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🧵REPORT:

1/ On Wednesday, November 13, Secretary Blinken, in the ongoing effort by the Biden administration to place all blame for the lack of a ceasefire deal on Hamas, claimed the group had been so unwilling to negotiate in good faith that “Qatar had told them to leave” the country.

But, just days earlier, on November 9, Qatar’s foreign ministry had issued a statement calling the reports “inaccurate.” ⬇️
2/ The reports seem to have originated with Israel’s public broadcaster Kan on November 8, citing three sources “familiar with the matter.” Image
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3/ The story quickly spread, picked up by major western outlets like Financial Times and CNN. Each cited a senior Biden administration official, with FT also quoting “a person familiar with the matter.”

🔗Link to FT: ft.com/content/0d9dc9…

🔗Link to CNN: amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/11/08…Image
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4/ Hamas quickly denied the reports, calling them “baseless” and a “pressure tactic.” This denial was reported in the western press as early as November 8, but it was largely dismissed. For an example, see how CNN handled the story. Image
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5/ Later that day, Qatar’s foreign ministry issued a pointed rebuke, rejecting the claim that they had ordered Hamas’s office shut as “inaccurate,” and accusing Israel of “blackmailing” and “manipulating” the situation to “continue the war for narrow political gain.”
6/ Senior Hamas official Dr. Bassem Naim also rejected the claim in an interview on Thursday with Sky News. The interview underscores how the narrative that Hamas was to blame had already been reinforced through the misleading claim. Listen: 👇🏼
7/ Fast forward to Blinken — in the video shared above, the US Secretary of State was speaking in Brussels, four days after Qatar had publicly refuted the claims. Yet, the US’s top diplomat chose to reiterate them in a press conference before international media.

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🏥 Medical Sources Confirm Full Evacuation of Indonesian Hospital in Gaza

Medical sources confirmed to Drop Site that all remaining patients and staff have been successfully evacuated from the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. The hospital - like all other hospitals in North Gaza - is now completely empty after months of siege and bombardment.

The nearest available medical facility for residents of northern Gaza is now Gaza City’s al-Ahli Arab (Baptist) Hospital - located further south and already struggling under the weight of Gaza’s collapsing healthcare system.

Images shared by aid workers involved in the evacuation show the devastation left behind: destroyed hospital infrastructure, abandoned blood supplies, and teams racing to salvage what medical equipment they could. The evacuation marks another grim milestone as Gaza’s healthcare network continues to disintegrate under relentless attacks.

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The heavily damaged exterior of the Indonesian Hospital, its facade blackened by strikes, with shattered hospital signage scattered in the rubble. Image
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New report for @DropSiteNews by @MariamBarghouti 🧵🔽

1/ After October 7, 2023, the Israeli prison system entered its deadliest period in history.

At least 70 Palestinian detainees have been confirmed killed through torture, systemic starvation, or the deliberate denial of medical care. Significant numbers have been forcibly disappeared, their whereabouts unknown.Image
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BREAKING: Israeli forces today demolished the Noura Al-Kaabi Dialysis Center, part of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza.

The center was a vital lifeline for kidney patients in northern Gaza with Dr. Marwan Sultan of the Indonesian Hospital saying more than 180 patients in northern Gaza depended on regular dialysis there three times a week.

The center had completely ceased operations after being destroyed earlier in the war, but relaunched in August 2024 following a reconstruction project supported by the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS).

In April 2025, the World Health Organization reported that six out of seven dialysis centers in Gaza had already been destroyed. The demolition of the Noura Al-Kaabi Center now makes it all seven.

Today, only a handful of partially functioning hospitals are able to provide limited dialysis services for the over 1,000 kidney failure patients across Gaza requiring ongoing care. The chart attached shows their names, the number of working machines, and the weekly dialysis sessions.

Treatments have been drastically reduced, with patients receiving fewer and shorter sessions — sharply increasing the risk of severe complications and death.

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🚨 BREAKING at @DropSiteNews: 15 Killed, 50 Injured at GHF Aid Site Where Israel Had Previously Massacred 15 Rescue Workers

Israeli forces opened fire today near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution site in Tal al-Sultan, west of Rafah, killing at least 15 Palestinians and injuring more than 50 others, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) had announced the opening of the new distribution center earlier today — its fourth heavily militarized “Secure Distribution Site.”

Three sites have been set up in Rafah in southern Gaza, and one in central Gaza. None have been established in the north (including Gaza City), where, according to the IDF’s own estimates, around one million Palestinians still reside. (Times of Israel)

In a statement published on Facebook just hours ago, the GHF said that on Saturday, June 1, “it will have only one active distribution site, which is the Tel al-Sultan site…. located west of Rafah, near the Sultan roundabout. All other sites will be closed.”

The statement continues: “We invite only the residents of the Al-Barouk neighborhood to come to the site starting at 5:00 AM.

The safe passage leading to the Tel al-Sultan site will be via Al-Rashid Street. The Israeli Defense Forces will be present in the area to secure the passage.

It is forbidden to use the passage before 5:00 AM, as we have been informed by the army that it will be active in the area before and after the designated safe hours.

We remind all residents to stay on the road — leaving the road poses a great danger.

We remind everyone to be patient and note that only one box is allowed per family.

If anyone tries to take more than one box or steal boxes from others, the site will be closed. If people try to storm the site, it will also be closed.”

This new site was established in the same neighborhood where Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and emergency workers in late March, bulldozing their bodies and ambulances into a mass grave while they were on a rescue mission.

Jonathan Whittall (@_jwhittall), Head of Office a.i. for UN OCHA oPt, who had accompanied Palestinian Red Crescent teams on a mission to retrieve the bodies of some of the paramedics, described it a “grotesque symbol of how life, and that which sustains it, is being both erased and controlled in Gaza.”

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I. Surviving the “Gaza Inhumanitarian Foundation”

GHF claims the new center distributed 28,800 food parcels today, amounting to more than 1.6 million meals. It also claims to have delivered a total of 3.8 million meals since launching operations on May 26, 2025. No independent organizations have been able to verify GHF’s claims and locals say those numbers are simply not true.

But even going by GHF’s own count, the U.S.-Israeli replacement for established UN and NGO channels has provided less than two meals per person over the course of a week to each of the two million Palestinians in Gaza. 80 days after the United States and Israel began starving them under a total siege.

Amjad Shawa, Director of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network, told Al Jazeera that no GHF parcels have made their way to Gaza City or the northern governorate. On Al Jazeera’s broadcast earlier today, Shawa derisively referred to GHF as the “Gaza Inhumanitarian Foundation” and said the organization is “misleading the international community” about its numbers.” The parcels, Shawa said, are only enough for a family of five for 2–3 days — not 5.5 days, as GHF has claimed publicly.

Al Jazeera, citing local sources, reported that at least two Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded this morning while trying to access aid at the GHF site in Rafah. One man, speaking to Sahat English, described the violence at the GHF distribution hub:

“The same people who distributed aid opened fire on us. A bite of food soaked in blood. It’s either you die or your child dies.”

Another man said he managed only to “scrape together leftovers off the ground” to feed his family. “The strong take everything and the weak are left with nothing,” he added.

A woman, describing the crowd of an estimated 50,000 people, said it felt “like judgment day — chaos everywhere,” and added that “there’s no flour, no rice, no aid, no organization.”

For many, the process was one of humiliation and desperation — not humanitarian relief, with the scale of deprivation clear on the ground.

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Day 3 in Sarajevo featured testimony on genocide, dehumanization, cultural erasure, and resistance—presented by scholars, legal experts, and activists including Ilan Pappé, Omar Barghouti, Raz Segal, Maya Wind, Sami Al-Arian, Ussama and Sari Makdisi, @AssalRad, and others.

Here’s a thread of key moments and testimony from the day, starting with Dr. Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, who addressed Europe’s complicity, and potential power, in halting Israel’s genocidal campaign.

🎤 Ilan Pappé: “Even if American policy doesn't change tomorrow, a dramatic change in the position of the EU and of Britain can bring an immediate stop to the genocide in Gaza. It's not going to bring the liberation of Palestine… but if we are looking for urgent measure to stop the killing, the massive killing... Europe can play a far more active and decisive role.”

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The Gaza Tribunal is a civil society-led people’s tribunal to investigate and document Israel’s genocide in Gaza, modeled after tribunals like the Russell Tribunal on Vietnam and Palestine. It aims to hold states accountable where international institutions have failed.
“The Palestinians became invisible to the Europeans… Their suffering is very well known, but it’s not leading to any serious contemplation.”

“Without rethinking the Zionist project as a whole, Europe will not take a tough action against Israel.”

“I don’t remember a time in history when Western European politicians were of such low caliber—totally self-centered, totally committed to one mission in life: to be re-elected.”

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“So I believe that there is another war that is already going on and should go on… This war started with Gaza, and it will not end until we change the world order for a better one.

The aim of this war is to develop a new intellectual and moral framework to work out a new and better world order where no such genocide ever happen again, and if anyone dares commit such crimes, moral and political actors like us take the initiative to stop them as soon as possible.
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The Gaza Tribunal, a civil society-led “people’s tribunal,” opened its first public session in Sarajevo on May 26, 2025. It seeks to document Israeli war crimes in Gaza and address the failures of international institutions to deliver justice.

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“It has become obvious that the UN lacks the capacity to override the genocidal support provided by the United States. The @gazatribunal draws on the legacy of the Russell Tribunal and the Iraq War Tribunal.”
Falk called the tribunal “a response to the failure of organized international society to enforce international law and hold perpetrators accountable.”

The UN has been blocked by the complicity of North American and European democracies,” he added.
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