Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Palestine in Pictures: June 2026

 

at 7/10/26 11:25am

A monthly digest of key developments in Palestine showcasing powerful images by photojournalists.

[Category: month in pictures, photostory, photojournalism, Majdi Abu Arra, settler violence, south Hebron hills, children, water, Gaza siege, Masafer Yatta, Sam Abu Haykal, Hebron, Haitham Hmeida, Issa Awad, Reda Awad, Muhammad Zayed, Mustafa al-Khatib, Amir Jaber, Amar Yassin, Palestinian citizens of Israel, Asma Abu Ghanem, Rabee Abu Haikao, Hassan Labad, Bushra al-Barahma, Muhannad Farwana, Muhammad Abu Jayab, Gaza fishing industry, Hamas, Nasser Medical Complex, Sahm Unit, Palestine Red Crescent Society, attacks on paramedics, Michael Milshtein, UNICEF, Rayan Abu al-Ajleen, Gaza genocide, Gaza health care system, Raghad Ashour, Ahmad al-Raqab, agriculture, forced displacement, yellow line, chickenpox, Khan al-Ahmar-Makab al-Samen, al-Bowereh, Hiwara, Dar Fazaa, East Tayba, UNRWA, António Guterres, Kalandia Training Center, Jenin, Lebanon, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu]

— Israel kills brothers, World Cup party host in Gaza

 

at 7/10/26 8:55am

Israeli prison guards beat Gaza pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya with hammer, batons in administrative detention.

[Category: Hussam Abu Safiya, Marwan al-Hams, attacks on aid workers, attacks on medical workers, attacks on fishers, settler violence, Qalandiya refugee camp]

— Envoy cites CIA as EU helps Israel to tighten grip on Jerusalem

 

at 7/9/26 2:05am

Michael Mann gives a selective reading of history during Mount Scopus visit.

[Category: European Union, Michael Mann, CIA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Kaja Kallas] [Link to media]

— Return to Al-Wihda Tower

 

at 7/8/26 3:16pm

After over 800 days of displacement, we began the massive project of restoring our home – only to live through another Israeli bombardment.

[Category: Gaza genocide, Gaza City, Israeli siege, construction materials]

— Exclusive: CPJ reconsidering removal of killed Gaza journalists from database

 

at 7/7/26 3:52pm

Emails reveal push at press freedom group to exclude Palestinian journalists based on political criteria.

[Category: Committee to Protect Journalists, Press House Palestine, Jodie Ginsberg]

— Livestream: 1,000 days of genocide

 

at 7/7/26 11:02am

Asem Alnabih speaks from Gaza about Trumps Board of Peace concentration camps and what people around the world can do to help Palestinians.

[Category: livestream] [Link to media]

— Mile-high defeat for AIPAC in Denver

 

at 7/3/26 4:27pm

Melat Kiros rattles political establishment.

[Category: Melat Kiros, Diana DeGette, Denver, Colorado, Clinton administration, New York City, Gaza genocide, AIPAC, Drop Site News, EDW Action Fund, Elect Democratic Women, Lois Frankel, Pro-Choice Majority Action, United Democracy Project, Fox News, James Cirrone, The Denver Post, Medium, apartheid South Africa, Jim Crow, one-state solution, Glenn Greenwald, Bill Ackman, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Ross Barkan, Charles Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries]

— Why Gaza is the world's most dangerous place for children

 

at 7/3/26 12:45pm

Kids were slain, tortured and persecuted because of their Palestinian identity.

[Category: children, Gaza genocide, persecution, Hind Rajab, arrest and detention, torture, sexual violence, gender-based violence, settler violence, Gaza siege, malnutrition, trauma, Israel Prison Service]

— Israel kills young mother and her infant daughter in Gaza tent

 

at 7/3/26 10:10am

Israeli forces arrest “doctor of the poor,” health care activists in West Bank.

[Category: Gaza health care system, dialysis, humanitarian aid, attacks on medical workers, attacks on aid workers, settler attacks, settler violence, Union of Health Work Committees, al-Tadamon, Aldameer]

— Everywhere we went, the screens were dark

 

at 7/2/26 8:33am

Where do you watch a World Cup match in Nuseirat with just 10 minutes of electricity a day?

[Category: World Cup, soccer, football, Nuseirat, electricity, infrastructure destruction]

— Secrecy over official's Israel trip challenged by EU citizens' watchdog

 

at 7/1/26 1:08am

Katharina von Schnurbein smears organizers of Rome Pride.

[Category: European Union, Katharina von Schnurbein, Teresa Anjinho, Keshet Italia] [Link to media]

— My nickname gives life to my aunt

 

at 6/30/26 9:27am

My name is Ahmad, but, thanks to Aunt Samah, people call me Johnny.

[Category: cancer, Gaza genocide, Gaza famine, eiGazaDispatches]

— Grassroots voters reject AIPAC and boost Palestinian liberation in New York

 

at 6/27/26 11:36pm

Republicans and establishment Democrats blast victorious anti-genocide congressional candidates.

[Category: Gaza genocide, Zohran Mamdani, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, apartheid South Africa, Elon Musk, Adriano Espaillat, BOLD America, AIPAC, United Democracy Project, Columbia University, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, Drop Site News, Ryan Grim, Ross Barkan, The Nation, Mahmoud Khalil, Trump administration, Jim Crow, Ayanna Pressley, StopAntisemitism.org, Melissa DeRosa, Andrew Cuomo, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Tom Cotton, Ben Shapiro, Erin Burnett, CNN, John Fetterman, James Carville, Democratic Socialists of America, Bruce Blakeman, Democratic Majority for Israel]

— Israel attacks children playing in tents

 

at 6/26/26 10:45am

New UN commission report says that Israels deliberate targeting of Palestinian children is key element in establishing genocidal intent.

[Category: al-Mawasi, Chris Sidoti, attacks on journalists, James Elder, israeli torture, Srinivasan Muralidhar, Masafer Yatta, settler attacks, settler violence, Sebastia, Roqayah Chamseddine]

— Palestine Action ban births new direct action groups

 

at 6/26/26 9:39am

Watch our interview with former Filton 25 political prisoner Zoë Rogers.

[Category: Palestine Action, Filton 25, Huda Ammori, Zoë Rogers, People Against Genocide, Ultra I&C, Elbit Systems, Jeremy Johnson]

— Stable childhood is out of reach in Gaza

 

at 6/25/26 11:24am

“Sustainable Childhood” courses don’t teach a Gaza mother how to stop the F16 nor change the path of a missile.

[Category: Gaza genocide, eiGazaDispatches, childhood]

— Two CT scanners for one million people in northern Gaza

 

at 6/25/26 5:13am

Israel destroyed 16 CT scanners across the Gaza Strip during its ongoing genocide.

[Category: al-Shifa Hospital, al-Ahli Hospital, CT scans, Gaza genocide, eiGazaDispatches]

— Swiss criminal probe to target official behind Ali Abunimah expulsion

 

at 6/24/26 12:57pm

Ex-police official Nicoletta della Valle could be charged with abuse of public office.

[Category: Ali Abunimah, Nicoletta della Valle, Switzerland, Zurich]

— Remembering my childhood during the first intifada, with Mohanad Alsayed

 

at 6/24/26 10:21am

Alsayed searches the world for his uncle Ghazi, a former resistance fighter.

[Category: Mohanad Alsayed, Nakba, Tulkarm, Palestinian resistance, memoir] [Link to media]

— Livestream: Iran won the war

 

at 6/24/26 10:10am

Zoë Rogers on why she helped destroy Israeli drones in the UK. Jon Elmer reports on week 15 of the battle in South Lebanon, and Ali Abunimah provides analysis on the US-Iran deal.

[Category: livestream, Hizballah] [Link to media]

— A small step in a city trying to survive

 

at 6/24/26 2:55am

Deir al-Balah municipality is struggling to keep life moving amid overcrowding, underfunding and scarcity.

[Category: Gaza genocide, Deir al-Balah, indiscriminate bombing, infrastructure destruction, property destruction]

As of 7/11/26 9:11pm. Last new 7/10/26 12:50pm.