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Sumoud Convoy to Return to Tunisia after Permission Denied to Enter Egypt - Palestine Chronicle (2025-06-16)

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/sumoud-convoy-to-return-to-tunisia-after-permission-denied-to-enter-egypt/
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>> Organizers of a land convoy seeking to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip have reportedly announced their decision to cancel the convoy’s journey after authorities in eastern Libya refused to allow them to cross into Egypt.

>> In a statement on its Facebook page, the group said: “We have been informed by the Libyan authorities that the Egyptian authorities have rejected the licenses requests that we sent to the Egyptian Embassy in Tunisia through all possible legal and diplomatic channels.”

>> “We decided to return to Tunisia and look for other ways to lift the siege” in Gaza, the statement added.

>> ... the convoy “is peaceful and will remain peaceful and we will remain on the spot peacefully waiting” for the release of the detained participants.

#Soumoud #BreakTheSiege #Maghrib
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Finally Free - The Last Three Head Home - Ask You to Keep Mobilizing - Freedom Flotilla (2025-06-16)

https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/16/three-head-home/
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>> The Freedom Flotilla Coalition confirms that all the international human rights defenders and journalists that were aboard the civilian aid ship #Madleen are now en route home. The twelve were forcibly abducted and detained by Israeli forces while attempting to break Israel’s illegal and inhumane siege of Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to its besieged population.

>> The last three detained #FreedomFlotilla volunteers, Marco van Rennes, Pascal Maurieras, and Yanis Mhamdi, were released from Israeli detention this morning and have begun their return to their home countries via the Jordanian border…

#BreakTheSiege
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Valedictorian told to stay home after making pro-Palestinian remarks in grad speech | CBC News (2025-06-16)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/valedictorian-told-to-stay-home-after-making-pro-palestinian-remarks-in-grad-speech-1.5758371
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h/t https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/114692813424144197

>> The valedictorian at a west #Ottawa high school says she's been told not to come to school Monday after she made pro-Palestinian remarks during a speech at her commencement ceremony.

>> Her comments on the war in Gaza came at the end...

>> "As a commitment to truth and reconciliation, I must acknowledge colonial and genocidal atrocities today, including the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza," ... the crowd cheered.

>> The next day, ... a call from her principal, who said her statements had "caused harm" and told her she shouldn't come to school on Monday.

>> That decision is being criticized by some as going against Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (#OCDSB) policy, and Yao said she stands by her speech.

#Canada
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'We're Sentenced to Death Without a Voice': Palestinians Fear Israel-Iran Front Will Deepen Gaza's Suffering (Haaretz, 2025-06-16)

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2025-06-16/ty-article/.premium/sentenced-to-death-palestinians-fear-what-israel-iran-front-means-for-gaza/00000197-7458-da16-ad9f-f4fe99440000

archived:
https://archive.is/2025.06.15-211718/https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2025-06-16/ty-article/.premium/sentenced-to-death-palestinians-fear-what-israel-iran-front-means-for-gaza/00000197-7458-da16-ad9f-f4fe99440000
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>> When Gaza's internet flickered back to life after a three-day telecommunications blackout, the first images people saw … of missiles lighting up the sky over Israel…

>> On top of all the contradicting emotions came a sobering realization: This war was not Gaza's. While missiles crossed multiple regional borders, Gaza remained trapped. Aid was still blocked and Israeli airstrikes continued to rain down.

>> As global attention pivoted toward Tehran, Gaza continued to pay a heavy price. In the 48 hours following Israel's initial strike on Iran, the number of Palestinians killed in the Strip exceeded the combined death toll in both #Iran and Israel.

#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
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Malaysian groups plan '1000 ship flotilla' to break Gaza siege (The New Arab, 2025-06-15)

https://www.newarab.com/news/malaysian-groups-plan-1000-ship-flotilla-break-gaza-siege
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>> Malaysian civil society organisations on Saturday announced a plan to launch what they describe as the largest maritime mobilisation in the world to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.

>> The campaign, known as the "Thousand Ship Flotilla", aims to dispatch vessels from multiple continents in a coordinated effort to deliver humanitarian aid and pressure Israel to end its siege.

>> The initiative was unveiled during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur by Azmi Abdul Hamid, head of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisations (#MAPIM).

>> According to Abdul Hamid, coordination is already underway with civil society groups in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and the flotilla idea has received "unprecedented support"…

#ThousandShipFlotilla #BreakTheSiege #Malaysia
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Civilian convoy in overland bid to break past Israel blockade (The Continent, 2025-06-15)

https://continent.substack.com/p/civilian-convoy-in-overland-bid-to
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>> A self-funded convoy of lawyers, doctors, farmers, students and families is winding its way overland across North Africa, heading east from Tunis to Egypt’s Rafah border crossing. Their goal is to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. In the Caravan of Steadfastness are over 1,000 Tunisians and nearly 200 Algerians.

>> … authorities across the region have cracked down on people who have rallied in solidarity with Gaza, or criticised Israel’s war.

>> On Thursday, the convoy was blocked by authorities in eastern Libya, forcing them to camp overnight in the desert ... Egypt’s foreign ministry put out a statement saying that any delegation seeking to approach Rafah needs visas, and to co-ordinate with authorities. Israel’s defence minister also said that if Egypt doesn’t block the convoy, the Israeli army will.

#Soumoud #BreakTheSiege
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Israel's Own Actions Invalidate All Pro-Israel Arguments (Caitlin's Newsletter, 2025-06-14)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-own-actions-invalidate-all
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>> All arguments made in defense of Israel ultimately rest on the unquestioned assumption that the Jewish people must definitely have a homeland where Jewish people are in control, and that this homeland must definitely be in the location that Israel is in right now...

>> But we’ve seen the results of what that premise entails. It necessarily means nonstop violence, tyranny, war and abuse. It necessarily means genocide. It necessarily means ethnic cleansing. How do we know it necessarily means that? Because here we are.

>> So the premise upon which all pro-Israel arguments rest is invalid.

>> Which means all the arguments are baseless.

>> Which means there’s really no good reason to keep maintaining the status quo of modern Israel.

#StopIsrael #CaitlinJohnstone
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Japan vows to work with G7 partners to ease Middle East tensions (Al Jazeera, 2025-06-13, 15:50 GMT)

https://aje.io/auoxkc?update=3772588
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>> Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has condemned the attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites, and promised to work with other G7 members to ease tensions in the Middle East.

>> Ishiba was quoted as saying by the local media that Israel’s move was “totally intolerable” and “extremely regrettable,” adding, “any actions that could further escalate the situation must be refrained from”...

Oh, wow... 😮 “TOTALLY INTOLERABLE” !!

#Japan #StopIsrael
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Iran requests emergency meeting of UNSC (Al Jazeera, 2025-06-13, 10:20 GMT)

https://aje.io/auoxkc?update=3772087
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>> Amir Saeed Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the #UN, made a written request for an emergency meeting of the council, calling for it to take “decisive action… against these criminal acts”, Iran’s Tasnim state news agency reported.

>> “In a reckless, illegal and premeditated act, the Zionist regime has carried out a series of coordinated military attacks against the nuclear facilities and civilian infrastructure of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which are considered a clear violation of the UN Charter and the fundamental principles of international law, ...” the letter said.

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IDF boosting troops, raising alert level along borders and in West Bank | The Times of Israel (2025-06-13)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog/_entry/idf-boosting-troops-raising-alert-level-along-borders-and-in-west-bank/
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>> Amid the Israeli airstrikes on Iran, the IDF … is raising its level of alert along Israel’s borders and in the West Bank, the military says.

>> In the West Bank, all Palestinian towns are under #lockdown until further notice.
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There is another report from Israel Hayom saying #WestBank “completely sealed off”…
cf. https://norden.social/@stephie/_hamburg/114674898902293375

#StopIsrael #EndOccupation
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Adalah Update - 12 June 2025, 13 PM Jerusalem Time
via https://x.com/AdalahCenter/status/1933107350455640426

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Two volunteers, Pascal Maurieras (France) and Yanis Mhamdi (France), remain in custody at Givon prison, ... awaiting their deportation tomorrow, 13 June, afternoon. They will be seen by their lawyers today.

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The six volunteers expected to be deported today or early tomorrow morning are:
Mark [Marco] Van Rennes (The Netherlands),
Şuayb Ordu (Turkey),
Yasemin Acar (Germany),
Thiago Avila (Brazil),
Reva Viard (France), and
Rima Hassan (France).
So far, #Adalah lawyers are facing difficulties visiting them at the airport.
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#Madleen #FreedomFlotilla #BreakTheSiege
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Convoy #Soumoud tracking link:

https://al-soumoud-convoy.com/

h/t https://mastodon.social/@la/_voix/114669021127596865

#BreakTheSiege #Sumud
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