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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 20h

As with all previous agreements that Israel is party to, it will lie and claim the other side violated it, and begin massive unilateral violations. Israel has bombed Lebanon thousands of times, killing dozens (including several children who were US citizens) since the Nov 2024 ceasefire.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 20h

🚨In blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, Israel has announced it will slash agreed aid shipments in half and keep the Rafah crossing closed, after Hamas returned four of the 28 bodies of Israeli captives believed to be in Gaza.

Hamas officials had repeatedly told mediators...

Video below⬇️

According to Reuters who cited three Israeli officials, the Rafah crossing will remain closed through Wednesday, and aid deliveries will be sharply reduced. And Israeli outlets are claiming Hamas violated the deal, with Channel 12 citing an official alleging Hamas is “in severe breach” by not releasing more bodies. Egypt has reportedly deployed teams in Gaza to help locate them.

In a formal COGAT communication, Israel tied humanitarian aid directly to the return of bodies — a move amounting to collective punishment of a famine-stricken population:

“Yesterday, Hamas violated the agreement… As a result, political leadership has decided to impose a number of sanctions related to the humanitarian agreement. Starting tomorrow, only half of the agreed number of trucks — 300 — will be allowed to enter, all belonging to the UN and humanitarian NGOs. No fuel or gas will be allowed into the Strip, except for limited humanitarian needs.”

Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill last week that a prisoner exchange “would be impossible” while Israeli forces remain in Gaza’s population centers:

“We don’t know exactly where the prisoners are. Even the negotiators don’t know their locations. There cannot be an exchange if Israeli forces remain.”

Marzouk warned that Israel’s refusal to withdraw proves it “does not want Trump’s ceasefire plan to be implemented.”

As early as October 3, when Hamas first delivered its response to Trump’s plan, Marzouk said on television that locating remains “would take months” after Israel destroyed and blocked off delivery of desperately needed heavy machinery. It would be “impossible” in 72 hours.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 1d

On the 6th of October Israel had about 5,000 Palestinian prisoners.
Today, *after the exchange* Israel holds at least 9,000 prisoners, most of them have not been charged.
Conditions in prisons became intolerable after Oct 7. Torture and starvation are standard.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 18h

Israel is still preventing aid from reaching Palestinians in Gaza

Israel is still collectively punishing the entire civilian population to pressure Hamas

It is still a crime against humanity to withhold aid from civilians

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel limits aid and keeps Rafah crossing closed in dispute over hostage remains

Tensions high as Israel accuses Hamas of breaching agreement by withholding bodies of 24 hostages

www.theguardian.com

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Nurse Hammam @nurseeehamam.bsky.social · 1d

🚨URGENT🚨
During two years of genocide, we have lost everything we own in northern Gaza. Our home was completely destroyed, and we are now homeless & without anything. My family appeals to you, with all your humanity, to donate & support us so we can buy a tent to live in⛺️
Help⬇️🤲🤲
gofund.me/698632c8d

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leilala ليلى @leilala.bsky.social · 1d

Ahmad is trying to raise $500 to move his family back to the north. Please donate and share.

AHMAD 🇵🇸 @aaaaasaa95.bsky.social · 1d

Dear friends 💔
We dream of returning to our area after the ceasefire, but we are unable to cover the transportation costs ($500).
We urgently need your support—every donation brings us closer to safety, return, and relief after this ordeal 🤍
Give us a gift ⬇️🫂🕊️
gofund.me/69f962fc

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

Support the resistance.

Boycott Israel.

Liberate Palestine.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

31 years in prison — including 13 consecutive years in solitary confinement.

Mahmoud Issa, one of the most significant and longest serving Palestinian prisoners released today.

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 11d

I will start posting a screenshot of each of these as a monument to the hateful legacy of this site in the midst of a genocide, wherein you will see "Post deleted" at some point where a person of dignity in a true hell on earth simply asked for a chance to live and eat.

Help Motaz please.

MOTAZ-FAMILY
@motaz-architect.bsky.social
PLEASE STOP FOR A MOMENT * I'm Motaz from Gaza & this's my new account
after the old one was deleted I fight daily to protect my family & provide
food for my daughter But everything is expensive & life here is truly
exhausting PLS SHARE & DONATE 2.
@ gofund.me/46b39131a
@@mommunism.bsky.social

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BobGV @b0bgv.bsky.social · 2d

"More than 11,000 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli prisons, including 400 children and 53 women, whom Israel also refused to include in the deal."
last sentence in this story. 👆🏽 this is still aboot Israel punishing the Palestinians for being alive on their own lands. #freePalestine

Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 2d

Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

www.middleeasteye.net

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Doing it in southwestern Syria today too

Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 2d

so it seems Saleh was killed (possibly executed) by an Israeli-armed/backed militia. We've known that Israel has been doing this. The goal: fomenting a civil war between Palestinian factions. Inevitably Israel will "intervene" to quell the clashes. Another tool in its genocidal arsenal.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing worth reading today as leaders gather in Sharm el Sheikh:

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland - @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2d

Palestinian families like Ahmed's have been violently displaced & starved for 2 years in Israel's genocidal famine & destruction of Gaza. Please help by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, shelter, they've been left with nothing & urgently need help (no donations for 8 days):

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 2d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 2d

Gaza absolutely must have a harbor and airport. No part of the blockade can be allowed to remain. Israel cannot be allowed to have control or jurisdiction over Palestinians ever again.

There is not a person on earth anymore who genuinely believes that Israel deals in good faith with Palestine.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

🏥 Dr. Munir Al-Barsh, Director General of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, outlined several urgently needed steps to support the medical needs in Gaza.

“We demand justice, not pity,” he said. “The health sector is devastated and suffering severely after two years of extermination. The world must stand...

▪️ Field hospitals must be established in the north, center, and south to relieve pressure. Over 17,000 patients need urgent treatment already approved by WHO.

▪️ “Children with cancer and deformities, women with chronic diseases — this is their right.”

▪️ Water and sewage networks must be repaired to prevent epidemics such as cholera, diarrhea, and skin diseases.

▪️ A program is needed to employ health graduates, technicians, and administrators to sustain operations.

▪️ Support is required for prosthetics, assistive devices, and rehabilitation programs to reintegrate people with disabilities into work, education, and society.

Dr.Muneer Alboursh د.منيرالبرش via X (@Dr_Muneer1):
We are facing major challenges in the health sector and thousands of wounded are still in hospitals, while saving patients and restoring hospitals requires a long time… The occupation destroyed Gaza City’s hospitals including Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital, Sheikh Radwan Clinic, large parts of Hamad Hospital and the Psychiatric Hospital… Thirty-eight hospitals were destroyed and only around twelve remain partially functioning with operating rooms, intensive care units and laboratories destroyed and severe shortages of beds, blood units and ventilators… There are power and water cuts and even clean water is almost unavailable in hospitals… More than 1700 health workers were martyred and over 360 were arrested… Medical teams are physically and mentally exhausted after two years of continuous work… Diseases have spread amid overcrowding and displacement with rising cases of skin infections and diarrhea and disruption of supply chains… More than 17000 wounded must be evacuated immediately and their names are approved by the United Nations… We have estimated our health sector needs at over 7 billion dollars… What is urgently required is to rescue the system by rehabilitating and reopening hospitals or establishing field hospitals, dispatching surgical missions, and supplying medicines, emergency and intensive care materials, chronic disease treatments, vaccines and antibiotics, and opening safe and permanent medical corridors… The

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leilala ليلى @leilala.bsky.social · 3d

This is a great interview by Amanpour with Haaretz journalist Nir Hassan.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 3d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/t...

‘The price Israeli society will pay for this war will be enormous,’ says Israeli journalist | CNN

Christiane Amanpour speaks about the war in Gaza with Haaretz journalist Nir Hasson, who claims that “most of the cities in Gaza are more destroyed than Nagasaki.”

www.cnn.com

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leilala ليلى @leilala.bsky.social · 3d

Watching the video is free.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine returning home to this after everything they have already been through.

Imagine doing this to other human beings essentially for sport.

Overnight, Israeli troops carried out a large-scale campaign of setting fire to huge amount of civilian homes and infrastructure before families returned to it in northern Gaza.

It appears to have been the most extensive mass arson operation since the genocide began

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 3d

Help Motaz and Marah! They deserve food and safety and resources to rebuild. MashaAllah they are also such a beautiful little family

MARAH FROM 🇵🇸 @mummarah.bsky.social · 4d

🚨I beg you to share it

We lost everything even our source of income 😭

We rely on your daily donations to provide food, water, milk for our daughter and everything we need to survive 💔🙏

Without your help, we truly can’t afford anything!!!

Please help
gofund.me/726f59d0f

@mommunism.bsky.social 😭🙏

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 3d

Half the Answer #40: Caitlin and Trent are joined by Layla al-Sheikh to discuss that Israel deal and the history of past proposals and solutions. www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #40: Palestine in Context: The New Israel-Palestine Deal

Trent and Caitlin are joined by Layla al-Sheikh to discuss that Israel deal and the history of past proposals and solutions. Half the Answer can be heard on Spotify, on Apple, on YouTube, on Amazon, ...

www.liberalcurrents.com

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leilala ليلى @leilala.bsky.social · 3d

Are they stealing the fans for themselves or to deprive their owners of them?

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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 3d

Art Deco Union Terminal, Cincinnati, OH, 1933.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

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Israel’s Prison Service has begun transferring Palestinian security prisoners from five facilities to special release sites ahead of the first phase of the exchange deal, according to Ynet. Those bound for Gaza or abroad were moved to Ketsiot Prison in the Negev, while others headed to...

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 3d

redo w/correct link. pls share again!

‼️‼️‼️Sameer Project urgently needs our action. Can we do a $75/mattress-for-babies fundraiser today?

The situation:

From Sameer Project on on X: “The pediatric department at Nasser Hospital requested our help!!
Support: chuffed.org/project/1368...

Screenshot of video of babies who arrived at Nasser Hospital in need of urgent care. Go to Sameer Project on c to view

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