Visualizing Palestine...
In our latest visual, we expose the companies and governments complicit in the supply of military-grade jet fuel to Israel, while highlighting grassroots efforts to track and disrupt this deadly cargo through direct action, boycott campaigns, and community resistance.
This fuel is delivered by tankers operated by Overseas Shipholding Group, a U.S. company that receives $6 million in U.S. subsidies each year. The jet fuel is supplied by Valero Energy in Texas, and transported on commercial tanker ships owned by Saltchuk company, enabling Israel to wage an unprecedented bombing campaign in Gaza.
Across the Mediterranean, activists, dockworkers, and civil society groups have mobilized to disrupt these shipments, forcing tankers like the Overseas Santorini to turn off tracking devices and obscure their routes.
This growing movement is demonstrating how coordinated, international solidarity is needed to disrupt the war apparatus and that, by working together, there will be no “Harbour for Genocide".
View and download this visual here: https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/fueling-genocide/
‘Thousand Ship Flotilla’ announced to challenge Israel’s blockade of Gaza
A coalition of Malaysian civil society organisations has announced an ambitious campaign to launch a “Thousand Ship Flotilla” to break Israel’s 17-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, in what is being described as the largest maritime mobilisation of its kind.
The initiative, led by the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisations (MAPIM), aims to send vessels from across the globe carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinian enclave, in defiance of Israel’s naval embargo. Organisers say the flotilla will be “larger and more organised” than the 2010 Freedom Flotilla, which ended with the killing of ten activists by Israeli forces aboard the Mavi Marmara.
Speaking at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, MAPIM president Azmi Abdul Hamid said the campaign was a direct response to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. “We cannot remain silent while entire families are being wiped out and starvation is used as a weapon,” he said, adding that “the global community must act when international institutions fail.”
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Israel’s Targeted Killing of Beloved Dr. Marwan al-Sultan and His Family
After receiving repeated ominous phone calls, al-Sultan and four members of his family were killed in an Israeli airstrike. Drop Site interviewed his son.
ABDEL QADER SABBAH AND KAVITHA CHEKURU
JUL 7
GAZA CITY—It had only been ten minutes since Ahmed al-Sultan, a young medical student in Gaza, left the apartment where his family was staying when he heard the sounds of an airstrike nearby.
“I did not expect, even for a second, that the strike was targeting my family,” al-Sultan, 20, told Drop Site News. “I rushed back and tried to contact anyone in the family, but there was no response from anyone. I hurried to the place, and I was shocked by the scene—our apartment had been destroyed.”
That airstrike in Gaza City last Wednesday, July 2, killed at least eight people, according to the Ministry of Health, including Ahmed’s sister, brother-in-law, mother, and his father, Dr. Marwan al-Sultan. The director of the Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza, Dr. al-Sultan was also one of two remaining cardiologists in Gaza. According to a statement from Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW) dated July 2, his killing marks the 70th medical worker killed in the past 50 days.
“All the martyrs were women, in addition to my father and my sister's husband, Mohammed Imad al-Sultan. I was in shock at the scene,” said Ahmed, who is studying to be a cardiologist like his late father.
Dr. al-Sultan was not only a well-known doctor in Gaza: he was beloved. His death was a shock to an already stricken medical community. When his body was brought to Al-Shifa hospital following the attack, colleagues wept over his body, including Dr. Munir al-Bursh, the Director General of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. In footage taken in the hospital, he can be seen cradling Dr. al-Sultan’s bloodied face.
“Dr. Marwan was a father, a brother, and a beloved friend,” al-Bursh told Drop Site. “Dr. Marwan had not taken off his white coat since the beginning of the war. He was constantly by the side of patients and the wounded.”
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