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February 1, 2026
Palestine Open Thread 2026-030
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A couple of months ago (4 Dec, ’25), Hamas killed Abu Shabab, who was running a gang that was working for and paid by Israel to steal food aid brought into Gaza. Israel kept trying to blame Hamas, but that fiction did not stand the test of time. And karma being inexorable as it is, Shabab’s whereabouts were leaked by his own men and he was killed for the crimes against his fellow Palestinians, who were and are still starving thanks in part to turncoats like Shabab.
Shabab’s group, The Popular Forces, still exists, however, and is run by Shabab’s former deputy, Ghassan al-Dahin. It operates in southern Gaza under the direction of the Israelis. It is what is called a “proxy militia” for Israel, and is also referred to as the “Dahin Militias”. They are traitors to Palestine – there has to be no obfuscation of this fact. They work for Israel.
The current “job assignment” of The Popular Forces is to detain, harass, and interrogate Pastinians attempting to travel through the Rafah crossing, which was just partially re-opened. Claiming it is re-opened is a form of sick and twisted Israeli humor, as is the use of a Palestinian criminal gang to guard and control the flow of people through the gates.
This morning, some facts about what the word “re-opened” actually means vis a vis the Rafah crossing have emerged:
The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt reopened for a select few Palestinians on Monday.
Although Gaza’s Health Ministry says some 20,000 people urgently need medical evacuation, the war-ravaged enclave’s main gateway has been largely shut for almost two years. The Israeli army only allowed five out of 22,000 patients to pass on Monday, according to RT sources.
In a statement to RT, the director of one of Gaza’s hospitals, Mohamed Abou Salmiah, claimed that these numbers show that “Israel is practicing a collective punishment that threatens thousands of prisoners with murder.”
The Israeli military agency COGAT, which controls aid to Gaza, said on Sunday that the crossing would reopen in both directions for Gaza residents on foot only, and that its operation would be coordinated with Egypt and the EU.
Though the exact number remains unconfirmed, RT sources have claimed that between 50 and 150 people will be allowed to exit the enclave each day. [This number includes the sick and the attendants they need in order to travel – if you’re in a wheelchair or stretcher, you are not walking in or out by yourself. It also counts any family members who want to travel with the ill. All of a sudden, 50 people is not a lot. – Teri]
Before the war, the Rafah border crossing with Egypt was the only direct exit point for most Gazans to reach the outside world, as well as a key entry point for aid into the territory.
Despite the reopening, Israel continues to refuse entry to foreign journalists. […]
The reopening is a key requirement of US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the fighting between Israel and Hamas, which went into effect last October. However, Israel had refused to approve any crossings until now, urging Hamas to hand over the remains of the last hostage in Gaza. […]
https://www.rt.com/news/631879-israel-reopens-gaza-border-crossing/
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The Rafah Crossing Farce:
Those returning to Gaza were stopped 500 meters from the Rafah crossing at a checkpoint belonging to the Dahini militias.
The returnees were taken to an army post after their hands were bound and their eyes were blindfolded. They were interrogated.
The militias confiscated most of the returnees’ belongings and personal items.
They were all offered the option of cooperating with the army, and were subjected to insults, beatings, and degrading language.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/NewsPs0?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Press Release:
The Mistreatment of Returnees via the Rafah Crossing is a Fascist Crime and an Attempt to Deter Our People from Returning. The mistreatment, abuse, and deliberate extortion to which our Palestinian people returning to the Gaza Strip via the Rafah Crossing have been subjected, especially women and children, at the hands of the criminal Zionist occupation forces, constitutes fascist behavior and organized terrorism, falling within the framework of collective punishment policies.
Painful field testimonies have revealed degrading practices, including the abduction of women from among the travelers, blindfolding them, subjecting them to lengthy interrogations with irrelevant questions, threatening some with their children, and attempts at extortion to force one of them to cooperate. This confirms that what is happening is not “crossing procedures,” but rather systematic violations aimed at instilling fear and deterring people from returning to their homes.
We call upon international human rights organizations to document these grave crimes and violations committed against travelers returning to Gaza, and to file lawsuits before the relevant international and national courts to hold the occupation leaders accountable for these horrific crimes, which are part of the ongoing aggression against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
We also call upon the mediators and guarantor states of the ceasefire agreement to take immediate action to stop these fascist practices, especially as the agreement enters its second phase, and to compel the occupation to open the Rafah crossing normally and without restrictions, and to guarantee the freedom and safety of travelers entering and exiting, as stipulated in the agreement.
Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
03 February 2026 CE
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Below is a link to a full article on Shabab, The Popular Forces, its new leader Dahini, and his goal of “freeing the Palestinians from Hamas”. Yeah, he wants to free them from Hamas, not to free them from Israel.
https://www.theweek.in/news/middle-east/2025/12/06/ghassan-al-dahini-takes-command-what-s-next-for-israel-s-proxy-militia-in-gaza.html
Posted by: teri | Feb 3 2026 18:49 utc | 101
Middle East Monitor: Mouin Rabbani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEcjtGcRudg
“From Jabotinsky to Epstein: Zionism and the cult of cruelty.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 3 2026 20:55 utc | 102
Giyane #98 Thanks for your thoughts. “The US is a festering maggot on the living body of the world. ” Well said.
Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Feb 3 2026 23:00 utc | 103
See the first/second link: These are war crimes under the Geneva Conventions. the supremacist settler-colony of israel is among the absolute worst of nations on the Planet Earth, and that’s saying a lot, a world-class torturer, child-sniper, bombing refugee camps, blowing up universities, water treatment facilities, apartment buildings and mosques, kidnapping its doctors, destroying medical facilities and UN/NGO refugee & relief centers etc etc………. For Shame!
https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/2018714723567501503
Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc
Israeli torturers in jails smashed the hands of skilled Palestinian surgeons so they could no longer practice in any hospital ever again
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/25/israel-gaza-doctors-surgeons-healthcare-detention-international-law
No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention
Healthcare workers are protected under international law yet hundreds were detained during the war. Now, some of Gaza’s most senior doctors have spoken of the violence and abuse they say they faced
More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture……….
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/2/2/live-wounded-palestinians-prepare-to-leave-gaza-as-israel-opens-checkpoint?update=4284024
French judges issue arrest warrants for French-Israeli activists over complicity in Gaza genocide
French investigating judges have issued arrest warrants for two French-Israeli women living in Israel, accused of having obstructed the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, French newspaper Le Monde has reported.
The women were identified as Nili Kupfer-Naouri, founder and president of the organisation Israel Is Forever, which states its mission as the “mobilization of French-speaking Zionist forces”, and Rachel T, spokesperson for the collective Tsav 9, which repeatedly blocked trucks headed for Gaza in 2024.
According to the report, they are accused of complicity in genocide and incitement to genocide.
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https://x.com/CraigMokhiber/status/2018510981748408328
Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber
Mona Juul and Terje Roed Larsen, the Norwegian husband and wife team that were the architects of the disastrous Oslo process (which side-stepped international law, devastated Palestinian rights for three decades, and consolidated the Israel regime’s unlawful position in Palestine), are revealed in the Epstein files as having close relations with (Mossad-adjacent Israel regime operative) Jeffrey Epstein, and taking personal loans from him, and their children were reportedly left $10 Million in Epstein’s will.
Larsen also served as the UN’s chief envoy for the Middle East (UNSCO) (he was briefly my boss when I worked for the UN in Palestine in the 90s), and he was later forced to step down in scandal as head of the International Peace Institute due to his financial dealings with Epstein. I can’t prove that Israel has corrupted UN political officials working on Palestine, but I know that Larsen and his successors as UN envoys (UNSCO) all consistently prioritized Israel regime sensibilities over international law and the human rights of the Palestinian people. (Despite the best efforts of the UN’s human rights personnel with whom UNSCO has often been in conflict). Equally shockingly, Larsen’s most recent successor at UNSCO (Nickolay Mladenov) has even agreed to serve on Trump’s lawless, colonial “Board of Peace.”
Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 3 2026 23:46 utc | 104
see the 37-second video at the first link. Demons from Hell
see the 28-second video at the third link
https://x.com/CensoredHumans/status/2018663077131219397
Censored Humans @CensoredHumans
IDF soldiers poured fuel over the furniture of a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip and burned it down while laughing and celebrating.
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https://x.com/malonebarry/status/2018439634754130042
Barry Malone @malonebarry
It’s clear that Gaza has all but disappeared from the headlines. That’s what they want. That’s what they want because people, including children, are still being killed by Israel every day. Don’t stop talking about it.
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https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/2018660630048162123
The Cradle @TheCradleMedia
VIDEO | Local residents in south Lebanon have witnessed Israeli aircraft spraying unidentified chemical agents over their agricultural lands, according to a report from Al Manar.
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said today that Israel warned UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon that it would drop a “chemical substance” near the Blue Line, where UN forces are stationed. He added that peacekeepers helped Lebanon collect samples and test them for toxicity.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 4 2026 0:58 utc | 105
ON: Diana Buttu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEMWgms-Uk4
“On Gaza & global complicity.”
Recommended.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 4 2026 1:58 utc | 106
Australians:
ADAM HOUDA
Anybody arrested or charged protesting against war criminal & president of the terrorist state of Israel Herzog – my law firm will represent you pro-bono (for free)
https://x.com/LawyerAdamHouda/status/2018797839238009185
Posted by: Menz | Feb 4 2026 3:27 utc | 107
see the photo at the third link.
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/2018923443765248099
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Today Israel killed 9 Palestinians in Gaza, violating the ceasefire agreement and imposing a rule of engagement similar to the one in Lebanon: a free hand to kill.
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https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/2018905980373708951
☀️👀 @zei_squirrel
Bill Ackman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Alan Dershowitz, Peter Mandelson, every genocidal Zionist propagandist and Israel itself who fabricated and spread the rape atrocity hoax, are implicated in the Epstein files, because every accusation is a confession:….
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https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/2018476657170960873
Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst
The corrupt, lying mainstream media are trying to hide Epstein’s ties to Israel by dropping words like “Putin” or “KGB”. Utterly absurd.
Here is Epstein wearing an IDF t-shirt. His emails are full of correspondences with Ehud Barak and his ties to Israeli intelligence through Ghislaine and Robert Maxwell public knowledge.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 4 2026 6:27 utc | 108
see the 17-second video at the first link
see the 20-second video at the second link
https://x.com/NizMhani/status/2018747174931312981
Niz @NizMhani
Israel blew up the Morag water station. It supplied water to hundreds of thousands of people.
Was it because of hostages? Or a command & control centre below?
Were Hamas using it as a human shield?
No. Israel wants to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about Gazans physical destruction.
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https://x.com/mhdksafa/status/2018768532490617297
Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa
This is Gaza now and the world is silent.
One million women and girls are starving in Gaza in the cold.
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https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2018788999327109592
DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics
USA JUST GAVE THEM $6B LAST WEEK!
https://x.com/DMichaelTripi/status/2018778244393144570
Dominic Michael Tripi @DMichaelTripi
NEW: Newly passed government spending bill contains $3.3 billion in federal grants for Israel.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 4 2026 7:52 utc | 109
They let 5 people leave for medical treatment yesterday. Today it is zero.
Raed Al-Nims, spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent, told Al Jazeera Mubasher: We have been informed that the coordination for the travel of patients and the wounded through the Rafah crossing has been cancelled for today.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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20 martyrs, including children, women and a paramedic, as a result of the occupation violating the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip . [So far today.]
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/25/israel-gaza-doctors-surgeons-healthcare-detention-international-law
No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention
@ michaelj72 | Feb 3 2026 23:46 utc | 104
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My God, that is hard to read. The things these Nazi apes think of doing to other people – no end to the horror show, and yet no-one held to account.
Posted by: teri | Feb 4 2026 14:26 utc | 110
Posted by: exile | Feb 3 2026 18:18 utc | 100
Yes, brother exile, thank you.
So many infested countries by this vermin have to fight back against the evil. Argentina, Chile, USA….
I have disappeared from network sometime ago, disconnected from the landline, and have a smartphone where I disconnected from Google and use it just for messages and calls with the prepaid card. The result is that I have not paid for the internet since April, but I have it. They can not find me. Note this, my fellow brothers in resistance.
They trace you via land phone and the smartphone connected to internet.
I am able to join only one neighbor, a lovely Italian woman who totally tolerated me expelling an American zio family from her villa two years ago. She lives half time here, half time in Italy, shocked at the lack of resistance here.
The rest are really greedy renters who would kill their own family to make some money.
To Saint Jimmy who I did not reply before, yes I take care of little furries, about 20 of them.
Everyday I go down the stairs to feed them and give a cuddle. I have an enormous warm winter jacket, so after feeding, I unzip and they come and sit in my lap, I spread my jacket like a big tent, and all of them furries cuddle around me, and sleep a really deep sleep. Some snore.
And this is the moment I really let go of my constant rage, and feel just tenderness.
I disconnected from x, where i never posted anyway, just used it to collate useful accounts to save time.
These are few remaining accounts from Palestine I followed, as them Bastard genocidals killed 300:
– Osama Abou Rabee
-AboubakerAbeed
-Tamer Nahed
-Mosab Abu Toha
Posted by: stranger | Feb 4 2026 16:40 utc | 111
@ Formerly Miss Lacy who I did not reply before,
yes I take care of little furries, about 20 of them. Always will. Thank you for doing the same.
Everyday I go down the stairs to feed them and give a cuddle. I have an enormous warm winter jacket, so after feeding, I unzip and they come and sit in my lap, I spread my jacket like a big tent, and all of them furries cuddle around me, and sleep a really deep sleep. Some snore.And this is the moment I really let go of my constant rage, and feel just tenderness.I disconnected from x, where i never posted anyway, just used it to collate useful accounts to save time.These are few remaining accounts from Palestine I followed, as them Bastard genocidals killed 300:– Osama Abou Rabee-AboubakerAbeed-Tamer Nahed-Mosab Abu Toha
Posted by: stranger | Feb 4 2026 17:14 utc | 112
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/25/israel-gaza-doctors-surgeons-healthcare-detention-international-law
No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention @ michaelj72 | Feb 3 2026 23:46 utc | 104********
My God, that is hard to read. The things these Nazi apes think of doing to other people – no end to the horror show, and yet no-one held to account.
RE Posted by: teri | Feb 4 2026 14:26 utc | 110
these israelis are nazis, indeed.
They seem to have learned these demented and wicked practices, the torture and disabling medical personnel etc etc etc from the nazis in WWII and the Americans/Brits in their colonial and imperialist endeavors.
Imagine the world-wide outcry (and rightfully so) if the Palestinians/Hamas/Palestinian Authority et al. were doing this systematically to jewish/israeli hostages/prisoners. HAH!!
We should also remember that the racist supremacist settler-colony of israel currently holds well over 9,000 Palestinian prisoners/hostages (many women and children too) they’ve taken in Gaza and the West Bank since Oct 7, 2023 – the scoundrels and war-criminals!!!
We don’t even have language sufficient to describe and condemn these incredibly vicious and vile israelis…..
Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 4 2026 21:39 utc | 113
see the photo at the third/last link
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/2019119855136567768
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
Breaking News: The US-Iran meeting seems to have been cancelled. Israel calls for a security meeting and Iran called for an emergency meeting to all its military and security leadership.
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/2019122508717519332
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
BreakingNews: Iranian decision maker:
The problem is not about the location of the meeting in Turkey or Oman. The Americans insists on including the missile program and the relationship with the allies. These are impossible demands to meet.
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https://x.com/dn_osama_rabee/status/2019109935938957713
Osama Abu Rabee أسامة أبوربيع @dn_osama_rabee
1,520 violations committed by the occupation since the ceasefire agreement, resulting in 556 martyrs and more than 1,500 wounded.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 4 2026 21:59 utc | 114
People of OZ: Citizens Arrest Herzog!
https://x.com/timand2037/status/2018947811996500224
“Australian legal expert Chris Sidoti, who sat on the United Nations commission of inquiry that found Israel is committing genocide in Gaza doesn’t mince words:
He said ‘Herzog should be arrested on arrival by Aus Federal Police for the crime of incitement to genocide…”
Sign: Detain & Investigate Herzog
https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/core-2026/herzog-visit/sign-detain-and-investigate-herzog
“We call on the Australian Government to detain and investigate Israeli President Isaac Herzog during his visit to Australia, in line with Australia’s international obligations and its own criminal code.
Will you add your name to this petition calling on the Australian Government to detain and investigate Herzog…?
‘I rely on you’*
https://x.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1739700177525444908
“Israeli President Isaac Herzog writing a message on a bomb* due to be dropped on Gaza.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 6 2026 3:50 utc | 115
The Palestine Chronicle: Articles, News, Videos, Blogs
https://www.palestinechronicle.com
- Life along Gaza’s ‘Yellow Line’: A war that never ended.
- Israel prepares renewed Gaza war as aid blockade, water destruction, deepen crisis
- HRW shaken by resignations over blocked report on Palestinian right of return.
- Greenland vs Gaza: Mark Carney and the selective death of the rules-based order.
- Epstein files audio reveals Barak discussion on selective mass immigration to Israel.
- Barcelona departure set: Global Samud flotilla plans sea, land convoys to challenge Gaza blockade
- Israel bulldozes Gaza war cemetery, damaging British and Australian soldiers’ graves.
- Monumental Victory after jury clears Palestine Action defendents in Elbit case.”
Free Palestine!
Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 6 2026 4:14 utc | 116