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#Gaza #ceasefire
#Witkoff #GenocideTrump
@palestine

Update and analysis of the ceasefire negotiations. It's a continuation of agenda from Biden/Tony Blinken's aiding and abetting genocide.
"Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff then denounced that deal—one in which Hamas said he was directly involved—and colluded with Israel to try to force Hamas to accept a draft written entirely with Israel’s genocidal aims at the center"
For the US, there is no end to genocide.

dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-aid-up

Interview: "Netanyahu Wants Permanent War in Gaza, Not a New Ceasefire"

The latest "ceasefire" proposal mediated by Witkoff, “walks back the commitment for a permanent ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal, & allowing in of humanitarian aid.”

"It’s a bad deal for the Palestinians that will allow Israel to continue its ethnic cleansing of Gaza."

~Daniel Levy

democracynow.org/2025/6/2/isra

#GazaGenocide #EthnicCleansing #USEnablement #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @palestine #BDS #CeasefireDeal #Witkoff .

Democracy Now! · Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Netanyahu Wants “Permanent War” in Gaza, Not a New CeasefireBy Democracy Now!

Interview: "Netanyahu Wants Permanent War in Gaza, Not a New Ceasefire"

The latest "ceasefire" proposal mediated by Witkoff, “walks back the commitment for a permanent ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal, & allowing in of humanitarian aid.”

"It’s a bad deal for the Palestinians that will allow Israel to continue its ethnic cleansing of Gaza."

~Daniel Levy

democracynow.org/2025/6/2/isra

#GazaGenocide #EthnicCleansing #USEnablement #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @palestine #BDS #CeasefireDeal #Witkoff .

Democracy Now! · Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Netanyahu Wants “Permanent War” in Gaza, Not a New CeasefireBy Democracy Now!

Interview: "Netanyahu Wants Permanent War in Gaza, Not a New Ceasefire"

The latest "ceasefire" proposal mediated by Witkoff, “walks back the commitment for a permanent ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal, & allowing in of humanitarian aid.”

"It’s a bad deal for the Palestinians that will allow Israel to continue its ethnic cleansing of Gaza."

~Daniel Levy

democracynow.org/2025/6/2/isra

#GazaGenocide #EthnicCleansing #USEnablement #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @palestine #BDS #CeasefireDeal #Witkoff .

Democracy Now! · Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Netanyahu Wants “Permanent War” in Gaza, Not a New CeasefireBy Democracy Now!

Palestine Chronicle - Day 604!

All the news & analysis on the ongoing Zionist genocide in Gaza & the West Bank that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling Vichy #MSM - including the #Zionist-aligned #BBC

palestinechronicle.com/#

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@guardian @Independent @thetimes
@CNN @msnbc @nytimes @politico @latimes @miamiherald @NewYorker @seattletimes @BostonGlobe

Palestine ChronicleHome Page - Palestine Chronicle
#Press#Israel#Gaza

“The #Witkoff #Massacre in the Hungriest Place on Earth: You are witnessing your future”

by BettBeat Media on Substack

@palestine
@israel
@UKLabour

“We are now entering a world where a generation grows up never knowing a time without normalized mass murder, rape, and genocide broadcast in high definition to our devices”

open.substack.com/pub/bettbeat

BettBeat’s Newsletter · The Witkoff Massacre in the Hungriest Place on EarthBy BettBeat Media
#Press#Gaza#Palestine

Good question by #RyanGrim from #DropSiteNews:

"Why is it that #Hamas, in order to get to long term peace, is willing to give up power in #Gaza, but #Israel, which said it does not want to end the war, insists on Hamas staying in power?" ... alluding to a key point in the Hamas-#Witkoff understanding, a point that was removed in the counter proposal by Israel.

Of course, the answer is embedded in the question, but still, it's something that is not covered by mainstream media.

Continued thread

Despite what appears to be a broad, albeit primarily rhetorical, shift in mainstream establishment opinion about Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza across most of the Pig Empire, Very Serious People TM in the US remain inside a disturbingly bipartisan, pro-genocide unreality bubble. Inside that bubble it seems far more reasonable to discuss Trump's personal relationships with Israel's fascist PM Benjamin Netanyahu than it would be to talk about all the ways his regime has actively expanded on the Biden administration's open facilitation of that genocide, even as it continues to this very moment. Yet outside that bubble, across the broader planet and even in the US discourse that exists beyond corporate media and in pocket political actors, the reality that this is America's genocide too is inescapable.

Take for example the absurd "humanitarian aid" scheme the Trump regime and Netanyahu cooked up to pretend Israel wasn't trying engineer a famine as part of its broader, openly stated project to ethnically cleanse, occupy, and colonize Gaza, that was nevertheless treated as a plausible sign Trump was reigning Israel in by a credulous, pro-genocide US establishment and media complex. The moment the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" and the plan to distribute aid under the watchful eye of the IOF and U.S. mercenary contractors was revealed, everyone living in the real world, including UN aid officials and humanitarian relief experts immediately said this wasn't going to stop the intentional starvation and the whole thing smelled fishy. Folks who truly understood the nature of Israel's genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza however, spoke of a far darker possibility; that the reason to march Palestinians halfway across the Gaza strip and herd them like cattle into a heavily-surveilled area surrounded by soldiers, was to directly facilitated and further the genocide and mass displacement of Gazans itself.

Well, now that IOF forces have engaged in a massacre at one of these sham food distribution sites, actively engineered, supported, and protected by the Trump administration and our hired military contractors, I think we can chalk this one up as yet another L for team genocide and the US establishment unreality bubble. As Israel sprints towards pariah state status, and the international community is searching for an off ramp before public opinion drowns their formerly pro-genocide leaders, the Trump regime has responded by actively facilitating and even participating in a settler colonial massacre that's part of a larger ongoing genocide. Yet somehow, despite plenty of corporate media coverage of the incident, this reality largely escapes Very Serious People TM in the American discourse.

commondreams.org/news/witkoff-

'The Witkoff Massacre': Hundreds Killed or Wounded as Israeli Forces Open Fire on Gaza Food Aid Site

"Health officials in Gaza and multiple witnesses at the site near the southern city of Rafah reported that "Israeli forces fired on crowds around a kilometer (1,000 yards) away from an aid site run by an Israeli-backed foundation," according to the Associated Press.

"The international community must act immediately and decisively to compel Israel to end its inhumane aid distribution mechanism in Gaza, following today’s massacre near a U.S.-backed aid centre south of Rafah, where Israeli forces killed or injured over 220 starving civilians," said the Switzerland-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med), in a Sunday morning statement, which had personnel on the ground near the aid station."

Folks, we are literally luring starving Gazans out of hiding with the promise of food, concentrating them in pens, and then letting IOF soldiers shoot at them while calling that "humanitarian aid" and pretending we're doing something about an ongoing genocide. There are no words I'm comfortable uttering in this political climate that can adequately cover the outrage, revulsion, and loathing I feel towards a Trump regime, US corporate media, and a broader bipartisan American establishment that contains plenty of rich Democrats, that has brought this livestreamed genocide into being. Even now, even among those who at this late an hour have finally decided that TikTok videos of starving toddlers means this really is a genocide, are trying to couch this in terms of "Netanyahu's genocidal war" despite the fact that literally none of this would be possible with direct American material support, and a US corporate media complex devoted to manufacturing consent for murdering babies and bombing hospitals. Infuriating.

The truth however is that 19 months into an ongoing genocide, the propaganda bubble is starting to burst; you can't stop reality from being real, forever. We, the United States of America, own this genocide, and the whole world is watching while we pretend our government isn't an active participant.

Common Dreams · 'The Witkoff Massacre': Hundreds Killed or Wounded as Israeli Forces Open Fire on Gaza Food Aid Site | Common Dreams"The new U.S.-Israeli genocide strategy: starve the population, lure them with promises of aid, then kill them."

Hamas accepts #Witkoff truce outline with amendments aimed at ending war

Palestinian group submits revised version of #US-backed ceasefire plan, seeking changes to Israeli withdrawal terms and prisoner exchange framework

[includes info from Axios, Drop Site News, and anonymous source]

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Elis Gjevori
Published date: 1 June 2025 01:38 BST

"As part of the agreement, #Hamas has agreed to release 10 living #Israeli captives and the remains of 18 others, in exchange for a number of #Palestinian prisoners to be agreed upon.

However, the group proposed that the releases be carried out in phases: four living captives would be freed on day one, two on day 30, and the final four on day 60. The remains of Israeli captives would also be returned in stages - six on day 10, another six on day 30, and the final six on day 50."

middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi

#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press #politics @palestine

Middle East EyeExclusive: Hamas accepts Witkoff truce outline with amendments aimed at ending warPalestinian group submits revised version of US-backed ceasefire plan, seeking changes to Israeli withdrawal terms and prisoner exchange framework

Hamas Responds to Witkoff #Gaza Proposal, Demands Trump Guarantee #Israel Won’t Resume Genocide

Drop Site obtained the new proposal, which Hamas drafted in consultation with a range of #Palestinian factions. #Witkoff swiftly denounced it as “unacceptable.”

from #DropSiteNews
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
May 31, 2025

"The thirteen point document, obtained by Drop Site, represents Hamas’s official response..."

"Among the terms #Hamas wants included in any deal are a guarantee that as long as Palestinian resistance forces hold their fire, negotiations for a complete end to the genocide will continue beyond a 60-day initial truce and that this would be guaranteed by the #US., Egypt and Qatar. “The United States and President #Trump are committed to working diligently to ensure the continuation of negotiations until a final agreement is reached,” the document says."

dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-respo

#PermanentCeasfireNow
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine

www.dropsitenews.comHamas Responds to Witkoff Gaza Proposal, Demands Trump Guarantee Israel Won’t Resume GenocideDrop Site obtained the new proposal, which Hamas drafted in consultation with a range of Palestinian factions. Witkoff swiftly denounced it as “unacceptable.”

“One week ago, we agreed with Mr #Witkoff on one proposal, and we said, ‘This is acceptable, we can consider this a negotiating paper. He went to the other party, to the Israelis, to get their response. Instead of having a response to our proposal, he brought us a new proposal … which had nothing to do with what we agreed upon.”

That's what Basem Naim, a #Hamas official, said to Al Jazeera:

aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/31/h

Witkoff is a nasty piece of shit.

Al Jazeera · Hamas says ceasefire proposal offers ‘no guarantees’ for end to Gaza warBy Al Jazeera