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The pier took two months and $350m to build, lasted 12 days, and delivered less than 60 trucks’ worth of food (most of which was stolen after it reached Gaza) before it broke and had to be towed away for repairs.
Starvation in Gaza as Israel closes Egypt border and paltry US aid project founders
Think through the process: ships provide a mass delivery mechanism for cargo and the draft of a ship prevents it from getting close to shore hence the need for pier structures for off-loading and the US spends a third of of billion dollars for a temporary structure to facilitate the off-loading.
Weather conditions and sea states are not a mystery and for those keen enough to observe, the facilitators of this disaster had access to all the historical data to know what to do and whether to proceed ahead with the project.
Four U.S. ships supporting the temporary floating pier built by the U.S. military to provide aid to Gaza were damaged in the storm, leaving their moorings, two of which ran aground off the coast of Ashkelon, Israel. Part of the structure of the pier was washed away by wind and waves and drifted into the sea.
And, remember, this is the same US foreign policy that provides military aid, even now, that necessitated the need for the temporary pier in the first place.
This debacle is a demonstration project of the American experience in the Middle East.
Two indictments drafted separately by Turkish prosecutors seek prison sentences of up to 13-and-a-half years for each of 42 people arrested for defying an unconstutional government ban on May Day demonstrations in central İstanbul, the Birgün daily reported.
The crackdown on leftist groups continues following the May Day events.5
Turkish police officers detain a protester as he and others try to march to Taksim Square in the Mecidiyekoy district during a rally to mark International Workers’ Day in İstanbul. (Photo by KEMAL ASLAN / AFP)
Some 200 demonstrators who tried to march from İstanbul’s Saraçhane neighborhood to Taksim Square, which has symbolic importance, to mark International Workers’ Day were detained on May 1.
Demonstrators were also taken into custody in the following days on accusations that they resisted law enforcement to make their way to Taksim.
There are 30 defendants in the first indictment drafted by the İstanbul’s Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, while the second indictment directs charges at 12 other demonstrators.
The proposed prison sentences for the 42 demonstrators currently in pretrial detention is a total of 567 years. They face multiple charges including violating the law on assemblies and demonstrations, resisting a public officer, intentionally causing injury and vandalism.
Dozens detained in İstanbul raids targeting leftist groups following May Day
There are currently 74 May Day protestors in pretrial detention. In the latest wave of detentions following house raids on May 21, 27 of them were detained and subsequently arrested.
The Interior Ministry and the İstanbul Governor’s Office announced before May Day that no demonstrations would be allowed in Taksim due to security concerns, sparking a backlash from opposition parties, labor unions and civil society groups who said the ban was “unconstitutional.”
The government ban on demonstrations in Taksim Square contravenes a Constitutional Court decision last year that found violations of the right to free assembly in the controversial ban.
The symbolic importance of Taksim Square stems from the killing of 34 people by unknown assailants on May Day in 1977. The area has become a subject of tension and confrontation between the government and labor unions in the days leading up to May Day since 2013.
Until 2009, Taksim was off limits to demonstrators following Bloody May Day in 1977. About three decades after the incident, under tight security, Taksim Square became the venue of peaceful demonstrations aside from a few minor incidents in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The area was closed to demonstrations again in 2013 .
Around 14:45, pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched from the Spui to Achter Oosteinde 14 and opened the Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus of the people’s Free university in a squatted building.
Today, on May 25, pro-Palestinian demonstrators began their protest on the Spui at 14:00. This demonstration moved through the streets of Amsterdam to Achter Oosteinde 16, where the protesters revealed that a squatted building is being opened to the public as the first campus of the People’s Free University.
The Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus will be a space of resistance where people can learn from each other and teach each other.
The campus is named after one of the first Palestinian women to participate in armed resistance in 1967: “She knew the importance of knowledge and education in the struggle for liberation. […]
We will create this space in her legacy,” the protesters say.
Full speech:
On this day, day 231 of the genocide happening in gaza right now On this day, in Amsterdam, we open this building as the Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus of the Peoples Free University.
here we want to learn from each other we want to learn from other encampments around the world, here we want to learn from people fighting against oppression through time and spacebut specifically from those in gaza right now
Our encampments did not last a day, and so we decided to explore other ways.
Experiment with different ways of building Resistance. We are opening this building as a space for us to be with each other. We understand that our barricades will only ever be as strong as our solidarity, as large as our community, and as fierce as our militancy. And this is what we will be building here.
By opening the first campus of the people’s university we attempt to answer a call coming straight from Gaza: escalate! escalate! escalate! stop this by any means necessary! stop the genocide! Stop the occupation!
We understand that in order to free palestine, we must liberate every zone from our hearts and souls to the borders of empire! On this Campus we shall practice the work of liberation.
Shadia Abu Ghazaleh was one of the first women participating in armed military resistance in 1967. She knew the importance of knowledge and education in the fight for liberation.
She knew it takes all of us fighting on all fronts. And she embodied that knowledge. We will create this space in her lineage.
But this campus is not the first educational space named after her. Remember Shadia Abu Ghazaleh school in Jabalia, where last december bodies were piled up instead of books in the classroom. We must never forget them.
We open this campus in honor of those martyred and those still fighting. In everything we do, be that reading a book or fighting a cop, we must carry them in our hearts.
Not only are we fighting for, no we are fighting with them for nothing less than Liberation
All Universities in Gaza have been bombed, but from their rubble, universities of Palestinian liberation rise everywhere! In the last weeks we have learned more about decolonial practice on the streets than any course could have ever taught us.
Embodying resistance is infinitely more valuable than any study at the Uva. From now on Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus is where we learn and where we teach each other.
Where we get together. Where we become even more dangerous together!
The German chancellor’s spokesperson has stated that Ukraine’s “defensive action is not limited” to its own territory
German leader U-turns on allowing Kiev strike inside Russia – Politico
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz now supports Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia, despite his earlier concerns about escalation with Moscow, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing sources.
Speaking alongside French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, the German leader said that “if Ukraine is attacked, it can defend itself” under international law.
He also said he had no legal objections to Macron, who argued that the West “should allow [Kiev] to neutralize military sites… from where… Ukraine is attacked.”
The following day, the chancellor’s spokesperson, Steffen Hebestreit clarified that Germany believes that Kiev’s “defensive action is not limited to its own territory, but [can] also be expanded to the territory of the aggressor.”
He declined to provide details on what agreements Berlin has reached with Kiev regarding the use of German-supplied weapons.
Germany has for months refused to send Ukraine its long-range Taurus missiles, with Scholz citing escalation concerns and explaining that the deliveries would only be “tenable” if Berlin could determine the targets itself, which would make it a direct participant in the hostilities.
Around 14:45, pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched from the Spui to Achter Oosteinde 14 and opened the Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus of the people’s Free university in a squatted building.
Today, on May 25, pro-Palestinian demonstrators began their protest on the Spui at 14:00. This demonstration moved through the streets of Amsterdam to Achter Oosteinde 16, where the protesters revealed that a squatted building is being opened to the public as the first campus of the People’s Free University.
The Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus will be a space of resistance where people can learn from each other and teach each other.
The campus is named after one of the first Palestinian women to participate in armed resistance in 1967: “She knew the importance of knowledge and education in the struggle for liberation. […]
We will create this space in her legacy,” the protesters say.
Full speech:
On this day, day 231 of the genocide happening in gaza right now On this day, in Amsterdam, we open this building as the Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus of the Peoples Free University.
here we want to learn from each other we want to learn from other encampments around the world, here we want to learn from people fighting against oppression through time and spacebut specifically from those in gaza right now
Our encampments did not last a day, and so we decided to explore other ways.
Experiment with different ways of building Resistance. We are opening this building as a space for us to be with each other. We understand that our barricades will only ever be as strong as our solidarity, as large as our community, and as fierce as our militancy. And this is what we will be building here.
By opening the first campus of the people’s university we attempt to answer a call coming straight from Gaza: escalate! escalate! escalate! stop this by any means necessary! stop the genocide! Stop the occupation!
We understand that in order to free palestine, we must liberate every zone from our hearts and souls to the borders of empire! On this Campus we shall practice the work of liberation.
Shadia Abu Ghazaleh was one of the first women participating in armed military resistance in 1967. She knew the importance of knowledge and education in the fight for liberation.
She knew it takes all of us fighting on all fronts. And she embodied that knowledge. We will create this space in her lineage.
But this campus is not the first educational space named after her. Remember Shadia Abu Ghazaleh school in Jabalia, where last december bodies were piled up instead of books in the classroom. We must never forget them.
We open this campus in honor of those martyred and those still fighting. In everything we do, be that reading a book or fighting a cop, we must carry them in our hearts.
Not only are we fighting for, no we are fighting with them for nothing less than Liberation
All Universities in Gaza have been bombed, but from their rubble, universities of Palestinian liberation rise everywhere! In the last weeks we have learned more about decolonial practice on the streets than any course could have ever taught us.
Embodying resistance is infinitely more valuable than any study at the Uva. From now on Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus is where we learn and where we teach each other.
Where we get together. Where we become even more dangerous together!
Another Iranian judicial killing of a political prisoner is imminent. The Supreme Court of Iran has confirmed the death penalty against the guerrilla HPG Rêgeş (Ethem Özdemir). The guerrilla, who comes from Ağrı (Agîrî), in northern Kurdistan, was captured on June 23, 2019 in the Qeleniyê region in the Kevirê Spî area during clashes with the Revolutionary Guards (IGRC).
The 27-year-old has been a member of the PKK for ten years. After 33 months in captivity, Rêgeş was brought before the “Revolutionary Court” in the city of Xoy and sentenced to death in a show trial on March 15, 2022.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Organization said that Rêgeş is detained in Urmiye prison and that the death sentence against him has been upheld by the highest court.
His execution could take place at any time.
The human rights situation in Iran is rapidly deteriorating, with an increase in political executions of prisoners in recent months. According to the Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), there were some 66 executions during April, with three female prisoners and 56 men among the victims. More have continued throughout May, at an average rate of 10 executions per week.
According to human rights watchdog HRANA, Iran persists in executing individuals for offences falling short of the standards outlined in the United Nations multilateral treaty on civil and political rights.
Iranian authorities have used capital punishment to intimidate popular resistance related to involvement in the mass anti-government women’s liberation protests that sprung up in the country after the police killing of Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in 2022. Executions for drug-related offences are also widespread, against international law. In a recent high-profile case, Kurdish rapper Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to death for ‘corruption on earth’, after calling out human rights abuses in Iran through his music.
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Zhina Modares Gorji, Kurdish journalist, sentenced to 21 years in prison in Iran for opposing the hijab
Meanwhile, Kurdish journalist Jîna Muderîs Gurcî has been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment by an Iranian revolutionary court, tried on several charges related to her women’s rights advocacy and journalistic activities. Reporters Without Borders ranks Iran 176th out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom and the safety of journalists.
Zhina Modares Gorji, a prominent Kurdish journalist and women’s rights activist from Sanandaj, who was also arrested during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement against the hijab (headscarf for women), has been sentenced to 21 years in prison and locked up in Hamedan Central Prison by the Iranian judiciary.
According to a report received by the Hengaw Human Rights Organization, Zhina Modares Gorji, a journalist and women’s rights activist, was recently sentenced by Section 1 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Karami, to 10 years in prison for “forming an illegal group with the aim of overthrowing the government”, 10 years for “collaborating with hostile groups and governments” and 1 year for “propaganda against the government”.
The final hearing on the charges of the Kurdish activist was held on April 10 this year, and the verdict was officially served on Thursday, May 23.
The human rights watchdog said that Gurcî had been previously arrested twice before – the first time in the wake of the ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’ (‘Woman, Life, Freedom’) movement in September 2022. She was again picked up by Iranian intelligence on 10 April 2023, and detained in solitary confinement for a month at the Sanandaj Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre before being transferred to prison for a further two months. On both occasions she was released on bail.
With the application of the law on aggregation of sentences, of the total 21-year sentence, the most severe sentence, which is 10 years in prison along with exile in Hamedan prison, is enforceable.
The lawyers of Ms. Modares Gorji have officially registered their objection to this harsh sentence, and the case will be sent to the Provincial Court of Appeals for review.
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original in Catalan
Iran condemna a mort el militant del PKK Ethem Özdemir, del Kurdistan de Turquia
Un altre assassinat judicial iranià d’un pres polític és imminent. El Tribunal Suprem de l’Iran ha confirmat la pena de mort contra el guerriller HPG Rêgeş (Ethem Özdemir). El guerriller, que prové d’Ağrı (Agirî), al nord del Kurdistan, va ser capturat el 23 de juny de 2019 a la regió de Qeleniyê a la zona de Kevirê Spî durant enfrontaments amb els Guàrdies Revolucionaris (IGRC).
El jove, de 27 anys, fa deu anys que és membre del PKK. Després de 33 mesos en captivitat, Rêgeş va ser portat davant el “Tribunal Revolucionari” a la ciutat de Xoy i condemnat a mort en un judici espectacle el 15 de març de 2022. L’Organització de Drets Humans del Kurdistan va dir que Rêgeş està detingut a la presó d’Urmiye i que la condemna a mort contra ell ha estat confirmada pel tribunal més alt.
La seva execució podria tenir lloc en qualsevol moment.
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