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The strike that killed Abdullahi comes amid an unprecedented escalation of the U.S. drone campaign targeting ISIS in northern Somalia, where the group is concentrated, and where al-Shabaab also has a small presence. Since his return to office, President Donald Trump has delegated authority to authorize strikes to AFRICOM commanders, which has increased their pace and aggressiveness. In comments to the Council of Foreign Relations just two weeks after Abdullahi was killed, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud welcomed the move as “effective,” adding that the number of U.S. military assets in Somali airspace had also risen. (Drop Site News also recently reported on an airstrike in Jamame, a town held by al-Shabaab in south-central Somalia, that killed 11 people, including seven children.)
A frustrating read – Thank you for sharing
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World News@lemmy.ml•Palestinian prisoners face ‘hunger, overcrowding and violence’, Israeli report finds
5·2 months agoIsrael has a modus operandi of taking and holding random Palestinians hostage to control and terrorize the population. Using them as bargaining chips (even in death) is just a bonus.
As of November 1, Israeli authorities held nearly 7,000 Palestinians from the occupied territory in detention for alleged security offenses, according to the Israeli human rights organization HaMoked. Far more Palestinians have been arrested since the October 7 attacks in Israel than have been released in the last week. Among those being held are dozens of women and scores of children.
The majority have never been convicted of a crime, including more than 2,000 of them being held in administrative detention, in which the Israeli military detains a person without charge or trial. Such detention can be renewed indefinitely based on secret information, which the detainee is not allowed to see. Administrative detainees are held on the presumption that they might commit an offense at some point in the future. Israeli authorities have held children, human rights defenders and Palestinian political activists, among others, in administrative detention, often for prolonged periods.
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Under military law, Palestinians can be held for up to eight days before they must see a judge — and then, only a military judge. Yet, under Israeli law, a person has to be brought before a judge within 24 hours of being arrested, which can be extended to 96 hours when authorized in extraordinary cases.
Palestinians can be jailed for participating in a gathering of merely 10 people without a permit on any issue “that could be construed as political,” while settlers can demonstrate without a permit unless the gathering exceeds 50 people, takes place outdoors and involves “political speeches and statements.”
In short, Israeli settlers and Palestinians live in the same territory, but are tried in different courts under different laws with different due process rights and face different sentences for the same offense. The result is a large and growing number of Palestinians imprisoned without basic due process.
Discrimination also pervades the treatment of children. Israeli civil law protects children against nighttime arrests, provides the right to have a parent present during interrogations and limits the amount of time children may be detained before being able to consult a lawyer and to be presented before a justice.
Israeli authorities, however, regularly arrest Palestinian children during nighttime raids, interrogate them without a guardian present, hold them for longer periods before bringing them before a judge and hold those as young as 12 in lengthy pretrial detention. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel found in 2017 that authorities kept 72 percent of Palestinian children from the West Bank in custody until the end of proceedings, but only 17.9 percent of children in Israel.
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Even those charged with a crime are routinely deprived of due process rights in military courts. Many of those convicted and serving time for “security offenses” (2,331 people as of November 1) accepted plea bargains to avoid prolonged pretrial detention and sham military trials, which have a nearly 100 percent conviction rate against Palestinians.
Beyond the lack of due process, Israeli authorities have for decades mistreated and tortured Palestinian detainees. More than 1,400 complaints of torture, including painful shackling, sleep deprivation and exposure to extreme temperatures, by Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, have been filed with Israel’s Justice Ministry since 2001.
These complaints have resulted in a total of three criminal investigations and no indictments, according to the Public Committee Against Torture, an Israeli rights group. The group Military Court Watch reported that, in 22 cases of detention of Palestinian children they documented in 2023, 64 percent said they were physically abused and 73 percent were strip searched by Israeli forces while in detention.
Palestinian rights groups have reported a spike in arrests and deterioration in the conditions of Palestinian prisoners prior to October 7, including violent raids, retaliatory prison transfers and isolation of prisoners, less access to running water and bread and fewer family visits. The trends have worsened since.
The cruelty is the point.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Gaza gang leader and Israeli collaborator Yasser Abu Shabab has been killed, reports say
9·2 months agoGood riddance.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Rape and humiliation: Report accuses Israel of 'systematic' torture of Palestinian prisoners
6·2 months agoRapists, murderers, thieves.
Rapists, murderers, thieves.
What do we do with rapists, murderers, and thieves? What do we do with those that support them?
spoiler
Hang them all.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Rape and humiliation: Report accuses Israel of 'systematic' torture of Palestinian prisoners
14·2 months ago“At dawn I heard the soldiers shouting, saying that morning prayers were forbidden, and I think it was the fourth day after my arrest from Gaza. The soldiers moved me to a place I didn’t know because my eyes were blindfolded, and they ordered me to take off my clothes. I did so. They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to the end of the bed, and pulled my legs apart forcefully. I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head while I was blindfolded. I felt the man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus. I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera—so I believe they were filming me. The rape lasted about 10 minutes. After that, they left me for an hour in the same position, with my hands cuffed to the bed with metal handcuffs, my face on the bed, my feet on the floor, and I was completely naked.
Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back.
I cannot describe what I felt; I wished for death every moment. After they raped me, I was left alone in the same room, hands still cuffed to the bed and without clothes for many hours. I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew and laughing. Later, I was raped again vaginally. I screamed, but they beat me whenever I tried to resist. After more than an hour, I’m not sure about the time, a masked soldier entered, removed my blindfold, lifted his face covering; he had white skin and was tall. He asked if I spoke English; I said no. He said he was Russian and ordered me to masturbate his penis. I refused, and he hit me in the face after raping me.
That day I was raped twice. I was left naked the whole day in the room where I spent three days. On the first day I was raped twice; on the second day I was raped twice; on the third day I remained without clothes while they looked at me through the door slit and filmed me. One soldier said they would post my photos on social media. While I was in the room, my period started; then they told me to put on clothes and transferred me to another room.”
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World News@lemmy.ml•‘Israel’ booby-traps children’s toys in Gaza leaving behind several casualties: health ministry
2·3 months agoThe Director General of Health Affairs in the Gaza Strip, Munir Al-Bursh, has revealed that Israeli forces left behind booby-trapped dolls and toys designed to attract children. He said this shows a new face of the ongoing genocide, despite the ceasefire that has been in place for more than three weeks.
In a post on Facebook on Sunday, Al-Bursh wrote: “Bombs in the form of dolls – the Israeli army did not only leave behind destroyed houses, but also left time bombs in the hands of children.”
He added: “In the narrow alleys and among the ruins of homes, the remains of rockets and unexploded shells are scattered, as if they continue their killing mission even after the soldiers have gone.” He confirmed that “every day, hospitals receive the torn bodies of small children, severed limbs, and faces disfigured due to childhood curiosity and innocence.”
Al-Bursh explained that “the most dangerous of all remnants of war are those that resemble the devil in the face of an angel – booby-trapped toys: dolls, birds, and small teddy bears left to tempt the little ones. When a child reaches for the ‘beautiful toy’, the horrifying truth explodes in their face – that the army claiming morality has planted death in the heart of childhood itself.”
He concluded, “The ‘doll’ has turned into a landmine, the ‘small teddy bear’ into a tool of amputation and disfigurement, and the ‘coloured ball’ into a trap that steals an entire childhood.”
Maybe someone who still uses facebook can check the Directer General’s facebook to confirm.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Israel kills seven Palestinians in violation of Gaza ceasefire
7·3 months agoYou would think the world would expect this starting with the violations of agreements dating back to 1948 where the rapists, murderers, and thieves violated a ceasefire agreement in Der Yassin, massacring and raping civilians who willingly disarmed themselves for peace. (Currently, if you look at the Wikipedia page, you’ll notice a lot of Zionists pushing Zionist sources that deny the nature of the massacre. Lots of these edits starting in 2023)
There’s also the infamous 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre. PLO withdrew and demilitarized the area in a peace agreement. The Israelis, to “not violate” the ceasefire agreement, facilitated their allied rapists, murderers, and thieves to come in to this unprotected refugee camp to rape and murder the refugees.
Honestly, the world expects this, but just doesn’t give a shit or they endorse it. May all those that bear a semblence of responsibility for these atrocities rot in hell.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Palestinians see ‘new Nakba’ in West Bank villages as demolitions return
8·3 months agoSome snippets:
Khallet al-Daba, occupied West Bank – At nine o’clock on a Monday morning in May, the quiet of Khallet al-Daba was shattered by the sound of bulldozers and other demolition vehicles approaching. Accompanying them were Israeli soldiers pouring into the village, forcing families out of their homes and driving livestock into the open.
Dozens of military vehicles, armoured carriers and jeeps sealed off the village as the demolitions took place in May, according to locals. Women carrying infants, men still dazed from being forced suddenly from their homes, and children screaming in fear stood under the burning sun for six hours. Behind them, the walls of their houses were turned into rubble.
Among those who were forced to watch their homes collapse this spring was 65-year-old Samiha Muhammad al-Dababseh, a mother of eight who has lived in the village her whole life. Her weathered face carries the strain of decades of hardship.
“I screamed, ‘The army is here!’” she recalled. “Within minutes, soldiers were storming the houses, forcibly removing us without allowing us to take anything – not food or clothes. They pushed me violently and told me, ‘This is not your land. You will not have a home or shelter left.'”
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Memes@lemmy.ml•Amerikkka land of the jailed (But China is defo AuThOrITarIAn!!)
105·5 months agoThere is evidence that China was oppressive to Ughyurs, but currently enacting an active genocide is a stretch.
If you want an overview of someone cutting through the bullshit: https://youtu.be/cz9ICFDk8Js
TLDW:
- Likely cultural genocide
- Philosophies that would make Westerner’s mouth water - Forced assimilation / “Taming” the natives type shit
- Western sources/“journalists” are dubious, twisting stories out of proportion or making shit up entirely
- However there are plenty of testimonies from the Uyghurs themselves – the sheer volume of which cannot be ignored
Anyways, from what I’ve heard, China’s dialed this shit back when they were first put on the spotlight. For whatever oppression China may have taken part of, it is not even a tenth of what the oppression the United States and other Western nations have been dishing out for the past few centuries.
US genocided Natives to be born, and historically oppressed its own population (slavery, internment camps, etc) and has continually oppressed others (overthrowing democracies, genocide, crimes against humanity, etc)
UK, Germany, France and other Western nations also love aiding genociders while also oppressing anti-genociders.
France also has an obsession with trying to force Muslim women to undress in public, dictate how they dress. Lmao
Do you condemn Israel for its atrocities that span from 1948 to the present day?
Do you condemn the founders of Israel that have committed atrocities from well before 1948?
Do you condemn Zionists that have been perpetuating, justifying, or supporting Israel’s atrocities against humanity for the past 70+ years?
Do you condemn Zionism?
Do you condemn Israel?
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World News@lemmy.ml•Palestinian woman declared dead found alive in Israeli detention months later
43·5 months agoBisan Fadl Muhammad Fayyad went missing on 7 January in Deir al-Balah. The following day, her family were contacted by Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which had received a body believed to be hers.
Fadl Muhammad Fayyad, her father, told Middle East Eye that the body was severely burnt and unrecognisable.
However, Bisan’s identity card, wallet, and necklace were found on the body, leading the family to believe it was her.
Months after her burial, on 21 March 2025, the family received a call informing them that Bisan was, in fact, alive and being held in Israeli custody, according to the Palestinian Centre for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared (PCMFD), which reported the development on Monday.
There is a pattern of mismatched evidence on bodies the genociders returned to the Palestinians. Palestinians won’t know who’s alive, dead, but more importantly: A Palestinian could be held in Israeli’s prisons for years, and all would be none the wiser.
The only ones that do know are the rapists, murderers, and thieves, whose state was founded by rapists, murderers, and thieves and is perpetuated by rapists, murderers, and thieves.
Why?
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World News@lemmy.ml•Israel bombs Gaza aid sites, cafe and school, killing 95 Palestinians
2·7 months ago‘An absolute massacre’: Aftermath of Israeli attack on popular Gaza cafe
Video discussing some of the people that were killed. A photojournalist, female boxer, an old man, a few little girls (one of which was having a small birthday party where she was being gifted a teddy bear)–the usual targets.
I’ve heard this was done by an F16 missile strike. The Israeli pilot, the IDF, the Israeli government, the Israeli state-- they massacred 37 innocents in this terrorist attack, killing all but two that were in this cafe.
Death, death to the IDF
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World News@lemmy.ml•US considering approval of $510m worth of arms sale to Israel
6·7 months agoYeah…
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World News@lemmy.ml•Israel bombs Gaza aid sites, cafe and school, killing 95 Palestinians
7·7 months agoThe following is an article about two of the writer’s cousins that Israel murdered in the cafe: War on Gaza: The world only saw my cousins’ deaths. I want you to know their lives
I think it’s important to not let these people become mere statistics. These oppressors are doing much more than merely killing people; they are snuffing out their present, robbing them of their futures, killing out their potential.
There are many brilliant and kind minds in Palestine that will never come to flourish because of the actions of the oppressors. Any possible advancement or contribution into this world–gone, ripped from this world, ripped from us. Every act of oppression made by these self-designated “peace-makers”, is a desecration of the past, present, and future.
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World News@lemmy.ml•‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans
6·7 months agoElaborate.
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World News@lemmy.ml•‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans
6·7 months agoDon’t be shy now.
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World News@lemmy.ml•‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans
6·7 months agoElaborate.



















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