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Humanitarian Aid Trickles Into Northern Gaza - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/world/middleeast/gaza-food-distribution-scene.html

Crimes of the Century -- How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law. (Suzy Hansen/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/israel-palestine-gaza-war-crimes-genocide.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p1#a250617p1

"The humanitarian cause is humanity share mission." fordert der chinesische Sprecher vor dem ICJ.
Die Staaten, voran das #Terrorregime #Netanjahu und Darth #Trump benehmen sich wie Leute beim Somm…

The ever wonderful Marina Hyde to remind us just how much of a policy failure the billionaires among us actually are..
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/20/lauren-sanchez-hen-do-humanitarian-mission-paris-jeff-bezos?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Meanwhile, the Israeli genocide in Gaza against Palestinians continues...
"Israel kills 59 Palestinians in Gaza, many while trying to get aid
Thirteen starving Palestinians are killed as they tried to get food near the Netzarim Corridor and in Rafah’s al-Mawasi area."

"All the while, all I’ve heard all day is Israeli tanks, machine guns, snipers, and bombs.
But never any fire from the opposite direction."
EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-american

EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
I thought I was signing up for an aid mission. But what I've witnessed in Gaza is horrific.

Communications lost with
Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen
after Israeli navy tells it to change course
Freedom Flotilla Coalition says ship’s communications were jammed after Israeli defence minister threatened to ‘take all necessary measures’ to prevent the humanitarian ship from reaching Gaza

Demand the release of peaceful Irish protestors
#Ireland

Email the Egyptian Embassy to demand the release of peaceful protestors
Peaceful protesters from Ireland have been detailed in Egypt, on their way to demand that Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid, of food, of water, of medical supplies is ended. Please email the Egyptian Embassy in Dublin calling for their immediate release?

Meanwhile, the Israeli made genocide in Gaza continues...
"Israeli strikes kill at least 52 across Gaza as UN demands ceasefire
At least 26 people were killed in Israeli drone strikes while waiting for basic aid distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."
https…

Israeli strikes kill at least 42 across Gaza as UN eyes ceasefire vote
At least 26 people were killed while waiting for basic aid distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

“The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) confirms that its civilian ship, Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, has been attacked/forcibly intercepted by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CET in international waters at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E. The ship was unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated.”

This month, we have decided against collecting donations for our Mastodon servers, as there is a more pressing issue: not enough humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The Gaza strip needs over 500 trucks of food and medical supplies per day, with currently only a few dozen entering overall.
The problem isn't money, but with over 310 UNRWA, and over 400 humanitarian aid staff in total, killed in Gaza, the problem is also money.
I urge you to donate whatever you would do…

How spyware, posing as an app from a humanitarian organization, spread among Syrian army officers via Telegram, and fueled the collapse of the Assad regime (Mobile Hacker)
https://www.mobile-hacker.com/2025/06/05/an…

Analysis of Spyware That Helped to Compromise a Syrian Army from Within
This case demonstrates that effective smartphone espionage doesn't always require expensive zero-day exploits or the development of sophisticated, custom and undetected spyware. Instead, attackers can achieve significant intelligence gains using older, off-the-shelf tools like Android SpyMax—especially when combined

So, it seems that the Israel government is so afraid of Greta Thunberg and a shipment of humanitarian aid reaching Gaza that they are jamming GPS signals in order to lead the boat into harm and destruction.
Talk about state sponsored terrorism!!!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r1dvlk

Madleen: Israel warns it will stop aid yacht reaching Gaza
Israel's defence minister says climate protester Greta Thunberg and others onboard are "Hamas propaganda spokespeople".

Madleen Gaza flotilla live tracker: Greta Thunberg, crew near Gaza | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://aje.io/p6b8m7?update=3762371
UN rights expert says Israeli speedboats surrounding Madleen
(Via @…

”From the ground, Zaydan saw his mother start to stand up, before a sniper bullet felled her with a shot to the head. ’Because I’m young, I got scared and left my mother,’ he said. ’I ran away.’
Zaydan is one of eight Palestinians who spoke to the Financial Times about their attempt to reach the #Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site in western Rafah over the past week. Their twilight journeys thronge…

How Gaza’s food queues turned into kill zones
Dozens of Palestinians have been shot dead trying to reach a US and Israeli-backed aid distribution scheme

Starving Palestinians fear being shot dead for a bag of lentils as Gaza aid points close | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-israel-rafah-b2764590.html

A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists arrived at an Israeli port Monday after Israeli forces stopped and detained them
Israel’s Foreign Ministry published a photo on social media of Thunberg after disembarking.
The 12 activists were expected to be held at a detention facility in Ramle before being deported, according to Adalah, a legal rights group representing them

Israeli forces detain Greta Thunberg after halting Freedom Flotilla aid boat
Israeli forces have seized a Gaza-bound aid boat and detained Greta Thunberg and other activists on board, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory that has been tightened during the war with Hamas. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which had organized the voyage to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and protest Israel’s blockade and wartime conduct, said the activists had been “kidnapped by Israeli forces.” Israel said the passengers would return to their home…

Bakersfield girl who faced deportation and loss of lifesaving medical care is allowed to stay in U.S. (Andrea Castillo/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-03/bakersfield-girl-who-faced-deportation-loss-of-lifesaving-medical-care-granted-humanitarian-parole
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p134#a250603p134

Hey everyone!
What do you think about Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg heading to Gaza with the Freedom Flotilla to deliver humanitarian aid and challenge the blockade?
I’m honestly mixed on it, and I would love to hear your thoughts.
#GretaThunberg #GretaTintinEleonoraErnmanThunberg

some live updates:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/4/madleen-gaza-flotilla-live-greta-thunberg-activists-to-arrive-on-june-7

Geo-Disasters: geocoding climate-related events in the international disaster database EM-DAT
Khalil Teber, M\'elanie Weynants, Fabian Gans, Miguel D. Mahecha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03797

Geo-Disasters: geocoding climate-related events in the international disaster database EM-DAT
Climate hazards can escalate into humanitarian disasters. Understanding their trajectories -- considering hazard intensity, human exposure, and societal vulnerability -- is essential for effective anticipatory action. The International Disaster Database (EM-DAT) is the only freely available global resource of humanitarian disaster records. However, it lacks exact geospatial information, limiting its use for climate hazard impact research. Here, we provide geocoding of 9,217 climate-related disa…

Trump cuts to foreign aid leave food destined for desperate millions rotting in storage. »The dismantling of USAID and cuts to humanitarian aid has been devastating and unacceptable,« said one international aid group. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-usa…

Not everyone can treat patients in the field.
But everyone can do something.
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/msf-operations-gaza

MSF operations in Gaza
Last updated on May 14, 2025Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working in Gaza for decades and our teams have been providing lifesaving medical aid throughout the devastating war. With both local Palestinian staff and international teams operating throughout Gaza, MSF is providing medical care and humanitarian relief at a time of unimaginable suffering.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07818 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Real-time Chest X-Ray Distributed Decision Support for Resource-constrained Clinics
Internet of Things (IoT) based healthcare systems offer significant potential for improving the delivery of healthcare services in humanitarian engineering, providing essential healthcare services to millions of underserved people in remote areas worldwide. However, these areas have poor network infrastructure, making communications difficult for traditional IoT. This paper presents a real-time chest X-ray classification system for hospitals in remote areas using FastDDS real-time middleware, o…

"The number of humanitarian workers killed around the world in 2023 was 280. Of these 163 were in the occupied Palestinian Territories"
#freepalestine #fucktheidf #freegaza

I see Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a good man doing bad things,
but perhaps he thinks even worse of me: He recently suggested that I was a liar.
While testifying before Congress, Rubio claimed that the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development had not cost any lives.
“No children are dying on my watch,” he asserted.
At another point in the hearing, he broadened his statement to include adults as well: “No one has d…

Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?
Many thousands of children are dying because of cuts in American humanitarian aid, and denials by Elon Musk and Marco Rubio don’t change that reality.

As the death toll of Palestinians continues to rise and more than a half a million people in Gaza are on the brink of famine,
U.S.-based Veterans For Peace and several allied organizations have launched a
40-day “Fast for Gaza.”
From May 22 to June 30, 600 people in the U.S. and abroad are fasting
and demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under UN authority
and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.
Mary Kelly Gardner, a teacher from Santa Cruz, Calif…

Veterans launch 40-day fast to protest Israel’s starvation of Gaza
“Having seen what war does … I simply have to do more than hold a sign at a demonstration,” said one veteran organizer.