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THREAD: The ceasefire isn’t stopping Israel from committing genocide in Gaza. Here’s how Israel is still killing Palestinians.

"The honest politicians have a well-articulated plan: make life so miserable that Palestinians leave." The IMEU's @dianabuttu.bsky.social on what Israeli elections mean for Palestinians for @zeteo.com. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

As Israeli elections approach, the IMEU's @dianabuttu.bsky.social argues that the only thing that might change in Israel is the face of the government, not its policy. "Political change cannot come from within Israeli society. It can only come from the outside." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

“It was like this biblical battle where the Palestinian men … went in front of me to protect me.” It’s young Palestinian men who put their lives on the line every day to defend their families, homes, and even foreign journalists from violent Israeli settlers and soldiers.

NEW POLLS: A majority of likely voters in six states expected to decide control of the US Senate - Georgia, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas - support Senate measures to block the transfer of bombs to Israel.

“But what made me angrier than [Israeli] soldiers' ability to return to ordinary life was something else. Some of them did not speak about killing as something they had been forced to do. They spoke about it as something they could enjoy.”

Palestinian families in the West Bank rely on the olive harvest for their income. Israeli settlers know that—so they burn down olive groves and attack Palestinians, with the goal of making life in the West Bank unlivable for them. Settlers have damaged more than 2,500 olive trees this year alone.

Yesterday, a group of Israeli settlers attacked & shot at journalists in the West Bank. When one photojournalist tried to hide in a car marked “press,” the Israeli settlers jumped on him and beat him with the butts of their rifles.

“This is one of the hidden goals of this genocide. For the Israeli army to tear apart everything that connects Palestinians, everything that creates a social fabric and solidarity in Gaza, and replace it with this constant, urgent need for individual survival.”

“While global public opinion has shifted, we still have not seen this translate into a shift in policy. Bombs are still being sent to Israel; trade is still flowing with Israel (despite proclamations that they will stop).”

Three years ago today, Israel began committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The immeasurable trauma and grief Israel has inflicted on Palestinians will impact Gaza for generations. It’s time to end Israel’s genocide by blocking US weapons to Israel.

Tomorrow marks three years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza—and Israel is continuing to bomb Palestinians in Gaza and deny them essential supplies like medicine through its illegal blockade. Enough. Palestinians deserve to be free.

More Americans then ever are speaking out against Israel’s apartheid and genocide of Palestinians, and calling for an end to Israel’s violent oppression, so Palestinians can be free. Congress must listen to the American people and end US support to Israel.

Israel’s genocide has forcibly separated millions of Palestinians from their loved ones in Gaza — including thousands of husbands and wives. “All I want is for us to be together again and live the life we planned before the war took it.”

In 2016, an Israeli soldier shot and killed 21-year-old Palestinian Abdel Fattah al-Sharif as he was lying unarmed on the ground. Abdel’s killer served only half a sentence, and last week Israel cleared him of his criminal record. This is Israeli apartheid.

Google Maps updated its maps of Gaza, showing the devastating scale of Israel’s bombing after nearly 3 years of genocide. The US must stop providing Israel with weapons to destroy homes and lives in Gaza and start holding it accountable.

For Palestinians living under Israeli military rule in the West Bank, Israel’s segregated roads and roadblocks can turn a commute to work into an hours-long journey. @wired.com used 2.6 billion GPS pings to map out exactly how Israeli apartheid choke daily life in the West Bank.

Two authors are suing Los Angeles over the LA Public Library’s cancellation of a Read Palestine Week event meant to share Palestinian stories. Libraries censoring authors who write about Palestine sets a dangerous precedent that we must oppose.

"This is a fight to make sure billionaires and politicians cannot stop free speech and will have to hear the calls to 'Free Palestine' whether they like it or not."

Israel’s genocidal bombing of Gaza has created 61 million tonnes of rubble. Israel is illegally blocking the entry of equipment needed to remove the rubble, making it impossible for them to recover the bodies of their loved ones that Israel has killed.

Israeli settlers, backed by Israel’s military, have cut off water to the Palestinian town of Masafer Yatta by damaging their main water line. Israeli settlers use violence to make life unliveable for Palestinians in the places they call home.

Israel’s destruction of Gaza has left over 2,000 buildings at risk of complete collapse. Its illegal blockade is preventing the machinery and equipment required to fix the damage from entering Gaza, leaving thousands at risk when buildings collapse. This is genocide.

Follow along for a week in the life of Mahmoud Seydam, a university lecturer in Gaza, in a new interactive article from The Guardian. “I saw with my own eyes the [Israeli] military strikes against the university buildings and facilities.”

13-year-old Akram Helles is back to school in Gaza for the first time in 3 years. Since Israel damaged or destroyed 98% of Gaza’s schools amid its ongoing genocide, he now attends class in a makeshift tent, while sitting on the bare ground.

The Israeli military uprooted over 9 acres of Palestinian olive trees in the West Bank ahead of the olive harvest. Palestinian families rely on the olive harvest as a critical source of income. By destroying olive trees, Israel is destroying Palestinian livelihoods.

Robert Kraft forced Macklemore off of Ed Sheeran’s tour for saying “Free Palestine.” Kraft is a major donor to AIPAC and other anti-Palestinian groups, and has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to organizations that directly support Israel’s military.

“The Israelis would fire bullets right next to us: we’d be lying down, and bullets would come from above. If someone raised their head, they’d die instantly – their heads were torn apart. I hope those days do not return.”

Israel is causing an ecological catastrophe as it bombs Gaza relentlessly, burns Palestinian fields, and diverts water and resources away from Palestinian land. Experts estimate that Israel has caused $148 billion in damages to the environment through its assault on Palestinian life and land.

While America's friends on the world stage are choosing to enforce international law against Israel's theft of Palestinian land, our government is still violating its own laws in order to support those crimes with billions of dollars in weapons. It's time to cut Israel off & stand with our allies.