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Aug 31

🚢 The Global Sumud Flotilla—the largest civilian mission to break Gaza’s siege—launches today, with 50+ ships from 44 countries. Drop Site editor Alex Colston is on board and will be reporting live as it sails from Barcelona toward Gaza.

🎥 Before the launch today, Drop Site filmed scenes at the port in Barcelona as about 30 boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla prepared to sail toward Gaza. The launch included a press conference with the flotilla’s steering committee, joined by public figures sailing aboard, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and actor Liam Cunningham.

🎥 Crowds gathered along Barcelona’s waterfront today ahead of the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. Flags, chants, and families filled the port before the flotilla’s departure events got underway.

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Aug 25

🚨 At least five Palestinian journalists were among 20 people killed in a “double tap” Israeli strike on Nasser Medical Complex — the largest and only functioning hospital in southern Gaza.

Those killed include:
▪️Hussam al-Masri (Reuters)
▪️Mohammad Salama (Al Jazeera)
▪️Mariam Abu Daqqa (freelance/AP), ▪️Ahmed Abu Aziz (Quds Network)
▪️Moaz Abu Taha (NBC)

Journalists, doctors, and civil defense crews who rushed to treat the wounded and document the bombing were then murdered in the follow-up strike. Horrific footage shows bodies torn apart in the hospital’s corridors.

We’re putting together a thread with more footage and details. Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham shared the moment the second strike hit the hospital, posted below. 🧵

Photojournalist Hussam Al-Masry, Reuters

Photojournalist Mohammed Salama, Al-Jazeera

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Aug 21

🚨IMPORTANT:

Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups released a new report today based on testimonies provided to lawyers visiting Gaza detainees held in Israel’s underground “Rakevet” section of Ramla Prison and the “Sde Teiman” military camp — both notorious sites of torture.

We share the full report —“Enduring Hell: Gaza Detainees Face Severe Israeli Torture and Terror Behind Bars” — below 👇🏼🧵

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Enduring Hell: Gaza Detainees Face Severe Israeli Torture and Terror Behind Bars
August 20, 2025

Briefing by the Commission of Detainees Affairs’ and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society

Ramallah, occupied Palestine – Nearly two years into the Gaza genocide and severe crimes against Palestinian political detainees held in the Israeli occupation’s prisons continue. Those abducted from the occupied Gaza Strip are enduring the worst levels of torture and abuse compared with any other detainees.

The Commission of Detainees Affairs’ and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society release this new briefing based on testimonies obtained – under strict conditions – by lawyers during visits to detainees conducted between late July and mid-August.

The visits were conducted specifically in the underground “Rakevet” section of Ramla Prison, and the “Sde Teiman” military camp, both notorious for systematic torture of Palestinians arrested from occupied Gaza.

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In the underground “Rakevet” section of Ramla Prison, detainees came to their lawyers’ visits weeping, terrorized.

All detainees had been threatened and beaten prior to seeing their lawyers. Prison guards attempted to force detainees to lie to their lawyers and tell them that everything is “excellent.” Lawyers were forbidden from sharing any information about detainees’ families – who remain in Gaza – or the ongoing genocide.

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Aug 17

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Israeli PM Netanyahu said in Jerusalem last month:

“There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza. We enable humanitarian aid throughout the duration of the war to enter Gaza – otherwise, there would be no Gazans.”

But Israel’s own government data shows he is not telling the truth. ⬇️🧵
(Report by @MazMHussain and @MeghnadBose93)

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Records from COGAT, Israel’s aid-monitoring agency, show that in March and April 2025 Israel let in zero food aid to Gaza. This came right as famine exploded.

From May–July, food resumed at record lows, far below survival needs.

📊 Chart: Tonnes of food aid allowed into Gaza

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By halting aid completely in March–April and then resuming only at a trickle, Israel directly created the conditions for famine.

Expert Alex de Waal:

“There is no case since World War II of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled. This is preventable starvation, it is entirely man-made.”

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Aug 16

🚨 BREAKING: After far-right influencer @lauraloomer raged online about a few severely injured Palestinian children arriving in the U.S. for life-saving medical interventions, the State Department announced it has suspended all visitor visas for individuals from Gaza.

On Twitter, the State Department indicated no more children in urgent need of medical treatment will be allowed into the U.S. “while it conducts a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days.”

Loomer had tagged Secretary Rubio and the department in a series of frenzied posts yesterday, demanding wounded Palestinian children be barred from receiving medical care in the U.S. The videos she highlighted shared the work of HEAL Palestine, a U.S.-registered nonprofit that arranges specialized, life-saving care for severely injured children from Gaza—children who cannot receive adequate treatment locally—and has brought dozens to U.S. hospitals so far.

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✨ Story of one girl among the tens of thousands of children in Gaza who have been severely wounded in the US-Israeli genocide. Through @healpalestine_ , she was able to receive life-saving medical care in the US that she could not get in Gaza.

Watch AJ: aje.io/Leyan x.com/dropsitenews/s…

The director and producer of the All That Remains documentary tells Drop Site the humanitarian visas are granted exclusively to burned and disabled children — and their parents.

Below, the racist agitator Laura Loomer boasts about influencing the State Department’s decision to block them.

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Aug 14

BREAKING: Surrounded by guards and cameras, Israel’s extremist minister Itamar Ben Gvir stormed the solitary confinement cell of Marwan Barghouti — the most popular Palestinian political leader and a unifying national figure, imprisoned since 2002 — in “Ganot” prison, to threaten a shackled and visibly distressed Barghouti.

➤ Ben Gvir to Barghouti: “Whoever messes with the people of Israel, whoever murders our children, whoever murders our women, we will obliterate them. You will not defeat us.”

➤ Raed Abu al-Hummus, head of the Palestinian Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Commission, said: “The criminal Ben Gvir’s arrival at leader Marwan Barghouti’s cell is a direct threat to his life.” He described the threat as “public” and “a dangerous indicator of the intentions concealed by this troubled racist.”

➤ Abu al-Hummus added:“Ben Gvir has tortured prisoners in front of cameras, and he has many previous offenses filled with hatred and racism. For him to dare to attack a leader of the stature of Abu al-Qassam is a clear violation of all red lines, and we are concerned for his life."

➤ He called on Palestinians and international bodies to take immediate action to protect Barghouti.

In May 2024, senior Palestinian Authority officials — including Hussein al-Sheikh, the PA’s secretary-general and top liaison with Israel — told mediators they did not want Marwan Barghouti freed.

Imprisoned since 2002 and serving five life sentences, Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian political leader and a unifying national figure. Hamas has kept him, alongside PFLP leader Ahmad Sa’adat, at the top of its prisoner release list since the first negotiations. Israel has consistently vetoed his release, including in the 2011 Shalit deal.

Barghouti’s popularity — and his calls for cooperation between factions — observers believe is viewed as a direct threat by Mahmoud Abbas to his grip on power in Ramallah. Palestinian rights advocates describe him as the figure most capable of uniting a fractured leadership and potentially winning a presidential election if freed.

The photos below show Barghouti in 2004 (age 45), in 2012 (53), and in 2025 (age 66) in images released today.

The family of Barghouti told Al Jazeera: "We fear that Marwan will be executed in his cell by order of Ben-Gvir after he was threatened in prison. We are also shocked by the changes in his facial features and the exhaustion and hunger he is experiencing."

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