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Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and journalist who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been killed during an attack by Israeli settlers in the south Hebron hills.
The attack on Monday was captured on video, which appears to show an Israeli settler, Yinon Levi, who was put under sanctions by the US president, Joe Biden, then removed from the sanctions list by Donald Trump, firing his gun wildly at the time of the killing.
He was arrested later by Israeli police for questioning, though no charges have been filed against him.
The killing comes amid an increasing wave of settler and Israeli military violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. At least 1,009 Palestinians have been killed and more than 7,000 injured in the West Bank since October 2023.Comment
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We, Israelis dedicated to a peaceful future for our country and our Palestinian neighbours, write this with grave shame, in rage and in agony. Our country is starving the people of Gaza to death and contemplating the forced removal of millions of Palestinians from the Strip. The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire.
Yuval Abraham Journalist; Academy Award recipient (2025)
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Documentary film-maker; Sundance world cinema jury prize recipient (2012)
Udi Aloni Film-maker; Tribeca film festival best international narrative feature recipient (2016)
Liran Atzmor Documentary film-maker; Peabody Award recipient (2014)
Prof Tali Bitan University of Haifa
Michael Ben-Yair Former attorney general of Israel; former acting supreme court judge
Nir Bergman Screenwriter and film director; Ophir award recipient (2020)
Avraham Burg Former speaker of the Knesset; former head of the Jewish Agency
Peter Cole Poet and translator; MacArthur Fellow
Guy Davidi Documentary film-maker; International Emmy Award recipient (2013)
Ari Folman Screenwriter and film director; Golden Globe recipient (2009)
Shira Geffen Actor and screenwriter; Camera d’Or recipient (2007)
Prof Emeritus Amiram Goldblum Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof Oded Goldreich Weizmann Institute of Science; Israel prize recipient (2021)
Tamar Gozansky Former Knesset member
Prof Uri Hadar Tel Aviv University
Prof Moty Heiblum Wolf prize in physics recipient (2025)
Adina Hoffman Writer; Windham Campbell prize recipient (2013)
Eran Kolirin Screenwriter and film director; Ophir Award recipient (2021)
Nadav Lapid Screenwriter and film director; Golden Bear recipient (2019)
Alex Levac Israel prize recipient (2005)
Hagai Levi Television writer and director; Golden Globe recipient (2015)
Samuel Maoz Film director; Golden Lion recipient (2009)
Dr Adi Moreno Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College
Prof Michal Na’aman Painter; Israel prize recipient (2014)
Ohad Naharin Choreographer; Israel prize recipient (2005)
Daniella Nowitz Cinematographer; Academy Award recipient (2023)
Prof Adi Ophir Tel Aviv University
Inbal Pinto Choreographer and dancer; Israeli ministry of culture award recipient (2011)
Aharon Shabtai Poet and translator; Israeli prime minister’s prize recipient (1993)
Eyal Weizman Architect; director of Forensic ArchitectureComment
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Re: 40 Killed In Hamas Attacks In Israel
The latest report from B'Tselem, the Israeli Human Rights Organisation based in Jerusalem, summarised by Jewish Voice for Labour:
B’Tselem’s July 2025 report is stark as it describes “our” genocide.
It is clear that the genocide in Gaza cannot be separated from the escalating violence, in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and within Israel.
It notes that ultimately, the same troops are operating in Gaza and in the other areas, under the same commanders and political leadership.
The regime as B’Tselem established in 2022 is one of Jewish supremacy whose formal foundations were laid in 1948.
“It has had a clear objective from the outset: to cement the supremacy of the Jewish group across the entire territory under Israeli control.”
And it has done so with the establishment of an (unacknowledged) apartheid regime “designed to cement the supremacy of one group through demographic engineering, separation, shaping public discourse, indoctrination, militarism, and of course — the use of force and violence.”
The Report concludes that:
“This is the time to act. This is the time to save those who have not yet been lost forever, and use every means available under international law to stop Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians.”
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Gaza - July 2025 - airstrikes and 'airdrops' in the same picture!
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How sick is that?Comment
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Re: 40 Killed In Hamas Attacks In Israel
When continuing genocide meets a PR stunt.Originally posted by Dorcus View PostComment
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Re: 40 Killed In Hamas Attacks In Israel
👍That's exactly it! 🙈🙉🙊Originally posted by jon1959 View PostComment
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Re: 40 Killed In Hamas Attacks In Israel
I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide - Yuli Novak.
The question keeps gnawing at me: Could this really be it? Could we be living through a genocide?
Outside Israel, millions already know the answer. But many of us here can’t – or won’t – say it aloud. Perhaps because the truth threatens to unmake everything we believed about who we are, and who we wanted to be. To name it is to admit that the future will require reckoning – not just with our leaders, but with ourselves. But the cost of refusing to see is even higher.
For Israelis of my generation, the word “genocide” was supposed to remain a nightmare from another planet. A word tethered to our grandparents’ photographs and the ghosts of European ghettoes, not to our own neighborhoods. We were the ones who asked, from a distance, about others: How could ordinary people go on with their lives while something like this happened? How could they let it happen? What would I have done in their place?
In a grotesque twist of history, that question now circles back to us.
For nearly two years, we’ve heard Israeli officials – politicians and generals alike – say out loud what they intend to do: to starve, flatten and erase Gaza. “We will eliminate them.” “We will make it uninhabitable.” “We will cut off food, water, electricity.” These weren’t slips of the tongue; they were the plan. And then, our military carried it out. By the textbook definition, this is genocide: the deliberate targeting of a population not for who they are as individuals, but because they belong to a group – an attack designed to destroy the group itself.
We told ourselves other stories to survive the horror, stories that kept guilt and grief at bay. We convinced ourselves that every child in Gaza was Hamas, every apartment a terrorist cell. We became, without noticing, those “ordinary people” who keep living their lives while “it” is happening.
I can still recall the first time reality cracked open for me. Two months into what I was still calling a “war”, three of my B’Tselem colleagues – Palestinian human rights workers we’d worked alongside for years – were trapped in Gaza with their families. They told me about relatives buried under rubble, about not being able to shield their children, about the paralyzing fear.
In the frantic efforts to extract them from Gaza, I learned something that has seared itself into my mind: at that moment, a living Palestinian in Gaza could be “ransomed” for roughly 20,000 shekels – the cost, at the time, of leaving. Children cost less. Life priced in cash, per head. These were not abstract statistics; these were people I knew. And that was when I understood: the rules had changed.
Since then, the surreal has become routine. Cities reduced to ash. Entire neighborhoods flattened. Families displaced, then displaced again. Tens of thousands killed. Mass starvation engineered, with aid trucks turned away or bombed. Parents feeding animal fodder to their children, some of whom die waiting for flour. Others are shot – unarmed civilians, gunned down for approaching food convoys.Comment
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The Israel lobby is coming for Miriam Margolyes again!
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Re: 40 Killed In Hamas Attacks In Israel
Israeli police have refused to release the body of Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and journalist who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, while the settler accused of killing him, Yinon Levi, has been released from custody.
Hathaleen was shot to death on Monday night during a confrontation between settlers driving a bulldozer in the village of Umm al-Khair in the occupied West Bank and residents of the town. A video appears to show Levi firing his gun wildly and then people screaming as Hathaleen, standing a distance away in the town centre, collapsed.
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Israeli police said they would not release Hathaleen’s body until his family agreed to 10 conditions, including limiting the funeral to 15 people and burying his body outside his birth village, according to a lawyer representing the family.
“The idea is that the police want the funeral to be really small and quiet, so that it is like it never happened and nobody will come,” said Karin Wind, who has reviewed the conditions and is communicating with the police on behalf of the family.
According to a police document seen by the Guardian, police requested that no “signs calling for incitement” be displayed or “amplification” system used at the funeral, with the police requesting a deposit from the family to ensure they complied with conditions. The family refused to sign the document and its conditions.Comment
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Re: 40 Killed In Hamas Attacks In Israel
Europe’s silence has allowed the genocide of Palestinians to continue unchecked – undermining all it stands for.
(Josep Borrell was the high representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security policy from 2019 to 2024).
If they survive Donald Trump’s attacks, the international courts will not deliver their final verdict for several years. But for all those who have ears to hear and eyes to see, there can be little doubt that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza, slaughtering and starving civilians after systematically destroying all the infrastructure in the territory. In the meantime, settlers and the Israeli army are every day guilty of serious, massive and repeated violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Those who do not act to stop this genocide and these violations of international law, even though they have the power to do so, are complicit in them. This is unfortunately the case with the leaders of the European Union and those of its member states, who refuse to sanction Israel even though the EU has a legal obligation to do so.Comment
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John Swinney has described for the first time Israel’s actions in Gaza as a “genocide”, with the Scottish first minister saying it was indisputable.
Swinney became the second leader of a UK nation to use the term “genocide” in relation to the attacks by the Israel Defense Forces on Palestinians in Gaza after Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill did so last month.Comment
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The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has accused Israeli forces of attacking its headquarters in Gaza, killing one worker and injuring three others.
The humanitarian organisation said the attack "sparked a fire in the building" in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Describing the overnight attack on the facility in the southern city of Khan Younis as "deliberate", the Red Crescent said its HQ's location is "well known" to the Israeli military and is "clearly marked with the protective red emblem".Comment
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