Shireen Abu Akleh’s family issued a public statement affirming that they “will not stop” pursuing “justice for Shireen through all available avenues,” to mark the fourth anniversary of her murder. Read the full statement: cpj.org/2026/05/cpj-... #JusticeForShireen

"Accountability is not only about justice for Shireen; it is about protecting journalists everywhere. Without accountability, the targeting of journalists will continue, and the truth itself will remain under threat." -- Shireen Abu Akleh's family @pressfreedom.bsky.social cpj.org/2026/05/cpj-...

5 years ago, "Boycott" premiered with a simple question: What happens when the gov't tries to legislate away our right to protest? On 5/13, join for a special screening & discussion, reuniting protagonists from the film alongside civil rights attorneys & organizers. shorturl.at/9DpJC @aclu.org

Proud to see Local Call & @972mag.com investigative reporter Yuval Abraham win the Fetisov Journalism Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting. See links to the winning stories below: www.972mag.com/microsoft-az... www.972mag.com/cloud-israel... www.972mag.com/tunnels-hama...

In recent days, “settler violence” has returned to the headlines in Israel. But the recent wave of denunciations from ministers, army chiefs, and right-wing pundits aims to obscure the fact that settler violence is state policy, writes Oren Ziv for @mekomit.bsky.social & @972mag.com.

A @mekomit.bsky.social @972mag.com @thenation.com investigation narrows in on a dozen Palestinian communities in the central West Bank, between Ramallah and Nablus, that find themselves on the front lines of the settler expansion into 'Area B' of the West Bank. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

This story, from Mahmoud Mushtaha and our friends at Palestine Reporting Lab, is not an easy read. It's about the paralyzing state of not-knowing in Gaza, which also becomes a bureaucratic maze. Access to forensic technology would help at least some of that pain www.wired.com/story/hassan...

Israel’s illegal blockade prevents Palestinians in Gaza from having the tools to identify their dead, including toxicology & DNA testing. Many families don’t know if their loved ones are dead or missing. “This process destroys your mind. It's paralysis.”

“Their names appear on no casualty lists, prison databases, or death registries. They are simply gone.” New from the Palestine Reporting Lab, in partnership wit @wired.com, by @mushtaham.bsky.social >>

Decades of neglect have left Palestinian citizens unprotected from missile fire, while police are carrying out arrests for expressions of dissent. @972mag.com @mekomit.bsky.social

TOMORROW: Join us for 'Gaza Speaks', an In Context Briefing featuring voices from Gaza alongside international legal, humanitarian, and policy analysts. @theimeu.bsky.social @jewishcurrents.bsky.social @mohamhawish.bsky.social us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us Wednesday, 3/11 at 2:00 pm ET for 'Gaza Speaks', an In Context Briefing featuring voices from Gaza alongside international legal, humanitarian, and policy analysts. The event is sponsored by Just Vision, @theimeu.bsky.social & @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

REVEALED: ICE tripled its reliance on Microsoft in last six months Leaked documents show the U.S. agency is storing large amounts of data on Microsoft's cloud while making use of its AI tools to analyze videos and images. By Yuval Abraham. @mekomit.bsky.social www.972mag.com/ice-microsof...

Last year, an investigation by Local Call, @972mag.com & @theguardian.com showed that Microsoft’s servers were used to store masses of Israeli intelligence on Palestinian civilians. A new investigation raises concerns about whether the company's technology is facilitating ICE crackdowns in the US.

After two and a half years of steady work behind the scenes, we're excited to share more about Just Vision's next documentary! You can learn more in @newyorker.com, which just profiled the film in an interview with director and Just Vision’s Creative Director, Julia Bacha:

TODAY: Israeli authorities demolish UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem. Video by Oren Ziv for @972mag.com & Local Call. Israeli gov has banned the agency, the main humanitarian org for Palestinian refugees, from operating in Jerusalem, where it had run schools, clinics, & training centers for decades.

Until his final day, Mohammad Bakri would not be crushed Israel’s courts, military, and mainstream media united to punish the Palestinian actor and filmmaker for giving voice to his people. But he remained unbroken to the end. www.972mag.com/mohammad-bak...

Judge William Young already held that the Trump admin violated the First Amendment by arresting and trying to deport these students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy. Today he’ll consider @aaup.org & @mesa1966.bsky.social’s request for an injunction and other relief. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

As settlers evict families from their homes in an East Jerusalem neighborhood, a community art project called I Witness Silwan ensures that they are always being watched.

"These aren’t police officers but criminals, gangs. They drive through the village, throw stun grenades, fire tear gas, & keep driving." With the pretext of a stolen horse, Israeli police have turned the Bedouin town Tarabin Al-Sana into a war zone. Oren Ziv reports at Local Call & @972mag.com >>

Journalist Mohammed Mhawish, who left Gaza last year, describes how Palestinians are watched, tracked and targeted by Israeli forces who have access to their most intimate details through constant surveillance. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/12/mohammed_mhawish

A harrowing account by Mohammed Mhawish on surveillance tech, supported in part by US tech companies, is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside. nymag.com/intelligence...

Israel’s military assault that began in the aftermath of October 7 has left Gaza unrecognizable. The devastation has been augmented by a system of surveillance: drones, facial-recognition scans, movements followed through phone tracking, Mohammed Mhawish reports.

"This is the dystopian consequence of surveillance technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized." @mohamhawish.bsky.social writes at @nymag.com >>

In a special photo essay for Local Call & @972mag.com, Oren Ziv gathered testimonies from the victims of this violence in the West Bank — mostly Palestinians, but also Israeli activists. Read their stories here >> projects.972mag.com/portraits-se...

NEW from Local Call, @972mag.com, @theguardian.com: At least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention centers since 10/7, many seemingly as direct result of torture, medical neglect & food deprivation. Of those detained from Gaza under 1-in-3 were classified by the army itself as militants.

Companies are often forbidden from telling customers when they hand over data to authorities. To counter this, Israel reportedly worked with Google & Amazon on a secret system to alert the government when Israeli data is given to foreign investigators. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

INVESTIGATION: Inside Project Nimbus To secure the lucrative contract, Google & Amazon agreed to secretly notify Israel if a foreign court demands its data, and disregard their own terms of service. By Yuval Abraham www.972mag.com/project-nimb... @mekomit.bsky.social

"The first prohibits Google and Amazon from restricting how Israel uses their products…. The second obliges the companies to secretly notify Israel if a court orders them to hand over the country’s data stored on their cloud platforms…." www.972mag.com/project-nimb...

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

🧵1/3 NEW INVESTIGATION: To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, Google and Amazon agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data. @972mag.com @theguardian.com @mekomit.bsky.social

"The openly genocidal soldiers — of whom there were many — razed the city of Rafah to the ground in order to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians, while those with a more liberal self-image destroyed it to create a 'security buffer zone.'" Yuval Abraham for Local Call & @972mag.com >>

"There is no recovery from genocide. But we may redirect the anguish of a world in shock to uncoil the strictures that bind Palestinians — and Jewish Israelis, too." @uscpr.bsky.social's Ahmad Moor writes at @972mag.com >>

NEW INVESTIGATION by Local Call and @972mag.com : An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations, used to justify Gaza strikes and amplified by international outlets, discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

Join us Wed, Oct 22 at 12:00 pm ET for Targeting Dissent, a briefing on the intensifying crackdown on Palestinian rights advocacy in the US and the case of Mahmoud Khalil. Sign up: tinyurl.com/jhadvf97 @theimeu.bsky.social @jewishcurrents.bsky.social @ccrjustice.org @palestinelegal.bsky.social

‘Will my baby be born in a tent? Will it have food?’: what it’s like to be pregnant in Gaza

“Gaza is a thread: pull on it and it will unravel all of these systems.” Under the guise of re-registration, Israel seeks to force humanitarian orgs to comply with the GHF model, turning aid into a tool for ethnic cleansing. @mekomit.bsky.social @972mag.com

Microsoft has terminated a set of services for the Israeli military after an investigation suggested Israel was using the company’s cloud computing technology for mass surveillance of Palestinians. https://cnn.it/481CRHe

BREAKING: The Guardian reports that Microsoft has terminated its contract with the Israeli military’s Unit 8200 that enabled the mass surveillance of Palestinians. This comes after a series of protests organized by the worker-led group No Azure for Apartheid. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Microsoft president Brad Smith: "I want to let you know that Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD)." blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

Breaking: Microsoft disabled some cloud services used by Israel after it found the defense ministry was using them to surveil Gaza citizens.

Following Yuval Abraham's reporting, Microsoft cuts its ties with Israeli intelligence. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“Smith wrote: “We do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians. We have applied this principle in every country around the world, and we have insisted on it repeatedly for more than two decades.””

Microsoft has now ruptured its ties to Israeli forces, blocking access in response to the mass surveillance of Palestinians. Unit 8200 violated their terms of service by storing the data on the Azure cloud. Microsoft requested an external inquiry on data usage www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

BREAKING: Microsoft has blocked the Israeli military from some cloud and AI services. The block comes after The Guardian revealed last month that Microsoft’s services were being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/785733/...

Despite the Trump regime, it is getting costlier and costlier to invest in Israel’s genocidal project.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

BREAKING: Microsoft blocks Israeli army use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians. This follows sustained public pressure, fueled in part by reporting by our team at Local Call alongside partners at @972mag.com & @theguardian.com on Microsoft’s close relationship w/ the army.

Since being released on bail, Mahmoud Khalil has been enjoying everyday activities like cooking homemade meals and spending time with family. No matter how hard the Trump administration tries to punish him for his speech, we'll always fight to keep Mahmoud together with his family.