I spent the past few weeks investigating bombardments of residential buildings & extrajudicial executions by #Russia’s forces north of #Kyiv in #Ukraine. Prima facile evidence of #WarCrimes .

Occupation is an act of war, but Israeli defense minister Israel Katz said that, in the event of a deal with Iran, Israel would not withdraw from territory it occupies in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. That is consistent with Netanyahu's forever-war strategy. trib.al/VsfVy7B

There are moments in Gaza when suffering becomes so ordinary that people stop asking for solutions. They begin asking only for the smallest relief. A little less pain. A child who sleeps through the night. When I entered the clinic that morning, I noticed a young woman carrying a baby so small that I could not tell whether the child was a newborn or simply made tiny by hardship. When her turn came, she gently placed the baby on my desk and said: “I want any cream you have.” Any cream. Not a specific medicine. Not a particular treatment. Just anything. She uncovered the baby and showed me the severe rash covering much of the child’s fragile skin. “I treat the baby with whatever free creams I can find in clinics,” she explained. “Anything helps.” As she spoke, I noticed something else. The baby was not wearing a diaper. Only pieces of cloth. I asked why. “I can’t afford diapers,” she replied calmly. “I wash these and use them again.” Then she added that they were living in a tent and that her husband had suffered a serious foot injury and was unable to work. “I’m not asking for much,” she said. “I only want a cream.” But what caught my attention most was not the rash. It was the malnutrition. The baby was severely underweight. The kind of malnutrition that is visible before any examination even begins. So I asked the mother whether she had noticed. She nodded. “Yes, I know.” Then she said something I cannot forget: “When the baby gets older, things will get better.” Not because she truly believed it. But because hope was cheaper than treatment. And treatment was something she could no longer afford. That was the moment that broke me. Not the tent. Not the poverty. Not even the illness. But the fact that this mother had lowered her expectations so much that she no longer dreamed of proper medical care, diapers, or adequate nutrition. She came asking for the smallest thing she could imagine. A tube of cream. Any cream. Something that might make the baby hurt a little less. The baby could not have been more than five months old. Too young to understand war. Too young to understand poverty. Yet already carrying both on that tiny body. There is something profoundly cruel about a world in which a mother’s greatest hope for her child is no longer a better future. Only a little less suffering tonight. #WoundedGaza

With Trump distracted by his war of choice with Iran, his peace plan for Gaza is going nowhere. Israel keeps seizing more land and now controls 64% of the territory, packing Palestinians into a smaller area with abysmal conditions. trib.al/chXSzkE

💥Anti-Netanyahu demonstrations all over the country. In Jerusalem, police illegally disconnect, then confiscate, protesters' sound equipment at a rally in front of the Prime Minister's Residence. (Orna Kupferman)

In the Sahel countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, military rulers are increasingly clamping down on press freedom and freedom of expression. Many journalists, bloggers and activists have been forced into exile. trib.al/gZtjDtE

One of the privileges of my career was to interview Judge Ted Meron - 96 year old Holocaust survivor, international human rights lawyer, president of the former Yugoslavia & Rwanda war tribunals & adviser to the International Criminal Court. A former Israeli government lawyer & diplomat who now believes that West Bank settlers are carrying out pogroms. His story is powerful & moving. His views are controversial & uncompromising. Do listen to Political Thinking on @BBCSounds

There were enough voices who criticized this policy of feeding the monster in realtime. The erroneous assumptions re transforming Hamas aligned very well with actively weakening the PA and working hard to foreclose any possibility of EVER solving this conflict. As we blame the whole world and their wives for sustaining Hamas, let’s just be candid with ourselves about Israel’s role. More importantly, we need to learn the lesson from illusionary fantasies that rely on bandaids to manage the conflict.

I have fought the neocons and warmongers in Washington for more than 25 years. Throughout, they have tried to silence, discredit, slander, and cancel me. Only recently, however, have they tried to deport me. At least, that appears to have been the aim of a hit piece in Bari Weiss’s The Free Press, which claimed that Marco Rubio’s State Department was “investigating” me for allegedly seeking to “undermine the U.S.”—presumably because of my opposition to war with Iran. Yet just hours later, the State Department issued a statement to reporters clarifying that “the State Department has no plans to revoke the green card of Mr. Parsi at this time.” Nor did it provide any confirmation for the central premise of the Free Press story—that an investigation of me existed in the first place. So here’s what I think happened. Read the full piece on my Substack: tritaparsi.substack.com/p/so…

As the U.K. sanctions settler farms, Israel expands them haaretz.com/opinion/editoria…

The highest offices in the new Syrian state are being parceled out among the rural towns that fought hardest in the revolution, replacing the Assads’ Qardaha with a constellation of competing centers of gravity, argues Kamal Shahin newlinesmag.com/argument/how…

True. But reflecting back, none of that would have been possible without Israel for years *directly* facilitating tens of millions of $ in monthly protection payments to Hamas and the not-so-tacit policy that Smotrich articulated so well - “Hamas is an asset.” @afalkhatib

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries currentaffairs.org/news/how-…

Some of the devastating scenes we saw in Tyre yesterday as we filmed families who remain in the city despite the I$raeli bombardment of civilian areas One of the oldest cities in the world’s very existence is now at stake with fighter jets and drones constantly roaring overhead. We found no evidence that I$rael was hitting anything other than civilian buildings and the people of the city invited us into their homes and told us their stories. Stay tuned for our full report

The Sudanese army has repelled a fourth attack in less than a month by a joint alliance of the RSF and SPLM-N al-Hilu. The assault targeted the strategic town of Amouri in the Blue Nile region as fighting intensified near Geissan. sudantribune.com/article/315… Video: Sudanese army soldiers stand next to a captured military vehicle following clashes outside Amouri in the Blue Nile region, June 13, 2026.

Trump told Iran’s repressed democracy activists that “help is on the way.” Then he started a war that fortified the IRGC and hardliners. Now he is prepared to release billions in Iranian assets to strengthen the regime further — and he deports a female Iranian rights activist to a war-ravaged African country.

Israel is destroying every single home in the southern 40 miles of Lebanon. This is not “targeting Hezbollah strongholds.” These are Christian villages and Sunni villages and Shia villages where people have lived for centuries.

Israeli authorities are directly involved in settler attacks that have killed, injured and displaced Palestinians ​in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli security forces provide protection to settlers, a U.N. inquiry said. trib.al/uV9n7Tf

EXCLUSIF Mediapart diffuse « The Bibi Files », un documentaire de la réalisatrice sud-africaine Alexis Bloom sur le procès pour corruption qui vise Benyamin Nétanyahou. Censuré en Israël, ce film montre combien sa politique criminelle est aussi mafieuse. mediapart.fr/studio/document…

The RSF does not merely commit atrocities as a byproduct of military operations. It deliberately targets civilians to achieve political objectives through terror, writes @_hudsonc. foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/11…

More than 30 UK charities are found to have funnelled millions to illegal Israeli settlements. ‘Labour’s Melanie Ward said that if gift aid were claimed against the donations in the usual way, it would mean taxpayers had subsidised illegal settlements to the tune of £5.6m, a situation she described as deplorable’ - @guardian @melanie_ward