Notices by Ciarán Fahey (cfahey@berlin.social)

Israel has blocked all food, fuel and medicine from entering Gaza for nearly 60 days now.

This affects the entire population. Israel knows this. No matter, it does it just the same.

(AP) #Gaza #Israel #blockade #starvation #warcrimes

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-blockade-malnutrition-children-6c2bf9a5c628626836ebd6ecda3dedf2

Berlin is deporting four foreign residents after their participation in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. Three are EU citizens, including two from Ireland.

The deportation orders are unlawful, but Berlin’s senate is going ahead anyway.

@hahauenstein #Germany #Gaza #Israel #freespeech #fascism

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/germany-gaza-protesters-deport/

Netanyahu has resumed bombing Gaza to save his own skin.

Peace would “almost certainly plunge Netanyahu into a political crisis that could end his nearly uninterrupted 15-year rule.”

(AP) #Israel #Gaza #Netanyahu

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-hostages-netanyahu-ff48f081b069e484955a72bc68261364

This is the world we’ve created. No time to dress.

The fire “spread so rapidly that staff at a senior care center had to push dozens of residents in wheelchairs and hospital beds to a parking lot where they waited in their bedclothes for ambulances.”

(AP) #climatechange #LosAngeles #fire

https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-southern-california-santa-ana-winds-b565a3bd043d6444820f1571b2307bf1

Friedrich Merz, who's most likely to be Germany's next chancellor, aims to get there by blaming foreigners for Germany's problems.

The racism is palpable. #Germany #Merz

https://www.merkur.de/politik/merz-stellt-klare-forderung-aberkennung-der-deutschen-staatsbuergerschaft-zr-93498241.html

“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.”

By Ann Telnaes

#WashingtonPost #Bezos #pressfreedom #press #democracy

https://open.substack.com/pub/anntelnaes/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Israel closes its embassy in Ireland because it's outraged Ireland would dare criticize its continuous bombing of Gaza.

Meanwhile, Israel continues pounding Gaza, killing at least 17 people including women and children in three airstrikes on houses sheltering displaced people.

(AP) #Ireland #Israel #Gaza
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-12-15-2024-b97bfffe851f87328ab24017da8d7a32

Israeli warplanes pound Syria as troops reportedly advance deeper into the country

“Israel has a long history of seizing territory during wars with its neighbors and occupying it indefinitely, citing security concerns.”

(AP) #Syria #Israel
https://apnews.com/article/syria-israel-airstrike-assad-war-b90edb8dbe8268dacf90e59ca601e2e3

A festival on Germany's westernmost island, Borkum, passes peacefully after criticism of men hitting women with cow’s horns

(AP) #Borkum #cowshorns

https://apnews.com/article/germany-borkum-klaasohm-festival-violence-women-2c3ba604d6aa33f3eff6ce7313848f4f?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

Nan Goldin condemns Israel's wars on Gaza and Lebanon in speech at Berlin exhibition.

She also slams Germany's response.

“Germany is home of the largest Palestinian diaspora in Europe. Yet protests are met with police dogs and deportation and stigmatization.”

(AP) #NanGoldin #Israel #Germany #Gaza #Lebanon

https://apnews.com/article/nan-goldin-berlin-gaza-israel-antisemitism-3fedbcd682897c0eecb1b62e637575f4

It’s the 140th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Conference, when the colonial powers met in the German capital to formalize the ongoing conquest of Africa, divvying up the continent like a cake between themselves.

#Colonialism #Germany #Africa #AfticaConference

If you want to learn more, this is about to kick off now in Berlin.
It’s full, but it’s being streamed at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/live/bHdhBIv4aOg?feature=shared

#AfricaConference

Israel has strongly denied charges of genocide, telling the United Nations’ top court it’s doing all it can to protect the civilian population in Gaza.

“Israel takes extraordinary measures in order to minimize the harm to civilians in Gaza.”

The death toll so far is more than 35,000, hardly any food is getting in, people are starving.

(AP) #Israel #Gaza

https://apnews.com/article/2f739ad4f64ff3a8186a423ad8f350e8

There have been at least 794 attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank since Oct. 7.

Israeli human rights groups blame Netanyahu’s far-right government for fueling settler violence by promoting an ideology of total Israeli supremacy in the West Bank.

And it’s not just settlers. Nearly 500 Palestinians have been killed there since Oct. 7,
most of them by Israeli soldiers.

(AP) #Israel #WestBank #settlerviolence

https://apnews.com/article/71180e5579e4dde464672568e9669fe2

UN experts decry mass graves in Gaza. Over 390 bodies found at Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals, “including of women and children, with many reportedly showing signs of torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive.”

#Gaza #Israel #UN

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/05/onslaught-violence-against-women-and-children-gaza-unacceptable-un-experts

Israeli forces backed by tanks and artillery launch another raid on Gaza’s largest hospital. 30,000 people shelter there.

“We’re trapped inside,” said Abdel-Hady Sayed. “They fire at anything moving.”

(AP) #Gaza #ShifaHospital
https://apnews.com/article/eefc526aec97821fe5f1e845801a6640