25/08/2025

Nos collaborateurs à Gaza sont toujours en danger de mort, nous supplions la France de les évacuer

 





Paris, le 25 août 2025

 
Nos collaborateurs à Gaza sont toujours en danger de mort, nous supplions la France de les évacuer
Fin mai dernier, nous avions publié avec les sociétés de journalistes d’une vingtaine de médias français un appel à évacuer nos collaborateurs gazaouis et leurs familles. Depuis, une poignée d’entre eux seulement a pu quitter l’enclave assiégée.
Entre-temps, l’ONU a officiellement déclaré l’état de famine à Gaza le 22 août. Elle concerne un demi-million de personnes.
Cet été, Israël a délibérément ciblé et tué cinq journalistes d’Al Jazeera et un reporter indépendant, les accusant sans en apporter la preuve de « terrorisme ». Lundi 25 août, la chaîne qatarienne mais aussi Associated Press, Reuters et NBC ont appris, « dévastés » et « choqués », la mort de cinq de leurs collaborateurs, tués par une frappe israélienne sur un hôpital du sud de Gaza.
Depuis fin juillet, le gouvernement français a suspendu les évacuations de Palestiniens de Gaza vers la France, sans exception.
Nos collègues gazaouis sont nos voix et nos oreilles depuis plus de 18 mois. Sans eux nous ne pourrions pas témoigner de l’ampleur de la tragédie humanitaire qui se joue actuellement au Proche-Orient. Ce sont nos collègues et nos amis.
Nous refusons qu’ils viennent s’ajouter à la liste des plus de 200 journalistes palestiniens qui ont péri depuis l’attaque terroriste du 7 octobre 2023 et le début de l’offensive israélienne. Nous supplions la France de reprendre les évacuations et de les accueillir. Et nous demandons à nouveau à la communauté internationale qu’elle exige d’Israël d’ouvrir Gaza à la presse étrangère.
 - La Société des Journalistes de RFI




24/08/2025

Tate Modern @ 25

 

Where did these 25 years go... 

Amazing art venue though. 

Snapshots by myself: 

 







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22/08/2025

Senegal vs the United States in the case of Gaza

 

New post:


International justice: Senegal vs the United States in the case of Gaza

I took a few days off for a break, and found lots of joy and strength. Now, it's time to face these dark times again, by focusing on more places of strength.


Aug 22, 2025





International justice: Senegal vs the United States in the case of Gaza

I took a few days off for a break, and found lots of joy and strength. Now, it's time to face these dark times again, by focusing on more places of strength.


Aug 22, 2025



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Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari on Gaza horrors as a “spiritual catastrophe” for Judaism itself

 

"What is happening right now in Israel could basically, I think, destroy, void 2000 years of Jewish thinking and culture and existence." 

Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari warned that if Israel continues on its present path such a trajectory would bring a “spiritual catastrophe” for Judaism itself.




Speaking during a conversation shared on the Unholy Podcast, he said the worst-case scenario could see an ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza and the West Bank, the expulsion of millions of Palestinians, the disintegration of Israeli democracy and the rise of a greater Israel built on Jewish supremacy. 

Harari compared the moment to the fall of the Second Temple in 70 CE, calling it one of the most significant turning points in Jewish history. 

He said the danger is that this new reality would redefine Judaism worldwide, leaving Jews everywhere forced to grapple with an identity rooted in “the worship of power and violence” instead of values developed over two millennia. 




Famine in Gaza City

 

Famine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed body says


Famine in Gaza City means "deaths will increase exponentially", UN-backed organisation warns

Famine has been confirmed in Gaza City for the first time, a UN-backed body responsible for monitoring food security says.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has raised its classification to Phase 5, the highest and worst level of its acute food insecurity scale.

 

The full report's key highlights: 


• The Famine Review Committee (FRC) has determined that Famine (IPC Phase 5) is currently occurring in Gaza Governorate. Furthermore, the FRC projects Famine (IPC Phase 5) thresholds to be crossed in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis Governorates in the coming weeks. 

• As this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed. The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that an immediate, at-scale response is needed. Any further delay—even by days—will result in a totally unacceptable escalation of Famine-related mortality. 

• If a ceasefire is not implemented to allow humanitarian aid to reach everyone in the Gaza Strip, and if essential food supplies, and basic health, nutrition, and WASH services are not restored immediately, avoidable deaths will increase exponentially


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UPDATE:


UN rights chief Volker Turk said "it is a war crime to use starvation as a method of warfare", minutes after famine was declared in the Gaza Strip on Friday. 

Turk said the resulting deaths "may also amount to the war crime of wilful killing", while UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, "we cannot allow this situation to continue with impunity." 

Guterres also called for "an immediate ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages, and full, unfettered humanitarian access."



Genocide Song - Elik Harpaz & Ayelet Ben Ishay

 


Genocide Song - Elik Harpaz & Ayelet Ben Ishay - Disillusioned Podcast Music Session

Mood

 






21/08/2025

Marie-Laure de Decker


Beautiful exhibition, fascinating photographs by a very empathetic photographer: Marie-Laure de Decker - @ Maison Européenne de la Photographie / MEP  


Marie-Laure de Decker — L’image comme engagement


 



The Marie-Laure de Decker exhibition, on show at the MEP from 4 June to 28 September 2025, is the first major retrospective devoted to this major figure in photojournalism. By rehabilitating her work, the MEP is paying tribute to her by highlighting her vision and approach, which are capable of bringing together history and intimacy, and which have a particular resonance today.

She went from Paris to Vietnam, South Africa, Chad, Yemen and Jordan... 

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Marie-Laure de Decker (1947 – 2023) was a French photographer and photojournalist whose career spanned more than forty years. She documented numerous armed conflicts as well as the major social and political upheavals of the twentieth century.

Born in colonised Algeria, she also grew up in Côte d'Ivoire and was sent to study art in France by her parents, where she started modelling and met artists, authors and photographers, including Roland Topor, who she lived with for a while.

She became renowned for her emblematic portraits of figures from the world of culture – such as Marcel Duchamp, Federico Fellini, Françoise Sagan and Catherine Deneuve – as well as political figures such as Presidents François Mitterrand, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and Nelson Mandela. 

From the 1970s, she started working abroad notably for the Gamma agency.

Her most memorable reports include the Vietnam War, the anti-colonial struggle in Chad, apartheid in South Africa and the resistance to dictatorship in Chile. 

From the 1980s onwards, she broadened her creative field to include fashion and film photography.



From the 1980s onwards, she broadened her creative field to include fashion and film photography.


Global strike for Gaza

 

Global strike for Gaza

Thursday August 21st





Global Sumud Flotilla

 

Activists from 44 Countries Plan Largest-Ever Gaza Aid Flotilla in September


A coalition of direct action groups has announced the largest attempt yet by civilians to break the siege on Gaza. 

The Global Sumud Flotilla aims to launch dozens of boats carrying humanitarian aid from Spain, Tunisia and elsewhere in early September, with delegates from at least 44 countries on board. 

Coordinators, organisers, and participants from the Maghreb Sumud Flotilla, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, Global Movement to Gaza, and the Sumud Nusantara have united under a common goal: to break the illegal siege on Gaza by sea, open a humanitarian corridor, and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. 

On August 31st, the group are launching the "biggest attempt ever to break the illegal Israeli siege over Gaza", with dozens of boats sailing from Spain. They will meet dozens more ships on September 4th sailing from Tunisia and other ports. 

They are mobilising more than 44 countries on simultaneous demonstrations and actions to break complicity in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela is among the activists from these 44 countries preparing for the “largest civilian maritime mission to Gaza” to break the siege on Gaza.

They are still looking for qualified captains and crew.

You can still APPLY NOW from here: https://registration.gmtgaza.org/apply-crewcap/










link: https://globalsumudflotilla.org/