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Daily Archives: 2. Juli 2025
Palestine Action spraying paint is not terrorism. As ministers abuse their powers, I feel a duty to speak out
(June 30, 2025)
In Gaza, the world is watching the most heinous acts of violence that I have witnessed in my lifetime. It is as if the skin has been ripped off the face of humanity to reveal terrifying depths of sadism and depravity.
I am intensely aware of this thought: I do not want to find myself at the end of my life looking back at this time regretting that I could have done something and didn’t – that I was too frightened to speak out, or to act. Palestine Action and its supporters will have no such regrets. Our current British government, however, may well.
Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation
(June 28, 2025)
There is an overwhelming consensus that terrorism involves the use or threat of violence against civilians for a political purpose.
So says JUSTICE, the UK section of the International Commission of Jurists.
Jewish Voice for Labour sees no legitimate grounds for the UK government declaring Palestine Action a ‘terrorist organisation’. There is no shred of evidence that Palestine Action has ever, or has ever intended to, endanger the lives of British civilians, or indeed anyone. But for political and deeply flawed reasons, the Government has decided to attempt to apply the law on charges of “serious damage to property…to advance a political cause”.
It seems that Palestine Action stands convicted, in the eyes of the government, of conspiring to save Palestinian lives.
UK government designates Palestine Action a ‚terrorist organisation‘
British MPs have voted 385 to 26 in favour of legislation to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
The designation makes it a criminal act to support the group and places it in the same category as violent groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
The order is expected to come into effect later this week. Once it does, supporting Palestine Action will become a criminal offence, with membership or expressing support for the direct action group punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Legal action is being taken to temporarily block the order, with a hearing scheduled for Friday at London‘s High Court.
Death toll in Gaza rises to over 57,000 as Israeli aggression continues
GAZA, July 2, 2025 (WAFA) – The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of 57,012 Palestinians, with nearly 134,592 reported wounded since October 7, 2023, according to medical sources.
„Among the casualties are 6,454 deaths and 22,551 injuries reported since March 18, when Israel resumed its military campaign after a short-lived ceasefire.“
In the past 24 hours alone, 142 Palestinians were killed—including three whose bodies were retrieved from the rubble—and 487 others were injured, as Israel intensified its attacks across the besieged enclave.
Gaza death toll rises
Sources at hospitals in Gaza have told Al Jazeera that at least 111 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes across the Strip today, including 24 people waiting for aid.
Cardiologist‘s killing will have ‚devastating impact‘ on healthcare in Gaza, says medical organisation
Sultan was one of only two cardiologists left in the Gaza Strip, and the director of the Indonesian hospital in north Gaza. He was killed in an Israeli air strike on his apartment on Wednesday, along with his wife and at least three of his children.
Paying homage to the renowned cardiologist, Alser told The Guardian: “The killing of Dr Marwan al-Sultan by the Israeli military is a catastrophic loss to Gaza and the entire medical community, and will have a devastating impact on Gaza’s healthcare system.
“This is part of a much longer and systematic atrocious targeting of healthcare workers sanctioned by impunity.
„This is a tragic loss of life, but also an obliteration of their decades of lifesaving medical expertise and care at a time when the situation facing Palestinian civilians is unfathomably catastrophic,” Alser added.
Palestinian men react over bodies, as they mourn Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital, and his family, who were killed in an Israeli strike on an apartment Wednesday.
1,500 health-care workers killed since 2023
Director of north Gaza hospital killed alongside his family in Israeli strike on apartment
The director of one of north Gaza‘s largest hospitals was killed, along with his wife, daughter and sister, in an Israeli strike on their apartment, medical officials said Wednesday.
Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan was the director of the Indonesian Hospital — the largest medical facility north of Gaza City and a critical lifeline for civilians in the area since the start of the nearly 21-month-long war in the territory.
Diaa Al-Najjar, Al-Sultan‘s nephew, said his uncle never stopped working amid the war, even for a moment.
„He kept resisting. Until the last second, the last moment,“ Al-Najjar told CBC News in Gaza City. „May God grant us patience and may God have mercy on our martyrs.“
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Palestine Action ‘shut down’ Elbit Systems HQ and subcontractor
Palestine Action said its activists occupied the rooftop of an Elbit Systems subcontractor as well as blockading the entrance to the arms manufacturer’s UK headquarters in Bristol.
The direct-action group said the occupation “successfully halted operations at Guardtech”, a subcontractor which it said “provides essential clean room services” to Instro Precision, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer.
The group published footage on X of its activists blockading the only entrance to the company’s Bristol headquarters.
“Just a reminder we, Palestine Action, we are not the terrorists,” an activist said in the video.
„Elbit are the real terrorists”.
From economy of occupation to economy of genocide – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 investigates the corporate machinery sustaining the Israeli settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and Governments shirk their obligations, far too many corporate entities have profited from the Israeli economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now genocide. The complicity exposed by the report is just the tip of the iceberg; ending it will not happen without holding the private sector accountable, including# its executives. International law recognizes varying degrees of responsibility – each requiring scrutiny and accountability, particularly in this case, where a people’s self-determination and very existence are at stake. This is a necessary step to end the genocide and dismantle the global system that has allowed it.
UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?
Are private companies liable under international law?
According to Albanese’s report, yes. Corporate entities are under an obligation to avoid violating human rights through direct action or in their business partnerships.
States have the primary responsibility to ensure that corporate entities respect human rights and must prevent, investigate and punish abuses by private actors. However, corporations must respect human rights even if the state where they operate does not.
A company must therefore assess whether activities or relationships throughout its supply chain risk causing human rights violations or contributing to them, according to the report.
The failure to act in line with international law may result in criminal liability. Individual executives can be held criminally liable, including before international courts.
‘Israel’s genocide continues because it is lucrative for many’
As we’ve been reporting, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named more than 60 companies, including major arms manufacturers and technology firms, in a report alleging their involvement in supporting Israeli settlements and military actions in Gaza, which she called a “genocidal campaign”.
Albanese compiled the report based on more than 200 submissions from states, human rights defenders, companies, and academics.
“While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, this report shows why Israel’s genocide continues: because it is lucrative for many,” Albanese wrote. She accused corporate entities of being “financially bound to Israel’s apartheid and militarism.”
Israeli settler set fire to hundreds of olive trees in the West Bank
Olive trees are central to many Palestinian livelihoods and have been burned down by Israeli settlers many times.
Colonists set fire to dozens of dunums of land south of Nablus
NABLUS, July 1, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists on Tuesday set fire to dozens of dunums of land in the village of Duma south of Nablus, according to a local official.
Abdullah Ziyada, head of the village council, told WAFA that colonists from the illegal colony of Yitzhar set fire to agricultural fields stretching along the bypass road, destroying hundreds of olive trees.
Residents, assisted by Palestinian civil defense crews, rushed to the area to contain the flames; however, colonists and Israeli forces actively obstructed the firefighting efforts by preventing the teams from accessing the village’s nearby water well, located near the al-Murabba checkpoint, to refill their fire trucks.
Israel intensifies its military campaign ahead of Netanyahu‘s meeting with Trump
Israel‘s military said on Tuesday that it had expanded its operations in Gaza days ahead of a planned trip to Washington by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 7 July, AFP reported.
Gaza death toll reaches 56,647 since start of Israeli aggression in October 2023 – Medical sources
(July 1, 2025)
GAZA, July 1, 2025 (WAFA) – The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 56,647, the majority of whom were women and children, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in October 2023. At least 134,105 others have also been injured.
Medical sources confirmed that of the total casualties, 6,315 civilians have been killed and 22,064 have been injured since March 18, 2025, when the Israeli occupation resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip after breaking the ceasefire agreement.
Gaza death toll reaches 98
(6 hours ago)
The death toll in Gaza from Israeli attacks today has risen to 98, hospital sources in the besieged enclave told Al Jazeera.