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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40386203

Sat 13 Dec 2025 02.00 EST

The death knell for the Palestinian village of Atouf, on the western slopes of the Jordan valley, arrived in the form of a trail of paper, a series of eviction notices taped to homes, greenhouses and wells, marking a straight line across the open fields.

The notices, which appeared overnight, informed the local farmers that their land would be confiscated and that they had seven days from the date of their delivery, 4 December, to vacate their properties. A military road and accompanying barrier was to be built by Israel right through the area.

Lawyers for the Atouf village council have lodged an appeal, but long and bitter experience has taught Palestinians here to have low expectations of Israeli courts.

Cuba on edge as US seizure of oil tanker puts supply at risk

[https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cuba-edge-us-seizure-oil-tanker-puts-supply-risk-2025-12-12/]

from #Reuters
By Dave Sherwood and Marianna Parraga
December 12, 2025 2:14 PM EST

Summary

• Seizure threatens #Cuba's oil supply from #Venezuela, may worsen economic crisis
• Venezuela's oil covers about 50% of Cuba's deficit, loss may strain energy infrastructure
• Diaz-Canel calls #US tanker seizure 'piracy'
• Cuba to fast-track the building of solar parks

#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#HandsOffVenezuela
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics #USpol
@cuba

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40346171

Jessica Corbett
Dec 14, 2025

“Obviously massacring unarmed men, women, and children at a Hanukkah celebration is antisemitic terror,” Nathaniel added in a separate thread. “Just like massacring unarmed men, women, and children in Gaza and the West Bank is anti-Palestinian terror. There are no moral exceptions regarding the slaughter of civilians.”

Electronic Intifada director Ali Abunimah said, “Basically Netanyahu is saying that Australia got what it had coming for not supporting his genocide in Gaza even more than it already does.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40346058

Jessica Corbett
Dec 14, 2025

“The images out of Bondi Beach in Australia this morning of a vile, antisemitic massacre at a Hanukkah celebration are shocking, disgusting, and heartbreaking,” said Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a US Senate candidate.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40321940

By Ahmed Dremly in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
14 December 2025 12:47 GMT

Since winter began, Saber has lived in constant fear. Their fragile tent offered little protection from rain or wind, and he knew it could collapse at any moment.

Two weeks earlier, rainwater had already flooded the tent, reaching nearly 30cm. His daughters fell ill with colds that lasted for days. Desperate to prevent it from happening again, Saber borrowed money from one of his relatives to buy a plastic tarpaulin and reinforced the tent with wooden poles.

But when the latest storm hit Gaza a few days ago, his efforts proved useless.

“I spent the first night of the rain holding the tent up with my own hands as rain poured in from every direction,” Saber told Middle East Eye.

“It felt like I had done nothing at all. The tent collapsed on us in the first hours of the rain.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40321023

Last Wednesday, Palestinian teenager Owais Hammam was on a walk near his home in the West Bank village of Kharbatha Bani Harith, when he was ambushed by a group of Israeli settlers, dragged to a hilltop outpost, and beaten unconscious. From his hospital bed in Ramallah, Hammam spoke to photojournalist Faiz Abu Rmeleh, recounting how both settlers and Israeli soldiers took part in his brutal torture.

from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Dec 14, 2025

Also:

• Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
• Israel’s Gaza proxy strategy is collapsing
• After Israel-Hamas prisoner deal, ‘48 Palestinians ask when their turn will come
• Netanyahu’s pardon request is a lens into Israel’s political psyche
• The GOP fed the antisemitism monster. Now it’s turning on its masters

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40295315

By Mera Aladam
12 December 2025 10:20 GMT

Overall, at least 13 buildings - already partly damaged from Israeli bombing - collapsed due to heavy rain and strong winds, according to the Gaza-based Government Media Office. Some people remain trapped under the rubble, with others wounded.

Meanwhile, over 27,000 tents of displaced families have been destroyed or swept away by floods and strong winds. More than 250,000 displaced people have been affected by rain, floods, and collapsing shelters.

Over 4,300 distress calls have been made across the Gaza Strip since the storm began earlier this week, the Ministry of Interior and National Security said.

Despite limited resources, the ministry said search-and-rescue civil defence teams, along with police, are doing their best to help people.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40294347

By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
13 December 2025 09:44 GMT

“From the first day we came back, we heard bombardment, demolitions and gunfire,” Hamed said.

“It would start at sunset and continue until dawn.”

At first, they assumed the explosions were far away, believing the Yellow Line was still distant.

But now, Hamed can see the yellow concrete blocks placed by Israeli forces from his window – a sight that wasn’t there just weeks ago.

Across Gaza, the temporary demarcation line has been shifting, creeping ever closer to densely populated areas and fuelling fears of renewed displacement and violence by Israel.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40278335

Published Dec. 12, 2025
https://archive.ph/h23Jt

Firms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses.

[If the US didn't embargo and sanction Cuba and Venezuela, this wouldn't be necessary.]

On Friday, Cuban officials condemned the American seizure of the tanker, calling it in a statement an “act of piracy and maritime terrorism” that hurts Cuba and its people.

“This action is part of the U.S. escalation aimed at hampering Venezuela’s legitimate right to freely use and trade its natural resources with other nations, including the supplies of hydrocarbons to Cuba,” the statement said.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40248576

The national soccer team made it to the knockout stages of the Arab Cup for the first time, uniting fans from Gaza to the West Bank to Cairo to Arab cities in Israel.

https://archive.ph/8DQK4

Dec. 12, 2025

In Gaza, nearly 50 men, teenagers and boys made their way through a stormy night and muddy, flooded streets to a makeshift cafe in a tent on the outskirts of Khan Younis, where a technician worked frantically to get the game’s livestream playing on a big TV powered by solar panels and batteries, and the cafe’s owner fed cardboard boxes and paper scraps into a fire to make hot drinks and heat the room.

Ismail Nasser al-Din, 20, sat dripping wet, clutching a Palestinian flag. He said he had lost his brother, a cousin and a friend in the war. “I hope our team will win,” he said. “We need any reason to laugh, enjoy and get some relief.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40247167

Khaled Hroub
9 December 2025 09:16 GMT

In a time of deep Palestinian anguish, the national football team's successive victories in the Arab Cup, currently taking place in Qatar, have ignited a rare and precious sense of unity.

This joy begins in the rain-soaked tents of displaced families in Gaza, stretches to refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, and ripples across Palestinian communities worldwide.

From Rafah comes Ihab Abu Jazar, the team's coach, whose family home was destroyed and whose mother was moved to a tent in the Mawasi area. He becomes, suddenly, a beacon of hope.

For a fleeting moment, his squad delivers triumph on the green pitch, qualifying for the next round and dedicating the victory first to Gaza and then to Palestinians everywhere.

Behind the Fida'i, the team's nickname meaning fighter, a collective spirit emerges. It transcends sport, reflecting a profound yearning among Palestinians to reclaim an unfragmented identity, free from the suffocating grip of political division and despair.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40232725

Lubna Masarwa
11 December 2025 22:50 GMT
Last update: ~1000 EST

Storm Byron began lashing Gaza on Wednesday with torrential rain and flooding continuing into Thursday, and is expected to last through the week.

Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by Israel's ongoing genocidal war were huddling in tent camps that offer no protection from the elements, with many already swamped due to the mass bombing of sewage and drainage systems.

Two months into the so-called "ceasefire", this vulnerable population faces the worst of winter and the rapid spread of disease, with literally nowhere dry to shelter.

Moreover, Israel is still blocking aid. More than 6,500 trucks are waiting at the crossings to be let into Gaza with essential winter supplies, including tents, blankets, warm clothing and hygiene materials. As they wait, children are going barefoot and wearing summer clothes in the freezing cold.