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Update from the Freedom Flotilla / Thousand Madleens Mission Sailing Towards Gaza

🚢 Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall shares a video update from aboard the Conscience, one of 11 boats in the Freedom Flotilla / Thousand Madleens mission sailing toward Gaza. Her ship carries more than 90 people, largely medics and journalists — groups that have been systematically targeted in Israel’…

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Decades of Abuse: Israel Holds Thousands of Palestinians Captive, Hundreds of Bodies Withheld

"They are holding hundreds of dead Palestinians. They are holding unknown numbers of children. There are as many as 15,000 or more Palestinians held captive right now…Israel routinely holds children in military facilities, puts them through a military court system, denies them access to lawyers. It…

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Why 'Disarming Hamas' is a Distraction

Drop Site's Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill discuss why the focus of "disarming Hamas" is a distraction. "Focusing on the issue of demilitarization implies that Israel's genocide is justifiable because of some pistols and rifles and homemade explosive devices that remain in the hands of the Palestini…

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