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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition

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... Mobilize now before it’s too late! 📣:
• Boycott companies enabling Israel’s prison & surveillance apparatus
• Demand sanctions, arms embargoes & international accountability
Silence is complicity. Delay is deadly.
#BDS @bdsmovement.bsky.social
#StopTheExecutions 2/2

Act Now!
Intensify the boycotts towards companies that maintain the Israeli prison industrial complex:
HP / HPE supplies the central server system for the Israeli Prison Service.
Amazon and Google provide the database and cloud service for Israeli surveillance data
Microsoft develops AI tools for the Israel Police
IBM designs and operates the biometric and population‑registry systems for Israeli surveillance
Raise awareness about the bill and mobilise local protests and actions against complicit companies

January 26, 2026 at 11:41 PM

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition

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... denying Palestinians access to their homes, farmland, & humanitarian aid & enforcing displacement through live fire. This is not security, but the quiet continuation of genocide, concealed from the world as Palestinians endure daily killing, hunger, siege, land theft & forced displacement. 2/3

“We don’t feel that the war has ended. They haven’t allowed us to return to our areas or even check on our homes. We are still living through another war, the war of displacement and suffering, especially with the arrival of winter.”
Haj Abu Imad, 55 years old, displaced with his family from Jabalia Camp.

“At any moment, you find people waking up in the middle of the night, panicked and disoriented. More than once, they leave their homes and are forced to flee west of Gaza. You see the (yellow) concrete blocks advancing toward them, or shelling starts, with shells landing all around them.” - Resident of Shujaiya neighborhood (about 200 meters from the “Yellow Line")

While Trump's so-called "peace plan" suggested a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces, Israel had no intention of retreating, instead viewing the border "a forward defensive line and a line of operational activity.” (Eyal Zamir, Israeli military Chief of Staff).
According to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Israel continues to illegally seize Gaza's territory by shifting the yellow line daily. Palestinians living close to its border report daily attacks and shelling, as well as a continuous movement of the line.

"Inside this [Yellow Line]... responsibility for killing shifts to the victim, punished for returning to their own neighborhood" (Euro Med Human Rights Monitor)
In December, three-year-old Ahed al-Bayok was reportedly shot and killed by Israeli forces in al-Mawasi near Khan Younis, on the Gaza side of the Yellow Line. Within the same hour, the Israeli military claimed its soldiers had “identified a terrorist who crossed the Yellow Line.” Whether this statement referred to the toddler remains unclear; however, similar language has repeatedly been used by the Israeli military following its shooting of Palestinian children.

Israel's genocide and siege of Gaza never ended. The so-called "cease-fire" and Yellow Line merely conceal Israel's atrocities from the view of the global public, acting as a fraudulent promise to the international community and to Palestinians that the genocide is over. Through the ongoing theft of land and denying Palestinians access to their homes and right to rebuild, Israel is carrying forward its systematic effort to erase the Palestinian people.

January 14, 2026 at 10:52 PM

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition

@freedomflotilla.bsky.social

2/2 ... and where those who stand against war crimes are the ones imprisoned. Demand the Palestine Action hunger strikers' freedom now, before it’s too late.
Call on UK Govt to immediately release them, end the criminalisation of Palestinian solidarity, and to #ShutElbitDown
t.me/FFC_official...