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Letter from Bethlehem: Mazin Qumsiyeh

  After 9 days in Rome where we networked and gave talks, Jessie and I are back in Palestine. We were welcomed with a large activity today at the institute where 270 children and 120 students of the education faculty at Bethlehem University, our staff and volunteers (over 500 in total) had a full day of environmental and fun activities. To see activities, please visit our facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/PIBS.PMNH Our friends and humanitarian activists Thiago Ávila and Saif Abu Keshek continue to be held in horrible conditions after being kidnapped from ships 1000 km away from Gaza. Tey are on hunger strike, and held in teh notorious torture areas called "Israeli prisons" (torture cells in which 80 Palestinians died in teh past three years and many were raped and suffered permanent disabilities). Thiago's mother died while he is being held. Dr. Husam Abusafiya (Palestinian paediatrician and neonatologist who served as the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Ga...
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Message from Electronic Intifada

  1600 UTC / 1900 Palestine time / 1900 Amman / 1700 UK / 1800 CET / 12 pm ET / 11 am CT / 9 am PT Watch on YouTube Watch on Facebook Watch on Rumble Watch on X/Twitter Watch on Twitch Watch on Instagram Seven months ago, Israel signed onto a ceasefire framework. The Palestinian resistance would return all living and dead Israeli prisoners of war and captives. In return, Israel was supposed to stop its genocidal assault on Gaza, end the daily massacres of civilians, withdraw its forces, allow large-scale humanitarian aid, reopen the Rafah crossing and let a Palestinian-run civilian administration begin operating. The Palestinian resistance factions upheld their side of the agreement, returning all Israelis. Israel predictably violated it. That reality is worlds away from the fanfare surrounding the so-called Board of Peace and the AI-generated fantasy of a gleaming future for Gaza promoted after the ceasefire was announced. Since then, the US and Israel have been working behind the...
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Trump cabinet member reveals 'unsettling' detail about lunch on Epstein's island

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  Our DC Insider newsletter has arrived. Sign up HERE for all the latest scoops inside Washington and drama inside the Trump administration.  Donald Trump 's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was 'unsettled' by his visit to  Jeffrey Epstein 's island, according to a source familiar with his congressional deposition on Wednesday. Lutnick was concerned because he was unaware how Epstein's assistant knew he was in the US Virgin Islands, close to the pedophile's Little Saint James, when he received a lunch invitation. Lutnick, his wife Allison, and their children had lunch with Epstein on his island in December 2012 - four years after the pedophile pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor. The lunch visit, during which a photo of Lutnick and Epstein was taken, was characterized as 'short.'  Lutnick, who made his fortune working in finance in New York, was testifying at a closed-door transcribed hearing before the House Oversight Committee as pa...
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Araghchi in Beijing: How China could shape the direction of the US-Iran war

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  Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Wednesday, as efforts to broker a   peace deal   between Tehran and Washington pick up pace amid the United States president’s announcement of a pause on attempts to forcibly open the Strait of Hormuz. The visit — and its timing — underscore what analysts say are China’s significant stakes in the US-Iran war, and the role Beijing could play in influencing the direction of the conflict. Recommended Stories list of 4 items list 1 of 4 Sudan blames Ethiopia, UAE for recent drone attacks: What we know list 2 of 4 Low US hotel bookings paint grim hospitality picture at the World Cup list 3 of 4 Lessons from the war: A call for strategic reckoning in West Asia list 4 of 4 Three people evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship in the Atlantic end of list “We believe that a comprehensive ceasefire brooks no delay, a resumption of hostilities is inadvisable, and persisting with negotiations...
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