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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 11h
Akkadian qaqqaru "ground", in turn, has probable cognates across Berber: e.g. Kabyle i-ɣəṛɣəṛ "floor", Tamasheq e-ɣărɣăr "regg, large flat area"
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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, that hurts again Years ago Turkish state removed this wonderful bronze tablet from the wonderful Anatolian Civilizations Museum and exiled it to the ridiculous İstAnBuL AiRpOrT mUseUm (yes there is such a place) and now it remains forgotten there.😭😭😭
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Palestine News @palestinenews.smitsky.nl · 28/09/2026
New Google Earth Images Reveal Massive Israeli Destruction Across Rafah | Safa News Agency - English Edition #palestine #safa
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New Google Earth Images Reveal Massive Israeli Destruction Across Rafah | Safa News Agency - English Edition
SAFA – Newly updated Google Earth satellite imagery has revealed the staggering scale of destruction across Rafah, with vast sections of the southern Gaza city lying in ruins following Israeli militar
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 19h
Cuneiform Hittite, like Akkadian, also made full use of Sumerograms, determinatives and phonetic syllables, for example Kurunta’s title
Detail of Hittite cuneiform on bronze tablet. The translation reads "Kurunta, king in the land (of) Tarhuntašša"
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Catastrophic' new images have exposed the devastating scale of destruction inflicted on Gaza by Israel's genocide @lucyajackson.bsky.social reports👇
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chameleon, from the Greek χαμαί ‘on the earth’ and λέων ‘lion’, was calqued from Akkadian nēš(u ša) qaqqari lit. ‘lion of the ground’, a figure attested in the Epic of Gilgamesh (line 314 ᴜʀ.ᴍᴀʜ šá qaq‐qa‐ri). The term is paralleled in lexical tablets from Ebla (ca. 2300 BCE) as na‐iš qar‐qá‐rí‐m.
Neo-Assyrian cuneiform clay tablet with a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh, heavily fragmented.Line art of cuneiform tablet. The term ‘lion of the ground’ is highlighted.
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Yun Xie @yunxie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finally, my article on Java banknotes and 4 anti-counterfeiting scripts, especially Chinese font, has been published. "Printing Capital: Knowledge Networks, Typographic Innovation, and the Languages of Colonialism in the Dutch East Indies" in Philology in Europe before and after 1800 (2026).
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HAM: Calligraphy (Bot) @hamcalligraphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of Seven Sheets of Paper inscribed with Religious Texts, Poems, Charms [mounted on a board]; "Ippen fuda" www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial and promised gift of Walter C. Sedgwick in memory of Ellery Sedgwick Sr. and Ellery Sedgwick Jr.
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Akkadian idiom (in Old Babylonian legal tablets): 𒅖𒌅 𒁉𒂊 𒀀𒁲 𒆬𒄀 ištu pê adi ḫurāṣim ‘from chaff to gold’, i.e. everything būšûša u warkassa ša Ḫunnubtum mala ibaššû ištu pê adi ḫurāṣim ša Lamassīma Ḫunnubtum, her property and estate, all that there is from chaff to gold, is Lamassi’s [her daughter]
Cuneiform text, transliterated: iš·tu pé·e a·di KÙ·SIG₁₇
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026
Please sign if you can! OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS > Children should not be exposed to a technology whose future, effectiveness, and safety we cannot predict, and for which the evidence is mostly negative.
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OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS
OPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “...
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L@YL@ @alerrl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HOPE THIS #ART POPS OFF!! Back to treating patients at my uni in Gaza! I'm doing it all for free, but tuition + dental supplies = a lot of bills. A little help would go a long way toward keeping those smiles coming 🦷 chuffed.org/project/2009...
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
tukultu, Akkadian: trust, help. ina tukulti Enlil u [Marduk] liptī u tāḫīzī [līšir] ‘with the help of Enlil and [Marduk] [may] my work and my learning [thrive]’ (CAD T 463)
Neo-Assyrian cuneiform text on clay tablet

Transliteration:
ina tu·kul·ti ᵈen·líl u […] 
lip·ti u ta·ḫi·zi li·[...]
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Neo‐Assyrian medical text (Nineveh, 7th c. BCE) It lists methods to treat symptoms caused by ‘hand‐of‐ghost’ (šugidimmakku), like swollen organs, intestines that make noise and build-up of gas (obv col 2). If hand‐of‐ghost persists, have the patient eat hare (arnabu), and he’ll recover (rev col 1).
Two sides of a medical clay tablet with Akkadian text in Neo-Assyrian cuneiform. Each side is divided into two columns. Heavily fragmented and several sections missing.
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Sumerian version of the title 𒈗 𒀭𒌒𒁕 𒇹𒁀𒆤 lugal anubda limmu.bi.ak.e (Brick from a shrine built by Amar-Sin, 2044–2036 BCE)
Neo-Sumerian cuneiform text on stone.
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Inscription in Old Akkadian from Naram-Sin’s reign (2254–2218 BCE) commemorating the construction of the temple at Marad. The spelling still reflects some archaic pronunciations, like his title, 𒈗 𒆠𒅁𒊏𒁴 𒅈𒁀𒅎 šar kibrātim arbaʾim ‘king of the four corners (of the world)’; arbaʾim ‘four’, later erbêm.
Fragment of limestone gate socket with Old Akkadian inscription.Detail of Old Akkadian inscription on limestone (5 lines).

1. Narām-Sîn
2. dannum
3. šar
4. kibrātim
5. arbaʾim
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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
palestine is not a “trend” btw. there are still innocent people suffering. there are still children being killed. there are still families losing their homes, their loved ones, and everything they have. everyday.
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CAIR @cairnational.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Italian government’s decision to ban religious face-coverings in schools and restrict Muslim and immigrant children under the pretext of ‘integration’ is an obvious attempt to target and marginalize the Muslim community. tinyurl.com/38n652hs
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shanley @shanley.com · 19/05/2026
Things that happened to me immediately after I said Marc Andreessen needs to be removed from power in an interview with the MIT Tech Review, the most prestigious tech publication in our industry:
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well, always nice to have confirmation straight from the horse’s mouth that NATO is just an extension of American militarism. Except of course he’s oblivious to the fact that it’s not something to be proud of.
Clash Report @clashreport

NATO's Rutte on Iran:

You could argue that it would have been impossible to do Operation Epic Fury without having Europe as a power projection platform for the U.S.

5,000 planes have taken off from European bases in support of Epic Fury since February 28th this year
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Statement from the Center for Space Environmentalism about space weapons: www.spaceenvironmentalism.org/actions/posi...
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CSE Opposes The Militarization Of Outer Space
The recent confirmation by the United States that it has placed offensive weapons in orbit is cause for grave concern about the long-term integrity of the near-Earth space environment. It is a turning...
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘Greens’ Jewish leader heckled by racists’ is a shorter and more accurate headline
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L@YL@ @alerrl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
IF U SEE THIS #ART, PLS SHARE! Starting a new round of treating patients at my uni in Gaza! I’m waiving all fees for them, but between tuition & dental supplies, the bills r adding up. A little help could cover the basics so I can keep fixing smiles🦷 chuffed.org/project/2009...
#artwork of a dental student in Gaza needs ur help to complete her education
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The president of the European Council of the EU tells the UN: "there can be no double standards in terms of international law". Compare & contrast his language seconds later: "the war of aggression by Russia on Ukraine" and "the stalemate in Gaza"
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
roqayah chamseddine @roqchams
The first child victim of the pager attack, Muhammad Bilal Kanj, was killed on our street in Chiyeh. When I went to the funeral in Dahye, the second wave hit; a walkie-talkie exploded just feet away.

There were children in attendance, clutching his photo as they walked in a single file near the cemetary. 

When the second wave hit—and I'll never forget this—someone in the crowd of mourners cried out "not even the devil would come up with such brutality."

The last thing I remember that day is watching a young woman, her hands covered in blood, eyes wide open, and a look of shock and horror etched across her face.

Tara al-Alami @taraalami
The pager massacre in Lebanon was so horrific, so gruesome, so evil; I remember being so shocked that I could not even cry. This grief is beyond anything I could ever articulate. Every day our souls shatter and then shatter again into a million pieces, and we’re only witnesses
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The Hind Rajab Foundation @hindrajabfoundation.be · 23/09/2026
🚨🇪🇺 The @hindrajabfoundation.be takes Lithuania to the European Court of Human Rights after refusing to investigate Israeli soldier Sean Gor—a member of the “Vampire Empire” company—for alleged war crimes, including the murder of Hind Rajab. ➡️ More → bit.ly/4iJVIfo
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In memory of Refaat Alareer on what would have been his 47th birthday. My last email exchanged with Refaat on 12 Oct 2023, less than 2 months before he was martyred in a targeted Israeli strike. I had hoped to work with him on a project on free speech and academic freedom in Palestine & beyond.
email from Refaat expressing concern for ny safety and an eagerness to work together
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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Hammam is a volunteer humanitarian nurse treating Gaza's wounded since the war began. He needs our help: his family is starving & homeless, and his brother is disabled & suffers from severe seizures. Any donation -even small ones- can help get food & medical care. chuffed.org/project/1844...
Hammam is taking care of a wounded person Hammam at the hospital Hammam at the hospital Hammam and his brother Abood
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What you’re seeing here is just one aspect of the life children in Gaza have been enduring every single day. This is from an air strike today (9/23/2026) Two children running from an Israeli airstrike. Behind them lies the slain body of a victim.
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn.
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
šitqultu (ʟᴀʟ₂ 𒇳), Akk. ‘equinox’, from šitqulu ‘to be equal, in balance’, Gt stem of šaqālu(m), ‘to weigh (out)’. ūmu u mūši šitqulu 6 ᴅᴀɴɴᴀ ūmu 6 ᴅᴀɴɴᴀ mūši ‘day and night were in balance, 6 double‐hours of daylight, 6 double‐hours of night’ (ᴅᴀɴɴᴀ 𒆜𒁍 = bēru = 1/12th of a whole day)
Akkadian text in Neo-Assyrian cuneiform on clay tablet

Transliteration
ᴜᴅ‐mu u₃ mu‐ši
šit‐qu‐lu
6 ᴅᴀɴɴᴀ ᴜᴅ‐mu 
6 ᴅᴀɴɴᴀ mu‐ši
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 22/09/2026
NEW Nimrud was a major Assyrian capital, but most research there has focused on its royal architecture, limiting our understanding of everyday life in the empire. A new project explores Nimrud's Lower Town, shedding light on the city's ordinary people. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Aerial view of a desert landscape containing archaeological remains, most notably a large, rectilinear wall. Locations of features such as the acropolis are annotated.
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
nn msy sꜣw ‘no one is born wise’ —Maxims of Ptaḥḥotep, Prisse Papyrus 5,6 (ca. 2000 BCE)
Egyptian text in Hieratic script on papyrus
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A letter from a scribe in the service of king Esarhaddon, informing him that a tablet the king is using is deficient and broken, so Ašaredu, the scribe, is bringing him from Babylon a tablet ‘made by king Hammurabi’, and an even older inscription, so that the king could perform a ritual correctly.
Clay tablet with 13 lines of Neo-Babylonian cuneiform text (obverse), the beginning of some lines is missing.Translation of text on cuneiform tablet: 

“To the king, my lord your servant Ašaredu. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king of the lands, my lord. The tablet which the king is using is defective and not whole. Now then, I have written and fetched from Babylon an ancient tablet made by king Hammurabi and an inscription from before king Hammurabi.”
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Gaza Genocide Center @gazagenocidecenter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Introducing GazaIndex. A living record of the genocide in Gaza, held in numbers. Casualties. Destruction. Displacement. Prices. Aid. Every figure is tied to its original source, so it can be cited and defended. GazaIndex is a project of the Gaza Genocide Center.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Palestinians have just documented and reported on an “unmanned explosive robot” in Gaza City. Israel has been using the robots to blow up houses, burying families alive in their homes. Mosab Abu Toha Reports
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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thank you, Dr. Posegay! An article about the digitization project was authored by cataloger Dr. Celeste Gianni in July 2023: hmml.org/stories/wher... At the Great Omari Mosque, 211 manuscripts were photographed; all are cataloged and viewable in HMML Reading Room. Details: hmml.org/collections/...
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Where We're Working: Gaza
“The Gaza Strip is the smallest of the two Palestinian territories in...”
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Archaeology @archaeology07.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New Fragment of One of the World’s Oldest Peace Treaties Found in Hattusa Reveals Ancient Rules for Fugitives www.anatolianarchaeology.net/new-fragment...
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New Fragment of One of the World’s Oldest Peace Treaties Found in Hattusa Reveals Ancient Rules for Fugitives | Anatolian Archaeology
A newly identified Kadesh Peace Treaty fragment from Hattusa preserves 3,200-year-old rules protecting returned fugitives and their families.
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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#MosaicMonday – Beautiful mosaic depicting a Nereid riding a sea-bull, from the Cossar area of ancient Aquileia. The scene, which includes a flying Eros, has also been interpreted as Europa riding Zeus in bull form. Late 1st century BC–early 1st century AD. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Aquileia.
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Marika Hackman – Monday Afternoon
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Marika Hackman Monday Afternoon
YouTube video by Marika Hackman
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With more than 40,000 Palestinians sheltering in collapse-prone buildings and a “nightmare” winter approaching, Gaza’s Civil Defense warns of a preventable catastrophe unfolding in plain sight.
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Inside Gaza’s death trap of collapsing, bombed-out buildings
With more than 40,000 Palestinians sheltering in collapse-prone buildings and a “nightmare” winter approaching, Gaza’s Civil Defense warns of a preventable catastrophe unfolding in plain sight.
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The quadrilingual inscription of Xerxes I (‘the great king’) on an al­ab­as­ter vase in Old Per­sian, Elam­ite, Ak­ka­dian and Egyp­tian: Xšayāṛšā xšāyaθiya vazṛka Ikšerša sunki iršar Ḫišiʾaršaʾ šarru rabû Ḫšjrš pr·ꜥꜣ pꜣ·ꜥꜣ The capacity of the vase has also been indicated in Demotic.
Alabaster Vase with Inscription in Five Different Scripts; Achaemenid period, reign of Xerxes (485–464 BC); 220 mm (height), 89 mm (diameter at lip)Detail of inscription on alabaster vase, the three scripts from top to bottom

Old Persian: x·š·y·a·r·š·a XŠ v·z·r·k | 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠𐏐𐏋𐏐𐎺𐏀𐎼𐎣
Elamite: ᴅɪš.ik·še·ir·ša₂ ᴅɪš.ᴇššᴀɴᴀ ir·ša₂·ir | 𒁹𒅅𒊺𒅕𒃻𒁹𒐈𒑱𒅕𒃻𒅕
Akkadian: ᵐḫi·ši·ʾ·ar·ša₂·ʾ ʟᴜɢᴀʟ ɢᴀʟ.u₂ | 𒁹𒄭𒅆𒀪𒅈𒃻𒀪𒈗𒃲𒌑Detail of Egyptian hieroglyphs. A short Demotic inscription is faintly visible to the left.

Egyptian: Ḫšjrš pr·ꜥꜣ pꜣ·ꜥꜣ | 𓍹𓆼𓆷𓇌𓄿𓃭𓆷𓄿𓍺𓉐𓉻𓅮𓉻𓂝
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/09/2026
Child among three Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza aje.news/jde6pu
Child among three Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is "The Confluence of the Two Seas," a legal treatise comparing schools of Islamic law, composed in the 13th century. Texts like this were produced with wide margins to allow readers to annotate as they studied. It was kept in the Omari Mosque in Gaza, destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in 2023.
Light yellowish paper bifolium with 11 lines of formal Arabic naskhi script in black ink, surrounded by many notes scrawled at diverging angles in the margins all around the main text. The classmark from the library of the Omari Mosque is MS 108. The manuscript has been digitised by the HMML reading room: https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/543020
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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One of the earliest attestations of the name Gilgamesh (or here Bilgames, 𒀭𒄑𒉈𒉽𒂵𒈩), on a lexical tablet from Shuruppak listing divine names, 26th–25th c. BCE.
The name Gilgamesh in cuneiform (ᵈbilₓ‐ga‐mes).Lexical tablet with divine names in cuneiform, heavily fragmented.
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HAM: Calligraphy (Bot) @hamcalligraphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fragment of a Buddhist Sutra www.harvardartmuseums.org/collectio…
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hour Odeh: "The livestock is locked up too. Feeding the animals is prohibited without a military permit, which is issued once every 4-5 days" How Israel is making Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank untenable
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Israeli expulsion orders, incursions and the threat of renewed starvation are keeping Palestinians in a state of permanent insecurity despite the "ceasefire"
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‘Reliving the war’: One year after ceasefire, killing and displacement persist in Gaza
Israeli expulsion orders, incursions and the threat of renewed starvation are keeping Palestinians in a state of permanent insecurity despite the truce
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