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Still Here, an exhibition of digital artworks about the story of Palestine and its people, from colonization and resistance to the present moment. June 4–16 | Palacete Gomes Freire, Lisbon | @returndotart

Yesterday, Israel released a number of Palestinian detainees from its torture camps into Gaza. Among them: three brothers. Muath Adel Saeed Abu Rayala, 23 Mohammed Adel Saeed Abu Rayala, 26 Saeed Adel Saeed Abu Rayala, 30 Israel abducted them from their family and held them in its torture camps solely because they are Palestinian—no charge, no wrongdoing. The proof is their release without any exchange: Israel's camps filled to capacity, and it cleared out those it no longer needed to make room for new arrests from the West Bank and Gaza.

"You have to brainwash all the time… because this is the only way to continue Zionism." —Daniella Weiss, Israel's most prominent settler leader, who openly advocates for a Greater Israel stretching from the Euphrates to the Nile—including all of Lebanon, and parts of Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Still Here, an exhibition in solidarity with Palestine. Featuring works from the @FlyingBeagle_ collection, including 23 artists from 15 countries. A declaration that, despite all they have endured, the Palestinian people are still here. Video by @rbardin

Sam Abu Haikal was seven months old. Israel executed him before his family's eyes because he was born Palestinian.

Yesterday Israel killed an 8 year old boy in Gaza wearing a backpack on the way home from school. His name was Jad. The only reason western mainstream news outlets didn’t report on his killing is because he’s Palestinian.

RT @mshinqiti: Israel is not just a state committing crimes against humanity. Israel itself is a crime against humanity: t.co/FOmAy…

Israeli settlers dragged a dog behind their vehicle in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, after running over another. Even dogs are not spared their filth and brutality. If this is what they do to a dog who did nothing to them, consider what they do to a Palestinian—their fiercest enemy.

The bombing of Gaza is intense and unrelenting—wave after wave of Israeli strikes on the Strip. Israel has violated the ceasefire every single day since it took effect on October 10. Israel has killed 933 Palestinians since then.

An armed Israeli settler threatens residents of Tarqumiyah, west of Hebron in the West Bank: "I am the one who decides. Jews are allowed to be here. Arabs are forbidden."

As in Gaza, the same crime repeats itself in the West Bank. The Israeli army uses a civilian as a human shield in front of its military vehicles in Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron. The world watches. The world hears. And does nothing.

Eid Al-Adha from the Gaza Strip. A blessed Eid to you all. May it return with Gaza thriving, Palestine free, and all of us praying together at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Israeli army is helpless in southern Lebanon. It absorbs the blows and cannot return them. This is what guerrilla warfare means—confining the fight to the battlefield bleeds Israel dry. Its method had always been to bomb civilians as a way to release pressure, turn the tables. Striking civilians—criminally, intensively, in densely populated areas—is its primary weapon. That weapon no longer works in the south. Voices inside Israel are openly calling to throw off American restrictions. The only way to solve the FPV drone problem, they say, runs through Beirut—through striking it with full force, targeting civilians, killing them, destroying their homes, as leverage to force Hizb-Allah to stop firing. If Israel fights a war that respects rules of engagement and international law, it will be a death sentence for its army. What is happening in southern Lebanon now proves the theory.

Netanyahu says that without the Jewish community, the United States would not exist—nor would civilization itself. The Jews, he says, are fighting to preserve civilization from the barbarians, grounding the claim in the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire and its attempted erasure of Jewish identity. His civilizational hierarchy places Judaism first, followed by the Christianity that emerged from it. Islam does not appear in it. To Netanyahu, it is not a civilization at all.

Israel considers strikes on the Iron Dome the most dangerous of all. Hizb-Allah has just released new footage of yesterday's FPV drone strike on an Iron Dome battery at a military site in northern occupied Palestine.

Recently, Hizballah drones have shifted toward targeting individual Israeli soldiers and other soft targets, as opposed to armored tanks which are more challenging to disable, @JonElmer reports.