Palestine

Lauren Gambino Wed 7 May 2025 19.41 EDT

“#ColumbiaUniversity asked the New York police department to help clear pro-Palestinian activists after dozens of protesters occupied parts of the main campus library on Wednesday.”

"In a statement posted on X, protesters confirmed that they had refused to show their IDs and that some had sustained injuries in the skirmish with the public safety officers.

“We will not be useless intellectuals,” protesters said in a statement. “#Palestine is our compass, and we stand strong in the face of violent oppression.”"

Sam Levine and agencies Wed 7 May 2025 12.35 EDT

"A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated.

A judicial panel of the New York-based US second circuit court of appeals ruled in the case of Rümeysa Öztürk after lawyers representing her and the US justice department presented arguments at a hearing on Tuesday."

cross-posted from: https://freefree.ps/users/faab64/statuses/114460587509811152

On Sunday, the #UN agency for Palestinian refugees ( #UNRWA) warned that the humanitarian situation across the #Gaza Strip is beyond imagination, calling on the international community to take serious action to stop this #catastrophe from reaching unseen levels. #Starvation #Genocide #Israel
#FoodAsWeapon #Horror @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Researchers say Israel’s worst wildfires were exacerbated by non-native tree species that Israel has been planting for decades to cover dispossessed Palestinian villages with forests.

Edward Helmore
Tue 6 May 2025 09.32 EDT

"More than two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on Monday night at the University of Washington in Seattle after they occupied an engineering building and set dumpsters on fire.

The protest group, called Super UW, occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building to demand that the university sever its ties with Boeing, as the aerospace company has military contracts which the students say “are used by Israel in their US-funded genocide of Palestinian people”."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34012029

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THE TIMES OF ISRAEL — ISRAEL AT WAR — DAY 578

FROM THE LIVEBLOG OF TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2025

Smotrich: Gaza will be ‘totally destroyed’ within months, population ‘concentrated’ in narrow border area

By JEREMY SHARON Today, 6:00 pm

Image: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a Religious Zionism party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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THE TIMES OF ISRAEL — ISRAEL AT WAR — DAY 578

“Within a few months we will be able to declare that we have won. Gaza will be totally destroyed,” Smotrich says at the “Settlements Conference” in the West Bank settlement of Ofra, organized by the Makor Rishon newspaper.

“In another six months Hamas won’t exist as a functioning entity... The population of Gaza will be concentrated from the Morag Corridor southwards. The rest of the Strip will be empty.”

Adds the finance minister: “The Gazan citizens will be concentrated in the south. They will be totally despairing, understanding that there is no hope and nothing to look for in Gaza, and will be looking for relocation to begin a new life in other places.”

“If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine, then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine.”

Israel’s large-scale planting of European pine trees, which are not native to the region, as part of efforts to reshape the landscape and cover depopulated Palestinian villages, has significantly increased the vulnerability of the region to wildfires.