dubbed Mask Off Maersk, exposed the company’s settlement-linked shipments in a January 2025 report and filed a complaint with the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
➤ By June, Maersk confirmed it had severed ties with 97 companies in the OHCHR settlement database and would take “corrective measures” to comply with international law.
➤ “Maersk’s decision proves that divestment from occupation is not only possible—it’s necessary,” said Aisha Nizar of PYM.
➤ PYM warns that Maersk still profits from the Gaza genocide by shipping F-35 components used in Israeli airstrikes. “This campaign is far from over,” Aisha added.
➤ Organizers say they will keep pressuring Maersk until it fully ends its role in Israeli militarism, genocide, and war profiteering.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1937376030999576901

Posted by: Menz | Jun 25 2025 11:48 utc | 108

Harvard Study Finds Israel ‘Disappeared’ Nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, Half of Them Children
https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/1937529877327905094
“Harvard has confirmed what we’ve been screaming into a deaf world. This is a holocaust – and it’s still happening.”
Listen to Laith Marouf #107 above and the call out to westerners to organize, resist and further weaken their elite oppressors.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 25 2025 11:57 utc | 109

“We have no partner for peace in Israel.”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 24 2025 23:36 utc | 100
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Jordan and “Israel” can’t be partners in any way when one is the master and the other the toady.

Posted by: malenkov | Jun 25 2025 13:53 utc | 110

Gaza news this morning:
Hamas kills 7 IDF in bombing of military vehicle:
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Seven Israeli soldiers killed in Hamas attack in southern Gaza Strip
Hamas militants plant bomb on Israeli military vehicle in Khan Younis, causing it to catch fire
Seven Israeli soldiers have been killed in a Hamas attack in the southern Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said on Wednesday, one of the deadliest incidents for the force in months. Meanwhile, Israeli attacks have killed 74 people in the Palestinian territory over the past 24 hours, according to local health authorities.
The seven Israeli soldiers, in the 605th combat engineering battalion, were killed on Tuesday after militants planted a bomb on their vehicle while they were driving in Khan Younis, causing it to catch fire. Hamas later claimed responsibility for the attack. […]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/seven-israeli-soldiers-killed-in-hamas-attack-in-southern-gaza-strip
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How the US spends your money; US will continue to fund the GHF group running the food aid scam in Gaza, and is seeking an ongoing monthly grant:
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The US government approved a $30 million grant to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on 20 June under a “priority directive” from the White House and the State Department. 
According to a document reviewed by Reuters, an initial $7 million had already been disbursed at the time. This is the first publicly known financial contribution by Washington to the GHF, which until now had received only diplomatic backing. 
Two officials cited in the report said the US may approve additional continuous monthly grants of $30 million to the group.
GHF, launched in late May, is a joint US–Israeli initiative that relies on private US military and logistics contractors to deliver and distribute aid across Gaza. Its activities have been closely linked to the killing of hundreds of Palestinians attempting to reach food and water.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 516 people have been killed near GHF aid points in the past month, with footage from the sites showing crowds being dispersed under live fire.
Medical teams have treated dozens of gunshot wounds to the head and upper body. The UN has warned that the “weaponization of food” at these sites may constitute a war crime.
One GHF contractor, writing anonymously in Zeteo, described the operation as “pure chaos,” confirming the presence of Israeli tanks and sniper units near the aid compounds. He said unarmed aid-seekers were fired upon, pushed, or expelled from the sites, and described the distribution model as an “aid trap.”
Most GHF distribution centers are located in southern Gaza or along Israeli-controlled corridors. According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, this forces displaced Palestinians to move under fire toward tightly controlled zones where they risk being killed while waiting for food.
On 11 June, Israeli artillery shelled aid-seekers near the Netzarim Corridor, killing 25 people. In similar incidents documented by +972 Magazine, survivors recalled being shot at or crushed in stampedes while trying to reach flour or canned goods.
Despite repeated calls for an independent investigation, US officials have blocked all related resolutions at the UN Security Council (UNSC).
By June 2025, Washington’s total US aid to Israel’s war effort is estimated to exceed $35 billion, which includes over $22 billion in direct military funding, alongside arms deals and regional deployments approved since October 2023.
https://thecradle.co/articles/washington-green-lights-$30m-for-Gaza-aid-scheme-tied-to-mass-killings-of-Palestinians
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The above mentioned program is run like a sick and twisted game show for the amusement of the US contractors and the IDF:
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Aid distribution centres run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) are set up very close to where Israeli forces are stationed, with their tanks, armoured vehicles and surrounding snipers. So when large crowds gather, they are vulnerable to Israeli fire.
Disturbingly, people are given just 20-minute windows at the aid centres to get their hands on whatever is available, such as food parcels. Once that 20-minute period ends, shooting often starts. That is one of the reasons we’re seeing large numbers of people dying at these centres.
Despite the danger, people feel that they have to go to the sites. If they don’t, their children will not eat.
https://aje.io/yc70xo?update=3798832
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Posted by: teri | Jun 25 2025 14:38 utc | 111

see the photo at the first/second link
https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1937280713856020944
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs
The only democracy in the Middle East to starve newborns and to cause the highest number of children killed, orphaned and amputated.
Inhumanity record, 2025.
https://x.com/fadiquran/status/1936902692342763743
Fadi Quran @fadiquran
Israel is starving NICU babies. Not by mistake—by policy.
The milk is gone. Mothers starving too.
When Israel says it’s defending itself and the EU and US echo it this is what they mean.
No other regime is committing cruelty like this.
Starving infants. Deliberately.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 25 2025 20:29 utc | 112

We Feed Gaza is still operating!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/wefeedgaza
Updates (51)
June 23rd, 2025
by Omar Haro, Organizer
Because of your donations this is what we achieved in the last 14 days…
-35 kg of crushed lentil soup
-55 kg of large food parcels
-30 kg of large food parcels
-45 kg of large food parcels
-40 kg of warm lentil soup
-64 kg of large food parcels
-60 kg of large food parcels
-60 kg of large food parcels
-35 kg of large food parcels
-60 kg of red lentil soup
(items)
potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, spinach, green peppers, eggplant, molokhia, parsley, jarada, bread flour, dry yeast, lentils, spices, salt, beans, peas, chips, and biscuits
(beneficiaries)
224 families
502 children
1,185 total people
(orphans)
32
(sick/disabled)
12
(elderly)
12
(widows)
1
(locations)
Al-Nakheel Camp
Al-Esraa Camp
Al-Eman Camp
West Gaza Beach Camp
Hope Makers Camp
Al-Rimal Neighborhood
Abu Samah Neighborhood
(regions)
South Gaza
Central Gaza
North Gaza
(total food weight)
484 kg
…and this is all thanks to you guys!!!!
Every donation counts, every voice matters, we are beyond grateful to you all!

Posted by: Mary | Jun 25 2025 23:13 utc | 113

Starvation & Profiteering in Gaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbakVaOGgOk
Chris Hedges & Francesca Albanese
“Without coercive measures Israel’s campaign of genocide won’t be stopped.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 25 2025 23:49 utc | 114

Insane (& vid)
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1937981107749958047
“Palestine fighter in Gaza climbs on a tank and throws explosives in while Israeli soldiers are inside.”
Americans be a smithereen as brave and force your ‘democratic representatives’ to stop supporting Israel.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jun 26 2025 0:23 utc | 115

see the 38-second video at the first link. imprisonment would be too good for these young terrorists
see the short videos at the second link. we all know what should happen to the zionist settler-colony
see the 59-second video at the third link. a victory.
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1937971623333638245
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
The moment zionist settlers attacked Palestinian properties in the west bank.
These repeated attacks are aimed at scaring the Palestinian families, to make them flee from their own land.
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1937968330540818817
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and set fire to a house earlier today in the West Bank.
Later, the Israeli army intervened to protect the settlers and block the road to Palestinian civil emergency car, additionally firing at natives and wounding multiple.
https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1937768262554550623
MintPress News @MintPressNews
⭕️ABC journalist, fired for posting a human rights report about Gaza, beats the mainstream media in court
Antoinette Lattouf was fired by the corporate media outlet, after she posted a Human Rights Watch report about Gaza on social media.
An Australian Federal Court Judge just ruled that her firing was illegal.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jun 26 2025 0:35 utc | 116

African Hub
@AfricanHub_
Your thoughts on this …
South Africa to close Israeli Embassy in Pretoria over it’s actions in Gaza.
https://x.com/AfricanHub_/status/1937847841935765749

Posted by: Menz | Jun 26 2025 3:52 utc | 117

𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓙 🫒🗝️🇵🇸
@JimmyJ4thewin
News Anchor: You don’t sound like an American.
Iranian: That’s because I’ve read. 💀
https://x.com/JimmyJ4thewin/status/1937356646096765124

Posted by: menz | Jun 26 2025 3:53 utc | 118

Trump is trying to interfere in Netanyahu’s court cases; Trump says Netanyahu should not face any trials and should be pardoned. He also says he “will not allow him to be prosecuted”.
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Trump:
I learned that Netanyahu will be arraigned next Monday to continue a long-running case, which is unprecedented.
Netanyahu’s trial should be immediately dismissed or he should be pardoned.
Netanyahu has done so much for Israel, and there is no one I know who could have worked in better harmony with an American president.
The United States saved Israel, and now it will be the one to save Netanyahu.
I was shocked to hear that Israel, which experienced one of its greatest moments, continues its ludicrous campaign against its own wartime prime minister.
No one in the history of Israel has fought more courageously or effectively than Netanyahu.I will not allow Netanyahu to be prosecuted, and Israel will never find anyone who fought as bravely for it as Netanyahu.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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More:
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President Donald Trump, in which he called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial to be dropped or for him to be pardoned, was not merely an expression of personal opinion or a gesture of friendship. Rather, it was a calculated, and likely coordinated, move aimed at serving a broader regional project – of which Netanyahu is a part.
Trump makes no secret of his goals. Since announcing the ceasefire between Israel and Iran, he has shown impatience with Israel – particularly regarding the ongoing war in Gaza. For Trump, the vision is clear: He wants to end the war, recover the prisoners, and then move toward a normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia and expand the Abraham Accords to include other countries in the Middle East and perhaps beyond.
Steve Witkoff, his envoy to the Middle East, hinted at this last night when he said that “an agreement with Hamas is closer than ever.”
In this context, Trump’s call to cancel the trial does not come in isolation, but can be seen as part of a “comprehensive deal”: Trump gives Netanyahu public and perhaps practical support, and in return, the prime minister is expected to do everything he can to end the fighting in Gaza and achieve regional goals—likely just the beginning of a broader move that will unfold later.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid hinted at this this morning in an interview with Ynet, saying: “With all due respect to Trump, he is not supposed to interfere in the legal proceedings of an independent state. I think this is a compensatory move on his part to Netanyahu because he will force him to give in on the Gaza issue and end the war. This is Trump’s style.”
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Posted by: teri | Jun 26 2025 12:55 utc | 119